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of-ether · 2 months

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what’s it like up there

im ready for spring, ready for this agony to b over

to be in warm waters overseas, hugging trees

#personal #hippie vibes #hippie living #happy hippie #curly hair #brown girl magic #hippie aesthetic #ootd #mirror selfie #good vibes #divine timing #divine feminine #forest fairy #forest goddess #happy spring

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evermore-grimoire · 2 years

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The Evermore Grimoire: Finnish Mythology

Mielikki was the goddess of forests and the hunt in Finnish mythology who is said to have played a central role in the creation of the bear. She was a skilled healer who helped animals throughout the forests when they were in distress. She knew many healing herbs and would also help humans if they knew her well enough to ask. Her name is derived from the old Finnish word ‘mielu’ which means luck. The Mielikki Mons, is a mountain on the planet Venus that is named after her.

artwork by Eeva Nikunen

#MythEdit #MythologyEdit #Fantasy Edit #FYeahMyths #Finnish Mythology #Goddesses #Forest Goddess #Mielikki #The Kalevala #My Edit

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adarkrainbow · 13 days

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Romanian witches: Muma Padurii

(Note: I unfortunately cannot add the accents needed for the writing of those names since my keyboard is not equiped. So know that there are accents missing)

I originally made a post about one Romanian fairytale figure... which turned into a post about two fairytale figures... which became a post about three fairytale figures... So ultimately I decided to split this post into a whole series because it was getting too big. I want to explore with you three characters tied together in Romanian folklore and all present within Romanian fairytales, but each fascinating in their own right. And I want to begin with the first of these ladies... Muma Padurii.

Muma Padurii means "The Forest Mom", or "The Mother of the Forest" (Muma is an archaic form of "mom").

In fairytales, Muma Padurii is an antagonist. She is an embodiment of the wicked witch, or rather of the hag. She is a very old and very ugly woman (so ugly the expression "You look like Muma padurii" is an insult) who lives all alone in a little, dark and scary house in the depths of the woods. She is not a normal woman: she is a witch gifted with various supernatural powers (including shapeshifting), and she is also an ogress who loves to eat children. It is as a children-predator that she usually appears within Romanian fairytales, luring kids to her house to kill and cook them. One of the most famous Muma Padurii fairytales is the Romanian version of "Hansel and Gretel", which mostly differs by A) having the witch named B) the house not being made of candy and C) the genders are reversed (here it is the girl that is to be boiled alive into a soup, while it is the boy that pushes the hag into the oven).

But the thing with Muma Padurii is that, in a similar way to Frau Holle, she is an entity that was "split" between fairytales and legends. There is a Muma Padurii of folktales which is the evil hag I presented above, but there is also a Muma Padurii of beliefs and legends which is quite different and much more neutral.

This Muma Padurii is still an old, ugly, shapeshifting witch - but she is presented as amoral rather than wicked, with a personality mixing a fairy-like mischieviousness and just pure insanity. The name "Muma Padurii" is also very revealing... In the fairytales this name is used in the typical motif of the witch/hag as the "false mother" or "anti-mother", but in the Romanian mythology, this name indicates what Muma Padurii is. She is the Mother of the Forest, as in the spirit of the forest. Her main role, and the reason for her hostility towards humankind, is her function as the guardian of the woods. She still lives in a remote and hidden location - but it is not always a little cabin, it can just be a tree, and it is usually within a virgin-woodland at the heart of the forest, untouched by human hands. She still brews potions - but they are good potions, that she uses to heal injured animals and sick trees. For Muma Padurii always keeps the forest alive. She does attack humans - but only those that destroy the fauna and flora, or that trespass within forbidden areas where only wild things are supposed to be. This was why those that entered the woods were warned to not go too far and to respect what surrounded them: else Muma Padurii would at best scare them away, at worst drive them to insanity with her magic. As such, it was forbidden to pick up certain wild fruits and berries in the forest during certain times of the year - they were for the animals to replenish their strength, and Mama Padurii made sure this rule was followed. In the most extreme cases she would kill the trespassers and devour their corpses like a wild animal - a bogey-version of Muma Padurii that explains her role as a child-eating crone in fairytales...

