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Intarabus
A Gaulish God depicted as a young man with no beard and a wolf’s pelt. Due to his name’s etymology modern Pagans often interpret Intarabus as a deity of liminal space, opening and the crossing boundaries.
Jarchuk is a dog with wolf’s teeth. Witches are afraid of it (folk belief).
A witch is not afraid of a cross, but is powerless against jarchuk.
B.Grinchenko
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@AryanPaganismChannel
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1. All men eventually come to Hel, even warriors whose final destination is V alhalla.
2. Every dead man is judged. The judgment is eternal.
3. There is a court at “Urd’s well” with a rostrum where discourse is heard. There, a
person sits silently listening to Odin “The High One”.
4. Dead men “sit in Norn’s seats” for nine days before moving onto their final fate.
Urd and her sisters are Norns.
5. Dead men’s tongues are cold and silent, unless one possesses “mal-runes” which
are particularly helpful in “that court” where men go into “full judgment.” Odin possesses such runes.
W.P. Reaves
In several sources, we find examples of warriors killed in the line of duty who are said to come “to Hel”. Thus, like all men, warriors too first travel “to Hel” before entering Valhalla.
Snorri tells us that five fylki [“companies”, “military troops”] of dead men passed before, making less noise than Hermod alone on Sleipnir. Their numbers and arrangement suggest that they died together in battle.
In Gisli Surson's Saga (ch.24) is mentioned the custom of binding Hel-shoes on the feet of the dead. Warriors in regard to whom there was no doubt that Valhall was their final destiny received Hel-shoes like all others.
W.P. Reaves
Today is the birthday of Ozar the Raven. He was a Pagan fantasy writer. May he rest in peace.
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Bronze stripes of the Polohivsky crook
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Some scholars have pointed out the similarities, albeit rather superficial ones, between the Polohivskyi crook and ancient Scythian stelae. The latter often feature crooks (staffs).
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The artifact was found with the remains of a man (aged 45-55), probably of higher social status.
The man was buried with a typical copper-bronze knife and a rather atypical staff.
Babyno (Multi-cordoned ware) was a Bronze Age Eastern European culture which produced many interesting artifacts. Today I’ll focus on a recent find attributed to Babyno.
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More translations on the way. Also, I want to try something new content-wise. Maybe more archeology.
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Beowulf by Daniel Jacobs
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According to the belief of local Ukrainian peasants, there are two types of witches. The first type got their mystical power from birth, the second one gets it from the former through teaching or sell their souls to chorts to get power.
The first type is somewhat amicable towards regular people. They help with illnesses or protect from the malicious attacks of their evil sisters, the taught witches.
P.Ivanov "Folk tales about witches and ghouls"
Art: Witch by volkhv Velemir (Speranski)
Can you believe that there are people who believe that since Europe was nominally christian for a while we can’t return to paganism in any shape or form and should mix the two in this cringe?
There’s a lot of alt right who think so.
Trumps not only start, but also end the same way Nine Princes did with the hero imprisoned. But again, compared to his father Merlin’s conditions are much less dire. He wasn’t blinded, thrown in a tiny cell and emaciated. He has his eyesight, plenty of room and food. He’s also a wizard. Most won’t doubt that Merlin will get out of his confinement, even if it takes some time.
The twist with Rinaldo was decent at least and got some foreshadowing.
These dogs can see witches, unmistakably tell them apart from normal women. Jarchuks, if purebred, are cherished like as the apple of one’s eye, though it can be hard to protect them. Chorts know of their witch-detecting talents. Hence hell-spawn, acting in their own interests, tries to strangle jarchuks who are vulnerable before they reach one year of age. But, after that, when jarchuk is older, chorts can do nothing to it.
M.Orlov
To protect the house from witches you should keep special dogs, so called jarchuks. It’s hard to get them.
When jarchuk grows up it can bite witches which normal dog’s don't dare, many don’t even bark at witches. Jarchuk not only barks, but can even kill a witch, that’s why the latter tries to strangle it while the dog is still small. That’s why you should thoroughly protect jarchuk from the witch so that she doesn’t kill it as a puppy. You can’t hide it in the house as witches come to houses. You need to dig up a hole in the yard, put the puppy in it and cover the hole with a harrow. Then no witch will dare touch it as they are afraid of harrows.
P.Ivanov
If the purpose of the journey to Hel is to appear at the court by Urd’s well and wait for judgment and even warriors chosen for Valhalla must stop here before passing over Bifröst to Asgard and Valhalla, we must suspect that the gods have some involvement in the matter, since ultimately it is Odin and Freyja who decide who enters their halls Valhalla and Sessrumnir.
According to both Eddas, Skuld, the youngest of the three Norns, is also the leader of Odin’s valkyries which explains why warriors chosen for Valhalla are allowed to bypass the Thingstead at Urd’s well.
W.P. Reaves
Loki’s daughter is not clearly identified as Hel in any of the existing Eddaic poems. In light of this, it’s important to note that the description of “Hel’s high hall” stands in stark contrast to the hall of Loki’s daughter in Snorri’s Edda.
In the Eddaic poem Baldrs Draumar, whereas the benches in “Hel’s high hall” are strewn with costly things and mead stands poured out in goblets awaiting a guest, the hall of Loki’s daughter (whom Snorri calls Hel) is a dismal place with its dish called “Hunger” and its knife named “famine.”
The Eddaic poems clearly distinguish this place from Hel, the realm where “all men” must eventually come according to Fáfnismál 10. Vafþrúðnismál 43 separates those that come to Hel from those that pass through Hel into Niflhel.
W.P. Reaves
Beowulf illustrations by T.Lahonina
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Got it blocked in and getting into the detail work
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It’s been theorized that the crook was a status symbol similar both in look and significance to the ancient Egyptian scepter of the pharos and Ukrainian bulava (ceremonial mace).
Quote from the collective monograph: The length of the crooks (40–67 cm) together with the iconographic tradition to depict them tucked behind the belt, like stone maces and axes, suggest their similar use and symbolic load as attributes of power.
The crook itself is made out of wood, but features intricate bronze decorations. It’s unique since (so far) no other staff like this was found.
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Discovered in Polohy district of southern Ukraine this artifact is known as Polohivskyi crook (staff).
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There’s a recently discovered and rather obscure artifact I’ve read about a week ago. The whole article is too much, but I can translate the important parts and present them here tomorrow. It’s an ancient, most likely ceremonial item.
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Greek philosophy is the decadence of the Greek instinct: Thucydides is the great summing up, the final manifestation of that strong, severe positivism which lay in the instincts of the ancient Hellene. After all, it is courage in the face of reality that distinguishes such natures as Thucydides from Plato: Plato is a coward in the face of reality— consequently he takes refuge in the ideal: Thucydides is master of himself— consequently he is able to master life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look upon the people of antiquity, our pagan ancestors, almost all of them were extremely devout and ultra-conservative compared to anyone of today.
Perverted academics will try to belittle your ancestors, to try to get you to disassociate and disconnect from the very blood that flows in your veins.
Whether the lies come from judeo-christianity, or they come from plato and his acolytes, or those of modern atheistic academia; their goal is simple. Its to stop Pagan Revivalism from emerging once more, and for our people to be healed with ancestral ways by our ancestral Gods.
The Norroena Society has made an unvaluable contribution to the reconstruction of the Germanic faith. As far as I know, an unparalleled achievement.
I also consider myself a follower of the Sedian Path, and I encourage everyone to read these incredible books. I believe they are essential for anyone with the intention of restoring the ancient ways.
I will be getting more books by them in the future.
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I think that’s a good enough place to end the review. Overall, Trumps of Doom is not the weakest in the book series, but is nevertheless far from the best. Worth reading if you like Zelazny’s style and want to have some more of Amber.
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With Merlin there was no longer any reason for us to learn the basics after reading the previous books, but despite this the plot starts with a mystery. Merlin’s life is regularly threatened every year on the same date. He sees it as a personal issue and says nothing to his relatives until his girlfriend is murdered by a monster summoned from another world and Merlin meets an occultist who tries to sacrifice him to get powers promised by an unknown party.
Also Corwin is absent and no one knows where he is.