The relief represents a bearded and shirtless man that carries a spear, with which he is attacking a beast that is biting on the spear’s head. We can see that the beast is standing on the ground, while there is some object, possibly a cloud behind the Rider. The rider’s spear’s end is coming out of the cloud. Ante Miloshevich concludes that the short tail, big paws with long claws and the head which has sharp teeth in its mouth and small ears clearly show that the beast in question is a bear. It is believed that the horse rider is Perun because of the traces of Perun worship which exist around the village. The hill behind Zrnovnica is called Perun, nearby there are hills Perunsko Brdo and Perunich. If we observe the Perun hill from Zrnovnica, we can clearly see it resembling a head which has a beard and is wearing a moustache, just like the Rider. The relief was not originally a part of the church. First it belonged to another object in the nearby village of Grachic. Miloshevich also compared the Rider to novgorodian small statues that represent Perun. They all represent him as a bearded man with a helmet who wears a tunic (or some form of a male skirt). It is evident that the worship of Perun played an important role to the people of Zrnovnica. Miloshevich concludes that the beast in question represents Veles in his bear form.

Is this a joke? 😂 I love how they spew historical inaccuracies to support the “Christian” brain washing. https://youtu.be/cpwfS980f_w

ON PERUN: SURVIVAL OF PERUN WORSHIP IN CHRISTIANITY

After Christianization the cult of Perun merged and was transformed into veneration of Saint Elias. This happened most likely because of the Old Testament, which credited Saint Elias with the ability to bring rain and thunderstorms. Thus, through these means, an obscure Christian saint became a major celebrity in Slavic Orthodoxy. In the later Christian iconography of Saint Elias, he appears like Perun traversing the sky in the chariot of fire or riding on the horse. He has also been associated with thunders arrows and oaks.
On the 20th of July, Saint Elias’ day, a cow was slaughtered and the meat prepared by males. It was then distributed in the church and eaten by the whole congregation. This custom, evidently not being Christian, resembles the sacrificial killing of an animal and the communal consumption of the meat. This celebration could be observed in Russia, Serbia and Macedonia.

This is something that always seemed obvious, and after contact with many followers of an indo-european tradition from outside of the SVNKVLT, I feel I had to say something about. There is this pervasive thought that the Gods somehow get stronger by our veneration, worship, offerings etc. They do not. Being very powerful beings, upholders of Natural Law and the ultimate cause of every physical phenomenon in the material universe, they do not NEED our prayers and offerings. However, if we show devotion and respect to them, the chance that they will favour you gets significantly higher, thus giving the impression that they became "stronger", when in fact they are just more present around you.

^ People who think that clearly get their religion from Warhammer!

i.e. Sacrifice to Khorne/Nurgle/Tzeentch/Slaanesh makes them stronger and give them enough offerings and they'll lend ya some demons to fight alongside you for your cause.

If the whole "prayer/ritual for x deity gives them y power" thing worked, then Allah/Yahweh would be dominating thousandfold more now than he already does, but we're seeing a return to European faith amongst people of European heritage.

Some Slavic info for the festival tonight.

“Wyrd often saves an undoomed hero, as long as his courage is good.” ~ Beowulf, line 572

On the occult: a personal impression of mine has been that opinion on the occult has been polarized. Either it is utterly evil demon worship - this coming from puritan protestants, especially if they reside in the United States, but from other christians as well - or that it is completely good, but it is reserved for a mental or spiritual elite; those who demonise it are mental or spiritual peasants. My impression is that upon the Christianization of Europe, much pre-christian knowledge went underground, being studied by those few who were both educated and brave enough to go against the Church. These people were unfortunately joined by evil people, who would have been shunned in any society regardless if christian or pagan. Through deceit and misinterpretation and twisting of pre-christian traditional thought, they took over occultism and the spiritual and maybe even physical descendants of these people are in power to this day. Some of the global false elite that leads us keep practicing twisted pagan practices, combined with what could even be worship of evil entities. What happens is that the elite is accused of practicing paganism, thus giving the impression that pre-christian europeans did the same things that the global elite is doing today. This is FALSE.

Mind that not all that is deemed as occultism is bad, however keep out a cautious eye. Many former pagans I know have fallen for degenerate, anti-Traditional paths such as LaVeyan Satanism and so on. If you are in doubt, check out the less "occult" sources, such as the primary ones, or studies done from Evola or Dumezil.

Albert Edelfelt 🇫🇮 (b. 1854 d. 1905) — Larin Paraske (b. 1833 d. 1904), 1893.

The number of Kalevalan style poetic verses sung by this Karelian woman and recorded for posterity is a staggering 32,676.

And she is just one of many keepers of ancient knowledge in recent history.

The rich oral tradition of Northern Europe (Karelia & Finland in particular) never died out. It preserved an entire Pagan world.

And men, unholy in deed and thought, take pleasure in envy and malice. And, O sinless one, the earth then becometh full of sin and immorality. And, O tiger among men, the merchants and traders then full of guile, sell large quantities of articles with false weights and measures.

Mahābhāratam Book 3 Aranyaparva,
Markandeya-Samasya Parva: #KaliYuga

Good post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFsh94e_cn0

O diese Sonne

Der Freischütz, Op. 77, J. 277, (usually translated as The Marksman or The Freeshooter) is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind. It premiered on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin. It is considered the first important German Romantic opera, especially in its national identity and stark emotionality.