Muma Padurii is present all across Romania, sometimes in local variations (Padureanca, Muma Huciului), and this explains why there are so many different incarnations of her. Sometimes she is an angry ghost of the woods, a vengeful spirit which can be heard crying among the trees for all the plants that mankind destroyed, and if a house built near the forest isn't carefully locked up at night, she will enter in them at midnight and kill all those inside... Other times she is depicted as a young and beautiful fairy of light, who will be kind and helpful to children but will trick adults into being lost, having their body paralyzed or dying in various ways. This specific idea of the "young faced Muma Padurii" is notably present in another folktale/fairytale, where it is said that the Muma Padurii is a witch that needs to eat human hearts to keep herself young and alive - as such she takes on the appearance of a beautiful woman to lure young men into the woods, but once they are isolated enough she turns into a giant monster and rips their hearts away.

Her link to the forest is highlighted by how she is often said to disguise herself as a tree, to be a part-tree woman, or a hag clothed in moss (she also can appear as a cow, a horse or an ox) ; her function as a "Romanian fairy" is also highlighted by how in various legends she either makes babies sick, or replaces them by changelings (and as such they were several folk-spells and rituals Romanian country-folks used to protect their babies from the Forest-Mom). But mostly Muma Padurii stays an embodiment of the woods in what they have of dangerous and scary. She can be kind and helpful - but only towards the "innocent", animals, plants and (sometimes) children. However she stays an ancient woman of the woods, the mistress of the wild animals, the embodiment of a state of non-civilizations, and as such she is the fright that drives one mad and the savage force that will kill and eat men. And even then, the fauna and flora itself is not always escaping her wrath - some records say that Mama Padurii knows the name of every tree of the forest, but that she can get angry at some and curse them to fall either by the woodsman's axe or by lightning.

The last interesting difference between the fairytale Muma and the legendary Muma is that, while the fairytale Muma is usually a lonely entity, in beliefs Muma Padurii was part of a large family. Sometimes Muma Padurii herself was multiplied into several "Muma" - there was notably a belief about many of them sometimes visiting the cabins of those that lived near the woods, asking to have their hair brushed and cleaned, with a comb and butter (which isn't an easy feat since she had her hair dirty, tangled in snake-like braids and so long it touches the floor). Anyone who agreed to the task and performed it well could receive a wish from the Mother of the Woods - but the rule was that they could only pronounce three words in total as long as she was here, if a fourth was pronounced, she would take your voice and leave you mute. Sometimes Muma Padurii was given a male counterpart of companion called "The Father of the Forests", or the "Woods Papa".

Muma Padurii was also said to have several sons, which were the spirits of the woods and/or of the night (going by names such as Decuseara, Zorila, Murgila, Mamornito or "Midnight"). She is also linked to a set of female forest spirits known as the Fata Padurii (Fata being of course linked to the "fairies", "fées", "fatum" - but here it is to be understood as "The Daughters of the Forest", "The Girls of the Woods, and fittingly they are said to be the daughters of Muma Padurii) ; and to an entity I personaly do not know much about, "Mosul Codruilui" (she is said to be her mother, and "Mosul" means "old woman")

Finally, there was a certain Christianization of the Muma (as some tales started saying her task as a guardian of the forest was given to her by God), and a modern attempt at explaining how she could be such an ambiguous entity, benevolent and malevolent at the same time: most modern storytellers highlight how protective she is of the fauna and flora, and how she was said to wail and cry for the destroyed wood, to explain her "transformation" as her becoming more and more bitter, and angrier and fuller of hate the more humans destroyed her domain, harmed her trees and wounded her "children". A true ecological fable.

Some people point out that Muma Padurii could be a "Romanian equivalent" of the Russian Baba-Yaga which is... not quite exact and not quite true. The two characters seem to derive from a same old "forest mother-goddess" but there are too many differences between Muma Padurii and Baba-Yaga for them to be consideed one and the same. There is however a interesting link between the two, which will be the subject of my next post... about Baba Cloantza.

