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◇ PIE in the Sky ◇
The core claim made by Dumézil to support his pie myth claims is the three functions of his Trifunctional Schema, which are:
1. sovereignty/magic
2. war
3. fertility/productivity
This tripartide structure is imposed post hoc, not an uncovered secret.
For starters, his ideas dont fit with the sources. Odin for example has sovereignty, magic & war aspects. Multiple gods in multiple religions cross these 'rigid boundaries,' making his tripartide system false by examining the sources. When you cherry pick examples, and ignore counter examples, your model becomes unreliable. Besides, any deity can be shoehorned into a function by redefining the function post hoc.
This system is also falsified by new evidence. Specifically, Hittite mythology (pre-1500 BCE) lacks this trifunctional Pantheon, which is instead dominated by storm gods and chthonic pairs, with no clear “third function” fertility class.
What Dumézil does is start with a conclusion and twist facts, post hoc, to "prove his case"
Werewolves run to the forest and live there like beasts. After joining a pack they feed it by attacking cattle, but not eating any, just choking.
A werewolf is alien to everything wolven. He’s calm, often whines, eats only bread.
According to Ukranian and Belarussian belief a werewolf doesn’t even howl like a wolf, but moans and cries like a man.
Anatolii Svydnytsky
Interestingly, according to folk belief when a man forgets God, a witch takes him to a hill, sticks a knife in the ground and tells him to jump over it three times; then a man grows hair and becomes a werewolf.
Ukrainian demonology
Going to translate some werewolf lore. My regular followers know that it’s a topic I like to return to partially just because it’s interesting on it’s own and partially to combat the Hollywoodization of werewolves (as well as vampires and other evil spirits).
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@Slavic_Pagan
These and other examples from all over the world show that traditional Pagan perspective sees Gods as real, fully physical entities, rather than emanations or attributes of shapeless powers as some modern atheo-pagans would suggest (or ancient heretics like Greek philosophers).
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And it is said that after they left the Forum they were not seen again by anyone, though great search was made for them by the man who had been left in command of the city. The next day, when those at the head of affairs received the letters from the dictator, and besides the other particulars of the battle, learned also of the appearance of the divinities, they concluded, as we may reasonably infer, that it was the same gods who had appeared in both places, and were convinced that the apparitions had been those of Castor and Pollux.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
December by A.Meschanov
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November is almost over. How was it for you and your spiritual development?
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One of the things we promote here on Pagan Revivalism channel, is the importance of sacrifice. That if we are given gifts from the land, we are obliged to give back to the land. This promotes the recycling of nutrients, which in turn promotes life & all it's cycles.
This past year, we ran a test of this ancestral principle by burying animal sacrifices on a small plot, and testing it with another plot with no sacrifices as a control group. The results were fantastic, as we grew almost 300lbs of crops compared to the 45lbs in the control.
What this shows is that our most ancient ancestors & holy Gods knew more about how our world works than many folk today. They not only knew how to utilize its potential but also have a symbiotic relationship with nature for the benefit of all involved. Also, we have so many Ancestors, Gods & Goddesses associated with or who did agriculture, it only makes sense to follow their wisdom. And if they knew how to better the land, then perhaps through Pagan Revivalism, we can too!
Every family (domus) honoured its own gods, some of which went by the same name everywhere (the Lares, the genius, the Penates), while the names of others depended on particular family traditions. Thus each family honoured its own Lar (in Greek, heros), the deity that protected the land on which the family lived. As well as regular worship (on the Kalends, the Nones and the Ides of the month), the Lar received offerings at all family feasts and banquets. Up to the beginning of the common era, the Lar was addressed in the singular but, no doubt under the influence of the Lares Augusti, the plural of the word later came to be used. In their domestic shrines (lararia) set up in the communal rooms of homes, the Lares, from the beginning of the Empire on, were represented as two young men dancing and pouring wine from a horn into a patera.
John Scheid
Translated by Janet Lloyd
Hercules and Hydra by Das Pastoras
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□ Mythic Timeline Interview □
This is a companion interview with our Gods of Germania Interview & our Germanic Cosmology Interview. If you love these interviews, & want more like them, follow t.me/Pagan_Revivalism as well as the William P. Reaves website Germanicmythology.com & the Norroena Society! If you'd like books from our guests, links will be below:
William P. Reaves books
Norroena Society books
Mark Puryear books
Keith Osgood books
Dr. Scott Shell articles & books
□ Table of Contents □
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:51 Schools of Thought
0:16:05 Recap on Rydberg
0:28:35 The Ages of Germania
0:44:18 In the Beginning
0:54:02 Primeval Age of Peace
1:07:47 Conflict on the Horizon
1:14:15 The Age of War
1:59:10 The Historic Era
2:13:43 Ragnarök & Renewal
2:34:50 Closing
"This is definitely the best PR episode I’ve heard yet"
- Beræcer
A metal dragon statue climbing up the side of Munich's city hall on the Wurmeck or "Serpent's Corner"
Drawn by Oksana Boiko
Three-Headed Dragon
Jaroslav Vodrážka
It is said that somewhere in the world, in the mountains, wolves gather under a commander who instructs them on what to do.
