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The 1st rule of the Eleusinian Mysteries? Don’t talk about them... but it’s believed the secretive ancient Greek cult let most anyone attempt initiation. Those who passed enjoyed a 9-day party-The Greater Mysteries-w/ singing, dancing & sacrifices, to celebrate. #FolkloreThursday

A swallow symbolizes a safe journey home—why their images are such popular pendants and tattoos for travelers, especailly sailors.
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Artist: John Bauer

Stay on the path that feels like home.

Un-cropped painting:
The Legend of the Volcanoes by Jesus Helguera

Ohelo, a type of Whortleberry, grows in volcanic ash and pools of cooled lava. The fruit is sacred to Pele and safe to eat, but only if you offer a share to the goddess first.
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Crop of The Legend of the Volcanoes by Jesus Helguera

In Northern Europe young men & women were encouraged to participate fully in fertility festivals (to gage their reproductive abilities) because it used to be conception, not intercourse, that dictated the consummation of a marriage.
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Painting by William Blake

The other-world is a reversal of ours. Things plentiful here are in dearth there. When light there, our world is dark. The right hand here corresponds to the left there--Why people became wary of the left-handed: they could be spirits from that reversed world.
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The sun used to live among the San of the Kalahari, as a man, unusual only in that when he lifted his arms bright light escaped his armpits. Eventually he was flung into the sky to drive out the prior darkness of the world. #FolkloreThursday
Brian Froud Illustration

The 1st rule of the Eleusinian Mysteries, was don’t talk about... but it’s believed the secretive ancient Greek cult let most anyone attempt initiation. Those who passed enjoyed a 9-day party-The Greater Mysteries-w/ singing, dancing & sacrifices, to celebrate. #FolkloreThursday

Want your own magically endowed artistically inclined mini human? Try
Paracelsus's Homunculus Recipe:
Put human 'seed' in a sealed flask on low heat for 40 days. Feed the growth treated blood for 40 weeks.(1/2)(For a basilisk replace seed w/ menstrual blood)
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