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Vesnas were mythological female characters associated with youth and springtime in early Slavic mythology, particularly within Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. 

In Slovene mythology, the beautiful women lived in palaces atop mountains where they discussed the fate of crops and of human inhabitants. A magical circle around their palaces kept them from leaving the mountain top except during the month of February, when they would travel in wooden carts down to the valley below. Only certain people were capable of hearing them singing. People who snuck up to their mountain palaces might learn their fates, but risked an unpleasant end if caught by the vesnas.

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📷 Synchrodogs

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Sophia Parnok (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 11 August 1885  

DOD: 26 August 1933

Ethnicity: Russian Jewish

Occupation: Poet, journalist, translator

Note: She has been referred to as “Russia’s Sappho”, as she wrote openly about her seven lesbian relationships.

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Vintage set of playing cards depicting Jewish women’s folk costumes from around the world. The countries, fro right to left, are as follows:

First row: Turkey, Bulgaria, Hodu (India), Yazan (Wiesen; could be Switzerland, Austria, or Bavaria, apparently)

Second row: Hungaria, Holland, Turkmenistan, Israel

Third row: Russia, Serbia (fun fact: for a second I misread it as Siberia), Teiman (Yemen), Italy

Fourth row: Poland, (This one I can’t entirely read, but I think it says Paras, or Persia. Interestingly, it looks more like Uzbek clothing), Kavkaz (the Caucasus), Romania

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“Are you making this magic?” “No. You are.”

The Secret Garden (1993), dir. Agnieszka Holland

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idaravn

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Michael Whelan, The River

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Red

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Statue @ Yushima Seidō (湯島聖堂) Tokyo, Japan

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Paulo Coelho <3 

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Witold Pruszkowski 

Falling star ,1884

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“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”

— Elizabeth Berg

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“We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enough, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of it and, instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is the realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realization of who one truly is.”

— Gangaji (via aspiritualwarrior)

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Edmund Dulac ~ Book Cover ~ Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell ~ 1910 ~ full text via The Open Library

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