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20 Nov 2024 10:36

Adding on to HaV’s post, regarding pagan coherence…

Firstly, the Eddic Poems, which make up our most important sacred texts, are backed up by hundreds of years of continuity. For example, images of Sigurd sucking his burnt thumb on 5th Century bracteates, images of Wayland on 5th Century Frankish coins and 7th Century picture stones from Gotland, and parallels of Eddic poems in other Germanic literature. For example, stanzas of the Hávamál have parallels in The Wanderer, the Hákonarmál and the Fóstbrœðra Saga. Things like these show that our Eddic myths were consistent for hundreds of years across the Germanic world, before they were collected and written down.

Secondly, many tenets of the moral structures and worldviews of the pagan religions of Europe have parallels in other Indo-European religions, most notably Hinduism, the many branches of which form the oldest continuously practiced religion in the world; that’s consistency. While many sects have changed over the centuries, many have retained the original Vedic rituals and beliefs.

Lastly, assuming the original poster is Christian, it’s ironic that he talks about coherence, as the second half of the Bible is Jesus ripping apart established moral structures and traditions, not to mention Christian history is plagued by centuries of sectarian infighting, and many churches around the world now ignore and contradict Biblical teachings to keep the tithes flowing in.
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20 Nov 2024 10:36

Hammer and Vajra responds to an ignorant perspective espoused by whatifalthis

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19 Nov 2024 17:24

"I'll tell you when I've had enough *sówh₁-mo-s, woman! Just keep filling my beaker!"

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18 Nov 2024 18:54

Yamnaya version by Vveltkrieg

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18 Nov 2024 17:19

"When we cannot find the boundary between the inner and the outer, there is nothing to be done but give truth the credit, and say that the body is a part of the soul, or even the soul itself. The moment we grasp a stone firmly in the hand, we have grasped the soul of the stone—it is the soul we can feel. It is always possible for the body to be sucked up by the soul and vanish away, to emerge into the light again some other time. The spiritual can leave the material to reveal itself under other forms, but when it does appear and lets itself be seen, heard, and felt, then the manifestation takes place in virtue of that nature the soul possesses. However far away it may go, it still has matter bound up in it. To a certain degree, it is possible to speak of soul and body, but the distinction does not go so deep that it is possible to wrench the one from the other."

The Culture of the Teutons by Vilhelm Grønbech.

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18 Nov 2024 12:14

"Bronze Age Priest", by Ire (2024)

Proto Druid

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17 Nov 2024 19:03

Ok it didn't come from Orkney but the heel stone of Stonehenge still went a bloody long way!

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17 Nov 2024 17:34

This Vendel era ring sword pommel from Endre parish, Gotland, has an interesting motif of two figures, seemingly looking upward with bird or animal like jaws while grasping the start of the twisting snake like animals which terminate in the heads of wild boars.
photos by Matt Bunker.

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17 Nov 2024 16:59

Good guidance.

Don’t ask for wealth, ask for help to acquire wealth.

Don’t ask for your enemies to be harmed, ask for help in defeating them.

etc

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17 Nov 2024 10:26

Inside the Temple of Vitaly Sundakov, near Moscow. The idols represent Rod, Veles and Perun.
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16 Nov 2024 09:28

Figures from "Yamnaya Funerary Trends and Socio-Economic Dynamics in the East and West (Communication for The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC, Budapest, April 2024"

One reveals that Yamnaya were disproportionately male and had low life expectancy.

The other shows that Yamnaya are the most common steppe barrow builders, with iron age Scythian peoples building fewer. Medieval Turkic tribes preferred to reuse old barrows

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15 Nov 2024 21:47

Blot at the harrow for Disir and Vanir. Yngui weoh by @Wessexwoodcraft

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15 Nov 2024 12:24

Tonight is the full moon of Blot month. Bede says the English traditionally sacrificed cattle to the gods at this time but he didn't say which ones.

Professor Richard North argues that Bede's use of the Latin vanis is a rendering of the Old English cognate of 'Vanir' which would be Waene. Not everyone agrees with him but if you do then it is a time to blot to Ingui Frey, Easter/Freyja etc.

The importance of sacrifice at this time of year continued long after Christianisation in the form of St Martin's day. In France the taking of vows in the woods or at sacred spring on St Martin's day was banned in 578 AD. In Ireland people were still sprinkling sacrificial blood in their house on St Martin's day as recently as the 20th century!

