I strongly believe that it is in our nature to create and thus to indulge in mastering a form of art. To be complete we must search for the form of art in which we can express ourselves.

This is a wooden idol of Stribog made by me, a master in progress.

- Daelendil, The Sun Riders

Hope all is well with everyone. I won’t be active as much. Trying focus on my wife and family more. Getting on social media consistently is depressing, and I urge all of you, if you haven’t already, to limit your usage. Have a good night my FRENs, Hail Victory.

Take it easy king.

I think we all need to be careful with our usage of technology and online media. On that note; one of our admins, Boyka, is taking a break. We are still looking for other knowledgeable pagans to join us on the admin team, we don’t ask for too much as we all put our own lives and families first.

Vintage photo captured in 1978 in the Moscow city district Izmaylovo, on which we can see wooden sculptures representing bogatyrs (heroes) from old Russian legends. Interesting is, that these statues have form of the idols of Slavic pagan gods

Yeah post this reductionist nonsense with fucking a song of ice and fire fanart, what are you even thinking?

Clearly you don't take this shit seriously at all.

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Over and over in Aryan religions you see the pattern of a source of spiritual wisdom for mankind, often appearing as a Sacred Drink, especially mead. This is quite often the objective of a quest by mythical heroes or gods. The Irish Salmon of Wisdom, the Norse Mead of Poetry, the Indo-Ayran Soma ect. There is quite a lot to be said about this of course. It’s a very interesting and deep subject. However I will focus here solely on the fact that the “inspiration” gained from the drink is simultaneously and interchangeably referred to as both a source of cosmic wisdom and a source of poetic inspiration. I believe that these two things were seen as intimately bound together.
Poetry, (and by extension music which is a whole other topic) in all Aryan cultures was considered highly prestigious and holy. From the Bards, Skalds and Rishis, to the great Homer. All of our sacred knowledge was passed down in the form of poetry. The use of metre assured that the core of the myths would not be altered and allowed for the monumental feat of preserving myths almost identically for thousands of years with no written records. We can tell that this was effective by looking at and comparing myths from different cultures in the path of the Aryan migration. However there is much more to the sanctity of poetry than its use as a method of oral preservation of myths and history. The actual ability to compose poetry, that is poetic inspiration, is the ability to see into the spirit of a thing, to recognize nobility and ignobility, auspiciousness and inauspiciousness, in ones surroundings. To apply metaphor and epithet requires that you look, at least glance, at the inner essence of your subject, it’s Platonic Form even.

-Raudhain, a member of our community.

The monad is the one, the all, unknowable force which dreams creation. The dyad is the monad becoming aware of its dream. The masculine is perception, intellect, mortal consciousness. The feminine is the instinct, ancestral and animal nature and also the physical body, matter, all of what might be called samsara. When the masculine perceiving nature becomes one with the nature of the goddess who is the perceived the true meaning of as above so below is realized.

An idol of Mokosh which I made for my girlfriend.

-Daelendil, The Sun Riders

This is genuinely, unironically the most effective form of revolt against the system you could possibly do and you get to stay out of prison and grow a healthy family in the process. To those of you who complain endlessly of the injustices of the Beast System, know that you have to consent and to accept its endless temptations and poisons on your own for it to have any real power over you. How many of you have so much as planted a fucking potato?

Here's the secret. It's so simply you won't believe me until you do it: Start by doing one thing.

>If you don't exercise, go outside and just take a fucking walk
>If your family still watches TV, make one day a no-screen family activity day
>If you don't have a garden, buy a pot and some soil and a couple of poles and grow a tomato plant in your window
>If you don't have any land, go plant some potatoes in a forest
>Plant a fucking flower in a pot and watch it grow if you can't do anything else just do SOMETHING!

The first step is the hardest but it always leads to the next step and those people most independent of the system with an entire homestead, water source, food source, land, family, community and freedom all had to start somewhere too.

