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#traditions

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Windspeaker.com

“My mom sacrificed a lot for me to be here and kept us protected… I want her to be proud. I want her to know that I'm doing everything that I can to help our community maintain their traditions and at the same time be a part of the economy.”

#Indigenous #funding #culture #traditions

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Windspeaker.comSocial enterprise looks to build centres of excellence across the countryTim Carwell is hoping Indigenous Centres of Excellence begin popping up across Canada in the next few years. The centres will be multi-nation spaces where Indigenous knowledge, language and culture will be shared, reads the webpage devoted to Carwell’s social enterprise called Dreams Tree Community Investments. The centres could include a hotel and conference space, a museum or art gallery, spaces for business innovation, economic strategy development and technology, or spaces where people can teach, learn and create community.
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Petra van Cronenburg

We have not enough rain. I know that without any app. Because always, when the traditional magnolia bloom in northern Alsace, it rains a lot. The splendour often lasts only a few days.
Now we've only had grey, dry days. Wonderful to see the flowers. But bad for the drying soil.
If you connect nature's calendar with "traditional" remembered weather you can see the shift: cronenburg.net/magic/

www.cronenburg.netThe Shift Of Magic – Petra van Cronenburg
#ClimateDiary#magnolia#culturalHeritage
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive Fantasy" by @sentientmedia

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Another component for Kennedy of what constitutes “natural” is taking on things like red food dye, seed oils and ultra-processed foods — while promoting tallow, raw milk and grass-fed beef.
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sentientmedia.org/mahas-natura

Vegans often are faced with fallacious arguments, and one of the most common is the Naturalistic fallacy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturali

However, this is often a bad faith disguise. The use of naturalistic fallacies in these contexts, such as the claim that consuming animals is "good" because it's natural, is a disguise for another more insidious fallacy: the traditionalist fallacy or "appeal to tradition".

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appe

The traditionalist fallacy is, in this context, the argument that "consuming animals is good because we've done it for thousands of years".

Traditionalism is heavily political, as the people are finding out again in places such as the US. It's sometimes known as "paleoconservatism", and it should be no surprise that the popularity of the "paleo diet" culturally connects to this.

Conservatives, ever since the rise of modernity (end of 'traditional' society, end of monarchism and feudalism) have been trying to reinvent the past through pseudointellectual and pseudoscientific efforts. This has been at the heart of incredible amounts of suffering and horror since then. I have some notes on that on my pinned thread: veganism.social/deck/@veganpiz

Bullshit & snake oil are not vegan.

Sentient · The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive FantasyThe rise of the carnivore diet, and the search for simplicity.
#MAHA#meat#grassFed
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זשאַבע-זיללאַ

"#Food is a “powerful portal into memory, family histories and #cultural #traditions,” according to the initiative’s website, and “transmits cultural identity l’dor vador — from generation to generation.”
Kuhn said they are definitely seeing an upswing in food-focused projects, as “food brings people together and is a naturally inviting thing. It crosses barriers and fosters pride and joy.”

Future #videos will feature others in the small local #Ethiopian #Jewish community, like Aviva Bayon of Walnut Creek, who last year collaborated with Chabad of Contra Costa to hold a #Sigd celebration, a holiday unique to Ethiopian #Jews."

jweekly.com/2025/02/28/ethiopi

J. · Local Ethiopian Jews share their food, stories in video seriesThrough "Emaye’s Kitchen," a video series celebrating Ethiopian Jewish cuisine, Beza Abebe shares recipes and heritage.
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Alex Doppelgänger

🇷🇴 A little late, I know, but here's an interesting piece of Romanian folklore.

🇷🇴 On the 2nd of February, Romanians traditionally celebrated Întâmpinarea Domnului (Greeting God) or Stretenia. [LE: this is a traditional celebration, so nowadays nobody celebrates it in everyday life.] On this day it is said that summer meets winter, and winter starts to leave. The Sun rises up everyday a bit more.

🇷🇴 It is also the day of the bear. On this day, he gets out of his burrow where he hibernated and starts dancing, circling the entrance of the burrow. If it's a cloudy, rainy, or snowy day and the bear doesn't see his own shadow, he returns to the burrow where he will stay for 6 more weeks, because winter is not over. However, if he does see his shadow, then he stays outside because winter is gone.

🇷🇴 The source for this is "Romanian Mythology" by Marcel Olinescu. And although it does have a resemblance to the American Groundhog Day, Stretenia is much much older, possibly dating since the Roman conquest of Dacia, as it is the case with lots of things from the Romanian folklore. It is of note that the bear is an important figure in Romanian mythology. Some other animals that are as important are the fox, the hare, the wolf.

#Folklore#Mythology#Romania
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Asakiyume

More from the shrine in Dazaifu:

"The ceremony begins with participants gathering around a large wooden bullfinch in the courtyard. They then circle the bullfinch to rhythmic drumming, chanting "kaemasho kaemasho," passing the small carvings from person to person. The process is repeated a number of times.

After the ceremony ends, you can take one of the wooden birds back home with you for happiness and good fortune in the year ahead." (4/x)

Child in a puffy red jacket receives an uso bird from an adult, also in a red coat and with black-and-white gloves. Photo is taken from this website: https://www.dazaifutenmangu.or.jp/en/art-and-events/events/usokae-festival/
#Japan#Tenjin#traditions
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Asakiyume

The Japanese word for an untruth is uso--a homonym for the name of the bullfinch (but written with a different character). But Michizane was honest and upright, not a liar! And the birds are his messengers. The shrine to him in Dazaifu says in its English-language page,
"as Sugawara Michizane was esteemed for his sincere, honest nature, the exchange of these wooden carvings symbolizes exchanging your untruths for the blessings of the deity."

dazaifutenmangu.or.jp/en/art-a
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Dazaifu TenmanguNew Year Event | Usokae | Dazaifu Tenmangu ShrineAll about the Usokae event held in January before the Onisube fire festival. Wooden birds (uso or bullfinch) are exchanged for good luck.
#Japan#traditions
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The Kyiv Independent [unofficial]

Ukraine Daily summary - Sunday, December 29 2024

Russia suffered 421,000 casualties in 2024, highest price since start of invasion -- Ukraine receives 1st shipment of US LNG -- Azerbaijan Airlines crash highlights Russia's failure to close airspace amid war -- Greece to deliver 24 Sea Sparrow missiles to Ukraine -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily summary - Sunday, December 29 2024Russia suffered 421,000 casualties in 2024, highest price since start of invasion -- Ukraine receives 1st shipment of US LNG -- Azerbaijan Airlines crash highlights Russia's failure to close airspace amid war -- Greece to deliver 24 Sea Sparrow missiles to Ukraine -- and more
#latvian#moldova#intercept
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Erik Nygren :verified:

Merry Christmas (and now Happy Hannukah) to all who celebrate!

Here was our Smörgåsbord, complete with cups for glogg (from our family glogg batch perhaps going back 100+ years), marinated herring in wine sauce, some Knäckebröd crispbread I order from Norway, and a new type of gjetost cheese that our local shop carries.

Smorgasbord set up on a pass through granite counter with cups for glog, crackers, cheese, and candles.
#holidays#traditions
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