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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
The Bible, The Torah, The Quran: These are the literal words of our God.
The Eddas, The Illiad & Odyssey, The Vedas etc.: No these are hypothetical metaphors big chungus they don’t mean what they say I can tell you what’s going on here
Why are Pagans like this?
Whatever we may think about the nature of poetic creativity, and no matter how demonstrable or probable it is that many individual poets wrote and continued to write poetry around myth, it should be quite clear that all of this poetry from individuals has as its basic premise the existence of the world of myth; and that this original myth can not, in turn, be explained away by that which we call "the poetic process."
When Wilamowitz demands, and rightly so, that our first premise must be "The gods are there," then this means, if we examine it more precisely, "The myth is there." For if the gods "are," if they are real, then they cannot fail to have distinctive characteristics.
W.F.Otto
☝🏻Modern Platonist is wrong, paganism in late antiquity was not impressive but dying. Celebrating and trying to rebuild that is rebuilding a house on the verge of collapse. Late antique religion was old and sick. Rebuild it in its prime. Folkishness is the future.
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The tribal religions had one great benefit other religions did not have and could not have. They had no religious controversy within their communities because everyone shared a common historical experience and cultural identity was not separated into religious, economic, sociological, political, and military spheres. It was never a case, therefore, of having to believe in certain things to sustain a tribal religion. One simply believed the stories of the elders, and these stories had significance as defining the peoples’ identity.
Differing tribal accounts were given credence because it was not a matter of trying to establish power over others to claim absolute truth.
Vine Deloria
The world of immanence is divine. This is what is contained in all traditional pagan lore, whether Homer, Eddas, or what have you. To disagree is to disagree with paganism.
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"Items of The Three Functions" by myself
A conceptual piece symbolising the three functions of Indo-European society. The priestly caste is represented with white and a drinking vessel. The warrior caste is represented with red, a dagger, lightning, chariots and horses. The third producer caste is represented with blue and green, a plough, cattle, fertile bountiful land and beauty.
The three functions being represented as three objects can be found in this Scythian tale: "One day three gold objects – a battle-axe, a plough with a yoke, and a drinking cup – fell from the sky, and each brother in turn tried to pick the gold, but when Lipoxais and Arpoxais tried, it burst in flames, while the flames were extinguished when Kolaxais tried. Kolaxais thus became the guardian of this sacred gold, and the other brothers decided that he should become the high king and king of the Royal Scythians while they would rule different branches of the Scythians."
Oleg Shupliak often uses Trypillian aestetics in his art. Makes it very unique and interesting.
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On the painting above you can see (from left to right): Kernosovskiy idol, Zbruch idol, two bronze age yamnaya idols, two trypillian female figurines, two XII c. balbals and two idols we can't see clearly (the one on the right seems bronze age).
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christians are ok with sacrificing people as long as it's done to appease their jewish god
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Who would worship a bound enemy of the gods destined to lead the inhabitants of Niflhel in the ship Naglfari to battle the gods to the death? Only a deranged mind would knowingly stand against the gods and godesses of our folk and those that do so, openly confess their fate and their own impending doom being cursed by the gods and nothing but Misfortune awaits them.
I personally believe those that do so mostly do this from ignorance. They do not know the lore, its history/epic nature and mostly do this as a social statement to appear cool and rebellious.
DagazIssa
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Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood.
Diodorus Siculus
Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
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According to Erasmiius Stella, the Prussians said that the gods dwelt in groves and woods; here sacrifices were to be offered to them; from hence sunshine and rain were to be obtained. "They said that the gods inhabited the finest trees, such as oaks; from these trees enquirers heard replies given to them; therefore they did not cut down trees of this kind but tended them religiously as the houses of their deities."
H.M. Chadwick
Unnamed by Dragos Kalajic
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Europe by Dragos Kalajic
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For a long time, Europeans felt that their native religious worldview was defective. We felt that it was primitive, we were embarrassed of it.
This embarrassment has made for all kinds of metaphysical speculations. The plain belief was not enough. It had to be dressed up in splendid metaphysical language. The naïve folk understanding had to be explained as just a distortion of the real truth, which the philosopher had.
