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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Scythian woman from 2-3 AD by V.Plenkov
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Gai Gudilin was one of prominent folkish Pagans in russia who promoted physical health (he worked as an instructor) and moral conduct.
Sadly, was eventually prosecuted and imprisoned by the regime after the torture and murder of Maxim Tesak who was Gai’s friend.
Folklore hates priests and chuch.
Read more fairy tales to get the tradition perspective.
...the term druidism was already used by the medieval Irish to designate, in a very vague fashion, anything connected with the druids, and that this term, for our contemporaries, covers everything concerning the Celtic religious domain, intellectual speculations, cultural or magical practices, various beliefs, and the so-called profane sciences that have come down from the Celtic priesthood. But it is accurate to say that the word druidism remains very murky to the extent that it designates not only a religious system but a vast intellectual, technical, and spiritual tradition, common to all Celtic peoples and characteristic of Celtic societies, that was lost, not through the fault of Romanization—which Ireland never knew—but because of Christianity.
J.Markale
Westerners today, panicked by the conviction they have lost their spirit's deepest roots and have been deceived by a form of Christianity that no longer responds to their aspirations, have a tendency to seek refuge in the philosophies of nonbeing that play such a large role in Eastern religions. As honorable as it may be, this course will resolve nothing; the Orient has its own logic and system of values that are not necessarily the same as those of the West. On the contrary, it seems that the Eastern mentality is in fundamental opposition with the Western state of mind.
J.Markale
Air-maiden (povitrulya)
by B.Jirov
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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Spirit of the forest by Olena Kulchytska
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Only Pagans don’t have a good God who forgives sins. All actions are to be answered for. If you did something wrong—fix it. And never give up. Know that if you want something put your heart and effort and anything will be achieved.
Gai (Alexei) Gudilin
Bronze belt found in a Gallic woman’s grave in Steinheim am Albuch, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany; 7th century B.C. 🇩🇪
Celtic Europe - channel link (please share!): /channel/CelticEurope
One of the most disgusting practices in christianity is deathbed conversion. It was and still is popular. christcucks are so obsessed with converting that they have the gull to approach a dying men and use his moment of weakness. To them there’s nothing morally wrong with it.
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Considering that @survivethejive will soon release his video on Scythians I think it's a good time to revisit some of the stuff I wrote/translated/shared. Just type Scythian in the search and enjoy.
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Valkyrie by A.Klimenko
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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)