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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Odin and Brunhild by A.Klimenko
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Kulning
Scandinavian national music form which originates from the herding calls.
Art by V.Plenkov (Northern Art)
In truth, druids and druidism are known only through hearsay, which has allowed for the worst kind of mass-market writing on the subject. "The religion of the Gaul is both little and poorly known. It remains little known because the documents that concern it are far from being assembled and classified", said Henry Gaidoz, the founder of La Revue Celtique, in 1879. Today more documents have been discovered and they are better classified. But much more remains to be done before it is possible to understand just who the druids were and what druidism consisted of.
J.Markale
Zbruch idol by Marian Wawrzeniecki
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Grimm didn't make Ostara up. Charlemagne translated the month names and gave April as Ostarmonath
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For a long time the text of Caesar gave rise to confusion because it was not read in its context: it was in fact believed-and some still think-that the Celts professed the dogma of metempsychosis, that is to say the transmigration of souls from a body to the other, similarly to the Indians and the Pythagoreans (with whom the druids are often placed in relation). It is an absolute contradiction, and no text, whether Greek, Latin, Irish or Welsh, concerning the religious beliefs of the ancient Celts, and no mythological epic can confirm such a claim.
M.Maculotti
Compare how Wayland the Smith and his brothers stole swan garments from a group of valkyries to this part from the tale of wife-povitrulya:
The lad was wandering the forest and saw a group of twelve air-maidens bathing in a lake. They left their clothes on the shore. He took and hid one. The maidens got out of the lake. Eleven flew off, while one stayed there naked. She asked the lad to give the clothes back, but he didn’t and took her home.
Working on a new translation. It's an interesting story with parallels to the Germanic tales.
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Wotan manifests among his Folk in times of social, cultural, economic, and political distress, when old solutions fail, and the Folk is endangered - in other words, times like ours. We call upon him, invoke his presence, sharpen our wits, harden our will; our hearts are filled with love for our people. Wotan, help us become the men and women we must be, for the salvation of our people!
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Claidheamh Soluis is a magic sword which appears in many tales of Irish and Scottish folklore where it serves as the only weapon capable of killing the enemy of the story.
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A man hanging from a cross crucified. That just seems weird to me. It is hard for me to have a good feeling about that. It just doesn't seem European to me. It would take somebody with a really alien mindset to choose something like that as a symbol for a religion. It is an execution scene. It's like if I were to start a new religion and chose as a symbol a man hanging from a gallows, or in an iron cage with crows pecking at his skeleton.
One of the principal symbols of pagan religion is the tree of life, it's called the World Tree, which represents their particular cosmology. Have you ever heard of it? [I hadn't.] To me, the World Tree is a much more fitting symbol for a religion for our people.
R.S.Griffin
Heofon-fýr or Heaven-fire was an Old English kenning for lightning.
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Here’s what The Noroenna Society has to say on Tyr. Sharing that just to show that I’m not biased: https://norroena.org/the-role-of-tyr/?fbclid=IwAR1GeE9M31NdZWX2rOlp6zYDo5_VqysgJCq51YKTxs_fLSiEpPW3YGXz_Uw
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Tyr (Tiw)
Tyr (Tiw) is an ancient God. His image and role changed with times, so much so that by the time the Poetic Edda was written down his status as the chief of the Gods was already taken by Wotan.
The name Tiw comes from the Proto-Germanic tīwaz and that from the PIE deywós, meaning 'celestial, heavenly one' or 'God' which is a clear indication of his archetype being that of a Deus Pater aka Sky-Father.
He is honoured every Tuesday (Tiwesdæg) and remembered in such toponyms as Tuesnoad (Tiw's piece of woodland) aka Kent, Tuesley (Tiw's clearing) aka Surrey etc.
Christianity at first seized the lowest strata of the population: slaves, freedmen, merchants, whores, and tax collectors. The inevitable result had to be the slave revolt of the masses who had been made consciously irreverent and seduced into insolence. Every real state order, that is, the value order of duty, honour and achievement, was shaken. The ancient states realized too late that in that ruthlessly disruptive and nihilistic Christianity a political opponent had arisen, who would place the lowermost man at the top.
Kurt Eggerst
Have a happy and devotional pagan Easter weekend!
Eostre by Christian Sloan Hall
Dagda the briugu
In Irish narrative literature and legal texts we find frequent reference to a member of society called in Old and Middle Irish briugu.
This term is usually translated into English as 'hospitaller'. He was a wealthy landowner who out of his great resources provided hospitality for all comers and in this way acquired a higher social status.
-G.mac Eoin
It seems that the Dagda has no need to count his cattle in mere hundreds. All the cattle of Ireland, including the black-maned heifer, herself symbolic of fertility, lie under his protection.
So far, we have identified the Dagda’s marvellous cauldron as an example of the symbolic ‘badge’ of the Briugu and the Dagda as the Briugu of Briugus.
-I.Carmody
Viking as a symbol
Viking is a controversial symbol not only among Pagans but the rest of the world too. It’s also undoubtedly a popular one. Back in the day a viking was seen as the ubermensh of the past, an ideal of valor and might (regardless of historical accuracy). Unlike the common interpretation of a medieval knight this archetype is not bound by chivalry and courtesy which is why I used the term ubermensh. Increasingly often we see a more nuanced, morally grey depiction of a viking nowadays.
While many Pagans have rightfully pointed out flaws of what we may call a Viking culture, the image itself is so powerful it would be a shame for us not to use it at all.
