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A Vendel Era horse harness ornament from the Valsgärde boat burials.
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Conversion was superficial at best. There were Pagan priests, shrines and rituals all over the countryside (hence the term pagan itself). Ethnography confirms the complete lack of christian belief outside (sometimes even inside) the cities in Europe as late as 19th c.
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Wotan and his brothers killing Ymir
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Also we know that Scythian men wore headbands
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Nagoloven is a term which was used for male headbands, but those were not decorated and purely utilitarian. It was also worn regularly only by a rare few men who had to move their head a lot while working like wool beaters and coopers.
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Slavic male (?) headbands
Pseudo experts will always attack something popular regardless of legitimacy. Often they’ll bother to throw some short, memorable insults, mostly in meme format. Today we will examine one such case. Anti-headband.
Since various decorated headbands are popular among modern Pagans there are those who go against this. Female ones are supposedly fine, but there is an argument against male headbands. They say that hippie movement is the real origin of this accessory.
This day, June 8, in 793 Lindisfarne island
Art by Marek Szyszko
Stribog
God of War and Wind
by Moccus art
https://www.instagram.com/moccus.art/
my commission
Swarog
Slavic God of Smithing and Fire by M.Suharev
Nice iconography except for the beard which only volkhvs had before Byzantium influence.
Scythian God Papaeus by A.Guselnikov
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Primary Chronicle recorded the following myth:
There were three brothers: one was called Kyi, the other Shchek and the third Khoriv, and their sister was called Lybed. And they founded a stronghold in the name of their eldest brother and named it Kyiv.
First Novgorod Chronicle, contains a further fragment:
They were pagans, they made offerings to lakes, springs and forests, like other pagans.
Kuker by Elitsa Panayotova
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Limestone statue depicting a wolf, from Noves, in Bouches-du-Rhône, France; 2nd or 3rd century B.C. 🇫🇷 The statue, known as “La Tarasque de Noves” was found under a 19th century cemetery and is now on display in the Musée Lapidaire, in Avignon, France.
After its initial discovery, locals had imagined it as a depiction of a mythical reptilian monster known as “La Tarasque”; hence the name given to it. But more careful recent observations have led to the conclusion that the statue was meant to represent a wolf: The long snout, thick hair along the back, non-retractable claws, and a broad, tapering tail (tucked under the right leg), are all traits characteristic of a wolf.
The Noves wolf sits upright like a king, grimly enjoying a meal of human flesh and triumphantly displaying the severed heads of two victims, in classic Celtic warrior fashion. The long beards on the victims’ faces appear to imply that they were intended as members of nobility, perhaps even as kings. The ancient stonemasons carved a penis and testicles onto the wolf, probably to leave no room for doubt as to its intended gender (there are only two), as well as to emphasize the attribute of virility.
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Christcucks try to play the victim card again. I left one comment. Go say hi too if you still have facebook.
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Ares hates those who hesitate
Euripides
Remnant of ancient Mannerbund tradition in European folklore
Fianna
Argonauts
Robin Hood’s Merry Men
Bogatyrs
Knights of the round
Onward to VallHall
by C.S.Hall
So a male headband may not have been as much of a taboo as some claim when it comes to Slavic lands.
Though it is true that by the time Vladimir Dal (a famous lexicographer) was writing his Explanatory Dictionary (19th century) the only ones wearing decorated headbands were women and that was probably the case for 3-5 centuries before that.
I personally find them esthetically pleasing and functional when it comes to long hair.
So, superficially it does seem that males of Ancient Ruse never wore decorated headbands. But, we know that in Scandinavia it was somewhat common.
Examples from Gisli saga:
king gave him a robe of honour, and golden-seamed gloves, and a fillet with a knot of gold on it, and a Russian hat.
a round buckler, and a silken band round his brow, and his hair was brushed back behind his ears.
one man who had a scarlet cloak over his shoulders, and a gold band round his head, and an axe studded with silver in his hand.
Ochelie is a term historically sed for female headbands. This is clear in the sources. But, again, modern Pagans call male headbands ochelie too. This is indeed inaccurate.
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Donarkeule and Thor’s hammer pendants
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The more I have come to value the unique nature of my own, European-descended people, the more I have come to appreciate other peoples and cultures. While this appreciation comes to some extent from the things we share as part of our common humanity, this is not the whole story. Indeed, it is our differences that I value more than our similarities. Differences are good, and ought to be respected and preserved. Blending human cultures into a miso-mash of "diversity" destroys the flavor, the unique quality of all of them.
S.McNallen
Swarog the Smith
by Evgheny Jelezoglo
Odin stood up,
that father of gods,
and he saddled
his horse Sleipnir.
From the beginning of the Asatru resurgence in America, we have been very open in our practice. We have allowed outsiders to attend, to take photographs, and to take part. I believe that this was a mistake, and I have been guilty of it myself. There is a difficult balance here. On the one hand, we need to give people some idea of what we do. Secrecy builds distrust, and people’s imagination will fill in the gaps with all sorts of fantasies, most of them unpleasant. Nevertheless, it is vital to protect the dignity of what we do and to maintain an awareness that this faith is ours, not something that can be expropriated by passersby.
S.McNallen
Kukeri look as scary as they are to banish evil spirits
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Werewolf in folklore
Slavic folklore and Hollywood werewolves are very different. Traditional werewolf is called oboroten (from "oborot" turn), pereverten (from "perevertati" to turn) or vovkulaka (wolf’s skin) etc and has full control over his animal state. Also, he turns into a big wolf at best, never a monster.
There’s no single method and/or ritual, but the most popular one includes sticking a knife (usually copper) into an old stump or ground and jumping over it while reciting a spell. Or wearing a magic belt/cloak/cape.
But whatever difference of opinion might subsist between the Orthodox, the Ebionites, and the Gnostics, concerning the divinity or the obligation of the Mosaic law, they were all equally animated by the same exclusive zeal, and by the same abhorrence for idolatry, which had distinguished the Jews from the other nations of the ancient world.
E.Gibbon
Why christianity was created
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Wotanism is out true spiritual heritage. The Wotan spirit, whether conscious or unconscious, is a part of the physical and mental make-up of every White man, woman and child, and it is as old in essence as the race itself.
Ron McVan