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Teucer then aimed another arrow at Hector, and there would have been no more fighting at the ships if he had hit him and killed him then and there: Jove, however, who kept watch over Hector, had his eyes on Teucer, and deprived him of his triumph, by breaking his bowstring for him just as he was drawing it and about to take his aim; on this the arrow went astray and the bow fell from his hands. Teucer shook with anger and said to his brother, “Alas, see how heaven thwarts us in all we do; it has broken my bowstring and snatched the bow from my hand, though I strung it this self-same morning that it might serve me for many an arrow.
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Diana and the Nymphs
Milo Manara
^ typical platonist attitude from the man himself. I don’t like it therefore it didn’t happen (or shouldn’t have). Those traitors don’t care about traditions and rituals since they are idealists.
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Listen to Folkish vs platonist debate taking place right now.
Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his son and almost did, but yhwh stopped him at the very end. Some christians see it as an example of abrahamic religions being morally superior. Remind those golems of that time Agamemnon almost sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia, but Artemis interfered.
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Charles de La Fosse
Odin in the hall of the Völsungs by Iwobrand
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I always get frustrated when stumbling upon yet another idiot who thinks that monuments like temples, statues, pyramids etc were built by aliens, giants or some forgotten civilizations with sci-fi tech. Taking the ancients for retards is very christian. Also most modern people can’t imagine what dedication (often religious) and wit produce.
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Beowulf and the Dragon
John Howe
The most obvious example would be a bogatyr named Zhydovin (from zhyd a term for jewish men in several Slavic languages). He is an invading warrior who was met and defeated by old cossack Ilja of Murom, the most beloved of all bogatyr in Kyiv and their leader (ataman). The application of the term bogatyr in this case is an admittance of strength, but not a show of respect.
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While most are aware of Odysseus’ life, few know of his death. The hero who managed to outsmart death so many times surviving both The Trojan War and his arduous voyage home tragically fell by the hand of his son. Not Telemachus, but his half-brother Telegonus ("the one born far-off") whom Circe the sorceress raised alone and sent to Ithaca to find his father. Sadly, Odysseus did not recognize his son and fought him thinking the youth a cattle thief. At least at the end Telegonus realized what he had done and joined Telemachus in a (rather weird by modern standards) conciliatory marriage. He took his father’s widow Penelope as a wife, while Telemachus married Telegonus’ mother Circe. Then the four lived together on the magic island of Aeaea.
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Got a present. A book of heroic folk tales with nice illustrations by N.Kovalenko
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The siege once laid, Telamon was the first to breach the wall and enter the city, and after him Hercules. But when he saw that Telamon had entered it first, he drew his sword and rushed at him, loath that anybody should be reputed a better man than himself. Perceiving that, Telamon collected stones that lay to hand, and when Hercules asked him what he did, he said he was building an altar to Hercules the Glorious Victor.
Appolodorus
After Herakles had returned from the underworld, he justly bore his most famous epithet, Kallinikos, "glorious victor". The victory glorious among all victories was surely that over death, and Herakles, almost alone among all gods and heroes, was thus called. It became customary…to write up over the door:
‘Here dwells the Glorious Victor, Herakles,
The son of Zeus; let nothing evil enter.’
‘Evil’ means above all else death, which people preferred not to mention openly…Herakles alone was able to drive away this evil when it was already in the house and he came almost too late and by chance.
Karl Kerenyi
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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Menfolk and womenfolk are not opposites, but rather are complementary, who come together to form new life. These families come together to form tribes which grow into nations. This is the beauty of marriage, an institution far older than judeo-christianity. For Gods made us this way, to be like them, and to follow the ways they gave onto us for our flourishment and to their glory!
