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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Beyond Kyiv it was even harder. When the army came to baptize, the people ran and hid in the forests, which were plentiful back then. Even those caught and baptized by the officials were still following their old faith after the army had left.
Our old sources (moistly chronicles) do not like talking about the people’s resistance against christianity. They usually paint a pretty picture of people gladly accepting the new faith and happily betraying the old one. But, occasionally even they provide snippets of that fierce struggle.
Metropolitan Ilarion (Ivan Ohienko)
Usually people think that Ukrainians had no issue with the adoption of christianity. Supposedly just as King Volodymyr ordered everyone to baptize the grateful people immediately abandoned and betrayed the faith of their forefathers. Actually the opposite was the case. There was no peaceful acceptance of christianity, the people vigorously defended their faith, there were rebellions all over and many were baptized in their own blood with fire and sword.
Metropolitan Ilarion (Ivan Ohienko)
Some decades ago, historians of religions argued that Adam’s description of the sanctuary at Uppsala, and the cult activities carried out there, was reliable since it was contemporary with the events it described. Indeed, Adam built his narrative on second-hand information, but his informants were eyewitnesses.
Recent research is more skeptical. Scholars now argue that Adam’s description of Uppsala is permeated with rhetorical adornments and missionary strategies. According to Anders Hultgård, the text is a result of a literary process in which the informants’ reports have been reworked by rhetorical embellishment, ethnographic and polemic clichés such as euhemerism as well as subjectivity.
O.Sundqvist
Therefore this statue, which all Slavs were giving tributes to, was also respected by neighboring kings, [even] not without giving it sacrilegious gifts. Thus [it was] among other [non-Slavic] kings, including the Danish king Sven who, seeking an appeasement, followed the rites of the horn’s divination, preferring respecting alien traditions over domestic. Later, for that sacrilegious infidelity, he paid the price with his life.
Saxo
A frightful figure among Welsh apparitions is the Gwrach y Rhibyn, whose crowning distinction is its prodigious ugliness. The feminine pronoun is generally used in speaking of this goblin, which unlike the majority of its kind, is supposed to be a female. A Welsh saying, regarding one of her sex who is the reverse of lovely, is, ‘Y mae mor salw a Gwrach y Rhibyn,’ (She is as ugly as the Gwrach y Rhibyn.) The spectre is a hideous being with dishevelled hair, long black teeth, long, lank, withered arms, leathern wings, and a cadaverous appearance.
W.Sikes
Goats are in Wales held in peculiar esteem for their supposed occult intellectual powers. They are believed to be on very good terms with the Tylwyth Teg, and possessed of more knowledge than their appearance indicates.
W.Sikes
The male Gods of the Zbruch idol drawn by BrotherBjorn
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The law made an exception for people who were lost in the wilderness, without food for seven days. The prescriptions stipulated in the Borgarþing Law are interesting, since they clearly indicate that eating these animals was regarded as pagan practice. The law states thus: “. . . when someone eats one of these [animals] without necessity then he has forfeited fortune and peace, land and property, and must leave for a heathen land and never return to where Christians are.” The phrase at fare a land hæiðit is significant, since it states that the custom of eating horse, dog or cat was associated to pagan practice.
Olof Sundqvist
As for the religious enlightenment of the people we come to an astonishing fact that my interviewee, a local of Markovo village, is a real pagan. He only heard something of God (by which I mean Jewish god father-Jehovah) from his parents and never even heard of Jesus from anyone, he never read the Gospels, can barely cross himself...
N.A. Ivanitsky
Thanks to the domestic religion, the family was a small organized body; a little society, which had its chief and its government. Nothing in modern society can give us an idea of this paternal authority. In primitive antiquity the father is not alone the strong man, the protector who has power to commend obedience; he is the priest, he is heir to the hearth, the continuator of the ancestors, the parent stock of the descendants, the depositary of the mysterious rites of the worship, and of the sacred formulas of prayer. The whole religion resides in him.
Numa de Coulanges
^ Don’t share this to Wiccans, guys. Those ladies have high blood pressure as is.
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One of my teachers used to say that Paganism will have to bring magic back into the world which requirs the abandonment of science and, yes, most of modern comforts too. But keep in mind that people used to live much healthier, happier lives back before the industrial revolution. Modernity primarily solves the problems it creates. No modernity-no problems.
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I went out of my way to confirm all of the above with the man himself, so I am definitely not putting my words in anyone’s mouth here.
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Coming soon: Is PIE perennialism a bad conspiracy theory?
Will be based on a conversation I’ve had with a perennial syncretist.
Will soon delve into the topic of Zoroastrian influence on philosophy and christianity. It won’t be as deep of a dive as my friend Pagan Revivalism has recently had, but I do have some interesting academic works on the topic worthy of translation.
