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Heraclitus was known as an arrogant misanthrope and an outcast, just like Xenophanes. As Diogenes writes:
"Finally, he became a hater of his kind and wandered on the mountains, and there he continued to live, making his diet of grass and herbs"
And like most ancient heretics he hated the Greek tradition. Again, according to Diogenes Heraclitus used to say that "Homer deserved to be chased out of the lists and beaten with rods…"
Early christian apologist Justin Martyr considered both Socrates and Heraclitus christians before christ. Ancient heretics like them were generally well-liked by christians since they too opposed traditional belief. Remember that many church fathers were platonists.
The Capture of Cerberus
Based on an Etruscan vase
(Artist’s signature was edited out since she’s a blackwashing lesbo)
Over time, Askeladden evolved into more than just a fairy-tale hero – he became a national cultural symbol of the “little guy” who outwits the mighty, reflecting values Norwegians take pride in. Even today, he is regarded as a folk hero and an ideal for children: Norwegian schoolbooks include Askeladden to illustrate positive traits like adventurous courage, helpfulness, and resourcefulness.
Clara MacGauffin
“The boy, the troll and the porridge-eating contest” is undoubtedly one of the most beloved and well known fairytales, in which Askeladden takes center stage. In Norway there are known to be as many as 27 variants of this story, and in 1841 it was published for the first time, by Norwegian collectors Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe.
Camilla Christensen
Between us, girls
Svitlana Lazareva
Sisters
Svitlana Lazareva
The mighty mere-woman; he made a great onset
With weapon-of-battle, his hand not desisted
From striking, that war-blade struck on her head then
A battle-song greedy. The stranger perceived then
The sword would not bite, her life would not injure
The Tylwyth Teg have a fatal admiration for lovely children. Hence the abundant folk-lore concerning infants who have been stolen from their cradles, and a plentyn-newid (change-child—the equivalent of our changeling) left in its place by the Tylwyth Teg. The plentyn-newid has the exact appearance of the stolen infant, at first; but its aspect speedily alters. It grows ugly of face, shrivelled of form, ill-tempered, wailing, and generally frightful. It bites and strikes, and becomes a terror to the poor mother. Sometimes it is idiotic; but again it has a supernatural cunning, not only impossible in a mortal babe, but not even appertaining to the oldest heads, on other than fairy shoulders.
W.Sikes
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The Gwyllion take on a more distinct individuality under another name—as the Ellyllon do in mischievous Puck—and the Old Woman of the Mountain typifies all her kind. She is very carefully described by the Prophet Jones, in the guise in which she haunted Llanhiddel Mountain in Monmouthshire. This was the semblance of a poor old woman, with an oblong four-cornered hat, ash-coloured clothes, her apron thrown across her shoulder, with a pot or wooden can in her hand, such as poor people carry to fetch milk with, always going before the spectator, and sometimes crying ‘Wow up!’ This is an English form of a Welsh cry of distress, ‘Wwb!’ or ‘Ww-bwb!’
W.Sikes
According to Adam of Bremen, the Svear honored the statues of the three gods in the “Uppsala temple.” Thor (Þórr), occupied a throne in the middle of the banqueting room while Wodan (Óðinn) and Fricco (Freyr) had places on either side. Place-names such as Odenslund(a), Torslunda and Fröslunda support a cult of these gods in the pre-Christian area of Lake Mälaren. There are at least seventeen place-names containing the equivalent, genitive form of the name Þórr (Tors-) there, sixteen with Freyr (Frös-) and twelve with Óðinn (Odens-). It is no coincidence that Adam mentions these particular gods, since they were the most worshipped ones in the surroundings of Uppsala.
O.Sundqvist
Working on a new translation to retell a tragic archeological story. Will take a while due to work-life balance.
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Those interested can read my recent translation of an anti-clerical spooky story from Transcarpathia I decided to call A Brave Lad and a Haunted Church
/channel/Aryanpaganism/9063
Of course Ilarion was biased and stressed that abandoning the ancestral faith was good and brought Rus closer to Western Europe. Obvious BS. Christianization only brought the elites closer to Byzantium which was already falling apart and wanted to pacify the warlike neighbors.
Still, if even an orthodox metropolitan archbishop admits that christianization was not only bloody, but also ineffective, one can only wonder how Pagan the people actually were.
Beyond Kyiv it was even harder. When the army came to baptize, the people ran and hid in the forests, which were plentiful back then. Even those caught and baptized by the officials were still following their old faith after the army had left.
Our old sources (moistly chronicles) do not like talking about the people’s resistance against christianity. They usually paint a pretty picture of people gladly accepting the new faith and happily betraying the old one. But, occasionally even they provide snippets of that fierce struggle.
