Ukraine’s Night on Bare Mountain
Lysa Hora was the Legend of darkness of the rising powers of men, both pagan and christian, both politician and military at Bare (Bald) Mountain in Kyiv, Ukraine. People tend to think one is good and the other evil, but when you look at the destruction of white, red, black, yellow and brown indigenous cultures, […]
Arkaim, Sauwastika, Swastika and Mesolithic Symbols
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain –One of the big dipper goddesses is Dǒumǔ Niang Niang (斗母娘娘): The Mother Goddess of the Big Dipper stars. She was originally worshiped by the ancient Chinese as the progenitor of the stars and constellations. Dǒumǔ, also known as Dǒumǔ Yuánjūn, Dòulǎo Yuánjūn, and Tàiyī Yuánjūn, and a goddess in Chinese […]
How real Shamans Experience Life
Never confuse medicine person or shaman practitioner with real shamans, they are not the same, nor born of the same root, nor of the same lineages of the past and past lives. Shamans are both powerful and very weak from attacks from people and nature. That is what gives them their true strength from overcoming […]
Traditional Marzanna, Maslenitsa, Morena, Mora Goddesses, and Deities of the Night
By Phoenix the Elder – On the Winter Solstice Day, we begin to honor and build our Marzanna Effigy. The newer pagan traditions build it and burn it on the same day (the Spring Equinox), but the Shamanic cultures are much older so we begin to build her on the Winter Solstice and for those doing […]
Szeptuch Shaman
Grandmothers return is all about timing and I have found myself not enjoying the Slavic, Balkan and Viking Paganism, because it glorifies the maiden and the male dominance of leadership. I am a great fan of Slavic, Balkan and Viking Folk Healers, Female Shamans, Artists and Rituals that equally includes mothers and grandmothers actually leading ceremonies and leading spiritual teachings for the younger […]
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, […]