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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A Winter Tale, 1917. Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939).
“Circe Invidiosa” by John William Waterhouse
Oracle of Delphi - Pythia in Greek Mythology ~ John Collier
The Magic Circle by John Willoiam Waterhouse (1886)
Mikhail Lomonosov “People who do not know their past, do not have a future”.
Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin “People/Nation that do not have a national consciousness/self-awareness, becomes a manure on top of which other nations/people grow”.
I don’t believe the official history of how Christianity/Abrahamism has spread across the world. They lie when they say that indigenous pagan tribes & kingdoms accepted Christianity with open arms. Ancestor veneration was very important to all of the old-world pagan tribes, and kingdoms, and so I don’t believe that they would so easily spit on the gods of their ancestors, and discard the ancient faith of their forefathers, just to accept a foreign faith (Christianity/Abrahamism). Besides, Christian/Abrahamic ideology, and worldview is in opposition to the native folk faith of all old-world pagan people. Christianity brought a completely different worldview from old-world pagans. The way I see it, paganism elevated consciousness, whilst Christianity lowers it. It’s two completely different animals
Christianity vs. Folk Faith

Folk Faith: life in nature

Christianity: “life” after death

Folk faith: strength
Christianity: weakness

Folk faith: life & joy
Christianity: death & mourning

Folk faith: humans as children of the gods
Christianity: humans as slaves/servants of god

Folk faith: freedom
Christianity: authority

Folk faith: direct link to gods
Christianity: intermediaries/priests

Folk faith: gods of this world
Christianity: god not of this world.

Folk faith: nature-made
Christianity man-made

Folk faith: nature/matter is divine/spiritual
Christianity: no spirituality in nature/matter
They did a good job with The Last Kingdom soundtrack by John Lunn and Eivør. My favorite is 4:27 Helig
Forwarded from Folk Wisdom & Ways
The Shamaness of Bad Dürrenberg
c. 6500 BCE (Mesolithic)

The Shamaness was found in 1934 in Bad Dürrenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt (DE), buried with an infant in a grave decorated with red ochre.

In the grave were numerous bones and other animal artefacts from deer, crane and turtles, as well as antlers, that would have comprised a magnificent ritual headdress. She was aged between 25 and 30 at her time of death.

The Shamaness was well nourished and held a position of power and prestige in her tribe.
Changing the Letter, 1909. Joseph Edward Southall (English, 1861-1944).