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Two will come out, put on their swanskins and transform themselves and fly away. But you must hide the swanskin that belongs to the youngest maiden. She will search and search and when she cannot find it she will cry out, ‘I would do anything in the world for the creature who would find my swanskin for me.’ Give the swanskin to her then, and tell her that the only thing she can do for you is to show you the way to her father’s dominion.
The Tale of the Son of the King of Ireland and the Daughter of the King of the Red Cap
Freya once gave her feathered cloak to Thor and loki
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The same way men turn into beasts after they put on shaggy pelts, turning into birds is achieved by wearing winged bird-skins or so-called feathered shirts. German and Slavic folklore has tales of beautiful nymphs who fly in the air as white swans and doves after putting on appropriate shirts and turn into maidens after taking them off.
A.Afanasiev
A question to English
Do you wassail on Twelfth Night (Jan 6) or Old Twelfth Night (Jan 17)?
What would be more traditional?
The contemporary relevance of paganism is thus not a matter for debate. Neo-paganism, if in fact there is such a thing, is not a cult phenomenon as imagine not only its adversaries, but also sometimes well-intentioned groups and covens who can be described as often clumsy, sometimes unintentionally comical, and perfectly marginal. Nor is this a form of "Christianity turned upside down," which would adopt for its own benefit various Christian forms-both rituals and objects-in order to reconstitute the equivalent or counterpart.
Alain de Benoist
Povitrulya, Ukrainian spirit of mountain winds
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He took his mighty, curved bow,
And he took wrought arrows,
Ilja came to the Kyivan square
He began walking along Kyiv city
He was visiting the churches
He broke all crosses off the churches
He shot all the golden cupolas down
From the tale of Ilja of Murom and the drunkards
My translation
How shall we sing of him – as lord of Dicte or of Lycaeum?
O Zeus, some say that thou wert born on the hills of Ida, others, O Zeus, say in Arcadia, did these or those, O Father lie?
Callimachus
Ombrios and Hyetios are common epithets of Zeus, and we hear of sanctuaries of Zeus on Olympus and on various other mountaintops, such as the highest mountain of the island of Aegina, where he was called Zeus Panhellenios.
Probably the weather god Zeus ruled from the highest peak in every neighborhood.
M.Nilsson
I will sing of Zeus, chiefest among the gods and greatest, all-seeing, the lord of all, the fulfiller who whispers words of wisdom to Themis as she sits leaning towards him.
Anonymous Homeric Hymn
Art by A.Lillienberg
River spirits in the shape of a bull are well known from European folklore of the present day, and they are certainly an ancient heritage. The river spirit appears just as often, however, in the shape of a horse. This is true, for example, in Sweden and in Scotland.
M.Nilsson
In theory it is entirely possible to construct a chronological history of a tribe. This task would be accomplished by knowing the sacred places within the tribe’s geography and all of the stories that are related to these places. By identifying the before and after of the stories and then arranging them on a time scale, one could project a chronology.
V.Deloria
Let’s start this year with gratitude to the channels helping promote Ancestral traditions
@Pagan_Revivalism
@folkishworldview
@AryanPaganismChannel
@europeanidenity
@TheSacredStew
Hero Oisin and st.Patrick by Brother Bjorn
My new commission
Wotan and Brunhilde by Ferdinand Leeke
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Speaking of being divisive I plan on writing a long list of questionable and/or subversive individuals/organizations. Though I'm not a fan of internet drama it's important to know who is who. Will take a while to get all the data and proof so it's a long-term project.
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Freya’s cloak was used by loki and gave him flight
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Germanic Goddess Freya has a falcon coat (valshamr)
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Demeter is not a goddess of vegetation in general but of the cultivation of cereals specifically. The Homeric knights did not care much for this goddess of the peasants. The references to her in Homer are few, but they are sufficient to show that she was the corn goddess who presided at the winnowing of the corn. Hesiod, who was himself a peasant and composed a poem for peasants, mentions her often.
M.Nilsson
To split the world in two, a material and one of ideas is inherently anti-Pagan. It’s what A. de Benoist called a negative theology. All platonists do just that and christians have the same degenerate approach to reality and spirituality. Both should get the same treatment socrates did.
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There are people who see only the dark side and the bad in life. There are folks and religions for whom life only exists in order to be denied and forgotten, despised and overcome in order to be able to be absorbed as completely as possible into the great void. There are people who just wait their whole life for death and eternity and who believe to thereby especially please God.
A. Holzner
Education of Achilles
Benigne Gagneraux
An important part of folkishness is drawing a line between ourselves and the wider world. In a way, this is what folkishness is all about. APTA had a good post about this:
/channel/Aryanpaganism/6763
One way our forefathers did this is by having different ways of reckoning time. Each city-state in Greece or Rome had its birth date, the date of its founding, and this was year zero. It's hard to figure out when certain things happened by our (Christian) time reckoning, because each city started from a different date.
The fact that this is hard is good. It draws a line between us and the outsider. Not only are our customs and our gods different, but even our ideas of time are different. This is how you maintain a people's integrity. This is folkishness.
@folkishworldview
Thetis and Zeus by A.Losenko
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One of the great gods, Poseidon, is closely connected with the horse as well as with water. It is related in some myths that he appeared in the shape of a horse and that he created the horse.
M.Nilsson
The rivers each had their god. These gods are represented in the shape of a bull or a bull with a human head. Such a figure is sometimes called by the name of the great river in northwestern Greece, Acheloos, and Acheloos was venerated in several places in Greece. It is not clear whether the god of the river Acheloos was on his way to becoming a common river god or whether Acheloos is an old word for water. At all events, as the rivers were individualized, so too were their gods.
M.Nilsson
New year brings us to the topic of dates and dating systems. As we know Ancients had a lot of different dating systems. Each tribe had their own sacred history which does make it hard to count the dates, but is an example of folkish perspective.
For example, one of Roman systems was AUC (Ab urbe condita) according to which now is 2777 (2024+753)
Happy New Year to all Folkish Pagans!
Let's make this new year better than the last one and stay loyal to our sacred traditions.
It was a public holiday celebrated around December 25th in the family home. A time for feasting, goodwill, generosity to the poor, the exchange of gifts and the decoration of trees. But it wasn’t Christmas. This was Saturnalia, the pagan Roman winter solstice festival.
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 - c. 54 BC) described Saturnalia as ‘the best of times’: dress codes were relaxed, small gifts such as dolls, candles and caged birds were exchanged. The wealthy were expected to pay the month’s rent for those who couldn’t afford it, masters and slaves to swap clothes. Family households threw dice to determine who would become the temporary Saturnalian monarch.
From as early as 217 BC there were public Saturnalia banquets. The Roman state cancelled executions and refrained from declaring war during the festival. The earliest known reference to it commemorating the birth of Christ on December 25th is in the Roman Philocalian calendar of AD 354.
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Full article here.
@ChristianityExposed
Latvian swastika
Iron Age Staameriene shawl and modern reconstruction
Be divisive
Paganism has been an empty moniker for far too long and as a result we now have wiccans, lokeans, platonists, monists and other latent atheists calling themselves Pagan and try to teach youth what it means