invictus maneo

Great mare goddess.

"Peppered throughout Celtic folklore are stories about seal people, also called selkies who are said to be cursed with a constant longing for what they do not have: when they are swimming in the water as seals, they yearn to be on land, and when they walk on two legs as a human, they long to be in the sea. They can transform from one creature to another by shedding their sealskin, and alternatively, putting it on again."

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yarilo is the god of fertility and springtime, sometimes regarded as god of lust and passion. his mythical life cycle mirrored that of the wheat crop, from its birth when sown through its flourishing youth to its sacrificial death at harvest time.

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let me fix the lie: nobody grabbed, nobody pulled. i jumped. persephone lied

aeron was the welsh god of battle and slaughter. his name was derived from the early goddess of slaughter, agroná.

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aisyt's name means "birthgiver" and she may also be called the "mother of cradles." aisyt brings the soul from heaven at the birth of a baby and records each one in the golden book of fate. she is responsible for conducting the soul of a newborn child to its birth and attended every birth. women channel her, believing that doing so would relieve them of pain during childbirth. she keeps a golden book in which she recorded each one. she is said to live on a mountain top in a house with seven stories, from which she controlled the fate of the world.

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Gamayun is a prophetic bird of Russian folklore. It is a symbol of wisdom and knowledge and lives on an island in the mythical east, close to paradise.

in ancient greek religion and mythology, the muses are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. they were considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, lyric songs, and myths that were related orally for centuries in ancient greek culture.

oooooooh...must be the season of the witch

dione was the titan goddess of the oracle of dodona in thesprotia, and the mother of aphrodite by zeus. her name is simply the feminine form of zeus. dione was described as "the temple associate" of zeus at dodona. the three elderly prophetesses of the shrine, known collectively as the peleiades, were probably her priestesses. these women were named "the doves" after the sacred bird of dione's daughter aphrodite who also posssessed a temple at the shrine.

a type of female spirit in ukrainian folklore. the spirits known by this term represented the souls of girls who had died unnatural, tragic, or premature deaths; they often appear in the form of beautiful young women who lure men into the woods and kill them.