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aleck-le-mec · 3 months

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“Paganism is dead”

No man it’s just not organized and that’s the way it should be, creating a monoculture for paganism is potentially extremely dangerous to its themes of individualism and personal practices . Yeah we don’t have temples or pilgrimages but that’s because the grace of the natural world/ our deities can be found anywhere and everywhere we don’t need temples our own bodies are pagan temples. Our own flesh and bones are structures of divinity to us, we make altars in our houses and make those our blessed places. Most of paganism is heavily private of course you think it’s dead that and anytime western culture is faced with a polytheistic system it has an absolute hissy fit.

#pagan #european paganism #paganism #witch #nature #altar #celtic polytheism #hellenic polytheism #norse polytheism #greek polytheism

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thesorceresstemple · 2 years

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Carnaval de Navalacruz, Ávila

#carnaval #navalacruz #avila #iberic folklore #mask #folk art #european folklore #folk magic #European paganism #pagan

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castilestateofmind · 1 year

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“The Keltiberians, and their neighbours to the north, [sacrifice] to a nameless god, every full moon, at night, before their doors, the whole family passing the night in dancing and festival”.

- Strabo. Geography, 3.4.16.

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therealcalicali · 1 year

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Kukeri - originates from the old Slavic word "kuka," which means an evil spirit. The pagan festival is a centuries-old Bulgarian tradition where people dance through the streets in scary masks, animal skins and loud bells.

#kukeri #bulgarian tradition #european anthropology #slavic paganism #european paganism

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teutatesmars · 2 months

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#european paganism

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frenchwitchdiary · 2 years

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The Wilder Man

Pendant deux ans, Charles Fréger sillonne l'Europe du nord au sud, de la Finlande au Portugal, en passant par la Roumanie, l'Allemagne et la Slovénie, à la recherche de la figure du “sauvage” telle qu'elle survit dans les traditions populaires locales.

Ces images archétypales, mi-homme mi-bête, animal ou végétal, ressurgissent du fond des temps à l'occasion de fêtes rituelles, païennes ou religieuses, célébrant le cycle des saisons, les jours gras, le carnaval ou la veille de Pâques. Dans le fond commun des sociétés rurales européennes, ces personnages ou animaux emblématiques représentaient des figures protectrices ou des symboles de fécondité. Elles évoquent aujourd'hui un monde imaginaire, impulsif et physique où chacun perçoit une relation ancestrale à la nature, où émergent les ressorts de notre animalité et parfois le désir régressif inhérent à certains de nos comportements. Charles Fréger parle d'« une figure zoomorphe dont l'aspect rudimentaire et la tenue rituelle renvoient à une nudité universelle ».

La tenue ne laisse apercevoir que très peu de peau, la silhouette humaine est complètement ensevelie sous une avalanche de lourdes fourrures, laines, grelots, cornes et autres matériaux et accessoires. Là encore, photographiant en dehors des périodes de fêtes ou de carnavals, il met en scène ces personnages dans un paysage naturel qu'il choisit souvent large et ouvert. Il y a aussi cette autre liberté prise à l'égard des silhouettes elles-mêmes, n'hésitant pas à en omettre certaines volontairement, et à en photographier d'autres de dos, revendiquant la partialité de son inventaire, plus poétique que scientifique.

Ponctuellement, lors de nouvelles découvertes, le photographe ajoute une silhouette supplémentaire, en Irlande, en Angleterre, en Alsace…

Vous pouvez observer la série complète des photos ICI.

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pagansphinx · 5 months

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Edward Okuń (Polish, 1872-1945) • Four Strings of a Violin • 1914

#art #painting #fine art #art history #edward okuń #art nouveau #polish artist #early 20th century european art #painter #artist #pagan sphinx art blog #art blog #oil painting #musical instruments in paintings #artwork #1900s art #art appreciation

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artofmaquenda · 2 months

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The March Madness

The mating period of European hares starts end of January, beginning of February and ends end of July, beginning of August. The height of the breeding season, is known as "March madness", when the normally nocturnal bucks are forced to be active in the daytime. The boxing usually occurs when a male is being too persistent with a female, chasing her across fields in an attempt to mate.

Right at the beginning of the hare breeding season, in January, is also the best time to see the constellation Lepus.

