"The women of the Celtic tribes are bigger and stronger than our Roman women. This is most likely due to their natures as well as their peculiar fondness of all things martial and robust.
The flaxen haired maidens of the north are trained in sports and war, while our gentle ladies are content to do their womanly duties and thus are less powerful than most young girls from Gaul and the hinterlands."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor of Rome, 161-180 CE.

"Here the women met then holding swords and axes in their hands. With hideous shrieks of rage they tried to drive back the hunted and the hunters. With bare hands the women tore away the shields of the Romans or grasped their swords, enduring mutilating wounds."

Plutarch

"A whole band of foreigners will be unable to cope with one Gaul in a fight if he calls in his wife... least of all when she swells her neck and gnashes her teeth, and... begins to rain blows mingled with kicks, like shots discharged by the catapult."

Ammianus Marcellinus

"A Celtic woman is often the equal of any Roman man in hand-to-hand combat. She is as beautiful as she is strong. Her body is comely but fierce. The physiques of our Roman women pale in comparison."

Roman Soldier (unknown)

La Regina della Luce della Luna (The Queen of the moonlight)
By Lente Scura

October is upon us, as the year yawns and its eyelids grow weary before turning in for the winter.
It is a time of celebration, and of family, quickly approaching the time of year when the barrier between the physical and spiritual world grows weaker.
It is this time of year where we can feel closer to our ancestors, and be in each other’s presence.
One way of respecting the passing of loved ones, offerings can be made.
Something from the heart to say they are missed and are remembered, or if you are not into ritual, keeping them in your thoughts.
Regardless of how you celebrate this time of year or not, family is the focus.
For those that are with us and those who have passed on.

Poem of the soul
Louis Janmot

Baba Yaga
By Rima Staines

Greetings,

It appears many channels have grown exponentially within the last couple of days due to channel sharing - which is fantastic - as we must support one another if we are to grow as a people who have one thing in common: bring back the old ways of our forebears. Our mission is to revive that which had been buried and almost forgotten for a long time. Some channels will focus on the gods & goddesses, whereas others will focus on folklore, culture & tradition, art, family, permaculture & self-sufficiency, nature & animals, etc., all of which are fundamental to European cultural revivalism.

Now, for those of you who are new to my channel, or have never heard of me before, I am a South African (Swedish descent) pagan artist who focuses primarily on art, with the intent to create original artwork that'll represent our culture in a positive, fun, creative and respectful light. As an artist, I am still learning new techniques to improve and/or refine my artwork (artists never stop learning), so a lot of my paintings will not necessarily be pagan-orientated, though I'll try my best to keep it within the traditional style of those before me.

I love art, culture and folklore. I'm enamoured of wolves as they are inseparable from my culture - especially the stories of the Ironwood forest and, of course, those of our most important tales. Fenrir is my patron god!

Nevertheless, I have been quite busy of late, working on multiple commissions I'm hoping to conclude by the end of September, as well as the next issue of our magazine due out in October, and I'd like to create more merchandise for my online stores in the near future. I'll appear on Hyperborean Radio some time this week to talk about my "spiritual/pagan transition", which will be fun, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, please take a gander at the channels below for your daily dose of paganism, as well as my online stores to purchase my artwork which will avail me tremendously - basically paying for the exorbitant fees of immigration.

Thank you so much for all the support I have received. All the trials and tribulations, notwithstanding, I still feel blessed by all the wonderful people who have taken an interest in my work.

Channels:

- Hyperborean Radio: https://t.me/hyperboreanradio
- Tribe of the Fox: https://t.me/tribeofthefox
- Europagan Discovery Channel: https://t.me/EuroPagan
- GeeDunk Nautica: https://t.me/GeeDunkNautica
- Hilltop Homestead: https://t.me/hilltophomestead
- The Wild Folk: https://t.me/TheWildFolk
- Folk Wisdom & Ways: https://t.me/folkwisdom
- The Moonraker: https://t.me/TheMoonraker
- English Folk Song: https://t.me/englishfolksong
- Ætemen: https://t.me/AEHTEMEN
- Native European: https://t.me/nativeeuropeans
- THE OLD WAYS: https://t.me/THEOLDWAYS

Online stores

https://displate.com/aethelwulf/norse-celtic-artwork

https://aethelwulf-art.creator-spring.com/

https://www.redbubble.com/people/AethelwulfArt/shop?asc=u&ref=account-nav-dropdown

Take care and have a wonderful day!
Æthelwulf 🐺

The Slav Epic, 1928
Alphonse Mucha

October
BY ROBERT FROST

O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes’ sake, if they were all,
Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—
For the grapes’ sake along the wall.

"A man can have such a strong fear of darkness that he's grateful to be accompanied by a ghost"

Sigurd Hoel, Møte ved milepelen

"Young Girl and Death"
by Richard Nicolaus Holst (1894).