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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I usually viewed stag with antlers as a masculine, male God symbol, but just recently I’ve been learning about antlered female deer in different ancient myths. And no, this is not me promoting some feminist ideas. Deer mythology pertains to both masculine & feminine.

I was watching a Russian documentary the other day, and they were talking about a myth of Karelian people. According to this myth, the birthplace of the Slavonic people was on the horns/antlers of a fawn, and her name is Mirtsana. I know it doesn’t make sense for female deer to have antlers, supposedly Doe with anthers is rare event, but it exists.

Some people say that there’s truth encoded in this myth, because the Big Dipper has a star in it that today the scientists call by the name Mitsar/Mizar, and it does resemble something like a deer.
My favorite Russian waltz by soviet born Moldavian composer Eugen Doga
Chachapoyas (Cloud People) were a caucasian race of people living in Peru before the Incas. The cloud people began carving settlements out of extremely dense mountain forests situated between the Maranon, and Huallaga rivers, and eventually established an impressive kingdom that spread through the northern Andes of Peru.

They are mentioned in the chronicles, and books written by Spanish priests based on stories told to them by the Inca. Books speak of an Inca emperor who marched his army to the cloud forest in 1480. He was astonished to find a great civilization there.

The stories were dismissed as legends, but an explorer name Gene Savoy took them more seriously. Savoy took a team, and for six years him and his team were exploring the hostile jungle of the Cloud Forest.

Eventually deep in the cloud forest his team came up on the hidden ruins of great stone buildings buried under centuries of jungle growth. The Incas knew about these ruins, but they were a very superstitious people, and they were afraid to come near them.

The stone round structures of the cloud people were completely different from the Inca buildings. The Incas build in rectangular linear style. Decorations on the buildings were also very different from what the Incas had. Cloud people also had cliff tombs... These cliff tombs were exactly like the ones described by the Incas legends about the cloud people.

Caucasian mummies were discovered in the Northeast of Peru. They were very tall, and appeared European. Everything that came with them, their pottery, art, clothing was different from Incas. Unfortunately, the tombs where the mummies were found have already been visited by looters, and robbed.

The fact that the mummies were tall is significant. Buried in the Spanish Chronicles, a fascinating passages describing the cloud people as tall and beautiful with fair skin and light hair. That is a very different appearance from the Inca.

Near the lake where the mummies were found, is the great fortress of Kuélap. This fortress is considered the largest stone ruins in the New World, and is made out of massive limestone blocks bigger than those used in the Egyptian Pyramids. It’s incredible walls are over 60 feet high, and stretch for more than 2/3 of a mile. This fortress is almost certainly believed to be built by the cloud people. It was built from 2 1/2 times as much granite than the Great Pyramid of Egypt. All of which was carried to a mountaintop over 9000 feet above sea level.

So the cloud people who lived in Peru over 500 years ago knew the secrets of using herbs and chemicals to preserve the human body
KUPALA NIGHT
ANCIENT GODS ARE RETURNING!
From the Russian book “Ringing Cedars”
Our cities look more & more like Computer motherboards
Modern civilization driven by a death cult?

HERBICIDE “to kill grass”

CONTRACEPTIVES “against conception”

ANTIBIOTICS “against life”

Monotheism the religion of today driven by sacrifice of Messiah and obsessed with afterlife.

The word mortgage is derived from a Law French term used in Britain in the Middle Ages meaning "death pledge" and refers to the pledge ending (dying) when either the obligation is fulfilled or the property is taken through foreclosure.
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The video was published back in 2010. I shared this video with the group last year, but I want to re-share it again for new people to view it. This 5 minute video always brings tears to my eyes each time I watch it. What they show in here is something magical, something spiritual. I don’t think we modern humans even fully comprehend why these 2 wild horses just came out of nowhere, and clearly they are trying to stop the humans from destroying the old English oak trees. It’s like the wild horses have a deep connection to these trees and somehow the horses found out that the trees are in danger and came to help them. The 2 horses are clearly in distress. They understand something we don’t. And to make things worse, the employees hired to do this horrible job are mostly foreigners who are smirking at English people who are saddened by this whole situation. To me these old English Oak trees represent England they represent ancient English heritage. This is not just physical damage this is also very symbolic.
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I’m just now finding out about the Russian religious movement “Raskol” which means “split” or “schism.” It was a split within the Russian Orthodox Church that separated the Church followers into Old Believers and an Official Church in 1700s...

Russian orthodox old believers are referred to as “old faith.” Many Russians talk about the old believers as if this was the native spiritual heritage of Russian/Slavic people prior to religious reformations taking place. I was surprised to find one Russian historian presenting the old believers as Russian native paganism. The way I see it, is that although the older version of Russian Orthodox faith may have contained lots of pagan elements, we are still talking about a split within the Orthodox Church. Meaning we are talking about the history of the Russian Orthodox church, and not Russian/Slavic paganism...

I still can not find any source of information that tells me clearly what is the Old Believers movement. As far as I can tell, this movement is not the true old faith of Russian/Slavic people, but simply the first stages of Christianity establishing itself in pagan Russia. This could possibly be another attempt to redirect those Russians who are skeptical towards Russian orthodox church back to Christianity.

I believe that Christianity was enforced in pagan Russia gradually, in different stages, and this old believers was simply the beginning stage, and then later on in the 1600s, the ruling class of Russia had to start religious reforms in order to clean up the Russian orthodox faith of paganism. It was actually a Civil War type of situation. Many of the so-called old believers fled to Siberia and other lands to escape being forced to accept the newly reformed orthodox faith that matched the Greek Orthodoxy.

Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, Patriarch Nikon were rewriting the old divine books, and changing various religious rituals. Apparently the Russian tsar wanted to know exactly how many old believers there were in his land, and he sent out an expedition to study the people. For the longest time their statistics kept showing that only 2% of the population identified as old believers, but when the tsar sent out that expedition, he was shocked to learn that almost everyone officially on paper identified with the new reformed orthodox faith, but secretly they all practiced the old version of orthodox faith.

I wanted to point out that the name “orthodox faith” sounds very different in Russian languages. In Russian it’s pronounced as Pravoslavnaya/Orthodox vera/faith. The word “Pravoslavnaya doesn’t seem to have any connection to the word orthodox. This word Pravoslavnaya was the name of the original Slavic pagan faith. Christianity stole this name from Slavic paganism.