>What was the paganism like in your country?
>Is it still alive today?
>Thoughts on traditional paganism?
>Thoughts on neo-paganism?
American traditional paganism is mostly limited to the natives, however we do have "witchcraft" practices alive in the Appalachian.
Most neopagans voted for Bernie.
>What was the paganism like in your country?
veneration of nature
>Is it still alive today?
XD
>Thoughts on traditional paganism?
healthier than christian self-hate
>Thoughts on neo-paganism?
XD
It is alive though.
Majority of our traditions dresed as Catholicism are in fact of Slavic paganism origin. Especially Easter.
What's up with Americans and that type of threads? lmao
Never met one irl, but I've heard that Neopaganism is slowly gaining popularity in Europe. Pagans tend to be far-right on the political spectrum
Also, kids to this day go with their entire class to drown or burn "Marzanna" so the winter will go away.
Paganism seems to be pretty popular among pan-slavist movements in eastern Europe, I often see YouTube comments like "Christianity is dividing Slavs, we should go back to our Pagan roots" etc.
>Paganism seems to be pretty popular among pan-slavist movements in eastern Europe, I often see YouTube comments like "Christianity is dividing Slavs, we should go back to our Pagan roots" etc.
That's idiocy. Only illiterate imbeciles would succumb to such thing.
Slavs were always different, because their origins are very different. That includes their paganism and traditions, customs. They aren't the same.
>Only illiterate imbeciles would succumb to such thing.
in other words: pan-slavists
That's what I've noticed for example under this video
youtube.com
Real faith is no paganism :^)
Everyone "pan-something" is an idiot.
It's one to respect your ancestors and don't completely shit on your heritage and another to larp naked in the woods and smear shit all over yourself because Wotan wills it.
Whether neo-pagans like it or not. Christianity was the determining cultural factor of Europe and nothing will change that. No amount of howling to the moon and larping like Varg does lmao.
Yes, return Arkona at once, vile Saxon beast.
>21st century
>paganism
>Is it still alive today?
It's alive in France. But he's a crypto-muslim so I'm not sure he counts.
We have some real pagans (not some new age kids from Asatru or similar organizations) in Russia, they are the last European pagans. They're old people, most of them live in rural areas. They pray in sacred groves and stuff
>The religion is one of Europe's indigenous religions of unbroken lineage which have survived Christianisation, although it has co-existed with Russian Orthodoxy for generations
theguardian.com
Almost forget to say, all of them are Mari people, the ethnicity close to Finns and Estonians.
reminder that pomerania is german clay
>german clay
>we took it in the middle ages
Before Christianity, Slovenes had a few different belief systems, namely the Slavic beliefs as well as pre-Slavic (Celtic) ones. Ironically enough, the ones with Celtic roots seem to have survived the longest. Apparently, isolated communities followed the old ways well into the 20th century, with an anthropologist claiming some offerings have been found at a holy site a few years ago, even.
There is a single record of a mini crusade against old believers on Slovene land in the 14th century, when a holy tree was chopped down and a holy spring covered with rocks. Old believers learned to keep their beliefs a secret, living a double life as Christians in public but old believers in private. This kept on into the 20th century. In the second half, some started opening up as the beliefs started dying away with the older people. The first major hit was the construction of the railway which apparently led to the destruction of several holy sites, while the first world war displaced many old believers and also destroyed many sites. by the 70s/80s, numbers apparently started dwindling (not that they were ever very high).
In truth, Slovene culture in general retains quite many elements of old beliefs, both Slavic and pre-Slavic, as they were integrated into the new Catholic-based culture. And to be honest, even ignoring religion, I would say we have retained an important connection to nature.
Paganism (in the meaning of Vedic culture, pre-juda-christianic, non-lunar, life-asserting) leads societies to development and to their main purpose of life.
Don't be ridiculous, man. Don't post this ignorant New Age tier shit here.
reminder: Kurent = Cernunnos
here, every single pagan tradition has been absorbed by christianity for a long time now.
traditional paganism is fine except for sacrifices. no idea what neo-paganism is.
We wuz praising nature and praying to bears and thunder and shieet
>pan-slavists
this has always been very popular in Serbia, even among the intellectuals
so many people want that union and that's that
>What was the paganism like in your country?
