Of Ancient Voices

Hello and welcome to the druidicentropy blog, my name's Maria and this is a blog that's primarily dedicated to being a space where I like to post about mythology, paganism, & history which all happen to be my three biggest hyperfixations!

I'm ethnically Jewish Romani and for anyone who's wondering about my own personal beliefs I consider myself to be pagan for the most part, it's complicated lol I've essentially been creating my own unique belief system for awhile now.

I like to cover beliefs from all over globe and try to put a lot of research into my posts before I post them, that being said I consider myself to be somewhat of a historian which is what I would love to study in university eventually but I'm unfortunately not in a point in my personal life where I can actually do that yet so instead I ended up creating this blog to act sort of like a giant encyclopedia for my passions I suppose? Anyways that being said I like to hold myself to a high standard on here, meaning I do use sources for my posts I just don't bother to cite them in my posts though sometimes I do directly mention specific sources or use quotes in my posts for further information if you do want to see the citations for a specific post feel free to just ask me for them! :) Sometimes I do just go off my prior accumulated knowledge but for the most part I do like to have sources. That being said please feel free to let me know if I've gotten something wrong in any of my posts or if you have anything you'd like to add onto any of my posts then please feel free to and I'll reblog it!!

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*Pria was a possible Proto-Indo-European goddess associated with beauty, love, sex, and possibly war; she played a role akin to that of Aphrodite, Venus, and Freyja.

*Pria's parents are unknown in the PIE cosmogony, but based on her descendants, Dyēus or Wérunos could be her father.

It is possible that *Pria would be a daughter of Dyđus since in Homer's Teogony, Aphrodite was born from the union of a god (Zeus) and a goddess (Dione).

However, according to the Hesiod cosmogony, Aphrodite was the daughter of Uranus's blood. Ahura Mazda, who the Greeks identified with Aphrodite. created the Zoroastrian goddess Anahita, an ahura. Interestingly, both Ahura Mazda and Uranus have their roots in the proto-Indo-European nigth god Wérunos. In this instance, a potential variant of the proto-Indo-European myth might also regard *Pria as Wérunos' daughter.

*Pria most likely had Martus, the Indo-European God of War, and Dyēus as consorts, using the Greek Aphrodite and the Roman Venus.

However, according to zoroastrianism, Anahita is Mithra's consort; therefore, it's possible that *Pria had a solar deity as her consort.

*Pria's Greek and Roman ancestry suggests that she might be the mother of an hypothetical, unreconstructible love god who predates both Eros and Cupid. Her masculine Norse ancestry further supports this theory. A potential ancestor of Fjolnir, a demigod, may have been mothered by Freyr *PriHyéh₂.

Aphrodite was depicted in Sparta with classical Spartan weapons, and Freyja, the Norse war goddess, is connected to *Pria as well as both Athena and Minerva. It's interesting that many of *Pria's descents were associated with semetic goddesses like Astarte and Ishtar, so it's possible that *Pria's figure originated from a proto-afroasiatic goddess of sex and war, or the Sumerian Inanna.

Both the English and its Spanish counterpart Viernes originate from *Pria. Friday is derived from Frigga's Day, which honors the Norse/Germanic goddess sometimes confused with Freyja,*Pria's female descendant, while Viernes is derived from dies Veneris, or Venus Day.

Similar to other proto-Indo-European gods she has also left some of her legacy within Christianity as well, where the Virgin Mary is depicted in art using traits from both Venus and Aphrodite.

Abelio was the god of apple trees in one branch of the ancient Celts, and he was particularly honored in the Garonne Valley in southwest France.

The name of this god is not entirely clear, but it might have come from the Proto-Celts, from the word Ad-belj-ō, which means literally "green-growing," or at least "greenish."

Though it makes sense in relation to this god's role, this should only be accepted conditionally because there is disagreement over the origin of his name and no trustworthy source is known.

Indigenous peoples are invited to dance, sing, and celebrate by the spirit known as Abaçaí, who lives in the forests.

The Abaçaí, according to Tupi mythology, lives in the wilds of the forests and possesses indigenous people who detach themselves from their group, sending them into a rapturous trance where they lose consciousness.

A spirit that the evangelization and European perspective attempted to eradicate, ignoring the global culture's innate need for escape, in an attempt to turn him into a "evil genius".