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14 Jun 2023 23:04

Scythian female grave idols

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

13 Jun 2023 23:14

An impressive 5th Century buckle from Åker, Norway. It’s interesting how the face is flanked by both bird heads and boar heads…could be an image of Wodan, and/or Yngvi-Freyr.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

13 Jun 2023 17:46

This may be Pagan craftsman Zayat's last photo for a while. He is in court today, trying to defend himself. Though the chances are low, since in russia only 0,33% of trials end with an acquittal. All because he drew and carved traditional symbols like swastika and criticized communism.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

13 Jun 2023 13:26

My new miniature, ceramic replica of a Scythian idol from Khortytsia island, Ukraine.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

13 Jun 2023 09:32

I visited Brittish Museum in London so I m sharing some of the things that intriged me. This one was found in the river Schelde (Scaldis) in Flanders, Belgium. My absolute favorite ship figure head. Allthough the description of the museum alludes to a possible Roman influence, other historians pointed out this is likely of Germanic making. Saxons and Frisians and Frankish tribes were well established in late Roman era in these parts.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

12 Jun 2023 09:13

Black Grave kurgan owner reconstruction

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12 Jun 2023 06:00

A Vendel Era horse harness ornament from the Valsgärde boat burials.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

10 Jun 2023 19:36

Conversion was superficial at best. There were Pagan priests, shrines and rituals all over the countryside (hence the term pagan itself). Ethnography confirms the complete lack of christian belief outside (sometimes even inside) the cities in Europe as late as 19th c.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

10 Jun 2023 09:54

Wotan and his brothers killing Ymir

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

09 Jun 2023 23:38

Also we know that Scythian men wore headbands

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

09 Jun 2023 23:27

Nagoloven is a term which was used for male headbands, but those were not decorated and purely utilitarian. It was also worn regularly only by a rare few men who had to move their head a lot while working like wool beaters and coopers.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

09 Jun 2023 23:21

Slavic male (?) headbands

Pseudo experts will always attack something popular regardless of legitimacy. Often they’ll bother to throw some short, memorable insults, mostly in meme format. Today we will examine one such case. Anti-headband.
Since various decorated headbands are popular among modern Pagans there are those who go against this. Female ones are supposedly fine, but there is an argument against male headbands. They say that hippie movement is the real origin of this accessory.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

08 Jun 2023 21:13

This day, June 8, in 793 Lindisfarne island

Art by Marek Szyszko

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07 Jun 2023 23:05

Stribog
God of War and Wind
by Moccus art
https://www.instagram.com/moccus.art/

my commission

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

07 Jun 2023 10:49

Swarog

Slavic God of Smithing and Fire by M.Suharev

Nice iconography except for the beard which only volkhvs had before Byzantium influence.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

14 Jun 2023 19:54

Under Christianity we are Jew-worshippers; or else, in despair or confusion, we worship nothing at all beyond the immediate money values, or similar depravity. In either case we lose touch with our source of life and strength.

A.R.Mills

Europeans, free yourselves of abrahamism

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

13 Jun 2023 23:11

Zayats got 3 years of suspended sentence. Could have been much worse.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

13 Jun 2023 17:20

A new case of anti-Pagan vandalism is Podolsk, russia

The way things are going in rf, all Pagans (and sane people in general) will have to flee the country or live in USSR 2.0

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

13 Jun 2023 11:32

Bought myself one nice thig. Will show when it arrives.

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12 Jun 2023 16:17

I was surprised to see the village of Boxford, a place I used to get drunk with friends as a youth, is in the news. An oak Mesolithic "totem pole" used by WHG in their rituals was found in peat. Dated between 4640BC and 4605BC, it is the oldest decoratively carved timber found in Britain. These timbers were set in post holes much like the Megalithic monuments that the first farmers would build when they arrived later, and they are sometimes found on the same sites, hinting that monuments like Stonehenge may have been a continuation of a WHG custom.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

12 Jun 2023 08:48

Seven early christucks owned by one Pagan

Then some Jews who went around trying to drive out demons attempted to use the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits, saying, “I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches!” Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.
Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them, got the better of them, and so violently overpowered all of them that they fled out of the house naked and bruised.

Acts

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

11 Jun 2023 15:32

Remnant of ancient Mannerbund tradition in European folklore

Fianna
Argonauts
Robin Hood’s Merry Men
Bogatyrs
Knights of the round

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

10 Jun 2023 13:32

Onward to VallHall
by C.S.Hall

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

09 Jun 2023 23:41

So a male headband may not have been as much of a taboo as some claim when it comes to Slavic lands.
Though it is true that by the time Vladimir Dal (a famous lexicographer) was writing his Explanatory Dictionary (19th century) the only ones wearing decorated headbands were women and that was probably the case for 3-5 centuries before that.

I personally find them esthetically pleasing and functional when it comes to long hair.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

09 Jun 2023 23:34

So, superficially it does seem that males of Ancient Ruse never wore decorated headbands. But, we know that in Scandinavia it was somewhat common.
Examples from Gisli saga:

king gave him a robe of honour, and golden-seamed gloves, and a fillet with a knot of gold on it, and a Russian hat.

a round buckler, and a silken band round his brow, and his hair was brushed back behind his ears.

one man who had a scarlet cloak over his shoulders, and a gold band round his head, and an axe studded with silver in his hand.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

09 Jun 2023 23:24

Ochelie is a term historically sed for female headbands. This is clear in the sources. But, again, modern Pagans call male headbands ochelie too. This is indeed inaccurate.

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

09 Jun 2023 12:58

Donarkeule and Thor’s hammer pendants

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

08 Jun 2023 09:59

The more I have come to value the unique nature of my own, European-descended people, the more I have come to appreciate other peoples and cultures. While this appreciation comes to some extent from the things we share as part of our common humanity, this is not the whole story. Indeed, it is our differences that I value more than our similarities. Differences are good, and ought to be respected and preserved. Blending human cultures into a miso-mash of "diversity" destroys the flavor, the unique quality of all of them.

S.McNallen

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

07 Jun 2023 12:11

Swarog the Smith
by Evgheny Jelezoglo

Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

07 Jun 2023 06:54

Odin stood up,
that father of gods,
and he saddled
his horse Sleipnir.