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Exclusively Christian characteristics of Christ that could not be correlated with heathen equivalents are hardly represented in sources even of the 11th century. Runic invocations never address Christ as the Saviour, nor do they reveal any knowledge of the concept of redemption. Both notions were basic tenets of Christianity in which Christ was first and foremost the Redeemer of the sins of mankind as well as of individuals.
E.Melnikova
They did not spare each other. Soon they came to the place where the horse's bones were lying, and here they struggled for long, each in turn being brought to his knees.
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Grettir took all the treasure and went back towards the rope, but on his way he felt himself seized by a strong hand.
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The Gorgons, daughters of Phorkys and Keto, possess bodies like those of human women, snakes as hair, boar’s tusks, and wings. Whereas the Gorgons Sthenno and Euryalê are immortal and ageless, Medusa (Greek Medousa) was born mortal and perished when she was decapitated by the hero Perseus. Anyone who looks upon a Gorgon is transformed into stone, becoming in effect a statue.
W.F.Hansen
Chort is as tall as a man. He looks like a wolf, but with horns, hooves and a [cow] tail. He usually lives under an oak or in a swamp. Chort is very afraid of Perun and hides from him everywhere. For example under trees. And then Perun shoots arrows at trees. That’s why you must not hide under trees during a storm.
V.S.Novak
Firstly, I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! This year we want to bring you deep-analysis & many guides for Pagan Revival!
Many folk who first get into Heathenry want to know what they should read to start their journey back home. There are three quick reads, packed full with great introductory information, which encompass most of the fundamentals of Heathenry. Though these are not the end-all-be-all, these are essential for every Heathen to read & meditate upon.
Below are the links to free versions & brief summaries of these books
1. Havamal (link): The words of Odin himself, Havamal gives the core morality expected of those who follow the faith.
2. Germania (link): Written by the Roman historian Tacitus, Germania gives an early look into the customs & of the ancestors who followed Heathenry in practice.
3. Voluspa (link): The words of a Volva (seeress) to Odin, Voluspa tells of what was, what is to come & a synopsis of Heathen theology.
Gods guide your footsteps on your great journey back home!
The name of the deity is usually either a vocative or the object of the verbal predicate ‘Let me sing’. But a Greek deity can have many names …There can also be hesitation as to the appropriate choice of name by which the deity would like to be addressed, as in this well-known hymn to Zeus:
Zeus—whoever he may be, if it pleases him to be so called, then I address him by that name.
Christopher Metcalf
There was at Rome a Juno; at a distance of five leagues, the city of Veii had another. So little were they the same divinity that we see the dictator Camillus, while besieging Veii, address himself to the Juno of the enemy, to induce her to abandon the Etruscan city and pass into his camp. When he is master of the city, he takes the statue, well persuaded that he gains possession of the goddess at the same time, and devoutly transports it to Rome. From that time Rome had two protecting Junos.
Numa de Coulanges
In the legend of the Trojan war we see a Pallas who fights for the Greeks, and there is among the Trojans another Pallas, who receives their worship and protects her worshippers. Would any one say that it was the same divinity who figured in both armies? Certainly not; for the ancients did not attribute the gift of ubiquity to their gods.
Numa de Coulanges
The Homeric poems imagine what the reciprocal relationship might have looked like from the perspective of the gods: at Iliad, the many pious sacrifices offered in the past by Hector lead Zeus to wonder whether he should rescue him from death.
C.Metcalf
Thereupon Cuchulain hastened towards Ferdiad and clasped his two arms about him, and bore him with all his arms and his armour and his dress northwards over the ford, that so it should be with his face to the north of the ford the triumph took place and not to the west of the ford with the men of Erin.
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Gae Bulga…the wound of a single spear it gave when entering the body, and thirty barbs had it when it opened and it could not be drawn out of a man’s flesh till the flesh had been cut about it.
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Each of them fell to strike and to hew, to lay low and cut down, to slay and undo his fellow, till as large as the head of a month-old child was each lump and each cut, each clutter and each clot of gore that each of them took from the shoulders and thighs and shoulder-blades of the other.
