Flying Fiery Serpents & Dragons of Belarus, Estonia and Russian Folk Traditions
Introduction by Phoenix the Elder and content writing by Mare Kõiva and Alena Boganeva – I wanted to share one point about this particular mythology of the Slavic and Baltic traditions. It says that “Milk” is the evil liquid and beer is the holy liquid. Since that is not true, it was probably true at […]
Animals, Birds & Oceanids Signs and Planets
By Phoenix the Elder – As human beings, we’ve always had our Myth, Legends, and Folk Mythology, which are a little different lineage than the University, Philosophy, and Scribe History of men and their patriarchal glory, heroism, and supreme god and gods. The older cultures which were more shamanic based were oral traditions, about both […]
Slavic Zloty Zmienia Sacred Rattle
By Phoenix the Elder – The first time I made my first rattle was with a local healer who was Native American and she invited me to her rattle-making circle. We spent the day cutting, sewing, singing, setting our intentions, and the doing ceremony. We were to leave all the rattles to dry, filled with […]
Slavic and German Domovois
A Domovoi Gnome Story by Phoenix the Elder – In today’s world, books and stories, legends, movies to watch and folktales have pretty much replaced real experiences in the realms of the supernatural and nature’s folk. I thought I would share a real Domovoi experience. Domovois, Nesse’s, Leprechauns, and Dwarves are all the same, they […]
Knowledge of Sorcery of the Eastern Slavs
Prepared by Olga Stanton and additions by Phoenix the Elder – Tales of the Sorcery in Eastern Slavic lands are mostly in oral traditions and small talk of whisperers and healers but much of it no one remembers anymore, people still believed in magic and the supernatural but not everyone experiences it. Many believed that […]
Virgo the Weaver and Mysterious Ceres
Compilation by Phoenix the Elder – I find the Virgo Archetype, her Myths, and the association with healing under several Goddess names, her animals, and the earth, all as a very fascinating course of her story over eons. She is very deep in her many mysteries and if Zeus is the greatest impersonal Greek God […]
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 […]
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 […]
Slavic Summer Rituals – A Rusalki Summer Solstice
By Phoenix the Elder – Learning to live by the Moon cycles, all thirteen of them, we embrace that the year is divided into four seasonal moons and each of the four seasons have rituals that are attached to them. In Slavic traditions there are the remains of pagan traditions that are celebrated and carry […]
When Fairy Tales, Wonder Tales and Magic Tales become real
By Phoenix – I like it when full circles return of any kind, even my own. This is no different for grandmother, who was demoted over three millenniums. By the 12th century her leadership of the world and shamanism cultures were invisible and completely forgotten except for a few old souls that remained. Same is […]