Metropolitan Ilarion (Ivan Ohienko)
Diana by Edward Francis McCartan
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Gardening is the key to long life 🙏🏻
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For the people listening to these stories, a sense of comfort and hope was to be found in Askeladdens accomplishments. As a poor wretch from humble beginnings, who triumphs against all odds and ultimately prevails were his older siblings fail miserably, Askeladden showed that one did not have to be rich and powerful to make it in this world. If you were smart, worked hard, and remained humble and thoughtful to those around you, everyone could win the possibility of a better future.
Camilla Christensen
Once on a time there was a poor man who had three sons. When he died, the two elder set off into the world to try their luck, but the youngest they wouldn’t have with them at any price.
“As for you”, they said, “you’re fit for nothing but to sit and poke about in the ashes.”
Kolbitr (Coalbiter, Ashlad, Coal-eater, Askeladden) is a type of underdog hero in Icelandic sagas. They are seemingly useless young men (often the youngest in the family) who spent most of their day sitting idly at the fireside, but end up becoming heroes. Ash lads are somewhat similar to a famous female heroine Cinderella.
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Світлана Лазарева
Have dug up interesting sources on modern (relatively) tech from a traditional Pagan perspective. Will add to the translation list for later.
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Beowulf fighting Grendel’s mother by T. Lahonina
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The exorcism by knife appears to be a Welsh notion.
The cases of successful exorcism by knife are many, and nothing in the realm of faerie is better authenticated.
Should we find, in tracing these notions back to their source, that they are connected with Arthur’s sword Excalibur?
W.Sikes
Robert Williams, of Langattock, Crickhowel, ‘a substantial man and of undoubted veracity,’ tells this tale: As he was travelling one night over part of the Black Mountain, he saw the Old Woman, and at the same time found he had lost his way. Not knowing her to be a spectre he hallooed to her to stay for him, but receiving no answer thought she was deaf. He then hastened his steps, thinking to overtake her, but the faster he ran the further he found himself behind her, at which he wondered very much, not knowing the reason of it. He presently found himself stumbling in a marsh, at which discovery his vexation increased; and then he heard the Old Woman laughing at him with a weird, uncanny, crackling old laugh. This set him to thinking she might be a gwyll; and when he happened to draw out his knife for some purpose, and the Old Woman vanished, then he was sure of it; for Welsh ghosts and fairies are afraid of a knife.
W.Sikes
The Gwyllion are female fairies of frightful characteristics, who haunt lonely roads in the Welsh mountains, and lead night-wanderers astray.
The Welsh word gwyll is variously used to signify gloom, shade, duskiness, a hag, a witch, a fairy, and a goblin; but its special application is to these mountain fairies of gloomy and harmful habits, as distinct from the Ellyllon of the forest glades and dingles, which are more often beneficent.
W.Sikes
When Jarl Hákon took power over Norway c. 970, and Eiríkr’s sons were defeated, the jarl ordered over his whole realm that people should maintain temples and rituals, and this was done. This historical process is witnessed in reliable sources, such as the poem Vellekla. They suggest that some pagan rulers and chieftains offered resistance when the old religion was threatened. They also indicate a conflict-filled conversion process in parts of Viking Age Norway.
O.Sundqvist
What makes Paganism truly family-oriented
We all know that Pagan societies had big families. But an anti-Pagan could say that christians also had big families. And it’s a fact. But what has to be considered, stressed even, is that Paganism adds an element which makes it much more of a pro-family religion. In Pagan worldview having many loving descendants is crucial for your afterlife since you depend on them feeding you. No christian has to worry about this since if he is pious his god provides all necessities in heaven. Many saints and martyrs didn’t even have a family. Meanwhile a Pagan starves and suffers for eternity if he fails to raise a lot of offsprings to bring him offerings of food and drink. Sure, a spirit can’t die again, but endless hunger will drive one insane.
But why wonder when ethnography gives us a clear picture? Everyone, both young and old still believed in spirits like domovoi and fleshy, kept celebrating Pagan holidays like Kupala and Maslenitsa and ridiculed the priesthood. Many examples of jokes and fairy-tales featuring priests have already been shared here and on my other channel.
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This is a typical example of "peaceful" christianization…
As stated by the chronicler, in 1091 a Pagan priest came to Rostov, but he was immediately caught and tortured to death…
That’s how christianity spread among Ukrainians and Muscovites. Those were not exceptions, this happened everywhere…In Murom people killed prince Mykhailo and did not accept christianity no matter what. In the second half of XII c. Vyatichi killed Kuksha, a priest from Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, who was preaching christianity among them.
Metropolitan Ilarion (Ivan Ohienko)
Christianity probably had no issue spreading among the elites…but the same can’t be said about the people who were conservative to the bone, held on to their primordial faith and did not tolerate innovations. Even in Kyiv the majority did not want to get baptized and cried loudly when Perun was dragged down. But in Kyiv Volodymyr had an army of loyal mercenaries, so the ones protesting against the new faith could have been drowned in Dnipro river alongside Perun. Many ran to the backwoods, many hid and even more stayed silent but didn’t follow the new faith (they didn’t even know how to anyway)…
Metropolitan Ilarion (Ivan Ohienko)