8416
A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Regular pilgrimages are conducted to visit Friday Stone, pray and gather the holy water.
Читать полностью…
Friday Stone
A capstone (Schalensteine) from Konezer'e called so due to it being reinterpreted as a sacred stone of Paraskeva Friday after christianization. Friday stone and it’s cult are obviously much older than the christian religion itself, even though local church in it’s impotence to stop the pagan practices decided to fit them into their narrative. There was even a chapel built around the stone (destroyed by communists in 1920s).
If Telegram dies I guess we’ll have to switch to X for a while.
Only have my friend’s old account which was not so long ago changed to be my own. Not active there since X has a stupidly inconvenient word limit.
Still, here’s a link: https://x.com/DENISSS98945260
Teleology is not something that folkish pagans really think about one way or another, but there are good reasons to reject it.
Folkishness is an immanentist worldview. It sees the specific, the embodied, and the historical as the final source of good and truth. Folkishness is a this-worldly outlook. Teleology doesn't seem to be opposed to any of this at first glance.
Teleology is the idea that morality is about ends, and ends are inherent in nature. It's just baked into the idea of a watch (it's the end or telos of a watch) that it be portable, tell the time, etc. and you can measure a thing's goodness by whether it furthers its end, or telos. Teleology says that everything in reality has a telos. Again, nothing anti-folkish on the surface.
The problem is that an end implies a goal, a goal implies an intention, and intention implies a mind. If everything in reality has an end, this means that it embodies an intention, and thus a mind. So as soon as we admit that everything in reality has a telos, we admit that there exists a transcendent mind that imparts its telos. The burden of teleology is that to believe in teleology is to be an idealist. Idealism implies a transcendent mind—all reality is basically a simulation, thought within the mind of a transcendent creator god.
This is all anti-folkish through and through. So if you're a folkish pagan, think twice about teleology. You don't need it to account for any feature of the world, and to believe it is to open the door for some very bad things.
@folkishworldview
King Sviatoslav the Brave on a silver coin
Читать полностью…
A minor advice for young men. Get into gardening. Not only will you be able to grow your own food, but also some nice flowers for your lady. Even Gods may enjoy an offering of flowers, after all they are a fruit of your labor and look beautiful.
Читать полностью…
Sun of Rome by Pelle Swedlund
Читать полностью…
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.
Читать полностью…
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.
Читать полностью…
The water from the stone’s cups is considered blessed and is highly valued by the locals. Regular pilgrimages are conducted to visit the stone, pray and gather it’s healing water which according to the folklore never dries up even on the hottest of days.
Читать полностью…
Chronos with his Scythe
Paul Herrmann
Next big post will be about a sacred stone
Читать полностью…
Recently I have been enamored with the origins of the Æsir Gods of the Germanic Folk. More specifically Búri; the progenitor of, and the first of the Æsir.
Notably, throughout the rest of our sacred legends, there are very few instances of Búri mentioned. A sacred mystery no doubt. But there are instances of the Æsir building altars, shrines and holy places, "On the Itha-field met the mighty gods; shrines and temples they timbered high, forges they formed to fashion gold, tongs they did shape and tools they made;" Voluspa stanza 7.
Is it possible that the Æsir worship Búri their primordial progenitor, and that this same worship which the Æsir pioneered was handed to us? This, if held to be true, is internally consistent instead of relying on foreign new axial-age ideas about emanations from a spiritual black hole (singularity) aka a monad.
Pytheas was a famed Greek explorer. He records of being in a place called Thule. A place, he said, "where the Sun never sets." To the ancients this would sound ludicrous, but it goes to show his observations were true. Above the arctic circle, during the Summer solstice, the Sun does not set but dips to the horizon only to rise again. Many of his contemporaries thought he was telling tall tales, but this is a phenomena you can see today.
Where exactly Thule is, we can only speculate, but Pytheas' voyage and writings were ahead of his time
The thought that departed souls entered a celestial home is relatively recent in the West; we find it expressed for the first time by the poet Phocylides. The celestial abode was never regarded as anything more than the recompense of a few great men, and of the benefactors of mankind. According to the oldest belief of the Italians and Greeks, the soul did not go into a foreign world to pass its second existence; it remained near men, and continued to live under ground.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City
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.
Читать полностью…
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.
Читать полностью…
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