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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
At the start and end of the harvest, even though the idols were replaced by icons, people still upheld an ancient tradition of bringing the first and last hay sheaf to the red corner.
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In Slavic tradition, even after christianization, there was a special place in every household. It was a south-eastern corner of the house where ancestral idols and later christians icons stood. Similar to Greek household hearth or Roman shrine to the Lar Familiaris it was a sacred place of the house educated to the ancestral cult. Most modern Slavic Pagans continue this tradition also adding idols of the Gods to the corner as well as photos of the dead family members.
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It seems more likely to me that the temple was dedicated to 4 distinct deities, 3 of them represented by the godpoles and one by the stone bust.
Won’t speculate which deities people of Zubrycka culture worshipped, but it’s reasonable to assume that the stone one was the most important. Or maybe, the small settlement just had to make do with what little they had. As stated by D.Kozak an average settlement of Zubrycka culture had a population ranging from 80 to 210 people. Obviously, the majority were not carvers. Also, keep in mind that sandstone is notoriously hard to cut.
Two lower jaw bones are found by the altar. One of them belonged to a 35 y.o. man, another to a 25 y.o. woman.
A clay, female figurine with broken off legs and head was found on the other side of the altar. There were fragments of ceramic and animal bones on the floor. Obviously, those things are to be interpreted as offerings to the deity depicted on the stone.
D.Kozak
Examination of Slavic temples of VI-XIII c. shows that Slavs had pretty developed tradition of cult architecture and paraphernalia.
An example of this is a small temple found in the settlement of Zubra culture dating to the end of I - mid II c. AD near the Zagai village of the Volhynia region.
The temple is located in the center of the settlement. It’s shape resembles a human torso and is almost 1ft deeper than the surrounding earth.
An oval sacrificial altar was placed in the centre of the room and was 2.6x3.9ft long and 1ft deeper than the level of the floor.
D.Kozak
Sun ride by B.Olshanky
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First secret confidence to Venus by Francois Jouffroy original statue and Dashinvaine’s painting based on it
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In the functional polytheism of the Romans, the gods stand side by side and collaborate with one another. This is why it is always dangerous to assimilate one deity to another, as if they were to all intents and purposes the same. For such assimilation tends to deny the particular distribution of divine functions as it is evidenced in ritual.
John Scheid
The people allowed themselves to be deprived of the belief in Jupiter and Juno, of sacrifices and ceremonies, but not of the games, the festivities, the dances and banquets, by which those ceremonies had been accompanied; and the Church was at all times wise and tolerant enough to suffer what she could not prevent. Thus, even the truly heathen Lupercalia, which were distinguished by gross superstition and all kinds of rude excess, were only, and with great difficulty, abolished in the year 496.
F.Dahn
To my astonishment, faith has increased during these days of sorrow, and it almost seems to me that happiness leads to heathen wisdom, and pain and misfortune to Christ.
F.Dahn
In this one thing I may already boast that I am a Christian; I live for mankind, not alone for my nation. I am a man, and no longer a mere Roman. Therefore I can love you, the barbarian, like a brother. Are we not brothers of one family-that of humanity? Therefore I can bear to live, even after seeing my nation die. I live for humanity; that is my people."
"No!" cried Totila vehemently; "that I could never do. I can, and will, live only for my nation. My nationality is the air in which alone my soul can breathe."
F.Dahn
Folkishness is starting to make waves in the radical right. It claims to be the answer to the worst problems of modernity. But what is it? How is it different from identitarianism? Mike lays out its basic ideas in plain language.
Folkishness is just how people have always lived. They did what their forefathers did. They lived around people of shared blood. They worshipped the same gods. They spoke the same language. So, what in this is new? Why does it have a claim on our attention?
✍️ NEW SUBSTACK:
https://imperiumpress.substack.com/p/folkishness-in-brief
Netflix’s upcoming series Kaos will feature Jeff Goldblum as Zeus. Casting a jew as the king of Greek Gods is very intentionally insulting.
Among other stars of Kaos is British actor Nabhaan Rizwan of Pakistani descent playing Dionysus.
Honestly this is going to be such a forgettable flop, it’s not even worth wasting breath
One of my main issues I take with Iceland's Asatru organization, Ásatrúarfélagið, has to do with the leadership. Allsherjargoði Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, through many interviews in the past, has revealed himself to be blatantly an Atheist and a hardcore Secularist. This leads me to believe that his motivations for joining (and leading) the group are more political than spiritual, particularly with the aim of ushering in multicultural, multiracial fellowship. Seriously, you can even be a Christian and join! Or Atheist! I remember when years ago they got immense backlash for their decision to bless homosexual and transgender weddings. Hate-mail, rightfully so, was sent from Heathens around Iceland, Germany, and the United States. People were right to be upset seeing the open, unashamed perversion of their revival efforts by a man whose loyalty seems to lie with only money and a subversive agenda.
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Each of the Roman gods possessed a precise profile. The term ‘the sacred’, in the modern sense, meant nothing to the Romans; and no more did the abstract notion of ‘the divine’.
The once heated debate over the Latin term numen is now over. Nowadays nobody considers, as did the ‘primitivists’ (Ludwig Deubner, Herbert J. Rose, and their successors) that numen means ‘a diffused sacredness’. Instead, numen is now translated, depending on the context, as the ‘will or power of a deity’.
J.Scheid
Red used to mean not only a specific color, but also beautiful e.g. red girl (красна девица) should be translated as beautiful.
