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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
To those defending Helm of Awe
What some miss is that The Galdrakver Manuscript from which the most popular version of this supposedly Pagan symbol comes from is a judeo-christian grimoire. Every detail is to be taken in context. The latter is that of jewish-christian occult symbology. If we do that it becomes obvious that Aegishjalmur is a christian sigil with very specific judeo-christian meaning. Greedy stores selling quasi-Pagan merch don’t care. Do you?
Death and creation are often tied in the myth. Primordial beings are killed and sacrificed by the Gods, though the results are usually positive. With Chaos Serpent it makes sense that even in it’s death the beast still managed to spread evil, albeit on a much lesser scale.
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Also a mention of a burning oak tree in the Croatian legend referenced above is peculiar since it’s a sacred tree of Perun, one his club is made out of.
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The myth I allude to is a reconstructed battle between Perun and the Chaos Serpent. My theory is that folklore preserved (albeit in bits and pieces) a part of this myth in tales about the origins of flying parasitic insects. New life being created out of body parts of some primordial being is a common concept found in many traditions.
Hence it’s possible that originally the myth featured Perun burning the Serpent with his lightning and the resulting ashes turning into insect gads (possibly other types too).
Mykyta killed the dragon, but, at the very end of the tale it is stated that Mykyta made a mistake by burning the dragon’s corpse because the ashes from it’s head flew by the wind and turned into mosquitos, flies and other flying gads.
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One Croatian legend also links the origins of fleas, mosquitos and flies with a snake. In it these insects come from the sparks produced by a snake’s tail as it hit coals after being thrown into a bonfire. The sparks scattered and got on a man’s body each turning into corresponding insects.
"One of the sparks hit a man’s forehead, he pressed it and found a flea under his thumb."
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In terms of their locus gads are mostly linked with earth and underground world (snakes, insects and many other gads come from under the earth and hide in it), though some of them can also dwell in the water, air and human body.
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What this new reconstruction started with was very mundane. Due to it currently being the mosquito season I remembered that there was some interesting folklore regarding the origins of the nasty insects. This led me to a Croatian legend, an epic song I once translated before and other ethnographic material here and there.
What I did not expect to find was a common thread which led me to reconstructing a myth, which in Slavic tradition is no easy task.
I’ll let you decide on the new one, but the last reconstruction seems solid enough. At least I am confident. It’s Swarog crafting lightning bolts for Perun. Read, if you haven’t.
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Remembered two interesting stories from folklore and decided to re-analyze them 10+ years after the first read. Found some interesting stuff. Just need to translate the texts themselves and find good illustrations. Though considering how obscure the tales are there’s probably no drawings or painting of them specifically. Will have to improvise.
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Don’t be like that. Don’t go around screaming skal. Don’t use jewish symbols (like vegvisir) and most importantly don’t be a universalist/syncretist/platonist etc. Folk for the folk.
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To this day the majority still have this conditioning to hate swastika in particular and their traditions in general. In russia swastika is still banned due to it being a quote on quote a symbol of fascism (yes, those fools can’t tell fascism from National-Socialism).
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How communists fought swastikas
Slavic clothes and embroidery are full of swastika. But, Slavs themselves were forced to forget it. The ban began when commissar Lunacharski wrote an article in 1922. In it he basically said that whoever dares to use the symbol will get punished. It wasn’t openly saying that, but considering the context it was clear that this was basically an official prohibition.
After 1930 swastika is now rarely even mentioned in scientific works. The term was just avoided and substituted at best. Simply using such combination of words as Russian history or Russian native culture was now enough to make you an enemy of the state and people (reminds me of modern "liberal" countries).
29th of June
Pagan Revolt Day
In 983 as a response to christian persecution of Pagans Slavs who lived along the Elbe (modern Germany) revolted. Led by the tribe of Lutici they drove christians off their lands.
As Adam of Bremen put it:
They have swept through other Slavic lands burning down churches, they tortured priests and other clergymen in many ways and left no trace of christianity on the other side of the Elbe.
Christians and Muslims are starting to notice the folkish worldview. They're calling us "fundamentalists". They're not wrong.
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Christians are not scared of the "transcendentalists". Few men ever fought and died for a metaphor. Fundamentalists are the ones who will die in battle because they will go to Valhalla.
