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Atheism has sporadically appeared in pre-Socratic philosophy, but due to prompt action failed to cause long-term effect. As Nilsson states:
A very severe criticism of the gods and of their cult had been made by Xenophanes and Heraclitus without doing much harm.
The reason why Xenophanes’ teachings were not as influential as those of later atheists is because the man was quickly exiled after he, according to Diogenes, wrote poetry “attacking Hesiod and Homer and denouncing what they said about the gods”. Thus showing great hubris considering himself a moral authority above the Gods themselves. For this the heretic was exiled and lived the rest of his life a wandering outcast.
“Any one who shall have eaten or drank with him, or who shall have touched him,” said the law, “should purify himself.”
Ancient Greeks considered all forms of impiety atheism. To quote M.Nilsson:
"The contention that the sun was a glowing lump and the moon another inhabited world could hardly be counted as atheism."
Yet no real distinction was made between those who outright denied the existence of the Gods like Critias (a student of Socrates and Plato’s cousin who considered Gods an invention of rulers to control the masses) and naturalists like Prodicus (a friend of Socrates who saw Gods as personifications of nature).
To Greeks all of the above were equally guilty of atheism, despite their differences.
I’m almost done with the big analysis of late Greek occultism and atheism and it’s consequences. It may end up longer than expected, since I found another good author who wrote on the topic and am now blitz reading his work. Hope you can wait a bit.
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Nonbelief does matter; it remains a real concern for our modern revivalism.
From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, and even earlier, the entire folk community's relationship with the Immortal Pantheon depended on their recognition of their powers, their very reality. Community participation was vital. If someone's lack of faith or lack of ritual action arose, it threatened the whole community's relationship with the divine. Translated into English today, we would levy this charge of "impiety" against those who failed to maintain sincerity in both belief and ritual performance. In some societies, you had no choice but to participate, lest you be exiled, at the least. An example of this was demonstrated when Thervingi king Athanaric would test those Visigoths' loyalty to the Almighty by requiring them to partake in ritualized meals. Those who refused could be charged with impiety. According to the historic record, the king had approximately some 300 Goths prosecuted – and executed – for apostasizing their former convictions. They had also converted to Arian Christianity, something that Athanaric personally had declared an enemy to the very Gothic way of life.
For those who say, "You can believe whatever you want as a Pagan," they are simply wrong. Lack of theism, lack of acknowledgement of the sacred was not just unconventional, but a capital crime. We should be just as worried about it today as our ancestors were then in their time.
Don’t forget that tomorrow there will be a live panel discussion on loki at 6:00 PM EST
Featured Speakers:
Mark Puryear, Author and Researcher
William Reaves, Author and Researcher
Keith Osgood, Author and Researcher
It will take place on Dave Martel's YouTube channel
An old axe of mine. More part of the decor, than a tool at this point.
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Neoplatonism was a major influence on Christian theology throughout Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the East, and sometimes in the West as well. In the East, major Greek Fathers like Basil, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus were influenced by Platonism and Neoplatonism, but also Stoicism often leading towards asceticism and harsh treatment of the body, for example stylite asceticism. In the West, St. Augustine of Hippo was influenced by the early Neoplatonists Plotinus and Porphyry. Later on, in the East, the works of the Christian writer Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, who was influenced by later Neoplatonists such as Proclus and Damascius, became a critical work on which Greek church fathers based their theology, like Maximus believing it was an original work of Dionysius the Areopagite.
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I do not claim that this forest worship exhausted all the ideas our ancestors had about the deity and its abode; it was only the most important. Individual gods may dwell on mountain peaks, in rocky caves, in rivers, but the solemn, general worship of the people has its seat in the grove; nowhere could it have found a more worthy home.
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One of my favorite heroes Mykyta the Tanner drawn by B.Michailov
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Leave a pic in the comments which best fits your ideology. Here's a good one.
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Wayland the Smith statuette from Germany
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Next big post will be an example and analysis of what led to the decline in traditional belief in the West (specifically Ancient Greece) and the many lessons one can learn from it. Will take a while, but it's going to be an important and insightful read.
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Christianity is an individualist religion and shuns communitarianism. This is clear in so many ways, one small (but significant) way is in its naming conventions.
For the pagan, the patronymic is the real name. The Romans had three names, and the most important was the name of the gens (simply called the nomen, or "name"), which was the name of the founder of the paternal line, your deepest ancestor. This was the true name, the official name, the sacred name that you bore. It was the one you were most proud of, the one that made you you.
In Christian times the true, sacred name was the baptismal name, the individual name you were given at birth. Patronymics came late, as a surname or sometimes the name of the estate you were born to. For most of Christian history, you only had a first name.
