#Dziewanna

[aristenfromwarsaw]

🌺 Devana 🌺

Devana or Dziewanna - my new human wizard Tav 💜. Of course she belongs to Astarion :D .

[huariqueje]

Dziewannas , After Branislav Šimončík - Paulina Olowska, 2023.

Polish , b. 1976 -

oil on canvas, 310 cm × 210 cm .

© Paulina Olowska

[tooboredtothinkofaname]

Wynieśliśmy już z wioski Śmierć – Niesiemy nowe Lato Kłaniamy się majowym dniom i kolorowym kwiatom

[oriiartz]

My modern and not so accurate take on the Goddess Dziewanna/Devana. This was more for experimentation and a bit of fun, not my usual style 🌷

Reference: "Zhang Vision"

Devana is a slavic Goddess of nature, moon, wilds and the hunt.

[mythologicafolk]

Polish musician Dziewanna released a music video for Bogi Wyśnione, a new project inspired by the pre-Christian world of the Slavs, where magic intertwined with reality.

Read more:

https://mythologica.com.br/en/news/dziewanna-bogi-wysnione/

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

i've seen this sentiment a few times from slavic pagans, but i'm curious on your perspective - Devanna is most likely not her own independent goddess, but perhaps just a different name or aspect of Marzanna. any thoughts? i appreciate your time greatly.

Ah I happen to have an old post dedicated to this exact problem!

Personally I do not believe Dziewanna was a pre-Christian slavic deity and do not include her in my religious practices.

As for the idea that Dziewanna and Marzanna might be two faces of the same goddess I know Andrzej Szyjewski toyed with this idea in his book Religia Słowian but finally concluded that we do not have enough evidence to view them this way. Aleksander Gieysztor, being very sceptical of the whole Długosz's pantheon suggested that Dziewanna is simply another name used for Marzanna during the later folk celebrations of her drowning. I don't find it implausible seeing how the effigy and it's related customs have a lot of different names in different regions to this day.

[do-androids-dream-ao3acc]

More Witcher songs, non-Metal-edition

In addition to my post about Witcher Metal songs, I wanted to use the chance to once more introduce those of you who don't know it to "Emiel Regis" by Grand Fishing Opera. However, searching for it, I stumbled upon more songs, and I thought, okay, maybe we can start a non-metal Witcher song thing. Your additions appreciated :) Also, there's a part III to this with eastern Witcher songs!

So, here's said "Emiel Regis":

The same band also has a song about Geralt:

So, this might be considered pop music, I guess, but you know what, it doesn't stop there. I found this polish artist named MC Sobieski with this "Emiel Regis Rap Tribute":

Then I found this polish artist, Dziewanna, with her song "Wilczysko", inspired by the books. What's the genre, modern folk?

And here we have a Russian song dedicated to Triss. It's also on Spotify, but here's a version with subtitles:

I also totally missed Visigoth in my metal edition, they have this song "Steel and Silver" and I'm including it here because I can't edit the other post anymore ;)

You can find more inspiration in this post in the Witcher Wiki. Anyway, I didn't search any further from this, i was already quite astonished by my findings. Do you know more? (Besides renditions of show tunes, there are a LOT of cover versions of those out there). I'm sure there must be more, maybe more russian and polish songs? Maybe even asian ones? That would be exciting. Or german ones, even. Btw, "Der Hexer" by Fahrenheit 212 is not about Geralt.

[woodland-goth]

Listen/purchase: Devana by Jan Janko Močnik

[ancestorsalive]

"Dziewanna with the Souls of Ancestors" by Polish painter, printmaker, and sculptor Jerzego Przybyła (Jerzy Przybył). The plant in the foreground is mullein.

[aristenfromwarsaw]

Thank you I love it ! Noc Kupały is a great name for this perfume 💜

Perfume for Devana 💜.

Race: Human. Class: Wizard ~ Divination School. Favorite colors: white and red. Favorite flower: papaver rhoeas. Favorite daytime: afternoon. Favorite food: bigos and pierogi with meat. Favorite season: summer, she loves when the sun warms her skin. Favorite animal: European bison, she loves how strong and majestic these animals are.

Devana is very shy and loves studying magic. She is very helpful and tries not to start arguments - she is very peaceful and patient. Because she grew up in a settlement among forests and fields, she loves nature and hates cities. Devana likes silence, peace and a good book. She dreams of becoming one of the strongest wizards on the world, so she's still studying magic very hard.

💜

🌞🌻🍎🌼🍊🌻🍑🌸🍎🌻🌞

Devana smells like the warm summer sun.

The blue sky above.

Freshly mown fields and meadows. 🌾🌲🌾

Her scent is like a warm summer breeze, which carries the scent of the sea and the forest with its trees and green grass. The slightest breath of blooming wildflowers, surrounding you gently.

Cornflowers, daffodils, carnations, violets, hyacinths, hay flowers.