Folkishness is fundamentalism.
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PSA from Dr. Jackson Crawford about Vegvísir
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An oak is also the World Tree aka Axis Mundi in Slavic tradition. And the reconstruction of it also features a snake at the roots of the tree. Is this single mention of a burning oak in one Croatian legend enough to craft more theories. Personally, I doubt that.
One can even go further and add even more elements to the reconstruction, but I don’t feel confident with it.
The dissipation of the great evil (Chaos Serpent) into minor ones (snakes, parasitic insects and gads in general) is what’s interesting and the reconstruction has it now.
The closest to the original myth is no doubt the tale of Mykyta the Tanner. In it a strong, club-wielding hero fights a dragon (multi-headed, flying snake) thus performing a feat similar to Perun, a strong, club-wielding God who defeated the Chaos Serpent.
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In all those sources, as well as some minor ones like Ukrainian belief that flying gads come from ashes (мошки, комарі, мухи... завелись з попелу), we can see the same three elements:
1. A snake is killed
2. It gets burned
3. It’s body produces parasitic insects
Those are too common to be a mere coincidence and, at least to me, hint at an ancient mythological battle and it’s result.
Another example of this motif is found in one of my favorite stories. The tale of Mykyta (Nikita/Kirilo) the Tanner has already been retold on this channel, but I haven’t mentioned that in the end of the story, after Mykyta defeats the dragon there’s an interesting detail added by some versions.
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Legends and beliefs about the origins of bedbugs, fleas and lice tell of their close relation to chthonic gads, especially snakes.
According to the legend from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christ once saved a snake by taking it off a burning oak set on fire by shepherds. Insidious snake coiled around Christ’s neck and began threatening to bite him. Christ cunningly escaped the bite. He managed to throw the snake on the ground which led it to crumble to ashes. Fleas came from the snake’s ashes, while bedbugs came from it’s vile blood.
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According to Aleksandr Gura, a philologist who dedicated many works to the topic of animals in folklore there’s a peculiar classification found in ethnographic material.
Despite their vast differences, in folklore snakes, lizards, frogs, flies, mosquitos and fleas (as well as some other parasitic insects) are all seen as members of one group. The latter is called gad (Proto-Slavic *gadъ “creepy creature”, Proto-West Germanic *kwād “evil”).
Gads (as we’ll address them hereafter) are chthonic creatures associated with the Underworld and disease.
Before we begin with the new reconstruction, let me remind you about the fight between Perun and Chaos Serpent. This reconstructed myth will be important at the end of the new one when I make my conclusion.
What’s important to note is that the Serpent is not Weles as some fools claim. It would make very little sense. I’ve delved into this topic before and will also address this issue again.
If I had a penny each time I manage to reconstruct a Slavic myth I’d have 2 pennies. Not much, but that’s twice the amount an average academic has.
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Poseidon by M.Nikolaevich
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Heretics are such snowflakes
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The new order of USSR had no place for any national identity, culture and/or pride, everyone was just a citizen with no origin destined to be blended into a new type of man homo soveticus.
Later, during the WWII an incurably rare stock of traditional embroidery was destroyed completely by museum workers in Kargopolsk. Members of NKVD terrorized the countryside by hunting down traditional clothes and embroidery and confiscating it leaving people not only robbed of their material possessions, but also their traditions.
The most disturbing thing is that even long after the end of the soviet regime museum workers kept vandalizing ancient embroidery by cutting swastikas off. That’s what communism did to them, a generation programmed to react in this way to their own national symbols. A pavlovian conditioning to be a self hating trash.
On 29th of June Slavs plundered bishop’s seat at Havelberg which was followed by other settlements. Lutici soon found allies among other Slavic tribes and went all the way to Hamburg freeing the lands from foreign occupation.
The revolt led to the independence and ensured that the area was ruled by Pagan Slavs.
^ the conflict of atheistic pagans (platonists, perennialists, evolians etc) and folkish ones is not some new schism as outsiders may suppose. It's a conflict as old as Ancient Greece at the very least and probably much older. Negative tendencies have always existed, they just kept growing which led to the sad state of modern world.
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Antique still life Anatoly Tarabanov
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