THE OLD WAYS
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I explore hidden history & other alternative information, European/ Slavic pagan music & folk art, ethnic folk traditions & rites of indigenous European/ Slavic people, animism, and more...
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Forwarded from Art of Neale Rundgren
The next illustration for my client. It’s a variation of the last one did but with far more detail, thus giving my client a greater selection of illustrations from which to choose. Illustration featuring the Scandinavian God Tyr, (Victory and Justice) with the Great Wolf Fenrir (Fen-Dweller) 😁

Check out the process here. (There are about 11 screenshots I recorded of the process but Substack only allows 6 images at a time)

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Hey everyone, 😁

Huzzah! It is done. The trickster fox from French, Flemish/Flanders & English folklore, Reynard the Fox. Truth be told I didn’t quite finish the speed run; I painted for about 10 hours straight throughout the night until my bed beckoned me to sleep, lol! I also took off yesterday from painting, thus I finished it today. There are still a few issues here and there but I’ll tend to them later. Enjoy!

You can view the painting process here.

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Rocker Fox in progress. I don’t know by my choice of style reminds me so much of Gargoyles or Biker Mice from Mars.

Anyway, more sketches of Scandinavian folklore coming soon.

Stay tuned.

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Thor is invoked in a Norse charm to cure an infected wound, in an 11th century Anglo-Saxon manuscript. Generally, Odin is invoked in healing charms, but since Thor is the enemy of Thursar, and this infected wound is attributed to a Thurs named Joril/Gyril, the thunderer is an appropriate god to invoke.

The charm also includes what some consider a variant of the widely attested formula <Thor vigi> “Thor bless”. Here ᚦᚢᚱᚢᛁᚵᛁᚦᛁᚴ, ÞUR UIGI ÞIK is translated as “May Thor bless you, lord of the Thursar” but Thor hates Thursar, so why would he bless them? Alternatively uigi should be read not as vigi but vegi “slay”, in which case the runes say:

Gyril/Joril, Wound-infector, go now, you are found! May Thor slay you, lord of thursar, Gyril Wound-infector, against blood-vessel pus!

The Canterbury manuscript dates to 1073 AD and shows that Germanic pagan gods were invoked in England even after the Norman conquest.
Forwarded from 🏛MEDIEVAL EUROPE🏛
Narrow medieval alleyway in Bondone, Italy 🇮🇹
Alcazar, Segovia, Spain (1836). David Roberts (Scottish, 1796-1864).
The Secret Rendezvous (c. 1870). Pierre-Charles Comte (French, 1823-1895).
Lake Wöhrsee in Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany. Vintage postcard.
The Fireflies (1896). Henri Camille Danger (French, 1857-1937).
Forwarded from ᚪOLK CINEᛗA
People reportedly placed live brown frogs in milk to keep it from spoiling before modern refrigeration. The practice was based on the observation that milk stayed fresh longer when a frog was placed in it. Later, scientists discovered that the skin of these frogs secretes antimicrobial peptides, which act as natural antibiotics, inhibiting bacterial growth and helping preserve the milk.
How monotheistic religious ideology is used to conform disparate unique ethnic groups into one merged identity for purposes of empire:

"The first revealed religion to be used in the service of empire was Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 BCE). Although there were proto-empires before this, the Achaemenid Persian Empire is the most notable for it’s imposing breadth of size and strength. Zoroastrianism was used, essentially, for population-wide mind control with an aim to unite disparate ethnic groups over a wide swathe of regional distance into one unified empire."

Excerpt from "Ancestral Reincarnation is the Enemy of Empire" by CE

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"When it comes to religion in pre-history, obviously there are no written records. The main fields of study to understand spirituality of the past are archaeology and anthropology.

Among different human ethnic groups around the world, there are many universal or near-universal concepts that spring up everywhere. I maintain that they are universal beliefs but distinct from universalist ideologies.

For instance, nearly all human populations living in their natural or primitive lifestyle tend to believe in animism – the idea that all things natural on Earth have a spirit. Indigenous people nearly universally have believed in reincarnation and that reincarnation was ancestral and/or ethnic/clan based.

It is not a universalist ideology because these beliefs are not interlinked with dogma and specific details vary among culture groups."

Excerpt - Ancestral Reincarnation is the Enemy of Empire by CE

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And the past here is meant to the first generations of your ancestral blood tribe, and not to the period in history when your Caucasian ancestors were forced to convert to Christianity/Catabolism/Orthodoxy
Paganism is strengthening the future with the wisdom of the past
Franc Kavčič - The Lament of Orpheus
Another weak coward who puts his own European ancestors to shame by supporting a lie that this ancient burial in Germany was of a woman with black skin and black hair.

He claims that the notion that this burial containing a blonde, blue-eyed Aryan warrior was a Nazi propaganda while intentionally ignoring the modern-day aggressive Afrocentrist propaganda that has permeated through every institution. This is especially true when it comes to filming industry/Hollywood and academia.

Why does he think it’s Nazi propaganda to say that this ancient burial located in Germany contains the remains of a person who was fair-skinned, blonde haired, and blue-eyed? We are talking about Germany, that’s exactly the kind of person you would think that was buried there.

To say that the person buried in this ancient Germanic burial was a woman with black skin and black hair seems a whole lot more like propaganda to me, then to say it was a Caucasian with blond-hair, and blue-eyes.
https://youtu.be/3Oh6bC4t7q8?is=vvJ1l9MYI5QnUeta
I love this guy. He definitely doesn’t fit the modern world. He cooks mostly with what he produces on his own land. Here he is showing how to make honey ice cream.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MB-mASuNlDY?is=uqZfGuGXpgJt1df9
Happy 4th from Florida to all my fellow Americans