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A place for Aryan (European) Folkish Pagans
Vladimir the saint mutt
What is king Vladimir famous for? For converting to a foreign faith and for being of mixed heritage. Yet many fail to grasp the connection between the two facts. It’s common knowledge that Vladimir suffered from an inferiority complex, but he also lacked an ethnic identity. That is why he so easily rejected Slavic traditions, because he wasn’t a Slav. Nor was he Germanic. Vladimir was a mutt. Mutts are cursed by the Gods as they belong to neither clan, nor tribe. They are strangers everywhere and, as a result, are prone to deviancy.
This case brings us back to the ultimate litmus test. Whenever faced with a contradiction between modern worldview and ancient one a fake pagan alway sides with modernity. But since he can’t outright admit to not believing in Gods there’s an attempt to subvert the definition of a God from a physical being to an abstract one. Survive the Jive infamously failed this test years ago when he released an article titled Is Odin a Cuckold? and I exposed him for it. Others followed my example. Today Paganism is being refined as more and more Pagans separate from fakes and I am proud to be at the tip of the spear even though it draws the fakes’ ire.
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Greek Military officer takes oath to the twelve Olympians and stirs a controversy
Greek armed forces launched an investigation into an official who participated in a ceremony hosted by a Hellenic Pagan organization. The incident ignited a conversation. Under Greek law, wearing an official uniform to a private religious gathering is prohibited. The defense contends that the invocations were spoken by the priest rather than by the accused himself.
Hagen by Alexander Rothaug
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Can also ask christians what amen and hallelujah mean. Really based, right? Also right-wing christians sperg out when you call their god yahweh as it sounds really jewish, but their own holy word adresses him as such.
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The most harmful books in history
The Diary of a Young Girl
Harry Potter
Bible
Kama Sutra
Crime and Punishment
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland
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The pagan origin of most of our Christmas customs is undoubted. Even the cheery Christmas-tree is a symbol of heathen rites in times long antedating Christ. The early Christian fathers, in adopting the popular usages of their predecessors, and bending them to the service of Christianity, made wondrous little change in them, beyond the substitution of new motives and names for the old festivals peculiar to several seasons of the year.
W.Sikes
Among Twelfth Night customs, none is more celebrated than that called Mary Lwyd. It prevails in various parts of Wales, notably in lower Glamorganshire. The skeleton of a horse’s head is procured by the young men or boys of a village, and adorned with ‘favours’ of pink, blue, yellow, etc. These are generally borrowed from the girls, as it is not considered necessary the silken fillets and rosettes should be new, and such finery costs money. The bottoms of two black bottles are inserted in the sockets of the skeleton head to serve as eyes, and a substitute for ears is also contrived. On Twelfth Night they carry this object about from house to house, with shouts and songs, and a general cultivation of noise and racket.
W.Sikes
I know it may sound comedic with all the merchant memes, but the Rus really did conquer with money, not swords. That’s why they were so focused on the route that connected Scandinavia and the Eastern Roman Empire. And it took them a while even with the trade advantage. To quote from Rybakov again, the size of Kyivan Rus is greatly exaggerated (intentionally) and was not even the scale of a modest-sized modern country (like Poland).
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Why old tales don’t appeal to modern audience
No rules
How does magic or powers work in fairy tales? They just do. It’s not a strictly structured system with mana or fixed classes. Nerds can’t spend hours debating who’s the strongest, whose skill is the most OP, etc.
No modern writing cliches
Not every fairy tale has a three act structure, a character arc or a setup for the next story. Different tales about one hero can’t really be put in chronological order (except maybe the first and the last one). There’s no plot twists, no subversion of expectations, no references, foreshadowing or meta commentary.
No wokeness
There’s already a generation and a half who grew up in the world of girl bosses, diversity, millennial dialogue etc. Can a simple story about a hero saving a princess from a dragon even appeal to them?
One can argue that a crescent pendant aka lunnitsa should be considered Pagan after all since it’s just a Moon symbol which has no inherent connection to christianity, but on the other hand, some of those have christian crosses and were mostly popular in post-christian eras. When it comes to Slavic Paganism specifically lunnitsa pendants were found from 3d c. which is long before christianization, but it doesn’t mean they can’t be foreign especially considering that there’s a huge gap in findings from III-IVth c. to the Byzantium influenced female fashion of IX-X c.
