#Pays basques

[arphang]

LES PETITS CŒURS DE CUBA : DEFILE DE MODE CONTRE LE CANCER DU SEIN, NOTRE ASSOCIATION HUMANITAIRE S’ENGAGE.

[sir20]

Winter waves by sir20

[beautiful-basque-country]

[x]

I can confirm this is SO true! I've seen older ladies with their white hair with highlights in fuchsia, purple or green, and many other with their hair completely dyed in bright fantasy colors.

And the thing is they're quite a lot of them! Like, it's so usual that I hadn't thought it may not happen everywhere until now?

Mesedez, reblog for a bigger sample!

[coto524]

so the biarritz rugby team is now sponsored by grindr and these are the new home/away kits. which i feel like people should see

(i have a Rugby Gay friend i of course sent this to immediately and he just sent me back a string of 😭 emojis because his first thought was to go to the club's website and. THESE ARE ALREADY ALL SOLD OUT)

[ireneci]

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Hermosa puerta de la Catedral de BILBAO

[retrogeographie]

Biarritz, résidence les Grands Horizons.

[simrockfelin]

Hondarribia

[thebusylilbee]

I just learned on reddit that apparently there's an expression in the basque language (spoken in the western Pyrénées that cover parts of France and Spain) that says "Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Hirur gezur horiek egiak balira !" which means :

"Liberté, égalité, fraternité. If only those three lies were true !"

[leparfumdesreves]

Hier, dernière soirée riche en calories à San Sebastián !

Une balade gustative dans les Bars qui ont chacun leurs propres spécialités de "Pintxos".

Les Pintxos sont au Pays Basque ce que les Tapas sont à l’Espagne.

Dans le centre historique de San Sebastián, on les trouve à tous les coins de rue !

[arphang]

UNE SUPER OPERATION DE NOEL A KIABI ANGLET, EN FAVEUR DES PETITS COEURS DE CUBA.

[sir20]

Rocher du Basta, Biarritz by sir20

[beautiful-basque-country]

Flysch in the Basque coast [x].

Those lines of rock are called flysch, but how did we end up with this strange formation? We need to imagine the cliffs once were very much more inside the ocean than now. Tides and waves eroded it, making the first layer of the cliff rock weak until it eventually collapsed, leaving just its basis behind: we have our first line of the flysch.

For thousands of years, the ocean has been gaining ground to the land, that is now just a beautiful souvenir of rock layers running along the cliffs that can be seen on a low tide.

[canirando]

La Rhune, 64 // 6 ans, 2 mois

[thibautfleuretonline]

Façades (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Espagne)

[belladonic-fire]

Amari, the lady of Anbotoko

✴ Who is Mari?

Also known as Anbotoko Mari, Mari Urraca and Murumendiko Dama and Anbotoko Dama; this illusive feminine goddess is the main deity and the central figure of Basque Paganism; mostly being known and seen as a personification of Amalur (mother earth) and in another accounts as the Mother Earth herself.

Besides this, she is also the goddess that is responsible for the fertility of the land and storms (most specifically hail storms) a duty she is said to perform every friday with her consort, the ctonic serpent Sugaar.

However, she does not need Sugaar to perform her task entirely, for she herself can create storms on her own when she travels inbetween her palaces on the chasms of the earth, this journey influencing the weather as she moves from one mountain palace to the other.

Her main sit however, is in a cave in Anbotoko that she has her main throne from which she is served by a court of sorgiñas (sorginak) who are beings that stand between myth and real life (in some accounts they are her priestesses and in others folkloric witches who spread mischief across the land).

She is known to travel the skies in either a crescent fiery chariot, a ball of flame or a goat that she keeps as a companion.

But with how beautiful and royal she is, she is as equally cunning: a natural shapeshifter who is described as a woman in royal clothes and long hair but also with the long claws, goat feet or a red shadow surrounded by serpents holding a sickle; her weapon of choice to punish those who go against her values, making her a fierce goddess of the Home and Justice.

However, being both destruction and creation, justice and retribution one could argue that Mari is in her deepest essences a merging of opposites, embracing the dualities of material reality just as nature around us does.

✴ What is the code of Mari?

Being a protector of the home, whose essence resides in the hearthfire, the basques believed that any oath swore by it was officialized by Mari herself, thus it must be fullfilled to its end. Oathkeeping is incredibly important to this goddess, as she despises those who cannot keep their word.

Surrounded by riches, this beautiful godddess is anything but greed, she despises stealing as she sees this as disrespecting the home and its occupants, thus she would rather be asked for riches than be stolen from.

And last but not least, that which she despises the most is lies (which she is said to feed of) and arrogance, considering these traits too self serving for a goddess whose main purpose is community.

✴ Atributtes

Elements: Earth, Air and Water

Planetary Associations: Pluto and Saturn

Colors: Red, Gold and White

Tarot cards: The Empress, Queen of Swords, Queen of Pentacles

Lenormand card combination: The Mountain + The Woman

Other lesser known names: Maya, Lezekoandrea, Loana-Gorri

✴ What can she assist you with?

Being known by the basques as the Witch of Anbotoko, she is the most suited to initate the witch into the practice if they wish so.

As the mistress of the Lamina (Lamiak) she can introduce the witch to these water spirits, as well as any of her children if they wish to interact more with the basque folklore, she is also the main gate into the other gods and goddesses of the pantheon, such as Sugaar, her consort.

✴ Offerings:

Goat horns (or imagery)

Golden jewelry, acessories or combs

Storm, snow or rain water

Trinkets like boxes, hand mirrors

Honey

Red wine

Water

Hail our red lady of Anbotoko, the eternal flame of justice, Mother Amari ✴