He climbed a tree to avoid being eaten. From his perch, he watched as wolves came from all directions, gathering beneath him. Among them he noticed one with three legs – it was injured by a gunshot. Then came an officer…the leader…The wolves lined up like soldiers. The commander assigned tasks, like punishing those who worked on St. Elijah’s day. With a single word, they obeyed and dispersed to execute his commands.
O.Hedeșan
Art by Rada Niţă
In some regions eclipse is also explained in a purely mythological way. Winged werewolves want to eat the sun.
G.Bulashev
Material provided by @Danikacvlt
In V.Gnatyk’s materials it is stated that werewolves can be of two types. The born ones who periodically tun into wolves when the time comes for it and join packs. And charmed ones. In the case of the latter they live as wolves until someone realized that they are not normal and breaks the charm.
Ukrainian demonology
◇ PIE in the Sky ◇
Over the years here on Pagan Revivalism, many folk know I am a skeptic of the pie-perennialist position. Many folk have requested for me to do an entire show dedicated to tackling this ideology, like we did in October with axiality. Most folk have never heard the other side of the argument, until now.
Join us after winter solstice, 12/25/25, as we do a full take-down of pie-perennialism. We will cover their genetics, linguistics, material culture & comparative-mythology arguments, why they're easily defeated and much more!
This will be the most controversial show we have produced, but it is also the most important. For as we revive, we need to understand our actual foundations. If those foundations are faulty & foreign, cobbled together by mashing different religions together into a hypothetical ur-religion, we set ourselves up for failure.
This is a show you will not want to miss, as we break-down and take-down the pie, a new-age revisionist cult, only here at Pagan Revivalism channel.
Sun, Moon and Perun are living beings, they have their homes and lands.
E.Romanov Belorussian compilation. (Романов Е. Р. Белорусский сборник. Вып. 4: Сказки космогоническія и культурныя. Витебск, 1891.)
And first, while they were yet in the city, the generals sent as a herald to Sparta Phidippides, an Athenian, and one, moreover, that was a runner of long distances and made that his calling. This man, as he said himself and told the Athenians, when he was in the Parthenian hills above Tegea, met with Pan; who, calling to Phidippides by name, bade him say to the Athenians, "Why is it that ye take no thought for me, that am your friend, and ere now have oft been serviceable to you, and will be so again?" This story the Athenians believed to be true, and when their state won to prosperity they founded a temple of Pan beneath the acropolis, and for that message sought the god's favour with yearly sacrifices and torch-races.
Herodotus
It is said that in this battle two men on horseback, far excelling in both beauty and stature those our human stock produces, and just growing their first beard, appeared to Postumius, the dictator, and to those arrayed about him, and charged at the head of the Roman horse, striking with their spears all the Latins they encountered and driving them headlong before them. And after the flight of the Latins and the capture of their camp, the battle having come to an end in the late afternoon, two youths are said to have appeared in the same manner in the Roman Forum attired in military garb, very tall and beautiful and of the same age, themselves retaining on their countenances as having come from a battle, the look of combatants, and the horses they led being all in a sweat.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Milk as a sacred drink
Ancients benefitted greatly from the domestication of different animals. Horses were used for war, while bulls and cows became cattle. They produced meat and, more importantly for this topic, milk which is known for it’s nourishing properties. Also blacks and asians can’t drink it, which is the reason why some even claim that dairy is racist.
These facts lead me to using milk in my libations. Of course, water and spirits are appropriate too.
Mistakes of early revival
Mistake #2 casting a wide net
It’s obvious by now that Pagansphere has a problem with gatekeeping. Not keeping non-Pagans out of the club early on was justified by small numbers we’d have otherwise, but look what we ended up with. For some it was always a matter of money. Most organizations are like that. Guess it’s hard to turn people down when they give you cash each month. There’s also a lot of leftists using the term. Bored housewives with crystals and cards. Homos who can’t read the ancient laws ect. There’s some pushback, but the media will always be on their side so I don’t see much sense in wasting hours on debates. A post here and there is enough.
Heimdallr by A.Hodirevskaya
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Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his son and almost did, but yhwh stopped him at the very end. Some christians see it as an example of abrahamic religions being morally superior. Remind those golems of that time Agamemnon almost sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia, but Artemis interfered.
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Charles de La Fosse
Another Munchen statue, a griffin.
Drawn by Oksana Boiko
If any one of you would happen to have a pdf version of Josef Spilka's Fairy Tales from the Mountains I'd really appreceite reading it. Maybe we'll just get lucky.
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Serpent king
Jaroslav Vodrážka