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"We know that, from the works of art that the peoples and the times have left us, we can draw a picture of their true spiritual essence, form and environment...
Woman has probably never been depicted so disrespectfully and in so unappetizing a way as in the paintings we have been obliged to put up with in German exhibits of the last twelve years, paintings that inspire only nausea and distrust. They convey not the slightest trace of the sacredness of the human body or of the glory of a divine nakedness."
These words were written in 1932. Needless to say they are not simply true today, it got far worse. Modern art is to put it bluntly a mockery of beauty. Have no doubt, this is intentional. A conscious, calculated effort to bring us down in all ways possible. A real piece of art can inspire, can give power, make us happy after all. They want the opposite. There are many examples (enough to fill a dozen of albums), but since the quote mentioned nakedness and women I decided to pick these two.
This episode from t.me/TheSacredStew is very informative and goes to the heart of dogma/orthodoxy in our ancestral faiths. Give it a listen and give Sacred Stew channel your support for more informative theological podcasts
https://youtu.be/uwYyhR9YhfA
Typhoios
A god whose hands were like engines of war,
Whose feet never gave out, from whose shoulders grew
The hundred heads of a frightful dragon
Flickering dusky tongues, and the hollow eye sockets
In the eerie heads sent out fiery rays,
And each head burned with flame as it glared.
Hesiod
Tribal cultures are inherently non-universal, rooted in specific folk traditions and identities. Once a culture adopts universalism, it ceases to be tribal.
Heathenry specifically reflects the unique worldview and practices of the Germanic peoples, transmitted from one generation to the next.
Traditionally, tribal cultures maintain an inward focus, generally excluding external influences, a trend consistent across ancient Germanic societies.
5k milestone in under a year is quite the achievement, but in truth, this could not have possibly been done without you guys & gals!
To me, it reveals three things:
1. For many years, the messaging of Paganism has gone to one particular group, young men. And that's not a bad thing. Good young men getting in touch with their roots. But the hyper-fixation on only Pagan warrior culture and nerdy genetic studies with letters, numbers & scientific papers, oh my, has pushed out ladies and others who aren't interested in a one-dimensional faith. It is not that that information is bad, but it should be part of a greater whole.
2. Our people have a crisis of spirit, a lack of hope. I have heard it said from those that enjoy this channel, that you will OD on white pills here. It is optimism, practical solutions as well as encouraging to strive to better yourself, your family & your folk, to give one the purpose that modernity & judeo-christianity can not suffice.
3. Paganism is here, growing & nothing can stop it!
While in service of Lithuanian king Olgerd, Antony and John tried to hide themselves being christian, but could not, because they differed too much from pagans in customs and actions. They did not want, like others, to cut their hair and beards like pagans did. They did not want to eat meat on fast days. They did not honor any pagan customs which went against christianity. And when the king asked them why they do not follow ancient Lithuanian customs, the saints fearlessly revealed being christians.
The Lives of Saints recited by st.Demetrius of Rostov
AI art by ᚠᚸ
Starting another translation from the lives of early European saints who were executed by Pagans. Would be nice to have an illustration for one of the interesting tales I found. If you are familiar with historical art let me know in the comments.
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Christians like to cope that paganism is small compared to Christianity. They say "you can't win, there are too few of you and many of us". They assume that there will be no conversion to paganism, and no conversion away from Christianity.
But every day thousands of white people leave Christianity. This faith born outside of Europe is returning to its non-European roots, and becoming the religion of the third world. Already most Christians in the world are non-white. This will only get worse.
As Christianity increasingly belongs to the third world, you will see white people increasingly reject it as "their thing, not ours". This process can't be stopped, and was assured the moment Paul made Christianity the common possession of all humanity. Europeans did not need Christianity to prosper; Christianity needed Europeans to prosper. Now it has no more need of us. And we have no need of it.
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Though my memory is hazy, I remember the best element of the book. The plot is about admiring the past and traditions. A family from New England moves into and old estate and the protagonist learns about his grandfather’s research of fairies, brownies, hobgoblins etc. Even meets them. Learning about folklore is presented as exciting and magical. That’s why changing the race of the main characters is not only insulting, it doesn’t work in a story about Americans reconnecting with their roots full of reference to Irish and Scottish folklore.
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There's a reason why the symbology of ancestral faith still remains even through christianization. Because it speaks to our blood and our soul in ways judeo-christianity never could
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christcucks were the ones who led jews into Europe and helped them get as powerful as possible. nowadays the same christcucks kvetch about jewish power. Ironic.
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Art by Alexander Subota
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Paganism is not occult
Since christianity began as an occult cult slowly creeping it’s way into Europe most Europeans now who try to return to the pre-christian faith end up with a very post-christian worldview. They see divine as something supernatural i.e. above and outside real, natural world. Gods are seen as omnipotent and omnipresent, even though all myth show that Gods are potent, but not omni. There’s an attempt by those occult-minded to separate divine and nature. They remove Gods from daily surrounding, essentially from reality. Their great deeds are shoved into so-called mythical time which is some schrodinger's cat of time e.g. to occultists Odin has both eyes and only one eye at once. Do not mistake this with the concept of cyclical time, since in it the Gods and the world still change, but eventually reset, while in the mythical time there’s neither change, no return.
^ Self-law is also the reason christianity exists. Without it the first converts would never dare abandon the ancestral tradition. But when one places himself the moral pedestal and looks down on the tradition judging his Gods and forebears heresy is always the result. It was like that even before christianity with platonism, naturalism and all those other -isms. Modern woke left is the same thing. socrates, xenophanes, plato, akhenaten, buddha, zoroaster, zalmoxis etc do not look like blue-haired troons of today, but the basis of self-law is still there.
