Category: Slavic Women

Destruction of the Original Slavic Night Grandmothers of Winter

Sharing from Phoenix the Elder – I empower women, with my experience as a collective shaman I change all the stories back to their origin before pagan men and Christian men corrupted everything of the grandmother’s shamanic and dream cultures. I also empower the soul men who also know truths deep down that the patriarch […]

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Slavic Color Symbolism

The Pan-Slavic colors red, blue, and white were defined by the Prague Slavic Congress, 1848. In traditional Slavic traditional art, outfits, embroidery, and decorations, the colors are mainly red, black, white (blue, green, and yellow) depending upon the Slavic country. Here is an outline of what colors symbolically represent:Black colorThe moistness of the earth, the […]

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Amazon Warriors of Persia

There are two ancient lineages that defined Slavic and Baltic people, be they indigenous or not. Half are from the Celtic and later Viking migrations and half are from the Iranian migrations of very ancient times. Its easy to see in Slavic and Baltic culture, the influences through some primitive art, musical influences and even […]

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The Empath’s Conflict

By Phoenix the Elder – If you are an empath, a true one, you know that you are an emotional wreck and trouble finds you everywhere. Oversensitive, emotions trigger easy and it takes a lot of personal healing to begin to understand who you are. If you call yourself an empath but its not a […]

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Behind the Traditional Cloth

By Phoenix the Elder – I ran across some Kursk Embroidery from Russia and these particular designs are called “Months”. Kursk is South of Moscow in Russia near the Ukraine border.  There is a not a definite oral tradition explanation for these but they seem to represent growth of cycles. In nature, there is no seed that […]

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Building Marzanna 2024 / 2025

By Phoenix the Elder – It’s that time of year again to honor the Goddess of Winter, the Grandmother, and we do that in the ritual of the Ancient Slavic Marzanna, Morena, or Maslenitsa. I have worked about 98% with women this lifetime, and regardless of where you are from on the earth and what your […]

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Ziva, Zhiva, Zywie and Siwa: Slavic Goddess of the Waters

By Phoenix the Elder (compilation) – I searched and did a collection on the Goddess Zhiva, Siwa or Ziva as she is known. I work with Slavic Fire and Water Rituals in both my folk healing work, my apprentice work and my greater collective work. The Living Waters of Zhiva, Siva, Ziva is one of […]

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Slavic Winter Divination

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – I have been a huge practitioner of divination for myself and for clients and apprentices, so much so, that I have them as part of my folk healing medicines. This began in my family when I turned 17 and participated in the Winter Divinatory process. It came natural with […]

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Goddess of Winter

By Phoenix the Elder – Its that time of year again to honor the Goddess of Winter – Marzanna, an archaic night goddess and primal connection to her shamanistic and animistic mysteries of the past, present and future. These pre-religious rites are still done in very simple ways today and I hope you join us again […]

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Protection of houses against evil in the region of Mazovia, Poland

Article by Llamus Dworski – People in the old Polish countryside were very particular about maintaining certain rites and preparing protective accessories in their household and the whole farm enclosure. These customs stemmed from pre-Christian Slavic protective rituals, and – despite the centuries of influence of the Christian church – they survived in continuity for […]

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