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To sum up, Perun’s proper iconography is as follows: red hair, long mustache, no bear and a club in his hand. He can have a bow too.
Recent depiction by Brother Bjorn https://twitter.com/bjorn_brother
Despite Perun being the most well-known Slavic deity his modern iconography is rather problematic and the saddest thing is that the issue is just some being too lazy to read the sources even thought the latter have a description of an idol of his:
"Vladimir began to reign in Kiev alone, and put the idols on the hill behind the palace yard: wooden Perun with a silver head and golden mustache."
Primary Chronicle
We can argue what silver head means. Most likely a helmet, but some say that it’s grey hair. Perun was a Thunderer not a Shaman like Weles or Sky-Father like Dazbog, so him having old, grey hair makes no sense to me. We know that all Thunderers in Aryan traditions were red-haired. This description also mentioned no beard because ancient Slavs shaved off their beards and the only ones with bears were volkhvs.
Valkyrie sketch by S.Suvorov
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Wotan sketch
by Brother Bjorn
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But many of the Scythians live on milk as others do on wine. For some the bees, building their hives in rocks and oaks, prepare a delicious drink; and there are those who are not offended with the streams of the nymphs, but use spontaneous water for their drink. There is also, I think, a race of Scythians, who drink water indeed, but when they are in want of pleasure of intoxication raise a pyre on which they burn odoriferous herbs. Round this pyre they sit in a circle, as if it were a bowl, and feast on the smell as others do on drink; at length, becoming intoxicated with fragrance, they leap, and sing, and dance.
Maximus of Tyre
For reasons which are historically obvious, some of the best blood of our race was irretrievably lost in mad efforts to curry favour with the god the Jews had exported to us. For century after century, the sexual superstitions of Christianity systematically weakened and impoverished our race. The Jews could have invented nothing better for their purposes.
Revilo Oliver
Starkaðr
by Brother Bjorn
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Killary Fjord, in Connemara, Ireland. 🇮🇪 Unfortunately, the purple flowers in the foreground are not native heather, but invasive Rhododendron Ponticum imported from either southern Europe or western Asia.
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Got today. Cheap, but looks nice.
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Scythian horses by O.Nagornaja
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How’s your workout going?
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Scythian priest from Melitopol kurgan, Ukraine
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The final nail in the coffin of the Pagan Red-man his youth being sent to be washed away of their Pagan, barbaric way of life. What values do you think they poured into them? What religion awaited them behind the doors of the oh' so infamous boarding schools with their teachings? The all so familiar christian "coming to jesus" attitude. These children were forced to renounce beliefs in Heathen myths, many to young too even know them at all. There they were stripped of their pride, their very sense of who they were. New names were given to them, and there language replaced with a foreign one. By the time he left, the Red-boy resented his free Pagan Ancestors. "Kill the Indian...and save the man" was the founding mission of Richard H. Pratt. "Kill the Pagan...and save the man». That all I got, at least without making it longer or less digestible. I hope you like it.
Anglo Joel
The first of many strategies employed was to take away independence as seen with the Indians from the plains. U.S. troops hunted down the buffalo and encouraged Native hunters to kill in excess. Most killed were going to waste and "every buffalo killed was a Indian dead".
Eventually, the Natives of the plains were driven to agriculture, and with it the division of tribal lands. Those who accepted this were rewarded with citizenship, while naysayers were forced off said lands or pressured to accept the condition through their family and loved ones.
Anglo Joel
Burning of the ritual doll on Maslenitsa
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Perun's weapon
If one makes a google search he sees countless depictions of Perun wielding an axe. This is completely wrong and easily proven to be so. The sources make it clear that the idol of Perun had a club in his hand:
And he [the idol] was thrown into Volhov. He [the idol] swam over [the pillars of] the Great Bridge, throwing a mace down on the bridge and saying: “Let Novgorodian children remember me with that”. Now crazy people fight themselves with clubs, entertaining demons.
Novgorod Fourth Chronicle
He also has a bow and uses it to shoot arrows at malicious spirits.
Tomorrow I will write on the proper iconography for one of the Slavic major Gods, namely Perun the Thunderer.
Here's an example of a completely inaccurate (albeit well-drawn) depiction.
Gold bracelet found near Lasgraïsses, in the Tarn department of France; 3rd century B.C. 🇫🇷
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Humans are ritual-building beings. Anthropologists have defined us as "tool-using animals" and as "time-binding animals", and even as "symbol-using animals". I will pass over the question of whether or not we are animals, but surely the building of rituals encompasses all three of these-a sense of time and symbols, as well as the ability to construct tools (spiritual ones, in this case). Evidence for deliberate ritual can be found in Neanderthal burial customs, so it’s clear we’ve been doing this sort of thing for a long time. For some reason, ritual innately appeals to us and it makes sense, then, that we ought to be doing it.
S.McNallen
A new idol of Wotan my pal Madra (Anglo Joel) made
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Silent Watchdogs in the Bogs Jon Campbell
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The deities of the Greeks and Vikings, Goths and Romans, were all (originally) mighty men-of-valor, or virile women of surpassing beauty…
Ragnar Redbeard
Choose among your boys and let them be instructed in the "holy scripture". When they, having become men, should prove to be even a little more capable than the slaves, then you may consider me a fool.
Emperor Julian the Loyal
Faroe Islands 🇫🇴🇩🇰
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I must tell you that in Scythia no quality is more highly esteemed than this of friendship; there is nothing on which a Scythian prides himself so much as on sharing the toils and dangers of his friend; just as nothing is a greater reproach among us than treachery to a friend.
I for my part would rather be worsted in single combat, and lose my right hand, as the Scythian custom is, than yield to any man on the question of friendship, above all to a Greek; for am I not a Scythian?
Lucian
A movie I look out for nowadays is Pamfir. It features a traditional Pagan celebration Malanka and seems well-filmed and acted. Will write a review once I get to see it.
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New work from artsman Zayats (Hare)
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Another tool was alcohol. Something that was never taken from the red man until he came to be at the reservations. Until then he was kept with whiskey, as even amongst White traders at the time it was used as currency, still I find it noteworthy.
"Most of the savages are much addicted to drunkenness, a vice they never were acquainted with, till the christians came amongst them"
John Lawson
Native Americans did have prior dealings with alcohol. Some made a form of beer, or wine. These were low in alcohol content and, would’ve been seldomly used outside of ceremonies.
Anglo Joel
When we look at the Native Americans of old, we see a people whose spiritual views were untouched by Jewish perversion. The christians sailing to America would have seen in them the same threat early christians saw in our Ancestors when they were converted. It should be no surprise that they didn’t just roll over, and in fact were actively corralled to christianity. Their beliefs were forcibly reshaped through an organized, systematic removal of anything christianity saw as bad, everything Pagan. The methods they used are more than accessible, and I will show them to you all, in the hope's of showing the tactics used to convert our Ancestors into their cult.
Anglo Joel
Irminsul Longobard, Pomposa Abbey (province of Ferrara)
Irminsul is the Scandinavian tree of life, also used by our Longobard ancestors, to whom we owe our ethnonym of "Lombards," led by the glorious King Alboinus, repopulated Cisalpine, leaving an ethnic, linguistic and cultural imprint decisive for the formation of our Volk.
Hail Alboin!
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