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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
When Nicomachus was charged in 399 with impiety for altering the traditional sacrificial calendar of Athens, the prosecutor argued: “Our ancestors, who only made the sacrifices prescribed in Solon’s code, bequeathed to us a city which was the greatest and happiest in all Greece; and so we ought to make the same sacrifices as them if for no other reason, for the good luck that they brought.”
Robert Parker
In Ukraine christianity was enforced for many centuries, occasionally retreating in front of ancient ethnic faith (paganism). For a long time it stayed a religion of nobility having no influence on the masses.
Each year reports used to be printed about the amount of converts. For example in 1847 they forcefully christianized 1002 mohammedans, 1297 jews and 1522 pagans. So, paganism never disappeared in Ukraine, it existed secretly.
Halyna Lozko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maDWxQ5tGjk&t=526s
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Jokes aside mavkas really are monsters and it’s a good thing Chugaister eats them.
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Svyatoslav the Brave by Tatiana Boyko
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Homer is figured as the greatest poet of the ancient Greeks just as Zeus is figured as their greatest god.
Gregory Nagy
Labors of Hercules depicted in a set of stamps from Greece
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In some senses, the folk healer is both a medical and spiritual healer. The relationship between official religion and folk healing is similar to the relationship between official medicine and folk healing. Even if many members of the laity have respected the folk healers, leaders of the Christian churches have generally been intolerant of other perceptions of the spiritual world. Folk healers have been officially seen as insubordinate to Christian teachings. In attempts to banish people's links with paganism, churchmen canvassed against wizards and witches and others who were believed to be engaged in magic.
Rena J. Hanchuk
Some folk medicine is common knowledge within a society, and can
be performed by almost anyone. However, home remedies do not always result in a cure. Specialized members of the community may then be called upon. The skills of such specialists may be attributed to their greater experience and knowledge, but often also to their talent or innate powers. A Wise Man or Wise Woman is endowed with an especial rapport with the spiritual world. He or she can communicate with that world and pacify the spirits, thereby restoring health and equilibrium to the society.
Rena J.Hanchuk
It is well known that, in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, the godly looked at the theatre askance; in 1606 an act was passed to ‘prevent and avoyde the greate abuse of the Holy Name of God in Stageplayes, Interludes, Maygames, Shewes and such like’.
Greek plays were performed at a public religious festival, and there are few tragedies that do not contain a reference to a god or gods in the first twenty lines.
R.Parker
Is we
Is we calling upon Hircine?
Map to The Mabinogion by Margaret Jones
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Those who had to instruct the Scandinavian pagans in the Christian faith tried, it seems, to implant only a few of most essential notions in the minds of the neophytes and even these few ideas were radically simplified…
The image of Christ for those Norsemen who accepted him as a God seems to be far from the one current in the Christian world of that time.
The notion of the suffering Christ was not conceived by the Vikings and ‘would have been regarded as almost absurd’ by them, although they could not have failed to see crucifixes with the suffering Christ in Western Europe and Byzantium.
E.Melnikova
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A reconstruction of Scythian male and female attire illustrated by Christina Senkiw
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Just do the math. The official date of christianization of Vladimir the Bastard is 988. And there were christians in royal circles centuries before that e.g. Vladimir’s own grandmother Helga was one. Before her Haskuldr was killed shortly after his baptism in 882 etc.
Despite this by the mid 19th century there was at least 1.5K pagan converts (in one year). Those are christian numbers but what they do is serve as proof of christianity being nothing but a flop which barely succeeded due to media control.
My friend’s interview. Unfortunately there wasn’t enough time to add it to the video above. Also, happy birthday! May the Gods and Ancestors stand by you.
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In just one day, we'll be premiering
The Return of Paganism
Come Home to ancestral faith
: Important Update :
Due to some audio issues during the original uploading of the film to YouTube, we have decided to upload a new one to deliver the best quality possible. There is a new link to the premiere as the old video will be removed.
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As we celebrate Spring Equinox, the Gods and Goddesses of this season and all seasons, a time of new beginnings; let us also celebrate our beginning, our return, and revival! This is a video you won't want to miss, and will share to those who are considering the path of ancestral faith!
