In May or early June of 2024, you will be hearing all about cicadas in the news but they might not mention the Pagan connections. You may also be overwhelmed with the sound of them “singing” since two different groups will be emerging at the same time. Cicadas will spend a period of time underground and then emerge to mate. This instinct is not fully understood yet, but scientists can tell that this year both the 13-year cicadas and the 17-year cicadas will emerge around the same time. Their numbers are estimated to be in the hundreds of trillions or may even reach into the quadrillions!
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Presentation To Center on the Belief of Slavic Lands
Previously posted on: swvatoday.com Local interfaith minister, artist and scholar Patricia Robin Woodruff has been accepted to speak at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, Illinois, in mid-August 2023. The Parliament of the World’s Religions is a nonprofit consisting of “the world’s largest, most diverse and inclusive interfaith Covening of people of faith,Continue reading “Presentation To Center on the Belief of Slavic Lands”
Talking My Path: Patricia Robin Woodruff
Indigenous religions tend to be shamanic, because one becomes deeply connected to the spirits and the land. So individuals who are deeply called to this path are called “one who knows” or “wise one” in whatever language is being used. (That’s basically what shaman means, “to know.”) In Russian it would be vedma, in Ukrainian it’s vid’ma, Polish wiedzma (although czarownica has become more popular, because the “wise one,” the witch, has been so maligned), and in Hungary you would use boszorkány.
Author Patricia Robin Woodruff (Boyana), MDiv, PhD. 