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ON JARILO: INTRO

Jarilo, also known as Jaril, Jarun, Jure, Jurij, Jaro and Jarovit, is a very important pan-Slavic deity of vegetation, fertility and youth. Jarilo is considered by many to be the Slavic variant of the “Father Harvest” deity in Indo-European religion. In Belarus folklore, Jarilo is depicted as a barefooted young man, whose beauty couldn’t be matched, with a big phallus who is dressed in a white tunic and in a cape of the same colour. He wears a crown of field flowers and is riding a white or a green horse (depends on the region). His head is enriched with golden curls of hair. In one of his hands, Jarilo is carrying wheat, while in the other one he is carrying a human head, whose blood pours down on the fields. He comes to our world in early spring, bringing warmth with him. Throughout centuries, it has been sung about how the Earth gives birth to grass and plants where Jarilo has walked. Because of this, Croats and Slovenes refer to him with the epithet Zeleni, which means the Green One.

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Thralldom wasn't slavery. Thralls were poor people who worked the land with their Lord (Loaf Warden)/Karl. When thralls were kidnapped in raids it was because the Free men Karls needed more help in their own homesteads. They were always treated with respect unless they were criminals.

ON JARILO: THE MYTH OF JARILO

Radoslav Katičić, Croatian philologist and pan-Slavist and Vitomir Belaj, Croatian ethnologist, attempted to reconstruct the mythology surrounding Jarilo in the XX century. According to these authors, he was a fairly typical life-death-rebirth deity, believed to be (re)born and killed every year. His mythical life cycle followed the yearly life of various wheat plants, from seeding through vegetation to harvest.

The path that Jarilo takes is closely related to seasons. In short, the myth talks about Jarilo, the tenth son of Perun, being taken by Veles to underworld and spending winter there. In spring, as a young man, he travels across the rivers and across the plains, all the way to the groves. There he meets Morana, who is his twin sister, and they fall in love. Later during summer Jarilo cheats on her and she, in rage, makes her brothers kill Jarilo, after which she, because of anger and grief, turn into Morana as we know her, a deity of cold and dark times.

“There an old tale goes, that Herne the Hunter,
Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest,
Doth all the winter time, at still midnight,
Walk round about an oak, with great ragg’d horns”

Shakespeare mentioned Herne the Hunter in Merry Wives of Windsor. We never ceased being pagan.

ON JARILO: GREEN JURIJ (Slovene equivalent of Jarilo)

“Holy Jurij knocks on the doors silently, one pant green, one pant red. Even though he just returned, already he made everyone happy, birds in the hedges, birds on the trees, yellow flowers which bloom beautifully, all celebrate his return in happiness. It has passed, winter has finally passed, Green Jurij returns to us at last. With him he brought sprouting seeds, arm length long green grass, from the green swamp and the bloody sea, through the rough roads and wide mountains.”
-Karel Štrekelj, Slovenian springtime song

The ritual is performed by a number of villagers, one of which, a young man is furnished in green, leafy branches. He is the representation of Green Jurij. Other villagers go with him and sing the ritual songs. They walk across the village and visit every homestead. People who live there come out and give Jurij a certain offering, for which he blesses their land and makes it fertile for this season.

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

What is Wicca?
Wicca is a form of British neopaganism invented in the 1950’s. It has no correlation with actual British paganism nor any type of paganism from anywhere. Wicca has different varieties. Started with Gardnerian, branched off into Alexandrian, Dianic, etc., but nowadays, most Wiccans are eclectic Wiccans, meaning they follow the basics of the first varieties of Wicca, but also incorporate other things from outside of that into their personal practice.

So, let’s start with the basics. The word Wicca in itself makes no sense at all when used in this way. The word wicca in Old English means ‘male witch,’ and wicce is the female equivalent. These both derive from Proto-Germanic *wikkjaz, which meant ‘necromancer.’ Wicca was never a religion, and Wiccans never existed. 

Who do Wiccans "worship"?
The god and goddess in Wicca are the horned god, an Irish deity, and the triple goddess, a Welsh deity. They are called the Lord and Lady, despite the fact these two deities never have any contact with one another in lore nor did any European peoples ever worship them as a pair. In fact, all European peoples worshipped the pan-European father sky and mother earth archetypes as the Lord and Lady, but this is completely disregarded in Wicca.

Witchcraft?
The practice of Wicca, usually called witchcraft, has absolutely nothing to deal with the any form of British pagan witchcraft. Galdor? Spæ? You will never see these fundamental aspects of British paganism mentioned among Wiccans. Wiccan witchcraft is based on a combination of English Christian cunning folk practices of the 15th through 19th centuries, and ceremonial magick, yes magick with a k, from Semitic countries.

The symbol
Let's talk about that star. The pentacle. Earth, air, fire, water and spirit. The pentacle is a symbol that can be found in places from all over, however, Europe just isn’t one of those places. Unless you count the butter churning stave found in one particular Galdrabók from 17th century Iceland. Not to mention that calling upon the 4 elements is only found in the Slavic countries of Europe, and never the British Isles.

Conclusion
In conclusion, Wicca is NOT a European religion. It is hardly a religion at all

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