I want to again give a very
special thank you to:
Imperium Press
APTA
Pagan Revivalism
The Norrœna Society
The Frithstead
Germanic Faith
Víðarr Rising
and others who lent their voices
and experiences to make this video possible!
Thank all of you and can't wait to see you at the premiere in the comments!
Mavka, a monster in Ukrainian folklore
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A most telling example is a marble monument known as the Archelaos Relief, conventionally dated to the second century BCE. The lower zone of the relief sculpture shows an enthroned Homer receiving sacrificial offerings while the upper zone shows Zeus himself, holding a scepter. Similarly, Homer holds a scepter, which is in his left hand. Also, he holds a scroll in his right hand. There is no mistake about the identification of Homer here, since the Archelaos Relief features adjacent lettering that reads ΟΜΗΡΟΣ (Homēros).
Gregory Nagy
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Medieval Europe was so superficially christian that in folklore a priest is a butt of countless jokes and is characterized by greed and gluttony, typically trying to take advantage of the hero in one way or another.
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They have not advertised their services and are reluctant to share their incantations and rituals. This kind of reticence was encountered among the healers interviewed for this study. One healer said that he could not share his incantation with anyone lest he should lose his power to heal. He threatened the researcher with spells if she tried to harm him or his powers. Another healer said that if she told anyone her incantations, she would lose her powers. She said that when she was ready to retire she would pass on her incantations.
Rena J.Hanchuk
We rejected earlier the claim that Old Comedy was irreligious. A counter-claim can be advanced, that Aristophanes was positively good for piety. The gods of Old Comedy altogether lack the fearfulness of those of tragedy. The heroes of Old Comedy, despite and even because of their failings, are amiable figures. The same is true mutatis mutandis of its gods. Old Comedy enabled the Athenians to like their gods a little more than they might otherwise have done.
R.Parker
Some people wonder why Pagan Revivalism is happening? Others ask why now?
Today, every judeo-christian denomination, catholic, orthodox and protestant have sold out European folk. In order for someone to stab you in the back, they first need to "be behind you." Judeo-christianity was always globalism 1.0, bent on the destruction of the uniqueness of the peoples it conquered, turning them into abject slaves. Once their slaves outlive their usefulness, they're slaughtered as disposable tools.
Pagan Revivalism is happening now because it needs to happen now. Our future as a people is entirely dependent upon coming home to true values, from true Gods, and our true ancestors. "A wayfarer should have his weapons at hand" is far more useful and not subversive like "turn the other cheek."
The desert demon and it's acolytes are being exposed, their evils and conspiracies revealed with the light of our blessed Gods & Goddesses. Consequently, our revival is not just essential, its inevitable. No truces with traitors.
Oðinn at The Battle of Brávellir by Louis Moe
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Childhood is when you idolize jewsus. Adulthood is when you realize Romans made more sense.
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The circumstances in which the Vikings of the ninth and tenth centuries usually adopted Christianity — their rather short visits to royal courts or negotiations in the course of their attacks — did not provide opportunities for prolonged instructions in Christian teaching. In rare cases when we know or can calculate the time of their stay in a Christian milieu before their baptism, it usually turns to be not more than a month or two.
Elena Melnikova
This Spring Equinox, we will be premiering a film about Coming Home to Ancestral Faith!
This will be a video you do not want to miss and will feature well-known figures shaping the Pagan sphere today, including:
Imperium Press
Aryan Paganism Traditions and Art
Pagan Revivalism
The Norrœna Society
Germanic Faith
Víðarr Rising
and many others who heard the call and came home!
I want to give a very special thank you to everyone who submitted testimonials for this upcoming documentary-style inspirational video. Your many voices and different perspectives will help others to take their first steps back into the Gods warm embrace!
The video will premiere on YouTube on 3/20/25 at aesiric_media" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/@aesiric_media
I can't wait to see you all there and share this grand inspirational video to aid in our growing revival!
Christina Senkiw’s illustrations from the book titled History of Ukrainian Costume From the Scythian Period to the Late 17th Century
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