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rusalke: Vesna & MoranaVesna is the slavic goddess of spring and youth, while Morana is the goddess of winter and death. Every year, after Morana would leave, Stribog, god of wind, would bring Vesna on his wings,  and Jarilo, god of spring, would follow her everywhere. Opposite to Morana, who was feared, Vesna was very much adored goddess. Bird that announces Vesna’s coming, and is associated with her is swallow. Even today it is possible to find celebrations dedicated to Vesna among the Slavic people, for instance Mladenci and Vrbica (which are of course cloaked as Christian celebrations, but have nothing to do with it). Seeing Vesna is a goddess of youth, these celebrations are reserved for young lads and girls (Mladenci) and for children (Vrbica), these weren’t important days for the elders. According to some stories, Jarilo is married to Morana, but he cheats on her with Vesna, and when Morana finds out, she kills him, and this repeats every year, because he is always reborn in spring. Tree associated with Morana is walnut tree, and it is said that young people should never plant it, because one who plants walnut tree will die once tree reaches thickness of his neck. At the end of every winter, a doll that represents Morana was made, it was carried through village while villagers would hit it and yell at it, after which it was burned and thrown in water. This a goodbye to a goddess, which represents how much winter is hated and feard -  of course this doesn’t mean Morana wasn’t respected.

rusalke:

Vesna & Morana

Vesna is the slavic goddess of spring and youth, while Morana is the goddess of winter and death.
Every year, after Morana would leave, Stribog, god of wind, would bring Vesna on his wings,  and Jarilo, god of spring, would follow her everywhere. Opposite to Morana, who was feared, Vesna was very much adored goddess. Bird that announces Vesna’s coming, and is associated with her is swallow. Even today it is possible to find celebrations dedicated to Vesna among the Slavic people, for instance Mladenci and Vrbica (which are of course cloaked as Christian celebrations, but have nothing to do with it). Seeing Vesna is a goddess of youth, these celebrations are reserved for young lads and girls (Mladenci) and for children (Vrbica), these weren’t important days for the elders. 
According to some stories, Jarilo is married to Morana, but he cheats on her with Vesna, and when Morana finds out, she kills him, and this repeats every year, because he is always reborn in spring. 
Tree associated with Morana is walnut tree, and it is said that young people should never plant it, because one who plants walnut tree will die once tree reaches thickness of his neck. At the end of every winter, a doll that represents Morana was made, it was carried through village while villagers would hit it and yell at it, after which it was burned and thrown in water. This a goodbye to a goddess, which represents how much winter is hated and feard -  of course this doesn’t mean Morana wasn’t respected.

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stitch-n-time:

lokavinr:

Aha, someone angry about my Pink post made a (seemingly undirected) comment about how all the social justice bloggers wanted to restrict us white people so much that our only options are to go back to worshiping Zeus and Thor.

Aha. Ahaha.

I’m sorry that Thor isn’t mystically spiritually exotic enough for you, dear. But He does go in drag, so that’s a plus!

Amusing bit? Technically, Zeus was originally worshipped by Mediterranean peoples - not whites.

Oops.

They don’t know their stuff, and should be ignored.

strangley all the mediterranean europeans I met self-identify as white and they are viewed as “white” by other europeans.

Oriental mediterraneans on the other hand are a bit tricky. Depends on who you ask and technically they are more “aryan” than northern europeans :-)

But I have to confess that I don’t know if the greek pantheon was worshiped on northern africa.

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lokavinr: An attempt at mapping out branches of Heathenism. I put Heathenism itself in quotes because I am highly reluctant to suggest one definite origin to the belief systems. The grey line running through the middle is meant to divide traditional from modern. The dotted lines symbolize traditions that developed outside of Europe. The line for Northern Tradition is diagonal because it doesn’t exactly fit under the heathen umbrella. Some branches just say “recon,” “other,” etc. because no definitive modern religious tradition has yet to develop for those hypothetical regions of reconstruction. This is experimental and tentative, and by no means perfect.

lokavinr:

An attempt at mapping out branches of Heathenism. I put Heathenism itself in quotes because I am highly reluctant to suggest one definite origin to the belief systems.

  • The grey line running through the middle is meant to divide traditional from modern.
  • The dotted lines symbolize traditions that developed outside of Europe.
  • The line for Northern Tradition is diagonal because it doesn’t exactly fit under the heathen umbrella.
  • Some branches just say “recon,” “other,” etc. because no definitive modern religious tradition has yet to develop for those hypothetical regions of reconstruction.

This is experimental and tentative, and by no means perfect.

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justin-john:

wtfhistory:

theshewomanboyhatersclub:

jesuisuneetoile:

THIS IS MARRIAGE!!

Thats right!

Permission to be a bad ass. Nod.

He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.”

Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS’ FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.

I DID NOT KNOW THAT THAT IS GREAT

LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.

In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don’t even get that much.

Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal lineage wasn’t very important. And it didn’t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.

Spartan women participated in some fuckin’ badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve compulsory military duties, btw, and couldn’t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn’t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were visible at all times. HOLY SHIT. 

Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.

FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN’ BETTER MAKE SURE SHE’S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE’S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD FOR HIM.

^^ I throughly enjoyed the history lesson dashed with the colorful adjectives.

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