The Watery Soulful Flight of Siren and Mermaid People
By Phoenix the Elder and many Contributions – Throughout the long journey of written and image arts mythology, the mermaid and siren have gotten confused sometimes and mixed up with each other and have often crisscrossed through times and eras. There is a reason for this when it comes to women’s history and its recording… […]
Goddess of the Sea: Roman Salacia & Greek Amphitrite
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – I love the goddesses of the springs, creeks, rivers, the sea, and the oceans. There is just something so primal in the root of these goddesses before written languages appeared. In ancient Roman and Greek mythology, one such goddess was Amphitrite (asteroid #29), and Salacia (asteroid #120347) and their […]
Stingray Totem
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – As a dreamer (shaman, no drugs, no plants), I only teach about Totems that I have had long-term relationships with, being taught by them from an in-depth relationship of experiences that have proved their messages correct. Then there are those totems who appear on my path when a “new […]
Goddesses of the Ocean Waters
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Doris of Greek mythology is an Oceanid, her name represents the bounty of the sea as she is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Doris was mother to the fifty ‘Nereids’ including Thetis, who is was mother of Achilles and Amphitrite. The ‘Sea Nymphs’ are the three thousand daughters […]
She Shells
Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1891 According to J. B. Friedrich, “Symbolik der Natur” the Sea Shell, on account of its being a product of the Sea, or of the all-generating moisture; and much more probably from its shape, is an emblem of woman herself. Being one of the great emblems […]
Animism and the Sea Folk
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – In Irish and Scottish mythology, Selkies (also spelled silkies, sylkies, selchies) or Selkie folk (Scots: selkie fowk) meaning “Seal Folk” are mythological beings capable of therianthropy, changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. They are found in folktales and mythology originating from Orkney and Shetland. Well, I was […]