Slavic Day and Night Goddesses in Folk Art
Lepa Vida: Light and Darkness – Lepa Veda occupied an important place in Slovene folk traditions. Evident proof of this is found not only in numerous folk songs, but also in the vernacular name for the artemisian and metaphoric connotations connected to the character of Fair Vida (Lepa Vida) in Slovene, and it has become a veritable […]
Breksta, Goddess of the Night; of Dreaming; Twilight, Dusk, Dawn, and the Veil Rider.
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – I love all the Slavic, Baltic and Balkan Goddesses that no one knows or cares about. For me, they reveal a past that brings them in alignment with the power of the Shaman and Ancient Pre-Pagan Grandmothers (without the horrors of projected ugly or horrific Baba Yaga (Jaga). The […]
Night and Day Goddesses
Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London. John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”.Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known […]