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A place for Folkish European (Aryan) Pagans to honor the Gods and Ancestral traditions
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
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
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According to Hesiod and the Homeric hymn on Aphrodite, the goddess after rising from the foam first approached the island of Cythera, and thence went to Cyprus, and as she was walking on the sea-coast flowers sprang up under her feet, and Eros and Himeros accompanied her to the assembly of the other great gods, all of whom were struck with admiration and love when she appeared, and her surpassing beauty made every one desire to have her for his wife.
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Found this online:
The Jelling “Great Stone” (c. 965) has been laser-scanned to 0.1 mm accuracy. Digital epigrapher Martin Grønnesby counted 183 serpent scales on the left coil and 182 on the right, matching solar year halves. Midpoint scale sits exactly beneath the runic word jul (Yule), aligning with winter solstice. Copper pigment traces highlight every 30th scale, likely month markers.
Bluetooth’s inscription boasts: “Harald made Denmark Christian.” But the calendar snake quietly taught converts the church feast cycle—Easter falls 94 scales after Yule, pinpointed by an oversized boss. This fusion of pagan zoomorphics and Christian chronology eased conversion, turning a propaganda stone into a community planner.
No medieval document mentions the feature; its rediscovery via 3-D imagery shows Viking artisans embedding astronomical knowledge in public art. Visitors today snap selfies with the serpent, unaware they’re beside a granite smartwatch that has kept perfect solar time for 1,060 years. #jellingrunestone
Still one of the funnies things I’ve seen online
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Enthroned Zeus (Greek, c. 100 BC) - modeled after the Olympian Zeus by Pheidas (c. 430 BC)
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And I thought 2000s Tolkien fandom was cringe
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Summer Solstice is here, honor the Gods/Goddesses, spend time with your family and enjoy life and nature.
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This is something I have struggled with, to be honest. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household, but a number of things made me leave that when I was still quite young. Now, although Christianity and Anglo-Saxon Paganism are both deeply important to me, I still haven’t rebuilt that fundamentalism yet despite active trying.
The loss of fundamentalism or mythic faith in this way is like a broken or atrophied limb - it takes a lot of work and specific action to rebuild. I am trying though. It is one of the many reasons I created this channel
Something interesting has been happening. Have you noticed?
When pagans (or others) argue a theory of history, or some metaphysical concept, or folkhood etc, Christians now say "well, we have this concept too", or "we can defend race and folkhood too". Do you see what's going on?
They're on the back foot. They feel left out. For the first time in thousands of years, Christians are having to argue their position, but not from the right against the left: they're arguing from the left against the right.
But they don't know how to do that. Christianity can't claim to be our tradition because we're not Christian anymore, Christianity has been replaced by modernity. And Christians can't argue that they're the defenders of authority and tradition because paganism has begun to argue that point, and convincingly.
Christianity has been the null hypothesis for centuries, but that's over. Now it's being outflanked from the right, but it's also not the leftmost point on the compass. Where can it stand?
This will only get worse.
@folkishworldview
We have previously discussed the concept of the Helga—the hallowing of sacred ground during a blót. This traditional practice is carried out with fire, a primordial element associated with both creation and destruction. Fire is used here to purify the land.
The next step in the blót structure is the Heita and the Biðja—the invocation and the prayer. This is the moment when the god or goddess being honored is called upon, and a prayer is offered in alignment with the specific ritual being performed.
As we invoke the gods, we focus on recalling their past deeds—stories that describe their interactions with humans and how these shaped our world. A useful example of this kind of invocation is found in Hyndluljóð verses 2–4:
Old Norse -
English
2. Biðjum Herjafǫðr –
We pray to Herjafǫðr
í hugum sitja, –
sitting in thought,
hann geldr ok gefr –
he grants and gives
gull verðungu; –
gold to his retinue;
gaf hann Hermóði –
he gave Hermóðr
hjalm ok brynju, –
helm and byrnie,
en Sigmundi –
and Sigmundr
sverð at þiggja. –
a sword to take.
3. Gefr hann sigr sumum, –
He gives victory to some,
en sumum aura, –
he gives wealth to some,
mælsku mǫrgum –
good speech to many
ok mannvit firum; –
and good sense to men;
byri gefr hann brǫgnum, –
he gives fair wind to sailors,
en brag skaldum, –
and poetry to skalds,
gefr hann mannsemi –
he gave manliness
mǫrgum rekki. –
to many warriors.
4. Þórr mun hon blóta, –
To Thor she will blót,
þess mun hon biðja, –
This she will ask,
at hann æ við þik –
that he ever to you
einart láti; –
faithful should let (himself be);
þó er hánum ótítt –
though it is not his custom
við jötuns brúðir. –
with the Jötuns’ brides.
Every blót needs a central focus—something that gives reason and purpose to the offerings being made by those gathered. This purpose is established through the Heita and the Biðja.
The word Biðja is mentioned in several sources, but two of the more notable references come from Hávamál and Fjölsvinnsmál:
Old Norse – English
144. Veistu, hvé biðja skal? –
Do you know how to pray?
(Hávamál)
40.Bjargrúnar skaltu kunna, – Bjargrúnar shall you know,
ef þú bjarga vilt –
if you will help,
ok leysa kind frá konum: – and loose the child from the woman;
á lófum þær skal rista –
on the palms shall you rist;
ok of liðu spenna –
and clasped round her joints
ok biðja þá disir duga –
and pray to the Dísir for aid.
(Fjölsvinnsmál)
Using these passages we can then reconstruct this aspect of a rite, meant to invoke the gods and offer prayers in a traditional manner, one that brings purpose and meaning to our rituals.
