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Communists often say that religion was created by shamans (priests) and forced on folk using superstition and tricks. Of course it’s projection. Communism was created by jews and forced on subverted population via empty promises and grand speeches.
Natural religions came from the bottom up, from daily practices of common men, from farming, hunting, foraging and seasonal customs. Priests conducted rituals, but did not invent them (or the Gods).
The most serious Christian theologians don't say that Christianity is opposed to liberal secular humanism. Only meme-tier DEUS VULT Christians think this. The most serious Christian theologians know that liberal humanism is a continuation of Christianity. Their main critique of liberal humanism is that it is the profanation of Christianity, that all its "eternal truths" have been perverted and reduced to a merely secular expression.
This fails because a good idea is a good idea, whether sacred or profane.
The worship of the dead and land spirits is the sacred expression whose profane expression is blood and soil. This is a good idea no matter how it's expressed. On the other hand, modern progressivism is the profane expression of the idea of Christian supersession. Scientism is the profane expression of Christian "logos". Wokeness is the profane expression of Christian "meek shall inherit the earth". All these are bad profane ideas, because they're bad sacred ideas.
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Lisun feeds the wolves
There were two brothers. One was rich, another was poor since nothing grew on his land. Eventually the poor one decided to leave the farm. He wandered the wild forests.
One night, before St. George’s day he climbed an oak to sleep up high. At midnight the forest was shook by howling and clamour. And it was getting closer.
There came a man shepherding a pack of wolves with a cart behind him. It was Lisun. He rode under the oak tree and began feeding his beasts bread from the cart. He fed all of them, but one loaf was still left in the cart. Lisun said:
—Whom to give this one? I’ll give it to the man on the tree. Climb down, take it and go home!
The man climbed down and took the bread. Lisun left.
Wolves have a herdsman called polisun. He shepherds them like sheep. He is tall and looks like a man.
Hunters have deals with him and serve him, having renounced God. Then he gives them different game. When hunters gather to hunt wolves, he turns into a wolf himself, gathers a pack and leads it to the hunters who strike down those they choose.
Lisovyk was later replaced by st. George in his functions which is seen from the tale "Lisun feeds the wolves"
V.Gnatyk Remnants of pre-christian religious worldview of our ancestors
Modern christian family vs a Pagan one
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KDADS AXIAL EPISODE (FULL)
Premiering now on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6uHPSMZXw
In the Middle Ages people often received catechesis. They did not receive the sacrament of baptism, which is one of the most important sacraments in christianity. They demonstrated that theoretically would like and maybe would be willing to be baptized.
Famous emperor Constantine the Great, under whose rule christianity became a state religion in Byzantium, who opened the temples and took part in religious life of the country wasn’t baptized. He took baptism only on his deathbed.
F. Uspenski
The skins of various quadrupeds having been used by the most ancient inhabitants of Greece for clothing and defense, we cannot wonder that the goat-skin was employed in the same manner.
In order that a goat-skin might serve this purpose, two of its legs would probably be tied over the right shoulder of the wearer, the other extremity being fastened to the inside of the shield. In combat the left arm would be passed under the hide, and would raise it together with the shield, as is shown in a marble statue of Athena, preserved in the museum at Naples, which, from its style of art, may be reckoned among the most ancient in existence.
W.Smith
Nowadays many Slavic Pagans, dare I say most, either don’t consider Lada a deity at all, or think that it was a female deity. Personally I think the latter is rather absurd and baseless, since the word itself has nothing associating it with feminine and as a recreated (academic, armchair mythology) Lada is redundant being a copy of Mokosh both in iconography and role in the pantheon.
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In Slavic languages a non-domestic animal can be called divъ(jь) or dikъ(jь). Meat of wild animals is called divina, dich, dichina etc .
For example, in Lithuanian dieva zuosis means wild goose, goose of Dievas. Also dieva vērši means wild bull, bull of Dievas.
So it’s possible that domesticated animals were seen as belonging to men while wild ones belong to the Sky/Div.
Hittite language has a similar expression šiunaš ḫuitar which means wild animals and animals who belong to Sius, a major deity of Hittite religion.
