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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Ancestress of the Magical Reindeers
The Ancient Saami – 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 reindeer upon the crossing the river of blood. She settles…
Dreaming of Fire
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – The great mystery is understood through a journey of self healing, karmic detoxing, spiritual disciplines, and applying new actions, that create new changes. And most important – compassion for one’s own personal journey. If we try to enter our spiritual path only from the mental body (knowledge) teachings alone…
Baba Jaga, Archaic Cave Grandmothers of our Shamanic Past
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain ~ How do you reduce the once great and powerful grandmothers of the archaic and ancient world into Venus or Maidens? Build a patriarch so men put the least powerful stage of a female into power. That is how the maiden has dominated since 500 bce. And how mothers and…
Art, Nature and Magic – The Fine Art of the Sting
When we combine a life of Art or Artful living with the joys and perils of our real emotional life, nature teaches us everything we need to know how to navigate such a winding river, and in order to navigate this journey, she teaches us through experience with her fire, her wind storms, her insects…
