By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Deer Goddess, Deer Woman, Magical Deer Spirit, Hind of the Woods, Elen of the ways and more, are all ancient descriptions of the initiations of the eras of grandmother’s shamanic and prhistory leadership of shamanic cultures. The mystical and magical rites through initiations for women, were through her adoration and connection with…
Category: Shamanism
Spirit Terminology
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – There are so many religions, indigenous religions, philosophies and mythologies today from the abundant written and oral tradition accumulation of knowledge over the last three millenniums. Everyone can be spiritually knowledgeable today, even without any experience in life, while they are in the learning stages. They key is to not…
Death and the Mysterious Shamans
Phoenix of Elder Mountain Dreaming (compilations and additions) – I have always known that powerful shamans, if interrupted by death in our collective work to eradicate darkness on this planet before their real time to leave, could find restitution and keep their work going even after death without black magic but of the light. Mystical…
She Wolves of Midwinter, Slavic & Balkan Animism in the traditions of a Shaman (part 2/2)
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain ( To go to Part 1 ) – Animism and my Shaman dreaming ritual continued from part one: Zack is in High School and does drugs weekly, and because of that, he was weak in the dream and had lost power and if he continues this behavior in his waking life, by 30 he…
Soul Work
Are we suppose to know when our struggles will end? No… we must trust that the process of life is filled with both negative and positive, happy and sad, struggle and loss, and flow and freedom. We all have our good and bad days, but when life gives us extra challenges, so much that we must reach…
Rain Ceremony
Rain Towards Morning The great light cage has broken up in the air, freeing, I think, about a million birds whose wild ascending shadows will not be back, and all the wires come falling down. No cage, no frightening birds; the rain is brightening now. The face is pale that tried the puzzle of their prison …
abracadabra
Additions by Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Word magic, ideas of magic as an alphabetical river, weaving a mysterious interlacing of mental characters, mental words and the mind’s spoken voice was adopted in the middle ages. This was how magic was marked by written forms of symbols that were much older and changed. Then there were the…
Pluto’s Cave, 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…
Inner Child Healing helps prepare for real Soul Retrieval Work
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – The video below, shows a mother and daughter in an artistic portrayal of separation. Separation of mind and emotional body, or in relationships, can leads to rejection and abandonment issues, or phobias, co-dependency and addictions of any kind. Drama-diseases as any 40 year old will tell you, arise at…
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…
Slavic Peasant Dreaming: The Ancient Spirit of Wołogór, Dreamer of Ox Mountain
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain, Edited by Sarah Burnt Stone – Many teachings speak of the World Tree or what is referred to as the “Tree of Life” in Paganism, New Age Spirituality, the Kabbalah and a few others. As a Dreamer I live within the realms of the “World River” connected to the ancient tradition that…
Shoymanas, Rusallias and Sfinte Soimane
On Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Neptune moved into Pisces and will be in its own sign until the beginning of 2026 and will close the door it had opened 2,200 years before in the great circle, which started around 220 bce. What does the weaving of the “Order of the Sphinx”, a bunch of “Balkan…
Karelian Magic
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – The Republic of Karelia is a region in northwest Russia, bordering Finland. Beside Lake Onega, capital city Petrozavodsk is home to cultural artifacts at the National Museum. On an island northeast, Kizhi Museum is an open-air complex of traditional wood buildings. Northwest, Kivach Nature Reserve has pine woods and…
She Wolves of Midwinter, Slavic & Balkan Animism in the traditions of a Shaman (part 1/2)
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – I begin with the Romanian traditions as an ancient Wolf Clan people. The Balkan Romanian, Serbian and Slavic traditions such as Poland and Russia also wolf clan people and this includes the more divine aspect of woman and her life, which were part of our shamanic understandings in the…
Grandmother’s Ancestors – Siberian Effigies
Article By Olga Gertcyk for the Siberian Times 20,000 year old prehistoric effigies shows people of all ages and the larger figurines of the basic large grandmothers (which in all archeology are so inappropriately called Venus). These Siberian art effigies include men, women, teenagers and children, the new research shows. It’s true that in the…
Animism 101
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – An·i·mism is the attribution of the metamorphosis of our many souls, which is not our human soul. We are born with a small part of our soul, but the remainder is divided up into several pieces from our demonic shadow from our karmic lives, all the way to our…
She Wolves
“She-wolf”by Slavonic ethno-band “Vedan Kolod” ВеданЪ КолодЪ – Волчица (Russia, Siberia) taken from their album “Wolf’s path” (2008). http://www.vedan-kolod.org.ru: – Song in Rusian, Lyrics in English: In the darkness, its very deep in the Taiga (forest), the Broad Taiga. There’s an Old Tree and under that tired old Tree, the mighty She-Wolf dreams her Dream….
Shamanism of The Nordic Goddess
“The Norse Goddess” by Monica Sjöö 1938 – 2005… The peoples of the north believe that everything has a Mother and that all of nature has a soul. The most important mothers are Mother Earth, Sun and Moon. The Sun was always female in the north – the because she is a life giving power after…
Unearthed 12,000-year-old Female Shaman in a Cave near Galilee site, called Hilazon Tachtit
A well-preserved finding in burial cave from the Natufian of the era 12,000 years ago sheds light on the complex rites and rituals of the prehistory. The bones of a shaman woman who was lying in her burial site, surrounded by 86 tortoise shells, an eagle’s wing, a leopard’s pelvic bone, a complete deer, a tailbone…
Peumo Dreaming
Argentine and Chilean Women’s culture of Shamanism: Photo of three young Mapuche Machis shamans in 1903. A machi is a traditional shaman healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina. Machis play significant roles in Mapuche religion and is a woman’s tradition, but on occasion there will be a male shaman….
Goddess Bixia Yuanjun Primordial Sovereign of the Colored Clouds of Dawn
One of my ceremonial rituals and rites is working with three very primal female guardian divine spirits (elementals), the first one is Bixia, Goddess of Dawn, which makes her a Sky Goddess of the waking dream, rather than Dusk which is a Night Goddess. I have worked with her on occasion for specific reasons over…
Sauwastika, Swastika, Arkaim and Mesolithic Symbols
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – More and more on earth, our pre-history grandmothers who ruled the shamanic cultures are being revealed with more ancient artifacts surfacing. Its sad that only University, Archaeologists and Governments get to touch and see and we indigenous Slavs (who are shamans) and indigenous people do not. I don’t have the…
Ritualistic Fire
A picture expresses a thousand words and a spiritual image expresses ten-thousand. The composition of this beautiful image depicts a Slavic Pagan Ritual, the day after Hallows Eve (all Souls day). Included are rectangles in the foreground with bowls of water and lighted candles as part of the ritual of calling the souls (ancestors) and…
