"Riders of Sidhe" by John Duncan (1866–1945)

Painting: Robert Wilhelm Ekman - Väinämöinen (2019s)

"Winter Solstice Lore" by Lionel Nöel Royer

Thanks for the invite!

Welcome Carmen!

On Christmas Eve in Scandinavia, the dead return - food & Yule ale are left, the fire lit, chairs wiped clean. If earth is found on a chair in the morning, it is said an ancestor fresh from the grave, has sat there...

"The Garden of Death" (Finnish: Kuoleman puutarha; 1896)
by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg

Happy Yule!

Seasons greetings! 

"Yule King" by Michael Kerbow

“Yule is when the dark half of the year cedes to the light half. Known as Solstice Night, Awaiting the rebirth of the Sun God. Bonfires, wassailing crops with toasts of spiced cider a time of madness and awesomeness…”

~ Anujj Elviis

Winter Solstice

Posting purely as it might interest some members. Heilung use traditional instruments and costumes and create music that I find evocative and fascinating.

I love it also!

'Deer Mother' or 'Mother Christmas' who brought light and new life to the world

Yule Ritual

From "Carols for Quire": Quire Cleveland, conducted by Peter Bennett, performing at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland OH, December 18-20, 2009. Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary among the Huron Indians in Canada, purportedly wrote this carol in Wendat (Wyandot), the now extinct language of the Hurons, sometime before he was martyred in 1649. The earliest musical version is from 1907 but is clearly based on the 16th-century tune, "Une jeune fillette," so this choral arrangement by Ross W. Duffin sets the Wendat words to a 17th-century version of that tune.

So beautiful, thanks, Luna!

thank you for joining Desmond, you keep surprising me ... 

Summer friends are just like summer, they will melt away but winter friends remain forever.

Let the nature embrace each and every day of your life with warmth and love…. Happy Winter Solstice.

Blessed is the beautiful season which conspires the world in love….

So beautiful, however, I hope to have the same friends in summer as in winter and all year long!

ho ho ho, ha ha ha...

Thank you for the invite.

Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone the very best of the

Festive Season!

May this joyous

season

Fill your home with

love

Your heart with

hope

and our world with

peace

How beautiful, that image!

Here is a common one, but I wish lots of gifts of the heart to all of us!

...wish you something here...

Dance of the Dragonflies.
Legend has it that dragonflies were given an extra set of wings, so that angels could ride on their backs.

Listen to the dragonflies dancing taking you with them in the realm of contemplation and transformation.

I love that music!

Celtic Lampe 'Lunaire Luneliya' is also available to buy...you must google...

Very beautiful, indeed!

This photo taken today, is of Jay's Grave, a local landmark steeped in folklore in Dartmoor, Devon, England.

Fresh flowers still mysteriously appear on the grave everyday and locals don't like to pass it at night as it's haunted.

There are many different versions of the story around the grave, the most popular being, In the 18th century Kitty Jay a teenager was raped by a farm hand, became pregnant she was thrown out of her home and hung herself in a barn. She was refused a Christian burial and 3 parishes refused to let her final resting place be with in their boundaries, so she was buried in unconsecrated ground where the 3 parishes meet, by a quite road junction.

How interesting, dear Luna!

Both the legend and the stones, which could also be said is a legend!

In 1850, a farmer found a secret village. It was later determined to be older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Archeologists estimated that 100 people lived in this village named Skara Brae, the "Scottish Pompeii." The houses were connected to each other by tunnels, and each house could be closed off with a stone door.

#ancient #archaeology #discovery

Beautiful posts.
I'm feeling like a dragonfly.
I don't forget Linda Lee.
Thank you all for sharing good and peace.

Historians believe Skara Brae was an active city more than 5,000 years ago. If this is true, then that makes Skara Brae older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. Since most of it got covered with sand dunes over the years. Thus it was preserved well for thousands of years. When it was an active city, probably it had about 50 to 100 people in it. themindcircle.com/hidden-city-skara-brae-scotland/

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Extract from:

Marie-Louise von Franz

The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption

https://www.anthologiablog.com/post/the-cat-in-mythology-by-marie-l...