I know that the Russian Anastasia movement may not be exactly identical to the pre-Christian, pagan, Slavic way, but at least they do acknowledge the pre-Christian, pagan Slavic tradition, heritage, and way of life, and try to live according to it. At least they live their lives in harmony with organic nature, minimize their use of technology, and live as self sufficiently as possible.

I cannot judge these Anastasia people, because I have not yet read the series of books “The Ringing Cedars”. I cannot judge something based on the opinions & words of others.

Before I can judge anyone, or anything, or come to any conclusion, I have to first read their work, and become familiar with it.

I listened to an interview of one of the families who lives on one of the Russian kin-domain Anastasia settlements, and they sounded as if they seem to mix new age teachings with pre-Christian pagan Slavic tradition.

Another family that lived in a different Anastasia village seemed to acknowledge the Slavic pagan gods & goddesses, but they also kept saying the word “god”. So I was confused.

I suppose after centuries of Christian brainwashing, it’s difficult for some Russian adults to transition from Christianity/Russian Orthodoxy to Slavic paganism. So while they’re going through this process, for a while they may be bringing up this father god, until they fully separate from Christianity.

It’s either this, or, the old, pre-Christian pagan Slavs did have a pantheon of many gods & goddesses, but there was a main father god, or sky father god. I just don’t know for sure.

Kind of like Gnostics who believe in many gods & goddesses they call Aeons, but claim that these lesser gods emanated from one main supreme god. However, Gnostics were definitely very different from pagan Slavs, because Gnostics viewed earth, and the material reality in general as something very negative, as a prison that traps spirit. Pagan Slavs did not have this negative view of material world. Pagan Slavs saw the earth and nature as divine & sacred.

I just can’t find any source that clearly describes exactly what the pagan Slavs believed. All we have are bits and pieces of information.

So whether there was some sort of spiritual hierarchy of gods and goddesses in Russian/Slavic pagan pantheon, one thing for sure is that they definitely did believe in many gods and goddesses.

I want to point out that Tolkien’s creation myth also describes how gods and goddesses emanated from one supreme being/god.

And I’m not pushing monotheism here. No way would I do that. I’m actually always speaking against it. I’m just trying to understand the pre-Christian beliefs of pagan Russian Slavs

One of the books is called “The Ringing Cedars of Russia”, and this very name refers to an ancient, pagan Slavic shamanic practice. It involved a special Slavic volkhv who knew how to tune into the vibrations of Cedar trees, and listen to it, and then translate the message to the people. They took guidance from the trees. This shamanic practice was practiced in many indigenous cultures. Back then the people were aligned with earth’s consciousness, and the intelligence & consciousness of nature, trees, plants, animals.

Here is Tolkien’s creation myth describing the creation of gods & the world. In the beginning, there was Eru Ilúvatar, and he was all. Eru Ilúvatar was the supreme being who created gods and goddesses through his thoughts, and together they sang the world into existence. While they were singing, a dissonance had entered the song. This was Melkor’s doing.

Now, different people try to interpret Tolkien’s creation myth to make it fit within their own worldview. The Christians try to make it fit into the Christian worldview. Gnostics try to make it fit into Gnostics worldview. Zoroastrians try to make it fit into their worldview. I don’t think it’s any of them.

I want to point out that there are parallels between all three of them. Gnosticism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism all have similarities.

I suppose this could mean many things. One possibility is that Tolkien was influenced by his Christian/Catholic upbringing, which to some degree may have influenced his writing. Another possibility is that someone deliberately tampered with Tolkien’s work to make it sound Christian. Or, maybe his work only seems to have parallels with Christian mythology, but in reality, it has nothing to do with Christianity, and is a thing of its own.

Another “sex and the city” episode in which a white American female Samantha is dating an African-American who’s sister has a problem with Samantha dating her African-American brother. The reason why she doesn’t want Samantha dating her brother is because she, Samantha, is white, and her brother is black. No one screamed racist after this

Here in this scene the black sister tells Samantha that she doesn’t want her dating her brother because she is white, and she has a problem with a white woman dating her black brother. The black sister is not wrong for saying this. I’m just surprised the neo-liberals didn’t jump all over this attacking this as racist. I guess when black people say this no one considers it racist, but if a white person said this, it would go viral over night, and this TV series would receive a lot of heat for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VujvKDWw5XA&feature=share

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Our buddy, Thunderstorm, dropped this video for us on serfdom. It’s important to know our own history. They only are able to manipulate people who don’t know their own history. And I’ve got an uphill battle because the “dissident right” is filled with potato heads who also don’t know their own history and don’t know how to spot shapeshifters manipulating them by using their rightful grievances as a piggyback to manipulate them for an ulterior motive.

We need to do better. Get your hands on my Folkright Journal and start learning our own deep roots.

https://youtu.be/pNfX_uJ4PRg

Looking up info on white tigers led to a brief discussion of “mixed race” tigers - tigers cross bred with another subspecies. All subspecies of tigers are endangered but conservationists say that a cub that is a cross breed of two different tiger subspecies has no conservation value. Why does all of the basic knowledge of genetics and breeding go out the window when we begin discussing humans? So a Bengal Tiger and a Siberian Tiger are completely different and their cross bred offspring are “generic” with no conservation value - but humans are all one race and race mixing is fine. Utterly asinine.

Christianity vs. Folk Faith

Folk Faith: life in nature
Christianity: “life” after death

Folk faith: strength
Christianity: weakness

Folk faith: life & joy
Christianity: death & mourning

Folk faith: humans as children of gods
Christianity: humans as slaves/servants of god

Folk faith: freedom
Christianity: authority

Folk faith: direct link to gods
Christianity: intermediaries/priests

Folk faith: gods of this world
Christianity: god not of this world.

Folk faith: nature-made
Christianity man-made

Folk faith: nature/matter spiritual/divine
Christianity: no spirituality in nature/matter

Illustration for the tale "Nine pheasants" or "The Golden apple" (Devet Paunova) *Author unknown* Serbian/slavic mythology/fairytale

Marko Kraljevic i Vila Ravijojla (Prince Marko and the Fairy Raviyoyla)
Serbian/slavic mythology/fairytale