mythology moodboards | murueit
in estonian mythology, a female spirit of the forest and earth, connected to the land of the dead
basque mythology | spirits | iratxo
→ iratxo is a restless spirit that comes out at night by scaring someone by surprise, and if you follow them, they’ll take you to a cliff or a dangerous place.
The forest is listening and the dead are here, too.
Jen Campbell, The Girl Aquarium; from '#1'
THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR (2020)
All things fade. All things. Flesh, stone, even stars themselves. Time takes all things. It is the way of the world. The past recedes, memories fade, and so, true, does the spirit. Everything yields to time, even the soul.
mythology meme- seven/ten gods or godess .
HUITZILOPOCHTLI.is a Mesoamerican deity of war, sun, human sacrifice and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan. He was also the national god of the Mexicas, also known as Aztecs, of Tenochtitlan. Many in the pantheon of deities of the Aztecs were inclined to have a fondness for a particular aspect of warfare. However, Huitzilopochtli was known as the primary god of war in ancient Mexico. Since he was the patron god of the Mexica, he was credited with both the victories and defeats that the Mexica people had on the battlefield.[1] It is important to remember that the defeat of their patron deity meant the defeat of his people. This is one of the many reasons why they were concerned with providing exquisite tribute and food for him. Not only was it important for him to survive his battles, but the fate of the Mexica people would have rested in the victory of Huitzilopochtli.
O the soul's nocturnal wingbeat:
Georg Trakl, Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl: Sebastian in Dream; from 'Western Song', tr. Will Stone
BLY MANOR APPRECIATION WEEK ★ DAY 7: FREE CHOICE
That’s where all it’s beauty lies, you know, in the mortality of the thing.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by
itself against its hills, holding
darkness within. It had stood so
for a hundred years before my
family moved in, and it might stand
for a hundred more.
We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
Ursula K. Le Guin
celtic mythology + major goddesses
for @penumbvra, happy birthday sasha!
Three wise women live there, by that well under that tree. Urth is named one, another is Verthandi, the third is named Skuld. They carved men’s fates, they determine destiny’s laws, the choose the lifespan of every human child and how each life will end.
- The Poetic Edda, Völuspá, trans. Jackson Crawford