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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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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
A Man with an Owl by K.Vasiliev
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Chepstow Mari Llwyd (2018) by Ben Edge.
The Mari Llwyd is a Welsh wassailing tradition where a horse skull is mounted on a pole and carried door to door during the festive season. It probably isn't Pre-Christian, as records of this practice only go as far the 18th century. Even so, it is a folk custom that bares a lot of similarities to other definitively pagan traditions.
Did you get any nice presents?
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Priests and poets did not invent Paganism. Ancestral traditions weren't passed down from the elites to the masses. Paganism comes from the folk and is for the folk. Priests just help conduct rituals and poets are inspired by Gods to create sacred lore (Greeks even saw it as something akin to possession). If you think that Pagan traditions were just created by a bunch of people you are literally an atheist. Stop being one or leave.
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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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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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The flow of time by Oleg Shupliak
Animated painting
2,300-year-old shell mosaic discovered in luxurious home in Rome | Live Science
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Pagans who disbelieve in the literal myths are LARPing atheists. If they tell you that the literal interpretation is for the plebs and esotericism is for the elite, they're especially obvious as atheists, "aesthetic pagans". There is one very simple reason for this.
Anyone who was really in possession of these secrets would guard them with their life. People who have actually been initiated into something know the first sacrament is an oath of silence. If these aesthetes really had this hidden knowledge, they wouldn't tell you. But they do tell you, which tells you they don't have it. No genuine aristocrat would tell the peasant his worldview was bunk.
People who talk openly about esotericism do it because it "sounds good", because it "feels true". Literally none of them have authentic esoteric knowledge.
@folkishworldview
Slavic ring with a swastika
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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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