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13 Nov 2024 22:39

My daughter walking along a stone row - Neolithic procession route

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13 Nov 2024 19:51

Besides being an unruly bunch of king killers, the Heruli were also allegedly the tallest of the Germanic tribes

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20 Nov 2024 10:36

"Pagan Coherent Moral philosophy vs others"

1. Strawman and disingenuous as it implies Abrahamic faiths actually have a coherent moral philosophy. Answer is they don't, that can't explain a lot of topics and can't get along with each other.

2. Is this morality based on Abrahamic paradigm and understanding of ethnics? Then everything will fall flat. Or be civic morality, which is a modern invention and isn't cohesive either.

Below is my reply after being tagged in this discussion.

He knows where to find me.
He can easily read what I write or have presented in my posts and books.
I have engaged with this misunderstanding of Ethnic faith and Abrahamic usage of the word "pagan" for strawman arguments more than enough.
Everything these so-called "prophets" of Abrahamics have presented were stolen from others or self-fulfilling prophecies.
This labeling of "paganism has no structure" is ignorant at least and intentionally in denial at best.
Rome, Greece, Hittites, Sumer, Egypt, Vedics, Shintō, Persia, Buddhism, and Daoism all present cohesive world view and structure.
For Celto-Germanics or Slavics who didn't have a written record until later, their oral tradtions presents a concise world view.
Most Indo-European faiths have a common world view, moral structure, and cosmology when compared.
Acting as if they don't is disingenuous and the typical strawman argument presented by Abrahamics with an agenda.

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19 Nov 2024 17:54

Yamnaya Domestic - with sound

"I'll tell you when I've had enough *sówh₁-mo-s, woman! Just keep filling my beaker!"

Original art by Christian Sloan Hall

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19 Nov 2024 15:12

New vinyl decals for your car, bike, chariot etc depicting the Odinic Sigurd from the DR-BR55 bracteate. Made to order here in Devon - available in 2 sizes, many colours

https://www.hippymotors.co.uk/our-latest-designs/sigmund-the-dragon-slayer

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18 Nov 2024 17:20

The modern mind, due to Plato's influence, finds it hard to discuss the Germanic equivalent of the soul without distinguishing it from the body.

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18 Nov 2024 13:23

The Neolithic social contract by Stone Age herbalist

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18 Nov 2024 10:59

Skara Brae is an entire village of Neolithic homes which predate the pyramids! I went to see them for myself https://youtu.be/bhPPG5pM4oM?feature=shared

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17 Nov 2024 17:34

Three men dressed in Vendel era clothing salute the great barrows of Uppsala, Sweden

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17 Nov 2024 17:34

Detail shots of the Vendel era draugr of the barrow in The Northman (2022) - taken from "The Northman: a call to the gods" which is a book about the film's production. You can learn more about the pagan details of the film in this comprehensive film about its esoteric heathen lore.

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17 Nov 2024 16:58

The Helgakviða Hundingsbana II shows us the kind of intercession our ancestors would have asked for, and expected, from the Gods; when Dagr prayed to Odin for revenge on his father’s killer, Odin gave him his spear.
This shows us another tenet of the Germanic pagan worldview; they didn’t ask that the Gods enact revenge or strike down their enemies on their behalf, but rather, aid them in righteous actions they had set in motion.
Painting by Knut Ekwall, 1876.
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16 Nov 2024 15:47

New vinyl decals for your car, bike, chariot etc depicting the Odinic Sigurd from the DR-BR55 bracteate. Made to order here in Devon - available in 2 sizes, many colours

https://www.hippymotors.co.uk/our-latest-designs/sigmund-the-dragon-slayer

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16 Nov 2024 00:10

In Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, he wrote that Blōtmōnaþ sacrifices continued post-conversion, offering animals to the Christian god instead. He noted that before the sacrificial feasts, they’d build huts from the boughs of trees around their temples which had been converted into churches; possibly a remnant of building demarcation fences around weohs.
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15 Nov 2024 12:39

The radiant Lady herself, Freyja, 8 inches tall in tulip wood with younger futhark runes and a natural Danish oil finish. This was a fun one to carve, tulip wood is awesome.

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14 Nov 2024 09:29

I was interviewed recently in Amsterdam

https://youtu.be/z47A7QzACfE?feature=shared

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13 Nov 2024 22:38

Can’t describe how huge the moon was today. Photo doesn’t show it

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13 Nov 2024 19:17

Also had a potter around the menhirs of Merrivale today