Forwarded from BC Neanderthal Mindset
Desert religions have no place with our people. Like a door-to-door salesman that leaves you with less than average merchandise.
Get back to your roots.
Have a fantastic week.
Get back to your roots.
Have a fantastic week.
Forwarded from Æhtemen
Garsecg, the English god of the Seas. His name appears quite often in Old English texts, but little is really known about him. The root Gar means spear – as in the English Gar rune. The word 'Secg' can vary and can mean sword but also hero or warrior. Here it would suggest his name means 'Spearman', a folk memory from ancient hunter gatherer times maybe.
There is an older root-meaning for the word Gar, from the PIE *ǵʰey which means 'to drive, move or fling'. Perhaps his name is a reference to the ocean waves, tidal currents and stormy seas which tossed ships and drowned sailors.
There is an older root-meaning for the word Gar, from the PIE *ǵʰey which means 'to drive, move or fling'. Perhaps his name is a reference to the ocean waves, tidal currents and stormy seas which tossed ships and drowned sailors.
Forwarded from BC Neanderthal Mindset
Illustration of Abaris, the Hyperborean.
“Neither by ship nor on foot would you find the marvellous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans.
Never the Muse is absent from their ways:
lyres clash and flutes cry and everywhere maiden choruses whirling.
Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood;
far from labor and battle they live.”
– Pindar, Tenth Pythian Ode.
“Neither by ship nor on foot would you find the marvellous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans.
Never the Muse is absent from their ways:
lyres clash and flutes cry and everywhere maiden choruses whirling.
Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood;
far from labor and battle they live.”
– Pindar, Tenth Pythian Ode.
Forwarded from Old and New European Art and Aesthetics
Baigneuse (Bather) (1870). William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905).
Forwarded from Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored) (T.L.K.)
There is a German Fairy Tale known as "The Devil and the Three Golden Hairs" in which a boy born with a caul is tasked with traveling to the otherworld and collecting three golden hairs from the devil, when he arrives "The Devil's Grandmother" is the one who aids him as well as solving the issues of the towns and cursed ferryman he comes across. The Devil solves the curse of the Tree of Life as being a mouse in the roots of the tree with golden apples, the fountain of wine or well is blocked by a toad, and the ferryman need only pass his burden to another. This tale also appears in nearby Slavic lands, yet here the pagan aspects are far more obvious. The Golden Haired "Devil" is in fact Dahzbog who leaves his home a child to take the sun across the sky, only to return an old man and die in the lap of Zorya of the midnight star. Whose lap he goes to every night, others have interpreted her as Baba Yaga at least in the tale.-TLK