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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Druid sketch by Jaime C. Dibujante
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An example of a historical figure who was also a shapeshifter is kharakternyk cossack chief Sirko
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Not all shapeshifters were evil. There are tales of heroes who turn into animals, not just occasionally too. The best example would be Volh, a rather obscure hero whose tale is one of the oldest in folklore. He turned into a wolf, pike, falcon, ermine and an aurochs (depends on the version).
Art by Brother Bjorn
At night sorcerers turned with knives and could become anything.
Her mother was a sorceress. She turned into animals.
There used to be shapeshifters. I didn’t get to see them turning so I don’t know how they did it. It is said they turned into swine.
They say we used to have many sorcerers here. There’s less now. They gathered on a hill, turned into dogs, cats, horses. They had 12 knives for this.
She used to turn by flipping over the head…
In Slavic languages the terms used for people who can turn into animals are not limited to werewolf or any other were-animal, but are derived from the verbs which mean to turn around or spin. For this dive I’ll translate those as shapeshifter just for simplicity’s sake, though something like a turner would be more fitting, as odd as it sounds.
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Human sacrifice by the druid
Alphonse de Neuville
Typical platonist (ie atheist) on X with his enlightened takes us myth-believing plebs can’t understand. Praying to Pagan gods is pure stupidity because they are non-existent, meanwhile praying to christ-logos is based and intellectual.
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In this passage from The Njal Saga, Steinvora challenges the Christian missionary Thangbrand by asserting the reality of Thor’s power. She claims that Thor once challenged Christ to single combat, and Christ did not dare fight him. She further argues that Thor shattered Thangbrand’s ship, describing in verse how Thor, in his wrath, caused a storm that destroyed the vessel. This shows that Thor was seen as a literal, powerful being, capable of physical intervention and superior to Christ in Steinvora’s view.
Kyle Davis
In this passage from Herodotus’ Histories (Book 6, 105-106), Phidippides, an Athenian runner, encounters the god Pan while traveling to Sparta. Pan speaks to him, asking why the Athenians had neglected to honor him, despite his past help and future promises. The Athenians believed Phidippides’ account and, in response, built a temple for Pan and offered yearly sacrifices. This story shows how the ancient Greeks viewed their gods as literal beings who could directly intervene in human affairs, influencing decisions and demanding worship.
Kyle Davis
Plato departs from the traditional approach of mythic literalism by emphasizing the use of myths as allegories rather than taking them as literal accounts of the gods’ actions. He promotes the idea that myths should be reinterpreted to convey moral lessons and serve as tools for ethical education. By rejecting the literal belief in the gods as portrayed in traditional mythology, Plato challenges widely accepted views and reshapes the stories to reflect his philosophical values of justice, virtue, and reason. This move toward allegorical interpretation represents a clear break from the conventional Greek belief in the gods as real, interventionist beings.
Kyle Davis
The idols before the vandalism
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Keep in mind that from 1918 to 1925 Red Army was led by Leon Trotsy (Bronstein) a jew from a wealthy landowner’s family. Trotsky and another jew Lenin (Blank) were the leaders of the communists who started the civil war. Bronstein was noted as the reason why Bolsheviks won the war. Ironically Trotsky was eventually betrayed by a small-time, Middle-Eastern crook Ioseb dze Jughashvili later known as Stalin.
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Usually, upon capturing Red Army troops, cossacks commanded:
—Hey, kikes, step up!
And immediately cut the ones who did to pieces. The jews who learned about this put on crosses beforehand, to pose as christians, but since some of them were spotted by the accent, cossacks stopped believing the crosses and checked the bodies of the captured slaughtering all circumcised.
Fireflies and stars by O.Shupliak
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https://norroena-smp.blogspot.com/p/seidr-is-black-magic.html
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Temple to Venus
Chantilly, France
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Another example of a heroic shapeshifter is a kharakternyk cossack. A special type of Ukrainian cossack who could turn into a falcon or a hound and was invulnerable to arrows and bullets.
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One of the most prominent activities of shapeshifting witches was stealing milk of their unfortunate neighbors’ cows. Though the latter were often protected by special candles (among many other charms).
This led to the creation of the term milk witch.
Art by A.Basak
An ethnographic research was conducted from 1992 to 99. Elderly were asked about shapeshifters and here are their words:
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Going to write about the milk witch and shapeshifting soon.
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Daily reminder that platonists (and other philosophers) were considered atheists by Hellenic Pagans while early christians praised them as their precursors. Here’s what Justyn Martyr wrote:
He is the Word of whom every race of men were partakers; and those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists; as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them.
While myths were indeed stories, I argue that these stories were understood as literal truths by most ancient people.
The gods were revered as living beings that actively shaped the world and their lives. Archaeological findings and written records provide undeniable evidence of this veneration, demonstrating that from our earliest accounts to the last known attestations, these myths were regarded as reflections of a real history.
This history was passed down through generations to ensure that future descendants could learn from and carry on the beliefs of their ancestors.
To reject literalism is to break from the historical continuity of these beliefs.
Kyle Davis
In this passage from Arrian’s “Anabasis,” the historian expresses his belief that Alexander the Great’s extraordinary life and achievements were the result of divine influence. Arrian suggests that a figure as remarkable as Alexander could not have been born without the intervention of the gods, indicating the widespread belief in divine involvement in human affairs.
Kyle Davis
In contrast, the works of Homer, Herodotus, and others portray the ancient Greeks as both respecting and fearing their gods as literal beings who held sway over their daily lives, emotions, and fortunes, often depicting the gods as making their presence known to their followers.
Kyle Davis
Are myths meant to be viewed literally?
Those who reject mythic literalism often turn to ancient Greek philosophers to support their beliefs.
Xenophanes was among the first to challenge this traditional worldview, which held that humans were the direct descendants or creations of the gods, a belief deeply embedded in Greek society and reflected in the works of Homer and Hesiod. By advocating for a more abstract and symbolic understanding of the divine, Xenophanes broke from the prevailing mythic literalism of his time, arguing that humans mold their gods to fit their own image and comfort.
https://norroena.org/mythic-literalism-vs-allegorical-interpretation/
A new case of anti-Pagan vandalism in Noginsk, russia.
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Will stop with the Notes of the White Partisan. I’ve translated more just for myself, but the most important info is perfectly encapsulated in the two quotes above.
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Shkuro’s Notes of the White Partisan
In Don, Kuban and Terek there’s no jewish population. Individual jews—doctors, lawyers and members of intelligentsia who live in the cities don’t differ from russian elite. Therefore, at the start of the civil war cossacks didn’t know about jews and were not aware of the jewish question at all. As my men moved to the North and West of Don region we happened upon towns with high jewish population. Cossacks stationed at the locals’ houses heard a lot of frustrated people talking about the jews’ leading role in Bolshevism, that many commissars and chekists are jewish and that they boast saying:
—We gave you God, we’ll give you a king too.
Cloud over the burial mound by O.Shupliak
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Christmastide fortunetelling (1888) by Mykola Pymonenko
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