#morana
I updated my Altar to my goddess of ice and death, Morana. It still needs some items but that is okay.
I light the candles from the right. The first is to let her know i wish to speak to her. I light this while I’m getting ready. I light the second candle when I’m ready to begin. This guides her. The third candle is for my family and friend, that she turn her face from them, and i light this and place it behind her.
The water is mineral water from Germany since I’m currently in the US. It’s behind the first candle so she passes through it and does not burn. This is because it’s winter and she is abroad. In Spring, the water will be in front of the candle. She must die as ash and be placed in the water, to take the ash and water into the ground, to let her sister Vesna grow crops with it. I always offer her water - she needs it to make snow!
Juniper is her wood, thyme her herb and black walnut her oil. In her right hand she carries a mask as no one knows when she is coming. It is also personal, as i am a burn victim and wear a mask in public. In her left she carries the frost. At her belt is coral, once alive now stone. This incredible gift comes from @mitresquaremurder All of these are earrings and I have a single pierced ear so sometimes I wear the other one.
The little blue bottle is from my girlfriend @rainstormdragon and holds Boreas, the North Wind from Conjure Oils.
The dolls and heart are family heirlooms from Czech Republic and represent that all my family are dead in war.
The coin is Czech, the charivari piece is for the Roma who died in Holocaust, as I am Rrom.
The German flag is for all the Sudeten Germans who were killed in genocide in The Expulsion.
The modla, (the wooden statue), was my first one before the cornhusk.
The glass snake is my familiar because I’m a Slytherin.
The boxes hold the oils and my mood necklace, which I use to try to divine her wants, since they actually rely on temperature.
The thing on the left is my worship košile (traditional embroidered Czech shirt), picked out in blue and white.
This is just how I do things, I would be very curious to hear about how others worship Morana. Keep in mind, though, that it is said that if you ever tell someone bout exactly how you worship, you should always keep a t least one detail out, that way no one can worship and pretend to be you and make your god or goddess angry with you.
Erich out.
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the queen and the woodborn sample
the queen and the woodborn is one of my webcomics published on my patreon, on my deviantart and on webtoons
it is a slavic mythology inspired fairy tale romance
all the pages so far available here
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-queen-and-the-woodborn/mothers-last-tale/viewer?title_no=502306&episode_no=1
enjoy
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Czech song performed while carrying out Morena doll.
Nesem, nesem Morenu,
ej, pěkně pristrojenu,
už nemože choditi,
musime ju nositi.
Ref.: Ej, Morena, Morena už bude utopena,
ej, Morena, Morena, zima studena.
Smrtko, Smrtko biela,
kdes tak dlúho byla?
U studanky, u voděnky
ruky nohy mylac
Ref.
Smrtko, Smrtko biela,
čims jich utierala?
Červenym šatečkom,
zelenym listečkom.
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Morana effigy Ethnographic Museum of the National Museum, Prague.
(Národopisné muzeum, Praha)
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mythology meme | Slavic gods & goddesses - Morana
Morana is a Slavic goddess of winter and death, associated with rebirth of nature. She often appears in different guises but is described as a woman of dark hair and terrifying appearance, bringing famine and destruction wherever she goes. Her arrival was therefore expected with dread while her departure was celebrated with boisterous cheer.
Some legends suggest she seduced Jarilo (god of spring) while he was searching for his lost wife in the Underworld - Nav. Eventually grown bored with her lover, Morana attempted to poison him with the drink of oblivion but failed and escaped badly burned. Another myth brings Morana in connection with Voden, making them a divine couple of the Underworld. Voden and Morana drowned people in their dark waters. Slavs tried to propitiate them by sacrificial offerings.
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Morena, also known as Morė in Lithuanian and Marzanna in Polish, is the Slavic goddess of sorcery, death, winter and nightmares. The end of winter was celebrated using an effigy of Morena, which was burned along with herbs and cast into a river on first spring day in March. It was believed that touching the effigy once it was in the water, looking back at the effigy or falling on your way home would bring sickness and plague. The ritual represented the end of the dark days of winter, the victory over death, and the welcoming of the spring rebirth.
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The Queens of Styria! Since we are back to hermiting, I really think fondly on our sisters gathering a while back ❤️
And I realized I hadn’t shared these incredible cinematic photos by @worldofgwendana yet! I’m amazed we fit all four of us on the set, the space is quite snug but Kyle made it look so expansive in his images!
From left to right:
Carmilla - @yayahan
Lenore - @xkirakelly (who had to squat down to look shorter than me )
Morana - @16bitsami
Striga - @alliecatcosplay
Each costume made their respective costume from scratch aaaah! ❤️
Photography by @worldofgwendana (swipe to see my solos)
#castlevaniacosplay #castlevanianetflix #castlevania #vampire #vampirecosplay #velvetdress #vampirequeen #carmilla #lenore #morana #striga #sisters #styria #queens #animecosplay
https://www.instagram.com/p/CYcM99oO2dN/?utm_medium=tumblr
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| MORANA | goddess of winter and death
…but also order and rebirth.
