By Phoenix of Elder Mountain Dreaming – Moon Birds – Song of Slavic Bird Tribe Shaman Women, their Culture, Art and Soul – The cult of the bird women go back to the very beginning of the largest cycle of Soul people on earth, which I estimate at least in this largest cycle (era) to be…
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Magical Deer Woman and our Pre-Pagan Ancestors
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Deer Goddess, Deer Woman, Magical Deer Spirit, Hind of the Woods, Elen of the ways and more, 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 nature…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
She Bears
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain (Compilation of the Bear Goddesses with personal writings intermixed) – Bear Goddesses Artemis, Artio, Bendis, Callisto, Hekate, Merope, Mielikki, Mi’kmaq Bear, Ursel and Vanth… “You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying…
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 Shaman; Ukraine Mofarka, Molfar; Polish Szeptucha (Whisperer); Belarus Whisperers and Hungarian Lidercz, Táltos
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain (eldermountaindreaming@gmail.com) – I am a Molfarka and Szeptucha (pronounced: Shep-too-hah), a Wind Whisperer and Dreamer (Shaman). These all mean the same thing to varying degrees, so it gives me great pleasure to share and gather other wonderful information of the traditional Whispering and Shamanic Folk Healing rites from various sources and…
