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The individual occupations of the male deities are mostly divine versions of the occupations of men, and the occupations of the goddesses similarly correspond to those of women, with a few exceptions. Greek and Roman women did not engage in hunting as a sport, an activity that was proper to males, yet the goddess Artemis roams the wilderness as a huntress. Real Greek and Roman women did not act as soldiers, yet Athena is a goddess of war. Although women did not serve as heralds, the goddess Iris is one of the gods’ messengers. In these cases female deities specialize in activities in which human females did not participate.
William F. Hansen
A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans
Once he was on a voyage with some impious men, and the vessel was overtaken by a storm; so they began to invoke the assistance of the Gods; on which he said, “Hold your tongues, lest they should find out that you are in this ship.” When he was asked by an impious man what piety was, he made no reply; and when his questioner demanded the reason of his silence, he said, “I am silent because you are putting questions about things with which you have no concern."
Diogenes Laertius
Life of Bias
Scythian kurgan miniature
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Scythian brothers in arms by Volodymyr Slepchenko
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Scythian queen by Volodymyr Slepchenko
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This is a historical depicion of Thor fishing for Jormangandr from the Altuna Runestone in Uppland, Sweden made in the 1,000s. Some people judge this depiction for being child-like but it may have been an intentional choice by the runemaster. The stone was erected in remembrance of a father and son who tragically died in a fire. The inscription says:
Véfastr, Folkaðr, Guðvarr had the stone raised in memory of their father Holmfastr, (and) Arnfastr.
Both father and son were burned, and Balli Freysteinn, of Lífsteinn's retinue, carved (this).
It's reminiscent of a quote from the Havamal, "A son is a blessing, though born late to a father no longer alive: stones would seldom stand by the highway if sons did not set them there." - Odin - Havamal - 72
Let this stone depicting blessed Thor and Odin's words guide you to remember our ancestors, to focus on the family and give honor and glory to our Gods who watch over and guide us.
Loki’s daughter is not clearly identified as Hel in any of the existing Eddaic poems. In light of this, it’s important to note that the description of “Hel’s high hall” stands in stark contrast to the hall of Loki’s daughter in Snorri’s Edda.
In the Eddaic poem Baldrs Draumar, whereas the benches in “Hel’s high hall” are strewn with costly things and mead stands poured out in goblets awaiting a guest, the hall of Loki’s daughter (whom Snorri calls Hel) is a dismal place with its dish called “Hunger” and its knife named “famine.”
The Eddaic poems clearly distinguish this place from Hel, the realm where “all men” must eventually come according to Fáfnismál 10.
W.P. Reaves
Kupala Night
Boris Olshanksy
Kupała, Wojciech Gerson, 1897
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It is, therefore, with good reason that many cities…will not admit either rhetoric or philosophy, on account of the jealousy, and strife, and profitless discussions to which they give rise; And it is owing to this, too, that Theodorus the Atheist was put to death, and that Diagoras was banished; and this latter, sailing away when he was banished, was wrecked.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Sophocles, passed a decree to banish all the philosophers from Attica. And Philo, the friend of Aristotle, wrote an oration against him; And the Romans, who are in every respect the best of men, banished all the sophists from Rome, on the ground of their corrupting the youth of the city...And Anaxippus the comic poet declares your folly in his Man struck by Lightning, speaking thus:
Alas, you’re a philosopher; but I
Do think philosophers are only wise.
In quibbling about words; in deeds they are,
As far as I can see, completely foolish.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
"Nor are the women hurried early into marriage: the same age and the same full growth is required for both husband and wife: as a result the two sexes unite equally matched and physically healthy; and so the children inherit this strength from their parents."
- Roman historian Tacitus on the virtuous sexual morality of the Germanic Pagans his "Germania" 98 AD
Cowbells
One of the few remaining European cowbell masters from Romania, who still makes them by hand.
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Why Gods are not supernatural
Do you call birds supernatural? Probably not. But they can fly which is not natural for humans. The same logic can be applied to Gods and Goddesses. They can do things humans can’t, but it’s their divine nature to do so.
When you hear one call Gods supernatural it shows that he/she sees the world with an atheistic/christian lens.
Scythia
Viktor Kyzmenko
Part of Pagan Revival is to hear what our ancestors heard. The legends of our sacred Gods, before put to parchment, were songs!
From the wilds of Alaska, we interview Mike, devout Sedian Heathen and founder of Alaskan Bardcrafts @ t.me/Alaskanbardcrafts about his life, faith and passion to reproduce the instruments of our blessed and noble ancestors!
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Timecodes:
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Introductions
0:03:11 - 0:47:56
Life in Alaskan Frontier
0:47:57 - 1:16:48
Coming Home to Ancestral Faith
1:16:49 - 1:57:51
Of Lyres & Bardcraft
1:57:52 - 2:06:35
Instruments of the Ancients
2:06:36 - 2:18:17
The Power of Music in Pagan Revival
2:18:18 - 2:26:15
Benefit to our Revival
Scythian king by Volodymyr Slepchenko
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Scythian idol by Volodymyr Slepchenko
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We hear that Bion the Borysthenite,
Whom the ferocious Scythian land brought forth,
Used to deny that there were Gods at all.
Now, if he’d persevered in this opinion,
One would have said he speaks just as he thinks;
Though certainly his thoughts are quite mistaken.
But when a lengthened sickness overtook him,
And he began to fear lest he should die;
This man who heretofore denied the Gods,
And would not even look upon a temple,
And mocked all those who e’er approached the Gods
With prayer or sacrifice; who ne’er, not even
For his own hearth, and home, and household table,
Regaled the Gods with savoury fat and incense
Diogenes Laertius
The Eve of Ivan Kupala
Witold Pruszkowski
This painting depict a traditional search of magical fern flower which only blossoms on Kupala night
Traditional Kupala folk song
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Well then did the Romans, who are in every respect the most admirable of men, banish Alcius and Philiscus the Epicureans…And in the same manner the Messenians by a public decree banished the Epicureans.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Antiochus the king banished all the philosophers out of his kingdom, writing thus—“King Antiochus to Phanias: ‘We have written to you before, that no philosopher is to remain in the city, nor in the country…As soon, therefore, as you receive this letter, order a proclamation to be made, that all the philosophers do at once depart from those places, and that as many young men as are detected in going to them, shall be fastened to a pillar and flogged, and their fathers shall be held in great blame.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Do I not then deservedly detest all you philosophers…men whom not only did Lysimachus the king banish from his own dominions, as Carystius tells us in his Historic Reminiscenses, but the Athenians did so too. At all events, Alexis, in his Horse, says:
Is this the Academy; is this Xenocrates?
May the gods greatly bless Demetrius
And all the lawgivers; for, as men say,
They’ve driven out of Attica with disgrace
All those who do profess to teach the youth
Learning and science.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Freyr with the golden Boar Gullinbursti
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There’s no such thing as purity spiral. You either follow ancestral traditions properly or not. When you turn a blind eye on your community having an atheist-zoophile because you don’t want to purity spiral or whatever you belong on a cross right next to your degenerate buddy. Those who know whose position I described-throw a bolt just to let me know the numbers.
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The name Puck was originally applied to the whole race of English fairies, and there still be few of the realm who enjoy a wider popularity than Puck, in spite of his mischievous attributes. Part of this popularity is due to the poets, especially to Shakspeare. I have alluded to the bard’s accurate knowledge of Welsh folk-lore; the subject is really one of unique interest, in view of the inaccuracy charged upon him as to the English fairyland.
Wirt Sikes