Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 11:33

Overall Clash of the Titans is a good movie, which could have been great. If for some reason you were hesitating, I recommend giving it a watch. As far as mythology inspired movies go, it’s still one of the best.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:57

The best creature is of course Medusa. Probably Harryhausen’s best work, though I prefer Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:48

The movie doesn’t go for accuracy when it comes to clothes and armor, but the style is still recognizably Ancient Greece and it’s neighbors.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:42

Harry Hamlin is a bit blend as Perseus, but that’s not really his fault since the script didn’t provide much. At least his acting was better than what Arnold would have provided were he cast as the lead.
Also not the best choice of hairstyle which covered Hamlin’s forehead and made the head look asymmetric. Ends up looking goofy at times.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 09:08

Calibos is not based on any figure from Hellenic tradition. If anything he has more in common with Shakespear’s Caliban.

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20 Jan 2025 08:55

On the female side we have great Maggie Smith (probably better known as Ms McGonagall) and Judi Bowker as Andromeda. The latter was attractive enough and managed to pull off a good crying scene. Meanwhile the former could act against Olivier (she was his close friend btw).

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20 Jan 2025 06:51

Here’s probably the worst effect in the movie. No idea why they didn’t just light up the eyes of the statue and play a voiceover (like the sphinxes in The NeverEnding Story)

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20 Jan 2025 06:42

Clash of the Titans has many things I love but at the same time causes frustration. The biggest issue is how far the story veers off from the tale of Perseus which has been one of my favorites since childhood. This gets to the point where Greek mythology is such a superficial element it feels wrong calling this an adaptation. There’s Charon, who has a boat and needs a coin, but here he’s a skeleton and does not transport souls to the Underworld. There’s Pegasus who’s a flying horse, but he is not born out of Medusa’s blood etc.
As someone who has always wanted an adaptation of the myth I am disappointed such a great opportunity was lost. Early 80s were the best time for one. Practical effects and actors are perfect, but the plot is not.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 19:56

Let’s fight evil!-said Jesus Aslan to his army of mythical monsters

christian fantasy, lol

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18 Jan 2025 18:50

Since the topic of movies came up, remember 2005 Narnia adaptation? Got some free time yesterday and rewatched most of it. Haven’t seen the movie since release (20 years ago, man time sure flies). No woke and practical effects are refreshing, but…christian propaganda is really on the nose. Why do fauns, dwarves, centaurs and other mythical creatures call humans sons of Adam and daughters of Eve? Why do they celebrate christmas? Why did Liam Neeson lion sacrifice himself to bad guys in a Pagan inspired ritual? C.S. Lewis was a huge christcuck that’s why. Otherwise a decent flick, nowhere near as good as LOTR, but that’s a high bar.

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18 Jan 2025 18:18

Factual v Allegorical interpretation

Part 3

By saying the legends are allegory, the Allegoricalists are saying the legends, which is how we know who the Gods are, what they did and why they did it, are moving them from religious fact to religious fiction.

There are several problems that arise from this, unless the Allegoricalists take a quasi-atheistic style of understanding:

• When the Gods interact with & blessed mortals who gave sacrifice, is that just allegory?

• When the Gods interact with mortals in person, in disguise sometimes, is that just alligory?

• When the Gods have children with mortals producing Royal Lineages, Demigods & Heroes, which are found all throughout the legends & in all Pagan faiths, is that just allegory?

Sometimes people who take ancestral faith seriously get accused of being like christians; acting as if christians are the only ones who take their religious material seriously. The Gods do things irl, that's Paganism & how the average person in antiquity understood the faith

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 09:04

Muses Melpomene and Thalia by Giuseppe Mazzei

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

17 Jan 2025 21:43

Celtic Myth by John Howe

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

16 Jan 2025 07:47

Belobog, a yang to Chernobog’s ying is straight up modern fiction, not found in any sources. Just a semi-academic attempt to derail Slavic Paganism and turn it into something it never was. The duo is mostly ignored by modern practitioners, though some do worship the pair, then again some don’t care what they believe in as long as it’s not christianity (even if it’s equally axial age). This sad lack of pattern recognition is an issue of modern Paganism in general.

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16 Jan 2025 07:08

Chernobog is mentioned in only one source, namely the XII c. Chronica Sclavorum written by a Saxon priest Helmold of Bosau.

