Archetypes of Immortality: Part 2 - The Island and Immortality

https://telegra.ph/The-island-and-immortality-11-26

In this second article, the maiden guides the worthy to an island.
What awaits them there?

- Watonos, The Sun Riders
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Modern English:
May heaven and earth make me glorious.
May Lord Ingui and the wise sage god Woden make me glorious.
May I attain the glory of divine light.
May this great glory never abandon me.
May it never abandon my people, among whom let me be a speaker of truth.
Ænglisc:
Mē wuldrien heofon and earþe.
Mē wuldrien Ing dryhten ond Wōden se wīsa god.
Ic begiete þæt wuldor hālges lēohtes.
Ne forlǣte þis wuldor nǣfre mē.
Ne forlǣte hit nǣfre mīn folc, gemang þǣm ic sóþspreca bēo.
Svensk:
Må Himlen och Jorden göra mig ärorik.
Må Ingvi Frej och vise man-guden Oden göra mig ärorik.
Må jag uppnå det heliga ljusets ära.
Må denna stora ära aldrig överge mig.
Må det aldrig överge mitt folk, bland dem låt mig vara en sanningssägare.
Deutsch:
Mögen Himmel und Erde mich prächtig machen.
Mögen Fro Ing and der wissend-weise Gott Wotan mich prächtig machen.
Möge ich die Pracht des göttlichen Lichts erlangen.
Möge diese große Pracht mich niemals verlassen.
Möge sie niemals mein Volk verlassen, für das sie mich ein Künder der Wahrheit sein lasse.
Heathen prayer for truth and enlightenment. Translated into 4 Germanic languages.

The Start of Numa’s Reign as the Second King of Rome after Romulus

Accordingly an augur (who thereafter, as a mark of honour, was made a priest of the state in permanent charge of that function) conducted him (Numa Pompilius) to the citadel and caused him to sit down on a stone, facing the south. The augur seated himself on Numa's left, having his head covered, and holding his in right hand the crooked staff without a knot which they call a lituus. Then, looking out over the City and the country beyond, he prayed to the gods, and marked off the heavens by a line from east to west, designating as ' right' the regions to the south, as 'left' those to the north, and fixing in his mind a landmark opposite to him and as far away as the eye could reach; next shifting the crook to his left hand and, laying his right hand on Numa's head, he uttered the following prayer: “Father Jupiter, if it is Heaven's will that this man Numa Pompilius, whose head I am touching, be king in Rome, do thou exhibit to us unmistakable signs within those limits which I have set.” He then specified the auspices which he desired should be sent, and upon their appearance Numa was declared king, and so descended from the augural station.

- Livy (1.18)

Here we can see Numa, perhaps the most pious king of Rome, used divination to confirm his right to rule, after he was unanimously voted for by the senators. This sort of divination should be revitalised in our new growing communities, especially when it comes to important decisions and confirming the Gods are on our sides regarding a particular action.

- Owen, The Sun Riders
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Archetypes of Immortality: Part 3 - The Swan Knight and the Smith
https://telegra.ph/The-Swan-Knight-and-the-Smith-12-05

In this final part, we reach the end of our quest, or perhaps it’s just the beginning.

- Watonos, The Sun Riders
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Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Sappho on the Leucadian Cliff

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

Homosexuality and Pederasty in the Ancient and Pagan Worldview 1/3 - Hellenes and Vedic India

https://telegra.ph/Homosexuality-and-Pederasty-in-the-Ancient-and-Pagan-Worldview-13---Hellenes-and-Vedic-India-10-18

"Imagine for a moment that our descendants judge our society based on a newspaper column presenting child transsexuality as the culmination of civilization a thousand years from now. Would this represent today's billions of people?..."

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
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Archetypes of Immortality - Full Series

Presented here are three articles that handle several archetypes connected to the source of immortality.
These have been interwoven throughout Indo-European myth and folklore.

Part 1: The Nymph and the Nix
Part 2: The Island and Immortality
Part 3: The Swan Knight and the Smith

- Watonos, The Sun Riders
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Old English sword pommel with #Swastika engraving, c. 6th century CE.

Old English grave artefact with serpentine #Swastika motif, c. 7th century CE.

Homosexuality and Pederasty in the Ancient and Pagan Worldview 2/3 - Germans and Scandinavians

https://telegra.ph/Homosexuality-and-Pederasty-in-the-Ancient-and-Pagan-Worldview-23---Germans-and-Scandinavians-11-25

"penetrating another man was seen as something so terribly violating as to constitute actual injury to their body and soul and certainly not something one would engage in with friends or loved ones, it being relegated to hated enemies at best. We can therefore consider such things in the same category as rape and killings: actions which were harshly known to our forefathers against enemies but which were not tolerated within the bounds of the community. One does not trust the man who desires to kill and rape his neighbours and our ancestors would have exiled as outlaws anyone who seemed to have this hostile desire. .."

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
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Homosexuality and Pederasty in the Ancient and Pagan Worldview 3/3 - Rome and its Orgies

https://telegra.ph/Homosexuality-and-Pederasty-in-the-Ancient-and-Pagan-Worldview-33---Rome-and-its-Orgies-11-25

"For decades, Ancient Rome has been associated in the popular imagination with orgies, a kind of excuse for all kinds of shortcomings and excesses. Indeed, the very first thing most people think of when they hear the words "Ancient Rome" are Roman orgies, a meticulously fabricated image by our dear "American" friends in Hollywood..."

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
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The Anglo-Saxon holy day of Mōdraniht "Mother's night" was said by Bede to have been a pagan holiday on the night before Xmas, but since pagans didn't keep a Christian calendar, most interpret that to mean on the night before winter solstice, which this year falls on Sunday night.
Rudolf Simek says that Mōdraniht "as a Germanic sacrificial festival should be associated with the Matron cult of the West Germanic peoples on the one hand, and to the dísablót and the Disting already known from medieval Scandinavia on the other hand and is chronologically to be seen as a connecting link between these Germanic forms of cult."
Dísablót was a Norse blot held for female deities called disir. Mōdraniht was not a celebration of women or mothers in general, but rather of primordial clan mothers, that is divinised progenitors who all the kinsmen held in common. Celebrating these clan mothers brings the community together and recognises our common blood. A similar practice existed among the North West European Celts in thei

Our series of posts compiling some interesting information on the Slavic thunder God Perun from last year:

Intro
Perun and Oaths
Weapons
The Thundermark
Perun Battles Veles
Survival of Perun Worship in Christianity


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Be sure to make today a nice experience for your children!

Memorize the Old Gods!

Hail Thor! Hail Odin!

Happy Winter Solstice ☀️

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Yule in the Germanic Calendar

https://telegra.ph/Yule-in-the-Germanic-Calendar-12-21

In this post, we are exploring the placement of Yule celebrations in the Germanic calendar.

We here at the Sun Riders wish you all a very happy Winter Solstice, however you may celebrate it!

- Kalin and PGM, The Sun Riders
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