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017 Wytches vs. Warriors

8/16/2019

A decades’ long musing about the beginnings of patriarchy is given new musings after reading the chapter on Hags vs Heroes in Max Daschu’s book. What role did hero epics play in the wiping out women’s power needed to establish the patriarchy? Listen here.

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 (Secret History of the Witches)

The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind

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016 Serpent Mound & Nat'l Underground Railroad Museum

8/14/2019

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A call to Memphis cuts the Ohio portion of the journey short, but I am able to make it to my 2 biggest priorities, the Serpent Mound in Ohio, which is known as aligning with the solstice sunset, but further research has shown to also track the full 18 year lunar cycle, as well as be a pregnancy calculator. After that, I head to the very powerful National Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati.

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015 Creepers, No Room at the Inn, Van Invaders

8/13/2019

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More #vanlife chronicles of a creeper on the campground and trying to find another spot close to dark near Lake Erie on a weekend with a jazz festival happening, and what happens when I do finally find a place to land.

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014 Vanlife + Crappy History = No Good Awful Day

8/12/2019

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A #vanlifesucks day gets worse when I walk into the Seneca Falls Visitor Center as a way to take my mind off of all the technical difficulties I’d had all day. Early history of the Seneca Falls area makes a bad day worse as I learn about early interaction with the native residents, and the patterns of disrespect for people and land paving way for industry that inevitably collapses that is repeated all over the country. Listen here.

See this article for more information on how the Haudenosaunee way of life inspired the Suffrage Movement.

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013 Decolonize Gender: You’re Not Crazy

8/1/2019

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Click on image to follow link to "The Dark History of Hysteria"

Patriarchy has long called women crazy as a means to silence them and get them to doubt their own intuitive wisdom. Fear of being seen as --or even actually going--crazy inhibits many women from connecting with their ancestors.

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For a detailed guide on safely connecting with the ancestors see:
Daniel Foor: Ancestral Medicine book

Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing

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Wytchy Ways podcast explores travels in a minivan camper as well as my personal journey to unlock forgotten wytchy ways of being in a world that's long taught us to be separated from our bodies, our souls, the world around us, and the other-than-humans that we share it with.

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Soundscape in intro/outro recorded and produced by Mike Blair of Glenwood Crowe

017 Wytches vs. Warriors

016 Serpent Mound & Nat'l Underground Railroad Museum

015 Creepers, No Room at the Inn, Van Invaders

014 Vanlife + Crappy History = No Good Awful Day

013 Decolonize Gender: You’re Not Crazy

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