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Shepherds in general, even if they were not traveling mages, were still considered to be on good terms with spirits (demons) who grazed their cattle. Partly this belief was explained by shepherd routinely leaving the guarded "human" territory and venturing out into the wilds, a domain of spirits and beasts. Therefore a shepherd had to enter into an agreement with those powers or even tame them. Overpowering supernatural beings was almost exclusively a male prerogative since it requited "strength".
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Professional male mages were wanderers who never stayed at one place for long. They were craftsmen (carpenters, potters, tailors, repairmen etc) who stayed at their clients’ houses while traveling and left as soon as they finished the job. When a mage made himself known all villagers with issues, be they minor or major were quick to visit him. This life on the road was a distinctive feature of male witchery.
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Another story tells of an old woman Manefa who accidentally gained power from some passerby mage. She took a walking stick he had left near the road. Her grandson explained many years later: "Our Manefa picked up the stick and it’s demons with it." But they did not bring her any good. "She went berry-gathering and since couldn’t order them properly, the demon began beating her, she threw aways the berries and ran off". Her death was unnatural and frightening "They say she died soon after, strangled by a handkerchief. They say demons strangled her." When she died bad things began happening around the house. Knocking. She was buried, but the demons scattered the ground on her grave. Her daughter fixed everything but in a couple of days the ground was always scattered again."
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A woman even when given power by a man often could not control it unless she engaged in male crafts. Yet even then she will never be considered a true professional. Cases of women receiving power from men are rarely described, and almost always those are elderly women, widows, spinsters i.e. those who were not properly female begin with.
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Conversely, out of all the folk terms for magic "power" was used to describe male magic the most. Wherever you ask, male mages were considered to be the superior. "Strength" was the main principle, a justification of witchery for men.
"I can’t deal with this, go visit that other one, he knows, he’s stronger than me" advised a local witcher after seeing that the matter is too much for him. To lift a curse "you have to find someone stronger than the one who cast it".
Just finished translating a peculiar text from my backlog. It’s about male and female magic in Slavic folklore. Very interesting data, specially compared to how male and female magic is seen in Northern European tradition. Will post excepts later.
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Fibula of Eastern Polans (2nd - 3rd century). Slavic settlement near the village of Taymanava (Mogilev region, Belarus).
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Never could German parents believe that the joy of motherhood or fatherhood is bound to a curse or a sin. Never could German children enter the world with original sin.
SS Culture Volume Three: SS Faith
The Eyrbyggja Saga offers insight into what a goði’s initiation rite may have looked like...
“Þóra gave birth to another son, who was sprinkled with water and given the name Grim. Þórsteinn dedicated this boy to Þórr, calling him Þórgrim, and said he should become a Hofgoði.”
First of all, Ausa Vatni; ritual cleansing.
Ausa Vatni marked the beginning of a new chapter in life, and, offered the person to a deity, as water was used as a medium to commune with the otherworld. It was usually done nine days after birth.
When the Teutonic Order set up in Riga, Latvia, the Baltic pagans would submit to baptism suspiciously quickly, but would always jump in the sacred Daugava River afterwards. They believed that this would wash off the foreign religion, and wash it all the way back to Germany.
Secondly, giving a holy title, something that’s also survived in Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
In Þórgrim’s case, -Grim means “mask”; implying he was offered as a vessel to Thor.
Most of this would have been done at birth, if a goði planned on passing on the position to his children. Yet, if someone became a goði later in life, it’s plausible that they’d follow a similar process.
Germanic names consisted of two elements; often containing a holy element, such as a sacred animal or the name of a God.
For example,
Thorolf=Thor+wolf; wolf of Thor.
Ingvarr=Ingvi+warrior; warrior of Ing.
Arnviðr=eagle+tree; tree of the eagle (Yggdrasil?).
This will be why the Catholic Church was so intent on baptizing pagan leaders; by the Germanic worldview, baptism would effectively take you away from your Gods and give you to another.
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Dysgenic trash and non-Aryans flooded poor old Stonehenge to mock Summer Solstice. Back in the day they’d be sacrificed.
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Not only was Christ’s message intended by him to be exclusivist towards Jews alone, but (in classic first century fanatical Jewish insurrectionist fashion) Jesus was quite an arrogant Jewish supremacist.
C.Giuliani
That’s because buddhism is a nihilistic cult and platonism is a heresy
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Archaeologists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old solar sanctuary in the Netherlands
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/06/archaeologists-have-uncovered-a-4000-year-old-solar-sanctuary-in-the-netherlands/147744
If we cast our eyes over the numerous remains of antiquity, we shall perceive, that besides the immediate representations of the gods, and the holy instruments of their worship, the elegant forms and agreeable fictions consecrated by the imagination of the Greeks, were introduced as the richest ornaments of the houses, the dress, and the furniture of the Pagans. Even the arts of music and painting, of eloquence and poetry, flowed from the same impure origin. In the style of the fathers, Apollo and the Muses were the organs of the infernal spirit; Homer and Virgil were the most eminent of his servants; and the beautiful mythology which pervades and animates the compositions of their genius, is destined to celebrate the glory of the dæmons.
