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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
New translation in progress. The topic is traditional temple construction.
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A football player told a Catholic college that women should aspire to be homemakers. What was the response of Catholic traditionalists from the university?
The sisters said that Butker's comments "seem to have fostered division" "instead of promoting unity" and that they disagreed with his suggestion that "being a homemaker is the highest calling" women should aspire for.
We reject a narrow definition of what it means to be Catholic," the sisters said. "We want to be known as an inclusive, welcoming community, embracing Benedictine values that have endured for more than 1,500 years and have spread through every continent and nation."
https://www.businessinsider.com/catholic-nuns-rebuke-harrison-butker-commencement-speech-benedictine-college-2024-5
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The die is cast
Alea iacta est
Attributed to Caesar it is one of the most popular Latin phrases.
This is the only depiction of Rubicon crossing featuring the Gods I know. Seems really fitting.
One of the best parts about the time which we live is the abundance of information at our disposal.
Unlike the time of a hundred years ago, where information on ancestral faith was scattered. We have a wide array of translations, accessed from all across the world, for free in the public domain. No longer is introductory information locked within the walls of academia. Where one has to pay substantial sums to get a glance.
It's part of the reason why, wherever you look, the revival of ancestral ways is undeniable and inevitable.
In the singular juxtaposition of heathenism and Christianity which, during the first century succeeding Constantine's conversion, filled the life and manners of the Roman world with such harsh contrasts, the peaceful mingling of the old and the new religious festivals played a striking part. Generally the merry feasts of the ancient gods still existed, together with the great holidays of the Christian Church, though usually robbed of their original significance, of their religious kernel.
F.Dahn
"Softly, friend," cried Totila, "where is this humanity of which you rave? I do not see it. I see only Goths, Romans, and Byzantines! I know of no humanity somewhere up in the sky, above the existing peoples. I serve humanity by serving my nation! I cannot do otherwise. I can not strip off the skin in which I was born. I speak like a Goth, in Gothic words, not in a language of general humanity: there is no such thing."
F.Dahn
'Tis thine in battle to confer the crown,
the victor's prize, the mark of sweet renown
For thou rul'st all things, Victory [Nike] divine!
And glorious strife, and joyful shouts are thine
Come, mighty Goddess, and thy suppliant bless,
with sparkling eye, elated with success
An ideal actor to play Zeus would need a mix of Laurence Olivier’s performance and Sergi Constance’s physicality. So far, no such man got the role, which is not only because it’s a rare combo, but also due to intentional subversion. Were ancient European Gods presented on screen as they are in the myth there’d be many inspired young men around and probably a rise in Paganism too. Hollywood’s intentions are the opposite.
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People will tell you that paganism can't be reconstructed, is too incomplete, and so on. This is actually quite useful. It's like a badge that says very clearly "I don't know about this topic at all". If you wandered into a physics department and started yelling about how Aristotle was right and Newton was wrong, you'd be laughed at. That's what these people look like.
When they tell you "paganism can't be reconstructed", they're doing you a favour. Just say "don't waste my time" and move on. You might even want to bait them into saying it to save yourself the trouble.
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There are attempts to scuttle Pagan Revival. These attempts have a singular goal to prevent European peoples from reclaiming their sovereignty, true ancestral faith & revamping pre-axial morality.
Some want to hijack or weild Paganism's Revival as a political weapon. Some seek to derail genuine spiritual connections with made-up "theories" from academia. Others spew blatant lies about our ancient ways to leave the status quo of abrahamism vs atheism false dichotomy in place. Whatever their rationale, their attempts will fail unless we remain silent.
A year ago, syncretism (the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures & schools of thought) was all the rage. Few of our leaders called it out, many so-called leaders openly embraced fusing Gods of different faiths together under the guise of intellectual esoterics. Now it's a slur, deservingly so. Why? Because as a chorus, we spoke out, had the courage to stand up. That's why we will win, why Pagan Revivalism is inevitable!
The speculations on the ultimate nature of the divine in which philosophers of antiquity sometimes indulged have nothing to do with the Roman religion of ritual and sanctuaries and amount rather to an attempt to reduce polytheism to monotheism.
The same applies to many superficial modern studies of female deities, which often present them as more or less interchangeable mother-goddesses or fertility goddesses.
J.Scheid
Racialism is not enough to be folkish. In-group preference is necessary of course, but it's just one piece of the puzzle. Folkishness is about more than just ethnic homogeneity.
If racialism is your whole worldview, then secular humanist liberalism has a window it can creep into. Even if you start from a religious foundation. After all, our Christian forefathers were "folkish" in that they were racialist. But their worldview led to atheism and globalism.
Folkishness starts at the bottom and completely purges all liberal and Christian priors. What we're doing on this channel is just that. It might seem radical and uncomfortable, even threatening at times. This is part of the healing process.
