❝ Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. ❞
― William Butler Yeats
Slavic Mythos [XX/?] >> Szczodre Gody/Koliada >> ancient Slavic festival of winter solstice celebrating the victory of light over darkness, bringing hope and happiness to the people. Many festivities were devoted to Weles - god of earth, waters, cattle, the underworld, magic and knowledge. During Szczore Gody bread was shared between families and fortunes were told to predict crops and weather for each month of the upcoming year.
Winter solstice time was also devoted to spirits of ancestors. Fires were lit on cemeteries for the ancestors to warm themselves and great feasts were organised. Didukh - first sheaf of wheat of a year, was put in the corner of the room.
Artemis was the greek goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, the moon, and wild animals. The daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo, Artemis was regarded as a patron of girls and young women.
In Dahomey mythology, Mawu is the creator goddess associated with the moon. She is the goddess of the night and of fertility. She created the first humans out of clay, so she is worshipped as a mother goddess. Mawu is the sister-wife of the sun god, Lisa, but they may also be seen as one androgynous deity, Mawulisa, both representing the sun and the moon.
[ID: Eight gifs, alternating between yellow and grayscale tones. 1: A deer grazes in a forest. 2: A noose sways. 3: A woman walks into the waves of the ocean. 4: A crown falls. 5: A close-up shot of an ornately decorated ceiling with a mural of people painted on it. 6: A close-up shot of roses growing together. 7: A book with a letter addressed, “Dear Lost Lover.” 8: A teal necklace falling on a skull lying on the sandy ground. End ID.]
@mythsociety quest vi: faction deities → MICTĒCACIHUĀTL, LADY OF THE DEAD
The Aztec queen of the Underworld; she rules over the afterlife and watches over the bones of the deceased.