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I explore hidden history & other alternative information, European/ Slavic pagan music & folk art, ethnic folk traditions & rites of indigenous European/ Slavic people, animism, and more...
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Demeter, statue, mid-4th century bce; in the British Museum, London.
Bojnice Castle in Bojnice, Slovakia
Forwarded from Easter Tidings
Spell crafting
"Sunday" is derived from the Old English Sunne ("Sunnandæg"), in the typical tradition of naming the days of the week after the Germanic Deities. The same pattern can be seen in Latin, diēs sōlis, or the Ancient Greek Hλίου ημέρα ("helíou 'eméra").

This is well known. However, what is less well known is the discrepancy between the Germanic and other Indo-European religious traditions in relation to the Sun deity. In Germanic traditions, the Sun is feminine (Old English: Sunne; Old Norse: Sól; Old High German: Sunna), whereas, in the other traditions, the Sun is personified as a male deity (Sanskrit: Suryā, सूर्य; Greek: Hēlios).
Cute
The Two Crowns by Sir Frank Dicksee
Baba Yaga.
Forwarded from Easter Tidings
Never forget the time mainstream medical doctors told a bunch of pregnant women that a certain medication was totally safe and fine.

Then the babies were born.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
Kids and wild nature should be buddies
Just received my package from Ukraine. It’s a Vyshyvanka (Slavic embroidered blouse.)