terms that is common in the academical study about the paganism.
The words paganism
and pagan come from the Latin "paganus,"
meaning "country dweller." This is a reference to the time
when the cult citizens of The Roman Empire was under
the conversion to the new religion, while the people in
countryside still followed the Old Ways. The term was
originally used by the urban roman citizens in a pejorative
meaning as “religion of peasant”. At the same time, this
ones, as the time passes, adopted heartfully the term with another
meaning that would be “someone who worship the nature forces”.
Therefore, as the kristjanism growed in size and political power,
they perverted the meaning to something like:
“Men without religion or without God”, as they would be the
only one valid religion...
(in the hypothesis that they would be really valid to someone)
Neopagans hold a reverence for the Earth
and all its creatures, generally see all life as interconnected, and
tend to strive to attune one's self to the manifestation of this
belief as seen in the cycles of nature. Pagans are usually
polytheistic (believing in more than one god), and they usually
believe in immanance, or the concept of divinity residing in all
things. Many pagans, though polytheistic, see all things as being
part of one Great Mystery. The apparent contradiction of being both
polytheistic and monotheistic can be resolved by seeing the God/desses
as masks worn by the Great Mystery. Other pagans are simply
monotheistic or polytheistic.
| Paleo-paganism:
the standard of paganism, a pagan culture which has not been disrupted by "civilization" by another culture -- Australian Bushmen modern (who are probably becoming meso-pagans), ancient Celtic religion (Druidism), the religions of the pre-patriarchal cultures of Old Europe, Norse religion Forn Sed, pre-Columbian Native American religions, Candomble, etc. Civilo-paganism:
the religions of "civilized" communities which Syncreto-paganism:
similar to meso-pagan, but having had to Neo-paganism:
attempts of modern people to reconnect with nature, |
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Wicca
-- in all its many forms |
Asatru for the simply reason that this one becomes of public use, since it
means ‘trust in the Gods’ in Old Norse.
Then, when thou speak about Asatru, thou may be speaking about neopaganism,
Meso Paganism or Paleo-Paganism.
The Neo-Paganism on the list above must not be mistake with the historical
period with the same name when the Norse Ancient Religion was under the
historical time of the double-faith, when that one walked with linked arms
with kristjanism. This time, if the term Asatru can be used on this, maybe
can be classified as a meso-paganism time of the Norse Ancient Religion or
Forn-SiđR.
The Burning
Times is the name used by many modern Witches and
pagans for the era of the Inquisition, and of the other witch hunts
(including Salem) which sprang from it. During that time, many
women and some men were persecuted for practices objectionable to
the
Church, especially witchcraft. The _Malleus Maleficarum_ was a guide
on how to torture accused witches into confessing to whatever they
were accused of. At the height of the persecutions, entire towns were
left with only one or two women in them, and to this day no one knows
for sure how many people were brutally murdered during this craze.
misinformation -- most of the people who were arrested, tortured and
killed were not Witches (or witches) of any sort, but simply people
who had gotten on the wrong side of someone who had the local
magistrate's ear, or who somehow didn't fit in (particularly beautiful
or ugly women, widows who had wealth or owned land, the handicapped
and retarded, and even overly intelligent people are all examples of
those who became primary targets of this persecution).
we now enjoy comparative freedom of religious practice after those
dark times. But this time is considered a very important event by
most Witches and pagans (comparable to the atrocities and devastation
perpetrated during the Holocaust ), one that should never be
forgotten, and many do active public education work to assure as best
they can that it will NEVER happen again.
to a very ancient time of history, when the superstition and the cruel
barbarism was rule. In fact, these concepts about our pagan past was imposed
to us by the conditionament. A insidious and sinister way of conditionament,
that is inherent to our educational system, that color the view of the out
world, that is showed to us in each morning, through the news in the journals
(newspaper) and in Television. A conditionament process that permeates the
technological and scientific knowledge and distort the truth about the humans
and habitat relationship.
Those spiritual anarchist, the shamans, was not conditioned by any human
force, that would manipulate their view of the reality. Instead of it, they
don’t be undergo or accept the Sir Isaac Newton Theories or the Descartes
Philosophy that understood the Universe, as a mechanical model, that was
build by a supreme creator , omnipotent, as a Swiss clock. Since Newton still
traditionally a scientific effort in order to separate the matter from the
spirit and it comes to the scratch of the absurd rationalism of the Victorian
age, when the spirit was denied and rejected.