Just fucking do SOMEthing. Do ONE fucking thing. You'll be absolutely amazed at the magic that comes from it.

The Wandering Sage by Petar Meseldžija

Really interesting question Wotan Nation.

The gnostic concepts are somewhat compatible with pagan metaphyiscal concepts. I have read much of the Gnostic texts myself and it has influenced my view on theology & metaphysics. I think the Gnostic gospels are worth a read if you are interested in religious history and philosophy in general.

However we can't deny that the Gospels of say, Judas, Thomas, Phillip are all very much about Yeshua from Nazzereth.

I've sort of made up my own little quote I use before, the 'message' itself isn't mine originally but I've reworded it.

'When the Christian attains Gnosis he is no longer a Christian, but a Christ'

The theory in the gospel of Thomas is that Yeshua was an archetypical 'Christ' that ushered in a new age, you can apply this reasoning to A.H. if you are EH or EH leaning.

-Owen, The Sun Riders

Sappho was a Greek poetess from the Island of Lesbos who lived around the 7th or 6th century BC. The modern day LGBT community claims her as a sort of patron saint, a lesbian poetess who wrote with much ardour about the beauty of women. This, however, is far from the image history and her own writings portray of her. According to Homer, her contemporary, she had nine children, and a surviving fragment from her poetry speaks of how delightful she finds one daughter of hers, called Cleis. What little survives of her poetry seems to be about Sappho yearning for a man or even rejecting one on the basis of age difference. Her opponents of the time claimed she was a promiscuous woman who really got around, while Meander, who lived 200 years around her death, alleged that she had commited suicide after being rejected by a man she loved.

There is a complete poem of Sappho where she allegedly called upon the Goddess Aphrodite to make a girl had unrequited love for fall for the poetess, but in ancient Greek, third-person singular verbs can refer to both men and women. Much of her poetry was dedicated to heterosexual marriage, the bride and the bridegroom, their happiness etc. She often lamented at the tragic fate of women, at how unworthy men tricked them, but she also sang to the beauty of how the man's love for a woman makes the world go round

https://telegra.ph/The-Heroes-of-the-Iliad-as-Indo-European-Gods-A-Mythological-Rosetta-Stone-02-02

The Heroes of the Iliad as Indo-European Gods: A Mythological Rosetta Stone

Part 1 of 9: Agamemnon

Part 1 of our in-depth series on the Iliad Heroes as Indo-European gods. Will the Greeks be vindicated?

- The Sun Riders

“...we can see quickly that it is descended from the same tradition, the same material, but recast in a Greek form. This being plain from a host of examples which will become apparent [...] it should follow that the active figures of the Trojan War are representatives, incarnations, of the most archaic primary gods”


“...the Varuna archetype is always a conqueror who expands the territory of his kingdom in the early days of his power, which is exactly what Agamemnon and Pandu are said to do. Pandu is described as swallowing up kingdoms. After regaining his father's lost kingdom, Agamemnon's conquests make him the most powerful king in all of Greece.”

Svarog and Dažbog

In the Hypathian Codex, there is a tale which was translated from the language of the Byzantines. It tells us a story about the Egyptian God of the sky and his child, the Sun. The Byzantines referred to the God of the Sky as Hephaestus, and to the God of the Sun as Helios. Later, when this text was translated into Slavonic, the names were changed to Svarog as the God of the Sky and Dazhbog, as the God of the Sun:

(Then) began his reign Feosta (Hephaestus), whom the Egyptians called Svarog <…> during his rule, from the heavens fell the smith’s prongs and weapons were forged for the first time; before that, (people) fought with clubs and stones. Feosta also commanded the women that they should have only a single husband… and that is why Egyptians called him Svarog <…> After him ruled his son, his name was the Sun, and they called him Dažbog <…> Sun tzar, son of Svarog, this is Dažbog.

Hypathian Codex, translation of John Malalas’ Chronicle

- Daelendil, The Sun Riders