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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Pankration by Yuri Kiselyov
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Chariot race by Yury Kiselyov
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When debating a christian never agree that objective truth exits. If you do you fall into a trap, because objectivity leads to universality. Even pre-christian axial "religions" (elaborate forms of atheism) like platonism believed in objective truth, but Pagan traditional religions were always against objectivity and universality. Pagan societies had ethnically exclusive belief, morals and truths. Everything was localized.
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Scyles was king of Scythia; but he was in no way content with the Scythian way of life…and in every way follow the Greek manner of life, and worship the gods according to Greek usage…Octamasades beheaded Scyles on the spot. This is how closely the Scythians guard their customs, and these are the penalties they inflict on those who add foreign customs to their own.
Herodotus
The Triumph of Titus
Oleksandr Antonyuk
CDLXXX BC
Oleksandr Antonyuk
Legionarius
Oleksandr Antonyuk
Slavic priests (volkhvs) were the exception to the no beard custom as attested by Saxo’s description of the temple priest.
On the day before he was obliged to perform the sacred ceremony, its priest, conspicuous for his lengthy hair and beard, which went counter to common fashion in that land, used to take a broom and meticulously sweep out the sanctuary, where only he was allowed to enter.
Saxo Grammaticus
It is natural to assume that Weles, Slavic God of Magic and Underworld is also bearded since this is referenced in folklore.
Leo Deacon, Saxo Grammaticus, Ademar de Chabannes and st.Demetrius of Rostov all mention that pre-christian Slavic men did not grow beards, but had long mustache. This was true for all tribes, e.g. Saxo wrote about Wends.
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Svyatoslav
Reconstruction by Yulia Volodyna
θεῖος οὐκ ἄνθρωπος Ὅμηρος
Homer is divine not a human being
Greek ostrakon 3rd century A.D.
Paganism and death of the author
Most of you have probably heard of the literary theory called Death of the Author. While it sounds modern and was coined by a 20th c. critic, the idea that the author’s own interpretation of his/her text is irrelevant is ancient and comes from Pagan belief concerning inspiration. For example, Homer wrote The Iliad, but he wasn’t the only one who created the text since the Muses bestowed it on him. A poet is a conduit, a middleman between Gods and men.
That’s why we often see authors misunderstand their own work. Some modern examples include Ray Bradbury, Ridley Scott and Jeorge Lucas.
Of course it doesn’t mean that anyone can be creative, but the source of creativity is outside a man.
Freya and Freyr by Iwobrand
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A winter caroling mask from the Carpathians
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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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The Acropolis of Athens by Yury Kiselyov
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Phidias’ Zeus and Athena by Yury Kiselyov
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Imagine believing that all people in the world are descendants of three jewish brothers
And they say we Pagans believe in fairy tales
The Trojan horse
Oleksandr Antonyuk
The horseman
Oleksandr Antonyuk
The Iliad
Oleksandr Antonyuk
Viking
Oleksandr Antonyuk
Archeological finds confirm pre-christian Slavs not having beards. Here for example is one of the male deities on the Zbruch idol.
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An example of a man sporting a traditional Slavic style Svyatolav had is Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk
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Sphendosthlavos arrived sailing along the river in a Scythian light boat, grasping an oar and rowing with his companions as if he were one of them. His appearance was as follows: he was of moderate height, neither taller than average, nor particularly short; his eyebrows were thick; he had grey eyes and a snub nose; his beard was clean-shaven, but he let the hair grow abundantly on his upper lip where it was bushy and long; and he shaved his head completely, except for a lock of hair that hung down on one side, as a mark of the nobility of his ancestry; he was solid in the neck, broad in the chest and very well articulated in the rest of his body; he had a rather angry and savage appearance; on one ear was fastened a gold earring, adorned with two pearls with a red gemstone between them; his clothing was white, no different from that of his companions…
Leo Deacon
At the end of the third century bc, Ptolemy IV Philopator established in Alexandria a shrine to Homer in which the cult image was surrounded by images of the cities which claimed the poet, and a famous late Hellenistic relief (the Apotheosis of Homer) sets Homer, crowned by Time and the Oikoumene (the inhabited world), in parallel with Zeus. If in time ‘divine’ (θεῖος) became a banal description of poets, as it is already a standard epithet of bards in the Odyssey, with Homer the epithet retained its full force.
Richard Hunter
Creation of mankind by Iwobrand
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Hypothetical modern Celtic (sanctuary) with idols of Tuireann, Lugh and Fionn
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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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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