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Together, we shall prevail
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Catholics say that everything great in the West was because of Christianity. The "logic" is that whatever was at the helm at the time these great things happened, caused them. By that logic everything great in the Germanic world was because of Protestantism. No other religion has conquered more.
It's not hard to reject this logic, you just have to admit that great things have deep roots. Which means that most of what's great in the West has roots much older than Christianity. Anyone with half a brain can see this.
Do Christians even have one good argument?
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Europeans are Not Individualist
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Sun ride by B.Olshanky
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First secret confidence to Venus by Francois Jouffroy original statue and Dashinvaine’s painting based on it
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In the functional polytheism of the Romans, the gods stand side by side and collaborate with one another. This is why it is always dangerous to assimilate one deity to another, as if they were to all intents and purposes the same. For such assimilation tends to deny the particular distribution of divine functions as it is evidenced in ritual.
John Scheid
The people allowed themselves to be deprived of the belief in Jupiter and Juno, of sacrifices and ceremonies, but not of the games, the festivities, the dances and banquets, by which those ceremonies had been accompanied; and the Church was at all times wise and tolerant enough to suffer what she could not prevent. Thus, even the truly heathen Lupercalia, which were distinguished by gross superstition and all kinds of rude excess, were only, and with great difficulty, abolished in the year 496.
F.Dahn
To my astonishment, faith has increased during these days of sorrow, and it almost seems to me that happiness leads to heathen wisdom, and pain and misfortune to Christ.
F.Dahn
In this one thing I may already boast that I am a Christian; I live for mankind, not alone for my nation. I am a man, and no longer a mere Roman. Therefore I can love you, the barbarian, like a brother. Are we not brothers of one family-that of humanity? Therefore I can bear to live, even after seeing my nation die. I live for humanity; that is my people."
"No!" cried Totila vehemently; "that I could never do. I can, and will, live only for my nation. My nationality is the air in which alone my soul can breathe."
F.Dahn
Folkishness is starting to make waves in the radical right. It claims to be the answer to the worst problems of modernity. But what is it? How is it different from identitarianism? Mike lays out its basic ideas in plain language.
Folkishness is just how people have always lived. They did what their forefathers did. They lived around people of shared blood. They worshipped the same gods. They spoke the same language. So, what in this is new? Why does it have a claim on our attention?
✍️ NEW SUBSTACK:
https://imperiumpress.substack.com/p/folkishness-in-brief
Netflix’s upcoming series Kaos will feature Jeff Goldblum as Zeus. Casting a jew as the king of Greek Gods is very intentionally insulting.
Among other stars of Kaos is British actor Nabhaan Rizwan of Pakistani descent playing Dionysus.
Honestly this is going to be such a forgettable flop, it’s not even worth wasting breath
One of my main issues I take with Iceland's Asatru organization, Ásatrúarfélagið, has to do with the leadership. Allsherjargoði Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, through many interviews in the past, has revealed himself to be blatantly an Atheist and a hardcore Secularist. This leads me to believe that his motivations for joining (and leading) the group are more political than spiritual, particularly with the aim of ushering in multicultural, multiracial fellowship. Seriously, you can even be a Christian and join! Or Atheist! I remember when years ago they got immense backlash for their decision to bless homosexual and transgender weddings. Hate-mail, rightfully so, was sent from Heathens around Iceland, Germany, and the United States. People were right to be upset seeing the open, unashamed perversion of their revival efforts by a man whose loyalty seems to lie with only money and a subversive agenda.
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Each of the Roman gods possessed a precise profile. The term ‘the sacred’, in the modern sense, meant nothing to the Romans; and no more did the abstract notion of ‘the divine’.
The once heated debate over the Latin term numen is now over. Nowadays nobody considers, as did the ‘primitivists’ (Ludwig Deubner, Herbert J. Rose, and their successors) that numen means ‘a diffused sacredness’. Instead, numen is now translated, depending on the context, as the ‘will or power of a deity’.
J.Scheid
They show that the Roman gods are innumerable, that each has a function and a precise profile, and that, individually, they are not all-powerful. This is a polytheistic system and, despite those who see an evolutionary progression from polytheism to monotheism, its deities were not moving towards monotheism.
Even as late as the fifth century, Christian thinkers, ardent defenders of monotheism, could still not get rid of the mass of ‘pagan’ gods. They ridiculed them but placed them among the demons.
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Helios and Selene by Hans Rathausky
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Athena, Aphrodite and Hera by Josef Thorak
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Reconstruction of the 12th century Selonian female costume
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An example of a food offering. Bread (preferably home-made) and different vegetable seeds are some of the most popular options alongside various nuts and small fruits like apples.
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