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Werewolves of Ireland
Laignech Fáelad is an ancestor of a tribe of werewolves of Ossory in eastern Ireland. According to Cóir Anmann:
He was a man that used to go wolfing, i.e. into wolf-shapes, i.e. into shapes of wolves he used to go, and his offspring used to go after him and they used to kill the herds after the fashion of wolves, so that it is for that that he used to be called Laignech Fáelad, for he was the first of them who went into a wolf-shape Fáelad
Efnysien, mutilator of horses, Welsh deity of destruction and vengeance. Sacrifices himself to destroy the Cauldron of rebirth.
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Kharakternyk
Shapeshifting cossack
My commission to Moccus Art
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:
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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.
A core tenet of folkish hermeneutics is that the lore must be interpreted as:
1) historical, and
2) true
Both of these are needed to be folkish.
Euhemerism is the idea that the gods were mortal men whose deeds grew in the telling until they became gods. It says the lore is historical but not true.
The allegorical school says that the lore is true but takes place abstractly on a plane beyond our own. It says the lore is factual but not historical.
Neither of these are folkish.
We are rebuilding!
What a wonderful time to be alive, to behold Revivalism after so long!
Future generations will envy our time, let us impress and inspire them with what we do!
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