#romanian folkore #romanian fairytales #romanian witches #romanian mythology #romania #muma padurii #forest goddess #hag #witches of folklore #legendary witches #forest-woman #wild woman #fairytale antagonist #forest mother

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missagonyy · 3 months

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A collection of my butterfly and insect art

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silverthornwitchery · 3 months

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Litany of the Forest

Hail, Goddess, Artemis, Artume, Arduinna! Hunting Goddess, Nature's Goddess, Wild Goddess! Hail, Goddess, Feronia, Fauna, Flora! Freedom's Goddess, Nature's Goddess, Wild Goddess! Hail, Goddess, Druantia, Elen, Cernuna Horned Goddess, Nature's Goddess, Wild Goddess! Hail Goddess! Mielikki, Artio, Artemis! Bear Goddess, Nature's Goddess, Wild Goddess! Hail Goddess! Nature's Goddess! Wild Goddess!

#pagan #prayer #forest goddess #polytheist #syncretic polytheist #syncretic polytheism

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brights-place · 8 months

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Hi, Bright!

Been really stressed after my first night babysitting, [probably gonna cry myself to sleep after submitting this] but may I request either Itward or Forest God AU Wally comforting their stressed fem! S/O who feels really guilty bc she went to go fix the baby's bottle and the baby fell and hit thier head, and even though it's supposedly really common she still feels really guilty and even admits that she feels like she's not cut out to take care of a baby?

I would appreciate the comfort so much, friend. Thank you ♡

A/N: Don’t worry babes I got you and understand how you feel when you first started babysitting my first time was an absolute NIGHTMARE so don’t worry I got your back!

Pairings: Wally X F!Reader

Warnings: None

A sound fo shock escaped your lips as you reached a hand out to grab the child with a vine growing from the ground but to late to see the child falling from their diaper station making you freak out rushing over to the child.

A look of worry spread your face as you shushed the child it was your first time looking after a child and it was difficult since you had no experience. The sound of the ground shaking and tree’s shaking a bit frightened the child more but you let out a small sigh holding the baby close, You planted kisses in the babies face rubbing it’s sore spot growing a flower from your palms tickling the baby’s nose with it while the baby sneezed giggling trying to hold the flower. The ground no longer shook and small plants bloomed around the cabin You lived in.

Later on You left to go to the front porch with a frown and small tears growing even though the child was now asleep you couldn’t help but be guilty about it. You raised a hand to grow some flowers to make a flower crown busy worrying about your small mistake of looking away just for a moment to grab something and the young baby falling.

The sound of a familiar hum made you look up quickly to see your lover “Oh? Are you alright Darling” Wally said with small wide eyes as he walked over to you “No” You sniffed covering your face dropping the flower crown you were currently making falling to the grass wilting along with the grass “Wally” You said your lover tiptoeing to cup your face while you sighed making yourself a tiny bit shorter for the puppet to hold your face in his soft hands “I’m here to listen darling” He whispered sitting down infront of you with the same half lidded eyes and smile.

You looked at him with worry “Are you sure” He nodded a tired smile reaching your face as you hugged him “I went to go fix the baby her bottle for her bedtime, and she fell off the bed face first” Y/n said gripping Wally’s coat “Turns out it's common for babies to do that, but I still felt so guilty because for one I accidentally hurt the baby and wasn't there to watch her and two, she just wouldn't stop crying and it was stressing me out until I made a flower bloom I was worried and I even forgot how to change a baby's diaper- But thank god she's asleep now....l just” Wally rubbed your back while his other hand was holding you the best he could die to the fact you were bigger than him.

Wally smiled at you with closed eyes his hair booping when he nodded “You're just new to job.. You were never taught this was gonna happen and you have to give yourself a chance since you're trying your best as it is. Please don't blame yourself, You're doing fine with the baby, okay. Once again I’m telling you you're still new to the job So don't blame yourself for anything. It wasn't your fault and you were just doing your job even if you weren't right there and you couldn't prevent it since you weren't told before that it could happen but it was by accident you did your best for the first time.” you couldn’t help but tear up at his words “I will help out if you would like” Wally offered while you shook your head “You need to visit Barnaby” “He would understand” a shaky laugh escaped your lips while you pressed a kiss on his forehead “Thank you wally” “No problem my wonderful goddess” You couldn’t help but laugh with a small blush glowing on your cheeks “What it’s true” he said while he smiled at you with a loving gaze.