For Christianity, the individual is everything. Individual freedom and independence are the highest good, and your own personal relationship with Yahweh decides your salvation. For paganism, the family is the sacred body and you are only a part, not separable from it. Family values is a pagan thing, this is why you can't be Christian unless you hate your father and mother (Luke 14:26).
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There are only two possible depictions of Loki in archeaological finds; The Kirkby Stephen Stone and possibly the Gosforth Cross. Both images bare no name to definitively identify the character portrayed on these two finds, but on both depictions the character is bound and on the Gosforth cross there is an image of a woman standing over a bound figure, while holding a bowl with a snake over head. The imagery matches the story that has survived in the literary sources. However, the lack of any amulets, charms or other runic carvings that display the name “Loki” supports the name taboo associated with this condemned being and strongly suggests that Loki worship was completely unknown to our ancestors.
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Honestly the ancient approach was correct. One does not need to claim that Gods don’t exist and never had to be an atheist.
Euheremists claim that Gods did exist, but were mortals.
Naturalists say that Gods do exist, but are just natural phenomena like rain or sunlight.
There is also a metaphysic interpretation which claim that Gods exist, yet not here and now but in some mythical realm beyond.
In the end it’s all the same. Literal existence of the Gods is denied by all of them and it was enough to be charged with atheism.
We know that atheism began in Ancient Greece. Late Antiquity deserves to be dressed as the most subversive pre-christian civilization out there, a Weimar Republic of it’s time.
All of the above is no secret to academia, but the latter being run by the usual suspects, we rarely (if ever) see any deep dives into the topic as well as proper treatment of the many heretical teachings of that period. It’s usually the opposite, with literal heretic Socrates being considered the first true philosopher and a wiseman. Battling this very intentionally subversive status quo is imperative.
What's happening in the debate over mythic realism vs. anti-realism is the heathen equivalent of the lead up to the council of Nicaea. The basic shape of heathenry is being hammered out.
It's not going to look quite like the council of Nicaea because heathenry is not and cannot be ecumenical. But nor is it "do what you feel like". There are certain things that are and are not legitimate heathenry. It's not Protestantism, it's not sola scriptura. This is folk religion, and you have to defer to the folk.
Mythic realism is going to win because folk religion has always been mythically realist, it believes straightforwardly in the myths. Once heathens run up against serious Christian and Muslim theologians we are going to get smoked unless we have a solid basis for belief, and Neoplatonist metaphor-worship can't offer that. All of philosophy and metaphysics needs to be re-thought from the ground up. We can't retrofit a vitalist and folkish worldview with one on the other side of a civilizational cycle, when paganism was dying.
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There is nothing more jewish than rejecting Paganism.
Far and wide of all the hebrew/jewish scriptures of Old Testament (which christians take as sacred texts) we see that they condemn all other religions, specially pagan/gentile ones, openly inciting their destruction:
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. (Deuteronomy 12: 2-3).
This crystal-obsession, by my educated guess, is neither an attested Germanic nor non-Germanic spiritual tradition. Where there are exceptions to the rule, I can ascertain through further research. But this fixiation on crystal-healing, crystal-collecting, and crystal in-generalism that people often have appears none other than a New-Age concoction.
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If you ever need proof of platonists being anti-Pagan and atheistic all you have to do is talk to them.
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Scandinavian Bronze Age swastika
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What we think of as a built, walled house dissolves, the earlier we go back, into the concept of a sacred place untouched by human hands, tended and enclosed by self-grown trees. There the deity dwells and hides its image in the rustling leaves of the branches…
J.Grimm
An unfinished work of K.Vasiliev depicting the struggle of Paganism and christianity in Europe
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Gotthard Sonnenfeld’s masterpiece "Defeated" reminds me of the legend of Penthesilea and Achilles, an Amazon queen and a Greek hero. The tale is one of the most tragic in Hellenic tradition as Achilles fell in love with Penthesilea the moment he killed her.
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Polianitsa is a female warrior from bylinas. The word translates as the steppe woman. It’s very likely that polianitsas were inspired by Scythian female warriors just like Amazons. They often became wives of bogatyrs.
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Great bylina illustrations from an old book of mine
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Hidden weapon
One of the most interesting motifs of European (Aryan) epic tales is the one of hidden weapons which require a feat of strength to uncover. It’s a bit similar to the sword in the stone since the hero has to prove his powers and deserve the weapons before using them.
Anotehr noteworthy element is that in all examples I know those weapons belong to a hero of old (usually a relative), so there’s an idea of a new generations getting power from their predecessors. Very inspirational.
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