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Oh! Sorry, I assumed your nationality. My sincere apologies. If it'll help, and I honestly don't know if it will because I'm uncertain which dialect of Spanish is used here - here is Scott Cunningham's book I mentioned above in the Spanish language.

Here you go! It’s pretty badass.

Laine Taylor has a good theory. Starts off a little slow, but is good.

>The Celts weren't the only ones with solar/lunar calendars.

I never suggested they were.

>The lunar cycles were just named after the chores that had to get done that season.

I'd love to hear some examples. 'Cleaning & Seedlings Season' for your spring kinda thing-?

I'm reading this book right now and while it's decent, it also jumps all over the place re: time & geography that I get things mixed up.

Just looked it up & yeah so Yule's origins are actually Germanic/Norse mythology, not ancient Celtic or Druid. But the ancient Celts & Druids (of Gaul/France & Britain) predate Norse viking mythology, so I mean anyone could make an argument that ancient Celtic paganism influenced Norse paganism centuries later, but eh. Like you said, it's not like any culture gets dibs paying attention to seasons & lunar cycles. And we know so little about the ancient Celts that even if there are some leftovers hidden inside Yule (which then got hidden inside Christianity), it's kinda a "fuck it, whatever" scenario lol

As for the song, I have no idea. It was published in England in 1780 when any/all forms of modern Paganism were still demonized. It could've been created by a totally Christian group that had no idea there was a reference to Yule & passed around for centuries before it got printed by the English.

...not sure how you took the leap that the song lyrics depicting daily gifts from December 25th to Jan 6th represent seasons. I'd guess it was just one of many instances of the romantic era springing up.

Edit: apparently if anything, Christians have suggested the song actually hides key tenants to Christianity (not Paganism) while they were persecuted (which they weren't at the time & it's totally false for that reason among others). Seems like it was just a folksy memory game song.

You may also be interested in seeking out the gnostic gospels. One claims to be from Mary and provides a direct female succession. I'm not a catholic myself, but I gained that nugget of info recently while reading The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels. She's written a couple books on the gnostic gospels that I intend to pick up next.

I saw this the other day and it reminded me of your post . I thought it was pretty cool.
https://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Horned-Symbol-Pentagram-T-Shirt/dp/B07VXBV3G1

What do you mean by such? What are you referring to?

Staying inside the patriarchy/Matriarchy dichotomy I'd say that the social organization before the drastic change aprox. 6000 years ago was predominantly matriarchic.

But without a state apparatus to coerce people into it...

Remnants of those matriarchies can be found all over the world.

Are you familiar with Heide Göttner-Abendroth and her work?

https://www.amazon.com/Matriarchal-Societies-Studies-Indigenous-Cultures/dp/1433125129

This is where what I know about Matriarchal societies comes from.

I have no problem with either Matriarchal societies, nor patriarchal ones, for that matter, as long as they respect the freedom of the individual...

Both can't do that when they become statist (coercion hierarchies).

Fascism doesn't and neither does or can Socialism.

There’s a book about this! It’s called Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. It’s a story about two sisters that use this text. Highly recommended!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812980352/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Q.bxDbZFJJV49

Goes well with this. Yes it's a real book, and my library has a copy of it:)

They are available on Amazon. They come in either black with blue lighting or the above brown. The black one is significantly more expensive...

Black

Brown

Edit: there seem to be quite a few varieties, some pretty darn cheap, and likely to be knockoffs of questionable quality.

I can see myself taking one of them apart and building it into a desk or table top (or a couch arm!)... the key is getting the right amount of space between the device and the phone.

I found Amazon and Barnes & Noble pre-order links for US people.

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Witch-Tarot-Lisa-Sterle/dp/1912634031

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/modern-witch-tarot-lisa-sterle/1130823630

The book Sex, Time and Power gets into this and the types of ways women shaped human evolution. Such a good read and it really changes your perspective on history.

I firmly believe that cats domesticated us rather than the other way around. If you are interested The Lion in Your Living Room talks about this a bit.

did anybody else read Kissing the Witch like... 20 years ago? it's basically this. cinderella gets with the fairy godmother. rapunzel decides to stay with the witch (who was acting like... more than her stepmother to say the least). it kind of changed my life. i can't believe they had it in our middle school library lol


hm looking around now, i see that the lady who wrote "Room" wrote Kissing the Witch.

This is a page from R. Crumb's illustrated Book of Genesis. He's got a commentary section at the end where he talks about Savina Teubal's book Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis

make sure to view the second image in the gallery

They also make one with runes.