Why is Paganism Booming in Europe and Beyond?

[Óttar]

Keep the thumbs down coming, fags. Red's my favorite color.

[Ford]

Keep the thumbs down coming, fags. Red's my favorite color.

I'm curious, how do you practice your paganism? (I assume you're pagan, maybe I'm wrong) Genuine question. Do you adhere to some particular branch or something and if so, is there a community where you live?

Are you really Hindu?

[Aodhan]

Exactly which celeb is promoting polytheism?

varg vikernes

[Óttar]

I'm curious, how do you practice your paganism? (I assume you're pagan, maybe I'm wrong) Genuine question. Do you adhere to some particular branch or something and if so, is there a community where you live?

Are you really Hindu?

I have studied Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology since I was 8. I supplemented the tour guide's knowledge at a museum in Rhode Island at that age. I remember seeing a statue of Artemis-Diana the Huntress and I thought it was the most beautiful image I had ever seen. Disheartened that the pre-Christian beliefs had been extirpated or f-cked up beyond all recognition in Europe, I discovered Hinduism as a 3,500 year old link to Indo-European polytheism along with indigenous elements (my identification with polytheism has never been 'Folkish', or ethnocentric, so these don't bother me). This led to my MA in Indian Studies focusing on Hindi and Sanskrit, and I have been to India twice. I studied Sanskrit under Brahmin teachers for 1 year. Cumulatively, I studied Hindi and Sanskrit for three years each.

I consider myself a Hellenist. My beliefs are in line with those of late antiquity. The 'monism' and emanations theology of late antiquity was very similar to Advaita Vedanta philosophy in Hinduism. In this way, I do not see a necessary contradiction between Hellenism and Hinduism. Throughout classical antiquity we see that syncretism was the rule and in line with the spirit of the old ways.

The ethos of the old ways was not as concerned with correct belief (orthodoxy) as with correct action (orthopraxy). We even have examples in classical India of atheistic belief systems called Carvakas and Lokayatas (loka means 'world' as in those only concerned with the things of this world.)

Vedanta is the philosophical aspect and Shakti Bhakti (devotion to the Goddess) is the devotional aspect. I have written about how the notion of caste (jati) and Caste (Varna) is constructed in Hindu society, so while I have not received initiation (diksha) from a guru, I consider myself Hindu, yes. See: Hinduism as a Missionary Religion by Arvind Sharma.

I am a member of Movimento Tradizionale Romano (MTR), the organization formerly known as Gentilitas: Spiritualita Italica (a Roman reconstructionist organization), and YSEE - Amerikes (Ypato Symboulio 'Ellenon Ethnikon - The High Council of Gentile Hellenes of America), and I donated money to the construction of the Jupiter Perunus temple in the Ukraine sponsored by TEMPLVM.ORG, another Roman Reconstructionist organization.

[Hruodberht]

In the meantime, you still follow the Modernist Left-wing playbook. You just call it differently. You, Ottar and other heathens are anti-Europeans because you turn away from established and centuries old European traditions.

If those traditions were "so" European and centennial, because the Church distort them, appropriated and manipulated them, if It can be known? Thank you.

Exactly which celeb is promoting polytheism?

Marie Catchet, The Golden One, Carolyn Emerick....

[The Lawspeaker]

If those traditions were "so" European and centennial, because the Church distort them, appropriated and manipulated them, if It can be known? Thank you.

Those traditions have been here for 1500+ plus years. The same amount of time where non-documented heathenism simply didn't exist (until the Left began to create new reconstructionist schools in the 20th century).

[Skjaldemjøden]

All those false notions of "patriarchy", are from the feminism and cultural Marxism, stemming in turn from the pseudo-patriarchates of the Semitic and Judeo-Christian societies, in which the woman is an object of little value and of "sin". In Jewish mythology, Eve, the woman, causes humanity to fall into "original sin", a concept that does not exist in Indo-European cultures.

Lost me at "original sin" which is a completely Christian concept.

I've never met a single person in Denmark practicing paganism, but a Spanish friend of mine wore a Mjolnir pendant for a while. He used to smoke dandelions and secretly sported a red swastika tattoo under his sleeve.

[Óttar]

If those traditions were "so" European and centennial, because the Church distort them, appropriated and manipulated them, if It can be known? Thank you.

Sprinkling holy water on a "pagan" cult object or site, "baptizing" it so to speak, does not automatically make it Christian, anymore than placing a cross on top of the Egyptian obelisk at the center of St. Peter's basilica, makes it a Christian monument. It is much easier to put on a suit and a tie and go to church to get your weekly dose of pre-packaged, ready-made Judaic shit frosting, then to actually do the work of reviving European polytheism. They are lazy.

[Hruodberht]

Those traditions have been here for 1500+ plus years. The same amount of time where non-documented heathenism simply didn't exist (until the Left began to create new reconstructionist schools in the 20th century).

You have not answered my question, I repeat the question: if those traditions are so European and ancestral (and when I say ancestral I refers to millennia before the arrival of Christ) because Church usurped them, distort them and manipulated them ??

Lost me at "original sin" which is a completely Christian concept.

I've never met a single person in Denmark practicing paganism, but a Spanish friend of mine wore a Mjolnir pendant for a while. He used to smoke dandelions and secretly sported a red swastika tattoo under his sleeve.

That you do not see it does not mean that it does not exist.
https://www.fornsidr.dk/

[The Lawspeaker]

You have not answered my question, I repeat the question: if those traditions are so European and ancestral (and when I say ancestral I refers to millennia before the arrival of Christ) because Church usurped them, distort them and manipulated them ??


That you do not see it does not mean that it does not exist.
https://www.fornsidr.dk/

Except it didn't distort them (another Leftist lie) but fit them in a European (mainly Roman and Greek) context.