Goibniu, Luchta, Credna
Drawing by Ire

Nuada
Drawing by Ire

My mother used to sing me this lullaby when I was a child 💕

Escape from reincarnation is the aim of Buddhism and there is a similar equivalent in Platonism. But I don't think this was the original attitude of Indo-European pagans, or even of the original Indo-Aryans. Rig-Veda 2:53 verse 1 prays to Rudra:

"Do not cut us off from the sight of the sun. Let the hero spare our horses. O Rudra, let us be born again through our children."

Since you all are here, I'd like to point you in the direction of my husband's channel. He's an amazing artist and is currently working on a series of paintings of the Celtic Gods.

https://t.me/IreEtherealArt

Andrey Shishkin

"Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus", John William Waterhouse (1900)

Hermes Staff
5th century BC

Danish viking silver hoard uncovered near Wierwingen in the Netherlands, circa 850-880 AD

"Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal
But the good name never dies
Of one who has done well" - Hávamál

Christian Family Values 1/2

Genesis 22:2
"And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of."

Genesis 22:10
"And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son."

Deuteronomy 21:18-21
"If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear."

Christian Family Values 2/2

Matthew 10:35-37
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."

Matthew 19:29
"And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life."

Matthew 8:21-22
"And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead."

Luke 20:35
"But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage."

Fidia Sculpting the Statue of Minerva by Raffaello Sorbi (1869)

Forest Queen, Johannes Gehrts

"They believe there resides in women something holy and prophetic, and so do not scorn their advice or replies."

—Tacitus, Germania

"I begin to sing of Pallas Athene, the glorious goddess, bright-eyed, inventive, unbending of heart, pure virgin, saviour of cities, courageous, Tritogeneia. From his awful head wise Zeus himself bare her arrayed in warlike arms of flashing gold, and awe seized all the gods as they gazed. But Athena sprang quickly from the immortal head and stood before Zeus who holds the aegis, shaking a sharp spear: great Olympus began to reel horribly at the might of the bright-eyed goddess, and earth round about cried fearfully, and the sea was moved and tossed with dark waves, while foam burst forth suddenly: the bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses a long while, until the maiden Pallas Athene had stripped the heavenly armour from her immortal shoulders. And wise Zeus was glad. And so hail to you, daughter of Zeus who holds the aegis! Now I will remember you and another song as well."

Homeric Hymn XXVIII - To Athena