Each of them was engaged in smiting the other in this way from the twilight of early morning till the hour of evening’s close.
“Let us leave off from this now, O Cuchulain!” cried Ferdiad.
“Aye, let us leave off, if the hour has come,” said Cuchulain.
Of every food and of every savoury, soothing and strong drink that was brought by the men of Erin to Ferdiad, a like portion thereof he sent over the ford northwards to Cuchulain; for the purveyors of Ferdiad were more numerous than the purveyors of Cuchulain. All the men of Erin were purveyors to Ferdiad, to the end that he might keep Cuchulain off from them.
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The image of Christ for those Norsemen who accepted him as a God seems to be far from the one current in the Christian world of that time. In skaldic poetry before 1050 as well as in pictorial art, he appears first and foremost as a strong and mighty ruler. The earliest depictions of him, such as that on the Jelling stone, portray him as triumphant and glorious. The notion of the suffering Christ was not conceived by the Vikings and ‘would have been regarded as almost absurd’ by them, although they could not have failed to see crucifixes with the suffering Christ in Western Europe and Byzantium.
E.Melnikova
He left the treasure to close with his aggressor and the two engaged in a merciless struggle. Everything about them was smashed. The howedweller made a ferocious onslaught.
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A Gorgon’s head, or at least that of Medusa, has other unusual properties also. Displaying a lock of hair from a Gorgon can cause an army to scatter in fright, and Gorgon’s blood was used by the physician Asklepios sometimes to heal and sometimes to injure his patients.
W.F.Hansen
^ the source was provided by @Danikacvlt
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Ravens and wolves live in symbiosis. Like many scavengers, ravens depend on large predators to provide them with carcasses. It is theorized that ravens and wolves can even develop individual bonds.
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The cities of Argos and Samos had each a Here Polias, but it was not the same goddess, for she was represented in the two cities with very different attributes.
Numa de Coulanges
Adamant
Fabulous metal of extreme hardness used by gods and heroes.
Adamant was created by Gaia, who made from it the sickle with which Kronos castrated his father, Ouranos.
W.F.Hansen
A great number of cities had a Jupiter as a city-protecting divinity. There were as many Jupiters as there were cities.
Numa de Coulanges
The names of Zeus, Athene, Hera, Jupiter, Minerva, and Neptune are better known to us, and we know that they were often applied to these city-guarding divinities; but because two cities happened to apply the same name to their god, we are not to conclude that they adored the same god. There was an Athene at Athens, and there was one at Sparta; but they were two goddesses.
Numa de Coulanges
Winter Solstice
Iwobrand
And he spake these warm words, sadly, sorrowfully in praise of Ferdiad:
“There shall not be found the hand of a hero that will wound warrior’s flesh, like cloud-coloured Ferdiad!”
Then it was that Cuchulain arose and stood over Ferdiad: “Ah, Ferdiad,” spake Cuchulain, “greatly have the men of Erin deceived and abandoned thee, to bring thee to contend and do battle with me. For no easy thing is it to contend and do battle with me…And yet, never before have I found combat that was so sore or distressed me so as thy combat, save the combat, with Oenfer Aifè, mine one own son.”
Cuchulain threw the Gae Bulga…it passed through the strong, thick, iron apron of wrought iron, and broke in three parts the huge, goodly stone the size of a millstone, so that it cut its way through the body’s protection into him…
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It was then that Ferdiad arose early on the morrow and went alone to the ford of combat…For he knew that that would be the decisive day of the battle and combat; and he knew that one or other of them would fall there that day, or that they both would fall.
Cuchulain called and shouted to Laeg, and bade him…make ready the spear…
Early on the morrow they arose and repaired to the ford of combat. Then they took two full-great long-shields upon them for that day. They turned to their heavy, hard-smiting swords.
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Of every healing herb and grass and curing charm that was brought from the fairy dwellings of Erin to Cuchulain and was applied to the cuts and stabs, to the gashes and many wounds of Cuchulain, a like portion thereof he sent across the ford westward to Ferdiad, to put to his wounds and his pools of gore, so that the men of Erin should not have it to say, should Ferdiad fall at his hands, it was more than his share of care had been given to him.
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