Fae Friday: Thracian Moon Goddess

Ancient Thrace has always fascinated me. It was a geographical region in and around the northern part of today’s Turkey and Bulgaria, with Romania to the north. The Aegean Sea bordered ancient Thrace to the south with the Greek civilization to the west, the Black Sea to the east, and the Balkan Mountains to the… Continue reading Fae Friday: Thracian Moon Goddess

Mythic Monday: The Old Sea Goat

In the modern zodiac a goat symbolizes the astrological sign of Capricorn. In older traditions, however, and still sometimes today, the goat is a special variety of creature– a sea goat, half goat and half fish. The earliest known origin of depicting Capricorn as a sea goat occurred around 1,000 B.C.E. in Babylonia, the cauldron… Continue reading Mythic Monday: The Old Sea Goat