How real Shamans Experience Life
Never confuse medicine person or shaman practitioner with real shamans, they are not the same, nor born of the same root, nor of the same lineages of the past and past lives. Shamans are both powerful and very weak from attacks from people and nature. That is what gives them their true strength from overcoming […]
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 […]
A Rabbit Totem in the Egyptian Moon?
By Phoenix the Elder – Hare, and Rabbit have been two of my unusual helpers as a shaman, not only in my waking life but also in my dreams as night. I have a Lakota friend who is an (animism) Jack Rabbit and very powerful. When he appears, he is in his rabbit form, about […]
Siberian Shaman’s Bird Mask
On some of the drums of the Siberian Shamans, there is an image of a hooked curve and line which symbolizes the Horse, like many Slavic and Balkan traditions which the horse is present in folk art and textiles. The Circles symbolizes both Sun and Moon, and lastly, the Beaks and Eyes of the Bird […]
She is a Fire Being
Video by Phoenix at Elder Mountain Music by Christina Agulara
Tigers in Tokyo
By Phoenix the Elder – I call this 13,000-year-old shaman’s effigy, the “Heart of the Ancient Tiger” because it has a special meaning for me. I have a very good Buddhist, and scientist friend from Tokyo, and although I had never had a dream with him before (the past twenty years) while he lived in […]
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 […]
Vulture & Bird Thunder Women
Grandmother Shamans of the Thunderbird, the Condor, and Vulture Bird Tribes that starts with the Raven and Crow. Combing the Goddess’s hair (Mother Earth). The image is called the Gundestrup Cauldron, from 200 BCE and 300 CE, a Douter plate, silver, gilded Vessel 3rd Century BCE. The underworld image of a man and dog, at […]
Black Eagle & Black Falcon Totems – The Kabardinian Tales
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Most totems are not permanent, they are cyclical, for example a totem may come seasonal only once, or for a few years in your waking life or in your dreams. A totem can also be a lifelong messenger and come around for decades. Bird totems represent our “soul” in dreams […]
Wasp Totem – The Fine Art of the Sting
By Phoenix the Elder – When we combine a life of Sacred Art or Sacred Creative and Artful living with the joys and perils of our real-life journey and our emotional life, nature teaches us everything we need to know how to navigate the mirrors of the winding river. In order to navigate this journey, […]