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The coldest temperature ever recorded in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming was -66°F on February 9, 1933.

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In the world of the dead, Persephone, you reign as queen, crowned with riches unsurpassed, enthroned in splendor, honored above all others.

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Ernst Lindgren (1887 - 1948) - Winter Landscape. 1943. Oil on panel.

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prayer to morana for health during winter

queen morana, lady of winter frosts, pale mistress of transformation! obscure me from illness, shelter me from ailments, hide me from all malaise, with me under your domain. like your winds are strong, winter mother, may my body be strong also. like your night is long, may my health be good. like your snow is white, may my self be free from any malady unwanted. morana-winter, beautiful lady, take all my illnesses and my afflictions, venture far beyond nine fields, beyond twelve forests, scatter them there, where i, a young girl, won't ever walk, won't ever venture! the moon is in the sky, the hare is in the forest, the pike is in the river: when those three brothers meet up, only then i, a young girl, will fall to illness. so be it forever until the end of times. all praise to you, lady of many snows!

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Details from Diana and Endymion (1883), by Walter Crane, and extracts from the Homeric Hymn 27; "To Artemis".

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my mistress is so beautiful

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i sing of demeter, dark-haired, dark-eyed, she of the earth, bountiful in her riches! you give us warm bread on our tables, the all-provider, you give us black earth under our feet. your name is heard amongst the many grasses, your hand is felt in every hearty meal. and how you give, o beautiful mistress, is rivaled only by how you take. beware, beware the wrathful goddess! beware of her, you — murderer, violator, abuser, colonizer! tremble, you who pollutes, you who conquers, you who betrays trust! the great mother has many teeth as well as she has many claws, and all of them are as swift as a swallow, and all of them are sharp like that of a beast. all glory to demeter furious, justice bringer; may your hand have its grasping presence upon each and every of lying throats.

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Gods represent duality. Following any deity means embracing this duality both with them and within yourself. Think of each aspect of a god and their domain as beautiful, even things we often fear.

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it’s still hot out. time to romanticize the bleak mid-winter

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god of earth and heaven, joel-peter witkin

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Artemis 🏹 goth playlist

Insect Switchblade Symphony

A Forest The Cure

Innocent Child Arcana

Orion Lycia

Wild in the Woods Dead Can Dance

Hunt Me Crucifix Nocturnal Christians

A Fairytale About Slavery Miranda Sex Garden

Prey Diva Destruction

She Will Destroy You Cocteau Twins

Naturally Cruel Mors Syphilitica

Chameleon binzatina

Midnight Queen Inkubus Sukkubus

Moonbath KUKL

Keep Your Eyes Peeled Ultra Sunn

Night Gild the Mourn

YouTube playlist 🏹 Other devotional goth Theoi playlists

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my kintype? wolf so that lady artemis can hunt alongside me and stag so she can hunt me down too. yea

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todays the second time someone close to me got morana in their dreams.... each person had motifs similar to how she shows up to myself without me telling them about those motifs. and each time i was in their dreams as a mediator. world's full of wonders!

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Athena, from The Odyssey of Homer by N. C. Wyeth (1929)

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The Goddess of Nature Fountain (Artemis of Ephesus) by Gillis van den Vliete in the garden of Villa d'Este in Tivol, Italy. Photo by Daniel Bordeleau (2017), courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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I sing of Artemis, whose shafts are of gold, who cheers on the hounds, the pure maiden, shooter of stags.

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Artemis tastes like honey and mountain air and lake water. Tawny fur on skin. Bone against teeth.

You feel the hunt on her breath.