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The argument escalates and Vassily almost calls his father a fool, which would be an unheard level of disrespect. This shows his views on traditions and the merit based order he considered to be unjust and obsolete.
This falling out between a son and father is a macro level representation of the national New vs Old conflict. Then Vassily’s communist friends come. One of them starts a fiery speech trying to explain to Opanas how the machines will change things for the better, but the old man doesn’t listen and even curses the rotten youth when they leave.
This character will appear later, but we can already see that he represent the communist propagandists with their tales of future utopia.
The next scene shows us a family of farmers who just received a letter of notice from the new government which declares that their livestock will be confiscated. Dovzhenko shows us how different members of the family react to this. Women are crying loudly, the men are mostly silent. Then furious father takes an axe and screams that he’d rather slaughter the horses here and now rather then giving them up to the communists. He is stopped though. This subplot will be very important later so the viewer should keep this scene in mind.
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The weakening of the old world is symbolized by grandfather Semen’s own death in the very beginning of the film, but at the same time it also symbolizes the inevitable rebirth.
On his deathbed (in the garden) the grandfather is surrounded by the entire family, including children. The latter are eating apples and Semen decided to eat one too. He then dies calmly lying among his apples, a physical manifestation of many fruits of his 75 years of hard labor.
The ultimate goal was to break the spine of the village and the old order it represented. Just like how village-dwellers were the ones resisting christianity back in the day. Communists went further than their priestly predecessors who only dared to attack Pagans and their temples in the cities where they had guaranteed support of the king’s militia hence why the villages stayed Pagan. Stalin utilized the chandala elements (the poor drunks who were all to eager to rob their successful neighbors) to realize his plans. Collectivization eventually led to Holodomor.
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Earth (1930)
Tradition and Modernity
Nature, communism and the rise of the machines
Dovzhenko’s silent epic Earth is a drama set in a soviet Ukrainian village which faces the dehumanizing changes and inner division brought by Stalin’s regime just a couple of years before the Holodomor. Widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made it provides a variety of interpretations. After recently rewatching it I decided too share mine.
My miniature wooden Zbruch idol (all four deities)
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Wooden Zruch idol from Poland (Goddess side)
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The Irish Goddess Brigid
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When Norwegian king Haakon the Good (who was baptized because he was a foster son of the English king), demanded the acceptance of christianity on a thing in Throndhjem Norwegians went harshly against it saying: "…abandon the ancient faith which our fathers and forefathers have held from the oldest times, in the times when the dead were burnt, as well as since that they are laid under mounds, and which, although they were braver than the people of our days, has served us as a faith to the present time."
They pledged to follow the king their entire lives and respect him, but only as long as he didn’t require the impossible. "If, however, thou wilt take up this matter with a high hand, and wilt try thy power and strength against us, we bondes have resolved among ourselves to part with thee, and to take to ourselves some other chief, who will so conduct himself towards us that we can freely and safely enjoy that faith that suits our own inclinations."
Sigrid Hunke
Opposition began as soon as the church has set foot beyond the limes—the border of the Empire. Additionally, it turned out that on the church’s holy mission of bringing salvation to all people it faced such resistance it had to deal with it by destroying identities (of those people). Complains about the rejection of baptism are loud and clear in archbishop Boniface’s letters to the pope. He let’s his disappointment loose in resounding wailings about «stubborn» rejection with which "barbaric heathens" resist his "conversion": Concerns and sorrows are everywhere! Struggles from the outside, fears from within!" he laments and admits that his "heart is depressed" to bishop of Winchester: For us there isn’t just, as the apostle said, struggles from the outside, fears from within, but struggles from within too!"
Sigrid Hunke
Baldr by Franz Stassen
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Bronze sword and scabbard with anthropomorphic hilt, discovered somewhere in Switzerland; 1st century B.C.🇨🇭 On display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA.
Celtic Europe - channel link (please share!): /channel/rjOekyqBmgxiZjcx
We believe that nations should develop using the thinking schemes they have made themselves. Judaism is certainly perfect for Jews, as Islam is for Arabians. But Europe is not made to be Christian.
(GRECE, 1977, p. 198)
Feasting and meditating with the dead remains one of the most ancient and sacred European traditions which is why it is also one of the most demonized. But despite all judeo-christian propaganda the wast majority of people stay true to their ancestral customs.
Spirits of the ancestors by Bendis
Ancient Slavs had a similar tradition called trizna. It involved reminiscing about the deceased and feasting. It is mentioned twice in the Tale of Bygone Years:
Whenever a death occurred, a feast was held over the corpse, and then a great pyre was constructed, on which the deceased was laid and burned. After the bones were collected, they were placed in a small urn and set upon a post by the roadside, even as the Vyatichians do to this day. Such customs were observed by the Krivichians and the other pagans…
When they heard these words, they gathered great quantities of honey and brewed mead…She bade her followers pile up a great mound and when they had piled it up, she also gave command that a funeral feast should be held.
