Pluto’s Cave of the Shasta Nation, the Fire and Water Purification Rites
By Phoenix the Elder – I want to preface this article of this ceremony at Pluto’s Cave, located in Juniper Flats National Park, near Mt. Shasta… I have only done two ceremonies in the last thirty years with people outside my circle of apprentices, as a collective Dreamer (shaman). The first was the Wounded Knee areas with […]
Ptaki Mądrości
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Ptaki Mądrości (Birds of Wisdom)… Now, I shall tell a tale to God and all the Gods, however wise he and his men may be or “think” they may be. The Eagle clutched with his talons onto a colorful Nightingale and bore her aloft into the clouds. When she […]
Shamanism of the North Goddess
“The Norse Goddess” by Monica Sjöö (1938 – 2005) – The people of the north believe that everything has a Mother and that all of nature has a soul. The most important mothers are Mother Earth, the Sun, and the Moon, and the Sun has always been female in the north. This is because she […]
Black Eagle & Black Falcon Totems – The Kabardinian Tales
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Most totems are not permanent, they are cyclical, for example a totem may come seasonal only once, or for a few years in your waking life or in your dreams. A totem can also be a lifelong messenger and come around for decades. Bird totems represent our “soul” in dreams […]
Carpathian Healers – Ukraine Mol’farka, Polish Whisperer (Szeptucha); Belarus Whisperer and Hungarian Lidercz, Táltos
By Phoenix the Elder – I am by birth, from my own lineage, a full-time working Whisperer, Wind Whisperer (exorcist) Mol’farka (Folk Healer), and Szeptucha (pronounced: Shep-too-hah). Those who are initiated by life and are moved to help others, go through various initiations in life and have a fated calling. During one’s forties to fifties, […]