At least that’s one opinion on this topic. What are your thoughts on a viking as a symbol (not the historical vikings)
The discovery of the Western tradition is transmitted by the knowledge of our cultural past—our authentic cultural past and not what has been taught for centuries in schools of the Mediterranean hegemony. Before the Alesia disaster something else existed, another system of values, of apprehending the real, of thinking and feeling, another conception of the spirit. This did not all disappear from one day to the next. Remaining today are not only the classified remnants in museums and libraries, but living seed that ask to be sown.
J.Markale
If in the Celtic epic there are reincarnations, this happens in individual cases, to symbolically mark the permanence of a divine entity: in fact all the cases of reincarnation observed in the mythological epic are as many hypostases of divinities, successive incarnations of divinities that have come to convey a message to human beings or to help them in their spiritual quest. But it is in no way a question of a system of migrations of souls analogous to the samsara Indo-Buddhist.
Moreover, the text of Caesar is particularly clear: the spirit takes on another body in the Other World, not in this one.
M.Maculotti
Stealing magic maiden’s skin and marrying her is a common motif in European folklore.
You can find it in Nibelungenlied, the tale of Selkie Wife, Völundarkviða etc.
Air-maiden (povitrulya)
Air-maidens are Ukrainian mythological beings very similar to swan-maidens/valkyries. They too are capable of flight and often end up living with men who steal their skin/clothes.
It cannot be doubted that in Ireland, as in Gaul, the most learned, the most sage, and the most virtuous men of the nation were druids or priests of that religion. Their superior learning enabled them to become more than priests; magicians if you will, but certainly philosophers, astronomers, judges, bards, literary men, musicians, physicians, seers or diviners of future events, and many other things, and may have given them a choice, almost a monopoly, of all the offices which required learning.
L.Ginell
And therefore the endeavour to have more than the many, is conventionally said to be shameful and unjust, and is called injustice, whereas nature herself intimates that it is just for the better to have more than the worse, the more powerful than the weaker; and in many ways she shows, among men as well as among animals, and indeed among whole cities and races, that justice consists in the superior ruling over and having more than the inferior.
Callicles (Plato)
Claidheamh Soluis
The Sword of Light
by Clara Dies Valls
Before we can wield the Spear of Wotan and throw it over the assembled host of our foes, we must first hang, wounded by the Spear, on the World Tree to win the runes...In other words, seek wisdom first, then pugnacity.
S.McNallen
https://www.icelandreview.com/magazine/paganpoetry/?fbclid=IwAR2MvA8JPwq3nN2ICQHNy8vr8dWe-sb0vBs7xuRRcbVSnOq6p4vXjxkpI8s
PAGAN POETRY
by Iceland Review
(An insight to the Ásatrú Society of Iceland)
This was an interesting article to read. It details some of the motiffs of a living, naturalistic relgion and worldview combined into a way of life and connection to existence, rather than as an individual marching on some path of time to a defined end goal. This is especially true with regards to the Christian and Liberal narrative of existence, as linear time with an end goal of progress towards a set directive, whereby the trials and tribulations of the world will end and a utopia outside of space and time will be achieved.
Despite this, of course there are reservations about the Ásatrú Society. Namely, they're led by an eccletic occultist with roots in the anti-ethnic, leftist movements and countercultures of the 1960s, who had this to say:
It is much the same with Ásatrú, and Hilmar points especially to some North American Ásatrú practitioners as taking the wrong stance towards the relationship between tradition and evolution. “These people,” he says, “they want to hit you over the head with the Eddas. They quote the poetry like scripture.” These people, those who want to worship a frozen past, are also generally those on the political fringes. Hilmar does not have much to say about them except that “they run around and speak pidgin Icelandic. This idea, that it has to be in your bloodstream, that it’s ethnic or genetic, it’s ridiculous.”
So, we have a man claiming to lead religious communities made up entirely of Icelanders in Iceland, telling Americans in particular, but including any ethnic reconstructionists in Europe too, that saying something along the lines of, "My religion and worldview is dependent on my background as a Teutonic person, so no you cannot join in the worship of my ancestors if they are not your ancestors" is akin to blasphemy in his view; that such a statement would never have been uttered.
Fortunately for us, and sadly for the sake of Hilmar's scholastic integrity, such a view is the natural default of all ethnic peoples on this planet and remained ours as well even after we converted en masse to Christianity in the Middle Ages. Only with the late onset of the Liberal Enlightenment did many ideas of ethnicity and singular foci of a path for one's people become verbotten and discouraged. One can even look at the German Empire, United States, Kingdom of Italy, and others until the post-World War I period to see that an ethnic sense of identity and purpose worked hand in hand with parliamentarian government, secular judicial institutions, and technological advancements. The idea that ethnicity can or should ever be divided from a religion, a people, and their choice of direction for the future, is an idea devised in the minds of hostile alien groups trying to carve out a space for themselves and their group inside the otherwise homogenous body of their host.
Tyr (Tiw) is also a God of Justice and Honor. He is the one who presides over oath-giving which is why ancient Germanic tribes always involved their right hand when they gave their word. This tradition is actually alive today since often people take an oath by holding their right hand out or placing it over a sacred object.
Being the Sky-Father Tyr (Tiw) can always see an oath being given from his celestial throne and would punish those who dare break their word.
In each culture, there was an upper tier which - Dumezil called the "first function" - composed of Gods dealing with sovereignty, law and priesthood. This function is shared by two deities. One maintains the law, preserves cosmic order, and seeks stability and continuity. In Germanic pantheon, this is the role of Tyr. The other God of the first function is ecstatic, ever-changing, and mysterious; there words match Odin precisely.
S.McNallen
Kemi-Oba culture stele
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