Forwarded from Hyperborean Radio (The Final Episodes) (Wylder Folk Lorekeeper)
Before Europe began to travel the world and colonize Asia, The Americas, etc. The symbol of wildness and "Savageness" was the Wildman or Woodwose, a person covered in fur/hair from head to toe. However, after traveling around and finding most of the "Savage" races of man were relatively hairless in comparison a new appreciation of European hairiness entered the culture. Woodwose's became a common heraldic symbol, a new romanticism entered their mythology, and beards became a point of racial pride for Europeans and Beard Clubs and Competitions arose as a way of celebrating the hirsute and burly masculine beauty of the Hyperborean peoples, taking pride in being hairy like the wildman in comparison to the other races. -TLK
Statue o "Radegast" on a Czech muntain
Radhošť.
Radegast, a god of Slavic mythology and is said to be associated with fertility, agriculture, war, and the evening sky. He resides in the mountains and also is usually associated with hospitality and fire.
Radhošť.
Radegast, a god of Slavic mythology and is said to be associated with fertility, agriculture, war, and the evening sky. He resides in the mountains and also is usually associated with hospitality and fire.
Forwarded from Old and New European Art and Aesthetics
Kasteel De Haar Castle, Netherlands. Restored in 1892.
Slavic folklore and mythology art by Russian artist Vladimir Korolkov (Владимир Александрович Корольков)