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09 Dec 2023 23:46

Odin by Alexey Asgardov

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09 Dec 2023 06:49

This new translation from the Lives of Martyrs of Vilnius adds to the other sources which make it clear that pre-christian Slavs did not grow beards.

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08 Dec 2023 21:00

The translation is done, but the fragment needs some backstory to be understood fully. The text tells how Pagan Lithvanian Algirdas met with a christian (future martyr) and what's most important here-how he managed to realize he was a christian. This has to do with Slavic traditions, but is hopefully will be interesting enough for all the readers.

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07 Dec 2023 20:44

The abovementioned fragment is from the Lives of Martyrs of Vilnius. Three orthodox monks who travelled to Lithvania and were killed by a Pagan duke Algirdas.

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07 Dec 2023 07:20

While Odysseus is an example of a hero chosen by a deity for his personal qualities (quick wit and skill in battle), Chryses, on the other hand, is a devoted follower, who has full support of his God.

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06 Dec 2023 07:08

Paganism is the only religion which treats animals with due respect and love

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04 Dec 2023 23:04

No thoughtful person should be ignorant of the fact that the road to the gods never starts from "powers," whether we call them "magical" or dress them up in theological termi­nology.
To do otherwise is to be guilty of applying the concept of evolution in an entirely meaningless way. This rift is barely covered over by a name as futile and yet as pretentious as "Vegetation deity." After all, what we describe by this name is nothing else but a pretext to account for the fact of growth—some­ thing just as abstract and lifeless as the concept of growth itself.

W.F.Otto

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03 Dec 2023 15:56

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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02 Dec 2023 05:57

Kupala night by V.Forostetsky

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01 Dec 2023 12:05

There is no such thing as "Neo-Paganism". Any word attached with the prefix neo- means "new", thus implying that the something in question died or was stamped out. But like many isms, Paganism never died or was killed, but went underground, laid low, but it has always been here despite what mainstream scholars and foreign zealots will tell you otherwise.

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01 Dec 2023 07:15

The Greeks did not look upon the Homeric gods above them as lords nor upon themselves beneath as servants, after the fashion of the Jews.
Man thinks well of himself when he gives himself such gods and places himself in relationship akin to that of the lower nobility with the higher.

Nietzche

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29 Nov 2023 23:01

From the arts, we can still observe how they freed themselves from their connection with cultus and became secular. They were unquestionably called into life by a more powerful, a more deeply experienced afflatus of the miraculous, whose presence is attested to by the emo­tions of ecstasy and grace even today when the arts seem to have a completely independent existence.
When we look, therefore, at origins, at fundamental forces, we must characterize all of the creative activities of man, without distinction, as cult practices.

F.W.Otto

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29 Nov 2023 14:35

Bladud is best known for being the flyign king. The legend says that using a combination of magic and technology he created wings and tried to fly with them.

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27 Nov 2023 16:02

Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees. Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh vines.

Homer

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27 Nov 2023 13:47

The great and terrible wave gathered about Achilles, falling upon him and beating on his shield, so that he could not keep his feet; he caught hold of a great elm-tree, but it came up by the roots, and tore away the bank, damming the stream with its thick branches and bridging it all across; whereby Achilles struggled out of the stream, and fled full speed over the plain, for he was afraid.

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09 Dec 2023 06:59

Celts and Slavs have the same tradition when it comes to facial hair

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08 Dec 2023 22:10

This Pagan custom of theirs claims that fire serves their father, an evil and insidious demon who created the law to cut long hair and shave beards with a razor. He (the saint) as if numb to his body, rejected vile and madness of any carnal tradition and did not cut them (hair and beard). Seeing a man of such look the king asked he whether he was a christian. He admitted that boldly which caused the king great anger and frenzy.

Lives of Martyrs of Vilnius

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07 Dec 2023 23:25

Wish more European leaders back in the day had this approach to christians.

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07 Dec 2023 15:31

Finally got a rare text fragment available. Will translate later.

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06 Dec 2023 23:04

Through years of devotion and ritual you can develop very close relationships with the Gods. Also one can be chosen by a God or Goddess and guided for seemingly no particular reason.

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05 Dec 2023 14:28

Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry by Charles Meynier

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03 Dec 2023 23:29

The youth thought of the good of his native city when he ran a race or threw or sang; he wanted to increase its reputation through his own; it was to the city's gods that he dedicated the wreaths which the umpires placed on his head in honour.
From childhood, every Greek felt the burning desire within him to be an instrument of bringing well-being to his city in the contest: in this, his selfishness was lit, as well as curbed and restricted.

Nietzsche

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02 Dec 2023 18:37

Paganism is strengthening the future using the wisdom of the past

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01 Dec 2023 19:40

Who are the greatest heroes of European folklore and myth?

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01 Dec 2023 11:28

The jews of the Old Testament are militaristic, violent, zealous...a far cry from modern stock exchange jews. That's because the conquering jews never existed and are just jewish fanfiction about their supposedly great ancestors. What jews wrote about the size and might of their kingdoms does not match any textual or archeological data we have.
Stories of great kings like David wiping out whole nations are not backed up by non-jewish sources. In the latter we only see jews as traders who living in ghettos and then fleeing the country when the host of their parasitism is either pissed off or sucked dry. Just like in the Dark Ages.

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30 Nov 2023 12:04

Germanic Paganism is not a subculture, it's not a LARP or a makeup. Be serious about your faith.

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29 Nov 2023 15:23

Just another Wodens day, as glorious as all the others!

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28 Nov 2023 23:23

This painting by B.West depicts the legend of Bladud, a British king who was said to have founded the city of Bath. The story tells how Bladud discovered the healing properties of Bath's waters. The prince was exiled because he suffered from leprosy. Working as a swineherd, Bladud discovered that his pigs were cured when they wallowed in the mud of the hot springs. When he bathed himself Baldud was cured returned to the court.

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27 Nov 2023 14:13

Father Jove, is there none of the gods who will take pity upon me, and save me from the river?

As soon as he had spoken thus, Neptune and Minerva came up to him in the likeness of two men, and took him by the hand to reassure him. Neptune spoke first. “Son of Peleus,” said he, “be not so exceeding fearful; we are two gods, come with Jove’s sanction to assist you, I, and Pallas Minerva. It is not your fate to perish in this river

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27 Nov 2023 06:41

Now the son of Tydeus was in pursuit of the Cyprian goddess, spear in hand, for he knew her to be feeble and not one of those goddesses that can lord it among men in battle like Minerva or Enyo the waster of cities, and when at last after a long chase he caught her up, he flew at her and thrust his spear into the flesh of her delicate hand. The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her, and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound