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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."
A.Gura
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.
A.Gura
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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Art by Anatoly Tarabanov
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1) The myths are literally true
2) Different mythic sources contradict each other
Both of these are required for a serious pagan theology. We're not atheists, so we believe the first. We've read the sources, so we believe the second.
Some heathens see (2) as such a problem that they end up rejecting (1). They will say that straightforward belief in the myths is a "Christian" or an "Abrahamic" thing. This is ridiculous. It just as much an Egyptian thing, an Igbo thing, a Yakut thing, etc. Believing that your myths really happened, believing that your tradition is not lying, is an "every folk" thing. The only thing it's not is a Platonist thing.
We need to build a new framework for interpreting myth (really, we need to rebuild the oldest one). We can't import one from classical Greece.
We have work to do. It would be negligent to just copypaste a defective framework from a dying civilization and call it a day.
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The tale of Christ’s life as related in the gospels shares many parallels with other religious figures besides Buddha. Another one was Dionysus, who was said by the Greeks to be the son of Zeus-the “father of the gods.” In other words, Dionysus was considered the “son of god,” or the “son of the father.” His mother was a mortal named Semele, who was supernaturally impregnated by Zeus.
Dionysus, like Christ, was a traveling teacher and he was alleged to be the god of wine. This too is similar to Christ, who put a heavy emphasis on wine, both in the ceremonial “Lord’s Supper” and the “miracle” of turning water into wine at the Cana wedding feast.
C.Guiliani
Numerous other events in Christ’s life, as described in the gospels, precisely parallel those in the life of Buddha to such an extent that they cannot be written off as mere coincidences. But the parallels go way beyond similarities in the life narratives of these two individuals. They also extend into the realm of their anecdotal sayings
C.Guiliani
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.
A.Gura
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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Pagan practices are about establishing personal connection with the Gods of your people. One can’t have anything personal with abstract notions and empty titles such as Sky Father or Thunderer. Pray to Odin or Thor, not academic theories which present Gods as fictional archetypes molded by humanity. It’s basically atheism i.e. heresy.
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In “The Bacchae,” a play written by Euripides in the fifth century BC, we find that Dionysus “gave the pain-removing delight of wine equally to the wealthy man and to the lesser man.” Here we see that Dionysus, like Christ, was reputed to be concerned about the poor and the rich alike.
Within the same play just mentioned, we see that Dionysus was arrested for claiming to be divine, and was consequently interrogated by King Pentheus, similar to what is claimed to have happened to Christ at the hand of the Jewish leaders of his day.
C.Guiliani
- In Matthew 7:3 Jesus said: “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
In the Dhammapada Buddha wrote: “The faults of others are more easily seen than one’s own, but seeing one’s own failings is difficult.”
- Christ said that he who chooses him as Lord must take up the cross, deny oneself, and follow him. He also said that his yoke was easy and his burden light.
Buddha said: “He who wishes to follow me must know himself and bear my yoke.”
- Christ said to love our fellow man and to do good to those who persecute us.
Buddha stated: “Hostility is never conquered by hostility in this world; hostility is conquered by love.
That is the eternal law.”
C.Guiliani
Stepping back to the beginning of Christ’s storyline, we find that his conception and birth have an uncanny resemblance to those of Buddha. In both cases, the mother was a paragon of virtue, had a vision, and, without sexual relations, became pregnant with an extraordinary child. Each baby was delivered while the mother was on a journey, and these births were both announced by angels, as the stories go. After the birth of Buddha, a hermit sage, who had heard the celebrations of angels, was told by them that the infant would sit on the throne of enlightenment. In the Christian story, the angels appeared and told shepherds that a child was born who is Christ the Lord. And Christ is said to have later sat at the right hand of the throne of God.
C.Guiliani