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Hestia: Images and Texts Persephone: Images and Texts Poseidon: Images and Texts Zeus: Images and Texts...And lots more

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WHITE DRAGON is an unashamedly and unapologetically discriminatory magazine! Its editorial policy actively discriminates in favour of writers and artists who are presently living and working within Mercia or who have Mercian connections. WHITE DRAGON covers the area from Manchester to Oxford and from the Welsh Marches to Nottingham and Northampton, serving pagans, witches, occultists and EM freaks in Mercia with news, events and happenings plus articles and artwork. Mercian map opposite, Copyright Dave Taylor 1996.

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In the German-speaking countries and Holland and Belgium as well December 6th is the most distinctive children's festival of the year. St. Nikolaus Eve is a time of festive stir, it is a time of whispers and giggles, and of heavy steps on the stairs. Shops are full of many-shaped biscuits, gilt gingerbreads, sometimes representing the saint, of sugar images, toys and other little gifts.

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Introduction ~ Myth by Image ~ Myth by Culture ~ Mythological Comparisons ~ Glossary ~ Suggested Readings ~ Downloadable Resources This collection of images brings together 24 works of art inspired by mythology around the world. The rich variety of images makes it possible for you to address a wide range of study areas, including language arts, humanities, art, social and cultural studies, and world religions. Mythological Comparisons will help you explore the relationships among the images. Have fun being creative with these materials!

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The Masks of Odin is a provocative study of "the wisdom of the ancient Norse." While it portrays the various aspects and forms that Odin assumes in order to gain knowledge of the nine worlds inhabited by gods and giants, humans, elves, and dwarfs, Elsa-Brita Titchenell has a larger purpose in view. As a serious student of both Edda and Theosophy her loom is cosmic in reach, its warp representing the theosophia perennis or enduring god-wisdom and its woof the Edda, whose many-colored threads she weaves into colorful and often inspiring patterns of interpretation

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The Seidre were shamanic folk who travelled from community to community speaking with the Other-world on behalf of the townspeople they visited. They would question the recently-deceased loved ones and ask favors of the gods through the town's dead kinfolk. It was believed that they were also able to obtain special favors for individuals from their passed-on relatives. Such favors might be something like a priestess who may ask that her grandmother endow her with the family's power in her physical body in this lifetime, rather than waiting for it to be bestowed on her. Many of the Germanic and Slavic peoples believed the power was passed from family member to famlily member on the death of the preceding generation's head witch- but it sometimes skipped a generation or two, and the newly-deprived head honcho of the family's witchery would likely feel inclined to ask why. The Seidre could ask this question for them.

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The Navajo creation story involves three underworlds where important events happened to shape the Fourth World where we now live.

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In an effort to understand how my family's Danish witchcraft tradition was originally practiced, I tried to uncover the geographical and cultural relationship between the early Danish and other local European traditions. This led me to pursue Germanic and Slavic and even Russian roots, seeking a link to the system used in Ancient Denmark and surrounding areas. The most obvious connection was to the Norse or Teutonic traditions, so I checked into that first. What I found was a puzzle that went back almost to the Last Ice Age.

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"It is thought by many that the loss of the old ways of living, close to the living Earth and close to our tribes, is responsible for the social and environmental problems we face today, so a return to the old ways will be a healing force in the world in this life and time. Druidism today is not an abandonment of technology, nor is it a rejection of society. It is not a retreat from the world into an illusory garden of delight where problems need not be faced. Rather, it is an affirmation of our needs in this life, and an energetic attempt to take power over them. " "The Druids emerged from the ancient Celtic tribes, at a time when the people had to live close to nature to survive." Brendan Myers - The Creator of this great site

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The Haida and their neighbours held in common a set of beliefs about the way the human world interacted with the natural and supernatural worlds, though the Haida also had some profound differences in outlook. The shared concepts centred around curing the sick, ensuring the supply of fish and game, and controlling or at least influencing the weather. Among the ranks of shaman were specialists whose powers were particularly effective within a selected range of tasks such as securing the outcome of major enterprises like trading expeditions or warfare.

