Forwarded from Stam van de Vos🦊, hekserij en heidendom van de Lage Landen
The Tribe of the Fox released 3 video's about the goddess Holle, because we love Her and because autumn is Her season. It is said that Holland is named after Holle. Just like England is connected with Ing, Austria with Ostara and Frisia with Frija. Holle is not just important for Dutch and German heathens/pagans but also for the Pennsylvania Germans in the USA. Their heathenism is called Urglaawe. This is an Urglaawe article about Holle and rebirth: http://deitschmythology.blogspot.com/2013/10/this-post-is-spurred-on-by-article-in.html
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Holle's Mill
This post is spurred on by an article in Denali Institute of Northern Traditions' May 2013 issue of True North . The article, The Magic...
This is in Russian language. The totem of Falcon in Slavic folklore, mythology, culture.
According to what Israel’s minister of education says in here, all of the Jews that married non-Jewish are considered “lost” to Judaism/Jewish nation. This is how the Jewish leaders view it. Basically Jewish leaders look at the 6 million Jews that married non-Jews as no longer part of Jewish nation. He even compares it to second holocaust, meaning they view 6 million Jews that married non-Jews as dead to them. That’s how serious they are about preserving their Jewishness, their ethnic identity and faith. Unfortunately these people do not allow the same rights and freedom to other ethnic groups/nations. Maybe the Jewish leaders didn’t count on multiculturalism to hurt their own Jewish nation to such as degree that it lost them 6 million of their own people who decided to go out and marry non-Jews.
And when non-Jews convert to Judaism in order to marry Jews, they are required to completely stop participating in any of their old non-Jewish traditions, customs, holidays, etc ... They can’t even celebrate Christmas. That’s the strict rules of Judaism. I feel that as pagans, we should also be strict about our paganism, and set aside our old Christian traditions and holidays. Thankfully, Christianity had absorbed many of the pagan elements, and so holidays such as Christmas & Easter can be celebrated a pagan way. In Slavic pagan tradition, a Santa Claus character came not during Christmas, but during New Year’s Eve. Till this day Russians don’t celebrate on Christmas, and do not exchange gifts or have Russian/Slavic Santa Claus on Christmas but on New Years Eve. Every pagan should do research on their own ethnic pagan holidays, traditions, customs, rites, and follow it
I love these kinds of organizations that help animals. Animals are precious. They are as innocent, and as pure as little children. Domesticated pets are at our human mercy . Wild, untamed animals are self-reliant, self-sufficient. Wild animals have a strong immune system, and know how to survive. Domesticated pets rely on us humans.
Traditional Russian pickled cabbage & cucumbers/pickles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hrz27eV7iw&feature=share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hrz27eV7iw&feature=share
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Tradition of russian cuisine
The restaurant «Podvorie» in Pavlovsk is often called the most Russian restaurant. It's famous not only with Saint-Petersburg citizens, but those who live far outside its limits. Menu is thought out punctiliously. One can get acquainted with the most ancient…
I believe this may be connected to Slavic Goddess of death Morana
Banya is originally an Eastern Slavic steam bath with a wooden stove. It’s an important part of Russian culture with ancient Slavic pagan roots. This steam bath tradition is even part of ancient eastern Slavic mythology.
The bath takes place in a small room or building designed for dry or wet heat sessions. The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire.
Traditionally, Eastern Slavs used a banya broom, which is a besom, or broom, used for bathing. A bath broom is typically made with the branches and leaves of a tree or shrub which secretes aromatic oils. The branches and leaves are then dried and tied around a wooden handle. The broom is used to massage a bather's skin and generate heat. It’s used for therapeutic, healing purposes.
Traditional Slavic banya/steam is accompanied with ice water baths, or getting snow on your body.
The bath takes place in a small room or building designed for dry or wet heat sessions. The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire.
Traditionally, Eastern Slavs used a banya broom, which is a besom, or broom, used for bathing. A bath broom is typically made with the branches and leaves of a tree or shrub which secretes aromatic oils. The branches and leaves are then dried and tied around a wooden handle. The broom is used to massage a bather's skin and generate heat. It’s used for therapeutic, healing purposes.
Traditional Slavic banya/steam is accompanied with ice water baths, or getting snow on your body.
Slavic tradition of banya is almost a shamanic practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svPtIpDQfZw&feature=share
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Beat to the Balance
'Beat to the Balance' involves having a sauna (usually build on spot with found materials) and tree healing; a tradition of using whisks – branch bundle of different tree species. It is a treatment that combines the psychosomatic experience of sauna, tree…