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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
One can buy a house spirit (domovoi) as they are sold at some places in a bottle or a sieve, in which they sit just like cats.
The one who can’t control a spirit can perish easily. Domovoi can bring wealth, long life and honour.
V.Gnatyk
Art byBendis https://www.instagram.com/bend1zart/
Even at the molecular level, the body expresses a spiritual essence. Our DNA is the coded experience of our lineage in the physical world. Our genetic template transmits information across space and time to literally shape us. Science has shown that hereditary influences not only mental traits such as personality and temperament. When we consider that even our personal values are partly hereditary, it becomes apparent that the link between the body and the spirit is a profound one.
S.McNallen
Mag Muirthemne, whence the name? Not hard to say. The sea covered it thirty years after the Flood, and hence it is called Muirthemne, that is, ‘darkness of the sea’, or ‘it is under the sea’s roof’. Or there was a magic sea over it, and an octopus therein, having a property of suction. It would suck in a man in armour till he lay at the bottom of its treasure-bag. The Dagda came with his ‘mace of wrath’ in his hand, and plunged it down upon the octopus, and chanted these words: ‘Turn thy hollow head! Turn thy ravening body! Turn thy resorbent forehead! Avaunt! Begone!’ Then the magic sea retired with the octopus; and hence, may be, the place was called Mag Muirthemne.
Edward Gwynn The Metrical Dindshenchas
Greeks and Romans, when they sacrificed, took frankincense and let it fall upon the flaming altar. More rarely they used a censer. This woodcut shows the performance of both these acts. The censer here has two handles.
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Wayland the Smith by Iwobrand
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Werewolves of Ireland
Laignech Fáelad is an ancestor of a tribe of werewolves of Ossory in eastern Ireland. According to Cóir Anmann:
He was a man that used to go wolfing, i.e. into wolf-shapes, i.e. into shapes of wolves he used to go, and his offspring used to go after him and they used to kill the herds after the fashion of wolves, so that it is for that that he used to be called Laignech Fáelad, for he was the first of them who went into a wolf-shape Fáelad
Efnysien, mutilator of horses, Welsh deity of destruction and vengeance. Sacrifices himself to destroy the Cauldron of rebirth.
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Kharakternyk
Shapeshifting cossack
My commission to Moccus Art
Freya’s cloak was used by loki and gave him flight
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Germanic Goddess Freya has a falcon coat (valshamr)
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Demeter is not a goddess of vegetation in general but of the cultivation of cereals specifically. The Homeric knights did not care much for this goddess of the peasants. The references to her in Homer are few, but they are sufficient to show that she was the corn goddess who presided at the winnowing of the corn. Hesiod, who was himself a peasant and composed a poem for peasants, mentions her often.
M.Nilsson
To split the world in two, a material and one of ideas is inherently anti-Pagan. It’s what A. de Benoist called a negative theology. All platonists do just that and christians have the same degenerate approach to reality and spirituality. Both should get the same treatment socrates did.
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There are people who see only the dark side and the bad in life. There are folks and religions for whom life only exists in order to be denied and forgotten, despised and overcome in order to be able to be absorbed as completely as possible into the great void. There are people who just wait their whole life for death and eternity and who believe to thereby especially please God.
A. Holzner
Education of Achilles
Benigne Gagneraux
An important part of folkishness is drawing a line between ourselves and the wider world. In a way, this is what folkishness is all about. APTA had a good post about this:
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One way our forefathers did this is by having different ways of reckoning time. Each city-state in Greece or Rome had its birth date, the date of its founding, and this was year zero. It's hard to figure out when certain things happened by our (Christian) time reckoning, because each city started from a different date.
The fact that this is hard is good. It draws a line between us and the outsider. Not only are our customs and our gods different, but even our ideas of time are different. This is how you maintain a people's integrity. This is folkishness.
@folkishworldview
Found some interesting folklore data. Will take a while to translate.
