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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Sun of Rome by Pelle Swedlund
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Can milk be considered a sacred drink?
It’s nourishing, healing properties and non-whites not being able to drink any are good enough already, but Europeans also benefitted greatly from regular dairy and meat both obviously a result of cow domestication.
Personally I use milk as an ritual drink and consider it a good non-alcohol offering.
The Codex Theodosianus is a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the christian emperors since 312.
The code calls judaism a superstition, but still offers protection to jews and jewish temples.
Different laws prohibited judges from taking jews to court and offered privileges to jewish priesthood ("All jews who work in a synagogue are exempt from every compulsory public service" "Persons who insult the jewish patriarchs are to be punished" "Persecuting, injuring, abusing, or burning the homes/synagogues of jews, even if they had been involved in a crime, is prohibited.")
christians sure love their chosen people
The soul that had no tomb had no dwelling-place. It was a wandering spirit. In vain it sought the repose which it would naturally desire after the agitations and labor of this life; it must wander forever under the form of a larva, or phantom, without ever stopping, without ever receiving the offerings and the food which it had need of.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges The Ancient City
In the last livestream we did, I stated this channel in collaboration with others, would be producing and releasing a grand theological project. That this would require a great deal of time and work to be completed. I'd like to give a status report:
Phase 1 of 9 of the grand project was completed Thor's day last week.
Phases 2, 3 and 4 have been building since the launch of the project and are being worked on simultaneously as a batch. Though it is difficult to give exact percentages we will provide an estimate:
Phase 2) 20%
Phase 3) 8%
Phase 4) >5%
More details will be given out as we reach phases 5 and 6.
I really appreciate the patience and I promise the wait will be worth it. This will be of great use to beginners and to seasoned Heathens alike.
Thank all of you who have and still support Pagan Revivalism and our mission. Even though the amount of content has slowed, something really big is on the horizon for all of you.
Gods love you and have a blessed one
It stands as a confirmation of folkishness that even its enemies have to appeal to it in order to refute it.
It's basic to folkishness that the original tradition is right, simply by dint of it being the original. Any scholar will tell you that the oldest form of pagan religion is tribal, orthopraxic, unsystematic, and pre-metaphysical. Platonists, Christians, perennialists, and others will tell you that no, the earliest religions looked like themselves. They'll say that really it's Platonism, Christianity etc. that's original, basing this on a schizoid history that no serious student of anthropology or theology would admit for a moment.
The enemies of folkishness might say that the High One can be questioned, but even unconsciously, they understand that aboriginality has power and that to claim it means to be beyond question.
@folkishworldview
Another great idea for an artist is depicting the deities above. As far as I know there’s no single drawing/painting like that, which is a shame. It would probably look something like that, but with the Gods themselves, not their carvings.
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Svyatoslav the Brave was a devout Pagan king of Rus, even though both his predecessor (his mother Helga) and successor (bastard son Vladimir) were christian. This Pagan relentlessness is one of Svyatoslav’s defining features. He was the first ruler in the history of Ukraine who became famous abroad due to his regular military campaigns against orthodox Byzantium and judaic Khazars.
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Why did Christians historically favor Neoplatonism?
What place does Neoplatonism have in Germanic Paganism?
Shape-shifter (hamrammur)
Closely associated with the berserks, those who were hamrammir (pl.) were believed to change their shape at night or in times of stress, or leave their bodies (which appeared asleep) and take the physical form of animals such as bears or wolves.
The transformation was not necessarily intentional. Three of the best examples in Icelandic literature are the figures of Kveldulf (literally Night Wolf) in Egil’s saga, ch.1, and Sigmund and Sinfjotli in the legendary Völsunga saga.
Lif and Lifthraser
Will lie hid
In Hodmimer’s-holt.
The morning dew
They have for food.
Some pre-christian Slavic names
Istislav (honorer of truth)
Snovid (dream seeing or seen in a dream)
Ratibor (fighter of armies) Popular among modern Pagans
Nevid (unseen (for evil?) or unseeing)
Bogomil (beloved by God)
Medovnik (honey/sweetie)
Drochen (pampered)
Mal (small) A notable Mal was a X c. chief of Drevlian tribe
Mil (dear)
Odinets (first) Firstborn son
Vtorets (second) Secondborn son
Hoten (wanted)
Zhdan (long-awaited)
Ljut (angry)
Strahon (scary)
Radogost (happy guest)
Derzhimir (world holder)
Help a good channel reach 1K
@europeanid
Men were turned into wolves and bears a long time ago, back when there used to be powerful wizards, though, there is a belief, that even now there are still wizards who can turn a man into a wolf among the Komi peoples.
S.V.Maksimov
(written in 1903)
Interestingly, the term vourdalak doesn’t come from folklore. It originates from a 19th c. poem written by a russian black poet of Ethiopian descent A.Pushkin. The latter took Slavic word volkodlak (volk-wolf and dlak-hair i.e. werewolf) and twisted it into a neologism which later became somewhat popular among the nobles and was used as a synonym to upyr/upior i.e vampire.