Next is one of the best and most important scenes in the movie. The quarrel between Vassily and his father Opanas. Vassily (as well as the rest of the village) already heard about the tragedy of the farmer family, but unlike the rest he is pleased. "Now, father, the kulaks are finished." he gleefully says and adds: "We’re getting machines as well". Opanas replies with a back turned to his son: "Vasili, I think, you’re not right in the head". The latter also turns his back on the father and says: "When we have the machines, we’ll take their land away". This line makes clear that Vassily believes communist propaganda and wants to equalize everyone in the village by allowing the state to control everything.
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The old man’s death scene also establishes the split in the family. His grandson Vassily (Basil) is a newly converted communist who eagerly awaits the death of the old order and helps it. There is no direct conflict with the dying grandfather, but he laughs at his other grandfather Petro when he says that Semen deserved a medal of labor.
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As mentioned above Earth is set just before the Holodomor and shows how the new regime fooled people into their own destruction with pretty lies about the equality they will soon enjoy. Dovzhenko also highlights the conflict between the natural, traditional order and the new, industrial and ultimately destructive one.
The opening scene shows us the primordial, natural beauty and the coexistence of human and plant life. Most notably we see a woman and a sunflower in one frame. Neither is in the centre, but rather stand side by side as equals in natural symbiotic relationship. This is the films best frame since it encapsulates the reverence for nature Dovzhenko had. He was even accused of being some Nature-worshipper by some of the film’s critics, but I’ll explore the topic of religion in Earth later.
Earth is a demanding movie since it requires a familiarity with the historical events of it’s time. For this reason it may end up confusing a foreign viewer especially considering how both intentionally and unintentionally ambiguous it ended up. Hence a short historical note is in order.
After communists rose to power via starting the civil war one of the first things they established is a new anti-farming policy. Free farmers (kulaks) were demonized as hoarders of the natural wealth which was used to justify robbing them of livestock and land. This process was called collectivization.
Photo: A wagon full of grain leaves the village. The poster reads: First bread belongs to the state.
Going to write a movie review. It has Pagan elements, but that's not the main theme of the film. It's also an old, silent one in black and white. Will probably be ignored by most of my readers, but I just feel like doing it.
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The first detailed copy of the most famous Slavic sacred object – the Zbruch Idol from the pagan thickets of Bohyt (10-13 centuries).
It was discovered in Zbruch River back in 1848. The original is currently being kept in Krakow museum. Our precise copy is made of so called “liquid marble” and has all the qualities of a real stone. Weight is 375 grams. Height is 23.3 cm, column width – 2.8 cm. Consists of two parts. Order at – shop@militant.zone
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More of us are dying than are being born, our children look to other peoples and cultures for their models, our heritage and history are steadily displaced. This is the road to marginalization and extinction. There is an answer to this condition, and it is a spiritual one.
S.McNallen
Desperate archbishop got a response from England full of the same bitter experience with "uncontrollable barbarity of the Angles" as well as some advice: "in my opinion, you should crush the stubbornness of the uneducated people by condemning their own faith as "dirty and criminal" only washed by conversion. This is the fastest and the most efficient methods."
Sigrid Hunke
The church father Tertullian asked "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" and the Anglo-Saxon monk Alcuin asked "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?" Tertullian believed that heresy began with Greek philosophy and likewise Alcuin believed that Germanic heroes such as Ingeld were blasphemous distractions to Christian faith. Both held similar beliefs that pre-Christian teachings and heroic legends should be dismissed and ignored.
However these may be early examples of the 'Celebration Parallax.' Indeed, what does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? What does Ingeld have to do with Christ? What does Israel and its history have to do with the European peoples?
An idol of Dazbog, Slavic Sky-Father by
@traditi0n_carving
The European spirit is much more expressed in the pagan tradition of northern Europe. In that tradition, there was much more of the idea that man is responsible for the world around him. He is responsible for his own actions. And he's answerable to nobody but himself.
W.L.Pierce
For the ancient Greeks Gaia was the Mother Goddess, Mother of All.
The important difference between a scientific and a mythological view here, is that we must really feel that Gaia is alive-a great, mysterious, animate being. We must understand that Gaia has purpose and that all the evolution that has happened up to this point is about something.
There are pre-industrial peoples who for millennia have had this insight of the living Earth very similar to Gaia Theory. For them the forest is totally alive.
Dr. S.Harding
Modern Slavs still sit out with their dead and feed them by leaving food and drinks on their graves. Needless to say priests were trying to eradicate the tradition for hundreds of years and still frowns on and criticizes it. But people still have enough of their folk soul intact to ignore this.
Modern Slavs conduct triznas (often called pominki) on many occasions. First time is the day of the death, then 40 days after the death and later it occurs regularly on the anniversary of the death and the deceased’s birthday.
Here are some modern examples.
Utiseta (mound sitting)
Germanic tribes used to sit out with the dead. The latter were proclaimed to be evil trolls and draugrs by christian propaganda while the ritual itself was labeled dark magic, even necromancy. I wrote on that before and how this tradition was outlawed in Norway.