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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
From the times of Nestor to the present day, meeting a priest, monk, or nun has been considered unlucky: it foretells unexpected misfortune, loss, or failure in an undertaking. Therefore, commoners, upon encountering a priest or a monk, hasten to return home or spit three times on the ground.
A.Afanasyev
Slavic spindle whorl with swastikas
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Slavic clay pots with swastikas
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Wolf in a Winter Landscape
Stepan Kolesnikov
Slavic VI c accessories
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Photo by Carlos González Ximénez
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Their [Slavic] women are more sensitive than any others in the world. When, for example, their husband dies, many look upon it as their own death and freely smother themselves, not wanting to continue their lives as widows.
Strategikon of Maurice
Relics of the veneration of the household natrix snake which lives in the hearth and brings luck are preserved in traditional Boykos worldview. This is evidenced by the next demonological story: I came to visit my aunt and saw a plate behind a curtain which the aunt filled with milk. I saw three snakes with convex, red eyes. The aunt said: "I have to feed them, otherwise my cows will die".
N.Voitovich
Man was formed….the son of Iapetus fashioned after the image of the Gods, who rule over all things. And, whereas other animals bend their looks downwards upon the Earth, to Man he gave a countenance to look on high and to behold the heavens, and to raise his face erect to the stars. Thus, that which had been lately rude earth, and without any regular shape, being changed, assumed the form of Man, till then unknown.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
translated into English prose by Henry T.Riley
Creationism is more racist than racism
Paganism provides a much stronger case for separation of different people than any soyence, even the scientific racism common among right-wing atheists. That’s because Paganism rejects evolutionary theory completely. Different people are created by different Gods and have absolutely nothing in common. Meanwhile even the most racist soyence-worshipper still believes that all human races (and even humans and apes) have a common progenitor.
Generally a man knew only the gods of his own city, and honored and respected them alone. Each one could say what, in a tragedy of Æschylus, a stranger said to the Argives — “I fear not the gods of your country; I owe them nothing.”
Numa de Coulanges
Each of their innumerable gods had his little domain; to one a family belonged, to another a tribe, to a third a city.
As to the god of the human race, a few philosophers had an idea of him; the mysteries of Eleusis might have afforded a glimpse…but the vulgar never believed in such a god.
Numa de Coulanges
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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Shared some interesting stuff on my Slavic channel. Check it out here: /channel/Slavic_Pagan/420
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Slavic spindle whorl with a swastika
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My First Snow
V.Homiak
Slavic accessories and weapons approx. 1st c.
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Slavic burial accessories XV-XIII BC
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The Silence of a Winter Forest
Olga Kvasha
Each city had its corps of priests, who depended upon no foreign authority. Between the priests of two cities there was no bond, no communication, no exchange of instruction or of rites. If one passed from one city to another, he found other gods, other dogmas, other ceremonies. The ancients had books of liturgies, but those of one city did not resemble those of another. Every city had its collection of prayers and practices, which were kept very secret; it would have thought itself in danger of compromising its religion and its destiny by opening this collection to strangers. Thus religion was entirely local, entirely civic, taking this word in the ancient sense — that is to say, special to each city.
Numa de Coulanges
An example of christian revisionism of Pagan myth
"Some writers have labored to prove that this Prometheus, of the heathen Mythology, was a Scriptural character. Bochart believes him to have been the same with Magog, mentioned in the book of Genesis. Prometheus was the son of Iapetus, and Magog was the son of Japhet, who, according to that learned writer, was identical with Iapetus.
The fable of Prometheus being devoured by an eagle, according to some, is founded on the name of Magog, which signifies ‘a man devoured by sorrow.’"
Henry T.Riley
Prometheus creating the first Man
30 BC ringstone
Volodymyr Slepchenko
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^ Those Numa calls vulgar there are proper Pagans. Philosophers were first atheists and proto-christians. The idea of a universal God is as anti-Pagan as it gets. Our guys say that if every christian degenerate was nailed to a cross the world would be a better place. Well, if every philosopher was forced to drink hemlock there’d be no christians to begin with (or christianity would be just a minor sect of judaism).
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The city which possessed a divinity of its own did not wish strangers to be protected by it, or to adore it. More commonly a temple was accessible only to citizens. The Argives alone had the right to enter the temple of Hera at Argos. To enter that of Athene at Athens, one had to be an Athenian. The Romans who adored two Junos at home could not enter the temple of a third Juno, who was in the little city of Lanuvium.
Numa de Coulanges
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