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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
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:
/channel/Aryanpaganism/6763
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.
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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Full article here.
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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.
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
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
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/2300-year-old-shell-mosaic-discovered-in-luxurious-home-in-rome
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