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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We are Christians, but we are not; nor can we be, Christianity and tribal awareness are no more compatible than socialism and culture.

Hermann Löns (1866 - 1914), German naturalist, animal depictor and heath poet, author of the novel "Der Wehrwolf" (The Warwolf).
Forwarded from EarthlyElementss
Found this nice chant/song about the goddesses of the Low Lands. It's from the Dutch heathen Frigga Asraaf. (Names of the goddesses in the description) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyLcOQzONKk
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Brigid, the hearth goddess of the Celts. She is also known as Brigantia and was synchronized with Minerva in Gaulo-Roman faith. They ancient celts kept an eternal fire for her and she was said to have invented keening (a kind of weeping-singing) after the death of her son. She was said to be married to the god Bres, though in CG"s stories where she is most like the hearth goddess she is married to the Smith. She is the mother of Ruadan the daughter of the Dagda and the sister of Aengus, Bodb derg, Cermait and Aed. She is associated with many things such as the hearth, the dawn, wisdom, smithing, poetry, and domestic animals to which she has the king of boars king of wethers (sheep), and two oxen named Fe and Men who graze on a plain that bears her name. Animals with red ears and white bodies are at times associated with her, she is highly associated with both high places (high flames, high levels of thought, the highlands, etc) and the festival of Imbolc whose version of Candlemas was highly associated with St. Brigid a clear Christianization of an important goddess. She was at times honored at wells where pieces of cloth were tied to trees to honor her. Her version of St. Brigid is the patron saint of Ireland. She is often considered a triple goddess due to her supposed sisters of Brigid the healer and Brigid the smith. Her name may mean strength or the high one and her name became the modern name of Bridgette. What is your favorite thing about Brigid?
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Мотивы русской архитектуры - баня при даче С. Мамонтова близ Москвы 🇷🇺

#ODAL_искусство
We have to relearn this, and much much more, and gradually become more self-sufficient. Maybe even at some point completely going off grid.
We use to know this
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This is a decent normie-tier doc for covidiots, although they go on and on about 'nazis bad' by the end. Of course... or else it would get shoah'd instantly https://rumble.com/vcstt7-the-reason-why-covid-19-pandemic-was-created-and-our-future.html?fbclid=IwAR27cWxMSsRjwMSE3umCto6czRKOGH_A4YFG20O1W9kUgTsWYa4st6VwHQA
I apologise for my absence these last few days, but my mother came over for a visit, and when she’s with me she gets all of my attention and time. I’ll return tomorrow my dears. Hope you all are well, and keeping warm in this cold weather
Is that what Wikipedia calls it, that it was incorrectly reinterpreted? So it was an accident that Slavic mythological being Kurent was presented as a deviant sex crazed god, instead of what this being really represents.
On the mysterious handbags of the ancients

Although I do not agree with the Thunderbolts people in every detail, they have great ideas and explanations for a lot of things.

They recently released a video, explaining what the mysterious "Handbag of the Gods" might actually be. This handbag can be found all around the globe in ancient reliefs with no connecting culture.

In short: it is a representation of an extreme electrical discharge event, seen as titanic storm.

Watch the video! It also explains to some degree, why we see severe weather conditions and earthquakes.

#physics #mythology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8C2OdSbw84
Forwarded from Folk Wisdom & Ways
Forwarded from Folk Wisdom & Ways
In Bulgarian traditional belief wolf cubs are born between 1-3 February. These are the first of the two annual Wolf Holidays, and in some parts of the country they are marked by ritual precautions to protect against wolf attack throughout the year. It is taboo to spin, weave, sew or open scissors, and no clothes are made or mended at this time because such clothes attract wolves.
In the Christian calendar 2 February is Candlemas, the day when the Virgin Mary presented baby Jesus at the temple, and there is a popular Bulgarian legend about an encounter between Trifon Zarezan, the patron saint of vineyards, and Mary (“bogoroditsa” - the mother of god) on this day.
But in some parts of Bulgaria 2 February is also known as the Winter Mother of God or the Wolf Mother of God. She is the patroness of pregnancy and childbirth.
The Bulgarian beliefs and tradition associated with this day contain echoes of the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia on 15 February (the old calendar equivalent of 2 February).
There are also parallels with the Polish Matki Boskiej Gromnicznej, the Mother of God of the Thunder Candle, who is celebrated at Candlemas and is also associated with wolves, as well as with the Irish St Brigid.
In some regions the three days from 1-3 February are called the Trifontsi, after Trifon Zarezan, and on 1 February (14 February old calendar) there is a ritual pruning of the vines. St Trifon and the traditions associated with him have their roots in ancient Thracian times and the rites of the wild wine-loving god Dionysus.
Wolves, mothers, vines, Christian saints, Dionysus, Lupercalia – there are many mythological layers associated with this period!
Image: Matki Boskiej Gromnicznej, the Polish Mother of God of the Thunder Candle, illustration by Edyta Marczyńska -(from the British Bulgarian Story Telling Company FB page.)