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The Endicott Studio features the work of fantasy artists and writers, mostly from England and the US. Excellent articles on fairytale and folklore appear monthly, along with galleries of drawings, paintings, masks and sculpture.

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WORKING WITH ANIMAL SPIRITS

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Tales of the Pacific Northwest Coast site. Lots of links.

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site in danish Bestiarie Fugl f?nix Grif Basalisk Enhj?rning Kentaur

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Today's celebration is La Danza del Sol: the Dance of the Sun. It is a ritual event, dating back at least 500 years. A heritage from the Lakota Indians, it is reputed to have arrived from ancestor Lakota in what is now the USA. Its purpose is to thank the Great Spirit for another year of life.

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Features information about traditional Witchcraft and Celtic folklore. Also includes an article concerning the equestian folk traditions including Welsh tradition of the Mari Llwyd.

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Samhain is the night when the Old King dies, and the Crone Goddess mourns him greatly during the next six weeks. The sun is at its lowest point on the horizon as measured by the ancient standing stones of Britain and Ireland, the reason the Celts chose this sabbat rather than Yule as their new year. To the ancient Celts, this holiday divided the year into two seasons, Winter and Summer. Samhain is the day on which the Celtic New Year and winter begin together, so it is a time for both beginnings and endings. It is the last of the three harvest festivals, the harvest of meat. It is also the day we honor our dead. Now, while the veil between the worlds is thinnest, those who have died in the past year and those who are to be reincarnated pass through. The doors of the sidhe-mounds are open, and neither human nor faery need any magickal passwords to come and go. Our ancestors, the blessed dead, are more accessible, more approachable during the time of the dying of the land. Samhain is a day to commune with the dead and a celebration of the eternal cycle of reincarnation.

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This is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 5700 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world. This is by no means a complete work and I try to update it frequently by adding new articles and expanding or revising existing articles. However, since this is rather a lot of work for one man to do, I welcome contributions; either more information on existing articles or completely new ones. You can find more information about contributing here.

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What is a Shaman? What is Soul Retrieval? What Can a Shamanic Practitioner Do for Me? What is a Power Animal? Shamanic Practitioner in North Central New Jersey Shamanic Journey classes Wiccan, Pagan and Shamanic Classes Shamanism: An Ancient Healing Tradition(Article) Check Out These Links

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( Lits of great links and info here) Unlike the Hungarians, as far as we can tell, the peoples who would later be known as Romanians, arrived in Europe as shepherds, not warriors. They were a peaceful nomadic people, caring for their own flocks as well as the herds of others. To the many rulers of the lands in which they lived, they were simply serfs, easily overlooked. As one musicologist has noted: Hungarians dance in boots, Romanians dance in sandals. Romanians are a quiet, earthy, smiling people who have suffered much but have never been broken.

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books for children - sale online

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European [Greek Gods and Goddesses] [Roman Gods and Goddesses] [Celtic Gods and Goddesses] [Norse Gods and Goddesses] [Etruscan Gods and Goddesses] Mesoamerican [Aztec Gods and Goddesses] [Inca Gods and Goddesses] [Mayan Gods and Goddesses] Asian [Chinese Gods and Goddesses] [Japanese Gods and Goddesses] Middle Eastern/Indian [Persian Gods and Goddesses] [Hindu Gods and Goddesses] [Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses] African/African Diaspora [Voodoo Loas] [Santeria Orisha] [Candomble Orisha] [African Gods and Goddesses] [Egyptian Gods and Goddesses]

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A six part online article on Iroquoian dreamwork, spirituality, mythology, and music featuring Joanne Shenandoah. Images, quotations, links. Also showing photos of three IROQUOIS FALSE FACE MASKS.

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and lots more. Huge resource

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eZine ESSAYS & STUFF EVENTS CALENDAr Online Store SHAMAN PAGE FAVORITE CELTIC LINKS HEALING PAGE NEW AGE LINK PAGE BOOK of SHADOWS MICHIGAN PAGANS INDEX WEB RINGS & LINKS

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