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Just like Tugarin originally being a dragon justified the use of tricks against him, many fairy tale heroes presented as witty underdogs use clever plans against giants, ogres, trolls, and, of course, dragons which is not seen as something dishonorable. In such cases there’s almost never a real fight, but rather a contest or some riddle exchange.
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Alesha’s ploy would have been considered cowardly, if only we weren’t talking about a relatively normal (albeit skilled and strong) man fighting a monster. Tugarin was definitely a dragone in the original versions of the epic song, but later became a flying, fire-breathing human when folklore was effected by recent (at the time) historical events, namely clashes with Asiatic nomads.
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When dealing with monsters the battle is not fair to begin with and very few heroes can wrestle giants with bare hands. Hercules could, but he was a son of Zeus. And even he had to be smart when dealign with some of his adversaries like Hydra or Antaeus.
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Part of Pagan Revival is to hear what our ancestors heard. The legends of our sacred Gods, before put to parchment, were songs!
From the wilds of Alaska, we interview Mike, devout Sedian Heathen and founder of Alaskan Bardcrafts @ t.me/Alaskanbardcrafts about his life, faith and passion to reproduce the instruments of our blessed and noble ancestors!
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Timecodes:
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Introductions
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Life in Alaskan Frontier
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Coming Home to Ancestral Faith
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Of Lyres & Bardcraft
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Instruments of the Ancients
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The Power of Music in Pagan Revival
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Benefit to our Revival
Hercules fighting his half-brother Apollo over the Delphic tripod
This is a depiction of a lesser known battle in Hercules’ eventful life. After being cursed Hercules went to the renowned oracle of Delphi. Unfortunately the latter was unable to give Hercules any advice so the hero got furious and began tearing the temple apart. When he took the sacrificial tripod and tried to leave with it Apollo himself interfered. The sons of Zeus struggled in a little divine tug of war almost tearing the sacred seat, but their father stopped the two by hurling a lighting between the siblings. After that Hercules received his oracle and learned how to break the curse.
Rituals become powerful when everyone has a role to play.
At our last blót, we gave children a special task—tossing color-changing packets into the fire. It wasn’t just a fun moment—it made them part of something sacred.
We also handed out wood chips, inviting each person to carve or write a personal prayer or offering. These were then added to the flame, symbolizing their part in the rite.
It’s small touches like this that help build real connection—between people, the gods, and our living tradition.
Most such heroes also grow faster than normal men and show great intelligence and strength from the very birth.
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The idea of a human (ex-turnip) and a talking bear mating is obviously a very odd one, but we have to keep in mind that most heroes have animal-related origins. Also vegetable and fruit related ones are common. Like being just found in a garden.
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Druids came to baptise the boy into paganism, and they sang their pagan baptism over the little boy, and said, “there will not be born a boy more impious than this boy to the Connachta, and he will not be a night without the head of a Connachtman on his belt, and he will kill more than half of the Connachta.
C.C.Chernaig "The Conception of Conall Cernach"
The folklore dive I am starting today is dedicated to heroes and demigods born under odd circumstances, which is actually common when it comes to ancient heroes. The first example is Conall Cernach. This Irish hero’s origins are relatively mundane, at least when compared to those I will present later.
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Čech the progenitor of the Czech people by V.Pechar
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Telemachus and Minerva by Bartolomeo Pinelli
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Sumarmál 2025 in the Black Hills
Hail Óðinn!
Healthy children provide healthy future
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^ no completely accurate depiction of this God exists, at least as far as I am aware, but the drawing above is a decent approximation.
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I have already wrote about such cases of the ancient monsters being replaced by the contemporary human enemies in bylina songs. May write a big summary of such cases, if people are interested.
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Another example is Alesha Popovich, a young warrior from Kyiv cycle of epic songs (bylina). When fighting Tugarin he used a cunning move either attacking from under his horse or tricking Tugarin into turning his head (depends on the version).
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Courage, not stupidity
How ancients saw battle tricks
Many know that an honest duel is a sacred tradition, but we also find examples of heroes tricking their enemies. Let’s analyze some examples to get an insight into the ancestral worldview. When a hero fights a dragon or a giant, they often turn to sly trickery e.g. instead of an open assault Sigurd attacked Fafnir from an ambush. Sure, fighting a dragon in an honest fight would have been more honorable, but it would also be suicidal.
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Those voting for the second option, what examples of fate changing do you know in the lore?
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Heroes are not always superhuman, sometimes they are seemingly the opposite born physically impaired like the diminutive Tom Thumb or Hans the hedgehog boy. In such cases the hero is often seen as cursed by the parents, but ends up being blessed possessing great wit and talent.
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Another folklore character Volh the Shapeshifter was a son of a dragon and a human woman.
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Medvedko
A hero from Russian folklore Medvedko is a child of a girl who herself had an magical origin since she was a turnip before turning into a child. One day she went to the forest with her friends and met a talking bear. The latter kept her as his wife, until she escaped and gave birth to Medvedko who was a half-bear.
Conall’s mother couldn’t conceive a child until she came to a druid who told her to drink from a well. There was a worm there and she swallowed it when drinking becoming pregnant right away. Later, when the boy was born druids came and prophesied his future as a great warrior.
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Going to focus on some strange and amusing folklore stories. Health issues prevented me from doing it earlier, but waiting doesn’t help much, so I’ll start now.
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Drahomíra of Stodor by Vladimír Pechar
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"Three times nine girls, but one girl rode ahead, white-skinned under her helmet;
the horses were trembling, from their manes dew fell into the deep valleys. (hail in the high woods; good fortune comes to men from there; all that I saw was ill to me.)"
Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar - 28
By the way, make sure to fling this quote at the next christcuck who says that Pagan Europe was primitive. All christianity did was destroy marvelous temples and statues of the past only to build their cheap parodies.
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In the temple, an enormous statue, which exceeded any type of human body in size, left one stunned, with its four heads and equal number of necks, of which two seemed to look at the chest and another two at the back. And of the two located on the front as well as the two on the back, one seemed to be gazing to the right and the other to the left. They had close-shaved beards and very short hair, such that one could think that the maker had imitated the Rani’s style of doing their hair. In its right hand it held a horn decorated with several types of metal, that the priest who was an expert in their rites would fill each year with pure wine, in order to make predictions about the coming year’s harvest through the state of the liquor itself. On the left there was a bow in the arm turned towards the side.
The admiration for these things was further increased by a sword of an astonishing size, whose scabbard and hilt, in addition to excellent embossed decorations, were also covered in splendid silver.
Saxo