The Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula : Part 7 - Bormanicus

https://telegra.ph/The-Celtic-Gods-of-the-Iberian-Peninsula--part-7---Bormanicus-08-11

"Bormanicus is the God of hot springs, like the Gallic God Bormanus.
In Lusitanian and Celtic polytheism, Borvo was considered the God of minerals and healing associated with bubbling spring water."
"... *Borvo- has also been associated by philologists with the Welsh word berw "seethe", the French Bourbon and the Latin fervo, "to boil"

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
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SEPTEMBER 29TH — St-MICHEL AND THE WODAN WILD HUNT 1/2

The 29th of September is the feast day of St. Michael.
Originally this Christian saint was only celebrated on March 15th and May 8th. At the Council of Mainz, Germany, in the year 813, a third feast day was added: the autumn feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September.
Why this addition? The answer is that since the beginning of the Christianisation of the Germanic peoples, St. Michael with his warrior and army leader aspect had replaced the cult of the God Wodan (Odin). Many former places of worship of the God Wodan were replaced by the cult of the Archangel Michael. This substitution of worship and clear identification with the divine functions meant that among the people, the cult of the Wodan God continued. This relative continuity of worship was not a Christian initiative. It happened because the God Wodan was so deeply rooted in the hearts and minds of the people who did not abandon certain ancient rites, that the Christian church found the Wodan/St. Michael identification as a solution.
As in many other cases, the Christian church, in its perfidy, hypocrisy and fanaticism to abolish all direct traces of the old polytheistic cults, found nothing better than to recover once again a pagan tradition by transforming and distorting it.

September 29th was chosen as the date for St. Michael's Day because this is the period when the ancient Germans celebrated the beginning of the Wild Hunt of Wodan. After celebrating and thanking the Gods for the good harvest, it was customary to mark the entry into the dark period of the solar year with rites recalling the memory of the Wild Hunt. The time of death begins. The days shorten, the sun becomes rarer and rarer. The doors of the world of the dead open ... dead and living pass from one world to another.
Autumn is the time when one can see in the tormented sky the great ride of the God Wodan, accompanied by the fallen warriors. This wild army rides like a disturbing shadow across the skies. Being an eyewitness to the wild army was not a good omen. More than one living person was taken by the dead from the Wild Hunt and thus joined the world of the dead before their time. Here we find the myth of the God Wodan in his role as a psychopomp, i.e. the one who accompanies the dead on their journey to the other worlds of the afterlife.

This autumnal tradition of the wild army and the great celestial hunt is a Germanic tradition that has survived in many parts of Europe. Nearly all European regions which were at one time or another occupied by the Germans, have preserved in their traditions the memory of the Wild Hunt of the God Wodan. Here are a few examples:

- in Alsace: Chasse Volante, Haute Chasse, Huperi, Der Nachtsgœger (the hunter of the night), der Wilde Jäger.
- Berry: Chasse à Bôdet, led by the devil who takes the damned to hell, Rigaud Hunt.
- Burgundy: The hunter of the Advents and his dog Gavelo.
- Bresse: King Herod's hunt.
- Blois: Chasse Macabre.
- Bourbonnais: Forez, Chasse Maligne, led by the devil.
- Franche-Comté: Haute-chasse, Hunting of the Lady of Moissey
- Gascony: Artus Hunting
- Limousin: Chasso galero, Chasse galérienne, Night hunting
- Lorraine: The hunter in the woods of Krombesch, Hunting of the beast of Rondet, The Mouni Hennequin, Big Hunt.
- Normandy: Saint-Hubert Hunting, Saint-Eustache Hunting, Hennequin Hunting.
- Picardy: Aerial hunting of the four Aymon sons (Thiérache).
- Poitou, Saintonge, Chasse Gallerie. It announced great events. In Poitou, the Lord Gallery was cruel and ungodly. Wanting to pursue a deer that had taken refuge in a hermit's cave, he cursed it and condemned Gallery to eternal hunting.