Very happy with how this piece came out! :)

Prints are available: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1672012404/the-march-madness-print-hare-ostara

#hare #european hare #lepus #spiritual #art #pagan #ostara #spring #artofmaquenda #maquenda #folk art #nature

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frenstimulator · 1 month

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#nordic #woodland #aesthetic #pagan #druid #european #white women

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larobeblanche · 2 months

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Carl Schweninger Jr. (Austrian, 1854-1903) • Verlorene Liebe (Lost Love) • Unknown date

#art #painting #fine art #art history #carl schweninger #austrian artist #19th century european art #genre painting #oil painting #realism #women in paintings #artwork #pagan sphinx photography #art blogs on tumblr #art lovers on tumblr #women in white #la robe blanche art blog #the white dress #facial expressions in paintings

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paganimagevault · 5 months

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Sogdian wooden idol from Kuh-i-Surkh (Tajikistan) 5th-8th C. CE

"Head of a Sogdian carved wooden idol, found in a cave at Kuh-i-Surkh, Tajikistan. The idol was originally adorned with clothing, jewelry, a diadem, a sceptre, and an incense burner, and must have been hidden in a cave after the Arab conquest. In its heyday, the idol would have worn a crown, a long robe, boots, and carried a sceptre and a censer. At his feet were gifts donated by worshippers - swords, daggers, jewellery, armour, among other things."

-taken from Nadeem - Eran ud Turan's twitter

#sogdiana #ancient history #history #antiquities #art #sculpture #statue #museums #pagan #paganism #woodworking #woodcarving #asian art #indo european

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aleck-le-mec · 3 months

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I’ve been a pagan since I was 9 honestly I think I always have been one. I think this has to do with the fact paganism is so innately human and because I grew up being outside all the time. I’ve felt more feelings and seen more beautiful things in the woods than I ever have in a church and I don’t think that’s crazy to say.

#pagan #paganism #pagan witch #paganblr #hellenic polytheism #celtic polytheism #European paganism #witchy #witch #satanic witch #satanist #satanism

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illustratus · 2 months

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Hypatia by Julius Kronberg

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castilestateofmind · 1 year

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“At a particular level of spiritual development it is immediately evident that the myths of the Mystery religions are essentially an allegory of the states of consciousness which are experienced by the initiate on the path toward self realization. The various deeds and adventures of mythical heroes are not poetical, but real events; they are the specific actions of one's inner being and shine forth from within the one who attempts to follow the path of initiation which leads beyond the fulfilment of the merely human mode of existence“.

- Julius Evola, The Path of Enlightenment in the Mithraic Mysteries.

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theshrinesanctuary · 5 months

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Lararium and ritual by r.spadini on Instagram

#religio romana #roman paganism #roman polytheism #household shrine #household altars and shrines #religious shrines #lararium #southern european religions

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luckthebard · 1 year

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Genuinely confused as to how so much of the fandom watched the first 2 CR campaigns and Calamity and yet still ended up in a “Ludinus is right let’s kill all the gods” position. Like it’s baffling to me how much content/context people have just decided to completely forget? We had 2 full campaigns of very positive interactions with the gods and the moment there’s some hypothetical and interesting musing and speculation about their roles in the world from a more disconnected place we’re just throwing that out the window?*

Tbh the number of people who watched episode 4 of Calamity and still saw Asmodeus as sympathetic or having a legitimate point is unsettling to me, but while that’s a related issue it’s not quite the same conversation.

But like legitimately how did we so quickly make a hard turn from “The Stormlord teaches his barbarians to use the power of friendship, he’s a funny kindergarten teacher” memes to…this.

*(This is not, btw a comment on the characters having philosophical debates in-world because I think those are interesting and on-theme for the campaign and are also nearly always concluding with “our personal relationship to individual gods and feelings about them are irrelevant actually, the people trying to destroy them are doing wider harm and are in the wrong and must be stopped.” I’m actually loving the engagement with this by the characters in-universe but the fandom is exhausting me.)

#people stop engaging with all fantasy religion like it’s the same as bigoted evangelical American Christianity challenge #oh also the ‘the gods are colonial invaders’ take is also super weird to me because that’s applying recent human history to what is #basically standard like Greek or Roman creation myth?#like a ton of European pagan lore has a ‘the gods we worship came from afar and tamed the wilds of nature’ narrative #it is a metaphor #cr discourse #legit saw someone this morning confidently posting ‘well Ludinus just is right though!’ and I wanted to close down the whole internet #critical role

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