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In Aztec (also called Mexica) cosmology, the soul’s journey to the Underworld after death leaves them with four destinations: the Sacred Orchard of the Gods, the Place of Darkness, the Kingdom of the Sun, and a paradise called the Mansion of the Moon.

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2021-10-14

When Eurydice dies from a snake bite, Persephone persuades her husband Hades to release Eurydice back to her husband, Orpheus. Sadly Orpheus proves incapable of following instructions & she ends up back in the underworld (image by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

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Psyche was forbidden from seeing her husband's face, but due to suspicions from her sisters, she believed him to be a monster and accidentally attacked him. A rage-induced, but gleeful, Venus sent her on many 'trials' including one to the underworld.
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In Lithuanian lore mushrooms were thought to be the fingers of Velnias, the Baltic god of death, reaching up from the Underworld and offering his fungi fingers as food for the poor.

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This week's theme is folklore of the and (Image: Jan Brueghel the Elder via wikimedia commons)

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That's the end of another epic 🎃

Today's theme was Bold Girls, Courageous Women, and Powerful Goddesses! This is signing off, wishing you all a lore-filled week 🐈‍⬛

Something tells me the next few weeks will be spooky!

John Bauer 1914

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2021-10-08

Skadi came down from her mountain to Asgard demanding a blood price for her father's death. The gods feared her, for she was goddess of winter: she demanded the hand of Baldr, most beautiful of gods. But being the gods, trickery reigned.

🖼: IrenHorrors

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In Celtic lore, fairies had a matriarchal society and were known as "the mothers". The children of fallen angels, they carried off the souls of the dead. Anyone who died at twilight would find themselves in Fairyland, between life & death...

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My historical take on classic Disney characters, Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) and Ariel (The Little Mermaid)

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Hina was the Polynesian virgin-mother goddess, creator of the world. She was both moon and first woman and gave birth to the gods and the humans. All women are said to embody her spirit...

🎨Schinkel

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Word of their perfect palace spread. People came from far away to see its perfection. Mostly it was the brave and remarkable girl who won the three treasures, saved her brothers and broke the Curse of Yonder Mountain they came to see https://t.co/4VGyVi6OKY

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Another artist from the late 19th-cen “Golden Age of Illustration” was Warwick Goble (1862-1943). His fairy-tale heroines held their own quiet power & glistened with early modern magic. I love these works 💖📚💫

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I love the way Edmund Dulac’s (1882-1953) fairy-tale heroines always sparkled with his sense of artistic enchantment ❤️📚

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Thanks for another great session, This is Crystal signing off. The amazing will join in just a bit for today’s last session. Here's one of my all-time favorites! See you next week my friends! (Image: Mary Read/Unknown Author)

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In Greek mythology, Helen was the most beautiful woman in the age of the heroes. Wife of Menelaus of Sparta, she eloped with Paris of Troy.The Greeks waged a 1O yr war against Troy to win her back.Christopher Marlowe called her the face that launched 1000 ships

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💔🐇❤️‍🔥Cornish folklore said that a woman who died of a broken heart could wreak vengeance on the man who wronged her from beyond the grave. Her spirit in the form of a beautiful white hare - visible only to her betrayer - would haunt and torment him to death.

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"The Girl and the Quibungo" is a brazilian tale of angolan origin. The human-eating Quibungo captures a girl to eat, but the girl's grandma hears her calling for help and throws boiling water at the monsters feet, knocking it down and stabing it's neck.

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Astarte, also spelled Athtart or Ashtart, great goddess of the ancient Middle East and chief deity of Tyre, Sidon, and Elat, important Mediterranean seaports.

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Daniel Gardner's 3 Witches 1775. Setting taken from Shakespeare were portraits of the most politically influential & socially notorious women of the time: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire & sculptor Anne Seymour Damer.

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