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Analysis of the Tale of Vasiliy Buslaev
Buslaev is one of the more modern bylina heroes, even though he has traditional traits such as being too powerful and unruly for his own society to contain. He even assembles a mannerbund like heroes of old, but unlike them he does travel to conquer neighbors, but rather subjugates his native city. Back in the tribal times to attack your own was unthinkable since they were your relatives, but later things changed. Buslaev and his gang didn't hurt a family member while fighting the city.
Eventually the ship reaches Jerusalem. There Buslaev visits all the necessary sacred places. Before leaving he decides to wash in Jordan which is a great blasphemy and agers a local woman who says that only Jesus can wash in this river, while a believer is ought to just dip himself in the water and stay dressed during it.
Buslaev doesn’t care. He finished washing himself, gets dressed and returns to the ship.
The battle lasts days and many get injured. City elders visit Buslaev’s mother. They offer gifts and ask the woman to stop her son. She sends after him and when Vasily comes he is up locked in a cellar. Without him the troublemakers start losing. But soon Vasily is released by the maid girl and rushes to join his allies.
On the way to the bridge he meets a priest holding a church bell. He threatens Vasily and says that he is doomed. Buslaev kills the priest and reunites with his companions on the bridge. Together they win and the city agrees to pay Buslaev the yearly tribute. Vasily feasts with his friend and the first tale ends.
Another bylina retelling ready. Working on the analysis now.
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Name: Father Christmas Yule CardDescription:
Yule is here! Father Chrismass is Near! Won't you sit upon his knee? No need to fear.
Happy Yule everyone.
Discussion:
This is the Yule card on which my mother and I collaborated.
She painted a physical representation and the Bulk character using a physical medium.
I then transferred her work onto a background of my own design. Using a combination of both of our styles to create this representation of Father Chrismass bearing gifts of bourbon and booze for all the revelers in need of Yuletide Cheere!
This Yule Card and also sticker will be available on Hyperborean Radio's Teespring appropriately and not so "appropriately" accompanied with Holiday Greetings or Messages.
Medium: Oil-on-Digital & Acrylic Painting Time: 20+ hours Theme: Victorian Christmas Cards & English FolkloreGlad Jul,
Æthelwulf
The new movie “troll” was surprisingly good and not totally ruined by Jewish propaganda. Although my sympathies was with the troll (Dovregubben🧌) and not the christian state of Norway.
No spoilers, go and see the movie yourself.
Scythian God of War by anonymous artist.
Commissioned this a while ago. Looks great!
Baptism for the Dead?
We are truly dealing with the bottomless pit when it comes to doctrinal glitches in the Bible. Another one involves a very peculiar statement that Paul made to the Corinthians. While discussing with them the lack of faith that certain believers had in the doctrine of the future bodily resurrection of the dead at Christ’s second coming, Paul offered this argument in favor of said doctrine: «Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?» - 1 Corinthians 15:29. Because of Paul’s endorsement of this mode of baptism, quite a few other aberrant Christian groups have observed it down through the centuries...
C.Giuliani
The way in which the German nature found its true expression at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the period of the Enlightenment to that of the great dramatists, demonstrated for the first time to the nation and the whole world that an alien faith and German genius stand in fundamental opposition to one another. Frederick the Great, Goethe and Schiller, Fichte, Kleist, and Hebbel were outstanding figures until the revolt of German from Christianity reached its culmination in Nietzsche.
J.W. Hauer
The horrors of the inquisition part 1
By Charles Giuliani
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Ironically the theory based on comparative mythology completely ignores the context of the latter.
Sadly, there is a tendency among all European Pagans to self-demonize i.e. to portray our Gods as dark and evil just to be edgy. It’s immature attention seeking and hopefully more Pagans will expose the ones inclined to this as fools they are.
This will be the final part of Chapter 1 since I think there’s no more misunderstandings of Weles to clear up.
Blunders of contemporary Slavic Paganism
Chapter 1. Weles
Part 2. Evil God
Last time I established that Weles is a God of wealth rather than animals be they wild or domesticated. This time I will deal with a theory that Weles is an evil God and an enemy of Perun.
In a reconstruction of the Slavic version of the pan-European Chaoskampf myth two scholars Ivanov and Toporov proposed that instead of a traditional snake of Chaos Perun fought Weles. The theory is criticized heavily, but still pops up here and there including the Wiki page dedicated to Weles full of misinformation.
On the way back home Vasily once again sees the strange island and feels an odd urge to visit it again. The skull is nowhere to be found, but there’s a new oddity. A slab of stone with a warning on it which reads that no one is to jump over the stone as those who dare to try will die.
