Loved the piece, but all the grammatical, spelling, dangling participles and incomplete sentence errors were really distracting. I had to re-write entire sentences in my head for a few paragraphs to make sense. Maybe have someone else edit these before publishing. 😊
I'm the world's worst proofreader, and I initially started writing here to improve my writing chops. Glad people enjoy my articles despite some grammar issues.
Magnificent! What is more, this treatise coincides with my own reawakening regard for not only the relevance, but also the power of the old gods. "The real nuance on how a folk saw their relationship with nature was not in the gods individually, but with how these gods interacted" This succinctly articulates and captures an essential potency of polytheism that monotheism completely lacks and is ultimately insufficient at reconciling the absurdity of world.
I think the mediæval Hell painting was by Hieronymus Bosch.
A lot of the folk tales bridged this gap in medieval times and served as cultural transmission of these truths. Unfortunately, modernity has sanitized and Disneyfied them so a lot of the strangeness is lost.
Do you believe the folk tales, in the form of their original natural strangeness and richness, can be revived? Do you believe they should be, despite or in spite of the anachronism?
There are some decidedly non-Christian observances and folk stories kept by the adults that I had first-hand experience of when I lived in Europe as a boy. I'm glad they survived that long and I witnessed them. There was magic in them, deep magic, and even though I had already read things like the Odyssey and was utterly captivated, I couldn't have drawn the line back to it, and further back still, but the old gods, their deeds and their foibles persisted in the spirit possessing those stories.
I would say that the religious pluralism of Rome, particularly during the early Empire (with the caveat that it was more likely due to pragmatism, or a deliberate policy of appropriation) made better accommodation for religious cross-fertilization than medieval Europe did, particular since Christianity (Catholicism), which emphasizes its persecution victim-hood, was perversely brutally intolerant even of any divergence in interpretation of scripture.
The vacuity and shabbiness of modernity leaves me yearning for a revival. Even were it, or especially as a foil, a bulwark against the advancing Technocracy, its artificiality, and its degenerate insanity.
> Do you believe the folk tales, in the form of their original natural strangeness and richness, can be revived? Do you believe they should be, despite or in spite of the anachronism?
The old myths are available is relatively pure form. Yeats and The Grimm Brothers did great work there. The issue is to keep the culture moving in modern times. This isn't an "updated for modern audiences" demand, but drinking from that tradition to create something unique and alive. Way too often dissidents fall into the "read old books" trope while ignoring the need for new cultural artifacts.
There will never be one religion that will fit everyone. a religion that tried will be at war forever. I found Christianity wholly unsuitable and prefer the old gods of my ancestors. through them can understand the virtues embodied better. For example , in the story of Narcissus , we grasp a certain problem and can therefore possibly avoid that mental bad habit, being warned by the lore of the faith. poets were the original writers of the old faiths and had many such useful stories, that they drew little profit or power from. these top down power structures, newer religions have been around for 2,000 years and still, cannot co-exist, apparently. If they have not sorted this out by now it ain't gonna happen. I guess you too have read "walpurgis Nicht" by Thomas Sheridan?
Wow, what a hopeful and encouraging piece.
I always like to end my articles on a positive note.
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Loved the piece, but all the grammatical, spelling, dangling participles and incomplete sentence errors were really distracting. I had to re-write entire sentences in my head for a few paragraphs to make sense. Maybe have someone else edit these before publishing. 😊
I'm the world's worst proofreader, and I initially started writing here to improve my writing chops. Glad people enjoy my articles despite some grammar issues.
I thought it was fantastic. There are websites and apps that do that for you. 😁
hey do not feel alone. I have mad dyslexia, it is unbelievable how hard it is for me to write. But i try. well done!
Magnificent! What is more, this treatise coincides with my own reawakening regard for not only the relevance, but also the power of the old gods. "The real nuance on how a folk saw their relationship with nature was not in the gods individually, but with how these gods interacted" This succinctly articulates and captures an essential potency of polytheism that monotheism completely lacks and is ultimately insufficient at reconciling the absurdity of world.
I think the mediæval Hell painting was by Hieronymus Bosch.
A lot of the folk tales bridged this gap in medieval times and served as cultural transmission of these truths. Unfortunately, modernity has sanitized and Disneyfied them so a lot of the strangeness is lost.
Do you believe the folk tales, in the form of their original natural strangeness and richness, can be revived? Do you believe they should be, despite or in spite of the anachronism?
There are some decidedly non-Christian observances and folk stories kept by the adults that I had first-hand experience of when I lived in Europe as a boy. I'm glad they survived that long and I witnessed them. There was magic in them, deep magic, and even though I had already read things like the Odyssey and was utterly captivated, I couldn't have drawn the line back to it, and further back still, but the old gods, their deeds and their foibles persisted in the spirit possessing those stories.
I would say that the religious pluralism of Rome, particularly during the early Empire (with the caveat that it was more likely due to pragmatism, or a deliberate policy of appropriation) made better accommodation for religious cross-fertilization than medieval Europe did, particular since Christianity (Catholicism), which emphasizes its persecution victim-hood, was perversely brutally intolerant even of any divergence in interpretation of scripture.
The vacuity and shabbiness of modernity leaves me yearning for a revival. Even were it, or especially as a foil, a bulwark against the advancing Technocracy, its artificiality, and its degenerate insanity.
> Do you believe the folk tales, in the form of their original natural strangeness and richness, can be revived? Do you believe they should be, despite or in spite of the anachronism?
The old myths are available is relatively pure form. Yeats and The Grimm Brothers did great work there. The issue is to keep the culture moving in modern times. This isn't an "updated for modern audiences" demand, but drinking from that tradition to create something unique and alive. Way too often dissidents fall into the "read old books" trope while ignoring the need for new cultural artifacts.
well said.
Deeply satisfying read.
An elaboration on how the Gods may rise again within our people would have been a better ending I think.
There will never be one religion that will fit everyone. a religion that tried will be at war forever. I found Christianity wholly unsuitable and prefer the old gods of my ancestors. through them can understand the virtues embodied better. For example , in the story of Narcissus , we grasp a certain problem and can therefore possibly avoid that mental bad habit, being warned by the lore of the faith. poets were the original writers of the old faiths and had many such useful stories, that they drew little profit or power from. these top down power structures, newer religions have been around for 2,000 years and still, cannot co-exist, apparently. If they have not sorted this out by now it ain't gonna happen. I guess you too have read "walpurgis Nicht" by Thomas Sheridan?