Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

26 Oct 2023 06:33

Nietzsche’s famous "Gott ist tot" is not inherently atheistic, rather it’s true meaning is that christian belief and morality have finally been mostly forgotten. Of course, Herr Nietzsche didn’t live long enough to see modern woke rebirth of christianity, it’s African boom, TikTok pastors etc.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

25 Oct 2023 20:59

Dziady is coming!

A sacred day of remembering and feasting with the dead in Slavic tradition

Art by Stanisław Bagieński

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

24 Oct 2023 22:35

When you go to a sauna, you have to say: Sauna room, sauna’s mistress, let us in to bath, to warmth, to steam. And when you are done, say: Sauna mistress, thank you for a warm bath. You got happy, we got healthy.

One doesn’t go to a sauna after midnight. Obderiha wants to wash and rest too, after all. One woman went to a sauna after midnight and obderiha dragged her out by the hair.

Arkhangelsk oblast, Pinega, Nemnuga, 1984

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

24 Oct 2023 16:06

Saunas are notable for not having icons inside them and therefore are considered to be somewhat liminal places where evil spirits can cause a lot of harm and where witches and witchers conducted divinations. Also women gave birth in baths which made them even more chtonic.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

23 Oct 2023 09:14

Bannik, like most household spirits, is seen as a small old man. Since he lives in a sauna he is naked and has a bath broom(s) made out of birch leaves.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

22 Oct 2023 11:50

A Welsh saying, to describe an ugly woman is "As ugly as the Hag of the Mist"

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21 Oct 2023 06:57

Nachzehrer is also notable for it’s ability to shapeshift, but unlike a typical Hollywood vampire Nachzehrer turns into a pig, not a bat.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

19 Oct 2023 20:11

The Stüpp is a mix of a vengeful spirit and a werewolf. He does not physically tear the flesh off the victim and also lies in ambush in places traditionally inhabited by aptrgangr (undead).

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

19 Oct 2023 18:24

Stüpp is a wolf spirit from Rhineland area. He lies in wait usually at a crossroads and jumps on the victim’s back. Once attached the Stüpp grows bigger and heavier with each step the victim takes.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

19 Oct 2023 08:39

Roggenmuhme (rye aunt) is a type of malevolent Feldgeister (field spirit) in German folklore. It looks like an ugly woman and kidnaps children.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

18 Oct 2023 09:25

Halloween costumes from 1918 with traditional European symbols

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17 Oct 2023 13:11

Magic tambourine and the jews
Ukrainian fairytale
https://telegra.ph/Magic-tambourine-and-the-jews-10-17-2

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

16 Oct 2023 15:02

Before I get to the Halloween themed posts, I’d like to finish and release one translation. It’s a folklore story about the jews.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

15 Oct 2023 18:58

We would impose Asatru on no one. But we earnestly invite those whose heritage it is, to return to the belief that is a part of them as surely as blood and bone.

S.McNallen

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15 Oct 2023 12:24

Portrait of life and death by Andi Drude

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25 Oct 2023 23:15

On Dziady spirits of the ancestors come to the world of the living and are treated by their descendants with a special supper at home.

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25 Oct 2023 07:42

Werecat

A being from Slavic folklore, werecat (koshkolak) is one of many creatures a witch or a witcher can turn into. It’s supposed to be a plain cat, at worst a black one, but just like with werewolf it was later turned into a monstrous human-animal hybrid which is not folklore accurate.

Art by A.Basak

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

24 Oct 2023 22:00

A sauna has it’s own, not domovoi, but bannik, a sauna master, he lives there, causes havoc they say. I’ve heard that one day, water was carried to a sauna. No matter how much water they’ve carried it wasn’t enough. When they returned with more water there was none in the sauna, as if someone poured it out. They tried five more times and then realized that the sauna master did not want anyone to bath today.

Novgorod, Staraya Russa, Village Ivanovskoe, 1990

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

24 Oct 2023 13:01

Bannik is not the only evil sauna spirit, there’s another, female one. Even more dangerous and aggressive is obderiha (the ripper). Typically she is imagined to be a small, scary woman with long claws.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

23 Oct 2023 09:13

Bannik is a manevolent spirit in Slavic folklore who lives in the sauna. He can seem playful at first, but is very dangerous.

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22 Oct 2023 06:11

Hag of the Mist (Gwrach y rhibyn) is a Welsh spirit which looks like an ugly woman with bat wings. She flies to the window of the person about to die by night and calls their name.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

21 Oct 2023 06:47

Nachzehrer is a German vampire type closer to the original Slavic upyr. It’s a grisly undead, not a suave gentleman in a cape.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

19 Oct 2023 18:49

One can hardly fight a Stüpp. Some tales mention victims fighting off a Stüpp successfully with an iron knife while others say that if one knows the Stüpp’s name and called it out loud he would let go and vanish.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

19 Oct 2023 09:31

Roggenmuhme the mother of the Roggenwölfe (rye wolves) can turn into a wolf.

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18 Oct 2023 23:18

Starting from this day I’ll make a series of posts I promised before. They will all be focused on the scary folklore of Europe.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

17 Oct 2023 14:31

Greeks! They knew how to live: for that purpose it is necessary to keep bravely to the surface, the fold and the skin; to worship appearance, to believe in forms, tones, and words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial - from profundity!

Nietzsche

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

17 Oct 2023 03:19

You can compare & contrast Celtic, Germanic, Greco-Roman, etc. religion all you want but stop saying they are the same. That's as absurd as saying German and Roman culture is the same. Do you see why universal thought destroys individual identity?

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

16 Oct 2023 15:00

His name is Wotan, he dwells in all of us who are made of German flesh and spirit. From the high Alps down through the valleys of the Rhineland and across the seas and shores where we wandered. Through vineyards and forests, in the hunt and the harvest. He is the storm, the wildfire, the roar and cacophony of battle. But also the fireside tales and bedtime stories read by Grand Mother or Grand Father.

I.M.Knosp

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

15 Oct 2023 17:19

Happy birthday to Stephen McNallen

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

14 Oct 2023 17:53

Next week I am going to write about the scary side of European folklore. Got my hands on some rare ethnographic materials.

Art by Tatia Koviz