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In Germany, the Wichtlein (little Wights) are little old long-bearded men, about three-quarters of an ell high, which haunt the mines of the southern land. The Bohemians call the Wichtlein by the name of Haus-schmiedlein, little House-smiths, from their sometimes making a noise as if labouring hard at the anvil.
W.Sikes
Under the general title of Coblynau I class the fairies which haunt the mines, quarries and underground regions of Wales…The word coblyn has the double meaning of knocker or thumper and sprite or fiend; and may it not be the original of goblin? It is applied by Welsh miners to pigmy fairies which dwell in the mines, and point out, by a peculiar knocking or rapping, rich veins of ore.
Wirt Sikes
The most familiar form of the Pwca story…presents a peasant who is returning home from his work, or from a fair, when he sees a light travelling before him. Looking closer he perceives that it is carried by a dusky little figure, holding a lantern or candle at arm’s length over its head. He follows it for several miles, and suddenly finds himself on the brink of a frightful precipice.
Wirt Sikes
Want to give a moralist christian a heart attack? Show proof of Pagan societies not only having laws against amoral behavior in general, but even specifically against pre-marital sex. That’s something even most christians would call puritan, yet it was absolutely an element of pre-christian moral and legal codes.
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The Acropolis of Athens by Yury Kiselyov
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Phidias’ Zeus and Athena by Yury Kiselyov
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Imagine believing that all people in the world are descendants of three jewish brothers
And they say we Pagans believe in fairy tales
The Trojan horse
Oleksandr Antonyuk
The horseman
Oleksandr Antonyuk
The Iliad
Oleksandr Antonyuk
Viking
Oleksandr Antonyuk
Archeological finds confirm pre-christian Slavs not having beards. Here for example is one of the male deities on the Zbruch idol.
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An example of a man sporting a traditional Slavic style Svyatolav had is Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk
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Sphendosthlavos arrived sailing along the river in a Scythian light boat, grasping an oar and rowing with his companions as if he were one of them. His appearance was as follows: he was of moderate height, neither taller than average, nor particularly short; his eyebrows were thick; he had grey eyes and a snub nose; his beard was clean-shaven, but he let the hair grow abundantly on his upper lip where it was bushy and long; and he shaved his head completely, except for a lock of hair that hung down on one side, as a mark of the nobility of his ancestry; he was solid in the neck, broad in the chest and very well articulated in the rest of his body; he had a rather angry and savage appearance; on one ear was fastened a gold earring, adorned with two pearls with a red gemstone between them; his clothing was white, no different from that of his companions…
Leo Deacon
At the end of the third century bc, Ptolemy IV Philopator established in Alexandria a shrine to Homer in which the cult image was surrounded by images of the cities which claimed the poet, and a famous late Hellenistic relief (the Apotheosis of Homer) sets Homer, crowned by Time and the Oikoumene (the inhabited world), in parallel with Zeus. If in time ‘divine’ (θεῖος) became a banal description of poets, as it is already a standard epithet of bards in the Odyssey, with Homer the epithet retained its full force.
Richard Hunter
The coblynau are described as being about half a yard in height and very ugly to look upon, but extremely good-natured, and warm friends of the miner. Their dress is a grotesque imitation of the miner’s garb, and they carry tiny hammers, picks and lamps. They work busily, loading ore in buckets, flitting about the shafts, turning tiny windlasses, and pounding away like madmen, but really accomplishing nothing whatever. They have been known to throw stones at the miners, when enraged at being lightly spoken of; but the stones are harmless. Nevertheless, all miners of a proper spirit refrain from provoking them, because their presence brings good luck.
W.Sikes
At the same moment the little goblin with the lantern springs across the chasm, alighting on the opposite side; raises the light again high over its head, utters a loud and malicious laugh, blows out its candle and disappears up the opposite hill, leaving the awestruck peasant to get home as best he can.
Wirt Sikes
…it happened that the girl fell pregnant after having sex with a man in secret. At first she managed to hide her condition; but when Cleanax became aware of it, he was angry about the mishap, and summoning Cretheis in private he held her wholly responsible for everything, emphasising the dishonor it brought among their fellow-citizens.
Pseudo-Herodotus
Pankration by Yuri Kiselyov
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Chariot race by Yury Kiselyov
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When debating a christian never agree that objective truth exits. If you do you fall into a trap, because objectivity leads to universality. Even pre-christian axial "religions" (elaborate forms of atheism) like platonism believed in objective truth, but Pagan traditional religions were always against objectivity and universality. Pagan societies had ethnically exclusive belief, morals and truths. Everything was localized.
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Scyles was king of Scythia; but he was in no way content with the Scythian way of life…and in every way follow the Greek manner of life, and worship the gods according to Greek usage…Octamasades beheaded Scyles on the spot. This is how closely the Scythians guard their customs, and these are the penalties they inflict on those who add foreign customs to their own.
Herodotus
The Triumph of Titus
Oleksandr Antonyuk
CDLXXX BC
Oleksandr Antonyuk
Legionarius
Oleksandr Antonyuk
Slavic priests (volkhvs) were the exception to the no beard custom as attested by Saxo’s description of the temple priest.
On the day before he was obliged to perform the sacred ceremony, its priest, conspicuous for his lengthy hair and beard, which went counter to common fashion in that land, used to take a broom and meticulously sweep out the sanctuary, where only he was allowed to enter.
Saxo Grammaticus
It is natural to assume that Weles, Slavic God of Magic and Underworld is also bearded since this is referenced in folklore.
Leo Deacon, Saxo Grammaticus, Ademar de Chabannes and st.Demetrius of Rostov all mention that pre-christian Slavic men did not grow beards, but had long mustache. This was true for all tribes, e.g. Saxo wrote about Wends.
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Svyatoslav
Reconstruction by Yulia Volodyna
θεῖος οὐκ ἄνθρωπος Ὅμηρος
Homer is divine not a human being
Greek ostrakon 3rd century A.D.
Paganism and death of the author
Most of you have probably heard of the literary theory called Death of the Author. While it sounds modern and was coined by a 20th c. critic, the idea that the author’s own interpretation of his/her text is irrelevant is ancient and comes from Pagan belief concerning inspiration. For example, Homer wrote The Iliad, but he wasn’t the only one who created the text since the Muses bestowed it on him. A poet is a conduit, a middleman between Gods and men.
That’s why we often see authors misunderstand their own work. Some modern examples include Ray Bradbury, Ridley Scott and Jeorge Lucas.
Of course it doesn’t mean that anyone can be creative, but the source of creativity is outside a man.