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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 Bear & The Maiden Fair

One of the oldest and most widespread elements of Hyperborean faith is the Bear cult. While this can often be traced to a bear mother progenitor there is also a male Bear god, sometimes depicted as a Hairy Wildman.
Found in Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, and even Wilder Mann customs, the marriage of the Maiden Fertility goddess and the Bear is seen across our lands. The Bear Tsar in Slavia is often seen trying to find a young bride, in the tales of White Bear King Valemon & Snow White and Rose Red where Earth's fertility is connected to the marriage of the Bear and the Maiden Fair. In both the entrance to the Otherworld or the Underworld is implied much as when a bear will go hibernate only to emerge when life returns.

Through these ancient times to modern day this connection echoes, until recently the belief bears would kidnap women and sire Half Bear Supermen was widespread, while women were believed to be drawn to the most bearlike of men.-TLK

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Европейское единство в многообразии от творческого проекта Europa Invicta.

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Donar or Thor is a well known god of thunder. He is also a deity of balance and lifeforce. But how about Hludana? She is the female counterpart of Donar when it comes to balance. Almost like yin and yang to make a compasrison. Perhaps it comes as a surprise that there is another god who is associated with thunder, lighting and lifegiving energy? Who? Farbauti is his name. It was not possible to find an image for this post that is acurate. Farbauti is a jotnar from the Ironwood and appeared as a massive column of orange fire when journeying to Him. Farbauti is a very ancient deity and i noticed He communicated with imagery instead of words. The Tribe of the Fox loves going beyond just having bookknowledge and therefore we search for first hand knowledge. We do this by trancejourneying using oldskool and newskool ways. The Tribe of the Fox started experimenting with giving heathen and non heathen folks first hand experience of the ancestors and deities. Succesfully🙂! Let's bring back the old knowledge🦊!
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The Welsh Goddess Rhiannon
One of the crewmembers from U-209 wrote a shocking letter to his friend. Whether you believe this really was an authentic letter, or that this letter states the truth about the hollow earth, you have to at least admit that this is fascinating.
THE OLD WAYS pinned «This information on Baba Yaga you did not know/how they flipped the character image of the Russian people. Turns out the Slavic mythological character Baba Yaga we all know, is not the real Baba Yaga. Below I’ve translated this video from Russian into…»
I want to re-share an old post of mine. A different perspective through which to view the Slavic mythological baba Yaga
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This information on Baba Yaga you did not know/how they flipped the character image of the Russian people.

Turns out the Slavic mythological character Baba Yaga we all know, is not the real Baba Yaga.

Below I’ve translated this video from Russian into English. My translation isn’t perfect.

Baba Yaga was known as the goddess Yoga, or Yaginya matushka/mother. Supreme deity of Slavic people. Always kind-hearted, loving and wonderful, patron of orphan children. She traveled through Midgard world either on sky fire wheel, or by horse on lands where lived the ancestors of the great race, and the descendants of God Rod.

She collected orphan children from villages and cities. People recognized her by her tenderness, motherly kindness, and her golden boots, and would point her to where the orphans lived. She brought the orphan children to her skete/settlement at the foothills of the mountains. For protection it was surrounded by skulls of various animals. It was located in the thickest of the forest in what is today known as Altai republic Russia.

In mountain foothills settlement where goddess Yaginya was performing this ancient fire rite of passage ceremony on orphan children, there was a temple of god Rod carved from within the mountain. Near the temple in the rock there was a special deepening that Slavic Volkhvs (Slavic Pagan priests) referred to as “Pesh Ra”. From this name came the Russian word “bake” (petch/petsh). As well as the word “cave” (Peshera).

From this special deepening in the stone called (Pesh Ra) sticks out a stone-platform separated by a ledge into two equal deepenings called “Lapat” which was later called “Lapata” (Peel/ shovel-like tool)

In one corner closer to Pesh Ra, Goddess Yaga placed sleeping children dressed in traditional white costumes. In another corner Goddess Yaga placed dry brushwood. After which Lapata/lopata was pushed back into Pesh Ra, and Yaginya would light the brushwood. As Lapata/Peel was pushed back inside the Pesh-Ra, a special mechanism lowered the stone-slab on ledge of lopata, and would separate the deepening with the children in it from the fire. Basically the children were unharmed.

To all those who beared witness to this fire rite of passage meant that the orphaned children were dedicated to ancient Slavonic gods, and for the most part no one will see these children again in worldly life. These children were separated from regular society, and taken to be raised in the temple by Slavic Volkvhs.