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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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
@solarcult
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Swastikas on Pottery
Many cultures in Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Europe had a peculiar but often unmentioned practice of designing their pottery with swastikas on the interior.
Pictured (left) is Fatyanovo pottery with solar symbols on the interior, while (right) is an earlier Globular Amphora culture ware depicting an interior swastika.
This is interesting because these symbols were not meant to be seen, and instead possibly provided some magical or ritualistic purpose. It is also interesting that these were solar symbols, hinting at the connection between the swastika and solar concepts.
This practices is reminiscent of what is described in the Sigrdrífumál, describing the use of symbols such as beer runes not for visual reasons but instead purely for magical purposes.
-Hariwulfaz, the Sun Riders
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Many cultures in Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Europe had a peculiar but often unmentioned practice of designing their pottery with swastikas on the interior.
Pictured (left) is Fatyanovo pottery with solar symbols on the interior, while (right) is an earlier Globular Amphora culture ware depicting an interior swastika.
This is interesting because these symbols were not meant to be seen, and instead possibly provided some magical or ritualistic purpose. It is also interesting that these were solar symbols, hinting at the connection between the swastika and solar concepts.
This practices is reminiscent of what is described in the Sigrdrífumál, describing the use of symbols such as beer runes not for visual reasons but instead purely for magical purposes.
-Hariwulfaz, the Sun Riders
@solarcult
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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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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Telegraph
The Swan Knight and the Smith
As we have seen the otherworldly island contains the source of immortality, the food or drink of the gods, which can be represented in myth as golden apples, a cauldron, or a grail. Not only does the heroic undertaking by a mortal reveal the archetype of…
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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.
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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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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
@solarcult
Telegraph
Homosexuality and Pederasty in the Ancient and Pagan Worldview 1/3 - Hellenes and Vedic India
Let us begin our inventory by looking at the ancient objects that have survived until today, here upon the Greek vases, emblematic of this period. In fact, some of these have often been used to counterfeit an anachronistic reading, to stick a "modern" vision…
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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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
@solarcult
Telegraph
The Nymph and the Nix
Folktales and myths involving Swan Maidens are widespread, indicating an archaic origin. Whenever Swan Maidens are mentioned, they share the characteristics and roles associated with water nymphs. Sometimes, they are directly referred to as such, in the Rig…
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Old English sword pommel with #Swastika engraving, c. 6th century CE.
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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
@solarcult
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
@solarcult
Telegraph
Homosexuality and Pederasty in the Ancient and Pagan Worldview 2/3 - Germans and Scandinavians
In order to give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, or in this case to Arioviste what is Arioviste's, most of the information used in this part concerning the world beyond the Rhine comes from an article by Tristan Powers for the blog aryaakasha.com
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
@solarcult
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
@solarcult
Telegraph
Homosexuality and Pederasty in the Ancient and Pagan Worldview 3/3 - Rome and its Orgies
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,…
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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
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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Intro
Perun and Oaths
Weapons
The Thundermark
Perun Battles Veles
Survival of Perun Worship in Christianity
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Perun represents the Slavic variation of one of the most important archetypes present in Indo-European polytheism, the Thunderer. Depicted as connected to eagles and to the oak, riding a flaming wagon across the sky and wielding an axe, Perun’s…
Perun represents the Slavic variation of one of the most important archetypes present in Indo-European polytheism, the Thunderer. Depicted as connected to eagles and to the oak, riding a flaming wagon across the sky and wielding an axe, Perun’s…
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Happy winter solstice to the subscribers of @EuropeanTribalism!
Be sure to make today a nice experience for your children!
Memorize the Old Gods!
Hail Thor! Hail Odin!
Be sure to make today a nice experience for your children!
Memorize the Old Gods!
Hail Thor! Hail Odin!
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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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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
@solarcult
Telegraph
Yule in the Germanic Calendar
Understanding the ancient calendar systems of our ancestors is integral to understanding their practices and beliefs, as well as the timing for the big festivals. Germanic calendars, and the calendars of many other cultures, were lunisolar, meaning the phases…
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Frankish belt plate, 7th century, copper, a zoomorphic fylfot comprised of raptor heads. Photo by Matt Bunker at the collection of the National Archaeological museum, France.
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The Gregorian new year is a magical turn over because it is observed by so many people, and it is engrained in a society you are affected by. There is a lot of emotion put into the Gregorian calendar, and unless and until that changes on a large scale, it will have an affect on you. If you were to operated under a different calendar system, then there would be a magical turn over for the new year of that calendar as well (or instead, depending on if it were a replacement or simply an additional observance).
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