E.Gibbon
In short, Israelite culture was largely "Canaanite" in nature. Given the information available, one cannot maintain a radical cultural separation between "Canaanites" and Israelites for the Iron I period.
Baal and Asherah were part of Israel’s "Canaanite" heritage, and the process of the emergence of Israelite monolater was an issue of Israel’s breaking with its own "Canaanite" past and not simply one of avoiding "Canaanite" neighbors.
Mark S.Smith
Another traditional occupation for male mages was that of a shepherd. Magic skills made herding a lot easier, earning enough to resupply before leaving again.
A witcher was almost always an outsider. This is part of the reason why a witcher, while respected, was also feared, especially by young women.
It is believed that a witcher has to pass his power down to someone before he dies. In rare cases when there’s no students to do that, a mage will just leave a vessel of his power for someone to pick up. Usually at some special, liminal space (an abandoned house, crossroads, a sauna etc). This is what happened in the previous story. A walking stick was that mage’s vessel.
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There is a story written down in Novgorod region about a tragic end of a woman who tried to take servant demons from a male horse healer who was passing through her village. Despite him giving her his magic vessel (a small bag) and explaining the ritual used to get control over the demons a woman could not take the power under full control and only ended up insane.
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"Blood" not "strength" is what gives the right and ability to heal in female magic. This is due to the belief in a mother’s guarding power and blood as a symbol of ones connection to her. That’s why, when explaining how to find a witch who’d fit "by blood" people said that it’s always the best to turn to one’s mother implying that mothers are the best "by blood" in any situation while other skilled women only turn to the same power of motherhood or "blood" in folk terms. It’s worth noting that female healers end their training and receive power via pre-or post-childbearing rituals e.g. in a bath meant for women after labor.
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Male magic vs female magic
Slavic tradition
Female magic, was of household type and every woman who gave birth knew some. It was used to heal, tell fortune or cast love charms. Even those women who were renown for their mystic skills (mostly elderly and spinsters) usually denied any connection with "power" (as in spirits).
Main characteristics of leftist aka woke ideology make it incompatible with European Paganism.
Leftism is all about individualism. It has no ancestor worship, no ethnic identity, no self-improvement (especially physical).
European Paganism is the only opposite of modern world.
Domovoi and his wife domoviha are guardian ancestor spirits of the household
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For me religion is first and foremost a system of values and it’s justification. You have to understand that you are indeed in the right when you do something or believe in it. Of course, paganism as a religion gives me this, since, to me this is the faith of my ancestors who lived for centuries supported by it.
Modern paganism, of course, differs from the ancient one, but the world itself has changed, yet I think that the core is still intact. To put it briefly, the values of Slavic paganism are Nature, Folk and Ancestry.
Oleg Kutarev, religious scholar
Your body was given to you by your ancestors. Are you honoring it by taking good care of it or are you abusing it with poison and sloth?
How are you to perform your duties, or even greater deeds if your physical vessel is not at its peak condition?
Or have you lived thus far with the absurd belief that body and mind are separate?
Nuadu Airgetlam is a former king of the Gods of Celtic pantheon who has his arm in battle and replaced it whit a silver one. Later Nuadu got his original hand back. In function and iconography he is most similar to Germanic Tyr.
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Even though Paul (and Peter) overtly encouraged believers to obey the government, Paul’s covert intention was to use Christianity as both a source of funding and manpower to support any future planned uprisings against Rome, concealed behind the cover of a seemingly benign, peace-touting religion.
C.Giuliani
Escape from reincarnation is the aim of Buddhism and there is a similar equivalent in Platonism. But I don't think this was the original attitude of Indo-European pagans, or even of the original Indo-Aryans. Rig-Veda 2:53 verse 1 prays to Rudra:
"Do not cut us off from the sight of the sun. Let the hero spare our horses. O Rudra, let us be born again through our children."
Being a christian Gibbon considered Greek culture to be impure since it stems from Hellenic Paganism, but despite this he still could not deny it’s beauty.
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TLDR, jews used to worship many gods, but later brainwashed themselves via various sacred texts that ywhwh was always their one true god. There are still some leftovers of older polytheistic belief in the bible and non-biblical sources. Mostly yhwh absorbed El's and Baal's traits.
I posted this because one guy asked me about it in the comments.
Syncretism, the union of religious phenomenon from two historically separate systems or cultures, remains a standard way of characterizing Israelite interest in deities other that Yahweh, and de-emphesizes the importance of Israelite worship of other deities and practices forbidden in the Bible. For example, K.Sponk relegates practices pertaining to the dead forbidden in the Bible to the realm of "popular religion" and claims that "popular religion" was syncretistic, allowing the influences of Canaanite practices in a way that "official religion" did not permit.
Mark S. Smith