"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
~ GALDR ~
The practice of Galdr involves the chanting of verses to achieve a certain outcome, based on whether the Gods join you in the singing. The reverberation of the chant is pivotal to the development of a proper Galdr and must be taken into consideration when performing it.
There are three types of Galdr we will present here, to give the full spectrum of the record involving this practice.
First are the Direct Galdr, which are the verses in Galdralag meter that are in the sources and can be connected to a specific working.
Then there is the Chronicled Galdr, which are the chants given in a specific poem that are not in the Galdralag meter, but which are specifically stated to be a chant given. It should be noted that while these verses are not Galdralag, they are still in Ljóðahattr meter, from which Galdralag is formed. In fact, when we learn about the sanctity of Galdralag in Ynglingasaga, it is directly connected to the ljóða:
Allar þessar íþróttir kendi hann með rúnum ok ljóðum, þeim er galdrar heita; fyrir því eru Æsir kallaðir
galdrasmiðir.
“All these feats he taught with rúnar and ljóða, those which are called Galdr, and because of this the Æsir are called Galdr-smiths”.
….(please follow the link below)
https://norroena.org/galdr/
Cowbells
One of the few remaining European cowbell masters from Romania, who still makes them by hand.
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Buddhism is worse than christinaity. At least most christians just ignore their own dogma and taboos.
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Mark my words this is going to be one of the most subversive and anti-Pagan movies in recent years (though Snyder will probably beat it). Defy the Gods lol. Where would Odysseus even be without Athena’s help?
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Greek philosophy is the decadence of the Greek instinct: Thucydides is the great summing up, the final manifestation of that strong, severe positivism which lay in the instincts of the ancient Hellene. After all, it is courage in the face of reality that distinguishes such natures as Thucydides from Plato: Plato is a coward in the face of reality— consequently he takes refuge in the ideal: Thucydides is master of himself— consequently he is able to master life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gods love you
Typical Dunning-Kruger syndrome vargtard who believes in metaphors instead of Gods and myth
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• Sell all your possessions and give them to the poor (Matthew 19:21)
• Do not become wealthy like the bourgeois (Mark 10:25)
• Your enemy is the very family which you sprouted from (Matthew 10:36)
• Abolish all private property (Luke 18:22)
• From each according to his ability. . . to each according to his needs (Matthew 25:15; Acts 4:34-35)
• Race is a social construct designed to divide the Proletariat, we must unite as one working class! (Galatians 3:28, Col. 3:11)
• He who does not work neither shall he eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10, later adopted by Lenin)
@USSRLovedChrist
Pagan fundamentalism (Paganism proper) means that your religion is the fundament (basis) of your worldview. It means being rooted in your ancestral faith. Example: Paganism is opposed to the theory of evolution because the myth state that humans were created.
Newcomers are slow to develop such traditionally fundamentalist, folkish view because most used to be atheists or atheistic christians.
The main issue for religion today is the concept of objective, universal (non-tribal) truth which philosophy-science promotes. That’s why philosophers were charged with impiety. Their fundament is not the lore of their people, but a bunch of supposedly higher truth. Later science popularized this approach which is why anti-folkish (rootless) pagans today use scientific data contradicting the lore as some counter to faith-rooted mythical literalism. All stems from the idealism-universalism.
Lev Reichman and Boris Berman: Jewish officers involved in the "Polish operation" in Ukraine and Belarus
Lev Raikhman and Boris Berman were Soviet NKVD officers involved in the “Polish Operation” of 1937–1938, a mass campaign of repression under Stalin targeting ethnic Poles across the USSR, especially in Ukraine and Belarus. Both men held key roles in implementing NKVD Order No. 00485, which mandated the arrest, sentencing, and execution of individuals accused of espionage and sabotage on behalf of the Polish state.
Boris Davidovich Berman was appointed head of the NKVD in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in May 1937. He was directly responsible for conducting the Polish Operation in Belarus. Under his leadership, the NKVD carried out mass arrests, interrogations, and executions of thousands of ethnic Poles, often on fabricated charges. Torture during interrogations became widespread under his authority. Between 1937 and 1938, around 17,000 people were executed in Belarus under this campaign. Berman had previously gained prominence within the NKVD for his role in the interrogations of high-profile political figures during the Moscow Trials. He was later arrested in 1938 during the internal NKVD purges, accused of being a Polish spy, and executed in 1939.
Lev Grigoryevich Raikhman served in the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR under Commissar Izrail Leplevskii. He was instrumental in drafting arrest protocols and organizing operations that targeted Polish communities in Ukraine. Raikhman later played a significant role in the Katyn massacre, where over 20,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia were executed by the NKVD in 1940. He participated in efforts to attribute the crime to National Socialist Germany, including presenting fabricated forensic evidence and testimony to international bodies. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Raikhman survived the Stalinist era and continued to serve in Soviet institutions during and after World War II.
According to historian Bogdan Musiał: "It is estimated that Polish losses in the Ukrainian SSR were about 30%, while in the Belorussian SSR... the Polish minority was almost completely annihilated or deported."
The media today, especially but not limited to the current ongoing events, is designed to suck you in, to worry, to get black-pilled with the ultimate goal of demoralizing you. Like vampires of legend they capture your attention through a performative haze and suck you dry of your vitality and life essence.
It is more important than ever to get out into nature, to take a break and recharge. To spend your time with who really matters your family, folk, ancestors, spirits and holy Gods. When we follow them and their wisdom we can not be black-pilled. And the more we connect with those that give and guide, the less we are troubled by modern media's fear-porn.
Never forget that Gods love you