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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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The modern Welsh name for fairies is y Tylwyth Teg, the fair folk or family. This is sometimes lengthened into y Tylwyth Teg yn y Coed, the fair family in the wood, or Tylwyth Teg y Mwn, the fair folk of the mine. They are seen dancing in moonlight nights on the velvety grass, clad in airy and flowing robes of blue, green, white, or scarlet…They are spoken of as bestowing blessings on those mortals whom they select to be thus favoured.
Wirt Sikes
Psyché et l'Amour (1889) by Bouguereau
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And drinking-cups were favourites even among the Gods; at all events "They pledged each other in their golden cups."
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Men and snakes by Iwobrand
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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
But it is a mark of a gentleman to be moderate in his use of wine, not drinking too greedily, nor drinking large draughts without drawing one’s breath, after the fashion of the Thracians; but to mingle conversation with his cups, as a sort of wholesome medicine.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
And in former times the possession of drinking-cups was reckoned a very honourable thing. Accordingly, Achilles had a very superb cup as a sort of heirloom…And Priam, when offering ransom for his son, amid all his most beautiful treasures especially offers a very exquisitely wrought cup. And Jupiter himself, on the occasion of the birth of Hercules, thinks a drinking-cup a gift worthy to be given to Alemena.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Since there’s a whole 2 people who liked my The Chronicles of Amber retrospective and been wondering if I’m going to return to it after dropping Blood of Amber let me adress this here. Ultimately I no longer enjoy the series. It was never high art to begin with and with Merlin Cycle the quality really went down (at least for me). The protagonist is too powerful for the story to have real stakes. It’s damn hard to kill a royal Amberite to begin with and adding Chaos magic on top of that is just such an overkill that the tension of Corwin’s adventures is just gone. Also, from what I remember the books will have even more magic later. Reminds me of a balding middle aged man buying a nice car. Magical bells and whistles are nice, but the story itself is still weaker than the first cycle. Come to think of it Zelazny was much older while writing it.
TLDR may get back to it, but that’s definitely not a priority.