I apologize for not leaving the name of this piece or the artist’s name when i posted this fairy ring image a few days ago. I did look up the info on this image. Here it is;

William Holmes Sullivan · The Fairy Ring; The Enchanted Piper · 1880 · Oil on board · 9.00 x 12.50 cm · From the Leicester Galleries

Here’s another similar one by the same artist

Fairy Dance
by William Holmes Sullivan

"With passing time, its passage soon or late,
My bolts of lightning on the foe will rain,
On all who seek as slaves my people's fate
And strive to crush our spirits for their gain.-
But when the springtime comes with climate fair,
To Latvia's folk sweet showers I will send,
By day will give them clean refreshing air,
And to the darkness sparks of light will lend."

"To them in nature I will stay close by;
My voice of thunder in the sky will ring.
Of Perkons strong the name will never die;
The Latvian folk will ever of it sing.
I wish here now you other gods, apace,
Will follow close upon my guiding will,
And each one swear, at proper time and place,
For humankind a promise to fulfil."

- Perkons, Lāčplēsis

New post on the history of European Poetic Insult Battles "Flyting" by J. A. Coburn on the blog https://wylderhomesproject.life/2021/06/09/the-basics-of-flyting/

A good way to start the day is to walk or sit in nature. The trees provide shade and preserve the moist in the soil. The sound of the birds is so much nicer than human made sounds. Such a nice energy🙂

Valkyrie are often depicted as beautiful and almost merciful warrior maidens, in the modern day they are even paired with Pegasus like horses from Greek Mythology. However, while the feminine psychopomp and death god are extremely prevalent and important throughout Europe, their is a darker and more gruesome nature to the Valkyrie's ability. Before a great battle "The Choosers of the Slain" would go to the battle and begin working a loom of entrails from the future battlefield, using heads as shuttlecocks, and using blades and other weapons in order to make the decisions as to who will live and who will die. The Valkyries are hard to pin down nowadays as some are goddesses, others are woman, while in other forms they are a class of spirit or god all their own like the Nornir.-TLK

I can’t even watch. I don’t know what’s more upsetting, the fact that this is happening at all or the fact that there are no mobs hitting the streets over it.

https://youtu.be/trn-Kt_2_og

Ancient Komi calendars.