For my Slavic deities illustration project which will be guiding you through this year! More (folk)lore, info and WIPs of this project on my P/treon.
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the days are dark and short - and the cold sneaks down my throat, stealing away my thoughts and coiling around my heart. the rain howls out a hymn.
and hopeless sun worshipper that I am, I give myself to the darkness - I yield to the Death Mother and I place all my trust, wholeheartedly and painfully, into the all-embracing night.
might this swirling void bring revelations that are nearly too hard to welcome. might this night bring love with thorns as sharp as knives.
all hail the dark mother, the weaver of nightmares and fates.
For the @lenectorweek Birthday and Family prompts I wanted to draw the Styria squad happy, ALIVE, and being a functional family for 3 seconds.
Since the beautiful spring has arrived and the @kuzayova added her amazing artwork for @wacomczuchy ‘s competition, I wanted to also share my idea for Marzanna’s concept What are your ideas for this Slavic goddess look? ✨
#wacom #wacomart #wacomczuchy #pozegnaniemarzanny #kuzayova #kuzayovaart #digitalart #digitalpainting #spring #winter #sun #herbs #goodbye #slavic #goddess #purebeauty #goodbyewinter #warm #cold #drowning #drawing #art #design #morana #competition
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb4qoHejK7u/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Andrew Gn ensemble for Morana - Eastern European Goddess of harvest, witchcraft, winter and death
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Matthew Williamson dress for Morana - Eastern European goddess of harvest, witchcraft, winter and death
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My Wife and girlfriend. Pick either for the role. Im in a happy sammich either way!
A commission for a friend of my second favorite power couple.
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While gazing into the beloved’s eyes may be one way of signaling the lover’s desires, another charm that appears both in the literary sources and in the spell books is the apple charm—a type of spell in which the lover throws an apple (or a quince, a pomegranate, or some other seed-filled sweet fruit) at the target, transferring his love to the one who picks up this token charged with erotic resonances. Ovid recounts the tale of a clever youth, Acontius, who won his bride by tossing an apple inscribed with the words “I vow to marry Acontius” over the garden wall where his beloved would pick it up and read it aloud; the vow was magically effective, to the extent of incurring divine punishment when the girl’s parents tried to prevent the marriage.
A spell preserved on a first-century (BCE or CE) papyrus makes use of the same idea:
To whichever woman I give or whichever woman I throw the apple at or hit with it, setting everything aside, may she be mad for my love—whether she takes it in her hand and eats it or sets it in her bosom—and may she not stop loving me. O Lady Kyprogeneia, bring to perfection this perfect incantation.
Again, as with the eye contact spell, we can see the blurring of lines between magical action and simple flirtation—the tossing of the apple to the girl, catching her attention; the girl picking it up and putting it to her lips, or perhaps tucking it away into her bosom. Indeed, in Lucian, one courtesan complains of her boyfriend flirting with another woman by tossing her a bit of apple, which she kissed and put between her breasts. Tossing the apple is the active step in the relationship, signaling one’s interest, so a prostitute may toss an apple at a potential client, to catch his attention and express her readiness for sex.
The apple serves as a symbol of sexual desire, perhaps of fertility, certainly of erotic interest, which is why, Plutarch tells us, a quince or an apple was presented to a new bride on her wedding night, symbolizing the awakening of her sexuality, legitimized and sanctioned by the ritual of marriage.
-Drawing down the moon by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Spośród widocznych atrybutów Marzanny wymieniano: jabłko, klucze, kobiece ubranie, wieniec i ozdoby. Symbolice jabłka wiele uwagi poświęcił R. Katičić, który doszedł do wniosku, że jabłko to symbol miłości narzeczonej do „Zielonego Jerzego”.
Jaryło, pokonując po drodze most, przyjeżdża na dwór ojca. Staje do zawodów o rękę Morany. Ta znajduje się na zielonej łące, pasie gęsi, otwiera drzwi (wrota). Rzucając w bohatera jabłkiem, wskazuje go jako swojego wybranka.
-Semantyka obrzędów wiosennych związanych z Marzanną i Jaryłą (Próba rekonstrukcji “Prasłowianskiego tekstu”) by Michał Łuczyński
“Among visible attributes of Marzanna the commonly named ones are: apple, keys, feminine clothing, wreath and jewelry/ornaments. R. Katičić gave a lot of attention to the the symbolism of the apple, arriving at the conclusion that it represents the love that the bride bears for ‘Green George’.”
“Jaryło passes through a bridge and arrives at his father’s court. He enters a contest for Morana’s hand. She can be found on a green meadow, grazing geese, opening doors (gates). She throws an apple at the hero, marking him as her chosen husband.”
-Semantics of the spring rites connected to Marzanna and Jaryło (An attempt at reconstructing “the Proto-Slavic text”) by Michał Łuczyński
