THE OLD WAYS
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I explore hidden history & other alternative information, European/ Slavic pagan music & folk art, ethnic folk traditions & rites of indigenous European/ Slavic people, animism, and more...
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The video was published back in 2010. I shared this video with the group last year, but I want to re-share it again for new people to view it. This 5 minute video always brings tears to my eyes each time I watch it. What they show in here is something magical, something spiritual. I don’t think we modern humans even fully comprehend why these 2 wild horses just came out of nowhere, and clearly they are trying to stop the humans from destroying the old English oak trees. It’s like the wild horses have a deep connection to these trees and somehow the horses found out that the trees are in danger and came to help them. The 2 horses are clearly in distress. They understand something we don’t. And to make things worse, the employees hired to do this horrible job are mostly foreigners who are smirking at English people who are saddened by this whole situation. To me these old English Oak trees represent England they represent ancient English heritage. This is not just physical damage this is also very symbolic.
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I’m just now finding out about the Russian religious movement “Raskol” which means “split” or “schism.” It was a split within the Russian Orthodox Church that separated the Church followers into Old Believers and an Official Church in 1700s...

Russian orthodox old believers are referred to as “old faith.” Many Russians talk about the old believers as if this was the native spiritual heritage of Russian/Slavic people prior to religious reformations taking place. I was surprised to find one Russian historian presenting the old believers as Russian native paganism. The way I see it, is that although the older version of Russian Orthodox faith may have contained lots of pagan elements, we are still talking about a split within the Orthodox Church. Meaning we are talking about the history of the Russian Orthodox church, and not Russian/Slavic paganism...

I still can not find any source of information that tells me clearly what is the Old Believers movement. As far as I can tell, this movement is not the true old faith of Russian/Slavic people, but simply the first stages of Christianity establishing itself in pagan Russia. This could possibly be another attempt to redirect those Russians who are skeptical towards Russian orthodox church back to Christianity.

I believe that Christianity was enforced in pagan Russia gradually, in different stages, and this old believers was simply the beginning stage, and then later on in the 1600s, the ruling class of Russia had to start religious reforms in order to clean up the Russian orthodox faith of paganism. It was actually a Civil War type of situation. Many of the so-called old believers fled to Siberia and other lands to escape being forced to accept the newly reformed orthodox faith that matched the Greek Orthodoxy.

Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, Patriarch Nikon were rewriting the old divine books, and changing various religious rituals. Apparently the Russian tsar wanted to know exactly how many old believers there were in his land, and he sent out an expedition to study the people. For the longest time their statistics kept showing that only 2% of the population identified as old believers, but when the tsar sent out that expedition, he was shocked to learn that almost everyone officially on paper identified with the new reformed orthodox faith, but secretly they all practiced the old version of orthodox faith.

I wanted to point out that the name “orthodox faith” sounds very different in Russian languages. In Russian it’s pronounced as Pravoslavnaya/Orthodox vera/faith. The word “Pravoslavnaya doesn’t seem to have any connection to the word orthodox. This word Pravoslavnaya was the name of the original Slavic pagan faith. Christianity stole this name from Slavic paganism.
Hades and Persephone
There are over 300 pyramids in China. Chinese government has been hiding these pyramids by planting trees on them to make them appear more natural. In this four minute video they say that the reason why the Chinese government was hiding these pyramids from the world, is because of the legends that come with these pyramids in China. According to the legends, these pyramids were not built by the modern Chinese people, but by tall, fair-skinned, blond, blue-eyed people who were called sun gods. Chinese government doesn’t want the world to know that the most ancient advanced knowledge in China belonged to tall, fair-skinned people that appear ethnically European. What’s more, is that tall, European looking mummies were actually discovered in China. Over 500 of them
Academia claims Russian/Slavic people got everything from foreigners, even their alphabet. Genuine Slavic history has been deliberately distorted beyond recognition. Today we can finally see the truth come out about the fact that Slavs are very ancient and didn’t get their culture or alphabet from foreign cultures. When it comes to Slavic writing system, the academia claims they got their Alphabet from the Greeks specifically Saint Cyril & Methodius, but in reality the Slavs had their own alphabet called “Bukvitsa” which contained 49 letters. Also, according to official sources, Slavic people were illiterate, barely civilized primitives before Christianity/orthodox church came to that land and civilized them and taught them how to read and write. This can be proven wrong by examining collections of birchbark letters from the pagan Slavic era. Some of these collections contained letters from many women and even small children.
The person who is either the original author of this article or just a translator didn’t do so well with English writing, but I’m sure it’s understandable enough. Old Slavonic calendar.
According to these older calendars, right now we are in year 7519 from the Creation in the Star Temple. But it does not mean that our world was created 7519 years ago …