The scientifical institution rejects the pagan viewpoint that the Earth is
a living being, that the entire life in the Universe is permeated by the
Creation Energy of the Life Force and that All Existence is a part of a mayor
Unity. The pagans knew and accepted the magic. Their belief in the essential
unity of life is illustrated in the quoting extracted from the works of
Basilius Valentinus, a middle age pagan philosopher
constitute its life and soul. All existent things drain their force from the
Earth spirit. This spirit is life, and is feed by the stars and feed the
living things that is shelter in her womb.>>>
Until today this ones still being accepted by the surviving mages of the many
ethnic races, that tenaciously remain attached to the Old Traditions, even if
under the spiritual coercion that was did by the missionaries and by the
material induction by the multinational companies, whose objectives is
enlightening our fellows from the thirty world.
misinterpreted. Our materialistic age constitute one of these Darkness Ages.
In the past, the priests was the guardians of the magical knowledge, knew
that the people hast lost some of the capacity of the life unity conception
(even if a few initiated people, as the shamans, still remain with such
knowledge). Due to it, they developed three levels of religious expression
and the humankind began to visualize the deity in three Level of
understanding that was:
it was called simply Life Force.
lady, representing the masculine and feminine aspects of the human psyche
also know as anima and animus, and/or the active and passive principles
of the universe. In Ásatrú, it is well represented in our myths as
the Fire element from Muspell and the Ice element from Niffleheim.
Means in this case, perfect models culturaly expressed as
the Gods and Goddesses with their atributes representing the
individual awareness, souls or anima that is behind
the phenomena in nature as mitological deities
(that would be personifications of mysteries of nature or even urban
forces), Ethnic Heroes and Culture Masters.
in the Middle Ages, after the Romans left the Great Britain and this one was
under the invasion of the Vikings, Danish and Saxons.
Our modern viewpoint is that they art barbarian jerks, who sack and steal in
their way on England, under the most darken times of the British history. The
real Truth, as it usually happens with the modern relates about the pagan
people, is a little different. Throughout the historical research and
archaeological escavations it was recently discovered that the Vikings was a
cult and civilized people, that don’t deserve the bloodthirsty image gaven by
sensationalistic movies and novelettes. Their goldsmithery was one of the
best in artistical talent and creativity. Recent escavations in York shows
that the Vikings was merchants of the ancient world. It was up dinged long
lines of shops, where merchants of the entire continent comes to echange
merchandises (articles and goods) and to trade with woolen clothes, precious
metals and weapons. The Norse people occupied vast regions of the England and
left their marks in the subsistence of folk costumes, place names and even
ethnic characteristics of the inhabitants. They administrated that pieces of
land after the Norway conquest, basically due to a familiar challenge between
enemy pagan tribes, fighting for the England crown.
The Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian England, generally is viewed by the history
researchers as a barbarian country, corrupted. However, the Saxons was able
to perform excellent artistical works, between them we find the famous
Kingston brooch, discovered in Kent. Dated on the VII century, consisting in
a concentrically design, with a cross in salience decorated with disks and
bottoms, each one in salience too. In this was used gold, grenade, blue
videos and white marines shells.
T’is brooch is a true example of the Saxon artisanact and the proof of the
proclaimed lie for those ones who denominated the Scandinavian and Saxon
periods of the England history as Age of Darkness.
The True Age of Darkness was when the Kristjanism achieved its great apogee,
territorial and political, mainly while the dark time of the “holly”
Inquisition! By historical and actual facts, we can conclude that the
kristjan church, beyond the dogmatism, it is against the FreeThinkers.
Without speaking about the great prejudices caused by it in the technological
and medical development of science.
of the Old Pagan Religion practice and the conversion to the kristjanism was
been for a more long than the ortodoxes history researchers make us believe.
Certainly it was not enough to wave a magick wand for everybody turn into
kristjans from the night to day as it is suggested in many history books.
Although the aristocracy may be convinced for the political power offered by
the new religion, the peasants that was the true pagans – refused to accept
the teachings come from the Orient, tenaciously attaching to their old
beliefs.
Perceiving this, the christens priests adapted that to their religious
beliefs and efficiently annulled for absorption. The Pope Gregory written to
one of his British missionaries this next words, explaining how the Old
Religion could be destroyed from inside to outside for their disciples:
temples. That ones must be asperged (sprinkled) with holy water, the altars
of Christ built and the relics deposited inside. Therefore, if that pagan
temples was well built, they must be purified of the daemons worship and
dedicated to the mayor service of God. In that way, the people, seeing that
their temple is not destroyed, can abandon the sin and aflix more readily to
the customary places, where they could come to know and worship The True
God.>>>
Some happily accepted Jesus, as a another aspect of Odin. After all, the new
god was hold in a tree too and ritualistically died for the sins of his
tribe. This eternal reason was understood by every pagan peoples, that knew
the sacrifice of the divine king, who died to fertilize the earth with his
blood. Therefore, they don’t hesitated too in accept the mother of the divine
Jew king, Miriam, as another aspect of the Great Goddess.
