The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/mothers)
Some of us have gone numb and non-functional; others are deep in the season and lighting candles, decorating trees, celebrating the return of the Sun, and practicing so many other traditions and acts of faith and love that this writer cannot name them all. I, myself, am holding space in the in-between this year.
Here is the lesson. Without positive action, comparative mythology is (at best) a dry academic amusement and (at worst) an exercise in colonialist cultural appropriation. Rather than taking from Hinduism and calling it Heathenry, I suggest that we learn from a closely related tradition that has much to teach us.
Alan D.D. recuerda una leyenda sobre la importancia del respeto a las madres y rinde homenaje a sus propios antepasados maternos.
Alan D.D. reflects on a legend of the importance of respect for mothers, and pays tribute to his own maternal ancestors.
Alan D.D. returns with another legend from Venezuela, the story of “La Sayona,” the sack-cloth woman, cursed to wander the earth punishing unfaithful men.