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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
"Christian nationalism" can never mean ethnic nationalism.
Just ask the "Christian nationalist" calling for deportation, if he will deport fellow Christians. If he says no, he's a civic nationalist. If he says yes, he's a heretical Christian.
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In Old Norse culture, the cult of gods and other powers was normally performed at a farm or in its close vicinity. Sacrifices could of course be performed anywhere when needed, for example on a journey, but the established places of worship were found where people lived. In the parallels to the Gunnsteinar mentioned by Hermann Pálsson from Kristni saga and Þorvalds þáttr víðfǫrla (which are variants of the same story) and from the young saga of Icelanders, Harðar saga, the stones are located close to the farmhouses. In the latter saga, the stone is even located inside a building (in a blóthús). The spirit living in the stone in Kristni saga and in Þorvalds þáttr víðfǫrla is a ármaðr, a spirit of the garðvǫrðr type. This type of cult is closely connected to the farmstead and farming and is therefore, in my opinion, different in principle to the cult of the Gunnsteinar in the outfields.
Journal of Northern Studies Vol.12
If you think about it the best Pagans are not rewarded with afterlife alongside the Gods. That’s what heroes get, they are exception, not the rule and most had some divine blood to begin with. For a regular man the greatest boon would be becoming a household spirit like Roman Penates or Slavic domovoi. Most dead dwell in the Underworld and though invoked and fed regularly, it still doesn’t happen as often as with the household guardians.
So, if you serve your family well in this life you will do the same after it by leaving a part of the soul in the world of the living helping your kin.
Note that it’s only a part, so you will still be reborn in your descendants.
Traditional shapeshifter ritual involves jumping over special knives to turn into a wolf. I’ve translated a Belorusian legend featuring it here: /channel/Aryanpaganism/4750
Here’s a new illustration by A.Basak
It's not just marriage. It is the founding of a dynasty, a dawn of a new era, what Pagan Revivalism is all about!
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Don’t idolize actors. A good performance does not matter, it’s just doing what directors commands.
There are real heroes out there who deserve respect way more.
Top: The Magical Treatise of Solomon (Harley MS. 5596)
Bottom: A collection of ægishjálmar from Iceland, CA. 1800
Clubbing Solomon’s Seal: The Occult Roots of the Ægishjálmur
Now, time is long overdue to raise the banner once more and declare hunting season on yet another sacred calf of the misguided and opportunistic: The ægishjálmur.
https://www.brutenorse.com/blog/2018/5/14/the-gishjalmur
PSA from Dr. Jackson Crawford about Vegvísir
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An oak is also the World Tree aka Axis Mundi in Slavic tradition. And the reconstruction of it also features a snake at the roots of the tree. Is this single mention of a burning oak in one Croatian legend enough to craft more theories. Personally, I doubt that.
One can even go further and add even more elements to the reconstruction, but I don’t feel confident with it.
The dissipation of the great evil (Chaos Serpent) into minor ones (snakes, parasitic insects and gads in general) is what’s interesting and the reconstruction has it now.
The closest to the original myth is no doubt the tale of Mykyta the Tanner. In it a strong, club-wielding hero fights a dragon (multi-headed, flying snake) thus performing a feat similar to Perun, a strong, club-wielding God who defeated the Chaos Serpent.
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In all those sources, as well as some minor ones like Ukrainian belief that flying gads come from ashes (мошки, комарі, мухи... завелись з попелу), we can see the same three elements:
1. A snake is killed
2. It gets burned
3. It’s body produces parasitic insects
Those are too common to be a mere coincidence and, at least to me, hint at an ancient mythological battle and it’s result.
Another example of this motif is found in one of my favorite stories. The tale of Mykyta (Nikita/Kirilo) the Tanner has already been retold on this channel, but I haven’t mentioned that in the end of the story, after Mykyta defeats the dragon there’s an interesting detail added by some versions.
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Legends and beliefs about the origins of bedbugs, fleas and lice tell of their close relation to chthonic gads, especially snakes.
According to the legend from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christ once saved a snake by taking it off a burning oak set on fire by shepherds. Insidious snake coiled around Christ’s neck and began threatening to bite him. Christ cunningly escaped the bite. He managed to throw the snake on the ground which led it to crumble to ashes. Fleas came from the snake’s ashes, while bedbugs came from it’s vile blood.
A.Gura
According to Aleksandr Gura, a philologist who dedicated many works to the topic of animals in folklore there’s a peculiar classification found in ethnographic material.
Despite their vast differences, in folklore snakes, lizards, frogs, flies, mosquitos and fleas (as well as some other parasitic insects) are all seen as members of one group. The latter is called gad (Proto-Slavic *gadъ “creepy creature”, Proto-West Germanic *kwād “evil”).
Gads (as we’ll address them hereafter) are chthonic creatures associated with the Underworld and disease.
Odin was smart enough to listen to women when it came to the topic of magic and even learned some spells from his wife. Don’t be a MGTOW, guys, it’s not traditional and dare I say unnatural.