Also, the Slavs have a strange delusion. At their feasts and carousals, they pass about a bowl over which they utter words, I should not say of consecration but of execration, in the name of [two] gods — of the good one, as well as of the bad one — professing that all propitious fortune is arranged by the good god, adverse, by the bad god. Hence, also, in their language, they call the bad god Diabol, or Zcerneboch, that is, the black god.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 11:27

Ray Harryhausen’s dynamation is what saved the movie. Can’t even imagine the story without his effects, probably because the man was very involved and many scenes were written purely to showcase his stop-motion talent. Clash was also Harryhausen’s final movie and is deservingly considered his swansong.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:49

No idea why they decided to call the creature Kraken (him being the last titan makes no sense too). It’s a memorable design though. Could have appeared at least one more time somewhere in the middle of the film, but guess there was no room left in the story for another city being destroyed.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 10:43

Compare to this photo. Shorter hair would have worked better.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 09:23

Calibos, while not from the myth, is a case of good inspiration. It’s absolutely in Zeus’ character to transform a criminal into a beast. Did just that to Lycaon.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 09:06

Another standout is Neil McCarthy as Calibos. While the character is definitively evil, he is not without a shade of grey and the actor managed to convey that even under all the make-up.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 06:57

Out of the main cast the standout performances are Laurence Olivier (naturally) and Burgess Meredith (whom you probably remember from Rocky). Guess it was to be expected that older, more experienced actors did a better job.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

20 Jan 2025 06:49

Of course some of the effects didn’t age well, but I’m not bothered by it. Better this than a CGI mess we’d get today.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

19 Jan 2025 00:24

Decided to watch and review Clash of the Titans. It’s an interesting case of a movie where I have a lot of both praise and criticism.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 19:03

Man, christians love the movie. Little wonder why. Like how they shit on Tolkien who was equally (if not more) christian but not that blatant about it. Also, why is jesus a lion in Narnia? Isn’t he a sacrificial lamb or something? Guess a giant talking sheep would be too cringe.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 18:32

Movie night. Going to check something out soon keeping your comments in mind. Hatewatching Midsommar is not on the list today though. Maybe later.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Jan 2025 17:51

Factual v Allegorical interpretation

Part 1

Today we live in a culture dominated by post modernist literary theory, which states that if you didn't see it, or ask the author what they really meant, you can never know what they meant. Therefore you can read into it whatever meaning you want it to mean. It's a type of relativism which states, "you have your truth, I have my truth."

An example of ancient post modernist ideals can be found in Plato's Euthyphro, quote,
"Soc. And do you really believe that the gods, fought with one another, and had dire quarrels, battles, and the like, as the poets say, and as you may see represented in the works of great artists? The temples are full of them; and notably the robe of Athene, which is carried up to the Acropolis at the great Panathenaea, is embroidered with them. Are all these tales of the gods true, Euthyphro?

Euth. Yes, Socrates; and, as I was saying, I can tell you, if you would like to hear them, many other things about the gods which would quite amaze you."

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

17 Jan 2025 21:48

According to this mistaken post, "one of the oldest rune poems says, Odin = "war-chief" Jupiter." 😂

• The claim only appears once, in all skaldic poetry, in The Arnamagnæan Collection.

• This "oldest rune poem" is speculated to be from 1500, 500 years after conversion, 230 years after the Poetic Edda was written. Thus the claim of "oldest" made by the likes of pie perennialist Curwen Rolinson, is false and obscurantist.

• This collection was compiled and the claim of authenticity made by one Árni Magnússon in the 18th century, who bequeathed his collection to the University of Copenhagen after his death in 1730.

• The text shows foul-play by using improper Latin for the title of Jupiter, as noted by chad, trying to make it sound older than it is. Akin to Joseph Smith of Mormonism in the 19th century "translating" texts in 17th century Shakespearian english to fraudulently imply authority via antiquity.

“A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.” - Mark Twain

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

16 Jan 2025 14:18

Elder Seer by Jon Campbell aka Brittonic Celt

https://x.com/BrittonicChief

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

16 Jan 2025 07:23

This nigrum deum as the original Latin puts it is very unlikely to have been a part of any pre-christian faith. Not only is he not found anywhere else (folklore or texts on other tribes), but also reeks of christian (Zoroastrism inspired) worldview. It’s a rare case when I agree with A.Brückner and A.Szyjewski who saw Chernobog as a result of christian influence which began approx. since Xth century. It’s also quite possible that the passage above presents Helmold’s own interpretation, rather than a Pagan belief.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

15 Jan 2025 21:49

Who is Chernobog?

Most probably remember Disney’s classic anthology Fantasia which features a devil-like creature having a little party accompanied by Mussorgsky’s Night on the Bald Mountain. The scene is inspired by christian interpretation of Pagan celebrations which often took place on on top of hills, such as Lysa Hora (Bald Mountain) in Kyiv which has a group of idols on top of it and is a popular destination for Slavic Pagans. The name Chernobog is an interesting one and the deity(?) bearing it frequents Pagan debates. Let’s delve deeper.