Buslaev doesn’t care. He tries to jump over the slab, but dives head first and lands on the stone which kills him immediately. Vasily’s body was buried on the island.
This is the end of the tale.
Journey to Jerusalem and death
Years pass and Vasily, now a grown man decides to visit Jerusalem. He wants his mother’s blessing before the journey and tells her that he intends to wash away the sins of his youth. She doesn’t fully believe this, but gives a blessing. Vasily gathers his men and together they sail to Jerusalem.
On it’s way the ship lands on a strange island. There Buslaev notices a skull on his path and kicks it away. The skull speaks and scolds Vasily for his attitude. It says that he was once an arrogant young warrior too yet this is how he ended up and foretells that Vasily’s fate will be the same. Buslaev doesn’t care and continues his journey.
The tale of Vasiliy Buslaev
Vasily was born in Novgorod. His father died of old age when the boy was still small. The mother tried to raise the child as best as she could, but Buslaev was unruly and did only what he wanted. He was also very strong and violent to the point where the townsfolk complains a lot about the youth’s behavior. He gathers a group of daring youngsters and they disturb piece together. Eventually Vasily challenges the entire city. He dares all men of Novgorod to fight his group of troublemakers on the big bridge. As a reward he promises to donate a large sum each year to the city’s treasury, but if he and his friends win the city will have to pay them.
The longer I live, the more do I find myself outside of Christianity, and, moreover, alien and hostile to Christianity. A reading of Prof. Hans F.K. Guenther’s The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans (London, 1967) reveals that we had a better religion, a religion truer to our own traditions and essential instincts, than is to be found in Christianity. And if in the end Aryan man, the supremely gifted and most masterful race known to history, should disappear from the Earth, the primary reason for it will be his having succumbed to the virus of Christianity.
W.G.Simpson
Hjörvarðr (Heoroweard) and Hrólfr Kraki (Hroðulf), by Jenny Nyström (1895).
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Labors of Hercules by Anna Hodirevskaja
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Expose fake spirituality and praise the Gods
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It actually is a nice film. Worth a watch. And christians indeed won’t like it. Didn’t expect it to be this good actually.
No spoilers, but it reminded me a lot of Godzilla, especially Shin Godzilla, which was obviously a major influence since it’s quite literally a European Kaiju movie.
Wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s pro-Pagan or anything but has some criticism of a major christian figure and is pro-Nature.
Reference and progression
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I’d add that though only the minority of modern christians still follow this tradition baptism for the dead was clearly a norm for the majority of denominations back in the day since we have mention of freshly converted royalty baptising their dead relatives.
For example Harald Bluetooth son of Gorm excavated his father and mother’s burial mound, baptized the remains and moved them to the church. Vladimir of Rus did the same to his brothers (one of whom he killed).
Will share some nice quotes from Charles Giulianis’ book
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Buddhism says that the ego is a transient illusion. Christianity demands that the ego be subordinated to God, or to Jesus. I recall a religious tract from my youth that urged us to "take ego off the throne of our heart", and put Jesus in its place—complete with drawings of just how this would look, in case we didn’t get the idea.
This is the very opposite of Asatru. Unlike Buddhists, we like existence in this world. And unlike the authors of the little Christian tract, we’ll stay firmly seated on that throne in our hearts. We want neither to "dissolve the illusion of ego", nor to surrender it to any outside force.
S.McNallen
When it comes to specifying the values particular to paganism, people have generally listed features such as these: an eminently aristocratic conception of the human individual; an ethics founded on honor ("shame" rather than "sin"); a heroic attitude toward life's challenges; the exaltation and sacralization of the world, beauty, the body, strength, health; the rejection of any "worlds beyond"; the inseparability of morality and aesthetics; and so on.
A. de Benoist
The theory is based on comparative mythology, but the latter is misanalysed. Vedic Vala and Latvian Velnias it equates with Weles are not Gods, but demons of chaos. There’s no hint of them ever being venerated, while the opposite is true of Weles. There are mentions of warriors giving an oath and swearing both on Perun and Weles. The two were not seen as enemies while the Thunderer and the Serpent definitely are.
There’s no European tradition where the serpent of the Chaos is prayed to.
Can you imagine Germanic tribes praying to both Thor and Jormurgandr? Can you imagine Wotan turning into a snake to battle Thor? It’s absurd.
Next big series of posts will be a continuation of my Blunders of… series.
Read part 1 to be in the know.