sinchi sinchi, qam hampi kanki

⬑"Have Strength, you are the Medicine" ⸙ Song ⸙ they/them ⸙ Afro-Qechua ⸙

[songsofbloodandwater]

━ 𝓐𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓜𝓮

[Pictured above from left to right: x, x, x] {pfp was done using this picrew and banner is my own photography}

Welcome! You can call me Song. I go by She/Her and They/Them. I'm an adult, actively finding my own path for about 15 years now, building upon my family's Tradition of Medicine and magic.

I am a Folk Healer (of both Body and Spirit) first, Witch (the fate-weaving kind) second. My practice is led by the Ancestors and centered in Community and the Territories we are part of.

You can get a glimpse of my personal practice in the #Blood and Water tag, aswell as read some of my own writing in #My notes. I read tags and you probably should too!

As an Afro-Indigenous medicine carrier, I am a lineaged, trained and initiated Sahumadora (Fire + Smoke Medicine Carrier), Yerbatera (herbalist, Plant Medicine Carrier) and Cantora (folk singer, medicine singer). I am also a hereditary Macumbera, Dream Worker and Spirit Seer. You can find my notes and experiences on each of these practices in their respective linked tags. I love to talk about all this so don't be shy to leave a note here!

⛰️ I am multilingual {southern qechua / spanish / portuguese / english} and based in the global south. I am not reconnecting, I grew up connected and since I'm part of a network of Medicine Carriers and Knowledge Keepers of various Nations throughout Abya Yala (colonially known as Latin America), If anyone ever needs help finding trustworthy resources or contacting Cultural Authorities / Elders, don't hesitate to message me! I would be delighted to lend a hand.

📣 As a general rule, I force unfollow any blog that starts following me but doesn't interact with my posts before doing so. I would highly appreciate that you like or leave a little note on any post that you read and caught your interest, or even just like this pinned post, before following, it makes interaction more human! and feels less like a stalker suddenly breathing on your window 😅

🌿 This blog is a place for me to drop and organize my thoughts (even if just visually, sometimes) aswell as to exchange ideas with other people. Feel free to send me a message or drop an ask anytime ! thank you for stopping by and reading 'till the end ♡

[pommegf]

south west coastal path, cornwall

— overlooking tregirls beach

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I'm a little weird in the sense that I don't see why Gods or Goddesses cannot have more than one correct family tree at the same time. In my books they can and, in fact, are expected to. Gods are not some distant, abstract spirit beyond human lives, they often experience life as humans too. It is only natural then, that throughout multiple lifetimes (in which not only one God or Goddess is incarnated, but multiple) their family tree changes, and the relationships between them change.

That is, without taking into account foster parents, spirit parents (or straight out godparents after the christianization of many myths), or the fact that grandparents can also be called, well, just "parents" by likeness, or many other types of relationships which can further explain why the same God or Goddess would have multiple sets of parents beyond the limited "mom + dad = children" conceptions. Which are frankly, both very modern and very colonial aswell, but oh I digress.

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To collect water from a pukyo, you must first introduce yourself to the water spirits by anothers' name while jumping over it. That is, to avoid retaliation if you were to disrespect them in any way by drawing from their waters. Ideally, you place your vessel underwater and allow it to fill on it's own. Leave your payment or votive offerings where the waters may carry them away.

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A Charm to Soothe Wrath

"I shall give you rest from wrath and soothe the pain of your rage. I shall melt all anger and ill temper. Come, spirit of my enemy, in silence, bearing silence, keeping silence, and taking silence back to your house as surely as I am speaking to you now." Origin: First Century. Greco-Roman Egypt. Adapted and rearranged with poetic license after The Greek Magical Papyri.

— The Witch's Art of Incantation: Spoken Charms, Spells, & Curses in Folk Witchcraft (2021) by Roger J. Horne.

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To Implore a Favor from the Queen of Hell

"Hail, holy light, ruler of the depths of hell. Thrice-bound goddess, unleash your power. O dog in maiden form, armed with swords, I adjure you by this potent hour of the night in which the gates of hell are opened. I implore you by strange powers, healer, swift-footed one, brave one, immortal, ghostly leader of nocturnal hosts, spinner of fate, bright Queen, nethermost lady. By your symbols, your sandal, and your key, cast the dark light from your eyes, she-wolf, fling open your thrice-locked door your burning hearth, governess of the underworld, and take up thy powers to aid me in this favor I ask of you now." Origin: First Century. Greco-Roman Egypt. Adapted and rearranged with poetic license after The Greek Magical Papyri.

— The Witch's Art of Incantation: Spoken Charms, Spells, & Curses in Folk Witchcraft (2021) by Roger J. Horne.

[random-brushstrokes]

Antonio Barahona - Los Platos (2025)

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Green pond frogs (Euphlyctis hexadactylus) perch on an Asiatic water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka

by Gary Stephenson

[tropic-havens]

A modern recreation of a Mayan macaw sculpture in Copán, Honduras.

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[calendulacraft]

:: pages from my commonplace journal ::

[pmamtraveller]

lunar corona, colorful rings around the moon.

[songsofbloodandwater]

The way you can very obviously tell who my crown is by the way I love teaching, and I always come back feeling most like myself after a class

[iamwizzzzz]

[smsomah]

Mexico. Mary Asperslag

[bolaneno]

IG credit: @ mythsofcreation

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