extant
I was reading the book, The Lore and Language of Children. I noticed a section about the winter solstice tradition of “Burying the Wren.” - The wren, the wren, though he be small, his family is great...
I picked up the idea that the Otherside (afterlife) is a mirror world, everything is reversed. I think I saw that recently on Magpie’s Facebook page: “ the place from where it is impossible to return in the same form.”
Suppose, they were expecting the wren to come back? From the smallest bird dying, to the greatest bird being reborn? The greatest bird might be the Firebird. I will go take a closer look at the Firebird stories. -And the Firebird in Russian Embroideries, wood carvings, paintings...
I was thinking about the word, extant. I’m looking at thousands of photos of folk art on Pinterest. I’m hoping to figure out what people believed by looking at their art. This is my theme: Pagans Hidden in Plain Sight. If we can assume that many of the old pieces of folk art were made with a pagan mindset - I notice, I said assume here. Everything I’m doing seems to hang on that assumption. Well, if that’s so, then we can see folkart as a source for recreating the pagan worldview.
Because I’m not interested in esoteric stuff (I had to look it up, esoteric means limited to a small group of people) - I want an understanding of what was widely believed in animist, pre-Christian societies. Pre-Islamic also. So, extant means remaining, found, surviving from long ago. The ideas of a people remain in their art long after they are gone.
I found that the Willies occur frequently next to pictures of dragons. And dragons seem to be female. I started to wonder if dragons and Firebird might be the same thing. I found pictures that seemed to link lions and unicorns to pagan ideas. Heraldry seems to be loaded with pagan symbols. Unicorns, I’m convinced are male... There is a lot to discover in the folkart, but needed a key to open it all. E.W. Barber’s book, The Dancing Goddesses, was my key.
I was reading the book, The Lore and Language of Children. I noticed a section about the winter solstice tradition of “Burying the Wren.” - The wren, the wren, though he be small, his family is great...
I picked up the idea that the Otherside (afterlife) is a mirror world, everything is reversed. I think I saw that recently on Magpie’s Facebook page: “ the place from where it is impossible to return in the same form.”
Suppose, they were expecting the wren to come back? From the smallest bird dying, to the greatest bird being reborn? The greatest bird might be the Firebird. I will go take a closer look at the Firebird stories. -And the Firebird in Russian Embroideries, wood carvings, paintings...
I was thinking about the word, extant. I’m looking at thousands of photos of folk art on Pinterest. I’m hoping to figure out what people believed by looking at their art. This is my theme: Pagans Hidden in Plain Sight. If we can assume that many of the old pieces of folk art were made with a pagan mindset - I notice, I said assume here. Everything I’m doing seems to hang on that assumption. Well, if that’s so, then we can see folkart as a source for recreating the pagan worldview.
Because I’m not interested in esoteric stuff (I had to look it up, esoteric means limited to a small group of people) - I want an understanding of what was widely believed in animist, pre-Christian societies. Pre-Islamic also. So, extant means remaining, found, surviving from long ago. The ideas of a people remain in their art long after they are gone.
I found that the Willies occur frequently next to pictures of dragons. And dragons seem to be female. I started to wonder if dragons and Firebird might be the same thing. I found pictures that seemed to link lions and unicorns to pagan ideas. Heraldry seems to be loaded with pagan symbols. Unicorns, I’m convinced are male... There is a lot to discover in the folkart, but needed a key to open it all. E.W. Barber’s book, The Dancing Goddesses, was my key.
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