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Photographer Captures Surviving European Pagan Rituals
November 24, 2015 Charles Freger
Photographer Charles Freger focuses much of his work on the celebration of cultural costumes. His website explains: “he takes care to present his subjects in harmony with a place, a time and a community as if to better convince us of our implacable ties to the excesses of appearance and the social aspect of position or status.”
His latest works, titled ‘Wilder Mann’ focus on European Pagan traditions which have survived into the 21st century. Freger traveled through 19 European nations to gather pictures of the impressive, fascinating, and often unnerving costumes used in the modern Pagan ritual. Check out the photographs below.
https://popcornhorror.com/european-pagan-rituals/
November 24, 2015 Charles Freger
Photographer Charles Freger focuses much of his work on the celebration of cultural costumes. His website explains: “he takes care to present his subjects in harmony with a place, a time and a community as if to better convince us of our implacable ties to the excesses of appearance and the social aspect of position or status.”
His latest works, titled ‘Wilder Mann’ focus on European Pagan traditions which have survived into the 21st century. Freger traveled through 19 European nations to gather pictures of the impressive, fascinating, and often unnerving costumes used in the modern Pagan ritual. Check out the photographs below.
https://popcornhorror.com/european-pagan-rituals/
Forwarded from The Frithstead (ᛉ Folcweard ᛦ)
The two-fingered salute & flipping someone off?
The Spirit of Robin Hood?
Hálettend
pronounced /ˈhɑː.let.tend/
The Old English word referring the the middle finger, by which a sign of greeting was made.
Referring to the Norman invasion, when the Normans captured Anglo-Saxon archers, they would cut the archer's index and middle fingers off. So, as a act of defiance, Anglo-Saxon archers would rebelliously stick those two fingers up at the Normans.
Centuries later, when the outnumbered English faced the French at the Battle of Agincourt, they were armed with a relatively new weapon, the longbow.
The French vowed to cut off the middle finger of each British archer.
When the longbows won the day, the English jeered the retreating French by raising their middle finger in a gesture that still means what it does today.
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
https://youtube.com/c/TheFrithstead
The Spirit of Robin Hood?
Hálettend
pronounced /ˈhɑː.let.tend/
The Old English word referring the the middle finger, by which a sign of greeting was made.
Referring to the Norman invasion, when the Normans captured Anglo-Saxon archers, they would cut the archer's index and middle fingers off. So, as a act of defiance, Anglo-Saxon archers would rebelliously stick those two fingers up at the Normans.
Centuries later, when the outnumbered English faced the French at the Battle of Agincourt, they were armed with a relatively new weapon, the longbow.
The French vowed to cut off the middle finger of each British archer.
When the longbows won the day, the English jeered the retreating French by raising their middle finger in a gesture that still means what it does today.
