Folklore is quite literally ancestral and racial memory passed down from one generation to the next.
Mythology serves the same purpose, but at its core it tends to have a much larger scale than folklore.
Because of this wide encompassing nature, and it’s genesis being one that is slow and arises from the subconscious, Myths have a tendency to be more easily found than folklore due to their being more widespread.
This is a specific reason why I hold folklore more near and dear than the more popular held mythological stories and legends (even though our myths are no less important).
The stories of the folk (folklore) have no real agenda other than the passing of a tribe’s customs and beliefs to the next generation.

The stories, beliefs, customs, and traditions of a people that are gifted to family and kin keep cultural identity flourishing and vibrant, and this is where folklore can be found both alive and well.

Folklore is just as important as the mythology of a people because of it’s living on through the folk and retelling, much like myth yet on a smaller scale.
What is overlooked is that myths often arise from folklore, but because of their almost similar nature, myth and folklore often overlap one another.
Nevertheless, it is not really the realism of myths and folk tales that makes them important but the invaluable lessons or message they impart to the tribe.
The myth, although decidedly handy to educate one about gods, spirits and heroes in a grandiose scale, almost to the point of being out of reach… folklore brings those same gods, heroes and spirits into the home or around the fire to warm themselves and share a tale or two.

Folklore’s importance is that it shows that the ancestors and gods have a personal interaction and interest in their extended family… us.

The primal wilderness Is our refuge and safe haven, because her character matches our own.

Most other tribes fear the wild because she does not accept them as her children.

They are foreigners to her primal awe and are recognized as such by Mother Nature’s citizens.
Hyperboreans, on the other hand, feel a certain kinship and familiarity that borders on, if not outright elicits, nostalgia that one gets when coming home to a familiar place.

We are a people of forests, mountain, tundra, and it would do us well to get back to those environments to heal.
Does the bear share his territory with the jackal? No.
Now look to civilization and ask the same question.

Get to the wilderness Hyperborean.
She is waiting.

Blood Ties

One of the oldest and perhaps one of the most important aspects of ethnic faith, ancestor veneration stretches back to antiquity and continues today.

The departed stay in our collective memory long after their passing and are traditionally believed to bestow blessings upon the land and kin they left behind.
Reverence to their memory is especially prominent if they impart great influence on the community and family.

By honoring those who came before us we also honor the countless romances, hardships, sacrifices and triumphs they had to endure to ensure that we be allowed the same chance.
Carrying on the family name carries great importance because it is not just YOUR name.
It is the name of every one that came before whose same blood pumps through your beating heart.
That is the connection.
The coupling between past, present and future.

It is easy to say one venerates their ancestors.
It is another thing to actually follow through.
It is genuine to venerate through living honorably.