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No person not of age, stupid, blind, deaf, deformed, or otherwise defective in mind or body, or for any reason whatsoever unfit to discharge the duties of the public position, or unfit worthily to represent the manhood of the community, could be chosen for king or could hold the kingship, even a blemish on the face was a disqualification.
L.Ginell
Simpson believes that people will become what they most value and what they most attend to, and therefore, at least by Simpson's standard, Christianity points us in precisely the wrong direction.
Christianity, offers Simpson, is characterized by "soft" values: unselfishness, charitableness, forgiveness, patience, humility, and pity.
R.S.Griffin
Illustrations of Germanic mythology by Guido Görres (2/2).
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Odin and His Brothers find Ask and Embla
by F.Stassen
One modern writer tells us that the Druids were “magicians and nothing more.” Magicians, yes; “and nothing more” must be rejected. The popular view of what they were is more nearly accurate than this. The druids were much more.
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.Ginnell
There were Slavic settlement in Scandinavia (especially Denmark), as evidenced by their names. And those weren’t slave towns, because cities wouldn’t be named after slaves.
Obviously there’s Rus where Northmen were mixing with Slavs.
In Gesta Danorum Saxo wrote that Harald Bluetooth's army consisted of "Danes and Slavs". Analysis of the remains buried near Trelleborg confirms that many warriors were born in West Slavic lands. But some subverters claim that those were probably "Polish-born Scandinavians" or something like that, rather than Slavs.
There is a long tradition of Germano-Slavic relationships, but subverters often try to paint the two as enemies.
The Sinister Origin of Cathedrals
By Carolyn Emerick
#EasterTidings
There were three brothers, Kiy, Shchek, and Khoriv, and their sister was named Lybid.
Kiy lived upon the hill where the Borichev trail now is, and Shchek dwelt upon the hill now named Shchekovitsa, while on the third resided Khoriv, after whom this hill is named Khorevitsa.
They built a town and named it Kiev after their oldest brother.
Around the town lay a wood and a great pine-forest in which they used to catch wild beasts. These men were wise and prudent.
Primary Chronicle
Celtic warriors in the Alps; art by Angus McBride (RIP 1931-2007).
Celtic Europe - channel link (please share!): /channel/rjOekyqBmgxiZjcx
The heroes of these surviving literatures, however, often have sufficiently similar characteristics to encourage generalization and reference to a traditional model. We should beware of setting up a stereotype, but we may fancy that we can get a notion of the sorts of hero likely to have played a leading role in Indo-European saga.
‘Hero’ is of course not a technical term but one of convenience. By it we mean generally a man of supreme physical strength and endurance allied to moral qualities such as fearlessness, determination, and a propensity for plunging into dangerous and daunting enterprises. He displays his abilities above all in fighting enemies of one sort or another.
M.L.West
When I met with Pierce the next evening I asked him for his reaction to the way Simpson treated Christianity in Which Way Western Man?
"I was very favorably taken by what Simpson had to say," Pierce replied. "By the time I read his book in the mid- to late-'70s I had pretty well concluded that Christianity was one of the major spiritual illnesses of our people and that we really had to come to grips with that. We couldn't pretend it was just a minor problem: we had to figure out how to deal with it. And I thought Simpson's conclusions on that subject carried a lot of weight.
"You used the term 'major spiritual illness' to describe Christianity," I interjected. "That's pretty strong."
"Yes, it is," Pierce replied.
R.S.Griffin
Apparently some bot has been messaging by subscribers. Had no power for 24 hours so there was no way to write earlier.
Anyway I think you are smart enough to tell a fake who can’t even speak English.
Other big channels have this issue to as far as I know.
Invariably, and inevitably, if any people gives up the religion of its own creation to take up the religion of an alien people, it surrenders its independence and to a considerable extent its identity. For our people to have adopted Christianity was to yield up their life to the direction of Jews.
W.G.Simpson
Cernunnos by Slavyan Stoyanov
Thyrsus is taken from Dionysus
Illustrations of Germanic mythology Ludwig Pietsch (1/3).
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In 1994, I saw signs that a corrupt faction was making inroads into the Germanic religious movement in the United States. Individuals and groups had emerged which denied the innate connection of Germanic religion and Germanic people, saying in effect that ancestral heritage did not matter. This error could not be allowed to become dominant. I decided to reenter the fray and throw my influence behind Asatru as it had been practiced in America since the founding of the Viking Brotherhood back in the 1970s. I formed Asatru Folk Assembly.
S.McNallen
Accustomed as we are to writing, printing, and other modes of preserving expressions of thought, we are liable to forget that the laws we are considering originated when those arts were unknown, when in northern climates men preserved their learning in their heads instead of on their shelves, and communicated it by their tongues instead of by ink and paper. Verse always has been, and still is, easily committed to memory and retained there; and the more harmonious it is, the more effective and reliable for this purpose.
L.Ginell
One of the letters caught my eye, and I stood there and read it.
The anonymous writer referring to Christianity expressed the desire to
"throw the whole thing out and start over from scratch with the sun, the moon, Odin, Thor, and all the other wild and beautiful forces in the majestic world of Nature."
As I thought about it, it seemed to me that got at the heart of the issue.
R.S.Griffin
Havamal illustration by Graman
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Without a spiritual rebirth, a revolution in consciousness, nothing else can happen. To be healed, we need to find again the faith that is naturally ours. And it is not enough to find that faith in our heads, we must find it in our souls and, yes, even in our bodies. That is where ritual enters the picture. Moving our limbs, raising our voices, turning our eyes to the bowl of the sky, uniting outer actions with inner states, we find wholeness and holiness. This is the way home.
S.McNallen
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Another tale claims that river Lybid came from the tears of Lybid who was a daughter of a Kievan king. Young knights and princes from all over the world gathered to ask for her hand. But she didn’t want to marry and rejected them all. Knights and princes wanted to seduce her, but none succeeded. The princes spoke with each other, shrugged, took their swords, saddled their horses and left. It got empty and lonely in the king’s palace. No brave knights, no charming princes. The princess set in her empty tower like a bird in a cage. She may have wanted someone to come, but none did.
Years passed like this. The king has died and was succeeded by another. The princess had to leave Kiev. She has build herself a small house on the mountain outside of Kiev and lived there alone. This lonely life was very sad for a young girl. She wept whole days and nights. Those bitter tears formed a creek now called Lybid. The mountain the princess lived on is now called Girl’s Mountain (Divych Gora).
Today I will share two legends about river Lybid.
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As some of you may know, this Yule historically does not start until January 6th.
While historically attested tradition is crucial to a pagan, evolving traditions are inherent to every culture. The modern celebration of Yule would place it’s beginning on the Winter Solstice, December 21st. Evolved traditions are important to uphold as well, if anything, to keep our culture alive.
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Dobrynia and the dragon by I.Bilibin
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Wild man by Paul Bommer
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Will work on translating a couple toponymic legends today
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Cernunnos by danbrenus
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