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Jason and his Teacher by Maxfield Parrish
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Young viking king
by Jack Coggins
Chryses Imploring the Help of Apollo
Johan Tobias Sergel
This drawing by Sweden’s most important Neoclassical sculptor and draftsman depicts a scene from Homer’s Iliad.
In the drawing, Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, prays for help after Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army, has refused to return his kidnapped daughter. In response, Apollo inflicts a plague upon the Greeks.
Chryses invoking the Vengeance of Apollo against the Greeks by Benjamin West
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The Nine Muses
Clio records past ages in her prose.
Euterpe's hollow reed makes double sound.
Voice-famed Thalia revelling loves the sock.
Melpomene's notes in tragic iambs seethe.
Terpsichore's golden lyre thrills all the sky.
Strings touched by Erato sweet love-songs make.
Polymnia's odes suit swift and varying moods.
Urania scans the stars of heaven in verse.
Calliope crowns epic bards with bays.
Florus
By the way, there’s a legend of Argonauts fighting dog-headed people from one of the islands they come across on their way home but I can’t trace it to any legitimate source. Seems almost like a mistake which got out of proportion. If you happen to know where it comes from-let me know.
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Greek myth and legends illustrated by G.Boyko and I.Shalita
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Slavic God of Wind and Destruction Stribog is mentioned among the idols erected in Kyiv by Vladimir before his conversion. The Tale of Igor’s Campaign calls winds the progeny of Stribog in a poetic description of them blowing strongly from the sea. There are rivers and villages in Ukraine and Poland bearing His name e.g. Strzyboga.
After the christianization Stribog’s attributes and functions were transplanted to John Cassian (Kasyan) which was common in folk christianity as an attempt at preserving the cults and practices of Pagan past. As a result Cassian became the lord of winds which he holds chained and lets loose on the 29th of February (his holiday). Kasyan also kills with sight and whistling earning him the title of the unkind saint.
This (as well as linguistic and comparativistic data) paints a picture of a dangerous deity, possibly a son of Perun who is also a warrior, but a feared and warlike one.
Nonetheless, they constantly behaved and spoke as if their statues were gods: when a statue of Dionysus was brought in procession to the theater at the start of the Athenian Dionysia, this was not a “representation of the bringing in of Dionysus” but quite simply “the bringing in of Dionysus”; and so on in numerous other cases.
R.Parker
Art by Olena Kulchytska
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Regarding the above-mentioned sword, the supporters of the hoax theory have claimed that the saber copies the coronation saber of the holy Roman empire called the Sabre of charlemagne. But Zbruch idol’s blade is straight, while charlemagne’s is bent. Their cross-guards are also visibly different.
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There’s a theory that Zbruch idol is a modern fake made by a 19th c. Polish poet who supposedly based its iconography on Romantic imagery of medieval Europe. The idol’s surprisingly well-preserved condition is another argument. This theory, as interesting as it is, doesn’t take into account what we know about ancient Slavic idols. Yes, Zbruch idol is relatively unique because it’s one of the last Pagan idols created. In fact, it wasn’t even finished by the time the conversion happened and the idol was hidden to keep it safe. This is part of the reason why it was preserved so well. The other is the fact that it wasn’t submerged underwater for that long which counters the second argument.
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Even when the Spartans could not immediately regain the body, they still went to great lengths to obtain the remains, as shown by the return of Leonidas’ body forty years after the battle of Thermopylae, recounted by Pausanias.
Nicholas R. Granitz
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This is our most recent interview doing a deep-dive into Germanic Cosmology!
This is a sequel and companion interview to the Who are the Gods of Germania returning with author & researcher William P. Reaves and the scholars at The Norrœna Society, Mark Puryear and Kyle Davis.
Sometimes the most profound findings of Theology are found by asking basic questions. Previously we discussed the 'Who' of Germanic Faith and in this interview we discuss the 'Where.'
I want to thank our guests for sharing their research, thoughts and theories. Stay tuned to t.me/Pagan_Revivalism for more shows and interviews going deep into ancient faiths and ways!