XII century, the runes turn to be a mystical alphabet used to describe the
life of Jesus and his disciples. A classical example is the Ruthwel Cross,
found in a church cemetery, in Dumfries, with runic inscriptions that tell
the history of the crucification, between pagan symbols, as birds, another
animals and sylvestry flowers. Also is included scenes of the Birth, the
fleeing of Joseph and Myriam to Egypt, the cure of a blind man by the
Nazarene and Myriam of Magdala washing his feets.
On the coffin made to the Saint Cuthbert (a lady), in 698 CE, runes and roman
characters was used side by side. In runes cases, it’s was used specially to
the name of Jesus and the four apostles: Matheus, Marcus, Lucas and John.
This shows the subsistence of the pre-kristjan pratice of the runes uses to
the sacred name of Gods. The runes also was found in inscriptions made in the
grave of a kristjan saint of the VII century, it shows that its magical power
don’t diminished with the arriving of the new religion.
The kristjan prays, frequently used pagan spells changing only the name of
the ancient pagan deities to those of the saints and apostles.
The folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912 CE) collected in his entire
life, Gaelic prays that still being used in the Scotland highlands and in the
Hebrides Islands. Some of them constitutes pagan spells badly disguised to
obtain good harvests or for consecrating the seeds. As in the same way they
invoked Jesus and the saints, this prays was invoked too Saint Bride, that is
a kristjanized version of the Celtic goddess of the sacred fires and
sanctified springs, Bridget. Samples of such prays can be found in Carmichael
books ‘The Sun Dances (Floris Books, Edinburgh)'.
Such kristjanized formulas varied from disguised pagan spells into a
apparently kristjan pray to even kristjan authentic prays that still remain a
pagan or runic structure .
From this verses of Havamál:
For nine long nights,
Pierced by a spear, pledged to Odhinn,
Offered, myself to myself
The wisest know not from whence spring
The roots of that ancient rood
They gave me no mead,
I looked down;with a loud cry
I took up runes;from that tree I fell.
I aged and enjoyed in my growing.
From a word to another
I was guided to a word,
from a deed to another deed."
old Anglo-Saxon spell that evolve the harvest of nine herbs.
The wise Lord, sacred in heaven,
created this herbs when holded in the cross
and put them in the nine worlds
to help all, both rich and poor."
cross” may be resemble direct references to Jesus of Nazareth. In troth,
however, the reference to the “nine worlds” shows its true meaning, since
that it is about the nine heavens or existence planes recognized by the
Scandinavian. The “wise lord” is in reality Odin, who was hold in the Cosmic
World Tree (Yigdrasil) for acquire the secret wisdom of runes. We knew, for
the lore of that time, that the rites of odinist worship was implicit in the
act of being held in a tree. As it hast said before, the formula varied from
disguised pagan enchantments into a apparently kristjan pray to even
authentic kristjan prays that still remain a pagan or runic structure.
I put food in the feed place,
Drink in the drinking place,
Music in the listening place;
And by the sacred name of the Tri-une
He blessed my home, and me
My sheep and my beloved relatives.
And hast said in his chant to the lark:
It is common, is common, is common,
To see the Christ disguised as a stranger:
It is common, is common is common,
To see the Christ disguised as a stranger."
- Translated from Gaelic
runes, was used by the pagan Saxons as a war talisman.
Until XI century (when the history researchers wanted us to believe that the
Kristjanism was the omnipotent religion of the Western Europe and the
paganism, a forgotten superstition), a certain Abbot Aelfric was forced to
condemn "outh drycraft oe runstafum" or the use of magic throughout the
runes.
Before it, while the VIII and IX centuries, some countryside cemeteries hast
gravestones written with runic prays to the dead.
One of the most astonishing samples of the fusion between the paganism and
the kristjanism was the famous Franks jewel-case, dated on that time of
double-faith.
It received that name after Sir Augustus Franks gave it as a gift to the
British Museum, in 1867. The box shows scenes of the pagan Saxon religion
within biblical scenes and both described by the magical alphabet know as
runes. On the main side of the box, in the left side, there is a picture of
the Saxon god Wayland in his smithy – folkly believed that it is a Neolithic
grave, near the fortress of Uffington, in Berkshire – with the anvil, the
hammer and the bellows. Holding with his tongs a human head, whose skull
would be changed into a chalice. The headless corpse rest on the anvil of the
god. Two women, who art watching the scene, is near and, outside, a boy
(probably is Egil, brother of the god) is pursuing gooses.
