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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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The fight of Perun against Winter Demon. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Author: Korolkov, Viktor Anatolievich.
Forwarded from Easter Tidings
We need to stop paying attention to their tricks (yes, a lot of their tricks are calling themselves right wing as much as left wing), and pay more attention to our roots and nature.

Mushrooms have a consciousness and they are an important teacher for anyone interested in developing our indigenous and innate animism.

https://youtu.be/KYunPJQWZ1o
Forwarded from Grizzly
In Oberstdorf, an old village in Southern Bavaria, a unique ancient pagan tradition is still alive – the dance of the wild men (Wilde-MĂ€ndle-Tanz), which is held only in this small town, once in five years. 

Wilde-MĂ€ndle-Tanz is dedicated to the Germanic god Thor, and involves 13 men, all of whom belong to old local families who have been living in that region for centuries. The men’s costumes are made of moss, which grows only in the  AllgĂ€u Alps.

They dance to rhythmic drum music, building a pyramid, and at the end they drink mead from their wooden mugs, singing a ritual song.
That’s not how the modern media, and academia presents slavery to the world. They blame Slavery on white people/ethnic Europeans.

The Atlantic Slave Trade
Jaspreet Kaur
HSTCMP 358
Smallwood
10 June 2015
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Introduction:
Trad­ing slaves was a common practice amongst Africans and Arabs of the Middle Eastern region, however, the new devel­op­ment of slave trade through the Atlantic voy­ages brought new forms of slav­ery and slave trade business. First confrontations of Europeans and Africans led to the exchange of goods and an ever-growing business of slave trading flourished throughout the coastlines of Africa implementing new relations of exchange. With the big economic boom in the crops and mining industries across the Atlantic Ocean, slave trad­ing inten­si­fied back in Africa to where peo­ple are being kid­napped and forced into slav­ery. Many reg­u­la­tions by the Impe­r­ial British Crown were set out to even abolish slave trade prac­tices yet such reg­u­la­tions failed when it came to imple­ment­ing and enforc­ing them and slave trading continued for decades more. The new distinction of slave trade sprouted due to the massive amounts of economic growth for royal imperialist in Europe, colonizers, and as well African merchants and embodied race ideologies within.
Pre-Existing Slaveholding and Slave Societies
            There is a common misconception that slavery only began with the Atlantic slave trade; however, the concept of slavery had existed long before the Atlantic slave trade. Slavery, the term itself comes from a historical process dating back to 71 BCE in the battle between Greeks and Roman that portray power dynamics. In the chapter, The Setting for New World Slavery: An Overview, the author Eric Nellis states “examples of slavery are deeply embedded in the historical record as conquerors enslaved the conquered and the powerful enslaved the weak and vulnerable”, which shows that slavery poses for a dominant entity and a subordinate group (Nellis, 05).[i] An important historical event for understanding slavery as a former system is the famous slave revolt against Romans led by captured war slave Spartacus. The enslavement of Spartacus closely relates to those slaves in America because “his labor power was at the complete disposal of a master; and though he was employed in a particular occupation, as a slave he could be put to any task in the economy” (Lindsay, 10).[ii] Spartacus relates closely to the slaves in America because he was seen as a commodity of labor and a property of his master, much like Africa slaves were to plantation owners. However, in areas of where this story and many other previous practices of enslavement differ from the Atlantic slave trade is the correlation between races. Like Spartacus, many slaves were not considered members of the community by being war captives of another area, “slaves themselves were captured from many outlying regions and comprised a multitude of ethnicities”(Blackburn, 67).[iii] Despite the various ethnicities of the slaves, the creation of race related slave hierarchy didn’t exist in Roman slavery as it did in the South American slave societies.


https://blogs.uw.edu/ses9/hstcmp-358-spring-2015/body-for-trade/the-atlantic-slave-trade/
Pre-Atlantic Slave Trades
It is also important to look at the Europeans discovering the slave trade practices in Africa that already existed prior to their expeditions to Africa because it shows that the Europeans did not invent slave trading, but emerged them in it.
Of course they’ll now try to say that ok the Europeans didn’t invent slavery and that slavery did exist long before Atlantic slave trade, however, when the Europeans came on the scene it got much worse. Well, first they’ll have to present evidence to prove this. I’m at least happy to see that slavery isn’t blamed on white/Europeans. They’ll soon have no choice but to admit that slaves, and slave owners/traders consisted of people of all races, ethnicities, and both genders.
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Dr Leo Sharashkin points out in here that Anastasia eco/kin-domain settlements are not a commune, it’s not a place where members share everything. This is a community/village where each family owns their land, and each family produces their own food. Once you build your family homestead, it’s not only going to feed your body, but also your soul.
Bal Masqué (1880). Charles Hermans (Belgian, 1839-1924).
Face of a Young Girl by Lucien Victor Gurand de Scevola 1899
Forwarded from ášȘOLK CINEᛗA
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Karelian witchcraft/sorcery (1920)

Karelians are an ethnic group from the Northern European region of Karelia, which is today split between Finland and Russia.
When Willies Carrier invented what we would know as an air conditioner in 1902, it wasn't his intention to cool your home. These early AC machines were designed for use in industrial quality control. Domestic applications become the norm after WW2 which, in part, led to the age of suburban tract housing, in the US. The mass adoption of this technology forever changed traditional architectural details and customs.

Prior to the mass adoption of air conditioning in domestic houses, houses were specially designed to naturally control the inside temperature. This article lists various methods of how this was done.

The first thing they mention is underground dwellings, as well as cave dwellings. Cave dwellings is what came to mind when I thought about our ancestors’ oldest strategies for controlling their dwellings’ temperature.

When I think of such dwellings, I do not picture some dirty ancient caves with primitive, uncivilized cavemen. I see sophisticated, high-tech rock-cut palaces, temples, and dwellings, with decorative tiles, wall plaster, stone tablets, sculptures and carvings, area rugs, and elegant furniture.

I see something resembling Tolkien’s Middle Earth cities rather than dirty primitive caves, and that’s based on my knowledge of the remaining rock-cut ruins of palaces and temples around the world. If you do some research into rock-cut ruins, you will understand what I mean.

https://interestingengineering.com/how-people-kept-cool-before-air-conditioners
This is just one example of rock-cut ruins from Turkey. I know it may not look like much now, but to remember, this is a very old structure that’s been eroded with time. It looked completely different when it was whole and in use.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/myra-necropolis
Nasik Caves, Cave No. 17, built circa 120 CE.
Ajanta Caves. That’s just what survived throughout the millenniums. Much more was lost after global cataclysmic events