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29 Nov 2024 01:40

Need to get back to the translation I was planing a while ago. Hopefully it will be finished soon. Life is a bit tough right now. Sorry for the delay.

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27 Nov 2024 12:27

Since I don’t want to spoil the main events this is where the review ends. Krabat is definitely a movie worth watching, preferably with original dub. Fortunately the subtitled version is easily available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvdUo8U5lp4&t=2242s

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

27 Nov 2024 11:12

The master won’t let Krabat escape and uses warlock powers learned from Koraktor (a book of black magic from Sorbian folklore) to control the students. The latter are not only forced to work for the master, but also perform rituals based on folk belief e.g. to sleep at a spot where a man died violently.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

27 Nov 2024 10:45

The movie is based on a novel Krabat written in 1971 by a German author O.Preußler. The book takes great inspiration from Sorbian folklore and features many typical elements one can find in Slavic fairy tales which the animated feature faithfully preserves.

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26 Nov 2024 21:57

Going to write a movie review

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24 Nov 2024 19:32

One of the most underrated tales in Greek tradition is one of Achilles and Penthesilea’s tragic love which both began and ended in battle.

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22 Nov 2024 21:49

Folk Herbalism vs corporate pharmaceuticals:

Modern medicine is really good at concentrating & making chemical compounds to quickly neutralize symptoms. Fever . take 3 Tylenol etc. What modern medicine does not do well is preventative medicine and curing the root cause of illnesses.

Several years ago there was an exposé between wall street investors and big pharma / health insurance agencies who had meetings around, "is curing patients a sustainable business model?" The goal of these companies is to make as much money as possible. To do that, sell you as much medication as possible. To do that is not to cure you, but to keep you sick while making you feel better.

Folk Herbalism by contrast is about supplementing your diet with preventative vitamins & minerals. It is about living a good lifestyle. In short, with proper living and diet, the need for modern heavily-concentrated artificially-synthesized medications is rendered moot. This is the main reason why home gardens and homesteading is under attack.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Nov 2024 18:35

If I got a penny for every atheist posing as a Pagan… This retard claims that the Gods were originally not depicted as human-looking, even though the oldest idol on Earth (Shigir idol) is. Uses naturalism reducing Gods to animals, mountains and rivers (literally christian-atheist trick like euhemerism). And doesn’t even know how the term Pagan was (and is) applied.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Nov 2024 23:34

Nevertheless it was not war but work that determined the trend of life and gave form to institutions, social as well as religious. A man asserted his gentility no less by tilling his land in luck and showing a generous hospitality, than by courage in action.

V.Grönbech

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20 Nov 2024 23:03

What some newcomers don’t get is that Germanic Paganism is not quote on quote a viking religion. Vikings are a product of Germanic culture, but dare I say they are not the best representatives. A typical Germanic Pagan was a farmer and most of his/her religious practices were focused on the herd and harvest.
Meanwhile viking culture is a distillation of raider-warrior mentality and would be destructive in a Pagan society because it’s not meant to exist inside, it’s always outside by it’s raiding nature. This sentiment is also expressed in V.Grönbech’s book I’m reading.

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20 Nov 2024 01:04

Though platonism lead to the collapse of traditional paganism, breaking free of it will restore the natural worldview of our forefathers.

It is said that there are two pillars of current western liberal civilization, the judeo-christian bible, and plato. Most of us have discarded the first pillar and only after the second is gone, will the natural state of European men and women return and flourish once more.

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19 Nov 2024 05:55

There are simple magic formulas children utter to summon a khorkha

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19 Nov 2024 03:54

In Germanic faith, Draugr are the undead that are equal parts dreadful and cruel. Even after christianization, sightings and conflicts with Draugr are relatively common.

Not to be confused with the Norse Haugr, or mound-dwellers, Draugr are usually those that are discontent and upset with their fate. Hatred burning inside turning a mean man into a cruse upon the land and those who call it home.

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18 Nov 2024 06:02

The ancient view of life necessarily leads thought beyond the individual; one always looks about among the family to find the sources of his will and his fate.
The father's eye is gladdened when he sees himself and his kinsmen again in his sons, when, as the phrase runs, he can “see the luck of the family” in his son.

V.Grönbech

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16 Nov 2024 17:35

Sucellos and Nantosuelta

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28 Nov 2024 16:53

Though prayer, meditation and honorable acts are forms of veneration and worship, so too was dancing and song. Each avenue of worship was permitted and encouraged in antiquity, so too should it be in our revival

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27 Nov 2024 11:41

Most important is that each year the master has to duel one of his apprentices to the death. The one left standing will become the new head sorcerer, but that never happens because the master’s shapeshifting and quick wit grant him victory each time.

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27 Nov 2024 10:53

The story follows titular Krabat, a young homeless boy who lives as a beggar until one day he is summoned by ravens to an abandoned mill where a one-eyed sorcerer makes Krabat one of his apprentices. The sorcerer himself is the standout character of both the book and the movie. Despite providing shelter and even teaching the boys his dark arts the Master (as he is addressed) is cruel and scary serving as the antagonist of the story.

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27 Nov 2024 10:37

Krabat the Sorcerer's Apprentice is a great animated movie from Czechoslovakia and I highly recommend it.

The first noteworthy thing is obviously the unique cutout animation used in the picture. The technique seems exotic nowadays since it’s much cheaper to create 3D models with modern tech. Not to sound like an old grump, but I prefer those antiquated methods like stop-motion, cutout etc. And Krabat is probably one of the best examples why.

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24 Nov 2024 20:05

Achilles and Penthesilea by Bertel Thorvaldsen

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23 Nov 2024 06:49

Nice, source-accurate depiction of Cu Chulainn. Most artists forget, or rather, are not aware, that he was very young and never even reached full adulthood. Cu Chulainn being too young to have facial hair is the reason he wasn’t affected by the curse which put down all other warriors of Ulster.

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21 Nov 2024 23:28

Antefix in the shape of a female bust from the neighborhood of the altar of the Temple of Hera, Paestum.

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21 Nov 2024 05:45

First snow where I am. Winter spirits waking up early it seems.

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20 Nov 2024 23:13

When the connection with daily occupations and obligations had been severed, as it had to be in armies settling on foreign soil, war filled the scene, and the truest, nay the only proof a man could give of his gentleness consisted in deeds accomplished with the axe. These gallant knights were sometimes fain to pour contempt on the patient toil of the bread winner as in the epigram of the Harbardsljod: “Odin owns the earls who are slain in battle, Thor owns the race of the thralls”.

V.Grönbech

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20 Nov 2024 01:17

For the Teutons, living implied fighting, man means a living being who keeps his weapons sharp by grinding them on his honour.

V.Grönbech

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19 Nov 2024 06:03

Usually a khorkha replaces a child’s tooth with a coin

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19 Nov 2024 05:52

Carpathian tooth fairy is a mouse-like creature called khokha

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19 Nov 2024 02:37

Lombard ruler with his guards

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18 Nov 2024 00:18

World Serpent by Angus McBride

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16 Nov 2024 04:18

The end of the cauldron

Later Paor Dadeni is used in battle. When Efnissiyen sees it he decided to stop the slaughter.

Woe to me - being the cause of this carnage of the men of the Island of the Mighty' he thought 'and shame on me if I don't seek deliverance from this.'

He crawls in amongst the corpses of the Irishmen, and two bare-bottomed Irishmen come to him and throw him in the cauldron, along with the others. He stretches himself out in the cauldron, until the cauldron breaks into four pieces, and his heart breaks [as well].