#crone

[gammawilson]

Ava, barbarian, mother, crone.

I finished watching episode 8 of burrows end today. It was a lot. Ava’s strength and tenacity are admirable, but I never want to be that cold, especially to my family.

Say your ‘I’m sorry’s and ‘I love you’s, they are so important, to you an others.

[hacatestruth]

[vcreatures]

Happy Halloween everyone!!

[ghilliedubh]

Grandmother Mountain

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[danskjavlarna]

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[briefbestiary]

The iron-toothed crone with a leg of bone that dwells deep in the woods, Baba Yaga is said to steal and eat young children.

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

[hexandbalances]

...In this foraging society, it turns out, grandmothers were more important to child survival than fathers. Mom and grandma were keeping the kids fed. Not Man the Hunter.

This finding led Hawkes to completely re-evaluate what she thought she knew about human evolution. Grandmothers were crucial in this environment to childhood survival. So maybe it wasn't an accident that humans are the only great ape species in which women live so long past reproductive age. If having a helpful grandmother increased a kid's chances of survival, natural selection may well have started selecting for older and older women.

Sarah Hrdy is a primatologist at U.C. Davis who also studies connections between child-rearing and human evolution. She has spent a lot of time thinking and writing about a related topic. She says, "An ape that produced such costly, costly slow-maturing offspring as we have could not have evolved unless mothers had a lot of help." First among these helpers, she thinks, would have been grandma – likely joined eventually by many other new helpers, who could have included fathers, aunts, uncles and siblings.

If young kids were being fed by people besides mom, she thinks that over evolutionary time, this could have led humans to develop the deep social orientation that characterizes our species – to care so much about the thoughts and intentions of other people. She says, "People often try to explain the fact that humans are so good at cooperating by saying, well, we needed to cooperate in order to succeed at big game hunting, or so that men in one group could bond with other men to go wipe out the neighboring group. What that doesn't do is explain why these traits emerge so early."

I know the overwhelming majority of Tumblr users are teens to early twenties, but I want to tell you now, while you are still young, that this is not the height of your life. Your value does not diminish as soon as you hit thirty. You do not lose your relevance or your value once you stop being able to produce children. Your wisdom and your power matures with you. 

[thedashingduke]

My interpretation of the Storm mothers from The West in Exalted. The evil storm god crones bent on jealously stopping women sail the seas. I really enjoyed playing on the Spirited away style of having them not having anything close to human proportions like Yubaba.

[deebrisbyfish]

And I didn't even plan on this coming out in the same month as a new Indiana Jones movie. Totally a happy accident that being reminded of mortality and my ever-encroaching 50s happened to evoke an obvious "Last Crusade" homage. lol And yeah, I know the social rules. By complaining about my age, I have now opened the flood-gates of anyone and everyone so much as 2 minutes older than I am to tell me I have no IDEA what it feels like to be getting older. Bring it! lol. 

[smokingcaterpillar]

Uhhh wtf I finally just met Cailleach?!?!?! (I couldn’t sleep, and Loki basically was like yep, let’s go, we’re doing this) Completely out of nowhere. But I have been contemplating on when to officially reach out to her, I just didn’t expect it to be tonight/this morning!

She wants to work with me on my feelings of inadequacy/ feeling burdensome/ etc. No matter how sweet Loki is and no matter how often he reminds me that I’m worthy of love, I just can’t seem to accept it. Ever. So I’m guessing he figures I need some tough love from the Crone 😆

And holy shit? (upg) She is fucking. hilarious. I did not expect that.

And her personality honestly reminds me of Caribbean abuelas. She’s warm, but she says it like it is and takes no shit. I want her to adopt me istg.

Sorry I’m rambling but gods I’m just on cloud nine and so excited about her 🤩

Hail Loki, God of Gifts, for this truly was one 🥹

[hacatestruth]

[vcreatures]

If we were to have a God hold dominion of a certain time of year, I would say this time of year always feels like Hecate season to me. Goddess of witchcraft, ghosts, necromancy and a myriad of other things that go bump in the night, she is the queen of Halloween in many respects. While I appreciate the more traditional depictions, I wanted to do something that harkened more to her creature of the night feel. While also still holding some of the traditional totemic symbology. ( this is NOT AI generated)

[dailiadelc]

[danskjavlarna]

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Fans of vintage fairy tale imagery will find over a thousand illustrations in my collection.

[briefbestiary]

The witch with iron claws. Supposedly, Black Annis had carved a tunnel from her home to the cellars beneath Leicester Castle where she is known as Cat Anna.