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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

A Chinese depiction of Hua Mulan riding into her hometown a conquering hero, followed by a retinue of soldiers who wave the flag of victory; she is met with delight by the sages, families, and children of this place, and she is clearly a woman; the troops behind her seem shocked.
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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

Emil Doepler's erroneous depiction of Valhalla, showing men in vaguely Iron Age Germanic dress sitting at fanciful tables chatting and toasting one another, while a fire burns and a woman is walking by with an empty goblet, presumably a valkyrie; a man with a winged helmet, likely Odin, watches, his wolf beside him looking at a dude hungrily. It seems oddly tense from the viewer's perspective.
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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

C. Wyman's depiction of Queen Amanirenas, showing a black woman with crinkled hair, an eyepatch, and ritual scarrification on her cheeks in three lines and forehead in waves, dressed in a Kushite gold neck bracer and with a crown in the Kushite style. In the background on one side are Roman soldiers retreating from her right and on the left her subjects carrying the black statue head of Augustus back to Kush's capital, where it was found by archeologists, thus lending to the rediscovery of the truth of her story.
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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

A rural Inari shrine at Shiroyama Inari Shrine in Shimane Prefecture, showing two stone fox statues and several dozen smaller statues between them, in a wooded area.
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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

Turf farms in Iceland, famous for their traditional architecture, here seen with a woman kn premodern attire.
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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 Veronese Design Studio's depiction of Cernunnos as a modern statue. He has stag legs below the waist, is a muscular human above, with stag horns on his head. He raises a torc in his right hand and hissing serpent in his left, with another serpent, a bear, and a fawn at his feet as he sits on a stump.
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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

Flight of King Gradlon, by E. V. Luminais, showing the priest telling the king his daughter must be let go if he is to survive, for God will not suffer her survival; the horse struggles under the weight of her sin and she seems indignant to being cast into the waves; Ys sits in the background.
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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

Anna Marie Ferguson's Arawn riding on a white horse with no eyes with his red-earred dogs through the realm of Annwyn, which is a combination of autumn and spring vegetation in mists.
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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

Caravaggio's depiction of Narcissus obsessed with his own reflection; he is dressed in classic Italian Renaissance fare instead of anything attempting to be classical.
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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

An African woman checking out a pink-purple flower bud. Only her dress can be seen beyond her hand, the dress being yellow-red with some kind of pattern on it that could be anything from a butterfly wing to a dinosaur.
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