#inuit #metacrisis #mentalhealth #resilience #climatecrisis #ancestralwisdom

✨Исцеляющая Звуковая Среда: Славянские Инструменты, Ритуальные Голоса & Binaural Beats для Фокуса🧘‍♂️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1k2pSI0b3k

#славянскийзвук #медитациядлядуши #исцелениемузыкой #очищениеэнергии #фокуснапродуктивность #ancienthealing #slavicmusic #meditationvibes #soundtherapy #deepfocus #ancestralwisdom #spiritualgrowth #relaxandheal #mindfulness

Here's a really awesome video showing how western views of science can stifle researches from learning from #AncestralWisdom. When you dismiss ideas before even taking the time to look into them because you look down on indigenous and ancestral cultures, we can miss important discoveries at worst or delay them at best. Dr. Fatima takes a look at three particular cases and gives some good commentary.

https://youtu.be/eQdTmvqCgxI?si=7t13KZLorWOrpsWd

#science #DecolonizeScience #DrFatima

Kaleiheana Stormcrow shares a visionary encounter with death and the spirit realm, weaving Hawaiian ancestral wisdom with personal revelation about consciousness, water, and the cycles of life. #IndigenousWisdom #HawaiianSpirituality #Consciousness #DeathAndRebirth #AncestralWisdom #SpiritualWriting #Metapsychosis
https://metapsychosis.com/what-death-and-the-water-speak-of/

Orumila warned me in dreams, delays, and subtle signs.
But I followed emotion over intuition.
I called passion “divine,” when it was misaligned.
Now I understand: not every bond is sacred.
Some rejections are blessings in disguise.

🎶 “Orumila Tried to Warn Me”
https://youtube.com/shorts/-M8aAEQJ_FM?feature=share
#afrospirituality #ifa #osasosimusic #ancestralwisdom #loveandpain

🌌 The energy this week is charged with transformation. If you’ve been feeling restless or drawn to change, trust that the universe is aligning for your growth.

✨ I’m here to help you navigate spiritual shifts, ancestral guidance, and energetic cleansing. DM for personal readings or ritual insight.

🔮 The veil is thin, listen closely.

#PsychicReading #EnergyUpdate #SpiritualGuidance #AncestralWisdom #CleansingRituals #TarotCommunity #MysticMastodon #Divination #SpiritualSupport #intuitive

When doubt clouded my path, Sango’s thunder lit the way.
His fire didn’t destroy—it purified.
This sound frequency is a spiritual awakening for anyone who forgot how powerful they are.
🎵 "I Am Masterpiece"
https://youtube.com/shorts/dgp8iKNeAoQ?feature=share
#IAmMasterpiece #SangoPower #AncestralWisdom #OrishaEnergy #SpiritualMusic #DecentralizedSpirit

From the ocean’s silence, Olokun revealed what fear tried to hide.
This sound frequency channels his energy—a call to dive deep, reflect, and rise renewed.
Listen with soul.
🎧 https://youtube.com/shorts/B5eqs-4n__U
#OlokunTruth #AfricanSpirituality #AncestralWisdom #InnerStrength #OsasOsiMusic

Shadows in the Sugarcane: Dominican Folklore and the Mythic Beings That Still Haunt Us

Dominican folklore is a tangled web of myth, caution, and ancestral memory. It whispers through the mountains, lingers in the campos, and curls under the beds of children who still won’t go to sleep. Our island’s stories are not just bedtime tales or scary campfire anecdotes—they’re reflections of our colonial past, spiritual resistance, and the thin line between fear and reverence.

Let’s dive into four of the most iconic (and spine-tingling) figures in Dominican mythology and unpack their origins, meaning, and why they still live rent-free in our cultural psyche.

1. Ciguapa: The Enchantress with Backward Feet

Origin: Taino legend, later adapted into Dominican rural mythology

The Ciguapa is a wild, beautiful woman with flowing hair, deep eyes, and feet that point backward—a haunting detail meant to confuse anyone who tries to track her. Some say she lures men into the mountains only for them to vanish forever. Others argue she’s a protector of nature, misunderstood and demonized, especially by colonizers who feared Indigenous resistance.