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Funeral of Patroclus
Jacques Louis David
It has sometimes been remarked that human sacrifices, which occur fairly frequently in Greek myth and early epic, are noticeably absent from the Homeric poems, an omission attributed to the humane sensibilities of the poet. There is, however, one seeming exception: Achilles' slaughter of twelve Trojan captives before the pyre of Patroclus in the twenty-third book of the Iliad: This incident so distressed Plato that he simply denied that Achilles had committed the deed, and the reactions of many modern Homeric scholars have been similar: shock and distaste (reactions sometimes projected back onto the psyche of Homer himself), a quick dismissal, or, more often than not, complete silence. Scholars of Greek religion and funeral practices, on the other hand, have shown great interest in the slaying of the captives, considering it valuable evidence for actual custom among the early Greeks.
D.D.Hughes
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Domenichino
This is a problem we have faced for a long time. Those who pretend to be a part of our ancestral faith revival, but are simply fake pagans in disguise. There are a few ways they can be rooted out, but it requires knowledge & mythic literacy.
Mythic literacy: is reading the myths and legends handed down to us from your ethnic ancestors.
Many fake pagans will twist these to fit their own ideology, as opposed to adopting the ancestral one. Some are overt about this and openly admitting so i.e. declaration of deeds & 127. Others are more devious and will pretend to do the opposite.
Many folk think that fake paganism is only on the left, but there are also others who are on the right politically. It is best to read the legends yourself, and when you see behaviors such as:
•Adding foreign elements i.e. from india
•Going against ancestral morality
•Refusing to do sacrifices
•Denigrating the Gods &/or Ancestors
•Historical revisionism
•Weird sexual stances i.e. pie guys advocating bestiality
Etc. It's a fake pagan.
In the Renaissance, European folk started to move away from the church, especially after the failed predictions of the end-times during the black death, mongolian & muslim invasions. Twas the time Europe began to become the world superpower we know of it, right before colonialism.
At the time there was a genuine fear of Pagan Revivalism, so the church began emphasis on philosophy to try to corral this movement to the Pagan past. This is the time where figures like thomas aquinas (who died before this) utilized greek philosophy to make the catholic case.
The response was rather humorous & reminiscent of Folkish posts today criticizing philosophy. Several statues & portraits of the time show a meme, for lack of a better term, of the mother of the founder of Athens, Phyllis riding Aristotle and other philosophers like an animal. Interpretations suggest this is the power of love/nature over greek philosophy, it is humorous & shows that philosophy wasn't always in high-regard by those looking to the Pagan past.
A lot of modern historians say things akin to, "historial helmets were bland and purly utilitarian. Decorative helmets with horns etc were never used."
The historical reality from archeology says otherwise, that yes, they were in fact a thing
Ilja of Murom by Vladyslav Yerko
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Bogatyr were not exclusively White…because there were also bad ones.
Since there’s this viking discussion again I decided to bring up a somewhat similar topic. Bogatyr is a title some heroes of epic songs (bylina) were awarded. It mostly referred to the heroes of Kyiv who served king Vladimir (the legendary version inspired by the historical one) and mostly patrolled the border and defended Kyiv from foreign raiders and/or monsters. The interesting part is that the term bogatyr was actually applied (albeit rarely) to some of their enemies.
Another early present. Has a lot of useful advice, though I probably won’t try most of the cooking recipes.
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Among the vulgar in Wales, the belief in fairies is less nearly extinct than casual observers would be likely to suppose.
Educated Europeans generally conceive that this sort of belief is extinct in their own land, or, at least their own immediate section of that land. They accredit such degree of belief as may remain, in this enlightened age, to some remote part—to the south, if they dwell in the north; to the north, if they dwell in the south. But especially they accredit it to a previous age: in Wales, to last century, or the middle ages, or the days of King Arthur.
Wirt Sikes
The first altar to Herakles Kallinikos, or Herakles Alexikakos, another name with much the same meaning as the lines just quoted, ‘Herakles averter of evil ’, is said to have been dedicated by Telamon at the capture of Troy, when he was himself threatened with death by the jealous Herakles; his appeal to that characteristic of the hero saved him.
Karl Kerenyi
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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