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Getting back on Instagram. Are there still any channels there worth following?
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It’s sad to see how many modern parents don’t want to actually parent their children. Gen alpha is raised by YouTube and TikTok. I’m really worried for them.
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The Ancient Practice of Weregild Among Germanic Heathens
Long before modern legal systems, ancient Germanic societies had a fascinating method for maintaining peace and justice called "weregild," a term derived from the Old English words "wer" (man) and "gild" (payment or fee). Weregild was essentially a form of compensation paid by a person who committed a crime, such as murder, to the family of the victim.
This practice was not just about reparation but was deeply rooted in the cultural and social norms of Germanic tribes. Weregild helped prevent ongoing feuds and vendettas by ensuring that justice could be achieved financially rather than through further bloodshed. The amount paid varied depending on the status of the victim, reflecting the hierarchical nature of society at the time.
Leaders, warriors, and commoners each had a specific weregild value, emphasizing the societal importance of each individual’s role. This system shows how interconnected justice, economics, and social status were in these communities.
Weregild is a testament to the complex legal systems of the early Germanic peoples and offers us a glimpse into their efforts to establish social harmony in a time when the rule of law was considered a pillar of society.
Weregild was replaced with capital punishment around the 9th century in medieval England due to Christianity.
Monotheism and universalism are manifestations of what we now call liberalism. Even in ancient times.
Folkish thinkers criticize Plato for this, with his singular conception of the good and totally abstract god. But Plato was not the first. 1000 years before him there was Akhenaten.
Akhenaten was an Egyptian pharaoh who consolidated the Egyptian pantheon into a "One" called "Aten" or the sun. His god was abstract and impersonal. His eye was toward the beyond, with his transcendent god having very little to say about traditional duty. The common folk were forgotten. He retreated to the desert to build his city, an "ivory tower" with little care for folk culture. He was priestly and otherworldly, neglecting martial virtues (logos > thumos) and letting the military decay. Women were empowered and his chief wife Nefertiti gained unprecedented authority, almost as a co-regent. He introduced a new art style that promoted androgyny, novelty, ugliness, and deemed the old style unenlightening. He had an incestuous relationship with his own daughter by Nefertiti. His worship was as close to science as the ancient world would ever see. So close that it was essentially atheism. From Flinders Petrie:
If this were a new religion, invented to satisfy our modern scientific conceptions, we could not find a flaw in the correctness of this view of the energy of the solar system. How much Akhenaten understood, we cannot say, but he certainly bounded forward in his views and symbolism to a position which we cannot logically improve upon at the present day. Not a rag of superstition or of falsity can be found clinging to this new worship evolved out of the old Aton of Heliopolis, the sole Lord of the universe.
Monism, monotheism, and universalism manifest themselves the same way everywhere in history. They are three sides of the same coin, which is secularism. They are anti-folkish. They are only ever found in a dying civilization. Egypt managed to reverse all of them though, and lasted another 1000 years.
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Valkyrie Hild leads warriors into battle
F.W.Engelhard
If you ever feel stupid, just remember that some take Shapiro seriously
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Alte Taufe (ancient tub) is a huge natural stone located in the Deister Forest, Germany. It was and still is a sacred object. Make sure to visit it if you get a chance.
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Reconstruction of the 13th century Wend female costume
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It is through mutual respect, not erasing ones ancestral identity nor rewriting our legends, is how our faiths can and will work together
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I’m not a big fan of Spiderwick Chronicles franchise, but I did read the book and watch the 2008 movie back in the day. Now there’s a Netflix adaptation. Of course, Netflix did what it does best. I still have the book and here’s an illustration depicting the main characters, Jared and Simon. Here are the same characters from the Netflix version.
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christianity is part of the problem, you can't unite with a part of the whole you want destroyed.
What we are doing is uniting with other Europeans who are all Pagan since you can't be a true European not being one.
@ColeWolfsson and some judeo-christian
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New channel (not mine) but it's always nice to see how the community grows.
/channel/Folkish_Paganism
https://www.instagram.com/aryan_apta/
Created Instagram yet again. Will try to be as careful as possible, without getting boring, of course.
The essential feature of modernity is autonomy: auto-nomos, literally self-law. Everything wrong with the world comes back to man attempting to give himself law, rather than getting it from the gods.
The Christian tries to do this by saying "conscience is the voice of God". Bad enough when the king's conscience is the voice of the god; Christianity makes every man's conscience the voice of the god. What kind of law can be based on this?
What Christianity does openly, Platonism does covertly. Platonism makes every man a lawgiver by interpreting the gods' actions and commands allegorically. The worshipper must decide for himself if the deeds of Odin or Zeus are lawful. If their deeds don't meet his personal standard, they are deemed "allegorical"; the god must have meant something different, something to be filled in, naturally, by the worshipper himself. The result is that the gods are in no position to correct us, because where we disagree, it must be "allegory". This is a subtle, and for that reason especially dangerous, crowning of the individual.
The Enlightenment completes this self-law by simply doing away with the god. Because if the god can never correct us, even in principle, what is the difference if he doesn't exist?
Don't be fooled by the toga, the tonsure, or the tri-corner hat. Whether Platonism, Christianity, or the Enlightenment, all these are just modernity.
Only folkish paganism presents any alternative.
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Sift Footed Achilles, Son of Peleus and Immortal Thetis, Affliction on the Trojans, Slayer of Hector
by Brother Bjorn
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