Red and white - why are most of the Goddess Embroideries red on a white background? Is it simply dyed versus undyed fabrics? But I met someone who went to Transylvania; she said the churches there are filled with red and white embroidery. That suggests a tradition that sees red and white as sacred...
Remember the story of Snow White and Rose Red? It's not like the well-known Disney fairy tale. I'm thinking of the tale about the two girls who entertained a bear at their cottage all winter. When spring came, the bear left them, but just before he left, they discover that he is a prince. The whole story is packed with symbols - it's a key to a pagan religion that we don't know much about. I wonder if there were once many more adventures of Snow White and Rose Red?
Could they represent us, the living? How similar they seem to Pizho and Penda, the little red & white man and woman from Bulgarian springtime traditions. You can see thousands of them if you search the word, martinitsa. I wish that I could just ask a person in Bulgaria! I would love to travel there. I see people who know the answers on the internet, but I don't know how to speak to them.
Or-- what if those islands, Lero and Lena, could be another version of Pizho and Penda? They are two little islands near Cannes, France now renamed for saints. A monastery was built there long ago, probably on an ancient site of pagan ritual. Now that would be an awesome travel destination, very sweet if I could go. But unless I do a lot more research, they are just a bunch of rocks in the water. I want information about pre-Christian cultures. Maybe I'm just a romantic, hoping to find some noble savages hidden in Europe.
The point is to find the cultures we had before the Agricultural Revolution.
Remember the story of Snow White and Rose Red? It's not like the well-known Disney fairy tale. I'm thinking of the tale about the two girls who entertained a bear at their cottage all winter. When spring came, the bear left them, but just before he left, they discover that he is a prince. The whole story is packed with symbols - it's a key to a pagan religion that we don't know much about. I wonder if there were once many more adventures of Snow White and Rose Red?
Could they represent us, the living? How similar they seem to Pizho and Penda, the little red & white man and woman from Bulgarian springtime traditions. You can see thousands of them if you search the word, martinitsa. I wish that I could just ask a person in Bulgaria! I would love to travel there. I see people who know the answers on the internet, but I don't know how to speak to them.
Or-- what if those islands, Lero and Lena, could be another version of Pizho and Penda? They are two little islands near Cannes, France now renamed for saints. A monastery was built there long ago, probably on an ancient site of pagan ritual. Now that would be an awesome travel destination, very sweet if I could go. But unless I do a lot more research, they are just a bunch of rocks in the water. I want information about pre-Christian cultures. Maybe I'm just a romantic, hoping to find some noble savages hidden in Europe.
The point is to find the cultures we had before the Agricultural Revolution.
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