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emeraldislewitch · 6 months
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research your ancestors, research your gods, research the land you come from, listen to the stories told by your family, your community, your elders and take notes. research research research.
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vyvilha · 1 year
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traditional cross-dressing on ukrainian malanka holiday. the woman is dressed as vasyl (folk adaptation of st. basil) and the man is dressed as malanka (folk adaptation of st. melania).
during this holiday, ukrainians honor the ancestral spirits and imitate them by dressing as animals and opposite genders, since it is believed that the otherworld blurs the line between male and female, as well as between man and beast.
photographed by anna senik (ładna kobieta)
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pop-generation · 11 months
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gilly-tamar-w1tch · 5 months
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Samhain is approaching and the veil is thinning. It’s the time to connect with the ancestors and collective dead. It’s the time to practise scrying or divination.
For your altar, decorate with natural things from your areas to honour the local land spirits and dead. Fallen leaves, acorns etc. carve or decorate a pumpkin for your altar or windowsill. Gather some local grave yard dirt for your altar if permission is given by the graveyard grim.
Practice divination with any tool you are drawn to. Traditionally it’s a time of scrying and all you need is a dark colour bowl filled with water and a darkened room lit only by candlelight (ensuring candles are not near anything flammable and secure in holders). The water you gaze into should be reflected by candlelight, soften your gaze as you look into your scrying bowl, it does take time and practice but stick with it and keep a note book close by for journaling.
You can also practice your tarot technique as well. Do a reading for yourself or even for the energy of the season. Maybe gather some friends together and do a group reading too.
Honour your ancestors by placing photos of passed loved ones on an altar for the ancestors. You could also add graveyard dirt,found animal bones, herbs associated with the dead etc and can be as simple or as fancy as you like. You can even offer the ancestors an offering. I often do one of incense, candle light and blessed water. I often do this around the dark moon and say the following to them during my offerings
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On my ancestor altar (above) I have my late husband, my father and grandparents, aunts and uncles and even a passed beloved pet cat!
I give my offerings and say my words which I share with you here.
“Ancestors, I call to you now to be here with me now and always. Accept these offerings with the love they are given. I offer you Earth the grounding element to secure, I offer you water, the spiritual pure element. I offer you incense the air element for communication. I offer you a candle, the fire element for light and warmth. Ancestors accept these simple offerings in love and remembrance. Beloved Ancestors feed on this earth, smoke, water and light to nourish and strengthen you. Blessed be”
You can tailor the words to suit you and your ancestors and doing this on Samhain and every dark moon helps to strengthen the bond.
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slavicafire · 1 year
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slavic cult of the dead - complaints and curiosities
as you know, a great part of knowledge we possess about the beliefs of old slavs comes from sources much less educational in nature and more aimed at lamenting and complaining and ridiculing the pagan ways. Adam Fischer gives us a plethora of such wonderful compaints in his 1923 work Fête des morts where he gathers examples from various chronicles and sermons, regarding the slavic beliefs surrounding their dead.
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Cosmas of Prague laments in his chronicles regarding old Czechia: “So they would bury their dead in forests and meadows and then organise games in accordance with pagan ways on the crossroads, seemingly to soothe the souls, but they would also play ungodly jokes and call upon the spirits, and having put on masks, they would go wild in celebration themselves: these disgusting blasphemies the young duke (Bretislav I) would have to root out.”
A sermon from Czechia from XII century mentions that people would worship their dead relatives as deities (home deities, a belief spread widely across slavic people) and “call upon angels giving them false names”
Similarly, Al-Mas'udi mentioned that Slavs would burn the bodies of their dead and then venerate them as ancestral deities.
Other Arabic source mentions that Slavs would visit the burial site of their dead on the first anniversary of their passing and offer them 20 jugs filled with honey, and then gather around the grave to have a feast before heading back home.
Sources regarding Rus lamented that people would heat up bath houses for the dead: leave them towels and bowls of food and drink, and pour ash on the ground around the bath house to see whether the dead would leave the marks of their presence in it.
The 1551 Synod laments that people in Russia would still gather at the graves and have feasts in the name of their ancestors, and the custom remained strong for years to come, as in 1634 Adam Olearius had a chance to observe it and describe in detail during his travels. 
A 1497 Polish sermon mentions that people still practiced lighting small fires for the souls of their dead in the belief that the souls would gather around the fire to warm themselves.
Another text from the XV century complains that there are sinners who not only worship some foreign false gods but also organise pagan plays and games during which they summon demons; then the text laments that there are people who, during that period, refuse to sleep underneath a roof, refure to speak to other people, or only walk barefoot. Some would leave parts of their supper as offerings to demons (most likely house spirits and ancestral deities) and some would refuse to wash the dishes after supper on Good Friday so that “souls could eat from them”
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tchallasbabymama · 14 days
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I’ll be moving in a couple of weeks, and I’m procrastinating on packing by planning out the interior design 😅
The plan is to make something out of black-and-white pictures of my favorite deceased authors to decorate my writing space as sort of an ancestral altar/vision board art piece.
