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She is dawn, is light, is the stars and promise of a new day. She is Zorya, the Slavic keeper of the gates of morning who let's the sun out each new day. She is gold and red and yellow and white, and her light is hope. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: A. Shishkin

Cry havoc, Loki, and let slip the wolf hounds of war.

Thanks to @wildbellesprout for this gem.

Multiple European dynasties claim to be descended from Melusine, the spirit of a river or well found in France or the Low Country. Free-spirited and unconquerable, in her true form she was half-fish or serpent, and even sometimes had wings. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: C. Tesser

In winter the fox stalks the skies, in flaming colors of blue and green: this is the firefox, the Finnish understanding of the Aurora Borealis. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: rinkula

The goddess Brigid has one of the most dynamic love lived across the centuries, being a married and a mother in Ireland, to the chaste saint of children and childbirth in Catholicism, to the loa who guides the dead and wife of Baron Samedi in Vodou #MythologyMonday

🖼: Zielinska

Our conception of the heart ruling our emotions comes from Egypt, calling the organ the ib. Ruling reason, emotion,willpower, and passion, this organ was carefully preserved for judgment in the Duat after death, where Anubis weighed the heart against a feather. #MythologyMonday

It turns out immortality is a recipe for tragedy: Chang'e drank the elixir of immortality meant for her lover, thinking it was medicine for her, only to ascend from Earth beyond Heaven's grasp, to the Moon. Now Chang'e is forever divided from her love Houyi. #FolkloreThursday

Mexico City is surrounded by love, according to an old Aztec love story: the mountains that surround the city are a tomb for the Tlaxcala Princess Iztaccíhuatl who died of grief thinking Popocatepetl had died; now he watches over her forever. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: J. Helguera

Even ancient writers recognized that cracks in the rock at the Oracle of Delphi's chamber likely influenced the Oracle's ecstatic visions: Plutarch, a former priest at Delphi, thought the sweet-smelling vapors helped the Oracle obtain visions and divine connection. #WyrdWednesday

For spurring Apollo she was cursed, cursed with perfect prophecy that no one believed, cursed to watch her city fall to ruin all for lust, cursed to suffer the abuses of men who would not listen to her. The curse of Cassandra is one we all know well. #FolkloreThursday