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On Rus’ territory the crescent pendants are observed, both during the 10th and 11th-13th centuries, as elements of necklaces side by side of unmistakably christian symbols which undermines their function as pagan amulets. One interpretation would be that they were ordinary female ornaments with some protective potential. Another explanation would be that the medieval Slavs perceived these pendants, like the amulets in Roman Catholic countries (successors of the Roman Empire), as a christian protective amulet and a symbol associated with the Virgin Mary.
Natalya Khamayko
Crescent pendants (lunnitsa) in 11th – 13th century Rus: Pagan amulet or christian ornament?
A girl’s life in a village depicted by I.Filonova
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There was no real reason for Athena to use a mortal as a proxy to fight her brother since she got Zeus’ permission to fight him anyway. Only one conclusion here. Despite being one of the few Goddesses with real combat skills and a Goddess of War to boot, Athena is no match for Ares in open battle. At the end of the day she, while less feminine that Aphrodite, was similarly disadvantaged.
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But what if Reddit starts criticizing myth? What if they say that since Zeus cheats on his wife he is therefore amoral and myth are le bad? Plato did say just that back in the day. Maybe you can just be an actual Pagan and ignore what Redditors (and their ancient predecessors) think? Can quote Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. If Latin is too posh just say that Gods should not be judged by humans.
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The organization hosting the ceremony was not a truly Pagan one. Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes does not represent Greek pre-christian religion. They are neither ethnically, nor racially exclusive and let homosexuals in. The FAQ section of their site also reveals that the organization does not believe in myth and sees Gods as abstractions with no traditional characteristics i.e. race, ethnicity and sex. Thus they shamelessly contradict their own mythical tradition and practices.
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Artem Rohovyi and his art
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Hagen Throws the Priest Overboard
— Hermann Vogel (1911)
Ask a "based" christian what INRI means and see them squirm
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Sleeping Venus on clouds
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In various regions of Ukraine, specifically the Carpathians, there were widespread beliefs and stories that great sinners, specifically witches and sorcerers, could only die peacefully once they had passed on their magical powers and knowledge to a successor. This successor could be a very close person who wanted or agreed to take up the "craft," or someone who acquired it unintentionally through the sorcerer's tricks (such as by shaking hands or taking a thing from him).
Roman Guzii
From folk thanatology
Epona
Celtic Horse Goddess
More info on the topic on my second channel
@Slavic_Pagan
Some Eastern authors distinguish between the Rus and the Slavs. Researchers have entertained the idea that the "Rus" were not a people (although a mid-9th-century author wrote that "the Rus are a tribe of the Slavs") but rather a ruling social group. This notion (incorrect in such a simplistic formulation) should evidently be expressed as follows: the Rus were the inhabitants of the most advanced East Slavic land (which took its name from the hegemonic tribe) and which, over the course of three centuries, subjugated a number of other Slavic lands; not all inhabitants of Rus belonged to the ruling social group, yet the kings and warriors of the Rus were above the kings and warrior bands of other Slavic lands during the 7th–9th centuries.
B. Rybakov
Will post about traditional folk tales in a bit
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Luna and Mary
Catholic Church is well known for incorporating many elements of pre-christian religion including iconography. So it’s no surprise that Virgin Mary became a copy of Roman Goddess of the Moon Luna.
Indeed, the wide distribution of crescent pendants in the 10th-13th centuries everywhere on Slav territory given the impression that the crescent pendant was a “typically Slav” ornament or amulet originating from heathen beliefs of the ancient Slavs. However, its archaeological context shows that the two-horned crescent pendants and possibly, its prototypes, are not seen in the materials attributed to heathen Slav of the 6th-8th centuries.
Natalya Khamayko
Crescent pendants (lunnitsa) in 11th – 13th century Rus’: Pagan amulet or christian ornament?
Pseudo-Pagan, anti-christian grift in one picture. When will people see that it’s just controlled opposition? They promote the same shit as NWO does, but since the plate is slightly different the meal on it doesn’t matter to most midwits. Even in Pagan sphere normies are all over and are as vulnerable to propaganda as ever.
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In Book V of Iliad Ares joins the fight and Athena is not pleased seeing him slaughter her heroes. Earlier Homer mentioned that Athena was very powerful. "…goddesses that can lord it among men in battle like Minerva or Enyo the waster of cities." Athena asks Zeus for a permission to go and fight her brother. "I hope, Father Jove, that you will not be angry if I hit Mars hard, and chase him out of the battle."
Yet she doesn’t do it herself. Instead the bright-eyed Goddess helps king Diomedes land a hit on at the God of War. "Diomed then threw, and Pallas Minerva drove the spear into the pit of Mars’s stomach where his under-girdle went round him. There Diomed wounded him, tearing his fair flesh and then drawing his spear out again."