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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Paganism is the only religion which treats animals with due respect and love
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No thoughtful person should be ignorant of the fact that the road to the gods never starts from "powers," whether we call them "magical" or dress them up in theological terminology.
To do otherwise is to be guilty of applying the concept of evolution in an entirely meaningless way. This rift is barely covered over by a name as futile and yet as pretentious as "Vegetation deity." After all, what we describe by this name is nothing else but a pretext to account for the fact of growth—some thing just as abstract and lifeless as the concept of growth itself.
W.F.Otto
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
Homer
Kupala night by V.Forostetsky
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There is no such thing as "Neo-Paganism". Any word attached with the prefix neo- means "new", thus implying that the something in question died or was stamped out. But like many isms, Paganism never died or was killed, but went underground, laid low, but it has always been here despite what mainstream scholars and foreign zealots will tell you otherwise.
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The Greeks did not look upon the Homeric gods above them as lords nor upon themselves beneath as servants, after the fashion of the Jews.
Man thinks well of himself when he gives himself such gods and places himself in relationship akin to that of the lower nobility with the higher.
Nietzche
From the arts, we can still observe how they freed themselves from their connection with cultus and became secular. They were unquestionably called into life by a more powerful, a more deeply experienced afflatus of the miraculous, whose presence is attested to by the emotions of ecstasy and grace even today when the arts seem to have a completely independent existence.
When we look, therefore, at origins, at fundamental forces, we must characterize all of the creative activities of man, without distinction, as cult practices.
F.W.Otto
Bladud is best known for being the flyign king. The legend says that using a combination of magic and technology he created wings and tried to fly with them.
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Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees. Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh vines.
Homer
The great and terrible wave gathered about Achilles, falling upon him and beating on his shield, so that he could not keep his feet; he caught hold of a great elm-tree, but it came up by the roots, and tore away the bank, damming the stream with its thick branches and bridging it all across; whereby Achilles struggled out of the stream, and fled full speed over the plain, for he was afraid.
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Diomed then threw, and Pallas Minerva drove the spear into the pit of Mars’s stomach where his under-girdle went round him. There Diomed wounded him, tearing his fair flesh and then drawing his spear out again. Mars roared as loudly as nine or ten thousand men in the thick of a fight, and the Achaeans and Trojans were struck with panic, so terrible was the cry he raised.
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Today is Holodomor rememberance day. It was a real genocide of European people and was organized by those who never suffered any real persecution, but have always claimed to. The first nation to recognize Holodomor as a genocide was Reich Germany while Israel denies it such status to this day.
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Scenes of the pre-Indo-European culture of Europe; Iberian Civilization. 🇪🇸 Reconstructive art by José Emilio Toro Pareja and Angus McBride (1931-2007).
These illustrations are based primarily on archaeological finds of statues and grave goods from southern and eastern Spain. Iberian civilization was one of the native cultures of western Europe, that remained after Indo-European peoples, such as the Celts, proliferated throughout, and took over most the continent. It was almost as ancient as the most ancient civilization of Europe: The Minoan Civilization of Crete and the Aegean. Cities had appeared in southern Spain as early as before 3,000 B.C.
Archaeologists have found evidence that early on, Iberian culture was matriarchal; ruled by queens. It was an urban culture, heavily centered on commerce, but also reliant on agriculture, and animal husbandry. It was heavily influenced by the cultures of ancient Greece and the Phoenicians, its main partners in commerce. Both colonized the peninsula (Phoenicians founded the cities of Cádiz, Málaga, Almuñécar, Abdera, Cartagena, and possibly also Seville and Córdoba, while Greeks built Ampurias, and a city called Hemeroskopeion, the location of which is now unknown), and the Phoenicians even undertook campaigns of military conquest (237-218 B.C.). These were interrupted and reversed by the Romans in the Second Punic War, however. Celts also came in contact with Iberians from the 12th or 11th century B.C. onward, when they invaded the peninsula from France and are believed by some to have been responsible for the collapse of the bronze age Iberian Argaric Culture. Celtic influence on the Iberians included adoption of horses for warfare, new funerary rituals involving immolation of the deceased, and possibly also the switch from matriarchal governments to having polities led by men; though women continued to be prominent as priestesses.
