Spring: Dragon Raises its Head
By Phoenix the Elder – I am a purist and creative at heart and I have never been a follower of festivals of getting drunk or high that western religions tend to do. Today on Mardi Gras, I celebrate and honor the Dragon Raises its Head Festival. The Chinese Dragon Heads Raising Day falls on […]
Dragons, Drakonia and Draco
By Phoenix the Elder – Like all evolutions, the Dragons who had power still do and they still roam the earth, but one must be an advanced dreamer to really experience them. The female dragons are gentle and powerful in their nature and very different from male dragons. They are a collective animism soul and […]
The Delphi Earth Dragon (Python)
“In The Air Tonight” I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord And I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh Lord Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord Well, if you told me you were drowning I would not lend a hand […]
Alatyr – Slavic Magical Legends
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain Dreaming – The Russian Alatyr Stone, sometimes called the World Mother (Алатырь каменьям – мире мати) is a search for purity and truth and as a legend lost long ago on earth. The Russian myth explains it as a Mystical Stone of folktale and epic proportions, as the Russians prefer […]
We at Elder Mountain are Dragon Friendly
Musing with a Thailand Dragon
Phoenix the Elder – I never expected to meet a Dragon in my dreams when I lived in Seattle, but I did. I had gone to this Thai Restaurant quite a few times over the years that I lived in Seattle. One night, all alone as I usually was in Seattle, I went to a […]
The Red and Black Dragons – Turkish Folktale
There was once a Padishah who had the misfortune to have all his children stolen as soon as they reached their seventh year. Grief at this terrible affliction caused him almost to lose his reason, ‘‘Forty children have been born to me,’’ said he, ‘‘each seeming more beautiful than the one which preceded it, so […]