Storm Faerywolf sends off the Samhain season with a tribute to his grandmother, whose spirit has guided, protected, and urged him onward on both sides of the Veil.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/11/the-power-of-beloved-dead.html

#pagan #witchcraft #ancestors #beloveddead #samhain #themightydead #grandmothers

„We all are brought forth out of darkness
Into this world through blood and through pain
And deep in our bones, the old songs are wakening
So sing them with voices of thunder and rain”

Excerpt from Savage Doughter written by Wyndreth Berginsdottir.

And here one of the musical version: https://youtu.be/tegev08KyHY?si=tYNn4ChzRyi1pk4C

Gdy Mama Ziemia woła, można się tylko poddać.

#wild #pachamama #pagan #womanhood #sisterhood #magic #ancestors #kragkobiet

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"'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our species

As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa.

The story of our ancient ancestors began in Africa millions of years ago. But there are considerable gaps between the first and current chapters of that tale, and some anthropologists are looking to Asia to fill in missing information about how humans evolved.

'The genus Homo evolved in Africa,' Sheela Athreya, a biological anthropologist at Texas A&M University, told Live Science. But as soon as Homo left the continent, 'all bets are off because evolution is going to treat every population differently.'

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There's a big gap in human evolutionary history. We know Homo evolved in Africa and that a human ancestor, Homo erectus, was already in Asia and parts of Europe by about 1.8 million years ago. But what happened in Asia between that point and the time when Homo sapiens arrived around 50,000 years ago? That picture is much less clear."

One bet Athreya is investigating is the notion that there wasn't a single origin of our species, Homo sapiens. Rather, the ancestors of today's humans living in different geographic regions took different evolutionary paths, before eventually coalescing into the human tribe we know today.

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Since the only known skull of a Denisovan looks similar, in many ways, to that of H. erectus, those two groups may actually be one and the same.

'I don't think that genetics is going to find that Homo erectus was a separate dead-end lineage,' Athreya said. 'I would expect Denisovans to be Homo erectus.'

But until more work is done that combines DNA, artifacts and fossil bones in Southeast Asia, the full picture of human evolution cannot yet come into focus the way it has in places like Europe, Athreya said."

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/it-makes-no-sense-to-say-there-was-only-one-origin-of-homo-sapiens-how-the-evolutionary-record-of-asia-is-complicating-what-we-know-about-our-species

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/world-war-i-message-in-a-bottle-found-in-australia-and-delivered-to-families-more-than-a-century-later/

During the time of Judgement, we have a choice: Are we the message or the messenger? Do we heed the call to embrace renewal and the push to awaken our true selves?

https://wildhunt.org/2025/11/samhain-judgement-and-theurgy.html

#pagan #samhain #judgement #ancestors #witchcraft

Years ago, inspired by the Day of the Dead, I dedicated today to honoring my ancestors and quietly reflecting as a rested - since the 31st often involves parties, handing out candy, and a Samhain ritual, I'm usually pretty worn out.

Now that I've said goodbye to loved ones, it has also become a time for remembering, self-care, and grief work. It felt natural, but it also gets me in the right state to handle the winter holidays without them.

#Samhain #Mourning #Grief #Healing #Ancestors #Witch