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The word sirin itself is obviously comes from siren and is as foreign to a Slavic language as something like a Minotaur.
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Sirin bird
Fake folklore
Some consider Sirin birds to be a part of Slavic folklore, but in reality it's taken from Hellenic tradition and was used only in christian literature. Orthodox monks were somewhat familiar with Greek myth and used some elements of it in their writing.
Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry by Charles Meynier
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The youth thought of the good of his native city when he ran a race or threw or sang; he wanted to increase its reputation through his own; it was to the city's gods that he dedicated the wreaths which the umpires placed on his head in honour.
From childhood, every Greek felt the burning desire within him to be an instrument of bringing well-being to his city in the contest: in this, his selfishness was lit, as well as curbed and restricted.
Nietzsche
Paganism is strengthening the future using the wisdom of the past
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Who are the greatest heroes of European folklore and myth?
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The jews of the Old Testament are militaristic, violent, zealous...a far cry from modern stock exchange jews. That's because the conquering jews never existed and are just jewish fanfiction about their supposedly great ancestors. What jews wrote about the size and might of their kingdoms does not match any textual or archeological data we have.
Stories of great kings like David wiping out whole nations are not backed up by non-jewish sources. In the latter we only see jews as traders who living in ghettos and then fleeing the country when the host of their parasitism is either pissed off or sucked dry. Just like in the Dark Ages.
Germanic Paganism is not a subculture, it's not a LARP or a makeup. Be serious about your faith.
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Just another Wodens day, as glorious as all the others!
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This painting by B.West depicts the legend of Bladud, a British king who was said to have founded the city of Bath. The story tells how Bladud discovered the healing properties of Bath's waters. The prince was exiled because he suffered from leprosy. Working as a swineherd, Bladud discovered that his pigs were cured when they wallowed in the mud of the hot springs. When he bathed himself Baldud was cured returned to the court.
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Father Jove, is there none of the gods who will take pity upon me, and save me from the river?
As soon as he had spoken thus, Neptune and Minerva came up to him in the likeness of two men, and took him by the hand to reassure him. Neptune spoke first. “Son of Peleus,” said he, “be not so exceeding fearful; we are two gods, come with Jove’s sanction to assist you, I, and Pallas Minerva. It is not your fate to perish in this river
Now the son of Tydeus was in pursuit of the Cyprian goddess, spear in hand, for he knew her to be feeble and not one of those goddesses that can lord it among men in battle like Minerva or Enyo the waster of cities, and when at last after a long chase he caught her up, he flew at her and thrust his spear into the flesh of her delicate hand. The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her, and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound
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The Ancients never doubted that Gods were present in the world, ready to show themselves when necessary. The idea of a deity being separate from the world just hanging out above and beyond it is a product of abrahamic anti-theology.
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Volh the Shapeshifter
by Velemir
My commission
Sirin birds are not found in Slavic folklore (songs, epics, fairytales, riddles etc) but are exclusive to christian wiriting of the Middle Ages.
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In those medieval christian song called psalms (from Hebrew tehillim lit. praises) sirin birds come from heaven and charm those wholisten to their songs.
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The biggest threat to our authentic pathway has always been New Agism, and it will continue to raise its ugly head as long as we allow it to.
But I don’t see this having long term sustainability. New Agism is basically a Boomer phenomenon, and all that is dying out, thankfully. Now we see people having real theological debates, forming camps on philosophical differences (which is a GOOD thing!), and really wanting to understand the nature of divinity. This is the future of our faith, and these great men and women are paving the way.
Mark Puryear