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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. #FolkloreThursday
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. #FolkloreThursday
Aboriginal Australian #Myth, 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. #FolkloreThursday
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. #FolkloreThursday #Pride2018
The wheel of fate as seen in Hopeless, Maine for #FolkloreThursday
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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Iris 🌈 Goddess of the Rainbow
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#FolkloreThursday 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
The #NewMoon in #Cancer, 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 #Capricorn.
Images: Cicely Barker
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A woman's work is never done: Harvest days with Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Labors of the Months tiles). #medieval winemaking was traditionally woman's work. Grapes harvested by women. Left: September wine harvest. Right: First harvest in July #harvest #Rossetti #folklorethursday
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. #FolkloreThursday #japan #Mermaid #creaturedesign #conceptart
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. #FolkloreThursday
Saw the tag #FolkloreThursday and had to jump on that wagon! Faoladh is an Irish term for werewolf. Irish werewolves were considered guardian spirits who protected children, wounded men, and the lost.
Happy #FolkloreThursday, Twitter! ["The Harvest Home," Thomas Rowlandson]
Tomte (Swedish) or Tonttu (Finnish, also called Nisse in Norway) are solitary, mischievous domestic spirits, responsible for the protection and welfare of a farmstead and its buildings.
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