Whether she’s femme fatale or forest guardian, the Ciguapa reminds us that not all wild women are wicked—sometimes, they’re just free.

Reference:

• Cuentos y leyendas dominicanas, Comisión Permanente de Efemérides Patrias
• [Dominican Folktales, Smithsonian Latino Center Archive]

2. El Bacá: The Demonic Deal-Maker

Origin: Afro-Dominican spiritual traditions mixed with Catholic superstition

If someone in the campo suddenly gets rich, locals might whisper: “Ese tiene un Bacá.”

The Bacá is a demonic entity someone summons to gain wealth, land, or power. But every deal has a price. Sometimes it’s your soul. Sometimes it’s your child. And once summoned, the Bacá must be fed—usually with blood, animals, or worse.

This myth speaks to the deep colonial scars left by exploitation and land theft, reminding us how wealth in the wrong hands often has bloody roots.

Reference:

• Cimarrón Spirits: Popular Magic in the Dominican Republic by José Guerrero
• Oral histories from La Vega and Santiago communities

3. El Galipote: The Shapeshifter of San Juan

Origin: Colonial-era Dominican myth with African and European influences

El Galipote (also known as Zángano or Lugarú) is a shapeshifting being—sometimes cursed, sometimes a powerful witch or warlock. Said to come from the San Juan region, stories describe him transforming into dogs, birds, or even trees and rocks to evade capture. He possesses superhuman strength, cannot be harmed by bullets, and allegedly drinks the blood of children to prolong his life.

To protect newborns, Dominicans still tie red strings around their wrists—a gesture of spiritual protection that predates even Christianity on the island.

Reference:

• El folklore en Santo Domingo by Franklin J. Franco
• [Museo del Hombre Dominicano archives]

4. El Cuco: The Sack-Wielding Boogeyman

Origin: Iberian Peninsula (Spain), brought over during colonization and merged with Dominican oral traditions

El Cuco is the nightmare fuel of childhood. He’s the creature that snatches kids who refuse to sleep or are caught wandering after dark. Parents don’t just threaten him—they invoke him:

“Duérmete ya, o El Cuco te va a llevar.”

With his sack and silent steps, El Cuco is less about evil and more about discipline and survival in communities where letting a child roam late could mean danger or disappearance.

Reference:

• La tradición oral infantil dominicana by Delia Blanco
• Spanish folklore origins from Galicia and Castilla, merged into Dominican usage

Why These Myths Still Matter

Dominican folklore holds power because it lives between the real and the imagined. These stories reveal how our people have coped with colonization, poverty, survival, and spiritual battles—often by giving form to fear. Today, they shape how we parent, protect, and pass down cultural knowledge.

So the next time you hear branches snap in the forest, or feel a chill near the crib, maybe ask yourself: is it just the wind—or something older, watching?

Dominican folklore holds power because it lives between the real and the imagined. These stories reveal how our people have coped with colonization, poverty, survival, and spiritual battles—often by giving form to fear.

And trust me—I lived it.

As a kid, El Cuco had me scared almost every single night. That whisper from a dark hallway? Cuco. That creak under the bed? Cuco.

And El Galipote? I’ve seen babies with red strings tied around their tiny wrists to protect them from his hunger—because no one was taking chances with that shapeshifter roaming the hills.

Even the Chupacabra, originally from our neighbors in Puerto Rico, made its way into Dominican campo lore. Eventually, folks on the island started claiming sightings too. Whether it was real or not didn’t matter—we believed, because belief itself became protection.

Today, these stories shape how we parent, protect, and pass down cultural knowledge. They’re not just old tales. They’re ancestral alarms.

So the next time you hear branches snap in the forest, or feel a chill near the crib, maybe ask yourself: is it just the wind—or something older, watching?

