This is from the book “On the Edge of the Primeval Forest” written by Albert Schweitzer. What Albert Schweitzer is describing here is not only unique to indigenous people of Africa. The very same methods and tactics were used on basically all of the indigenous people/ ethnic groups on this planet. This process of enslaving, and reforming all ethnic people is still unfolding till this very day. This is how the urban revolution was brought about.
Here is that excerpt from the book “On the Edge of the Primeval Forest” ;
“In the return for a very little work nature supplies the native with nearly everything that he requires for his support in his village. The negro, then is....a free man. There is, therefore a serious conflict between the needs of trade and the fact that the child of nature is a free man. The wealth of the country cannot be exploited because the native has so slight an interest in the process. How train him to work? How compel him? Create in him as many needs as possible...[The State] imposes on him involuntary needs in shape of taxes...The trader encourages voluntary needs in him by offering him wares of all sorts...
Taxes and new needs...make him anxious for money and employment, but not reliable and conscientious.. The child of nature becomes a steady worker only so far as he ceases to be free...and this can be brought about in several ways...first step...prevent him...from returning to his village...
Colonies of negro labourers, away from their families are...centres of demoralisation, and yet, such colonies are required for trade...Colonisation...demands that as much of the population as possible shall be made available...for utilising to the utmost the natural wealth of the country...
I should think I have a right..even...duty to secure [for a plantation owner] the labour of these men so long as he needs it...I myself hold labour compulsion to be not wrong...” /
Here is that excerpt from the book “On the Edge of the Primeval Forest” ;
“In the return for a very little work nature supplies the native with nearly everything that he requires for his support in his village. The negro, then is....a free man. There is, therefore a serious conflict between the needs of trade and the fact that the child of nature is a free man. The wealth of the country cannot be exploited because the native has so slight an interest in the process. How train him to work? How compel him? Create in him as many needs as possible...[The State] imposes on him involuntary needs in shape of taxes...The trader encourages voluntary needs in him by offering him wares of all sorts...
Taxes and new needs...make him anxious for money and employment, but not reliable and conscientious.. The child of nature becomes a steady worker only so far as he ceases to be free...and this can be brought about in several ways...first step...prevent him...from returning to his village...
Colonies of negro labourers, away from their families are...centres of demoralisation, and yet, such colonies are required for trade...Colonisation...demands that as much of the population as possible shall be made available...for utilising to the utmost the natural wealth of the country...
I should think I have a right..even...duty to secure [for a plantation owner] the labour of these men so long as he needs it...I myself hold labour compulsion to be not wrong...” /
Speaking of the blame game, in Russia alternative researchers also blame the foreigners, and Peter the great for taking Leibniz's academic structure and using it as the apex of both his educational projects and new manners reforms designed to transform Russia into a "Western" state.
These researchers point to the fact that during 17th and even part of 18th century, the entire Russian academia was ran by foreigners, and for a time even the language spoken within the academia was German. St. Petersburg Academy of sciences consisted of mostly foreign scholars, and only few Russian scholars. Russian researchers point to Gerhard Friedrich Müller, August Ludwig von Schlözer, and Theophilus Siegfried Bayer as the 3 main 17th century German scholars who were members of St. Petersburg Academy of sciences, and who formed the Norman theory, which is a tendency in historiography, whose supporters regard the Normans (Varangians) as the founders of the state of ancient Rus' Understandably, this is upsetting to Russians, because the Norman theory implies that Russian/Slavic people didn’t have any cultures, or even alphabet till the foreigners gave it to them. Till this day Russian students are taught that their Slavic ancestors were barely civilized, illiterate, barbarians who were ignorant & dirty, and it was the Germans, Scandinavians, and Greeks who civilized them. So I do understand why a lot of Russians are angry at such ideas, but once again, they fail to realize that we all have a common enemy! Yes German, Swedish, and other foreign scholars helped to rewrite Russian/Slavic history, but these foreign scholars came from cultures that were also reformed, and experienced the same thing. When we were all pagan tribes Slavic, German, Karelian, Finnish, Celtic, etc, we were very similar, and had a similar way of life & traditions...
