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I should get to transcribing What Is Wrong With the Bible? by C.Giuliani. As far as I know there’s no pdf available on the net, so the more I share from it the better. Has some good arguments against christians from a unique point of view (Giuliani used to be a priest).
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Can you tell me who those are whom Homer in his poems denominates Jove-begotten, resembling the gods, shepherd of the people, and whom he called by such other names as it is likely a poet would employ in celebrating the virtue of a man? Are they such as labouring in the earth with the spade and the harrow, are skilled in ploughing and planting, are dexterous in gathering in the crop, and elegantly arranging the vine?
But those blessed men whom he delights to praise are very different characters, and engaged in very different pursuits and works, such as Achilles pursuing, or Ajax engaged in single combat.
Maximus of Tyre
Happy father’s day to all Pagan dads
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Disregarding the mytho-poetical tradition of his people as nonsense only a peasant could believe the heretic tries to invents some secret truth, a code to crack. Being the only judge of his own effort the heretic is always successful and then proceeds to lead a life of preaching. The latter mostly falls on deaf ears, but some (naive youth) are corrupted. The heresy grows and gains attention. This leads to the leader being exiled or killed. A belated response which only helps the heretic’s movement grow by giving it a martyr.
Now. Whose life I’ve just described? Jesus’? Yes. Socrates’? Yes. Heraclitus’? Yes (though he was smart enough to exile himself and lived as a homeless recluse). Xenophanes’? Yes.
The pattern fits almost all Axial Age subverters. Though some of them were royalty like Heliogabalus and Akhenaten, but still ended up slapped back by the people (read what his own guard did to Elagabalus for being a proto-christian troon).
In Pagan theology the world is divine because it was shaped by the Gods and bears their marks. It is occupied by the Gods, but not every single place is divine. A few are, like temples or groves.
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Xenophanes struggles for a mythical, general notion of nature.
It is not some doctrine of an (im)personal God existing beyond the world, which would be some pure spirit; rather, the entire dichotomy between spirit and matter, deity and world, is absent here. He resolves the identification of God and man in order to equate God and nature. In this regard he leads a heightened ethical consciousness that seeks to distance all things human and unworthy from the gods; we are shown here a struggle against what is specifically Hellenic, as in his other ethical notions.
What naturally comes into consideration here, then, is not Xenophanes as a philosopher but rather his struggle [Kampf] against polytheism…
Commentary
I already wrote quite a lot on Xenophanes, an exiled heretic who influenced Socrates (who was executed for heresy) and through him (and plato) all christians and even other abrahamics. For example, Xenophanes is very respected in Islam generally seen as somewhat of a proto-prophet of Allah. Islamic anti-anthropomorphism owes more to heretics like Heraclitus, Xenophanes and Socrates than any Divine Inspiration muslims think they had.
Commentary
Heraclitus was one of the first anti-Pagan heretics of the Ancient world. He attacked both the rituals and belief of his own people. He (much like other heretics) also attacked Homer and Hesiod, the educators of Greece who presented a traditional worldview where theology was not smeared with anti-Pagan philosophy.
Obviously Heraclitus had great influence on christians (e.g. do not worship images), but he wasn’t the only one.
In his analysis of pre-platonic philosophers Nietzsche goes over many different thinkers. We will focus on the ones who were precursors to christianity.
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Hear me out. I think historical accuracy is a beautiful thing, but not everything has to be a documentary. If it's fiction then a horned-helmet, biker viking is not necessarily bad. I know a guy who was drawn to Paganism due to pure aesthetics, but later became a real, pious and knowledgeable practitioner.
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Need someone with photoshop skills. Nothing too challenging, just a meme picture to make.
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Wreath of fate
O.Shupliak
On Semik girls and women went to the forest ("under the trees, under the birches), brought pies "as sacrifice", porridge and scrambled eggs, worshiped birch trees, sang songs, danced, made wreaths, conducted initiation rites.
