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09 Aug 2025 01:47

Nevertheless the account of man’s origins seems more legitimate and matches the before-mentioned myth of God’s sweat. The author probably knew it and decided not to mess with it like he did at other parts.

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08 Aug 2025 23:13

Excerpts from an ethnographic record made in 1989 Bulgaria present a christianized, but still clearly Pagan belief:

Adam and Eve once rose from mushrooms and created this world. From mushrooms, from the earth... They grew like mushrooms…That's what I heard, that from mushrooms, from the ground they germinated – a generation is formed forever.

Two mushrooms grew. And one was a man and one was a woman, and then they created a generation…They grew out of the ground, out of the bottom. Man – from mushroom. So our grandmother told us that man was created from mushrooms

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08 Aug 2025 23:05

While the origin of giants is a mystery with man it’s more clear. Most folk tales claim that God (christianized of course) was involved and threw something on the ground. What that something was differs. Some tales say that God perspired and wiped himself with a cloth which was then thrown on the ground and first people grew out of the earth like mushrooms. Implying the direct connection between humans and the God. Other versions say that the God threw lumps of earth from heaven and those ended up sprouting first humans.

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08 Aug 2025 00:15

An example of a christianized version of ancient giants lore can be found in an apocrypha called The Story of the Cross Tree where Adam was a giant whose skull is so big king Solomon’s servant thinks it’s a cave and hides in it from a sandstorm.

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07 Aug 2025 23:58

Other example is a trio of giants supporting the hero in a number of tales like Kotygoroshko. Their names differ from one story to another, but they are all a play on the powers of the trio such as Oak-ripper, Mountain-turner and River-tearer.

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07 Aug 2025 23:45

For example, in one legend two great men (not explicitly called giants) have argued as to who will rule the land and decided to compete by throwing boulders over the Dnieper river. Each tore a huge chunk of rock from nearby mountains with their bare hands and tossed them as a contest. The one whose stone landed further won and settled the land with his people.

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07 Aug 2025 23:16

Slavic Anthropogenesis
Giants, sweat and mushrooms

Even though our sources on the topic are few and far between as well as mostly christianized, a keen eye still can spot the Pagan elements and separate them from the abrahamic veneer.

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03 Aug 2025 16:38

Done a deep dive into Slavic lore recently. Need to gather my thoughts and write them down. Should be done in a few days.

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02 Aug 2025 14:48

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02 Aug 2025 00:09

Tristan and Iseult by V.Volovich

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01 Aug 2025 20:24

Happy Lughnasadh day, day to celebrate the God Lugh

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31 Jul 2025 23:48

Have you ever heard of the case of PhD archeologists and historians, for many years, believing they found "an ancient crown," only for it to be later identified as the metal fittings of a bucket? This shows the importance of two phenomena which we see here from time to time.

Firstly, that "experts" make mistakes, especially in their interpretations of data. Academics aren't prophets, no matter who really wants that to be the case. They may have more of an "understanding" of the data of a certain subject than you, but that does not make them infallible. This is especially true in their personal interpretations of drawing data-points together to fit/craft a narrative. So often do people in this sphere worship academia, treating their insights as akin to "divine revelation," that any other interpretation is discounted as "not the case."

Secondly, there is a difference between data and interpretations of said data. So often do people conflate the two, leading to them thinking speculation is "objective fact."

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31 Jul 2025 23:18

A dedication one of my followers made

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31 Jul 2025 11:58

Out of back and out of breast!
Out of body and out of limb!
Out of eyes and out of ears!
Out of everything, where evil which might come in!

Swart is a stone called, he stands out in the ocean. There lie on it nine needs.
They will neither sleep sweetly
nor wake warmly,
until thou prayest this cure
to which I have given the words.

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30 Jul 2025 23:34

Have a blessed Wednesday, guys

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09 Aug 2025 01:45

Tale of Bygone Years has another account which matches the previous ones, but is suspicious to me. Supposedly given by volkhvs (Pagan priests) retelling their myth. What those priests say sounds like christian propaganda, probably written by the chronicler himself to make Pagans sound like devil worshippers. They describe their gods as black, winged and tailed creatures who live underground.

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08 Aug 2025 23:10

Humans growing out of earth was evidently a very widespread belief in the past since even 19th and late 20th c. sources allude to is albeit without much detail.

1875 text Can God be Denied? by a Czech pastor also alludes to and argues against such folk belief:

So where did man come from...? Did he grow out of the ground like a mushroom after a warm rain, or did he come out of the ground to the surface...? That couldn't have happened and certainly didn't happen, because even now people would have to grow out of the ground...

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08 Aug 2025 18:00

Next batch of posts will be dedicated to Slavic lore about human origins

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08 Aug 2025 00:08

While they are not specifically named giants, the three obviously have to be huge to move mountains with their hands and split rivers with mustache. Giants terraforming again.

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07 Aug 2025 23:47

It’s not known how the giants were created and more importantly how they disappeared. A rare few surviving members of that ancient kin can be found in epic and fairy tales, but the race as a whole is extinct. A good example is Svyatogor who is a giant (the last one?) unable and unwilling to live in a human world which is why he kills himself after giving a magical sword and some of his power (but not all of it since that would be too much) to a friend and student Ilja of Murom. The latter ended up beaconing the strongest and most beloved of heroes in the Kyiv Cycle of epic songs (bylina).

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07 Aug 2025 23:21

It is implied implied that before humans the world was populated by giants. We might also just say that those were the first humans and just happened to be big and almost immortal, but let’s just call them giants. Unusual geographical locations are often explained to be their handy-work.
It’s not known how the giants were created and more importantly why they disappeared. A few surviving members of that ancient kin can be found in epic and fairy tales.

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06 Aug 2025 22:04

Having some health and family issues. Sorry, will try to write soon.

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03 Aug 2025 11:34

WIPs from one of my followers

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02 Aug 2025 09:07

Iseult by V.Volovich

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01 Aug 2025 23:59

Tristan and Iseult illustration by V.Volovich

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01 Aug 2025 08:20

The devil by Vasyl Zhirov

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31 Jul 2025 23:28

Folklore motifs in the art of O. Petrenko-Zanevsky

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31 Jul 2025 16:58

The Canterbury Charm in Kent is a medicinal charm and has a few interesting takeaways:

It shows Thor had a role to play in healing the sick. That at least a few illnesses were seen to have been afflictions by malevolent spirits, whom Thor would sanctify through conflict with said malevolent spirits.
:note: 'vīgi' Is commonly translated as "hallow" or "bless" but is heavily tied to Thor specifically and fighting against the forces of the jötnar. So I used slay in translation as Thor is being invoked here to scare or defeat this illness.

Little charms such as these can tell us a lot about the practices and beliefs of our Ancestors

Edit: on our last livestream, a fellow believer and Norroena scholar Dr. Scott Shell, validated the usage of slay in this translation

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31 Jul 2025 09:13

Ribe healing galder stick

A pinewood charm from Ribe, Denmark with a mix of Pagan and christian elements dated to circa 1300 CE
The inscription is divided into:

Part 1 Asking for help from Earth, High Haven and the sun as well as saint mary and the lord god (christian)

Part 2 Exorcism of evil (sickness) from breast, body, limb, eyes and ears

Part 3 A warning for the addressee that unless they say this cure “nine needs” which lie on a stone out in the sea will haunt them. This is an old Pagan formula also found in Icelandic book of magic Galdrabok

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30 Jul 2025 08:03

“Sigurd Fafnesbane” by David Still 2016