Fyribua - Fýri Búa

first day of spring

"The sky is thus the mirror of the human soul, and when we think that we are reading the stars it is in ourselves we read."

-Eliphas Levi, Dogma et Rituel de la Haute Magie Part II

Giulia Maria Belli - L'Alcove du serpent, 2021

Mountain laurels in bloom, West Virginia USA [OC] [2025x1350] by: JonathanJessup

John Bauer.

📷: Megan O’Rourkee

by chadtorkelsen

an anthropomorphic mandrake being dug up with the help of a dog tied to its feet/roots

in "pseudo-antonius musa: de herba betonica", latin manuscript, late 9th century

source: Kassel, UB, 2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 10, fol. 34v

Heima glaðr gumi, ok við gesti reifr, sviðr skal um sik vera. Minnigr ok málugr, ef hann vill margfróðr vera, opt skal góðs geta.

'If you want to be very wise, be happy at home, and cheerful with guests. Cultivate wisdom, a good memory and eloquence, and speak kind words often.'

-- Hávamál 103, tr. Jackson Crawford.