These researchers point to the fact that during 17th and even part of 18th century, the entire Russian academia was ran by foreigners, and for a time even the language spoken within the academia was German. St. Petersburg Academy of sciences consisted of mostly foreign scholars, and only few Russian scholars. Russian researchers point to Gerhard Friedrich Müller, August Ludwig von Schlözer, and Theophilus Siegfried Bayer as the 3 main 17th century German scholars who were members of St. Petersburg Academy of sciences, and who formed the Norman theory, which is a tendency in historiography, whose supporters regard the Normans (Varangians) as the founders of the state of ancient Rus' Understandably, this is upsetting to Russians, because the Norman theory implies that Russian/Slavic people didn’t have any cultures, or even alphabet till the foreigners gave it to them. Till this day Russian students are taught that their Slavic ancestors were barely civilized, illiterate, barbarians who were ignorant & dirty, and it was the Germans, Scandinavians, and Greeks who civilized them. So I do understand why a lot of Russians are angry at such ideas, but once again, they fail to realize that we all have a common enemy! Yes German, Swedish, and other foreign scholars helped to rewrite Russian/Slavic history, but these foreign scholars came from cultures that were also reformed, and experienced the same thing. When we were all pagan tribes Slavic, German, Karelian, Finnish, Celtic, etc, we were very similar, and had a similar way of life & traditions...
It’s surprising that an article such as this one is published by the New York Times site. I guess the dark truth about Christianity is really going mainstream. The problem with this article is that they seem to only focus on desecration done to Greek and Roman pagan temples. They also mention Alexandrian pagan temple, and death of Hypatia, but didn’t discuss at all how Christianity was introduced to European and Slavic lands by sword and fire.
The lyrics of "Scarborough Fair" appear to have something in common with a Scottish ballad titled "The Elfin Knight" (Child Ballad #2), collected by Francis James Child,[1] which has been traced as far back as 1670. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task ("For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he"); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform ("I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand").
I did not translate this video word by word. This is Alexander Pijikov, a professor, and Russian doctor of historical sciences. Alexander discusses an ancient, pagan, Russian/Slavic rite of passage meant specifically for females...
He talks about a special Slavic pagan rite of passage that worked as a solution for women who had problems getting pregnant. He points out that back in those days a lot less women experienced such problems, but nevertheless, these problems still existed...
This old pagan rite involved local Slavic female elder seer. In Slavic culture they were called “Volkhvitsa”
Female elder Volkhvitsa would gather a group of women consisting of women who already had many children, and the one woman who is experiencing problems getting pregnant, and all of them would head out into the depth of the forest.
The group of women went into the forest to look for specific trees. In this case it was the birch trees. When they targeted a tree, the women would circle it.
While holding hands, standing in circle around the tree, the women would begin singing specific words. They would start singing these words low, and repeat them louder and louder. They were singing in synchronized voice. This also had something to do with vibration, and communication with intelligence of the tree.
While this was going on, the female elder would turn backwards to the tree, and press her shoulder blades up to the tree. She was trying to pick up some sort of specific vibration/ frequency given off by the tree...
The female elder was listening for the sign. If Volkhvitsa didn’t pick up on the vibration she was looking for, she’d give a sign to the group of women that this tree is not the one. They would mark the tree, and go on looking for the next one.
They continued the search, until they found the right tree, which emanates the required frequency/vibration that the female elder was looking for.
Once the female elder picked up on that vibration, she would call out to the one woman who can’t get pregnant, to come and take her place, and place her back up to the tree while the rest of the women stood in circle around her and the tree, and chanting loud in synchronized voices. At which point the right of passage would be over, and everybody would go back to their homes...
He talks about a special Slavic pagan rite of passage that worked as a solution for women who had problems getting pregnant. He points out that back in those days a lot less women experienced such problems, but nevertheless, these problems still existed...
This old pagan rite involved local Slavic female elder seer. In Slavic culture they were called “Volkhvitsa”
Female elder Volkhvitsa would gather a group of women consisting of women who already had many children, and the one woman who is experiencing problems getting pregnant, and all of them would head out into the depth of the forest.
The group of women went into the forest to look for specific trees. In this case it was the birch trees. When they targeted a tree, the women would circle it.
While holding hands, standing in circle around the tree, the women would begin singing specific words. They would start singing these words low, and repeat them louder and louder. They were singing in synchronized voice. This also had something to do with vibration, and communication with intelligence of the tree.
While this was going on, the female elder would turn backwards to the tree, and press her shoulder blades up to the tree. She was trying to pick up some sort of specific vibration/ frequency given off by the tree...
The female elder was listening for the sign. If Volkhvitsa didn’t pick up on the vibration she was looking for, she’d give a sign to the group of women that this tree is not the one. They would mark the tree, and go on looking for the next one.
They continued the search, until they found the right tree, which emanates the required frequency/vibration that the female elder was looking for.
Once the female elder picked up on that vibration, she would call out to the one woman who can’t get pregnant, to come and take her place, and place her back up to the tree while the rest of the women stood in circle around her and the tree, and chanting loud in synchronized voices. At which point the right of passage would be over, and everybody would go back to their homes...