The plot is based on the German folk legend of the Freischütz and many of its tunes were thought to be inspired by German folk music, but this is a common misconception. Its unearthly portrayal of the supernatural in the famous Wolf's Glen scene has been described as "the most expressive rendering of the gruesome that is to be found in a musical score".

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/staffordshire-hoard-most-important-find-anglo-saxon-history-archaeology-book-a9179781.html?amp&utm_source=reddit.com

Hoard of golden treasure stumbled upon by metal detectorist revealed to be most important Anglo-Saxon find in history

The hoard was made up of golden fittings from up to 150 swords, gold and garnet elements of a very high status seax (fighting knife), a spectacular gilded silver helmet, an impressive 30cm-long golden cross, a beautiful gold and garnet pectoral cross, a probable bishop’s headdress – and parts of what is likely to have been a portable battlefield shrine or reliquary.

The extraordinarily ornate bishop’s headdress is the world’s earliest surviving example of high status ecclesiastical headgear.

Dating from the mid-seventh century AD, its presence in an otherwise predominantly military hoard suggests that its ecclesiastical owner may well have been performing a supporting role on a battlefield. 

Significantly, the headdress bears no resemblance to later medieval or modern bishops’ mitres – and is therefore likely to trigger debate among historians as to its stylistic origins because it looks so similar in basic design to headdresses believed by early medieval clerics to have been worn by biblical Jewish high priests and also resembles headdresses worn by pagan Roman priests.

The headdress – made of beautifully crafted gold, inlaid with garnets and white and dark red glass – dates from the period when Christianity was being re-established across many of the local kingdoms that would eventually become England.

It represents the status and prestige of the Church – but, significantly, it is decorated with typical pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon semi-abstract animal designs as well as seven Christian crosses.

The portable shrine – potentially presided over by the owner of the headdress or a similar senior cleric – was probably designed to be carried into battle on two horizontal poles (like a litter or later sedan chair) – in order to obtain God’s help in securing military victory.

Only seven elements of the shrine, all made of gold, have survived.

One element (probably part of a cross) bears a highly significant inscription – a quotation from the Book of Numbers. It reads “Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee”.

Its biblical context is that of Moses uttering these words alongside the Ark of the Covenant accompanying the Israelites in their journey across the wilderness, threatened by hostile tribes. The nature of the inscription suggests that the precious shrine or reliquary (in Latin, arca) had probably been used as a war talisman in the long and bitter conflicts between warring kingdoms in early Anglo-Saxon England.

The ecclesiastical treasures and secular/military items appear to have been treated in a potentially disrespectful way before they were buried. They had been broken and/or folded and deliberately bent out of shape.

Back in the mid-seventh century, southeast Staffordshire (the area near Lichfield where the material was found) was controlled by a powerful pagan Anglo-Saxon king called Penda.

His geopolitical and military activity formed a major part of the bloodsoaked rivalry and conflict between his own kingdom (Mercia) and other, often Christian, kingdoms in other parts of England – especially in Northumbria and East Anglia.

Given the probable mid-seventh century date of the burial of the treasure, it is therefore possible that it was war booty captured by the pagan Mercian king, Penda, from armies led by Christians, such as the East Anglians. 

One possible explanation is that the treasure was ritually buried as a Mercian pagan war trophy – perhaps even as a thanks offering to a pagan deity for delivering victory.

Putting Christian material into the ground in such a way may have been seen by Penda (or an equivalent figure) as a spiritual or ideological victory over Christianity to mirror a military one.

Mind, I disagree that women should be brought into battle, unless it's last stand type situation, however they must have at least basic knowledge of combat in case the husband is away and someone comes for her and the children. I just liked this post (not mine), therefore posted it here.

Monotheism and Atheism falls short in their attempts to interpret existence in comparison to what our ancestors experienced.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNrIWoTCuL8&t=4s

I've seen many Nordicist circles excited over this article (link: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/708 ) which asserts, more or less, the following.

>based on PCA on the DNA of skeletons found in the area of Lazio dated back to monarchical and republican Roman times, the founding stock of Rome was genetically similar to southern French, rather than Italians
>based on later skeletons, majority of Imperial Romans residents of that area were of middle eastern stock, so middle eastern that they barely cluster with modern day Sicilians
>the Germanic incursions into the Apenine Peninsula, along with the Germanic Holy Roman Empire and the replacement/mixing that followed in Italy as a consequence of it "brought" the inhabitants back to the European genetic cluster, though not quite to where the founding Romans used to be.

That being said, one would really have to broaden the definition of Nordic if one wanted to include them into that group. While yes, the paper does prove what people have been saying for centuries; namely that the original Romans were more "northern" than modern Italians, but apparently not by that much. On an unrelated note one can assert that the increase degeneracy and homosexuality (and the later spread of the Christian religion) in Imperial Rome correlate with an increase of non-Europeans into Europe, as well as with a rampant increase in urbanism and cosmopolitanism.

Roman Legionnaire's #Swastika Officer Ring, 5th Macedonian / Legio V Macedonia.
2nd century CE