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Very interesting and rather obscure myth. I think it’s a Celtic version of Chaoskampf. Sure it’s unique and should be seen as it’s own, but the basics are there: a club-wielding warrior God fighting an aquatic monster representing chaos.
A shame there’s no good illustration of this great battle. I only found one and it’s quite bad.
The aspect of altars should be to the east, and they should always be lower than the statues in the temple, so that the supplicants and those that sacrifice, in looking towards the deity, may stand more or less inclined, as the reverence to be shewn may proportionably require. Hence altars are thus contrived; the heights of those of Jupiter and the celestial gods are to be as high as they may conveniently be; those of Vesta, the Earth, and the Sea are made lower.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I will sing of Heracles, the son of Zeus and much the mightiest of men on earth. Alcmena bare him in Thebes, the city of lovely dances, when the dark-clouded Son of Cronos had lain with her. Once he used to wander over unmeasured tracts of land and sea at the bidding of King Eurystheus, and himself did many deeds of violence and endured many; but now he lives happily in the glorious home of snowy Olympus
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A while ago I did a little research into this, and an interesting take is that these 'werewolves' did not transform into wolves from a human body, but rather possessed the bodies of wolves while their human body remained in stasis. The film 'wolf-walkers' takes this approach last I recall.
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A core tenet of folkish hermeneutics is that the lore must be interpreted as:
1) historical, and
2) true
Both of these are needed to be folkish.
Euhemerism is the idea that the gods were mortal men whose deeds grew in the telling until they became gods. It says the lore is historical but not true.
The allegorical school says that the lore is true but takes place abstractly on a plane beyond our own. It says the lore is factual but not historical.
Neither of these are folkish.
We are rebuilding!
What a wonderful time to be alive, to behold Revivalism after so long!
Future generations will envy our time, let us impress and inspire them with what we do!
Two will come out, put on their swanskins and transform themselves and fly away. But you must hide the swanskin that belongs to the youngest maiden. She will search and search and when she cannot find it she will cry out, ‘I would do anything in the world for the creature who would find my swanskin for me.’ Give the swanskin to her then, and tell her that the only thing she can do for you is to show you the way to her father’s dominion.
The Tale of the Son of the King of Ireland and the Daughter of the King of the Red Cap
Freya once gave her feathered cloak to Thor and loki
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The same way men turn into beasts after they put on shaggy pelts, turning into birds is achieved by wearing winged bird-skins or so-called feathered shirts. German and Slavic folklore has tales of beautiful nymphs who fly in the air as white swans and doves after putting on appropriate shirts and turn into maidens after taking them off.
A.Afanasiev
A question to English
Do you wassail on Twelfth Night (Jan 6) or Old Twelfth Night (Jan 17)?
What would be more traditional?
The contemporary relevance of paganism is thus not a matter for debate. Neo-paganism, if in fact there is such a thing, is not a cult phenomenon as imagine not only its adversaries, but also sometimes well-intentioned groups and covens who can be described as often clumsy, sometimes unintentionally comical, and perfectly marginal. Nor is this a form of "Christianity turned upside down," which would adopt for its own benefit various Christian forms-both rituals and objects-in order to reconstitute the equivalent or counterpart.
Alain de Benoist
Povitrulya, Ukrainian spirit of mountain winds
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He took his mighty, curved bow,
And he took wrought arrows,
Ilja came to the Kyivan square
He began walking along Kyiv city
He was visiting the churches
He broke all crosses off the churches
He shot all the golden cupolas down
From the tale of Ilja of Murom and the drunkards
My translation
How shall we sing of him – as lord of Dicte or of Lycaeum?
O Zeus, some say that thou wert born on the hills of Ida, others, O Zeus, say in Arcadia, did these or those, O Father lie?
Callimachus
Ombrios and Hyetios are common epithets of Zeus, and we hear of sanctuaries of Zeus on Olympus and on various other mountaintops, such as the highest mountain of the island of Aegina, where he was called Zeus Panhellenios.
Probably the weather god Zeus ruled from the highest peak in every neighborhood.
M.Nilsson