Creation of the world in ancient times was called a peace treaty between the warring nations. Thus we have a "new frame of reference."

This is the peace treaty between the Great Race (ancient
Slavs) and the Great Dragon (the ancient Chinese) was concluded in the autumn equinox, or 1 day of the month Summer 5500 by Big Freeze (Great cooling). Victory then won the Great Race, which was displayed in view of the image — White knight on horseback slaying the Dragon. (Now that image is interpreted as Georgy victorious winning the ancient serpent …But truth is that this Gregory has nothing to do with ancient events, and this was deliberate misrepresentation by the church, and false usurper rulers. Slavic calendar was banned by Tsar Peter who was reforming everything in Russia, and making everything to look like the west...
This happened many years ago, but it does show an example of just how our genuine history has been erased and is still being erased
This capture from the film “avatar” is only 1 minute, 11 seconds long. Listen to what the scientist lady says here about the mother trees, and why these trees were so important to the natives of planet Pandora. . I apply what she says in here to the connection our pagan ancestors had to the trees on earth, and to nature in general. Maybe our forefather’s knowledge of nature wasn’t based on silly superstition after all, but on real science. To us modern people, the knowledge of our ancestors may seem like superstition, but in reality it may be advanced or forgotten science
I want to let people know that when I use the material of any particular researcher, scholar, or author, this doesn’t mean I subscribe to everything this person says. Just because you & a particular researcher have similar views on some things, it doesn’t mean you have to go along with their entire worldview & belief system. Every person be he a student or a teacher will have grey areas within their worldview that are temporarily filled with certain theories, hypothesis that are based on their own personal subjective view. These grey areas of uncertainty within our worldview will remain filled with subjective views of our own choosing, until the time comes when we come across objective truth, real evidence that has a basis in truth and reality, and can provide us with a definitive answer. Examples of what I mean by grey area in our worldview are these types of philosophical questions:

question of god/gods, question of afterlife, question of consciousness, question of origins of universe/life/humans/races/cultures, question of antique/ancient history, question of nature, and other similar questions.

Now for some of you most, if not all of these questions had already been answered by either some religion, or some official branch of academic knowledge, but for me, these questions remain mysteries waiting to be solved. To fully subscribe to academic mindset, or religious mindset, or even some alternative view, is to settle for everything they say, and it means you give up the search for answers. It means you’re satisfied with that which you subscribe to, because you are satisfied with the answers provided to you by them.

There is some degree of truth in anything, and it’s a matter of weeding out that truth, and leaving behind what you don’t need. Different researchers connect different dots, and make different discoveries, however, they interpret their discoveries and connections in their own way. Information that can become useful in your own independent research can be found anywhere, even by studying the material of those researchers who you usually don’t follow. You can still benefit from them by taking their discoveries and their connected dots, and interpreting it in a way that makes sense to you, and fits within your own current worldview. I believe the right way to go about it is to follow your own mind & intuition. So next time you see someone sharing the work of a researcher who you may not like, don’t have a knee-jerk reaction, and automatically jump to conclusions. Don’t discredit this person’s entire work simply because they shared some material that you don’t agree with. I think it’s wrong to judge anyone’s work based on the opinions of others, and without first becoming at least partly familiar with it yourself.