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Eastern Orthodox Christians hold out their version of Christianity as particularly "based" and uncorrupted by modernity. But most of their rhetoric relies on people not knowing the basic tenets of the religion. It's just as much a vector for quasi-liberal degeneracy as any other Christianity.
For example, Eastern Orthodox is inherently opposed to ethnic identity in its churches. It hates anything that looks like nationalism and wants to subordinate ethnos to religion. In fact, in the 19th century, the Ecumenical Patriarchate declared this kind of religious nationalism a heresy called phyletism (from Greek "phyle" meaning tribe). The worry is that this sort of religious nationalism might "exploit the Church in order to discriminate against those of other races and nations solely for the benefit of the race and the nation."
Based Orthobros fighting against discrimination.
This is just another flavour of the "race idolatry" slander peddled by Christians in order to erase ethnic identity in favour of a raceless "Christian" identity. Don't be fooled by Orthodox. It's not based, it's not anti-degeneracy. It's just as deracinating as all other forms of Christianity.
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Some amazing things have come out of the debate over the place of classical Greek philosophy in folkish paganism. It really separates the wheat from the chaff.
All folkish pagans think of themselves as "based" and "traditional" and "for hierarchy". But as soon as you say "maybe there are some things you don't get to question", everyone turns into a libertarian.
Instead of just accepting the basic tenets of their religion, people turn themselves into a pretzel trying to explain how it's something other than what it looks like, because what it looks like embarrasses them.
This whole debate has really shown us that we as a whole are not ready to engage Christians in battle. We're getting there. But we still have housecleaning to do.
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The longer I live, the more do I find myself outside of Christianity, and, moreover, alien and hostile to Christianity. A reading of Prof. Hans F.K. Guenther’s The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans (London, 1967) reveals that we had a better religion, a religion truer to our own traditions and essential instincts, than is to be found in Christianity. And if in the end Aryan man, the supremely gifted and most masterful race known to history, should disappear from the Earth, the primary reason for it will be his having succumbed to the virus of Christianity.
W.G.Simpson
E. Michael Jones is the smartest Catholic on the right, Fuentes is a midget. Jones sees everything about Catholicism for what it is.
He understands the Christian worldview better than any retarded groyper ever could. You must accept brown Christians because your denomination is your race. If you don't, you are a bad Christian. Identitarian Christianity is heresy.
We agree with his every assessment, except the part where he says "and Christianity is good".
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Most don’t know much about christian occult symbology or know only basic stuff like 666 being the number of the beast, but did you know that 888 is the number of christ, namely christ the redeemer? How many points does Ægishjálmur have? 8. How many lines do those 8 have in total? 24. That’s 8+8+8 i.e. 888 i.e. christ the redeemer.
Ægishjálmur is profoundly christian. It has nothing to do with European Pagan magic and is ultimately as jewish as christianity itself.
Research can be a great thing. If only more people bothered to put in the effort.
To those defending Helm of Awe
What some miss is that The Galdrakver Manuscript from which the most popular version of this supposedly Pagan symbol comes from is a judeo-christian grimoire. Every detail is to be taken in context. The latter is that of jewish-christian occult symbology. If we do that it becomes obvious that Aegishjalmur is a christian sigil with very specific judeo-christian meaning. Greedy stores selling quasi-Pagan merch don’t care. Do you?
Death and creation are often tied in the myth. Primordial beings are killed and sacrificed by the Gods, though the results are usually positive. With Chaos Serpent it makes sense that even in it’s death the beast still managed to spread evil, albeit on a much lesser scale.
Art by Bendis
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Also a mention of a burning oak tree in the Croatian legend referenced above is peculiar since it’s a sacred tree of Perun, one his club is made out of.
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The myth I allude to is a reconstructed battle between Perun and the Chaos Serpent. My theory is that folklore preserved (albeit in bits and pieces) a part of this myth in tales about the origins of flying parasitic insects. New life being created out of body parts of some primordial being is a common concept found in many traditions.
Hence it’s possible that originally the myth featured Perun burning the Serpent with his lightning and the resulting ashes turning into insect gads (possibly other types too).
Mykyta killed the dragon, but, at the very end of the tale it is stated that Mykyta made a mistake by burning the dragon’s corpse because the ashes from it’s head flew by the wind and turned into mosquitos, flies and other flying gads.
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One Croatian legend also links the origins of fleas, mosquitos and flies with a snake. In it these insects come from the sparks produced by a snake’s tail as it hit coals after being thrown into a bonfire. The sparks scattered and got on a man’s body each turning into corresponding insects.
"One of the sparks hit a man’s forehead, he pressed it and found a flea under his thumb."
A.Gura
In terms of their locus gads are mostly linked with earth and underground world (snakes, insects and many other gads come from under the earth and hide in it), though some of them can also dwell in the water, air and human body.
A.Gura
What this new reconstruction started with was very mundane. Due to it currently being the mosquito season I remembered that there was some interesting folklore regarding the origins of the nasty insects. This led me to a Croatian legend, an epic song I once translated before and other ethnographic material here and there.
What I did not expect to find was a common thread which led me to reconstructing a myth, which in Slavic tradition is no easy task.