The myth of the wild, uncultured, barbaric Germanics is a trope with no basis in reality; & in fact, our ancestors had a highly sophisticated traditional culture that helped them survive and thrive in the harsh & unforgiving environment of northwestern Europe.
Tacitus (abt. AD 56 – abt. 120), a Roman historian & politician had no real motive to speak admirably of the Germanic people, yet wrote a treatise on the Germans; known today as Germania, which details the Germanic folk themselves as well as their culture
It may surprise many readers to learn that the Germanic folk were not given to hedonism and debauchery, but held their women in high regard, marriage as a sacred institution, adultery as something condemnable, & abortion & infanticide as a criminal outrage
Without these values, the Germanic people would likely not have survived into the modern era
From: https://news.1rj.ru/str/weareonefolk
https://linktr.ee/TheFrithstead
Tacitus (abt. AD 56 – abt. 120), a Roman historian & politician had no real motive to speak admirably of the Germanic people, yet wrote a treatise on the Germans; known today as Germania, which details the Germanic folk themselves as well as their culture
It may surprise many readers to learn that the Germanic folk were not given to hedonism and debauchery, but held their women in high regard, marriage as a sacred institution, adultery as something condemnable, & abortion & infanticide as a criminal outrage
Without these values, the Germanic people would likely not have survived into the modern era
From: https://news.1rj.ru/str/weareonefolk
https://linktr.ee/TheFrithstead
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Audio
The Fyrgen Podcast - Episode 2: Practicing Paganism
This second episode of the Fyrgen Podcast continues where the first left off. Here I attempt to give an overview of the ways one might begin to practice as a pagan. Contents: Choosing your tradition/pantheon, recommended reading, meditation, methods of worship, a song, community, change of mindset, and the weekly riddle.
Books mentioned:
The Poetic and Prose Eddas - Snorri Sturluson
The Real Middle-Earth - Brian Bates
The Way of Wyrd - Brian Bates
By Oak, Ash and Thorn: Modern Celtic Shamanism - Deanna J. Conway
The Lost Gods of England - Brian Branston
Looking for the Lost Gods of England - Kathleen Herbert
Path to the Gods: Anglo-Saxon Paganism for Beginners - Swain Wodening
Hammer of the Gods - Swain Wodening
Family Rites For The Germanic Heathen - Swain Wodening
Various - Hilda Ellis Davidson
Asatru: A Native European Spirituality - Stephen McNallen
Rudiments of Runelore - Stephen Pollington
To Hold the Holytides - Thórbeorht Ealdorblótere
This second episode of the Fyrgen Podcast continues where the first left off. Here I attempt to give an overview of the ways one might begin to practice as a pagan. Contents: Choosing your tradition/pantheon, recommended reading, meditation, methods of worship, a song, community, change of mindset, and the weekly riddle.
Books mentioned:
The Poetic and Prose Eddas - Snorri Sturluson
The Real Middle-Earth - Brian Bates
The Way of Wyrd - Brian Bates
By Oak, Ash and Thorn: Modern Celtic Shamanism - Deanna J. Conway
The Lost Gods of England - Brian Branston
Looking for the Lost Gods of England - Kathleen Herbert
Path to the Gods: Anglo-Saxon Paganism for Beginners - Swain Wodening
Hammer of the Gods - Swain Wodening
Family Rites For The Germanic Heathen - Swain Wodening
Various - Hilda Ellis Davidson
Asatru: A Native European Spirituality - Stephen McNallen
Rudiments of Runelore - Stephen Pollington
To Hold the Holytides - Thórbeorht Ealdorblótere
Who do we honor on May Day; with the May Pole festivities?
What would be a Germanic name for these? As May is a Roman name, which really isn’t applicable to Northern folk.
Comments welcome and encouraged
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What would be a Germanic name for these? As May is a Roman name, which really isn’t applicable to Northern folk.
Comments welcome and encouraged
https://linktr.ee/TheFrithstead
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man. But he who knows that this was the condition laid down for him at the moment of his conception will live on those terms, and at the same time he will guarantee with a similar strength of mind that no events take him by surprise. For by foreseeing anything that can happen as though it will happen he will soften the onslaught of all his troubles, which present no surprises to those who are ready and waiting for them, but fall heavily on those who are careless in the expectation that all will be well."
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"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man. But he who knows that this was the condition laid down for him at the moment of his conception will live on those terms, and at the same time he will guarantee with a similar strength of mind that no events take him by surprise. For by foreseeing anything that can happen as though it will happen he will soften the onslaught of all his troubles, which present no surprises to those who are ready and waiting for them, but fall heavily on those who are careless in the expectation that all will be well."
