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#folkyfriday

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Hua Mulan never revealed her gender until she returned home with her retinue, having saved Northern Wei (later versions change this to Tang) from the Rouran, and turned down becoming the head of the Wei Imperial Guard, preferring anonymity to fame. #FolkyFriday

There is no peace in death for the Einherjar, Those Who Fight Alone: those taken by the valkyrie to Valhol and Folkvangr, subject to Odin and Freyja's command, train by day for Ragnarok and by night feast on immortal boar and goat mead. #FolkyFriday

🖼️: E. Doepler

Queen Amanirenas of Kush stood against the might of Imperial Rome, who sought to invade her territory after taking Egypt. One-eyed, this warrior queen halted Roman advances and invaded, fighting to a stand-still and ensuring centuries of peace. #FolkyFriday

🖼️: C. Wyman

Kitsune are the servants of Inari, kami of things that grow. Thus in many farms a fox in your field is not necessarily a bad thing, as it may reveal the boons of Inari's blessings: at many rural shrines in Japan, statues of kitsune represent this divine connection. #FolkyFriday

Elves sometimes need songs to wake them in summer according to premodern Icelandic tradition, and it must be women to sing it, coaxing them and their desires. Without elves, nothing will grow, so women sowing seeds sing to coax the elves to fertility. #FolkyFriday

Cernunnos is the Celtic horned god, called the great peacemaker and master of the wild places. This figure is largely mysterious, and we only know his name from a single source, a stone pillar in Paris, yet he has captured the modern imagination of Celtophiles. #FolkyFriday

The City of Ys sank into Bretagne's coast for sacrificing a man a day to appease the "gods," and only its righteous king escaped with his personal priest. The king tried to bring his daughter but she was the one sacrificing the youths, and her sin weighed too much. #FolkyFriday

🖼️: E.V. Luminais

Pwyll was whisked to the Welsh Otherworld for killing one of its King's stags. Arawn, King of Annwn, offered Pwyll a deal: live as Arawn for a year and let Arawn live as Pwyll for a year, and he would ignore the stag. So they switched. #FolkyFriday

🖼: A.M. Ferguson

Obsessed with his own beauty and having rejected Echo, Narcissus became the object of Nemesis-Aphrodite's wrath. Cursed to become obsessed with his own appearance in a pool, he slowly wasted away; his namesake flower was born of his death. #FolkyFriday

🖼: Caravaggio

A Nyamwezi tells that Shida Matunda, the Creator, had two wives, his favorite of which died. He buried her and from her came a flower, indicating she would be reborn. The second wife, curious, tried to dig her up but caused blood to gush out: thus death was born. #FolkyFriday