Lunasadh ritual with @avalongrove last Sunday.
“As thunderstorms quake in the skies and the shortening summer days melt into golden afternoons, come celebrate the First Harvest. We begin to reap what we have sown throughout the spring, we honor the Gods Tailtiu and Lugh, we celebrate our own strengths and skills, and we pledge ourselves in service at this time of the first sacrifice. Beannachtaí na Déithe oraibh!” ritual description by Amanda Yachachak
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Baltic runes magic in Hudson Valley, New York.
We ventured upstate to Hudson, NY a month ago to visit the @lightforms_art_center exhibition of wearable ritual clothing art by Vilma Mare. @vilma_mare
Vilma hand-stitches enlarged specimens or patterns taken from museums and ethnology books in her original technique. She pays homage to Baltic mythology and a highly aesthetic visual logic. This respect for indigenous traditions is vital to Vilma’s work, as she continues traditional repetition and rituals, passed down from a grandmother to her granddaughter.
To Vilma, the sequence ─ Life. Death. Life ─ is comforting and reminiscent of the oldest beliefs, along with ornaments belonging to the semantic field of this particular theme. Ornate symbols found in archeological textiles of the 6-11th cent. woven sashes by Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians, and Finns. “In my work, I have to praise nations that never occupied another state. Peaceful indigenous mythology and highly aesthetic visual logic of ornaments must have shaped them to be great examples in this war-torn world,” says fashion designer and sartorial artist Marė.
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