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Forwarded from 🌲𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞🌲
To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.
— Terry Goodkind, Temple of the Winds
— Terry Goodkind, Temple of the Winds
Forwarded from Classical Columbia
The Ethnogenesis of Old Stock Americans Part 1: The term “Old Stock American” is a term used to describe white Americans of colonial 1600s-early 1800s stock, typically these white Americans are descended from the very earliest Northwestern European settlers of Eastern North America. They are mostly descended from the British Isles such as the English, Welsh, Scottish/Scots-Irish, and Irish. While minorities of often from non-British countries were Dutch, German, and French had a presence also. During the revolutionary war, the British promised to free black slaves and allied with native Americans which forced all whites settlers regardless of origin to come together as one fighting force as Americans. This shared struggle led to comradery amongst the different Germanic/Celtic Northwest European Protestant groups in America.
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Forwarded from Classical Columbia
The Ethnogenesis of Old Stock Americans Part II: This shared struggle against Great Britain leading to independence of the American nation led to a newfound shared identity of a new people. These Anglos, Scots, Welsh, Germans, French, Dutch, and others intermixed creating a new race: The Old Stock American race. This new race united by a shared Northwest European Celto-Germanic or rather Anglo-Celtic WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) culture consisting of Protestant Christianity, Roman style Republican government based on the English common law, and the conquering Aryan pioneer spirit that would define America for most of its history. A proposed idea of the Great Seal of the United States was even going to feature this ethnogenisis reminding Americans of their northwestern European roots of England/Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Holland (Dutch/Netherlands), and Germany but was rejected. It is important we remind ourselves of the natives who founded this land and to reject any notion of “A nation of immigrants.”
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Forwarded from Sigmund's Metaphysical Männerbund 🜨
"[Family life must have been different] in the days when a family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and that perhaps was why they saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the wood - they were not mistaken for there was in a sense real (not metaphorical) connections between them and the countryside. What had been earth and air and later corn, and later still bread, really was in them. We of course who live on a standardized international diet…are artificial beings and have no connection (save in sentiment) with any place on earth. We are synthetic men, uprooted. The strength of the hills is not ours."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, from an unpublished letter to Arthur Greeves
- J.R.R. Tolkien, from an unpublished letter to Arthur Greeves
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Forwarded from Hwitgeard
In both the late Old English writings The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus, two collections of question and answer aphorisms, there is one which runs parallel to the Norse 'Rúnatal', a section within the Hávamál, gnomic verses attributed as the wisdom of Óðin. The Rúnatal describes how Óðin hung on a windy tree for nine nights, pierced with a spear as an offering to himself, he neither fed nor drank, and in a state of spiritual ecstasy he took up the wisdom of the Runes.
In the 'Interpretatio Romana', Romans saw Woden/Óðin as equivalent to Mercury and called him by this name (see Germania IX). The Old English writes
"Saga mē hwā ǣrost bōcstafas sette.
Ic þē secge, Mercurius sē gygand." (SS58)
"Saga mē hwā wrāt bōcstafas ǣrest.
Ic þē secge, Mercurius sē gigant." (AR16)
"Say me, who erst set bookstaves/who wrote bookstaves erst.
I say thee, Mercury the giant."
This seems to suggest that for Anglo-Saxons Woden was still known as author of runes and writing, even in this distorted form.
In the 'Interpretatio Romana', Romans saw Woden/Óðin as equivalent to Mercury and called him by this name (see Germania IX). The Old English writes
"Saga mē hwā ǣrost bōcstafas sette.
Ic þē secge, Mercurius sē gygand." (SS58)
"Saga mē hwā wrāt bōcstafas ǣrest.
Ic þē secge, Mercurius sē gigant." (AR16)
"Say me, who erst set bookstaves/who wrote bookstaves erst.
I say thee, Mercury the giant."
This seems to suggest that for Anglo-Saxons Woden was still known as author of runes and writing, even in this distorted form.
Forwarded from Sigmund's Metaphysical Männerbund 🜨
A shame culture is what our ancestors had and a shame culture is what we must build. Look at what has happened to our societies without it. Surround yourself with people who will hold you to account for your misdeeds and I promise you, if your heart is in it, you will not repeat your mistakes. A hit to your reputation is not an easy thing to stomach. Betraying your kith and kin is worse. Honour and loyalty come before all else.
Heed these words.
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Heed these words.
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