Forwarded from Old and New European Art and Aesthetics
Meadow Elves (1850). Nils Blommér (Swedish, 1816-1853).
These are old words from the Slavic bylinas (traditional folkloric Slavic/Russian epic oral poems) about a Volkhv (Slavic pagan wizard, wiseman, magus, sage, seer..).
The words describe a tall, old man with white beard, who is wearing a dark cloak with a hood. He always wanders the forest alone. In his hands a magic staff, and if he raises his staff to the sky, and whispers sacred words, the sun will disappear, and in its stead will appear storm clouds, and it will blow the wind of such stretch, that even birds won’t be able to take flight. But if he puts his magic staff to the ground, immediately the nature will calm down
The words describe a tall, old man with white beard, who is wearing a dark cloak with a hood. He always wanders the forest alone. In his hands a magic staff, and if he raises his staff to the sky, and whispers sacred words, the sun will disappear, and in its stead will appear storm clouds, and it will blow the wind of such stretch, that even birds won’t be able to take flight. But if he puts his magic staff to the ground, immediately the nature will calm down
This is in Russian, but it talks about these words here. I don’t know who these people are. Hopefully they are not some kind of communists or Abrahamic religion pushers. I don’t know who they are or what they stand for. I just found this topic about Slavic Volkhv to be interesting.
If you are intelligent enough, you can obtain useful information from any source without being manipulated by this source.
Personally I can find useful bits and pieces of information just about anywhere.
I know how to take that which I need, that which I can benefit from, and leave behind all that I don’t need.
I am not afraid to check out any source, even if this source promotes a worldview that directly opposes my own, because I know how to scan through different sources, and collect valuable information without getting caught in their mental, and emotional traps that they set up for gullible people.
I know that they put seeds of truth mixed with their lies, and they put the seeds of truth in order to attract people, and mentally trap them.
I collect those seeds of truth, and leave without getting caught up in their psychological manipulation.
If you don’t know how to do this, then by all means do not check out the sources you consider dangerous
If you are intelligent enough, you can obtain useful information from any source without being manipulated by this source.
Personally I can find useful bits and pieces of information just about anywhere.
I know how to take that which I need, that which I can benefit from, and leave behind all that I don’t need.
I am not afraid to check out any source, even if this source promotes a worldview that directly opposes my own, because I know how to scan through different sources, and collect valuable information without getting caught in their mental, and emotional traps that they set up for gullible people.
I know that they put seeds of truth mixed with their lies, and they put the seeds of truth in order to attract people, and mentally trap them.
I collect those seeds of truth, and leave without getting caught up in their psychological manipulation.
If you don’t know how to do this, then by all means do not check out the sources you consider dangerous
Forwarded from Stam van de Vos🦊, hekserij en heidendom van de Lage Landen
The Tribe of the Fox made some new video's and this time about late Iron Age/Roman era tribes living in what we nowadays call the Netherlands. Who were these tribes? Where did they came from? What deities they worshipped and what battles did they fought? And where did these tribes go? The first video in this series is about a tribe called the Batavians. Let's meet the Batavians, my friends🙂! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTg9ePUNzlY
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The heathen Batavian tribe
A tribe that never left the collective memory of the Dutch were the Batavians. Let's see who the Batavians were, what gods they worshipped and what their his...
Forwarded from Old and New European Art and Aesthetics
Parts of "The Progress of Civilization" (Series of Murals at the Iowa State Capitol building) (c. 1905). Kenyon Cox (American, 1856-1919).