We would like to recommend to you a list of interesting channels dedicated to Tradition, northern mythology, history and aesthetics and beauty of European folks.
@ODAL24 - The project is dedicated to the heritage of ancestors, history of Indo-European peoples, Pagan traditions, anthropology, aesthetics of Northern phenotypes and European landscapes. [Russian language].
@ODAL_STORE - Store of the ODAL project, where you can buy goods of excellent quality.
@THETRUENORTHERNER - Northern Aesthetics and Heathen Tradition of Europeans. Project by Odal (https://www.tg-me.com/odal24) [English, Deutsch and Russian languages].
@WESTERN_GLORY - European Tribal Identities, History, Beauty, Music, Excellence.
@ARYANPAGANISM - A place of Aryan enlightment.
@WAINOLA - The abode of Wäinämöinen • Finnic & Finno-Ugric religion, mythology, folklore, culture, and history (with emphasis on Finland & Karelia) — and occasionally other things • No conspiracy nonsense.
@DASVOLKDESNORDENS - This channel is dedicated to the culture, religion, environment, history and politics of the Teutonic people and other peoples of the Northern European race. This channel promotes peace and a cultural rebirth of our indigenous tendencies.
@NATIVESCANDINAVIA - Indigenous Scandinavian posts of Scandinavian traditions, family, nature, history and old faith 🌲
@TRIBALEUROPA - European History, Folklore & Linguistics.
@ZONNEVLAM - Channel exploring Germanic religion in the Low Countries. [Dutch language]
@FOLKISHFRANCE - Folkish, historic & mythological info related to France.
@GRANSKOGSFOLKET - We are an outdoor based project aiming to inspire other for a “return to nature” We cover topics such as survivalism, folklore, and outdoor aesthetics. We also invite people to participate in our hiking events, we’re we focus on survival skills, but also socializing with likeminded people🙏🌞
@SPBchannel - Channel dedicated to spreading awareness of survival techniques, bushcraft, hunting, camping, fishing, gardening, cooking, simple living, etc.
@ODAL24 - The project is dedicated to the heritage of ancestors, history of Indo-European peoples, Pagan traditions, anthropology, aesthetics of Northern phenotypes and European landscapes. [Russian language].
@ODAL_STORE - Store of the ODAL project, where you can buy goods of excellent quality.
@THETRUENORTHERNER - Northern Aesthetics and Heathen Tradition of Europeans. Project by Odal (https://www.tg-me.com/odal24) [English, Deutsch and Russian languages].
@WESTERN_GLORY - European Tribal Identities, History, Beauty, Music, Excellence.
@ARYANPAGANISM - A place of Aryan enlightment.
@WAINOLA - The abode of Wäinämöinen • Finnic & Finno-Ugric religion, mythology, folklore, culture, and history (with emphasis on Finland & Karelia) — and occasionally other things • No conspiracy nonsense.
@DASVOLKDESNORDENS - This channel is dedicated to the culture, religion, environment, history and politics of the Teutonic people and other peoples of the Northern European race. This channel promotes peace and a cultural rebirth of our indigenous tendencies.
@NATIVESCANDINAVIA - Indigenous Scandinavian posts of Scandinavian traditions, family, nature, history and old faith 🌲
@TRIBALEUROPA - European History, Folklore & Linguistics.
@ZONNEVLAM - Channel exploring Germanic religion in the Low Countries. [Dutch language]
@FOLKISHFRANCE - Folkish, historic & mythological info related to France.
@GRANSKOGSFOLKET - We are an outdoor based project aiming to inspire other for a “return to nature” We cover topics such as survivalism, folklore, and outdoor aesthetics. We also invite people to participate in our hiking events, we’re we focus on survival skills, but also socializing with likeminded people🙏🌞
@SPBchannel - Channel dedicated to spreading awareness of survival techniques, bushcraft, hunting, camping, fishing, gardening, cooking, simple living, etc.
Antero Vipunen, a shaman whose barrow grave Väinämöinen visits to top up his repertoire of magic. Like Aino in 4:363–370 of the Kalevala, Vipunen has become part of the landscape.
The illustration for poem 17 of the Kalevala by Valentin Kurdov (1979) depicts the scene described in the following verses:
“Now Väinämöinen comes: he / drew his sword, snatched the iron / out of the holder of hide / out of the belt of leather; / he felled the aspen from the shoulders / from the eyebrows toppled the birches / from the jaws the broad alders / the willow shrubs from the beard / from the brow felled the squirrel-spruces / the cony firs from the teeth.”
— The #Kalevala 17:67—76
(Bosley translation).