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Platonism is the idea that the invisible is more real than the visible. This seems to agree superficially with science, although ultimately science is an inferential and empirical practice, the opposite of Platonism. But the attempt at scientism is significant.
Platonism is atheism in a toga. Platonists don't believe that the gods exist, so they retrofit the intuitive idea of existence (something very much here and now) to conform to abstraction. "Well ACKSHUALLY the MOST real things are ABSTRACT OBJECTS."
It's an attempt to rescue theism while denying that the gods could inhabit, impinge on, or even have any relationship to, everyday reality. Platonists pound the divinity peg into the atheism hole, then wonder why their "theology" got repurposed by their enemies, who have now surrendered to exactly the same problem as they did: their theology being a thinly veiled atheism.
It's really encouraging that bad ideas are slowly starting to be pushed out of paganism. This is what Christians fear the most: sincere belief in the old gods.
@folkishworldview
The axial-age fixation on "transcending" this world full of "suffering and change." That one can become "enlightened" by abandoning the traditional Pagan path of duty, honor, familial & folk rituals. That you can only gain gnosis or nirvana via "my revealed secret knowledge & doctrines." That the traditional faiths are all wrong, but one human bum found the true-truth™ is very reminiscent of modern cult-like behavior.
It is also quite interesting that each of these cults would point to a singular god as the "one true god™." That the traditional Gods and Goddesses may exist, but are aspects, emanations or symbollic principles of this one singularity that can't be described but is confidently asserted as the true-truth™.
This ploy was tried and failed first by the heretic Pharoah Akhenaten, but tried again successfully through the revisionist priest Zarathustra. From Persia, it spread East (uppanishad hinduism & later buddhism) & West (Pythagoras/Plato).
These cults will fail
For Pagan Revivalism is at hand
What are your thoughts on the myth of Tyr and Garm? Some say it’s a distortion of the original where Try fought Fenrir. It’s not my tradition, so I’m not sure what’s the most accurate position on this.
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Phrixus had been compelled to quit Greece. and had fled as far as Colchis. He had died in that country; but, dead though he was, he wished to return to Greece. He appeared, therefore, to Pelias, and directed him to go to Colchis and bring away his soul. Doubtless this soul regretted the soil of its native country, and the tomb of its family; but being attached to its corporeal remains, it could not quit Colchis without them.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges The Ancient City
Thanks for 8K. Going to celebrate this with a commission to my long-term collaborator BrotherBjorn. I already have some ideas, but leave comments here with your own suggestions.
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May your weekend be full of adventure!
Get out there, for Gods, Vættir and others wish to see you
By the way, the idol in the drawing above is a Zbruch idol which depicts 4 different deities, two male and two female. This idol was not found in Kyiv, so Svyatoslav couldn’t have prayed to it. The artist just decided to draw the most popular Slavic idol he knew. It still looks good though.
I would really like someone to draw a more accurate version of this scene with e.g. a Perun’s idol. Currently I am unable to commission such work.
However, even though cult of gods and other powers in Old Norse culture normally took place at a farm or in its vicinity, there were also powers that were worshipped in the outfields, at least occasionally. The landvættir (spirits of the land) were recipients of cult in Old Norse culture, and they seem to have been worshipped in many different locations. In the Newer Gulaþing Christian law, it is stated that it is forbidden to believe in the landvættir, and that they can be found in groves, mounds and waterfalls.
Old Norse Studies Vol.12
I like how dying christianity tries to leech off Pagans by pleading for a truce. They say jews are the only ones who benefit from the so-called infighting. If you want to harm jews so much why are you worshipping one?
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Murderling (Myling)
An evil spirit in Scandinavian folklore. A child murdered and not buried properly turns into a murderling and starts killing lone wanderers at night. Mylings are some of the most terrific spirits.
washing machine with no electricity 👀
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Some Germanic names with eagle-
Arngeir
Arnkell
Arnlaugr
Arnviðr
Arnþór
In Luchasi village of Smolensk Governorate people say that there once lived a man who knew how to turn into a wolf. He used to go to the threshing floor and disappear. Once a knife was found thrust into the ground behind the barn. It was taken out. Since then the man disappeared for three years. One witch doctor recommended the relatives of the lost man to put the knife back into the ground behind the barn where it once was. They did so. Soon after the lost man came to his hut…The werewolf told how he used to turn: he jumped over the knife and became a wolf.
N.Galkovski
^ interesting idea for a knife. Folklore mentions that to turn into a wolf shapeshifters use magic knives, usually a bunch of those (up to 12) and after each jump over a stump they turns more and more. There’s no mention of the knives having any special features (aside from (sometimes) rare materials), but a handle with a wolf’s head sounds good and fitting. Volkhvs more daring than myself might try something like that.
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At least The Family of the Vourdalak is short and easy to read. There’s even some action which is rare for the genre. The dialogue is probably the worst part of it (again, literally written by a pampered kid).
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