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#BookWormSat
“All this took place before summertime came in.
[…] Some, I think, [come] out of the water, and some out of the ground. […]
I certainly prefer the daylight population of the Playings Fields to that which comes there after dark.”
#BookWormSat
The stories in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser take the reader into a world of adventure-seeking knights, fairies, captive maidens, treacherous magicians, fire-breathing dragons, enchanted trees and other wonders. https://t.co/onrBvVnajS
#FairyTaleTuesday
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„And the summer comes, when the sun does not go to sleep at all and Dusk gives the Sun straight to Dawn, who relights its dimmed glow again. It is the time of summer solstice, when the world is filled with flowers and song, light and joy…
#SwampSunday
“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water…”
#darkgreenweek #swampsistersweek
In a Chinese Legend there dwells a one-thousand-year-old White Snake Spirit in a lake. It practises Taoist magical arts and shapeshiftes into a young woman.
In some versions of the legend, it transforms into a goddess (Madam White Snake).
#WyrdWednesday
In the Wyld Waters of primeval times there was Nehebkau, one of the original gods in Egypt. As a giant snake he traversed the primeval waters. He is considered to be eternal, which might have started the theme of snakes being symbols of immortality.
#SwampSistersWeek
#DarkGreenWeek
Swamp sisters are surrounded by snakes. 🐍 May I introduce you to Aida Wedo the female companion to Damballa? When they had to leave Africa, Aida travelled across the sky with a rainbow crown. Damballa went beneath the sea until they met again.
#FaustianFriday
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The plot of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” revolves around the initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris, seen from Tamino’s point of view. Mozart was a member of the Viennese Masonic lodge and died shortly after the debut performance.
There was once a girl who was walking past a swamp near Hähnlein,when she saw a will-o'-wisp and mocked it boldly.Immediately it crossed the swamp towards the girl and followed her to her house. It had the fiery wings of a swamp bird and flew out of the chimney like a fire dragon