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Imagine an alternate world where we all honored the sacred feminine, earthy goddesses like Freya and Ishtar, Hathor and Gaia, nurturing and compassionate, instead of the warrior sky gods, deadly jealous and brutal to those who oppose them...
#MythologyMonday
What is the key
To untie the knot of the mind’s suffering?
Benevolent thought, sound
And movement.
- Hafez, The Gift
#internationaldanceday2022
Walpurgisnacht traditionally marks the old feast day of Saint Walpurga, one of the first literate evangelical nuns active in Frankish Germany. Pagans observe it as the night before Beltane (May 1), the beginning of Summer, a time of freedom, fertility and hope.
#FolkloreThursday
The Moon is in Cancer until Sunday 12:00 EDT/4:00 UT. A great time to cook something yummy, get cozy, be close to loved ones, plant something and help it grow, be kind to your body, create something beautiful, and dive deep into your dreams. #astrology
Art: Emily Balivet
Buddhism holds that hungry ghosts are the tormented spirits of those who led lives of evil deeds or died in horrible violence. Also, ancestors must be honoured to prevent them from turning into hungry ghosts doomed to forever haunt the Earth seeking remembrance.
#WyrdWednesday
The World is very old
But year by year
It groweth new again
When buds appear.
The World is very old
And sometimes sad
But when the daisies come
The World is glad.
The World is very old
But every Spring
It groweth young again
And fairies sing.
- C M Barker
#FairyTaleTuesday
As High Druid, Merlin's power was coveted by the ambitious Lady of the Lake, Nimue. Enchanting him with promises of love, she stole Merlin's power and trapped him in a tree, where he was bound to sleep for eternity. #MythologyMonday
🖼️Burne-Jones, The Beguiling of Merlin, 1877
Valkyries functioned as guides to the afterlife, leading the souls of fallen warriors either to Odin's Valhalla, or to the peaceful fields of Freya's Fólkvangr.
Art: Arthur Rackham, "Wagner's Ring Cycle: Valkyrie," 1910
#folklore #Norsemythology #WomensDay
Ernst Haeckel, 'Kunstformen der Natur', 1904
- Actiniae; Trochilidae; Discomedusae; Batrachia
@FormerIy_ExI @yorkshiredave85 @miakaye46 @Nichivo_ @Bee9320 @Tachardiella @1FRGVN @Opticheart @Ffuzzyface @WackyPidgeon @Ashworth101 I feel you. Be well xo