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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Viking trade routes by Severino Baraldi
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Romanians believe in the power of blessing to originate well-being and success in life as well as in the negative impact of curses, interestingly enough, even some Orthodox priests practice the use of cursing in helping some people get revenge on others or originating misfortune and even death in the latter' lives. Witches and fortune-tellers can also curse or bind curses. Then, oaths or conditional swearing is also greatly practiced.
Florin Paul Botica
In the Life of Homer traditions, the poet is conventionally pictured as blind, and his blindness is caused by some misfortune that happens to him in the course of his life. Different narratives feature different misfortunes. In some versions, he is blinded by some illness; in other versions, his blinding is a divine punishment for some mistake, such as his defaming of Helen or his conjuring a direct vision of Achilles entering battle in his second set of armor, the gleam of which is blinding to those who dare look at it.
G.Nagy
Invariably, and inevitably, if any people gives up the religion of its own creation to take up the religion of an alien people, it surrenders its independence and to a considerable extent its identity. For our people to have adopted Christianity was to yield up their life to the direction of Jews.
W.G.Simpson
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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The belief in luck and good fortune is widely spread among Romanians…the beliefs in fairies coming at birth and deciding one's fate is still widely practiced. Romanians also believe that luck and fortune can be obtain by wearing different fetishes such us crucifixes, and four-leaf clovers.
Romanians also believe that good/bad luck or fortune/misfortune has to do with one's own determination and hard work in life.
Those who held this self deterministic view are urban and more educated persons who were told under communism that an equal and prosperous society is built only through hard work…
Florin Paul Botica
Romanian people claim to be Christian, attending church, praying to God, and observing other Christian rites and holy days. However, to deal with daily needs and issues, they also believe in and practice folk beliefs and customs, many of which are unbiblical…casting spells, witchcraft, divination, mediums and spiritists, magic, communing with the dead, and sorcery.
Many Catholics in Romania are nominal Christians who do not attend church regularly.
Florin Paul Botica
Silver pendant from Klahammar
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Cheiron the Centaur and Jason by William Russell Flint
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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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