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“Pimpernel, pimpernel, tell me true,
Whether the weather will be fine or no…”

The scarlet pimpernel is known as “the poor man’s weatherglass”.
It’s tiny red flowers open for sunny days and close for rainy days.
(🎨Cecily Mary Barker)

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Akashita is a appearing as a dark cloud with sharp claws, a beast's face and long red tongue. If rice farmers divert and steal water from neighbours during droughts, akashita punishes them by draining their water & snatching them with its long red tongue.

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"I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.”

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Thread (short): folklore & myths in 🎨Jane Brideson 🌈⛅️☂️🌧️🌞☃️⛈️ https://t.co/GCKjnYe6oz

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In Greek mythology,clouds were young nymphs,Nephelai,the daughters of Oceanus & Tethys. They would collect water from the streams in pitchers & when full,let them pour down,replenishing the earth & streams.
Img: Ancient Greece Reloaders

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IN A SILVER SEA. Novelettes of British legend Pt 1 https://t.co/dezICGwlZ5 King Arthur's god-child, Endelienta, and her mystical White Cows.

https://t.co/up3NFwFI2d NEW! Melor, a prince deposed & mutilated by his evil uncle receives a magic Silver Hand.

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Arianrhod is a Welsh goddess of the moon and stars. Her name means ‘silver wheel.’ She is believed to carry souls to the afterlife to await rebirth. Her palace is 'Caer Arianrhod,' a title also used in Welsh for the constellation Corona Borealis.

🎨Anne Stokes

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2021-07-09

and in opposite seasons, so that both of them can never be seen in the sky at the same time. 2/2

Johann Bayer's Uranometria (courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory Library)

Scorpius as depicted in Urania's Mirror (1825)

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Once the sky held all the stories of mankind, and Anansi wanted them. Sky father Nyame told Anansi that he must capture four impossible beings, too large for a mere spider; but Anansi is nothing if not tricky. He won and gave us stories.

🖼: K. Whitman

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After Odin and his otherwise do-nothing brothers slaughtered Ymir for sh*ts n’ giggles, they then tore apart his body and used it to terraform the cosmos, using his lifeless skull to create the heavens. 🖼
The d'Aulairs, Katherine Pyle & Giovanni Caselli

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"When Thales was leaving his house to look at the stars he fell into a ditch; ... an old woman remarked to him: "You, O Thales, cannot see what is at your feet and you expect to see what is in the heavens?" (Thomas Aquinas)

The dangers of starry nights for

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The sun Amaterasu banished the moon Tsukuyomi, for he broke the rules of hospitality and killed his host. Yet they reunite at times, when the Empress of the Universe feels so inclined: when the moon and sun meet, during eclipses, the two kami reunite, if briefly

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Ouranos was one of the Greek primordial beings, most often born of one of the other primordial like Nyx or his wife Gaia. Representing the Sky, he was cut down by his son Cronus, and cursed him to fall the same way. Thus the King of the Gods rules the skies.

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In the Ininew language, Polaris is called Keewatin Atchakos, the going home star because by keeping it on their right, they knew they were travelling west. The Plains Cree call it "Ekakatchet Atchakos," the standing still star.

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The ancient Irish believed that a comet in the night's sky represented the Spear of Assal, the weapon wielded by Lugh Lamfada. Once thrown he commanded it, and it flew until he called it back, hunting blood: thus comets were an ill omen.

🖼: J. Brideson

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The Alkha is a Siberian monster, an enormous dragon-like creature responsible for causing eclipses by trying to eat the sun and moon: look closely & you can see its bite marks on the latter. It also enjoys snacking on human hair.
Link to🎨https://t.co/WlK30040uJ

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"A paper moon, I'll hang it high
Up in a dark blue paper sky;
Some pretty silvery stars I'll make—
All for the little lone moon's sake;
My bed shall be the evening grass,
Where only fairy people pass."
A Paper Moon
Annette Wynne

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(1/2) In Dayak Iban Folklore, the Pleiades is called ‘Bintang Tujuh’ (Seven Stars). It plays a major role in Iban agriculture because it signals the time to perform the ritual ‘manggol’ to commence preparation of their farm fields.

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