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Christianity probably had no issue spreading among the elites…but the same can’t be said about the people who were conservative to the bone, held on to their primordial faith and did not tolerate innovations. Even in Kyiv the majority did not want to get baptized and cried loudly when Perun was dragged down. But in Kyiv Volodymyr had an army of loyal mercenaries, so the ones protesting against the new faith could have been drowned in Dnipro river alongside Perun. Many ran to the backwoods, many hid and even more stayed silent but didn’t follow the new faith (they didn’t even know how to anyway)…
Metropolitan Ilarion (Ivan Ohienko)
It’s time to debunk some christianization myth again. A good thing to do every once in a while. The source is interesting since we’ll be getting our data from a horse’s own mouth, a literal orthodox metropolitan bishop.
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The Sanctuary of Hercules by Arnold Böcklin
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More, a special white horse had a [unique] status, whose hair from mane or tail was considered impious to pull off. Whom only the priest had a right to ride to pasture, not using this divine animal [for anything else], for if [such uses] were more common, he [the horse] would be less valuable. The Rugians believed that on this horse Svantovit (such the statue was called) was assuredly waging a war against their enemies.
Saxo
Vodnik (Water Spirit) in Winter
Jaroslav Špillar
The extent to which cheese figures in Cambrian folklore is surprising; cheese is encountered in every sort of fairy company; you actually meet cheese in the Mabinogion, along with the most romantic forms of beauty known in story. And herein again is illustrated Shakspeare’s accurate knowledge of the Cambrian goblins. ‘Heaven defend me from that Welsh fairy!’ says Falstaff, ‘lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!’. Bread is found figuring actively in the folk-lore of every country, especially as a sacrifice to water-gods; but cheese is, so far as I know, thus honoured only in Cambria.
W.Sikes
The four Gods of the Zbruch idol in a miniature clay version
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The Persian Connection is the culmination of years of research into & the development of the Axial-age revolution. If you love this show & want more like it, subscribe to t.me/Pagan_Revivalism
: Table of Contents :
○ Foundations ○
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:00 Tl;Dr
0:04:43 What is Axiality
○ Patient Zero ○
0:17:09 Zoroaster & Rigveda
0:24:33 The Great Inversion
0:42:37 The 3 Sects
○ East to West ○
0:56:20 Persian Empire
1:03:50 Christianity & Gnosticism
1:14:39 Greek Philosophy
2:20:44 Judaism & Islam
2:40:20 Mithraism & Manichaeism
2:46:07 Orphism
○ West to East ○
2:55:09 Fall of Vedism
3:00:03 Buddhism & the Hindu-synthesis
(*note the old Gods Indra, Varuna & Agni were replaced with the new axial "gods" Brahma, Vishnu & Shiva)
3:10:55 Confucius, Wu, Li & Dao-dejing
○ Convergence ○
3:19:30 Tying it Together
○ Overcoming Axiality ○
3:28:36 Extinguish the Flame
○ Post-Salutation Supplemental hypothesis - Magi-Medjay Connection ○
3:39:28 Medjay & Atenism
4:07:30 A New Sun & psalms
4:18:06 Final Thoughts
My offering for this year’s Dziady
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Besides, it was the same with the paternal as with the marital authority; its principle and condition were the domestic worship. A son born of concubinage was not placed under the authority of the father. Between his father and himself there existed no community of religion; there was nothing, therefore, that conferred authority upon the one and commanded obedience of the other. Paternity, of itself, gave the father no rights.
Numa de Coulanges
Woman in Greek and Roman law
She could never have a hearth of her own; she was never the chief of a worship. At Rome she received the title of mater familial; but she lost this if her husband died. Never having a sacred fire which belonged to her, she had nothing of what gave authority in the house. She never commanded; she was never even free, or mistress of herself. She was always near the hearth of another, repeating the prayer of another; for all the acts of religious life she needed a superior, and for all the acts of civil life a guardian.
As a girl, she is under her father's control; if her father dies, she is governed by her brothers; married, she is under the guardianship of her husband.
Numa de Coulanges
Why would one believe scientists when they talk about the PIE theory, yet ignore the same scientists when they say that Gods don’t exist?
PIE perennialism is an attempt to rewrite Paganism to accommodate a modern scientific theory by using odd excuses such as Gods not caring what people believe and not keeping in touch for generations since the first contact.
One final note. The guy said he’d stop believing in PIE perennialism if some new scientific theory went against it. Shows that to PIE bros science is more important than religious traditions.
Is PIE perennialism a bad conspiracy theory?
After a chat with a PIE syncretist who claims to be a Pagan I have established core elements of PIE belief.
A perennialist believes that: 1.Gods exist. 2. Gods used to interact with people in pre-history. 3.Gods stopped interacting with people. 4. Prehistoric belief got twisted when forgetful humans turned it into Paganism as we know it. 5. All Pagan traditions are based on a misunderstanding of the original ways and Gods, but it’s not bad, just wrong. 5. Paganism can be fixed by using PIE theory to reconstruct the original belief.
He claims that only lucky few actually met the Gods. They sadly left no texts, songs or depictions of the real, original Gods so all Pagan societies kept on living in ignorance for centuries. Entire civilizations built on bad memory and reinterpreting the original tradition into different, local forms.
Paganism is strengthening the future with the wisdom of the past
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Christian use of the term demon as an insult for is inspired by Zoroaster’s heresy
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