Idunn by Veneden

I will sing of Zeus, chiefest among the gods and greatest, all-seeing, the lord of all, the fulfiller who whispers words of wisdom to Themis as she sits leaning towards him.

Anonymous Homeric Hymn

Art by A.Lillienberg

Thetis and Zeus by A.Losenko

How shall we sing of him – as lord of Dicte or of Lycaeum?
O Zeus, some say that thou wert born on the hills of Ida, others, O Zeus, say in Arcadia, did these or those, O Father lie?

Callimachus

Ombrios and Hyetios are common epithets of Zeus, and we hear of sanctuaries of Zeus on Olympus and on various other mountaintops, such as the highest mountain of the island of Aegina, where he was called Zeus Panhellenios.
Probably the weather god Zeus ruled from the highest peak in every neighborhood.

M.Nilsson

An important part of folkishness is drawing a line between ourselves and the wider world. In a way, this is what folkishness is all about. APTA had a good post about this:

https://publielectoral.lat/Aryanpaganism/6763

One way our forefathers did this is by having different ways of reckoning time. Each city-state in Greece or Rome had its birth date, the date of its founding, and this was year zero. It's hard to figure out when certain things happened by our (Christian) time reckoning, because each city started from a different date.

The fact that this is hard is good. It draws a line between us and the outsider. Not only are our customs and our gods different, but even our ideas of time are different. This is how you maintain a people's integrity. This is folkishness.

@folkishworldview

Sol by Veneden

A reminder

He took his mighty, curved bow,
And he took wrought arrows,
Ilja came to the Kyivan square
He began walking along Kyiv city
He was visiting the churches
He broke all crosses off the churches
He shot all the golden cupolas down

From the tale of Ilja of Murom and the drunkards

My translation

Education of Achilles
Benigne Gagneraux

There are people who see only the dark side and the bad in life. There are folks and religions for whom life only exists in order to be denied and forgotten, despised and overcome in order to be able to be absorbed as completely as possible into the great void. There are people who just wait their whole life for death and eternity and who believe to thereby especially please God.

A. Holzner

The contemporary relevance of paganism is thus not a matter for debate. Neo-paganism, if in fact there is such a thing, is not a cult phenomenon as imagine not only its adversaries, but also sometimes well-intentioned groups and covens who can be described as often clumsy, sometimes unintentionally comical, and perfectly marginal. Nor is this a form of "Christianity turned upside down," which would adopt for its own benefit various Christian forms-both rituals and objects-in order to reconstitute the equivalent or counterpart.

Alain de Benoist

To split the world in two, a material and one of ideas is inherently anti-Pagan. It’s what A. de Benoist called a negative theology. All platonists do just that and christians have the same degenerate approach to reality and spirituality. Both should get the same treatment socrates did.

A question to English

Do you wassail on Twelfth Night (Jan 6) or Old Twelfth Night (Jan 17)?
What would be more traditional?

Demeter is not a goddess of vegetation in general but of the cultivation of cereals specifically. The Homeric knights did not care much for this goddess of the peasants. The references to her in Homer are few, but they are sufficient to show that she was the corn goddess who presided at the winnowing of the corn. Hesiod, who was himself a peasant and composed a poem for peasants, mentions her often.

M.Nilsson