On the right side, we can see the three Mage kings, with their gifts, kneeled
in front of the Virgin Myrian and her recently born baby. In Upside shines
the Belen star. Each one of the pictures have runic characters around it
disposed as a circle, that explain them.
Saxons physicians, who practiced healism. It evolved the use of a lot of
magical talismans, medicinal herbs and enchantments, that combined kristjan
and pagan prays. The cure spell gave bellow is a sample of it.
his foal''s foot slade
down he lighted
his foal's foot righted,
bone to bone, flesh to flesh,
heal in the name of
Woden, BaldR and Freyja.
BaldR and Woden
fared to the wood,
there was to BaldR's foal
his foot wrenched,
then charmed Woden
as well he knew how,
as for bone wrench,
so for limb wrench,
bone to bone,
limb to limb
as if they were glued.
Magick) used to cure burn flesh. In this spell is mentioned the Norns and the
mainly Gods of Norse Pantheon.
with snow, frost and fire,
out fire - in frost,
in the names of Woden, Thor and Loki.
between rival fidels. It was a battle of minds, souls and hearts, that leave
from the countryside huts to the kings's palaces, who claimed Woden
descendance. Such struggle finished in a bloody way, since a little time
after, the church achieved political power and suppressed the “heretics” from
her quarters and expulsed from her kingdoms those miscreants who choused a
different spiritual life.
The Funny thing is the fact that to be considered a heretic of a religion,
one must belong to that religion first at all. But the kristjanism, in its
absolute arrogance, simply considered the entire humankind to be christens as
default, who art at service of their god who thinks to be unique.
A heretic is a member of a religion who distort its teachings for a end or
meaning completely in opposition of the ideals of those who founded the same
one. A apostate is someone who leave a religion to another. Both is
considered crimes in according to the kristjan thought that is notably
against the Freedom of Thought.
The mentioned pagans in this little portion of history don’t could be accused
of these two “crimes” since they don’t even was kristjans, and those who was,
just become for fraud and subversion elaborated by those kristjan leaders of
that time.
revolt, a defection <apo-,from, and root sta, to stant.] An abandonment of
what one has professed; a total desertion or departure from one’s faith,
princples or party.
-a. False, traitorous.
Gr. hairetikos, able to choose, heretical, <hairein, take.] Theol. one who
holds religious opinions contrary to the doctrines of his church. A dissenter
from accepted beliefs or dogma of any kind. – her’i.tik, he.ret’ik, a. Also
he.ret.i.cal.-he.ret.i.cal.ly, adv.
It is calculated that, in the next 400 years, circa of nine millions of men,
women and childrens died to satisfy the crazy vengeance of the Church against
the pagans. Much innocents died holded or burned. (this is the famous
Kristjan “Love”) In front of such terrible tortures (eyes extracting, Thumbs
tortions, torture wheels), much people preferred a false confession and,
then, a fast death than a long agony of the inquisition.
The entire process results was the condemnation of the runes as a black-
magick symbol. In the end of the Middle Ages, the runic knowledge was
entirely forgotten in Europe and most of the world. The word “rune” hast its
meaning degenerated to any word of magical symbol used in enchantments.
It was only after the end of XIX century that the runes reappeared in the
public awareness, due to the researches made by Germanic occultists, who
tried to revive the Teutonic and Scandinavian paganism.
But in Iceland, the history relates that the elders of Iceland made a fateful
decision. Under political pressure from Christian Europe (that was based on
economical block and threats of genocide wars guided by the kristjan king
“Saint” Olaf, the fat), and faced with the need for trade, the Allthing
declared Iceland to be an officially Christian country. Within a few short
centuries the last remnants of Nordic Paganism, which once stretched through
all of Northern Europe were thought dead. However, Iceland was a tolerant
country and the myths stories, and legends of Pagan times were left unburnt
to kindle the fires of belief in later generations. Under pressure from the
famous poet, Sveinbjorn Beinteinsson, Iceland once again recognized Nordic
Paganism as a legitimate and legal religion. A restoration of our ancient
faith is likewise in full bloom in America. This ancient Pagan religion was
known as Asatru, an old Norse word which means Troth (loyalty) to the Gods,
and modern Asatru is nothing less than the complete revival of the ancient
Norse Pagan religion.
(Common Era, or Kristjan Tyranny Era, Era Vulgatti
Also could be called as AD Anno Domini)
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