M.N. Galkovski
The Överhogdal Tapestry: A Window into Heathen Traditions
This remarkable piece of textile art was discovered in 1910 in the small village of Överhogdal, Sweden. Dating back to the Viking Age or early medieval period (9th to 12th centuries), the tapestry provides a rare and fascinating glimpse into the heathen traditions and the newly adopted Christian customs and imagery.
The Överhogdal Tapestry is renowned for its intricate designs and expert craftsmanship. Created using wool and plant dyes, the tapestry showcases the incredible skill of its weavers. The detailed depictions include trees, animals, human figures, and scenes that are thought to represent mythological events and everyday life in ancient Scandinavia.
The tapestry's images are a vibrant display of Norse mythology and culture:
-Mythical Trees: Representations of the Yggdrasil -the World Tree. A representation of the cosmology.
- Animals and Beasts: Iconic creatures from Norse myths
-Human Figures: Scenes that might illustrate historical events or legendary sagas, reflecting the values and beliefs of the time.
For those who follow traditional heathenry, the Överhogdal Tapestry is more than just an artifact; it is a sacred connection to our ancestors and their ways. The meticulous craftsmanship and the themes woven into the fabric reflect the worldview of our ancestors.
By studying and preserving these tapestries, we honor the memory and skills of the ancient artisans who created them. Their work continues to inspire us to keep the old ways alive and to celebrate our rich heritage.
Today, the Överhogdal Tapestry is carefully preserved and displayed, allowing us to appreciate the artistry and spiritual depth of our ancestors. It serves as a powerful reminder of the enduring legacy of heathen traditions and an important glimpse into the past.
#thetraditionalheathens #Heathenry #ÖverhogdalTapestry #NorseMythology #CulturalHeritage #TraditionalCraftsmanship
This is the most virgin theology I've ever seen and I've read Augustine.
This is your brain on Buddhism. Vedism on the other hand, is a true folkish religion. The oldest passages of the Rigveda say nothing about reincarnation. And when reincarnation does come in to a real folkish religion like Vedism, it is confined to rebirth in a lineage, within families:
Release him to his fathers and again down from them, who, poured into you, travels according to his will. Let him who wears life come to his offspring. Let him join his body, Jātavedas!’
– RV 10.16.5
Vedism emphatically does not involve rebirth as a mouse, a flea, or a horsefly. Buddhism is a late development of Vedanta and the Upanishads, which are themselves late developments of the original Aryan religion. They are said to be secret teachings, probably because they were heretical and contrary to orthodox Vedic interpretation during the actual Vedic period.
Folkish Aryan religion sees reincarnation as confined within lineages, as Celtic and Germanic paganism does. Buddhism is not and cannot be folkish. It universalizes the moral circle, extending it to all life and beyond even this lifetime. This is unspeakably subversive and anti-folkish.
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Join us on the 21st of June for our 12th full-moon stream and year's end retrospective. I look forward to seeing you all there!
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Christians simply remove the god placing him beyond the real world which they see as profane and lowly. Xenophanes dilutes the Gods into nothing. Essentially in his theology everything you can call is divine. The latter goes against Hellenic tradition he was born in which is why Xenophanes had no place to call home for most of his life. When there’s no longer particular deities, but one abstract divine power which exists everywhere and nowhere in particular there’s no Paganism.
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Commentary
"Struggle against what is specifically Hellenic", "Struggle against polytheism". In these words we can summarize Xenophanes. Notice that Nietzsche is somewhat impressed with the heretic and paints him as a person who wanted to purify the religion of his people. As a result he just took the people out of it. While Nietzsche claims that Xenophanes’ god is not akin to christian ganz andere (impersonal spirit) I disagree. Blurring of spirit and matter leads to divine becoming diluted to the point where everything is god and as a result nothing truly is. As Pagans we can point at our Gods and call them Gods, then point at, say, a park bench and call it a park bench. In pantheistic-monotheistic blur such separation of Gods and not Gods is impossible.
He noticed that everyone imagines the gods like themselves:
Negroes [see them as] black and flat-nosed; Thracians, blue eyed and red
haired.
