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As a kid I loved the story of Snow White and Rose Red, sisters who befriend a bear and keep having run ins with an ungrateful dwarf.

The last time they see the dwarf, the bear is about to kill him. True to form, he begs for the girls to be eaten instead.

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2018-07-20

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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2018-07-19

Twelfth night celebrations on Hopeless, Maine (art self) The costumes and masks were partly inspired by Noh Theatre tradition from Japan.

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2018-07-19

In Britian it is not uncommon for people to salute a lone magpie - as magpies mate for life seeing a lone bird carries connotations of a lost partner/ill fortune, in showing a sign of respect it is believed one's own bad luck may be avoided.

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The rites and rituals of the below-ground population of Hopeless, Maine (which is to say, vampires) Art, self and The wicker rug beater is not an absolute requirement.

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2018-07-19

In Norse sociecty the greatest of criminals were executed in a ritual known as the blood eagle it is detailed in late skaldic poetry.

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2018-07-19

Adrammelech (king of fire) is an ancient Samarian sun god briefly mentioned in the Old Testament's Book of Kings. In demonology he is an arch-demon & a great minister of the Order of the Fly, founded by Beelzebub. He appears in the form of a mule or a peacock.

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2018-07-13

According to the traditional Cosmology of Oceania's Kiribati Islanders, Nareau, the Lord Spider, spun the universe into existence. It created all life, the first Man & Woman, the Octopus Lord, The Eel, The Wave, and all the Gods, only to retreat from being.

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2018-07-13

African Lore: Grootslang, meaning "great snake." It lived in a diamond cave, the Wonder Hole. The OG Grootslang was too powerful, so the gods subdivided the animal into two species: elephant & serpent, but a Grootslang or two escaped this fate & reproduced.

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2018-07-13

Aboriginal Australian tells of the (genderless) Rainbow Serpent. Referring to the intersex serpent as the creator or giver of life; due to its connection with water. Where a Wagilag sister gives birth &her blood flows into the Rainbow Serpent's waterhole.

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2018-07-12

The Inuit goddess Sedna is a creator deity, with dominion of marine animals. She is depicted as  hermaphroditic in some myths, with others showing her as bisexual or lesbian, living with her female partner at the bottom of the ocean.

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The wheel of fate as seen in Hopeless, Maine for

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2018-07-12

Santa Muerte, a potent Mexican folk saint, appears as a skeleton wearing feminine garb. Seen as a protector of the weak & oppressed, she has become the patroness & protector of LGBT communities & likes offerings of flowers, alcohol, & cigarettes.

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In pre-colonial Philippines,the Death god Sidapa pursued one of the comely lunar deity:Bulan the boy moon.Sidapa ordered the mermaids and birds to sing praises for Bulan.They reside together sleeping in each other's arms in Mt. Majaas,in the province of Antique

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The in at 3:47 am on 13th July, rules all white flowers. Their petals bring gentle healing to a new moon that is sensitive, nurturing, tearful & introspective, & opposes the lord of darkness, Pluto, in
Images: Cicely Barker

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2018-07-12

A woman's work is never done: Harvest days with Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Labors of the Months tiles). winemaking was traditionally woman's work. Grapes harvested by women. Left: September wine harvest. Right: First harvest in July

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2018-07-06

You may be looking in the wrong place if you think you've made eye contact. Another "natural history" approach. This time it's a Ningyo.

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2018-07-06

The Elysian Fields was a land of perfect happiness at the end of the Earth, on the banks of the Oceanus, where those whom the gods conferred immortality onto were sent. It's a place for the blessed dead. Entrance was gained by a righteous and courageous life.

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