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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Your body was given to you by your ancestors. Are you honoring it by taking good care of it or are you abusing it with poison and sloth?
How are you to perform your duties, or even greater deeds if your physical vessel is not at its peak condition?
Or have you lived thus far with the absurd belief that body and mind are separate?
Nuadu Airgetlam is a former king of the Gods of Celtic pantheon who has his arm in battle and replaced it whit a silver one. Later Nuadu got his original hand back. In function and iconography he is most similar to Germanic Tyr.
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Even though Paul (and Peter) overtly encouraged believers to obey the government, Paul’s covert intention was to use Christianity as both a source of funding and manpower to support any future planned uprisings against Rome, concealed behind the cover of a seemingly benign, peace-touting religion.
C.Giuliani
Escape from reincarnation is the aim of Buddhism and there is a similar equivalent in Platonism. But I don't think this was the original attitude of Indo-European pagans, or even of the original Indo-Aryans. Rig-Veda 2:53 verse 1 prays to Rudra:
"Do not cut us off from the sight of the sun. Let the hero spare our horses. O Rudra, let us be born again through our children."
Being a christian Gibbon considered Greek culture to be impure since it stems from Hellenic Paganism, but despite this he still could not deny it’s beauty.
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TLDR, jews used to worship many gods, but later brainwashed themselves via various sacred texts that ywhwh was always their one true god. There are still some leftovers of older polytheistic belief in the bible and non-biblical sources. Mostly yhwh absorbed El's and Baal's traits.
I posted this because one guy asked me about it in the comments.
Syncretism, the union of religious phenomenon from two historically separate systems or cultures, remains a standard way of characterizing Israelite interest in deities other that Yahweh, and de-emphesizes the importance of Israelite worship of other deities and practices forbidden in the Bible. For example, K.Sponk relegates practices pertaining to the dead forbidden in the Bible to the realm of "popular religion" and claims that "popular religion" was syncretistic, allowing the influences of Canaanite practices in a way that "official religion" did not permit.
Mark S. Smith
Will be re-reading some old on religion. Maybe find some interesting stuff there.
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Religion should not be like a hat or a coat that you find in a store, take a liking to, and decide to purchase. Rather, it should be like your arm, or your head—a part of who you are from birth.
The Gods and their people are one.
S.McNallen
Have you ever wondered what the Eyrarland Thor Idol looked like gilt in 22 karat gold? Wonder no more.
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From Mr. Tom on Twitter…
"We are losing a connection with our ancestral ways. We have, like the Native Americans and Aborigines, a fantastic native tradition; folk stories, myths, and a spiritual connection with nature, with the soil and the stone. It's time we reclaim that." -Ray Mears
Antinous as Agathos Daimon
Antinous, as a deified mortal, got his own cult which mixed Agathos and him into one. But I don’t consider this an example of true Aryan spirituality since the deification in question was ordered by Hadrian. Though it did continue after the latter’s death and seemingly caused no trouble unlike some other examples of state imposed cults.
A modern altar to Agathos
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Zaltys is a household snake spirit in Baltic mythology. In everything but name zaltys is identical to agathos.
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Agathos Daimon (lit. noble spirit) was an Ancient Greek household spirit depicted as a snake guarding the house. Agathos was among the most venerated spirits of Hellenic religion.
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Dysgenic trash and non-Aryans flooded poor old Stonehenge to mock Summer Solstice. Back in the day they’d be sacrificed.
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Not only was Christ’s message intended by him to be exclusivist towards Jews alone, but (in classic first century fanatical Jewish insurrectionist fashion) Jesus was quite an arrogant Jewish supremacist.
C.Giuliani
That’s because buddhism is a nihilistic cult and platonism is a heresy
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Archaeologists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old solar sanctuary in the Netherlands
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/06/archaeologists-have-uncovered-a-4000-year-old-solar-sanctuary-in-the-netherlands/147744
If we cast our eyes over the numerous remains of antiquity, we shall perceive, that besides the immediate representations of the gods, and the holy instruments of their worship, the elegant forms and agreeable fictions consecrated by the imagination of the Greeks, were introduced as the richest ornaments of the houses, the dress, and the furniture of the Pagans. Even the arts of music and painting, of eloquence and poetry, flowed from the same impure origin. In the style of the fathers, Apollo and the Muses were the organs of the infernal spirit; Homer and Virgil were the most eminent of his servants; and the beautiful mythology which pervades and animates the compositions of their genius, is destined to celebrate the glory of the dæmons.
E.Gibbon
In short, Israelite culture was largely "Canaanite" in nature. Given the information available, one cannot maintain a radical cultural separation between "Canaanites" and Israelites for the Iron I period.
Baal and Asherah were part of Israel’s "Canaanite" heritage, and the process of the emergence of Israelite monolater was an issue of Israel’s breaking with its own "Canaanite" past and not simply one of avoiding "Canaanite" neighbors.
Mark S.Smith
The Ugaritic mythological texts largely feature the deities El, the aged and kindly patriarch of the pantheon; his consort and the queen mother of the divine family, Asherah; the young storm-god and divine warrior, Baal; his sister, Anat, likewise a martial deity; and finally the solar deity. Scholars of religion have frequently assumed that because these deities were Canaanite, they were not Israelite. This view of Israelite religion has been expressed in part or in full by European, American and Israeli scholars.
Mark S. Smith
Air-maiden (povitrulya)
A swan maiden-like being from Hutsul folklore
The problem is not with men and women of other races and cultures; there is good and bad in all of us, both individually and collectively. The problem is those few who want us to all be the same, to surrender our identity and our self-determination. Their motivation may be ideological, a conviction that humankind MUST, for some reason, become homogeneous. The goal is, perhaps, one of absolute equality, a sort of metaphysical Marxism. My response to that is simple. "Equal people are not free, and free people are not equal."
S.McNallen
Here we encounter for the first time in Hegel the concept that was later to play such an important role as ‘self-alienation’ or ‘self-renunciation’ in the philosophy of Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Hess: The hereafter is a robbery of this world. In this treatise of 1796, Hegel treats Judaism and Christianity on the same level. Both are religions which make man the slave of a being which is external to man, of which he is not a part, with which he has nothing in common and which dominates him. The Jewish and Christian religions are 'positive' religions, epitomes of propositions in which the believer is obliged to believe, religions in which the element of objective authority prevails over the pure life of faith of the heart. This notion of 'positive religion' is now at the center of Hegel's thought.
-The young Hegel and Judaism
Hugo Bergman
https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=new-001%3A1952%3A46%3A%3A674
Why is the jew god the jealous one?
As yhwh himself admits he is very envoious of other Gods "For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God". It’s because he’s not a God himself. Unlike Greek, Germanic, Slavic and other Gods yhwh had no real power and no creations of his own. That’s why he had to turn to a tribe of wandering merchants with no lands of their own. He had to make a deal (covenant) with jews, because he couldn’t create his own lands and people. yhwh is just a desert demon. Most of the world praying to him is a testament to jewish tricks, not his power.
Overall it seems like snake spirit was just one of versions of a guarding ancestor. In some Aryan traditions there existed only the snake spirit, in other both (like in case of Slavs). Among other animal forms of a household guardian were a frog and a cat.
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Stopan is a Southern Slavic household snake spirit. In it’s veneration there is a lot of similarity to domovoi as both are were guardians and ancestors (like Roman lares).
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O’ Valiant Serpent!
May you protect my home and its inhabitants
From any malicious intent
That may linger just beyond our door!
Prayer to Agathos
Will soon explore pan-European house-guarding snake cult
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