Slavic Goddess Morena (Mara, Marena, Morjana, Morana), Slavic mythology, Pagan

Alben in der Mythologie

👇🏻 it is not up to us to offer anything except the knowledge that christianity is not our naturally-evolved consciousness, and that our naturally-evolved consciousness is better suited to us in all times, places, and circumstances.

Christianity has turned our consciousness inside out. We stand outside ourselves and look back on ourselves in judgment to see if we are thinking and behaving as the foreign pantheon would have us think and behave.

The naturally evolved mode of consciousness is to stand within ourselves and look out at the world through our own eyes. We conduct ourselves according to what we deem appropriate and necessary for ourselves, without an external measure provided by foreigners who've sworn to destroy us.

Our natural weltanschauung does not look outside of itself for answers. It produces its own answers, before there are even questions to ask.

Christian consciousness flows from outside ourselves to within. It is consumer consciousness. Our native consciousness flows from within to outside ourselves. It is creator consciousness.

The forms of deities and rituals that christianity savagely destroyed are only that — forms. With our consciousness flowing in it's own natural, unsubverted direction, new deities and forms will come forth that are even better suited to the world as it is. And indeed, our native lore tells us that this will happen, because that is how our naturally-evolved weltanschauung operates.

So no, pagans do not have a book of rules, a list of doctrines, scrolls of dogma by which to compete in the same inside-out space as christianity. It never will, because dogma is not the way of nature. Creativity is the way of nature. All we offer is an invitation to rejoin the creative flow, our native weltanschauung, and an opportunity to join in the creation of whatever we decide we want next.

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I usually don't post native American traditions but this one is something they have very much in common with Northern European and Germanic people's. This story is very interesting and since I enjoyed it, I thought others might also. https://youtu.be/3SJbQ1-lfcE

Yefim Yefimovich Volkov (1844-1920) (Efim Efimovich): Summer landscape with a girl, 1910

This ephebe seated on a rock is depicted in the perennial pose of "The Thinker", terracotta statuette, Greek, 4th century BC @GreekLeague

Pulled this from Slavic Spirituality page on Facebook

Hanka Servická - Rozkvitla mi pod oblačkom ľeľija (Slovak Folk Song)
English: The Lily Blossomed Under My Window
Song from Eastern Slovakia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8FlCOKJV7k

Another interesting source I pulled from Facebook page Slavic Spirituality. It’s about Molfars

Molfars, also known as magicians, shamans, and healers among the Hutsul people of Western Ukraine, are known for their powerful work with the elements of nature, animals, and people. From ancient times, they’ve dwelled on the edges of remote villages and in the forests of the Carpathian Mountains. Connecting with nature and spirit deeply, Molfars lived quiet lives far from others.

https://molfar.birdinflight.com/

In Dutch Folklore "Fro" is the son of Nerthus and was gifted Gullin the first boar, which was made by the dwarves out of gold. This boar Gullin along with Fro showed the people how to plow the fields and taught them agriculture, using Gullin's tusks as a plow. People eventually learned how to make a more efficient plow themselves, but the teachings of Fro and Gullin remain relevant to this day, Gullin would become the father of all Tusked animals including boars and walruses.-TLK

Archetypal characteristics of Thunar are preserved in the Grimm fairy tale ‘Strong Hans’. A youth with super-human strength fashions an iron club that he bludgeons his enemies with. His adventures, similar to that of Siegfried in the Nibelung, lead him to a cunning dwarf he must outsmart and rescue a princess held hostage in his lair. Guided by natural spirits, he uses the dwarf’s magic ring to escape the cave. Hans also meets two giants of similar might named Fir-twister and Rock-splitter whom he also slays after they betray him. Jacob Grimm relates this tale with the Edda poem Hymiskviða in which Thor sets out on a quest to find a cauldron and he wears it on his head. Strong Hans’ strength is so impressive that his frightened employer sends him away on errands to keep him busy. He takes a church bell and wears it as a cap. Other variants of the tale include that Hans gained his great strength from the nourishment of his mothers milk or that of a female animal, and even giant’s milk in some versions.

Folk would fashion rods out of hazelnut, birch, mistletoe, and many other plants for ritual purposes like fertility rites, cleansing the home, or warding against harm. Mistletoe was called Donnerbesen meaning “Thunder’s Broom” (and the church later changed this to teufelbesen ‘devil’s broom’). Grimm also states that another kenning for donnerbesen or donnerkraut was alpruthe (elf-rod) and the word alpgeschoss (elf-shot) was a kenning for the thunderbolt, showing a close relationship between the Gods and elves. At Yule, Father Christmas the jolly old elf, makes his visit riding a goat and sometimes he or one of St. Nicholas’ pagan “helpers” Ruprecht or Belsnickel carries a ‘life rod’ all similar in resemblance to Strong Hans or The Mighty Thunderer and his sacred weapon.

Become the strongman! Thunder’s spirit stir within our people!

Dirkje and me visited an ancient circulair rampart and a lake called the Uddelermeer. Both sites are loaded with ancestral history and are closely connected with the deity Donar/Thor. The Tribe of the Fox made some nice footage there and we speak about Donar/Thor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLQQDjlFpgM