Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

On 29th of June Slavs plundered bishop’s seat at Havelberg which was followed by other settlements. Lutici soon found allies among other Slavic tribes and went all the way to Hamburg freeing the lands from christian occupation. The revolt led to the independence of the Lutici tribe and ensured that the area remained ruled by Pagan Slavs.

29th of June Pagan revolt day In 983 as a response to christian persecution of Pagans Slavs who lived along the Elbe (modern Germany) revolted. Led by the tribe of Lutici they drove christians off their lands. As Adam of Bremen put it: They have swept through other Slavic lands burning down churches, they tortured priests and other clergymen in many ways and left no trace of christianity on the other side of the Elbe.

^ the conflict of atheistic pagans and folkish ones is not some new schism as outsiders may suppose. It's a conflict as old as Ancient Greece at the very least and probably much older. Negative tendencies have always existed, they just kept growing which led to the sad state of modern world.

Christians and Muslims are starting to notice the folkish worldview. They're calling us "fundamentalists". They're not wrong. https://substack.com/@fortissax/note/c-59921900 Christians are not scared of the "transcendentalists". Few men ever fought and died for a metaphor. Fundamentalists are the ones who will die in battle because they will go to Valhalla. Folkishness is fundamentalism. @folkishworldview

Antique still life Anatoly Tarabanov

Art by Anatoly Tarabanov

Pagan practices are about establishing personal connection with the Gods of your people. One can’t have anything personal with abstract notions and empty titles such as Sky Father or Thunderer. Pray to Odin or Thor, not academic theories which present Gods as fictional archetypes molded by humanity. It’s basically atheism i.e. heresy.

1) The myths are literally true 2) Different mythic sources contradict each other Both of these are required for a serious pagan theology. We're not atheists, so we believe the first. We've read the sources, so we believe the second. Some heathens see (2) as such a problem that they end up rejecting (1). They will say that straightforward belief in the myths is a "Christian" or an "Abrahamic" thing. This is ridiculous. It just as much an Egyptian thing, an Igbo thing, a Yakut thing, etc. Believing that your myths really happened, believing that your tradition is not lying, is an "every folk" thing. The only thing it's not is a Platonist thing. We need to build a new framework for interpreting myth (really, we need to rebuild the oldest one). We can't import one from classical Greece. We have work to do. It would be negligent to just copypaste a defective framework from a dying civilization and call it a day. @folkishworldview