“The North” is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concept has ancient roots in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales, it continues to resonate today within modern culture.

This mythic conception of a unique, powerful, and mysterious Northern civilization was known to the Greeks as “Hyberborea” (Land Beyond the North Wind) which they considered to be the true origin place of their god, Apollo, bringer of civilization.

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The Infinite Spiral is an underused symbol in my opinion. Symbolizing the cycle of reincarnation, as well as the infinite. It would be placed on graves and shrines as a way of communicating the liminal space of the grave, and of the connection to the dead and the living, as well as the cycle of rebirth. It was eventually appropriated along with many other symbols by the Catholic Church, notably with the Triskelion which became a symbol for the trinity. An old custom of painting the eternal spiral on a pregnant woman's belly to wish for an ancestors reincarnation, or for the ancestors to pump memories into the new child allowing it to flourish and grow faster existed in some Irish families and likely in other areas as well. -TLK

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This is the skeleton of a huntingdog and is buried 5300 BCE😮. Archaeologists found the hunting dog in the Meuse-Rhine delta in the Netherlands. The very special thing about this grave is that the dog was buried like a full fledged member of the tribe🙂. I guess dogs are mens best friend.... Very cool to see that Europeans loved and apreciated animals all the way back in the Stone Age. This dog is on display in the Museum of Antiquaties in Leiden. (Picture: own work Tribe of the Fox)

"August" by Alphonse Mucha (1898).

I see very similar decoration carvings on the old pagan Slavic cottages/log houses

This rooftop-ornament depicts swans but it is called an 'owl-board'. Sounds confusing, right🤔? Originally owlboards had an hole for owls to go in and out. In the Netherlands you can find owlboards in the north (like Frisia) and the east (Saxon part of the country) and in Germany in the northwest (also Frisian and Saxon lands). Recently i noticed brandnew houses that had owlboards...pretty nice👍🏻🙂! (picture wikipedia: Arch)

Even the sound is still the same,
wooden shoes on stone pavers.
Totally from earlier times,
brought back to this time.
Once again on my feet,
from the mud of my childhood.

Dirkje