by
Danica Anderson
Artists Erin Hilleary & Connie Greyhorse
Instructions
The South Slavic archetypal female wisdom is preserved in the storied cards.
The cards are years of South Slavic first person stories merged with the archeological artifacts found in the former Yugoslav region. Author, Danica Anderson, executive director of the non-profit; The Kolo: Women’s Cross Cultural Collaboration.
The artists in collaboration with Danica’s work are:
Erin Hilleary’s art on- Trees Victims & Martyrs, Yawning & Ashes Forty
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Beans cards
Connie Greyhorse’s art on- The Widow Goddess card
The Bosnian women who survived the last 100 years of world wars and gynocidal war somehow have the ingredients of the Vily's (Serbo-Croatian for Witch or Shamka) recipes for breathing life into war-torn lives. Bearing witness breathes in life and invites in the kolo as one of the recipes found in Poetic Colleges filled with Sophia wisdom.
Pliny mentions the sacred bean flower and how women could only eat beans thus break wind. Farting, a normal bodily function (and a small act) represented divinity.
The wind dances through the boughs of the trees and the air are the
uplifting invisible force for the birds in flight. Surely anyone who can
break wind is channeling the Bird Goddess.
Forty-One White Beans- Forty is a number associated with patriarchal religions with death. Forty-one for South Slavic Female Symbols is life after death; rebirth and resurrection. White Beans in ancient times was grown and eaten only by females since it was considered a gifting of the Moist Mother Earth. Clustering meaning from counting the forty-one white beans offers a significant insight to the evolutionary behavior that can read messages from the environment. Forty-one white beans as are the abilities to read coffee cups by the South Slavs contain the Mother Tongue, a symbolic language translated.
Articulation: Feminine Natural Law & Justice; Bearing Witness. When have there been examples of bearing witness to your life events and hearing your first person story? When have you borne witness to someone, animal, plant and all living realms over a long cycle or many seasons? Have you walked the same path in a forest or shore for 13 months continuously?
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Joanna
Hubbs research into North Slavic (Russia) mythology of Moist Mother
Earth shows Baba Yaga to be a Pagan Goddess- the true Amazon.[i]
In her freedom Baba Yaga protects her land and her Podrodica (family) at a
much greater strength then any man would.
Both for Northern Slavs and Southern Slavs, if the grandmother is beaten it
is said that the man will soon be poor.[ii] Marija Gimbutas’s research on
Old Europe in the Balkans commented on the saying that striking the Mother
Earth was a serious wounding is still expressed in former Yugoslavia. In
essence Mother Nature is Baba Yaga and she must be treated with the utmost
respect.
South Slavic Archetype
Vestica [Srb-Cro, Slo, and Bul] mostly in the form of a female, but can be male, an old ugly woman with a horns and even a tail with red eyes. Causes hail, drought, casts spells and taking the heart out of the chests Vestica is known to steal fetuses from wombs. In this form she is the great equalizer and fate—associated with Mother Nature and the Death Goddesses
Do you embrace challenges and difficult events in life as enriching and with a far reaching lesson then what manifests presently?
How the South Slavic stara baba knew that yawning and bleeding together as steps of synchronization, synchronicity that lead toward solidarity is most likely based on their life experiences in raising children and growing food from the moist mother earth. The South Slavs intimate wisdom of the body’s way of learning is what scientists call the mirror-neuron system
The Bird Goddess deep ecological embracement understood the contagious yawns as repeating and replicating behaviors that do not begin with left brain functions of reason or logic. Striking at the core to what is universal from the seat of being; the Bird Goddess of Rejuvenation symbolically represents the ability to have and to be a part of great movements such as the flight of migrations on equinoxes and the ability to have ovarian synchrony.
South Slavic Archetype
Migrating birds- signals a migratory cycle- sacred pilgrimage to geographic locations and for the blood mysteries such as menopause.
When was the last time you experienced a great movement where it had meaningfulness and values that mirrors your own without having to do it bureaucratically or linear fashion (meaning without having to register to march, to look at legal steps, or to climb up the ladder doing fanatically hard work)?
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Being addicted to victimhood and martyrdom is easier to repeat mindlessly as is apathy and constantly surviving.
South Slavic Archetype
Black Goddess- Slavic for Baba Yaga- and for wisdom Sophia- unless we see ourselves mirrored in the dark aspects of victimhood and unconsciousness then our potentials for this life and creativity is blocked and suppressed. Accepting the young, the aging process as gifts unveiled is required.
How has victimhood or martyrdom (supermom-superwoman?) repeating patterns
prevented the ability to sit enthroned and be open to receptivity?