I can’t decide between these two for Toni Morrison because they both give very different vibes that I love equally:
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🚨 HELP🚨
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moonhedgegarden · 4 months
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Ancestral Exploration:
Imagine a conversation with your ancestors. What wisdom, strength, or struggles do you feel they pass on to you?
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myeternalrage · 9 months
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on an adventure to da park to reflect. cant change the past so i gotta accept it n let it go— why was i chasing the past in the present in da first place? we in a whole new time bae, love urself n move forward cuz it’s da only place u can go! u surrounded by niggas dat love u— n if u not u will be soon fren!! niggas wanna see u shine— don’t u want to as well?
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zarya-zaryanitsa · 5 months
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The sheer hilarity of seeing my partner snatch a bottle of quince vodka from our friend’s hands shouting „WAIT NO, NOT THIS ONE, THAT’S FOR THE DEAD PEOPLE”
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elminx · 1 month
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Since we're not doing a Fat Tuesday dinner tonight (I'm waiting until I can celebrate Gray's birthday with jambalaya and king cake), I think that we are doing a pancake dinner instead.
Gonna match up with the other side of my family's traditions for once, I guess.
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brizobituin · 4 months
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I've had the pleasure to meet and get the signature 3 dots tattoo from the world famous Apo Whang-Od! She was a busy lady tattooing all day at the age of 106 years old. We had some pretty good banter in the short time we spent together. She also took a liking to my husband, maybe a lil too much lmaooooo
The three dots tattoo represents herself and her two grand-nieces/apprentices: Grace Palicas and Ilyang Wigan. A simple but clear showcase of the continous tradition of tattooing in Buscalan.
The other design I've gotten was the kappi crab, which symbolises/represents: the traveller, protection, the world before creation and the guide. The kappi crab was an obsolete design that was revived by Apo Whang-Od herself. It was previously found all throughout the archipelago and was tied to various creation stories. The kappi crab is also associated with Angalo, the ancestor of the Ilokano people. And as part Ilokano I am truly grateful to receive this ancestral symbol to cherish it forever.
I had a wonderful time in Buscalan, the locals were absolutely lovely and were very patient when we were huffing and puffing through the trail up and down their mountains. The views were absolutely stunning and certainly helped distract from the pain of the fresh tattoo! 🤣✨
I will definitely provide a healing update in the near future. It's been a few days and the redness has already gone down a lot. 🙏✨
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friend-crow · 1 year
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what do you offer your ancestors? like what kinds of offerings are acceptable?
Water, tea, booze, dedicated candles, incense, food, stuff they liked, if you know what kind of stuff that is.
But I think that time is huge, too. Your ancestors, if they're worth a damn, are probably a lot like your living relatives, if they're worth a damn -- they mostly want to spend time with you.
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vyvilha · 1 year
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rusalki are not mermaids. stop translating the word "rusalka" as "mermaid" and stop calling rusalki "slavic mermaids". it's confusing, it's misleading, and it's simply isn't true. the association of rusalka with a western mermaid and undine began in 19th century, when russian empire poets wanted to adapt a popular western motif of a sorrowful water maid that is unrequitedly in love with a mortal man. this literature character of rusalka has nothing to do with actual rusalki folklore and cult.
rusalki are natural undead spirits that are connected to slavic ancestral worship. they don't have tails. they are not in any way connected to the sea: only lakes, ponds, and rivers. often, they're not even connected to water at all: there are forest rusalki, field rusalki, meadow rusalki, etc. they are in close relationships with their human kin: during the spring and summer, they are used in agricultural rites and are believed to help with farming and raising crops. rusalki were sacred to slavic people. the "week of the rusalki" festival, when rusalki are believed to walk on earth and visit their relatives, is celebrated to this day. to call them "slavic mermaids" is very diminutive of their actual role in slavic cultures.
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Idk if it’s due to having lived with my quebecois great grandma and not quite as French but still Very French ™️ grandma but I am utterly incapable of doing any ancestor work if the apartment isn’t fucking immaculate… 🤣
~my mother described my great grandma as “immaculate” often, in reference to how cleanly she was as, being a child in a catholic school and only ever having heard that word in reference to Mary I thought my mother meant she was literally sinless. I was in awe of the woman growing up LMFAO
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upmala · 7 months
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autumnal offerings at the local graveyard
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00waywardalma00 · 3 months
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I bought this book about a year ago but did not read it not realizing I was not ready for it at the time. I was grieving and I thought that getting books like this would help me, but I needed time to reflect and live a little in order to get into this with a clear mind. It also helps that the author is a devotee of La Santa Muerte! 🪻💀🪻
Conseguí este libro hace un año pero no lo leí porque no me di cuenta que aun no estaba preparada. Estaba en duelo y creí que conseguir libros como estos me ayudaría pero necesitaba tiempo para reflexionar y vivir de n poco antes de entrar a esto con una mente clara. También ayuda que la autora es devota a La Santa Muerte! 🪻💀🪻
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