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ceylanda :
they have done studies on irish keening and the studies prove keening helps tremendously with grief. Appalachian grave singing is alot like this tradition.
2026-07-23 15:39:12
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❌ Kappo Ardeum ❌ :
“Before the Catholic Church stepped in”…. A precursor that always leads to something horrific happening.
2026-07-22 18:21:17
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StealYourGhost :
Resonance. We've lost our knowledge of resonance.
2026-07-22 17:48:31
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OblinaHeals :
No one really talks about what pre-Christian Europeans had before the church took over. I wish we could go back to the old ways, more in tune with the earth and ourselves.
2026-07-22 19:55:30
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Violet :
People are also scared of other's grief, as if it's contagious. We are allowed to only grieve at a funeral and after that, society demands you move on. There are no longer mourning periods where you are allowed, even expected to mourn and grieve for months. Bottle those feelings up and get back to work
2026-07-22 20:48:51
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Michelle11.18 :
That was the natural way of grieving. It disturbed THEIR order. SMH
2026-07-31 14:49:27
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ahhhyuuuk :
Keening/visceral release of emotion is so critical to emotional regulation and working through grief. It helped me through my dad’s passing
2026-07-22 19:43:43
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jenjen🇳🇿 :
In maori culture we mourn the dead for 5 days and sleep in the wharenui or meetinghouse with them. People can come and pay their respects and share stories during that time. You laugh and cry and its really cathartic so by the end of the 5 days you have got alot of the grief out. I think its much healthier than a western funeral.
2026-07-24 02:15:03
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🌸 Valerie 🌸 :
So keening is where the Banshee folklore originally came from?
2026-07-22 20:51:39
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Rogue Leader :
The first time I ever heard keening, my body immediately responded. It felt appropriate, natural, CORRECT. The Church has damaged what is human inside of us all.
2026-07-31 15:37:34
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Nopé Nope :
Grief is love with no where to go.
2026-07-26 12:02:41
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victoria :
I feel like it’s deep in our bones to naturally keen as women. I’m a pediatric icu nurse. Mothers almost always keen after their baby or child has passed. The sound silences the entire unit. We all pause and hold space for their love and grief. Other mothers fall silent in their rooms and I can see on their faces they’re also holding that space for what another mother is enduring. It’s heartbreaking but as women, it’s like a profound connection between us.
2026-07-27 15:42:16
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Jax Ramos | nyc ravebae :
your dog’s paw scared me i didn’t know what it was for a second😅
2026-07-31 00:47:41
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danielasvitak425 :
you can see them shame this in media over time. the "dramatic" woman throwing herself at the coffin then turned to a quiet veiled woman with a single tear.
2026-07-30 20:05:22
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Maggie Perkins 🍉 :
They wanted women to be quiet. They needed women to be small.
2026-07-23 01:55:37
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Mandy :
Love learning about this. I heard that’s what the singer does in the song Zombie by the Cranberries. I didn’t realize what the song was about (which I feel silly for not looking up before) or what she was doing vocally.
2026-07-31 00:46:01
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₊🪐⁺₊ :
Keening and breathwork got me through the worst of dv recovery.
2026-07-22 19:15:10
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Valerie :
Watching my family in Mexico grieve taught me that the way Americans do it feels like self punishment. I refuse to grieve my mom silently.
2026-07-27 20:29:48
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I am all of y’all 🫶 :
This sounds so therapeutic.
2026-07-23 04:53:02
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EarthGranny :
I’ve gone into the woods and done it more than once - it’s necessary — sorry to any hunters that may have heard me! 😆
2026-07-22 17:23:51
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Rebecca :
When my son died, I did this. Many times. Alone.
2026-07-23 12:47:46
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Fme92 :
Bro I hate Christianity
2026-07-25 14:41:53
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𝒜𝒹𝓎 🧡🤍🩷 :
the way we have sterilized grief, when somatic healing is SO important for trauma. not just with irish culture, with SO MANY. it’s so unhealthy.
2026-07-23 18:27:26
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abundantly.britt :
Black and brown cultures have never stopped practices like this. We lost tradition and a connection to it because of religion and colonialism.
2026-07-22 17:12:52
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liz :
This is vaguely related, but it's one of my special interests so I'm gonna tell everyone here!! Keening is one of the very few Celtic traditions that survived the Roman christianization of the Iberian peninsula! Until very recently in Portugal, keening used to be a tradition at funerals with professionals doing it, called "carpideiras" whose sole purpose was to scream and cry as loud as possible to mourn the dead. And I'm very passionate about the little ways the Celtic culture left its mark even 2000 years after it was eradicated from the peninsula 💚
2026-07-25 23:02:01
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