Learn about #Russia's Иван Купала, #KupalaNight, a Slavic holiday steeped in mystery, romance, and ancient folklore. #RussianCulture #SlavicCulture https://thelanguagegarage.com/kupala-night-in-russia/
It's the shortest night coming up again! 🌙
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Have a queer kupała night everyone!   

Art by Katarzyna "PannaN" Witerscheim

#kupalanight #slavicart #art #queer #slavic #queer #trans

Happy kupała night everybody!!! I won't be posting any new stuff this year apart from one cool art that caught my eye, but ill reboost some of the old stuff a few times :3

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Polish man (from Opoczno) with his Japanese boyfriend 🌸🌹✨

Art by PannaN, her stuff is absolutely stellar, I've posted a lot of her works last year over Kupała Night (and will reboost it this year next month  )

#achillean #kupalanight #gay #queer #art #folk

suffering every day when remembering how little we know about ancient slavs since the christians have purged so much, yet the glimpses that survived allow us to see a freer, queerer culture that we will never be able to fully know 

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Another amazing art from PannaN 🥺🥺💖💖  

"Roses and cherry trees! Silesian girl and Japanese girl in Furisode. 🥰🌈✨🌹🌸

Roses are very important in Silesian art and culture - i think I can call it Silesian flower."

#folkart #kupalanight

I've decided to compile a list of games with prevalent Slavic culture/folklore/mythology themes, both already released and still in production. 

In no particular order:

  • The Witcher series
  • Reka
  • The End of The Sun
  • GORD
  • Black Book
  • BLACKTAIL
  • Yaga
  • Night is Coming
  • Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
  • Polanie 1 & 2
  • Thea: The Awakening & Thea 2: The Shattering
  • Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
  • Cossacks series

Let me know of any other you know about, and I'll add them to the list :) 

Slava! 💗

#slavic #kupalanight #slav

If you have missed my Kupała Night posts around the time of summer solstice this year, make sure to check out the #kupalanight hashtag - I wrote numerous things there about pre-christian slavic folklore, society, beliefs and also posted lots of queer slavic art 💗 

One last post, to properly finish the event.  

The reason why I initially wanted to share all this art and info around the Kupała Night event is due to far-right, racist, queerphobic neo-nazi scum appropriating paganism and folk traditions, especially the Nordic and Slavic ones.

It's absolutely deplorable that these vile people have the gall to claim these traditions and symbols as their own. They are continuing the work of the Christian institutions that committed the cultural genocide of Pagans in the first place.

They should not be allowed to continue to spread their lies and hatred.

Paganism must be as queer and racially diverse as possible.

Slava!   

Author of art: Sybil Grzybowski - https://linktr.ee/mykofanes

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Anarchist and activist from Poland. Pronouns.page founding collective member.

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