The illustration for poem 17 of the Kalevala by Valentin Kurdov (1979) depicts the scene described in the following verses:
“Now Väinämöinen comes: he / drew his sword, snatched the iron / out of the holder of hide / out of the belt of leather; / he felled the aspen from the shoulders / from the eyebrows toppled the birches / from the jaws the broad alders / the willow shrubs from the beard / from the brow felled the squirrel-spruces / the cony firs from the teeth.”
— The #Kalevala 17:67—76
(Bosley translation).
“Hail to the earth Hail to the water Hail to the one who hails me.”— Mihail “Miihkali” Timoskainen (1853–1928) hails the earth in Kuolismaa, Ilomantsi, Finland.
Timoskainen worked as a forest guard in Salmijärvi. Eliel Wartiainen described in 1932 how "a solitary life in the middle of the wilderness, full of dangers and obstacles, and perhaps the calm temerity of his nature together formed an external character that was almost frightening, if you didn't know what a tranquil, upright and warm-hearted man he was."
Timoskainen was particularly interested in bear hunting and was considered an exemplary forester as well as a sage (tietäjä, lit. 'knower') and healer.
Photograph: Kustaa Vilkuna (1927).
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Sacred tree, sacred pine, ritual tree, offering pine, offering birch, offering spruceling, cheese birch, offering tree, pet tree, lot tree, tradition tree, shrine tree, hallowing tree, home tree, village tree, manor tree, luck tree, foster son, rite tree, service tree, worship tree, grove birch, house watch, honour pine, offering spruce, house pine, foster tree, field spruce, tree god, memory tree, magic tree, house tree, spirit tree, pope, family tree, name tree, god's tree.
GottFrom Middle High German got, from Old High German got, from Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą (“god, deity”). Cognate with German Gott, English God.
Gott, having come from *gudą, is thus arguably an inherently Pagan word.
It is worth noting that the Finnish word jumala ('god') has a similar history, with the main difference being that in non-Christian use it was often prefixed with yli- ('over-'; most likely in the meaning 'residing above') and combined with the name Ukko ('father', 'grandfather', 'old man').
Ukko Ylijumala was still being worshiped and prayed to in Finland in the 20th century — after seven and a half centuries of Christian onslaught.
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The village swing in Kivijärvi, White Karelia.
Agfacolor photograph by Vilho Uomala (1943).
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Agfacolor photograph by Vilho Uomala (1943).
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A storehouse and tree of the dead (karsikko in Finnish; a pruned tree) in Tetriniemi, White Karelia. True to the Proto-Uralic worldview, it was always a conifer, as deciduous trees represented the living.
These trees were formerly found in every village, especially in Savonia and Karelia (roughly the southeastern quadrant of Finland). When a person of note died, the nethermost living branch was cut from their respective tree (a tree might belong to a family or a house). Often the name (or insignia) and dates of birth and death of the deceased were either carved into the tree (in a section where the side had been cut to expose the tree underneath the bark) or on a plank hung from it. However, an ancestors' tree (Finnish: esivanhempain puu) was never cut in said fashion.
Once a tree had been completely debranched, it was stripped of its bark and the next deceased person's name et cetera would be carved into it. Eventually the carvings might be moved elsewhere by removing a plank-shaped piece with the carvings and nailing it to the wall of an unheated building. This plank was still called a karsikko, even when the actual tree was long gone.
The dead received their share of the first grain and milk of the year and a portion of food cooked from the first-caught fish and creature of the forest. Animals were never offered as such.
Customs and traditions associated with the dead and their trees are numerous and vary from one region to another, but usually the tree (or trees, as there might even be a small grove dedicated for the purpose) was situated between the settlement and the burial ground. Many are still standing today.
Agfacolor photograph by Väinö Kaukonen (1943).
Literature:
• Anssi Alhonen: Esivanhempien puu — Kirjoituksia suomalaisesta uskomusperinteestä
• Väinö Kaukonen: Kansanrunon Kauko-Karjalaa ja Kalevalan synty
• Ritva Kovalainen, Sanni Seppo: Tree People
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These trees were formerly found in every village, especially in Savonia and Karelia (roughly the southeastern quadrant of Finland). When a person of note died, the nethermost living branch was cut from their respective tree (a tree might belong to a family or a house). Often the name (or insignia) and dates of birth and death of the deceased were either carved into the tree (in a section where the side had been cut to expose the tree underneath the bark) or on a plank hung from it. However, an ancestors' tree (Finnish: esivanhempain puu) was never cut in said fashion.
Once a tree had been completely debranched, it was stripped of its bark and the next deceased person's name et cetera would be carved into it. Eventually the carvings might be moved elsewhere by removing a plank-shaped piece with the carvings and nailing it to the wall of an unheated building. This plank was still called a karsikko, even when the actual tree was long gone.
The dead received their share of the first grain and milk of the year and a portion of food cooked from the first-caught fish and creature of the forest. Animals were never offered as such.
Customs and traditions associated with the dead and their trees are numerous and vary from one region to another, but usually the tree (or trees, as there might even be a small grove dedicated for the purpose) was situated between the settlement and the burial ground. Many are still standing today.
Agfacolor photograph by Väinö Kaukonen (1943).
Literature:
• Anssi Alhonen: Esivanhempien puu — Kirjoituksia suomalaisesta uskomusperinteestä
• Väinö Kaukonen: Kansanrunon Kauko-Karjalaa ja Kalevalan synty
• Ritva Kovalainen, Sanni Seppo: Tree People
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NOITARUMPU 🇫🇮
Lapin noidat käyttivät rumpua keskusteluissaan jumalien ja henkien kanssa. Luinen arpakuutio liikkui värisevällä rummunkalvolla taikamerkiltä toiselle, kertoen noidalle tietoja kaikilta Lapin elämänaloilta.
THE MAGIC DRUM 🇬🇧
The Lappish means of communication with gods and spirits. Arpa, the magic bone moving on the vibrating skin, enabled the shaman to advise on all aspects of Lappish life.
SCHAMANENTROMMEL 🇩🇪
Die lappischen Schamanen benutzten die Trommel bei Gesprächen mit Göttern und Geistern. Ein Würfel aus Knochen bewegte sich auf dem vibrierenden Trommelfell von einem Zeichen zum anderen und vermittelte so dem Schamanen Wissen aus allen Bereichen des lappischen Lebens.
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Lapin noidat käyttivät rumpua keskusteluissaan jumalien ja henkien kanssa. Luinen arpakuutio liikkui värisevällä rummunkalvolla taikamerkiltä toiselle, kertoen noidalle tietoja kaikilta Lapin elämänaloilta.
THE MAGIC DRUM 🇬🇧
The Lappish means of communication with gods and spirits. Arpa, the magic bone moving on the vibrating skin, enabled the shaman to advise on all aspects of Lappish life.
SCHAMANENTROMMEL 🇩🇪
Die lappischen Schamanen benutzten die Trommel bei Gesprächen mit Göttern und Geistern. Ein Würfel aus Knochen bewegte sich auf dem vibrierenden Trommelfell von einem Zeichen zum anderen und vermittelte so dem Schamanen Wissen aus allen Bereichen des lappischen Lebens.
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A Lappish (Sámi) woman in traditional folk costume, Inari municipality, Northern Finland.
Original Agfacolor photograph by Hans Wagner [🇩🇪 ], 1939.
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Original Agfacolor photograph by Hans Wagner [
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Part of a woman's shirt from Izhoria (Ingria), 19th century. Notice the bluish-green sauwastikas (卍) on the part that would have circled the neck.
In the Izhorian language — which from a Finnish perspective is sufficiently close to Finnish to be considered a dialect of it — both the 卐 and the 卍 are known as vääräpää ('crooked head', 'bent-end[ed cross]').
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In the Izhorian language — which from a Finnish perspective is sufficiently close to Finnish to be considered a dialect of it — both the 卐 and the 卍 are known as vääräpää ('crooked head', 'bent-end[ed cross]').
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Today we celebrate the Finnish Independence Day as Finland turns 106. But the Finnish Maiden is older still; for example, the postcard seen on the left was printed in 1906. Originally called Aura after the Aura River in Turku, she is often depicted as a barefoot young woman in her mid-twenties with blonde hair and blue eyes and wearing a traditional folk costume.
In earlier artworks she can be seen holding the red & yellow lion flag, which today serves as the Coat of Arms of Finland.
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In earlier artworks she can be seen holding the red & yellow lion flag, which today serves as the Coat of Arms of Finland.
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Consistent doodles
The symbols seen on relics from Stone Age Europe are also found in caves throughout the rest of the world. The similarities suggest the marks are more than just random scribbles.
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The symbols seen on relics from Stone Age Europe are also found in caves throughout the rest of the world. The similarities suggest the marks are more than just random scribbles.
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The geometric signs of Ice Age Europe
The 32 signs that Genevieve von Petzinger has catalogued in Ice Age cave art across Europe. They account for the vast majority of non-figurative imagery found across the continent during this 30,000-year time span, suggesting that they were used with purpose and were meaningful to their creators. Each of the 32 signs has their own distinct pattern of use.
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The 32 signs that Genevieve von Petzinger has catalogued in Ice Age cave art across Europe. They account for the vast majority of non-figurative imagery found across the continent during this 30,000-year time span, suggesting that they were used with purpose and were meaningful to their creators. Each of the 32 signs has their own distinct pattern of use.
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