Thalena - Lady of Blossom and Bone

Thalena is known as the Lady of Beginnings and Endings. The Midwife. She of the Blossom and Bone. Goddess of birth and death.

She is often invoked when a woman is in labor and when it is needful to ease a person's last suffering. She is invoked at the beginning of a journey and thanked at the end of one. Many front doors have a small rose and bone charm hanging from the lintel.

She is not a caretaker of the dead, nor a fertility goddess. Her domain is the passing from nothing to life, and from life to death. She is the transition, the sliding through the veil of one state to the other.

Her name is also used in a common curse: "Thalena take you."

She is often pictured as a beautiful woman with blood red hair and black eyes. She is often accompanied by flowers (roses specifically) and bones.

The tenets of her faith include:
 * Future generations are grown upon the soil of the last. Thus, the undead are an abomination.
 * Do not prolong suffering.
 * Smite those who would pervert the beginnings or endings of life.

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