Ajax Carrying Body of Achilles. Large Attic Black-figure volute-krater dating to c. 570-565 BC.

Signed “Ergotimos made me; Kleitias painted me”.

“I am the forest, I am ancient. I treasure the stag, I treasure the deer. I shelter you from storm, I shelter you from snow. I resist the frost, I keep the source. I nurse the earth, I am always there. I build your house, I kindle your hearth. Therefore, you people, hold me dear.”

— Inscription found in a 17th century forester’s house in Lower Saxony, Germany

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse

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."