His main propositions include the following:
One god, greatest among gods and men, in no way similar to mortals either in body or in thought.
We do not know much about Xenophanes. He was banned from his father city and lived in Zancle [in Sicily], Catana, and Elea.
His last primary work was On Nature, in which he fought against the opinions of Thales (whom he admired as an astronomer) and Pythagoras, as well as those of Epimenides.
His primary struggle, however, was directed against Homer and Hesiod; in this regard we are shown his relation to the religio-ethical movement of his century. He disputes the polytheistic folk beliefs, an incredible struggle that led to his exile.
Well, how did he [Heraclitus] view the religious excitement of his times? In Dionysian excitement he saw only an invitation to ill-bred drives by way of hot-blooded festivals of desire. He turns against the existing ceremony of expiation: “When defiled they purify themselves with blood, as though one who had stepped into filth were to wash himself with filth.”
He attacks worship of images: “They pray to images, much as if they were to talk to houses; for they do not know what gods and heroes are.” Yet he reserves a special hatred for the creators of popular mythology, Homer and Hesiod. “Homer deserved to be chased out of the lists and beaten with rods, and Archilochus likewise.”
Ancient Greek philosophy and it’s role in the downfall of traditional belief is a topic I sporadically return to. Now’s the time to explore it again, but this time with some assistance. I will turn to good old Nietzsche to be the guide and provide some commentary to his words.
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The "gods are metaphors" interpretation makes divinity into something abstract and often straight up mathematical. This is where you get all kinds of autism about sacred geometry, which often ends up looking kind of Islamic. The gods are not triangles or equations.
You can't push this abstract interpretation of the gods back further than about the 6th century BCE in Europe. But you can trace the "gods are literally real" interpretation back as far as myth itself. Because our forefathers all believed this.
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Even the sanest christian is still anti-European. Most of them would literally slaughter White Pagans for not praying to a jewish literary character. And they did just that back in the day. Not effectively though considering that peasantry (99% of the population) stayed true to the ancestral faith (hence the term pagan).
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This year’s Semik falls on the 20th of June
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Going to write on a coming Pagan festival from Slavic tradition. It’s a beautiful and obscure one.
Some may guess the festival by this picture.
Because Tom from Survive the Jive (STJ) made this post recently, I am going to release another public statement. I have no other choice here.
I firmly maintain my innocence in spreading slander against both him and against his family. These things simply are untrue accusations. I never once even mentioned anything about his family, either, or against his kinsmen.
Tom is not the same person that his followers see in one-on-one conversations. All of his academic decorum quickly fades away the moment he is confronted about the falderal he speaks and spreads and about his associations. He actively promotes bestiality, and he is on record for saying things such as "If I was a Bronze-Age king, I would bang a female horse maybe once in my life. Only a faggot like you would think of such things in a profane and inverted way." What else is there? When it comes to the sensible, literal interpretation of the myths and the Gods, he has responded by saying things such as, "Do you understand that the literal interpretation of myth has absolutely no bearing on the belief in the Gods? Why don't you actually read a single Pagan philosopher for once instead of making New-Age arguments? Mythic literalism is fine for peasants but no intelligent people thought that was how to understand the gods. The gods are very real and the myths are there to help you understand them." (Yes, he calls people "peasants" a lot, all the time, as well as "retards" and "idiots".) On top of it all, he actively associates with Jewish individuals, one whom I can name, Dr. Boaz / Borja Villalonga.
I was going to let the rest be history, but it seems Mr. Tom is so unbelievably preoccupied with his image that he dares try to levy the charge of slander against those he finds disagreement. Tom here is a parody of a Heathen. Did I even mention he charges his members of his following money to access material that is openly available in the public domain? Am I wrong, too, about that, his being someone capitalizing on folkish faith? All of these details about him are public knowledge, not private, and I know for a fact that I am not the only one that shares these complaints and grievances.
Be careful with whom you associate, especially Survive the Jive. He is just that, a hilding and nithing, and an academic shyster and an unethical shell of a man.