When you are near her, her scent reminds you of a field of sunflowers and somewhere in the distance, freshly baked bread and apple pie. Fresh baked bread, packed for a picnic in the fields. While feeling the warm rays of sunshine on your skin.

Light and warm. Like summer and the sun, itself. Like the blue sky above you.

And what ingredients do you use to create such a fragrance?

🍏🍯🍃🍎🥧🍎🍃🍯🍏

head notes: sunflowers, beeswax, orange blossom, wildflowers, honey blossom, apple blossom, wheat barley heart notes: fresh wildflower hay, warm apple pie, red poppy, wild roses, pear, apricot, orange base notes: honey, amber, calendula, lavender, oak, roasted chestnuts, tonka, cardamom, hornbeam, birch, hazelnut, osmanthus

🍏🍯🍃🍎🥧🍎🍃🍯🍏

Some will stay my bardic secret 😉🤫

What would you like to name it? Let me know!

May I suggest:

Summer Sun Wildflower Honey Blossom Flower Valley Midday Bride Summer Solstice Noc Kupały Lady Midday

Or let me hear your name ideas.

🌞🌻🍎🌼🍊🌻🍑🌸🍎🌻🌞

[aristenfromwarsaw]

🌺 Devana 🌼

My beautiful human wizard Tav 💜.

[bolszaja-miedwedica]

shout out to Dziewanna for having such a cool fox companion!

devotional post for my spirit spouse Fip :D

[rhineposting]

to no one's surprise, the women's wrongs au also includes plenty of men's wrongs too!

the man in question being the head of the extremist anti-stand organisation in rivalry with passione and dea's cult : Bogusław Kruk or Bog for short.

basically he's like if speedwagon, peepaw willy afton and the main villain of the owl house whose name i shan't mention had a lovechild.

[slavicafire]

There are two dramas from which we can see the use of devils as popular characters, Sejm Piekielny, ‘Hell’s Parliament’ (ofen confused with the work Teatrum Diabolorum) which was written in 1622 and whose author’s identity is the subject of great dispute. Postępek prawa czartowskiego, ‘A Trial of Devilish Rights’ from 1570 is yet another anonymous work. Both works present a hierarchy of devils, with specific duties, who are to some extent Polish or “polonized.” In Postępek, we find mention of female devils: Dziewanna, Marzana, Wenda, Jędza, Ossorya, Chorzyca, and Markana, who were sent specifically to Poland. In Sejm Piekielny, each devil is assigned one of the seven deadly sins, and encourages people to commit that particular sin. We can also see an example of a regional devil, usually associated with folklore, for example Lewiathan, who spends most of his time in Mazovia, whilst a Ruthenian devil named Bies is portrayed, together with his brother Dietko as splitting his time between Moscow and Podole.

- Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? The Devil in Early Modern Poland by Wanda Wyporska.  [Demons, Spirits, Witches Vol. 2 :Christian Demonology And Popular Mythology - Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs (Eds.)]

[haljathefangirlcat]

Nibelungensage (& Adjacent) Music Masterpost

Or, what happens when you already have a full (if loosely-based) opera cycle to listen to and, in the great tradition of objectively-flawed-but-still-iconic animated classics from your childhood, still ask, "Thank you. But what else?"

Part 1 of Hopefully At Least More Than One to come. Genres range from rock/metal to folk to techno to Stuff I Wouldn't Really Know How To Classify. Can't guarantee all of the songs listed here will be to your taste (after all, not all of them are to my taste, either) but some are, imho, real bangers.

Nibelungenlied (full album) - German Oak

The Song of the Nibelungs (full album) - Wotan

Die Nibelungen (full album) - Årabrot

Drachenblut - (full album) Mystic Circle

H​ô​rt m​î​n Sagen (full album) - Angur

Wigant (full album) - Stainless Steel

Nibelung (full album) - Siegfried

Balmung - Siegfried

Rheingold - Siegfried

Siegfried - Siegfried

Drachenherz - Siegfried

Die Treuewacht - Siegfried

Am Isenstein - Siegfried

Hagen Von Tronje - Siegfried

Hagen the Cruel - White Skull

Kriemhild Story - White Skull

The Killing Queen - White Skull

The Terrible Slaughter - White Skull

Etzel - White Skull

Attle and Bleda - White Skull

Sigurdlied - Faun

Brynhilds Lied - Faun

Brynhildur Táttur - Faun

Dragon - Corpsepain

Hagen Von Tronje - Corpsepain

Nibelungenlied - Wergeld

Der Ring des Nibelungen - E Nomine

Nibelungen - Nico

Siegfrieds Song - Julian Lehmann

SGFRD Dragonslayer - Feuerschwanz

Brunhild - Saltatio Mortis

Brunhilda - Dziewanna

Hagen Von Tronje - Saxorior

Das Hildebrandslied Teil 1 - Menhir

Das Hildebrandslied Teil 2 - Menhir

Hildebrandslied - Transit

[manfrommars2049]

Dziewanna by Małgorzata Motyka-Karnas via ImaginaryArchers