Mullein (Verbascum) is known in Slavic languages as divizna. According to Bulgarian philologist and linguist V.I. Georgiev the name derives from PIE Diwes-h₁ewsmn̥ (heat of Sky/Deus)
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There is a theory that Div, a deity mentioned in the Tale of Igor’s Campaign, was a God of Sky. The two lines mentioning Div in TIC go as follows:
Div calls from the treetop, orders unknown land to listen
(дивъ кличетъ връху древа, велитъ послушати земли незнаемѣ)
Div already fell on the land
(уже връжеса дивь на землю)
As you can see in both Div is mentioned alongside land (ground/field depending on the translation). This support the theory of Div being a Sky God paired with Earth Goddess.
The Mythology Of Universalism
One of the mistakes many people in the field of comparative mythology make is erroneously using linguistics to build a cosmological framework that unifies various mythologies.
Words, names, and titles are naturally polysemic; that is, they contain within them the possibility of multiple meanings.
For a simple example of this, consider the word "Tyr," which, depending on context, may refer to a single God, a specific god, and could even be used as a name or even a title of a god or deity.
Linguistic arguments are the weakest form of argument in comparative mythology, especially when the architecture of the linguistic field is entirely based on speculation. These fields and subjects, while a serious and very helpful field of study, are entirely based on theories.
It is disingenuous for anyone to claim a definitive cosmological structure by basing their assertions on a theoretical linguistic connection between two different cultures completely separated by time and geographic distance.
Comparative mythologists also make a mistake by assuming correlations in mythological structures as the very basis of their methodology. Even the most rigid comparativist falls prey to confirmation bias. Instead of understanding differences, they often hyperfocus on small points of similarities that conform to their preconceived notions.
Instead of understanding the belief from within the spiritual/cultural context the mythology is native too, the modern comparativist offers a theoretical worldview by automatically assuming a shared origin from the very beginning of their research into the mythology. There is no objective truth in this method of study despite what is claimed. The theories often asserted are subjective from the outset of study when the comparativist begins looking for similarities. This methodology is used to create theoretical mythologies that transform native cosmologies into a universal belief system. This method by itself is a logical fallacy.
This fallacy can be likened to one seeing a field of flowers and instead of seeing a field of roses, dandelions, sunflowers etc. ; one only sees a field of flowers.
If you need a non-modern example of universalistic paganism look at cicero
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Speaking of non-ethnically exclusive ethnic religions, nowadays there’s an artificial, (((academia))) promoted pan-Paganism. Obviously they don’t want us having any real Blood and Soil religion, so there’s a coordinated attempt to create a new strain of abrahamism rebranded as something pre-christian. Call it perennialism, platonism, evolian/guénonian traditionalism, soft paganism etc etc. In essence it’s all the same. Trying to remove the ethnic exclusivity and belief in real Gods replacing the latter with abstract archetypes (Sky-Father, Thunderer etc).
The trick they use is turning comparison into equation e.g. Japanese Susanoo fought a giant snake, Germanic Thor fought a giant snake=>they are basically the same.
Of course promoters of this idea refer to heretics like socrates-plato, cicero etc.
It is our duty at this time to allow nature to heal from the devastation of modernity.
From this, we gain the favor of Gods and of the spirits inhabitanting the land, the streams, the seas, and the air.
I have heard it said that if the ocean was allowed to heal for 10 short years, it would regain 90% of the life lost through over-fishing and pollution. We should keep this in mind as we gain strength in numbers. For as we grow, so too does the healing and the blessings will pay us back tenfold
The man returned home and soon became even richer than his brother. The loaf could never be eaten completely. After one half of it was left, the rest always returned next day, as if growing back.
The envious brother decided to get a loaf like that too. He waited before the st.George’s, found the tree and climbed it. After some wait Lisun came again and began feeding his wolves. One was left without his share.
—Well, wolf, since you didn’t get yours, eat the one on top of the tree.
The envious brother heard it and got so scared he fell down. The wolf tore him apart at that very moment.
That’s what God gives to those who want more than enough.
