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 Mazu of the Sea
Compilation by Phoenix the Elder – I have honored Quan Yin in my earlier days when I practiced Buddhism and Zen and found that the Chinese Goddess of Compassion was a good diety to support my practice to heal and learn to love myself and others. I had visited a holy statue of her during […]
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 […]
Goddess of Sobriety
By Phoenix the Elder, Edited by Sarah Burnstein – We have a pandemic going on in this world, so I chose to share the Goddesses of Sobriety for those who are struggling in this illusionary and perceptive world which only seems to bring more inconvenience, loss of jobs, and more pain. If you were not […]
Cancer, the little Sea Scorpion
By Phoenix the Elder – My apprentice Burnt Stone and I were talking again about the Cancer Symbol of the Lobster, which looks so like the Scorpion symbol. In antiquity, the symbol of Cancer was not the Crab it was the “Sea Scorpion” and this is why some of the old Zodiac and Esoteric work […]
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 […]