He gripped your hand “Tomorrow we can go to the forest and have a picnic and you can show me all about the plants you grow and can control” A Sound of joy coming from you made Wally smile while you clapped your hands nodding “I can’t wait to tell you about insects mainly butterflies! Frank and I have been trying to see if Howdy would ever become a butterfly soon” You started before pausing and blushing when noticing your rambling and Wally kissed your hand holding a cat like smile like always.

#fluff #x reader #welcome home #Wally darling #wally darling x y/n #welcome home wally #wassup #babysitting #forest goddess

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undertale-writing-times · 9 months

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Since it's spring, I'm wondering how happy Strawberry would be to just get some really pretty offerings based on cherry blossoms

Some human just comes into her forest with either cherry blossom tea or cherry blossom cappucino (depending on if she prefers coffee or tea) and sakura cookies. Thoroughly not even expecting to meet her, just wanting to leave something nice as an offering

This seemed like such an interesting idea to me!

She watched the people come and leave offerings.

She always watched, why wouldn't she? It wasn't like she could ignore them! Humans were so cute. They really thought they made a lot of difference, and sometimes? They did! They could do so much with the little amount of time that they had on the planet.

She has seen so many people come and go, and she could remember so many of them…

Well when the people came in with the pink things? That caught her attention! She liked the color pink, and they seemed like food and drinks…

Normally, she didn't care much for treats like that… ah who could she kid? She loved that kind of stuff!

She jumps down from her hiding place, her golden bands clinking together and she smiles, holding up her arms "Greetings, what did you bring me?"

When they said that they brought her cherry blossom tea and sakura cookies? She's interested! She's never heard of that before. At least nobody using that such thing.

She gets them to relax with her, sitting beside the lake and even sharing the food with them. She loved it when people came and left her offerings… the idea of making them forget that they saw her was upsetting but eh, what could you do?

They would remember sharing it with someone and being with someone but she would be blurry in their mind. That's the best thing for her to do.

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a-transhumanist-perspective · 1 year

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Mossy Ladies

Made with stable diffusion in https://dreamup.ai

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eldrichseabunny · 3 months

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i love how this one turned out, so soft, so pretty

mama nature my beloved

#art #digital art #drawing #oc #clip studio paint #digital drawing #nature character #mama nature #nature oc #nature #forestoc #nature goddess #digtal art #forest oc #forest goddess

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of-ether · 2 months

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i miss it here

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emperornorton47 · 2 months

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#forest goddess #antlers

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redsinistra · 1 year

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Time for the Primordial Goddess of Nature 🌸🌱 Thalissa. Yes, she’s the main deity of the pantheon.

“One of the Primordial Deities of the Ons archipelago, if not, the most prominent of the entire pantheon. The All-Mother of Nature, known as Thalissa, is a goddess of nature, flora and the fertility of the earth. It is said that she created the first of the beastmen. Also, she managed to tame the elements into submition, spawning the four Cardinal Gods we know today.”

This spring is being ... odd where I live, but I’m in the mood for some nature themed design.

#my art #goddess #goddess of nature #nature goddess #nature #flora #forest god #nature deity #concept art #Character Design #forest goddess #green #leaf #RedSinistra #redsinistra art

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fernthewhimsical · 6 months

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Prayer to Jecha Arduinna

Crescent Huntress of sacred forest, your arrows as swift as your feet, your heart and aim are true Lady of the Beastly Woods, fierce protector of animals, and warden to root and leaf Grant me your persistence, to attain my goals Grant me your guidance, to see the right tracks Grant me your ferocity, to overcome any obstacle Jecha Arduinna, I honour you

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lexieintheforest · 11 months

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#goddess #nature goddess #nature nymph #forest #forest goddess #mountains #swimming #hippie

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secxen · 1 year

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Doodle of 3 deities! Forest, Space, and Ocean~! Was a contest entry in the UnVale discord ^^

#character illustration #illustration #goddess #secxenocs #goddess art #forest goddess #space goddess #ocean goddess #women #character art #oc art #digital art #digital illustration

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biletemptress · 1 year

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