“Marzanna, Maslenitsa, Morena and Mara and all her many names, we honor the deep silence of Winter as her spirit, and its stillness to reflect our practices to bring ourselves into natures quiet season of silence, snow, quiet, retreat. Winter Solstice marks the 3 long months of the “ending” of the whole year and on the Winter Solstice, place her where she will sit for the 3 moons of winter.” Elder Mountain Dreaming
The Slavic Goddess Marzanna (translates to cold-frozen) is an oral memory tradition community purification only.
Blood & Honey The Secret Herstory of Women
Book Excerpt
Often citing the grabancijas as the culprit for the bee’s massive deaths in the aftermath of the Bloody Balkan War, the brothers sought the metaphor of the genocides as being parallel to the Bee’s demise. The South Slavs were soaked in evolutionary means. Through thousands of years of observations recorded in their round dances, songs, chants and how they lived each day handed down to future generations, the South Slavs knew how preserve a library-records beyond books, hard drives right into the brain, DNA and body.
Taking the tasks that need refreshing daily into long term memory for the South Slavs meant a working point of a contemporary body in the same geographic place of their ancestors.
The Slavs live the sacred- the mundane acts taken into the extraordinary. What we would consider beneath us or tedious small acts is but a direct sacred encounter to proscribing the brain to evolve through memory of the daily acts that take in the visual experiences; the experience of the land and the smells encountered in the past lives of ancestors into memory/meme is evolutionary.
Dr. Danica Anderson
www.kolocollaboration.org
Bioculinary receipe DETOX Soup
1 onion (large, chopped)
6 celery stalks, chopped
6 carrots, chopped
4 garlic cloves, sliced
2 sweet potatoes (large, chopped)
optional: 2-3 Burdock roots (if you are ambitious, this is possible!) sliced
: 2-3 inch piece of Ginger root (organic if possible), 2-3 inch piece of Astragalus
4 cups ‘greens’ ~ Dandelion, Rapini, Spinach, Chard and or wild greens*
10-12 cups pure water or bone broth or veggie stock
Put the first 5 ingredients into a large pot (as well as optional roots included above)
Cover the veggies with 10-12 cups of good quality water or use your favourite bone broth.
Heat to a boil.
Reduce heat, and allow to simmer for 20-25 minutes.
Add 4 cups of greens. Try to pick some wild greens.
*My usual go to picks include: young nettle leaves, garlic mustard, goose foot, lamb’s quarters, field garlic, amaranth, violet leaves and flowers, dandelion flowers and leaves, young plantain, horsetail ~ for starters!
(Meet Mago Contributor) Danica Anderson, Ph.D.