>>4297cont'd:
Because I assume you are operating from this paradigm, I also assume that you think (consciously or subconsciously) that a religion absolutely must have a direct lineage from a prophet, book or canon in order to be valid.
In contrast, Heathenry, and other indigenous worldviews like Shinto tend to be World-Accepting Folkways. Their two defining characteristics are:
1. World Accepting: Present physical reality is viewed as neither inherently evil nor good. It simply just is. Reality is something to make the best of, and thus their is also an emphasis on creating a good society for future generations to inherit (i.e. planting seeds for trees whose shade one will never lie in.) The afterlife in these worldviews tend to be de-emphasized or simply a mundane continuation of life on Earth.
"But Valhalla!" I hear you say. Valhalla, as we know it, is the product of syncretism with Christianity ( the details will be left for another time.) The original Pre-Christian Heathen afterlife simply consisted of dying into the local land or mountain, living their with one's ancestral line, and being a guardian influence on one's descendant kin who inhabited said land.
2. Folkway: Folkways do not simply magically appear in a puff of smoke in the form of a book and prophet. They are a completely organic product of the experiences and character of a people. Thus, they are also the product of race, genetics and soul.
The original Heathens did not initially have priests or spiritual teachers to show them the ropes. That process eventually took place in time, but in the very beginning. such teachers simply naturally emerged as they were suited to the role, as is currently happening in our movement now. I personally find it quite telling that Heathenry reemerged in the White nations of the Earth simultaneously via different organizations around the same time in the late 70's.
That is why Traditionalist minded Heathens are not roleplayers, Larpers, or Romanticists. We are not merely miming rituals laid out in a book or following the commands of a prophet. We are following the natural inborn instincts of our race to mine through history and archaeology to relearn who we are.
Since Heathenry is our essence, and not a book, or prophet or canonical lineage, it can never be truly killed. Dulled, buried and suppressed, perhaps, but never truly destroyed.
Though I would like to see Traditionalist Heathenry and Christianity lay aside their differences until Cultural Marxism is defeated, one thing that I particularly find distasteful about Christianity being the dominant worldview of the West is this:
Growing up as a Christian, the mytho-religious figures that I was taught to revere were the likes of Jesus, Abraham, Moses, Samson, etc. Until I began my own investigations, I did not even know that the likes of Arminius, Sigurd, Welland, Egil, etc. even existed. The gods and heroes of the Greco-Romans were not taught to us in school as part of our European heritage, but as external historical curiosities, completely apart from us, to study and examine like a science experiment.
There is something profoundly sick and tragic about being taught to worship Middle-Easterners, instead of the gods and heroes of my own blood and continent.
To answer your other questions:
> That besides, just how many of you have done an animal sacrifice? What about a human sacrifice? Have any of you killed a man at all? While I have ambitions to do animal sacrifce eventually once I am in a location where this is feasible, even so, as I said earlier, our folkway goes beyond mere rituals.
>>4281 covered the human part.
>What kind of pagans are you? How are you interacting with nature as you sit behind your computer screen?I explore and partake of my outdoor environs as much as possible; enjoying camping in particular.
>How do you expect to be the solution to our problems? How do you intend to actually return Europa to paganism? What is your plan?I cannot necessarily speak for all Heathens, on this matter, obviously. Nevertheless, I think that it's safe to say that most Heathens are thinking in the long term, and are dedicated to slow, gradual growth and influence. Our revival is only about 40ish years old, give or take, and even the Christians started out as a minor mystery cult that got fed to the lions.
Personally, I do not see a grand violent "Heathen Revolution" in the near or even far future. I think that more than likely, Heathenry will quietly build up it's enclaves in the background.and will become more prominent as Cultural Marxism collapses upon itself (i.e. in a similar manner as the Right in Russia arose from the ashes of Communism, and how the Golden Dawn is currently growing in prominence due to the crisis in Greece.)