https://t.me/TheFrithstead
https://youtube.com/c/TheFrithstead
Birds play an important role in European spirituality including Eagles, Ravens, Wrens, Crows, Magpies, Owls, Swans, Finches among many others. The birds are often representative of a deity though birdlore is more extensive than that. A type of Perchten known as Raven or Duck Billed Perchten are depicted as women with bird heads, while many remnants of an ancient bird goddess exist in Europe notably with Mother Goose and Swan Maidens. These Bird goddesses and spirits are often tied in with the spirits of the dead with the Perchten specifically having been the former souls of lost children taken in by Perchta. Numerous bird style Wilder Mann customs exist across Europe depicting Storks, Ravens and other birds. A Continuation of ancient pagan customs. Birds also travel with the Wild Hunt, Ursula a goddess in Owl form travels with the Wild Huntsman, many gods will appear in bird form as well and birds such as Crows and Ravens serve as the eyes of the gods.-TLK
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Ewicher Yeeger "The Eternal Hunter" is a German God and is especially popular in Urglaawe Pennsylvania Dutch Tribal heathenry. Aside from being the master of the wilds and the woods, he is armed with a magic shot gun with infinite ammo and is especially known to hunt women of low character. He is credited with saving the PA Dutch from Starvation by driving animals to their land in the mountains to be hunted. During Halloween or Allelieweziel as the PA Dutch call it. He goes across the sky ahead of the wild hunt horned, armed, and flanked by his black hunting dogs. He collects the plant spirits before the armies of King Frost can claim them taking them off to the other realms.-TLK
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Masking (The Good Wylde Way not modern BS) is an ancient tradition present in many holidays across our lands. Carnival, Yule Mumming, and most famously Halloween. The costumes often depicted spirits, heroes, and gods! The costume and mask served as a means of camouflage against more misanthropic spirits, while also serving as a sign to more benevolent spirits to not be scared and that they were among friends. In some cases it also allowed for a kind of spirits possession that many who have particiapated in Wilder Mann customs have spoken of. Of the spirit of the Perchten or Mari Lwyd or deity associated with such seemingly filling them. The costumes also allow the spirits to take physical form and mingle with the living as they are able to blend in among the monstrous visages of the various costumes.-TLK
An article on our site concerning Hertha and the question of "Mother Earth" in West Germanic mythology. https://wylderhomesproject.life/2021/06/30/hertha-the-germanic-mother-earth/
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Hertha, The Germanic Mother Earth?
By I. M. Knosp One of the most widely known goddesses of West Germanic myth is that of “Earth”, her name is given to one of the four elements of Western tradition, it is also the name of the planet…
New Podcast just dropped, check it out we got fairly aggressive this time https://anchor.fm/hyperborean-radio/episodes/Conversion-Tactics-e18cb9r
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Conversion Tactics by Hyperborean Radio (uncensored)
Hello Wastelanders out there in Modernity, today we spoke of all the ways conversion is done by controlling faiths throughout history from ancient empires to today. From conflating gods and mythic heroes all the way to straight up lying and gaslighting. Watch…
There's been a lot of hullabaloo about hair color in European circles. While yes different tribal groups in Europe tend to favor one or the other hair color at different points in history. The reality is that just like other animals of the north foxes, bears, wolves, even Squirrels. Hyperboreans (Europeans/People of the North) indeed have various arrays of "Pelt" colors. It's a mark of the Northern woods.
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The Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz mountain range in Northern Germany, has been associated with legends of apparitions and the ghosts of giants that haunt its craggy heights.
In his tragic play ‘Faust’, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described the Brocken in as the center of revelry and festivity for witches on Walpurgisnacht, or Walpurgis Night.
“Now, to the Brocken, the witches ride;
The stubble is gold and the corn is green;
There is the carnival crew to be seen,
And Squire Urianus will come to preside.
So over the valleys, our company floats,
With witches a-farting on stinking old goats.”
The Harz housed a Saxon temple to the gods, and on the first of May, the spectral forms of the gods made the mountains their meeting place.
At the summit are huge blocks of granite called the ‘Sorcerer’s Chair’ and the ‘Witch’s altar’, while a close-by spring is known as the ‘Magic Fountain’. The anemone which grows here and around the sides is locally known as the ‘Sorcerer’s flower.’
In his tragic play ‘Faust’, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described the Brocken in as the center of revelry and festivity for witches on Walpurgisnacht, or Walpurgis Night.
“Now, to the Brocken, the witches ride;
The stubble is gold and the corn is green;
There is the carnival crew to be seen,
And Squire Urianus will come to preside.
So over the valleys, our company floats,
With witches a-farting on stinking old goats.”
The Harz housed a Saxon temple to the gods, and on the first of May, the spectral forms of the gods made the mountains their meeting place.
At the summit are huge blocks of granite called the ‘Sorcerer’s Chair’ and the ‘Witch’s altar’, while a close-by spring is known as the ‘Magic Fountain’. The anemone which grows here and around the sides is locally known as the ‘Sorcerer’s flower.’