Want me to translate the tale Lisun feeds the wolves mentioned above?
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Wrote some translations. Will post tomorrow.
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^ Nice, informative video. Give it a watch.
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Looking for someone who can draw a portrait. Obviously I prefer a folkish Pagan.
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According to ancient mythology, the aegis worn by Zeus was the hide of the goat Amaltheia, which had sucked him in his infancy.
Hyginus relates that, when he was preparing to resist the Titans, he was directed, if he wished to conquer, to wear a goat-skin with the head of the Gorgon. To this particular goat-skin the term aegis was afterwards confined. Homer always represents it as part of the armor of Zeus, whom on this account he distinguishes by the epithet aegis-bearing. He, however, asserts, that it was borrowed on different occasions both by Apollo and by Athena.
W.Smith
Div-Lado
In many Slavic folk songs one can hear a refrain div-lado. Most think it has no meaning, but in one Croatian song written down in XVIII c. Lado is addressed as holy God and asked to listen.
It’s possible that lado is related to aldi, aldius, elder etc. from IE *aldhós (grown up).
The theory suggests that Div Lado is therefore fully semantically parallel to Dуéus Pətḗr.
Speaking of Gods and flowers, Iris Germanic aka bearded iris is known in Slavic languages as perunika i.e. Perun’s flower.
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The first line also mentioned treetop. Possibly indicating that Div is the God who sits high on his throne on top of the world tree (similar to Odin in Asgard). I’ve already written on the topic of Slavic Axis Mundi (which was probably an oak tree).
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Will translate a lot of new research on Div. An obscure Slavic deity mentioned in The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.
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O'Gravy does not worship gods; he worships the comparative method, by which he hopes to reconstruct Celtic paganism. Like him, I too am disappointed by the fact that Celtic paganism is unreconstructable, but the answer is not to create a sprawling, elaborate metaphysical cope that lets us pretend that it's not. His "method" draws absolutely no bounds between any tradition whatsoever, and can be used to conclude anything at all, which is precisely what he needs it to do.
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Among the active promoters of non-ethnically exclusive Paganism many are literal jews or their servants e.g. boaz villalonga (aka modern platonist) and tom rowsell (aka STJ).
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Someone forwarded me a video claiming to "debunk" the Axial age. The Axial age is an influential thesis with a large body of scientific literature and empirical support, much of that literature written since the Seshat database opened a decade ago. On the "yes there was an Axial age" side of the ledger we have:
- transition from emphasis on religious orthopraxy (rite-focused, exoteric) to orthodoxy (inward/attitude-focused, doctrinal)
- transition from Weberian "magical" religious paradigms to Weberian "ethical" religious paradigms
- new "big gods" appear (transcendent moralizing deities concerned with minute human affairs)
- law/morality/religion begin to address themselves to all men
- de-territorialization of religion — "God" is everywhere
- man becomes free to choose which deity to worship — no longer bound to ethnic/tribal gods
- shame culture (external, social locus of moral authority) gives way to guilt culture (internal, individual)
- rise of asceticism — de-emphasis on this-worldly goods as object of highest interest
- linear history appears
On the "no there wasn't an Axial age" side we have the claim that all Indo-European religions knew "The Absolute". The evidence:
- although clear evidence of such knowledge enters many centuries after the historical record opens (in any branch), we suspect this knowledge was hidden
- related concepts (e.g. Brahman, karma) only took on the connotation of The Absolute later, but secretly they always meant this
- there was a big-thing-at-the-beginning in all IE mythologies, this must have been The Absolute
The comparative method is extremely powerful, but used incautiously it can also produce a lot of noise. None of what is claimed on the "no" side would pass muster in a real academic department. A doctorate supervisor would, right at the proposal stage, reject the thesis that the PIEs had the "Axial acquisitions". Even the minority of anthropologists who reject the Axial age do so not because they're trying to push neoplatonism back into the Bronze age, but for precisely the opposite reason—because too many non-IE cultures went through the same transition later.
The Axial age is just the time when the list of things above happened for the first time. To debunk it you'd have to dispute that, and no serious person does.