SEPTEMBER 29TH — St-MICHEL AND THE WODAN WILD HUNT 2/2

Follow-up post to present the various European places outside of France where the tradition still remains to this day

- Germany: Wildes Heer, Wütendes Heer, Wotans wilde Jagd
- Great Britain: Wild Hunt, Woden's Hunt, Ghost riders, Wild Edric.
- Netherlands: Gait met de hunties / hondjes, Wodans wild hunt
- Galicia (Spain): Santa Compaña, or estadea, estantiga, rolda, as da noite, pantalia, avisóns, pantaruxada... Procession of the dead, or of souls, led by a living person carrying a cross or a cauldron filled with holy water. He can only escape this obligation if he meets another living person who will take his place. To avoid this risk, one must either lock oneself in a circle drawn on the ground, or lie face down on the ground, or make other conjuring gestures. It is no longer a celestial hunt but the link remains obvious.
- Italy: Cascia Morta (dead hunt) or Caccia del diavolo (devil's hunt), Cazza selvadega (wild hunt).
- Czech Republic: divoký hon (wild hunting).
- Poland: Dziki Gon or Dziki Łów
- Norway: Oskoreia or Åsgårdsreia (the noisy riders).
- Slovenia: divja jaga (wild hunting festival).
- Denmark: Odensjakt (Odin's hunt)

Hathuwolf Harson, translated by Matamoro of the Sun Riders

The Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula : Part 8 - Trebaruna

https://telegra.ph/The-Celtic-Gods-of-the-Iberian-Peninsula--Part-8---Trebaruna-10-02

"One must live honourably if one wants to be favoured by the weaving of destiny and luck, which is Trebaruna's responsibility, while taking care of his household and family. If the comparison with the Hamingja is valid, then an individual's actions could affect the luck conferred on his lineage, all the more so if one considers that he will eventually be reborn through his descendants..."

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
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The Sword In The Ground: The Warrior's Divine Axis

https://telegra.ph/The-Sword-In-The-Ground-The-Warriors-Divine-Axis-10-02

In this short article I shall discuss what we know of sword worship, and one possible interpretation of it among Indo-European people. We know that among Aryans sword or club worship was prominent and was a symbol of connection and initiation to the divine. From Indra’s Vajra, to Thor's Mjolnir and the axe of Perun.

-Rodnik, The Sun Riders
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Bronze ritual axe from Lovech, 8th century BCE, Sofia Archeological Museum.

Highly stylised heads of a bull, ram and a goat. The axe was with an iron handle and wasn't made for practical use. The axe-scepter was most likely used by the king who was also the high priest ( just like in most Indo-European societies). This axe sceptre has the animals depicted in some kind of a hierarchy and marks them by importance. Other such axes were found across the Balkans mostly in Thraician and Minonian sites and were used as a divine right of the king to rule and as a sceptre. Though almost exclusively these were double head axes and were acquired as heritage. The Thracian king Lykourgous\ Lykurg was almost always depicted with an double headed axe. First such axe-sceptre was found in Bulgaria at the end of the Bronze age. The Thracian god Zalmoxis was depicted witch such and axe in one mound from the 4th century BCE.


-Rodnik, The Sun Riders.
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The Dissident: A Day in the Life of Pentti Linkola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmeYe3Uh5s

A beautifully produced documentary on Linkola's simple life, and seems to be one of the last films of him before his death.

It's only 25 minutes long and I thoroughly enjoyed it, this piece of art deserves more attention.

- Owen, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

The Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula : Part 9 - Ataegina

https://telegra.ph/The-Celtic-Gods-of-the-Iberian-Peninsula--Part-9---Ataegina-10-07

"Ataegina seems to simultaneously possess aspects of the proto-Indo-European Goddess of Dawn, but also deities of the underworld such as Persephone and Proserpine, and others still related to Feronia.
"When she symbolically comes back to life, she's associated with the coming of spring (renewal of life), warmth, dawn, flowers, health, perhaps law and order or justice, and the fertility of the soil..."

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

We want to present you the project Odal, which is led by Russian pagans. It will be interesting not only for those who know Russian language, because there is a lot of aesthetic content and you can freely contact the admin of this project.

The rune «Odal» in the older futhark is called *Ōþalan, which in the Proto-Germanic language means «heritage», «ancestral property». Our ODAL project is dedicated to the traditional heritage of Indo-European peoples, mainly northern ones; the heritage that modern Europeans are involved in.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/odal24
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My Fair Lady

2,000 subscribers! Thank you, it's been a thoroughly enjoyable journey thus far.

