Aryan Paganism, Traditions and Art (APTA)

According to Aleksandr V. Gura, a philologist who dedicated many works to the topic of animals in folklore there’s an interesting classification of animals found in ethnographic material. Despite their vast differences, in folklore snakes, reptiles (lizards), amphibians (frogs), flies, mosquitos and fleas (as well as some other parasitic insects) are all seen as members of one group. The latter is called gad (Proto-Slavic *gadъ “creepy creature”, Proto-West Germanic *kwād “evil”). Gads (as I will address this class hereafter) are chthonic creatures associated with the Underworld and disease.

What this new reconstruction started with was very mundane. Due to it currently being I mosquito season I remembered that there was some interesting folklore regarding the origins of the nasty insects. This led me to one Croatian legend, an epic song I once translated before and other ethnographic material here and there. What I did not expect to find was a common thread which led me to reconstructing a myth, which in Slavic tradition is no easy thing, albeit a very desired one.

Before I begin with the new reconstruction, let me remind you about the fight between Perun and Chaos Serpent. This reconstructed myth will be important at the end when I make my conclusion. What’s important to remember is that the Serpent is not Weles as some fools claim. It would make very little sense. I’ve delved into this topic before and will also address this issue again.

I’ll let you decide on the new one, but the last reconstruction seems solid enough. At least I am confident. It’s Swarog crafting lightning bolts for Perun. Read, if you haven’t.

If I had a penny each time I manage to reconstruct a Slavic myth I’d have 2 pennies. Not much, but that’s twice the amount an average academic has.

Remembered two interesting stories from folklore and decided to re-analyze them 10+ years after the first read. Found some interesting stuff. Just need to translate the texts themselves and find good illustrations. Though considering how obscure the tales are there’s probably no drawings or painting of them specifically. Will have to improvise.

Poseidon by M.Nikolaevich

Don’t be like that. Don’t go around screaming skal. Don’t use jewish symbols (like vegvisir) and most importantly don’t be a universalist/syncretist/platonist etc. Folk for the folk.

Heretics are such snowflakes

To this day the majority still have this conditioning to hate swastika in particular and their traditions in general. In russia swastika is still banned due to it being a quote on quote a symbol of fascism (yes, those fools can’t tell fascism from National-Socialism).