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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
In his research I.A. concluded: the following symbolic meanings of words with the root «-hedgehog-» were found:
1) 'amulet’,
2) 'anger’,
3) 'wealth’, 'avarice',
4) 'hooliganism’,
5) 'wisdom’,
6) 'male potency'.
Trying to compile some data on one of the most badass animals in the world. Folklore mentiones it rather scarcely though, so it will take time.
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^ as far as I understand the piece above is basically hidden and rarely shown even in Vasiliev’s museum. Most likely due to the laws against so-called nazi symbols (aka runes and swastika variations) in modern russia.
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Vasiliev’s banned painting depicting a moment from the folklore. Ilja of Murom shooting at the churches.
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^ the amount of newcomers who don’t get that Paganism is as orthodoxic as any other religion is insane. I blame YoutTube grifters and the like. They are the ones stressing performative side because they don’t believe. Grifters just sell merch and books for rituals so the performance of the latter is put on a pedestal. A parrot can repeat words, but it’ll never make its own sentence. Same with those who practice without belief. Simple repetition of moves and sounds is not a prayer and even if received, it is not answered. Can give Zeus a hecatomb, but if you consider him just an abstract power, a version of PIE Sky Father archetype and whatnot you will not establish any connection with the real deity.
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Most blacks have some serious cognitive dissonance. They live in European cities, wear European clothes, use European languages, steal European history etc. How about going back to Africa and building a civilization of their own?
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Franco Columbu as a Pictish scout from Conan
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Nearly everywhere in [Norway] there are stories of the banishment of trolls and giants, and it has therefore been common to say that Saint Olaf in folk tradition took the role that Thor had in pre-Christian times.
Olav Bø, Heilag-Olav i norsk folketradisjon
Regular pilgrimages are conducted to visit Friday Stone, pray and gather the holy water.
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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
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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.
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A hedgehog is a surprisingly big deal in folklore. The animal is associated with quite a few things, all of them superficially unbefitting a small, cute scavenger. Let’s start with the list.
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This is the only photo of the drawing I know of. It was used to make the edit above.
If you happen to have a photo of this piece feel free to share.
The least known of K.Vasiliev’s three depictions of Wotan
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Happy birthday to K.Vasiliev
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The phrase "we don't need a Bible in heathenry" is often used by those who are either uneducated with traditional practices or by individuals influenced by New Age thinking. This sentiment typically stems from a rejection of orthodoxy and orthopraxy, driven by an unwillingness to acknowledge that their beliefs might be modern interpretations or inventions. This resistance is a form of cognitive dissonance—a psychological conflict that arises when one's behavior or beliefs contradict their values.
In every polytheistic culture that developed literacy, sacred texts emerged to record their beliefs and practices. These texts documented everything from creation myths and divine interactions to prophecies of the world’s end. This is why the lore is invaluable; it represents the mythic histories of our ancestors and provides the clearest insight into their worldview, customs, and historical context.
While the term "Bible" is specific to Christianity, other cultures have their own sacred texts. The Shinto tradition has the Kojiki and Nihon-gi, the Greeks have the Odyssey and Hesiod's Theogony, the Romans have the Aeneid and Ovid's Fasti, the Hindus have the Vedas, and the Egyptians have the Book of the Dead.
For us, as Germanic heathens, our sacred texts include the Poetic Edda and skaldic poetry from the heathen era. Additionally, we have sagas, historical accounts, and secondary sources like Snorri's Prose Edda, which together form what we refer to as the lore—a comprehensive body of knowledge about our ancestors' customs and practices.
All ancient cultures preserved sacred knowledge, whether through written texts or oral traditions. Understanding this lore is essential for gaining a deeper appreciation of our heritage and culture.
- Kyle Davis
If you don't believe there's magic in the world, you've spent too much time inside.
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Yet another attack on the Bitsevsky forest's temple. Once again the idols were heavily damaged. Naturally, the usual suspect are christians.
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It is theorized that originally the stone stood in a middle of a sacred grove with elm trees surrounding it and a little pond of ground water which no longer exists due to the recent drainage.
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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.
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Chronos with his Scythe
Paul Herrmann
Next big post will be about a sacred stone
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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