Gods Love You!
Chapter 1
0:00:00 - 0:07:38
Introductions and origins of Germanic Cosmology
Chapter 2
0:07:39 - 1:47:35
Elements of Germanic Cosmology
Chapter 3
1:47:36 - 1:55:27
Putting it all Together
Chapter 4
1:55:28 - 2:10:00
Final Statments
Centaur Leading a Procession
Norman Lindsay
Art of Bohdan Golovatsky
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They washed their hands and took up the barley-meal to sprinkle over the victims, while Chryses lifted up his hands and prayed aloud on their behalf. “Hear me,” he cried, “O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla, and rulest Tenedos with thy might. Even as thou didst hear me aforetime when I prayed, and didst press hardly upon the Achaeans, so hear me yet again, and stay this fearful pestilence from the Danaans.”
Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley-meal, they drew back the heads of the victims and killed and flayed them. They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands. When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied. As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, pages filled the mixing-bowl with wine and water and handed it round, after giving every man his drink-offering.
Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices.
Homer Illiad
We are nearing completion of the Yggdrasil Deep-dive!
For a part of Germanic Faith with very little written about it, there was a ton of info under the surface.
We will let you know when it's published on the YouTube channel!
Among the Wined [Slavs]…conjugal love is preserved with such vigor that a woman refuses to live after the death of her own husband; their noblest women are ordered to bring death by their own hands and burn on the same pyre with their husbands.
Boniface Letter to the king Æthlebald
The quest for the Golden Fleece and it’s aftermath illustrated by V.Lapovok
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Sardinian Sos Corrilos
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In ordinary speech accordingly one normally spoke of ‘the divine’ or ‘the gods’ or an unspecified ‘god/the god/some god’, not of named Olympians.
But the distinction between these vaguely described powers and the plastic figures familiar from art and myth is not a simple distinction between real religion and an artificial variant confected by artists and poets; for in cult too gods have names and shapes and histories. Myth was integral to Greek religion because it was through myth that the gods of cult were revealed.
R.Parker
The gods were, in a sense, literally present in their sanctuaries. Greeks constantly, in documents and contexts of very different kinds, referred to what we would call a statue of a particular god simply by that god’s name; in representations on vases of scenes set in temples, it is often unclear whether we are looking at a statue or at an actual god. To be sure, they knew that statues were made by craftsmen from physical materials; and plain statements that statues are gods, or that gods are statues, are not to be found.
R.Parker
Another thing to consider is the fact that a 19th century poet would have commissioned a drastically different depiction of Slavic Gods considering how artists interpreted the descriptions e.g. dressing them in anachronistic late medieval clothes and making the statues look anatomically realistic just like Greek and Roman ones which was most likely not the case with real ancient Slavic idols.
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On the topic of iconography of the idol we can see that it sharer plenty of elements with other, much less-known ones found throughout Eastern, Central and even part of the Western Europe where Slavic tribes (used to) live. The hat, the position of the arms, the cornucopia and the ring of the Goddesses and the sword of one of the male ones are widespread too.
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Zbruch idol’s warrior God by Brother Bjorn
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Plutarch notes in his Life of Agesilaus that the Spartans customarily brought their dead kings’ bodies back to Sparta, preserved in wax or honey, and that this was the treatment given to Agesilaus upon his death. The Spartans sought to bring back the body of the king in good shape, at which point the lavish burial ceremonies would take place. Presumably the king’s body would need to be preserved for the purpose of being carried out on a couch with fair coverings.
Nicholas R. Granitz
Peasant is superstitious, but apathetic towards religion…To clear his conscience he follows all the rituals with superficial precision; he goes to the church on Sundays just to not think about it for the next six days. He despises priests and considers them greedy loafers who live off him. The heroes of all obscene folklore and songs, the butts of all jokes and objects of scorn are always a priests and his wife.
Alexander Herzen XIXth century writer
Illustrations by Leonid W.Bencel
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