Tag: animism

Mythological Animism of the Mississippi

Compilation by Phoenix the Elder – Thought I would share a very local Native American Legend: The Piasa Bird which is really a Dragon and thought to be a Underwater Panther which means its an Underworld Panther. The Piasa is famous as a painting by the Native Americans on the stone bluffs near Alton, Illinois. […]

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Pelican Totem – Egyptian Goddess Henet

By Phoenix the Elder – Pelican has now been with me one month before the spring equinox for the last three years. It’s the one consistent totem for my rebirth after all my karma has been dissolved. It’s a very magical experience for me to see them fly above the village when I have been […]

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Muskrat Totem

By Phoenix the Elder – “On my walk in the village, I saw the Water Snake two days ago which was a nice surprise, and as I was singing to the spring today at the same place, I saw a Muskrat appear. I have never had a muskrat on my path before, this is new […]

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Grosbeak Totem

By Phoenix the Elder – I found a Black Headed Grosbeak Feather today after a month of great changes and it is a very welcoming sign today. These bird’s feathers are black and white on their wing and because they are both opposing colors they represent both our moon internal and sun external.  Grosbeaks represent as […]

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Groundhog, Beaver, Woodchuck, Marmot Totem

By Phoenix the Elder – All Animals, Birds, Insects and Oceanids do not come randomly as totems to us. To be a birth totem, you would have to see them every year, month or week the rest of your life and that can only be determined by hindsight. Totems come to us with a purpose, to […]

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The Royalty of Basilisk and Regulus

 By Phoenix the Elder  –  Always keep in perspective that what was deemed evil was at a previous era, a really sacred Goddess Cultures and the Dragon is the best example of this. Yes there were corrupted dragons but this was after the destruction of the souls of people in the warring kingdom. Wikipedia says:In European […]

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Snail Totem, Black Snail and Folklore

By Phoenix the Elder – In the Slavic tradition, the account of the Black Snail is as follows: The black snail lazar is a lunar symbol, which like the moon extends and hides her horns (crescents first and third quarter moon). In Styria, children would tease the black snail and say: “Puž – muž, puž – […]

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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. There is explanations of animism souls in knowledge form, but as an animism is basically the function of the dormant side of one part of the human soul. It goes much deeper […]

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Shamanochki Horned Kichka – The Evolution from Grandmother Shaman reduced to Maiden Bride

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – I am particularly interested as a shaman, in my ancestral grandmothers and their ancient prehistoric rituals which were dominant before the 5th through 8th centuries. Before writing, we had art and oral traditions that carried our stories during the long winter moons and the celebrations of life. Much can be seen […]

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Magical Flight of the Fox

Last night I had a Dream on the land where I live and a pretty Fox came to visit me, she was flying all over the land and it was a joy to see, her coat was very bright and shiny in the classic orange-red and white colors! So I was searching for flying Foxes in Ancient Folklore and found a few […]

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