#AfroTainoTraditions #ancestralWisdom #CaribbeanMythology #CiguapaLegend #DominicanCulture #DominicanFolklore #ElBacá #ElCuco #ElGalipote #oralStorytelling #spookyStoriesLatineEdition

‘Our Ancestors Work Through Us’: Toni Morrison’s 1988 Truth Still Resonates https://shinemycrown.com/our-ancestors-work-through-us-toni-morrisons-1988-truth-still-resonates/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ToniMorrison #AncestralWisdom #SpiritualConnection #NobelPrize #LiteraryLegacy

Every year, four Quechua communities come together to weave and renew the Q’eswachaka, the last Inca rope bridge still in use.
Made entirely of ichu grass and suspended over the Apurímac River, this bridge is more than architecture—it’s a living tradition, a sacred ritual of unity, identity, and respect for Pachamama.
Crossing Q’eswachaka is stepping into the heart of the Andes.
Source:https://healingtreecostarica.com/en
#Qeswachaka #IncaTradition #LivingCulture #AndeanHeritage #CuscoPeru #AncestralWisdom

A ritual de sanación is more than a ceremony it’s a return to wholeness.
Rooted in ancestral wisdom, these sacred spaces invite you to release pain, call in clarity, and reconnect with your inner light. Whether guided by plants, prayer, or sound, healing rituals open the path to transformation.
In silence, in song, in firelight you remember that healing is not linear.
Source:https://healingtreecostarica.com/en
#RitualDeSanación #HealingRitual #AncestralWisdom #SpiritualHealing #InnerAlchemy #SacredCeremony

The San Pedro cactus, sacred in Andean traditions, has been used for centuries in spiritual and healing ceremonies. Known for its visionary properties, it opens the heart and connects the mind with nature and ancient wisdom.
Source:https://healingtreecostarica.com/en
#SanPedroCactus #AndeanTraditions #PlantMedicine #SacredPlants #SpiritualHealing #Peru #AncestralWisdom #NatureConnection

💫 Sitting in silence as a Quechua elder offered coca leaves to the Apus was the most grounded I’ve felt in years.
#AuthenticIncanAdventures offers travel that’s not just about going far — but going deep.

Source: https://www.authenticincanadventures.com/

#AncestralWisdom #SpiritualTravel #IncanCulture

African and Caribbean Wellness Practices You Should Try https://shinemycrown.com/african-and-caribbean-wellness-practices-you-should-try/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Wellness #AfricanHealing #CaribbeanCulture #AncestralWisdom #HolisticHealth

I love this new definition. The term "wayfinding" originally refers to the ancient Polynesian practice of navigating the high seas by observing the stars, the sun, ocean swells, and other natural phenomena and signs. This method was practiced for millennia, long before the invention of Western navigation instruments.

#wayfinder #intuition #nature #wisdom #animism #ancestralwisdom #Earth #sky #stars

Betazoid tradition teaches us to honor our ancestors. Take a moment today to reflect on those who came before you - they've paved the way for the beautiful person you are today. #LwaxanaTroi #AncestralWisdom #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9

Shalom, friends! To celebrate the Transgender Day of Visibility, Rav Jericho & I take a deep text dive into the gender-bending story of Yosef. (Posted erev-TDOV) #transpride #ancestors #transestors #ancestralwisdom #Trancestors #Judaism #transvisibility

https://youtu.be/lWNZSPelBYk

In the heart of the Sierra mountains, the Masewal and Tutunaku peoples decided to protect their ancestral wisdom and community values through Radio Tosepan Limakxtum.
👉 avispa.org/?p=104774

#SierraMountains #IndigenousRadio #CommunityValues #CulturalPreservation #EnvironmentalStewardship #Masewal #Tutunaku #Resilience #AncestralWisdom #RadioTosepanLimakxtum #CommunityEmpowerment

Marveling at the Serpent Headdress in #ClevelandMuseumofArt. Wisdom, wealth, and fertility embodied in beautiful Baga art. How do you connect with your ancestral spirits? 🐍🎨
#ArtConnection #AncestralWisdom
https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.37