23 Jul 2022, 16:13 UTC≈1,810 views5 reactionsread 9 September 2026 Forwarded from @tribeofthefoxPhoto
Under the Trees
Friends they are, trees
who have conversations with you
let your mind go
like their leaves swing the light.
They are friends, trees.
They lay their shadow
like an arm around you
if you want to be alone
and don't want to be alone.
Poet: Fetze Pijlman, Nunspeet
(picture: Tribe of the Fox)
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21 Jul 2022, 15:41 UTC≈1,650 views2 reactionsread 9 September 2026 Forwarded from @oakwhispersPhoto
My second destination. A well of healing water. I drank some of it flavoured with mead wort that grows all around the well.
I gave a little sacrifice nearby.
The well is dedicated to the Dragon that was slain by St Magnus, an Irish monk that started to convert the local Alamans after the Blood Court of Cannstatt.
The Dragon legend is a metaphor of this foreign monk destroying a sacrificial site that might have been…
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21 Jul 2022, 15:39 UTC≈1,160 viewsread 9 September 2026 Forwarded from @oakwhispersPhoto
My first destination looks unimpressive, except for the view, but these are the remains of an Alamannic hillfort, Gabis.
You can still see the ditch and dike.
The Säuling is right in front of it in the distance. Coincidence?
There was a sacrificial site close by that was destroyed by christian fanatics in 746 C.E.
The hillfort is most likely from the 7th / 8th century, when the Alamannic folk rose against the Frank…
4 Jul 2022, 16:26 UTC899 views1 reactionsread 9 September 2026 Forwarded from @oakwhispersPhoto
On the left a detail of the reconstructed Anglo-Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. It is widely believed to have belonged to King Rædwald of East Anglia.
On the right the Plietzhausen brooch, found in an Alamannic woman's grave in southwestern Germany.
Originally, the motive bearing disk of the brooch most likely had a larger diameter and is believed to have been part of a horse harness.
Both artifacts are r…
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1 Mar 2022, 16:47 UTC≈1,400 views1 reactionsread 9 September 2026 Forwarded from @WainolaPhoto
Lesser-known changes to our folk-poetry in the Finnish national epic
A comparison between 4:1–12 of the Old #Kalevala (1835) and 9:1–12 of the New Kalevala (1849; shown here in a modern edition) reveals a crucial difference. Lönnrot, the compiler of the epic, changed one very important word.
Keith Bosley translates the 1849 text thusly:
“At that old Väinämöinen
got out of the sleigh himself
rose from the sledge, w…
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14 Feb 2022, 23:50 UTC≈1,000 views2 reactionsread 9 September 2026 Forwarded from @FolkishFrancePhoto
Fertility rites in which women were whipped with the hides of the sacrificed animals were performed during the Roman festival of Lupercalia. This was intended to make the women more fertile & aid in childbirth. A matchmaking lottery was then held.
Lupercalia was celebrated in parts of Italy and Gaul. Luperci are attested by inscriptions at Nîmes in France.
After the Romans added the month of February to their calen…
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14 Feb 2022, 23:50 UTC747 viewsread 9 September 2026 Forwarded from @FolkishFrancePhoto
Set on the 14th of February, Valentine's Day is nowadays a celebration of love. It goes back to the Roman festival of Lupercalia, originally known as Februa & linked to springtime purification. The name of February is derived from it. Associated gods are Juno & Faunus.
The name Lupercalia was believed in antiquity to have a connection with an Ancient Greek wolf festival & the worship of Lycaean Pan, assumed to be a …
1 Nov 2021, 19:49 UTC≈1,020 viewsread 9 September 2026 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XreCQKgpEu8
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