We’ve all been brought up to believe that humanity’s transition from the oral tradition to the written system was a sign of human evolution and progression. We’ve all been taught about our illiterate, barbaric ancestors who lived a primitive existence, until Abrahamic cult civilized them, brought order, and taught them how to read and write. Is this really the truth? Was this transition really something positive, something that enlightened our ancestors, elevated their consciousness, and made them more free? Or was this written word system the birth of dogma? I learned over the years that those in power do things for their own benefit, and not for the benefit of the common folk, and that all that they do appears to us backwards, upside down. What we believe is good in reality is evil. What we believe is up in reality is down. So was the written system really human evolution from a primitive way of communicating, or was this written system just a tool in the hands of our overlords, just like Abrahamism?
The way I see it, the transition from oral tradition to the written system was a deliberate step to take the control over the knowledge and the history away from the common people, and place it under the strict control of just a few selected historians and other representatives of academic branches of knowledge.
To me the transition from oral tradition to the written word, is like taking something infinite and making it finite. I am sure that this transition was forced
Forwarded from European Tribalism - Mythology, European culture, survival
Forwarded from ᚪOLK CINEᛗA
Knock on wood/Touch wood
A tradition of the ancient pagans who believed that trees were the homes of fairies, spirits, dryads and other creatures/spirits. Knocking-on or touching wood would request good luck or distract spirits with evil intentions.
A tradition of the ancient pagans who believed that trees were the homes of fairies, spirits, dryads and other creatures/spirits. Knocking-on or touching wood would request good luck or distract spirits with evil intentions.
Forwarded from ᚪOLK CINEᛗA
The Frog Princess • Царевна-лягушка (1954)
Russia
A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by 'Koschei the Immortal'. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.
AnimatedFilm
Russia
A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by 'Koschei the Immortal'. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.
AnimatedFilm
A topic of interest for me. In fact, I’m quite fascinated by this topic. I’m definitely not a promoter of this model, or of any model for that matter. These things are not set in stone for me. I feel we the common people know very little when it comes to nature of reality, space, consciousness, or even our own planet. We have much, much to learn still.
Out of the Bottomless Pit
Book by S N Strutt
Legends Abound
Legends abound throughout many cultures about the origin of the first people who inhabited the earth. Some describe a race appearing from inside the earth. For example Indian folklore tells of "white tribes that live in the earth" appearing occasionally from caves. A series of Cave drawings from India shows a group of people emerging from a hollow void beneath the earth. According to local legends these were the first human beings that left a subterranean world to begin populating the surface world.
Native American legends from the Mandan, Sioux and Tuscaroras include their tribal origins as coming from inside the earth. Eskimos have the same tribal teachings. The Shawnees claim a civilization of "whites" lived in Florida before they arrived and left their buildings going back into caves in the earth. Incas have a similar folklore of a subterranean white race that travels via caves. From China, Iceland and the South American Aztec’s their writings tell of an inner domain created by the "gods" for the first humans. An Eastern legend describes the origin of Adam came from inside the earth. A Hindu legend adds that Adam was a king of a group who fled a great cataclysm into the hollow earth and then returned to repopulate afterward. Tibetan monks refer to two underground areas Shambala and Agatha as underground dwelling places for ascended masters and others. Orpheus went into the earth to seek out Euridice of Greek mythology, Apollo’s real home was among the Hyperboreans inside the earth of Roman Mythology. The Valkries descended and ascended into an inner domain in Nordic mythology. Even today, the Bon Po sect of Tibet claim to be in contact with underground masters and the "King of the World"; Lord Maitreya, in tunnels and caverns in the Himalayan mountains.
Names like Agharti, Shamballa, Shangri-La, Thule, Arktos, Valhalla, and Hades all speak of different cultural beliefs in an inner earth. The concept in myth and legend is truly as universal as the Flood.
Out of the Bottomless Pit
Book by S N Strutt
Legends Abound
Legends abound throughout many cultures about the origin of the first people who inhabited the earth. Some describe a race appearing from inside the earth. For example Indian folklore tells of "white tribes that live in the earth" appearing occasionally from caves. A series of Cave drawings from India shows a group of people emerging from a hollow void beneath the earth. According to local legends these were the first human beings that left a subterranean world to begin populating the surface world.
Native American legends from the Mandan, Sioux and Tuscaroras include their tribal origins as coming from inside the earth. Eskimos have the same tribal teachings. The Shawnees claim a civilization of "whites" lived in Florida before they arrived and left their buildings going back into caves in the earth. Incas have a similar folklore of a subterranean white race that travels via caves. From China, Iceland and the South American Aztec’s their writings tell of an inner domain created by the "gods" for the first humans. An Eastern legend describes the origin of Adam came from inside the earth. A Hindu legend adds that Adam was a king of a group who fled a great cataclysm into the hollow earth and then returned to repopulate afterward. Tibetan monks refer to two underground areas Shambala and Agatha as underground dwelling places for ascended masters and others. Orpheus went into the earth to seek out Euridice of Greek mythology, Apollo’s real home was among the Hyperboreans inside the earth of Roman Mythology. The Valkries descended and ascended into an inner domain in Nordic mythology. Even today, the Bon Po sect of Tibet claim to be in contact with underground masters and the "King of the World"; Lord Maitreya, in tunnels and caverns in the Himalayan mountains.
Names like Agharti, Shamballa, Shangri-La, Thule, Arktos, Valhalla, and Hades all speak of different cultural beliefs in an inner earth. The concept in myth and legend is truly as universal as the Flood.