The American Spirit

Gustaf Tenggren & Early Disney One of the most beautiful parts of American Media and Culture were the early films of Disney which drew heavily from European Fairy Tales and Literature. The style was even based largely off these older illustrations. While Walt Disney himself was a talented animator it was a Swedish Immigrant turned American that can be thanked for much of the beauty of the art style. Gustaf Tenggren was a phenomenal and largely unknown artist inspired by the likes of John Bauer, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, and Howard Pyle his Fairy Tale Illustrations serve as Concept Art that far outclasses even the finished product from Disney. It is he who can be thanked for the beautiful and whimsical designs of early Disney films like Pinocchio, Snow White, and Bambi. He deserves far more credit than he gets.

Drumheads Drumheads growing in a wet bog in the Apalachicola National Forest. These can be found almost all over the state. See more at: www.richleighton.com

Black-and-White Warbler This tiny winter visitor was photographed here in the Corkscrew Swamp as it paused for a moment over the middle of a hardwood hammock. See more at: www.richleighton.com

Every time Pagans Try to do a thing. Every... Single... Time! 🌲Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)🍄

Average American: It's a Miracle God Saved Trump. Meanwhile Me: Man either the Gods wanted him alive or he had some serious luck saved up.

Recently I had a discussion with a Christian, the premise of his practically rabid downright zealous beliefs was that the bible describes Yahweh as all of Existence and since existence.... exists... therefore the bible is the one truth. It got me thinking once more about why I am so repulsed by Universalism and why I am far more drawn to our own ways. The traditions, Gods, ancestors and ghosts of our people. Colloquially known as "Paganism". In Universalism there is the adamant belief that there is one creator at the head of all things, in Paganism this is generally absent at least in the older stories. There is no "Correct" Pagan God. To claim so is a fundamental misunderstanding of Paganism. Each God is their own entity and tied to their own people, to venerate a God outside of your own Kin is to venerate the people, their people. Universalists, Christians for most of the West are adamant that they have the one and only divinity and are willing to attack or even kill over it, despite often not even knowing, or personally rewriting like the one above, who their God is. I will not venerate a God who wants my people Dead, and by extension his people who are enemies of my own. The Lore of My People was writ long ago, in the blood within our veins. I will bow before no book, crook or charlatan who claims to have the only possible truth. I am Pagan and like Doc Holliday will "Come to know the many Gods".

There is no such thing as "just" fantasy. Fantasy is a term which has been applied to the natural Hyperborean Way for far too long. The term is used to belittle, besmirch and dismiss the many religious figures of the Northern Tribes relegating them to being no more than made up imaginings and so there should be "No problem with changing them because they aren't real anyway!" right? RIGHT?! Any film or story that uses any of the wide variety of otherworldly creatures from our native folklore is in reality using religious figures no different than the Abrahamic angels, god or the many prophets. It is no different than when they use the Dravidian gods in movies, stories or any other media. Would they DARE?? No I do not think so. -J.A.Coburn 🌲Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)🍄

Trump really should grow a beard if he can. We are not Rome, we are mostly of German and British Islander Descent. We are barbarians playing at civility. We must remember that. We need the archetypical barbarian High King, even if Trump is not that man he could at least be a step in that direction. Video Source

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