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Congratulations to our friends over at @Aryologia

The day before yesterday, on the 7th of October 1571, the Battle of Lepanto took place, in which the Holy League, led by the Spanish Empire and reinforced by Italian squadrons, clashed with the Ottoman Empire. This confrontation of titanic proportions led to a European victory, which sounded the death knell for the Ottoman expansion.
Some historians consider it to be the most important naval battle by its consequences since that of Actium.
One of the participants in the battle would become the Spanish writer Miguel Cervantes, world famous for his work Don Quixote.

Painting - Battle of Lepanto by Andrea Vicentino 1595-1605

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

The Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula : Part 10

https://telegra.ph/The-Celtic-Gods-of-the-Iberian-Peninsula--Part-10-10-10

With a number of the main Gods of the Celtiberian pantheon in hand, we will now present the deities for which we have a relatively small number of archaeological elements. The intense history, as well as the crucial strategic importance and proliferation of resources within it, have made Hispania subject to a number of conflicts and reconstructions: Romanization, Christianization and Moorish invasions for example. In addition, the inevitable passage of time and the gradual loss of ancient traditions have also contributed to the loss of much of this culture.

Thanks to the relatively recent discoveries of pre-Christian Iberia, which add more and more to the rich and vast culture of the ancient Iberian peoples, we are finally able to penetrate together new pieces of the mythological puzzle, always with the help of what has remained in our memory, blood and customs.

Here it is important to keep in mind that this does not necessarily imply a minor role for these deities.

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

The Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula : Part 11

https://telegra.ph/The-Celtic-Gods-of-the-Iberian-Peninsula--Part-11-10-12

With a number of the main Gods of the Celtiberian pantheon in hand, we will now present the deities for which we have a relatively small number of archaeological elements. The intense history, as well as the crucial strategic importance and proliferation of resources within it, have made Hispania subject to a number of conflicts and reconstructions: Romanization, Christianization and Moorish invasions for example. In addition, the inevitable passage of time and the gradual loss of ancient traditions have also contributed to the loss of much of this culture.

Thanks to the relatively recent discoveries of pre-Christian Iberia, which add more and more to the rich and vast culture of the ancient Iberian peoples, we are finally able to penetrate together new pieces of the mythological puzzle, always with the help of what has remained in our memory, blood and customs.

Here it is important to keep in mind that this does not necessarily imply a minor role for these deities.

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

Sketch for A Mermaid, 1892. John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917).

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As we are quickly approaching Vetrnætr, many people will spend more time in contemplation of the future and remembrance of the past as well. Ancestor veneration being an important aspect of any holiday of course will be practiced. But on this coming of Vetrnætr, I want to remind people to not only think of those who came before, but also of their hardships that forged them into the great men and women of yore, which made them worth the veneration.
Many of our ancestors, regardless of nationality, have fought in wars for home and country, have forged the trails of our once barren and unexplored countries, and tamed them.
So when the celebration comes and you stop to remember your ancestors, think also of what makes them worth remembering, and strive to impress them in all that you do.

-William, the sun riders

@solarcult

I read a lot of miserable and despondent sentiments here on social media. And sure, the state of the world can be stressful and crushing at times. But, I want you to remember something.

For those of us in ancestral faith, this the most powerful we've been in a thousand years. And soon we'll be at our apex. Strongest we've ever been in history.

We're currently in a spiritual renaissance. We are now in the driver seat for religious innovation and vitality. Discoveries being found, concepts developing, truths being revealed, communities forming and babies being born faster than anyone can count.

Forget about modernity. They're rotting and dying. Us on the other hand are rapidly approaching our golden age. Focus on your folk. Focus on your task and your role. If you don't have one, find one.

If war comes to your doorstep show them what a mistake it is to conjure the Æsir's children. But don't allow the cancer to poison you. We're approaching victory. Stay focused.

The Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula : Part 12 - Conclusion

https://telegra.ph/The-Celtic-Gods-of-the-Iberian-Peninsula--Part-12-10-12

"this could attest to a vision of the oceanic sky, which has precedents in Near Eastern and Indo-European religions, with the "waters of the firmament" held in place. Going further into the stream of Endovelicus, perhaps water was closely associated with light in the Lusitanian train of thought, reminiscent of fire as the progeny of water in Zoroastrianism. If Nabia, Munis and Trebaruna are all associated with water and celestial bodies, then water definitely becomes emblematic of the universal order found in most Indo-European traditions. Perhaps its cycle and its many states have been intimately understood, as the notion that clouds come from bodies of water is noted in many cultures, from the Greeks to the Kamilaroi."

- Matamoro, The Sun Riders
@solarcult