Traditional folk symbolism of Lublin, Poland
Phoenix the Elder – Some of my ancestors are from Lublin, Poland and when I ran across this article (source at the bottom) of Traditional art of the rural community, I was not only happy but thought I would also share. Slavic people are very rooted in divination, symbolism, mysticism, nature mysticism, mythos, mystical reality […]
Dream teacher of the soul cloud
The last one anyone believes, is the eldest soul who can never be conceived. Seekers of the small inner voice, will find a breath of memory, much like the ocean of forgetfulness who finds sleep instead of dreams. When we first met, you were all smiles at the great Dawn, feeling as if you had […]
Daemon vs Demon, Boskie vs Antiboskie, Slavic Folklore
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – What is demonology and daemonology? Originally, languages went from only gesturing with the verbal spoken, until the first written languages were created later. Thus the origin of “daemon” in the older context when humans had less karma, meant a higher, supernatural, impersonal force, a power that is usually identified with […]
Moon, Mother, Memory, Remembrance
Lithuanian Folk Song – Kaledy Rytu Roze Inzydo
The Journey of the Rose Lyrics Christmas’ morning a rose has bloomed, lylio kalėda kalėda, Sunday morning a miracle has happened, lylio kalėda kalėda A Miracle happened as the lake is frozen, lylio kalėda kalėda The Young boy was smashing the ice, lylio kalėda kalėda, Was s Smashing the ice, to give the horse a drink, lylio kalėda […]
Russian & Bulgarian Pagan Monk Magicians
Great Schema (From Wiki) (Greek: μεγαλόσχημος, megaloschemos; Church Slavonic: Схима, Schima)—Monks whose abbots feel they have reached a high level of spiritual excellence reach the final stage, called the Great Schema. The tonsure of a Schemamonk or Schemanun follows the same format as the Stavrophore, and he makes the same vows and is tonsured in […]
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 […]
Bird Animism
Ancestress of the Magical Reindeers
Saami, Mongolia, and Turkey, The Ancient Matriarchal Deer Shamans – In the Folktales of the Meandash, the Mythic Saami Reindeer people, a Meandash young woman and the mother of Meandash, speak of an old wise and experienced woman (which in ancient Finno-Ugric tradition is a shaman woman). The Meandash-nijt lives in a human form and only becomes a […]
Ancient Folk Artists to today’s Folk Art
General Folklore is commonly divided into many areas which include painting, dances, folk craft, folk songs stemming from their origin and oral traditions. Folklorists look at the objects that surround the story or tale, be that in the form of dance, painting, community circle and it’s costumes which are an intricate part of the effect […]