A mixture of Lusitanian and Celtic paganism, but no one knows the details. There was some relevant pilgrimage site of a god of health in Alentejo during the Roman period.
>Is it still alive today?
lol, no
>Thoughts on traditional paganism?
primitive
>Thoughts on neo-paganism?
larpers
>slavic settlements, places of worship, archeologic evidence, genetic evidence all over the place
>hey, it's german
Okay there chap :^)
Just
Read more
And
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The Truth
Seems to me you haven't read anything worthy, since you easily buy into some bullshit theories
besides the applachias, its just edgy kids now
i have a few "pagan" friends
>Americans praying to ancient Europeans gods
lmfao
I don't see the connection desu
>>What was the paganism like in your country?
Depends on how you define "country". Going by the indigenous population, natives only. In the history of the cunt itself, natives and folk Christianity. Going by "muh heritage" (WASP; fuck c*ntinentals desu), first Celtic paganism and then Anglo-Saxon paganism.
>>Is it still alive today?
For sure among native americans and maybe if you count folk Christianity and voodoo and shit.
>>Thoughts on traditional paganism?
Far superior to Christianity.
>>Thoughts on neo-paganism?
Cring-worthy idiocy, for the most part.
>What was the paganism like in your country?
luckily, quite a bit got written down so we have an idea what the general idea was. muh valhalla n shit
>Is it still alive today?
there's been a little bit of revival in the last decades
>Thoughts on traditional paganism?
sure as hell beats the meek stuff christianity has become
>Thoughts on neo-paganism?
cancer
>What was the paganism like in your country?
Celtic Druidism.
>Is it still alive today?
God no, Christianity spread like wild fire in Ireland.
>Thoughts on traditional paganism?
Respecting and preserving nature is always good.
Plus Irish mythology is pretty cool and weird as fuck.
>Thoughts on neo-paganism?
Pretty gay.
>What was the paganism like in your country?
Shamanism revolving around spirits and one ''Sky-God''
>Is it still alive today?
Somewhat. Very fringe, though.
>Thoughts on traditional paganism?
As long as no one sacrifices actual humans...
>Thoughts on neo-paganism?
What do you think about Wicca? Yeah, exactly like that.
Irish mythology is metal as fuck.
>What was the paganism like in your country?
Greek polytheism (Ancient Greek religion)
>Is it still alive today?
hm... maybe ... (see below)
>Thoughts on traditional paganism?
It was great:
State religion (OK we wuz secularists n shiet but the state had official ethnic religion),
ancestor worship, hero cults,
sacrificial rituals (animal sacrifices: a part to Gods and the rest for us)
>Thoughts on neo-paganism?
Many LARPers,
some fascists and other socialists (we wuz Spartanz n shiet - but Spartan citizens held elections every year),
some neoleftists that pretend to be democrats (but they get BTFO by the fact that it was the Democrats, Athenians, who stated the main characteristics of the Greek ethnicity: same blood, same language, same religion and same habbits - see ethnic nationalism),
some atheists (we wuz Epicureans, we wuz Dogs-Diogenes, we wuz Parmenides etc scientists n shiet),
some freemasons (we wuz Pythagorianz n shiet),
anyway ... too much philosophy and not many practices or demands from the Greek state (which during austerity and 25%+ unemployment spent over 1 mil. euros just to build an islamic temple in Athens plus xx millions euros to be spent). We have no temples (the current ones are for tourism uses only).
Besides the problems that I stated above one more problem is that Christianity (Orthodox) fulfills many aspects of Greeks, either culturally (many saints to worship, similar habits n tradition as the Greek Polytheism), either as theology (too much platonism and other ancient things in Christian religion).
> Besides the problems that I stated above one more problem is that Christianity (Orthodox) fulfills many aspects of Greeks, either culturally (many saints to worship, similar habits n tradition as the Greek Polytheism), either as theology (too much platonism and other ancient things in Christian religion).
I forgot to add the following fact:
I mean for fucks shake every current city and village in Greece has a patron saint (like in ancient times where every place had a patron God). Good luck on converting Greeks to real Greek Polytheism REEEEEEEEEEE