In this first installment of Sabbats Across the Globe, the Manor shifts — and suddenly we’re no longer in familiar forests or candlelit rooms. We’re in the Arctic Circle, where winter is honest, the night is endless, and the aurora drapes itself across the sky like a living memory. Here, Raven steps into the oldest version of Yule: the Solstice vigil shaped by Sámi, Inuit, Yupik, Iñupiat, Kalaallit, and Old Norse cosmologies, held in standing-stone circles carved by wind and time.

This is the longest night — a night that was never about triumph or glitter, but about endurance, reciprocity, and the sacred responsibility of keeping a single flame alive. Together we explore ancestral midwinter traditions, the cosmology of the North, the truth of the Long Night, and the quiet power of tending an ember when the world has gone cold.

Inside the traveling Manor, Madya Pathikã reveals her deeper nature for the first time — old as story itself, shifting the world outside her windows to bring Raven where the ancestors are ready to speak. Beneath the aurora’s green fire, you’ll hear the drum-pulse of ancient winter teachings: how communities survived the dark, how the land shaped spirit, and why Yule was never just a holiday — it was a vow.

Part lore immersion, part shamanic remembering, part whispered encouragement to your own inner flame, this episode invites you to honor the truth at the heart of every Arctic Solstice tradition:

✨ You do not have to blaze to survive the dark. ✨ Your small flame is enough. ✨ The sun always finds its way home — and so will you.

Step into the circle, Witch.The Longest Night is calling.

In Episode Three, we step into the liminal — into the queer, shimmering threshold where identity stops behaving and starts becoming. This is our Gemini deep dive, the place in the wheel where duality becomes a doorway instead of a demand. Together, we walk with Castor and Pollux — the immortal and the mortal, the bright and the earthbound — twins whose bond was so profound it forced the gods to rewrite the rules. Their myth is a love story, a grief story, a transformation story, and a mirror held up to anyone who has ever felt “too much,” “too many,” or “more than one thing.” This episode is for the queer, trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, Two-Spirit, and beautifully liminal souls who contain more than one truth at a time.

From celestial lore to the Geminid meteor shower to the mischievous teachings of Mercury, we explore what it means to live between worlds — to be both shadow and spark, both grounded and cosmic, both the fire and the soft thing it warms. And when the sky begins to fall in streaks of glittering defiance, we remember that duality isn’t contradiction; it’s completeness.

In Kitchen Witchery, we anchor the magic into the body with our Twin Flame Cocoa — dark, lush, spicy, unapologetically sensual — and Blood Orange Vanilla Cloud Cakes, soft enough to melt on the tongue and bright enough to taste like rebirth. These aren’t just recipes. They are rituals for the ones who refuse to choose between their truths.

If you’ve ever felt like you were living in the in-between… if you’ve ever held two identities, two desires, two futures in your chest… if you’ve ever wondered whether your contradictions are actually your power… this episode is a constellated yes.

Step into the threshold, weird one. The Twins are waiting.

In Episode Two, we step through the first of four seasonal Raven gateways — a year-long journey that will take us across continents, mythologies, and the secret places inside our own ribcages. This is Threshold One: Winter’s Gate, where the Super Moon rises like a silver drum and Raven becomes the one who teaches us how to cross instead of circle.

Together we explore the Pacific Northwest origins of Raven as light-bringer, world-shifter, and sacred disruptor — a being who reminds us that transformation rarely arrives politely. We dive into the history, the teaching, the symbolism of winter thresholds, and the deeper truth carried by every Raven story on this coastline:

✨ Creation begins with wanting. ✨ Change begins with mischief. ✨ Thresholds open from the inside first.

This episode is part mythic deep dive, part cosmic initiation, part fireside whisper to your becoming. If you’ve been feeling the pull toward something bigger — something older — something you can’t quite name yet… Raven is waiting at the gate.

Step through, weird one. The story is already inside you.

Introducing Raven's Lore to the world. We discuss creation myths, celestial happening, kitchen witchery.

Hello beautiful listeners,

A quick update from the Raven’s Lore Cast hearth: my husband — who edits every episode with extraordinary care — has just informed me of some scheduling changes with his work. This means we need to adjust our production pace to keep the quality of the show exactly where we want it to be.

For now, we’ll be releasing one episode per week, which allows us to maintain the depth, research, magic, and sound quality you’ve come to expect.

Our “Raven at the Threshold: Indigenous Peoples of North America Part I & II” episodes are still happening — but they’ll debut later, when we have the time and space to craft them with the respect and precision they deserve.

Thank you for your understanding, your excitement, and your trust. This community is already more incredible than I ever imagined.

With so much gratitude, Raven

The oldest stories humanity ever told weren’t carved on tablets or written in scrolls — they were breathed into firelight, carried by rivers, whispered through bone memory. In this second chapter of our global mythic journey, we step back into the quiet before the beginning… and listen to how different cultures answered the same impossible question:

“How did it all begin?”

In Part II, we wander deeper into the world’s creation lineages — from celestial eggs cracked open in cosmic seas, to deities weaving the first threads of life, to ancestors dreaming themselves into form. We’ll explore the patterns that repeat across continents, the symbols that echo from culture to culture, and why these stories still matter in a world that forgets its own magic far too often.

This episode is a reminder that creation isn’t something that happened once. It’s something that happens every time you breathe, every time you dream, every time you choose to begin again.

Wit. Wisdom. Witchcraft. Let’s open the circle.

© 2026 Raven’s Lore Cast. All rights reserved.

In this Bonus Volume, we’re stepping behind the veil and traveling back to the moment before anything existed — before oceans, before breath, before language, before light. Across the world, every culture carries a story of how the universe began, and each one whispers something different about humanity’s earliest dreams, fears, and hopes.

Together, we explore creation myths from multiple continents and cosmologies — tracing the first sparks from darkness, the cosmic eggs, the primordial waters, the trickster gods, the singing deities, the dreaming ancestors, and the beings who dared to carve the world into being.

This is a journey of awe, wonder, and cultural reverence. A reminder that people everywhere have been trying to understand the same sky, the same heartbeat, the same mystery.

This is Part I of a multi-volume series, and we begin with some of the world’s oldest, most influential, and least understood stories.

Take a breath. Open your heart. And step into the beginning of everything.

If this stirred something, it was already yours.

© 2026 Raven’s Lore Cast. All rights reserved.