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A pal asked me about household worship of ancient Slavs. I have already written on that a bit before. Some brushing up on the topic and I’ll write again.
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These fragments from Denis Kozak’s monograph "Wends" provide an example of a small, local temple. It was most likely used by a settlement of Zubrycka culture (won’t find much on it in English, but here’s a map). Kozak suggests that it was a place of ancestor worship, but I am doubtful, especially considering the three godpoles around the altar (only one is drawn in the pic and has a cattle skull on top of it which is not found in the text).
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The walls and the bottom of the pit are covered by burnt clay. The pit is filled with coal, ash, small burned bones and pieces of ceramic. There were three poles in the Northern and Western parts of the altar. Maybe, they had some role to play in the sacrifice.
The short, North-Western wall of the room, opposite the altar has a round recess, the bottom of which is fixed to the floor level.
At the bottom of the recess is a subtriangular, sandstone, anthropomorphic portrait, a bust of an old man with long hair, thick beard and brows. The portrait is placed in the circle and resembles a coin obverse. A head is cut roughly and the shoulders are outlined.
D.Kozak
New translation in progress. The topic is traditional temple construction.
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A football player told a Catholic college that women should aspire to be homemakers. What was the response of Catholic traditionalists from the university?
The sisters said that Butker's comments "seem to have fostered division" "instead of promoting unity" and that they disagreed with his suggestion that "being a homemaker is the highest calling" women should aspire for.
We reject a narrow definition of what it means to be Catholic," the sisters said. "We want to be known as an inclusive, welcoming community, embracing Benedictine values that have endured for more than 1,500 years and have spread through every continent and nation."
https://www.businessinsider.com/catholic-nuns-rebuke-harrison-butker-commencement-speech-benedictine-college-2024-5
@folkishworldview
The die is cast
Alea iacta est
Attributed to Caesar it is one of the most popular Latin phrases.
This is the only depiction of Rubicon crossing featuring the Gods I know. Seems really fitting.
One of the best parts about the time which we live is the abundance of information at our disposal.
Unlike the time of a hundred years ago, where information on ancestral faith was scattered. We have a wide array of translations, accessed from all across the world, for free in the public domain. No longer is introductory information locked within the walls of academia. Where one has to pay substantial sums to get a glance.
It's part of the reason why, wherever you look, the revival of ancestral ways is undeniable and inevitable.
In the singular juxtaposition of heathenism and Christianity which, during the first century succeeding Constantine's conversion, filled the life and manners of the Roman world with such harsh contrasts, the peaceful mingling of the old and the new religious festivals played a striking part. Generally the merry feasts of the ancient gods still existed, together with the great holidays of the Christian Church, though usually robbed of their original significance, of their religious kernel.
F.Dahn
"Softly, friend," cried Totila, "where is this humanity of which you rave? I do not see it. I see only Goths, Romans, and Byzantines! I know of no humanity somewhere up in the sky, above the existing peoples. I serve humanity by serving my nation! I cannot do otherwise. I can not strip off the skin in which I was born. I speak like a Goth, in Gothic words, not in a language of general humanity: there is no such thing."
F.Dahn
'Tis thine in battle to confer the crown,
the victor's prize, the mark of sweet renown
For thou rul'st all things, Victory [Nike] divine!
And glorious strife, and joyful shouts are thine
Come, mighty Goddess, and thy suppliant bless,
with sparkling eye, elated with success
An ideal actor to play Zeus would need a mix of Laurence Olivier’s performance and Sergi Constance’s physicality. So far, no such man got the role, which is not only because it’s a rare combo, but also due to intentional subversion. Were ancient European Gods presented on screen as they are in the myth there’d be many inspired young men around and probably a rise in Paganism too. Hollywood’s intentions are the opposite.
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People will tell you that paganism can't be reconstructed, is too incomplete, and so on. This is actually quite useful. It's like a badge that says very clearly "I don't know about this topic at all". If you wandered into a physics department and started yelling about how Aristotle was right and Newton was wrong, you'd be laughed at. That's what these people look like.
When they tell you "paganism can't be reconstructed", they're doing you a favour. Just say "don't waste my time" and move on. You might even want to bait them into saying it to save yourself the trouble.
@folkishworldview
There are attempts to scuttle Pagan Revival. These attempts have a singular goal to prevent European peoples from reclaiming their sovereignty, true ancestral faith & revamping pre-axial morality.
Some want to hijack or weild Paganism's Revival as a political weapon. Some seek to derail genuine spiritual connections with made-up "theories" from academia. Others spew blatant lies about our ancient ways to leave the status quo of abrahamism vs atheism false dichotomy in place. Whatever their rationale, their attempts will fail unless we remain silent.
A year ago, syncretism (the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures & schools of thought) was all the rage. Few of our leaders called it out, many so-called leaders openly embraced fusing Gods of different faiths together under the guise of intellectual esoterics. Now it's a slur, deservingly so. Why? Because as a chorus, we spoke out, had the courage to stand up. That's why we will win, why Pagan Revivalism is inevitable!
The speculations on the ultimate nature of the divine in which philosophers of antiquity sometimes indulged have nothing to do with the Roman religion of ritual and sanctuaries and amount rather to an attempt to reduce polytheism to monotheism.
The same applies to many superficial modern studies of female deities, which often present them as more or less interchangeable mother-goddesses or fertility goddesses.
J.Scheid