These metaphysical speculations were mostly harmless until they began to think they came first. They began to think that religion really did begin with these wild ideas, and the folk worldview came later. The philosophy began to feel like it could dictate to the religion, not the other way around. This is what Christians mean when they say "logos". What we got was religion withering away, leaving us only with philosophy.
What is the folkish worldview?
The folkish worldview puts religion before philosophy. It doesn't see our folk understanding as defective. It sees it as enough. Philosophy will have to bend to religion, for the first time in thousands of years. This is the folkish worldview.
"The melting pot of Pagan Roman, Celtic and Germanic religions." They weren't a melting pot. "Syncretism is going to be the predominant understanding of how religion and spirituality work." No it is not. "We are creating new traditional religions, spiritualities and philosophies." So you are making things up to fit what you want.
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Besides the importance of land in religion, the existence of a specific
religion among a distinct group of people is probably a fundamental ele-
ment of human experience.
What a religion does to a group of people on a distinct land is thus a vital
question for future analysis.
Vine Deloria
There's a tendency in modern paganism to think that the esoteric ("aristocratic") form came first and that the popular form followed. This is probably wrong.
Almost certainly, paganism grew from the bottom up, from local cults into tribal and national religions rather than the other way around. It also probably grew out of highly formal, ritual practices, and the myths came from those. This might seem weird because we can reconstruct very ancient myths in common across races, but the common rites are usually much older. The inward, esoteric stuff came later, the outward forms came first. This goes against an idealized picture of paganism descending from the nobility to the plebs, but history is too messy for these simple ideals.
One of the best scholars on this is Martin P. Nilsson. His book Greek Popular Religion is highly recommended, it will dispel a lot of kooky esoteric stuff about the Greeks. Ritual, "superstition", and the rural family are the basic shape of paganism. This is folkish religion, and at the beginning it was the only kind of religion.
Michov states that the Lithuanians deemed woods and groves to be holy and regarded them as the habitations of the gods." In a subsequent passage he relates that the Samagitti considered even the birds and beasts which entered the sacred woods to be holy. They believed that if anyone injured these woods or anything in them, the devils would make his hands or feet to grow crooked.
H.M. Chadwick
Trypillian female figurines
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A fun little challenge: can you name all the idols from the painting above?
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What is this channel?
Folkish Worldview is just what it sounds like. We collect and share the best aesthetics, theory, and practice of folkish paganism.
Here you will find the folkish worldview in the making. Folkishness is a recovery of something ancient, but was taken for granted by our forefathers, so they never wrote it down. It's our job to rebuild it.
All other worldviews are either slavishly repeating what others have said, or are making things up out of nowhere. Only we have dynamism and tradition. Folkishness is both the past and the future.
Join us.
Sacred Tree by Rim Baudey
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Good to know that my last Substack article has triggered all the right people 👇🏻
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This is the kind of schizoid rambling that passes for criticism of the idea that you can't be your own authority. Let's just pick a quote:
Race, nation and ancestry should never be the basis of worldview but the product of it
In other words, race is a social construct.
BASED
The Lost Hero by Ed Org
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The accusation made against paganism that it’s just making things up, could not be more wrong-paganism is the sole alternative to “choose your own god”. The fact that we’ve been off-track for a long time hardly matters. Ancient error is still error. Ancient anti-authoritarianism is still anti-authoritarianism. The ancestral principle is simply the recognition that you don’t get to choose your own authority. Only paganism holds this principle consistently, because your forefathers didn’t get to choose their own authority either.
Mike Maxwell of Imperium Press
Diana by Dragos Kalajic
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Plato thought he could do for the Greeks what Mohammed did for the Arabs several centuries later...His ideas were quite practicable just as certainly as those of Mohammed were practicable; for even much more incredible ideas, those of Christianity, proved themselves to be practicable!
A few hazards less and a few hazards more and then the world would have witnessed the Platonisation of Southern Europe and, if we suppose that this state of things had continued to our own days, we should probably be worshipping Plato now as the “good principle.”
Nietzsche