sacred vegetation lore – Moonzie Momma

From The Goddess Companion May 24

A nighttime panoramic scene depicting an ancient Greek torchlit procession and footrace on a dirt path winding through a hilly landscape. In the center, a group carries a wooden litter holding a statue of the goddess Bendis, who holds a torch and a twig. Young men with bare chests and tunics run a race in the foreground carrying blazing torches, while a large crowd of onlookers in ancient robes cheers and holds torches aloft under a starry sky.

~ May 24 Those who are in prison, those who are bound in pain, those who turn, anguished, through the night; those who wander in unfriendly lands, those who sail the winter seas, those who are near to death—All of them are saved by invoking her. —Greek poet Isodorus, Hymn […]