#bear goddess

[tylercuddletail]

Spring is here! Time to be reborn as a baby bear cub and leave the den with my sacred Mama Bear Artio!

Also, I am not Artio's actual bear cub even if I serve and worship her(Either Artaois is or Artaois is her mate). It's more symbolic than literal. Very similar to how Christians view themselves as sheep and Jesus Christ as a shepherd (but they don't usually imagine themselves as Jesus baby sheep and Jesus as a big ram though!) I also did this type of thing with Epona as her foal as well.

[aerislunam]

Welp. This may be officially an Artio and Minerva altar after all. The more I sit with it, the more it just feels right.

I had a few house plants here but they didn’t do well - eh combination of abuse and neglect :/ I took them outside on a warm day and forgot about them. They were all too far gone when I brought them back in. Just got a watermelon peperomia who was also complaining, so I watered and moved it to indirect light.

[epipsychidesis]

Day 3: Awakening

She dwells among unblossomed flowers

Hiding deep inside the earth

Curled up and asleep

in a slumber so deep

no bird dares to disturb

Only once the roots

impatient for the sun

start tickling her nose

does she stir awake

Digging, emerging, and unfolding

into clear blue skies

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Artio is a bear goddess in Celtic mythology. She is the goddess of nature, fertility, bears and was worshiped in the region of Gaul. Artio is associated with spring she sleeps during winter and reawakens when the plants and animals wake up.

[anthonyspage]

🐻🏞

[hearthfirehandworks]

A prayer to Artio, Gaulish Celtic goddess of the bear.

[hearthfirehandworksshop]

Mielikki Pocket Prayer Beads: Finnish Goddess of the Forest

This set of Mielikki pocket prayer beads consists of a loop of twelve beads; joining the string is another bead and a pendant, a symbol of the goddess: a bear. In myth, Mielikki is the creator of the bear; she is as well a patron goddess of hunters. It is made with 10mm two-tone

[pillarofheaven]

Artio concept art By: HirezInky

[hera-windsor-blog]

Somebody to Love | Bear Goddess

@alasdairxmacgille

Hera hadn’t wanted to think too hard about this. It was the first time she had been asked to dinner by a man since...well ever really. Zeus had been the only other person to take her out, as she had known him most of her life. Every date in the past had been one planned for her by either him, his family, or her family. And then she had been married. She had never really had doubts about the family plans. Therefore she had gone to each date, each meeting with a good deal of confidence.

But now...now it was a man she didn’t know very well, who she didn’t understand as she had Zeus, and she was scrambling to try to decide what would be best for this. Should she dress more conservatively or more suggestively? Would she even want to open herself up to jumping into bed with him on the first date? Hera hadn’t even thought that she would be dating again at her age. She had always hoped that she would have a family at this point. Instead she had gone through six different outfits. One far too conservative, one low cut dress that showed off her cleavage, and then something in between.

Hera finally opted for a dress that didn’t have the low cut, but had a more exposed back, and a zipper up the backside in case she did want to slip out of it. This way it was appropriate, but allowed for any direction that the evening might go. She finally made her way out of her quiet home, heels clicking as she made her way down the street and over to Alasdair’s place, pausing just for a moment to admire the exterior before she knocked on the door, a bottle of wine in hand, ready to offer to the man as he opened the door.