Forwarded from European Identity
"Nor are the women hurried early into marriage: the same age and the same full growth is required for both husband and wife: as a result the two sexes unite equally matched and physically healthy; and so the children inherit this strength from their parents."
- Roman historian Tacitus on the virtuous sexual morality of the Germanic Pagans his "Germania" 98 AD
- Roman historian Tacitus on the virtuous sexual morality of the Germanic Pagans his "Germania" 98 AD
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Do I not then deservedly detest all you philosophers…men whom not only did Lysimachus the king banish from his own dominions, as Carystius tells us in his Historic Reminiscenses, but the Athenians did so too. At all events, Alexis, in his Horse, says:
Is this the Academy; is this Xenocrates?
May the gods greatly bless Demetrius
And all the lawgivers; for, as men say,
They’ve driven out of Attica with disgrace
All those who do profess to teach the youth
Learning and science.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Is this the Academy; is this Xenocrates?
May the gods greatly bless Demetrius
And all the lawgivers; for, as men say,
They’ve driven out of Attica with disgrace
All those who do profess to teach the youth
Learning and science.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
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Sophocles, passed a decree to banish all the philosophers from Attica. And Philo, the friend of Aristotle, wrote an oration against him; And the Romans, who are in every respect the best of men, banished all the sophists from Rome, on the ground of their corrupting the youth of the city...And Anaxippus the comic poet declares your folly in his Man struck by Lightning, speaking thus:
Alas, you’re a philosopher; but I
Do think philosophers are only wise.
In quibbling about words; in deeds they are,
As far as I can see, completely foolish.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Alas, you’re a philosopher; but I
Do think philosophers are only wise.
In quibbling about words; in deeds they are,
As far as I can see, completely foolish.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
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Antiochus the king banished all the philosophers out of his kingdom, writing thus—“King Antiochus to Phanias: ‘We have written to you before, that no philosopher is to remain in the city, nor in the country…As soon, therefore, as you receive this letter, order a proclamation to be made, that all the philosophers do at once depart from those places, and that as many young men as are detected in going to them, shall be fastened to a pillar and flogged, and their fathers shall be held in great blame.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Athenaeus of Naucratis
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It is, therefore, with good reason that many cities…will not admit either rhetoric or philosophy, on account of the jealousy, and strife, and profitless discussions to which they give rise; And it is owing to this, too, that Theodorus the Atheist was put to death, and that Diagoras was banished; and this latter, sailing away when he was banished, was wrecked.
Athenaeus of Naucratis
Athenaeus of Naucratis
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Loki’s daughter is not clearly identified as Hel in any of the existing Eddaic poems. In light of this, it’s important to note that the description of “Hel’s high hall” stands in stark contrast to the hall of Loki’s daughter in Snorri’s Edda.
In the Eddaic poem Baldrs Draumar, whereas the benches in “Hel’s high hall” are strewn with costly things and mead stands poured out in goblets awaiting a guest, the hall of Loki’s daughter (whom Snorri calls Hel) is a dismal place with its dish called “Hunger” and its knife named “famine.”
The Eddaic poems clearly distinguish this place from Hel, the realm where “all men” must eventually come according to Fáfnismál 10.
W.P. Reaves
In the Eddaic poem Baldrs Draumar, whereas the benches in “Hel’s high hall” are strewn with costly things and mead stands poured out in goblets awaiting a guest, the hall of Loki’s daughter (whom Snorri calls Hel) is a dismal place with its dish called “Hunger” and its knife named “famine.”
The Eddaic poems clearly distinguish this place from Hel, the realm where “all men” must eventually come according to Fáfnismál 10.
W.P. Reaves
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We hear that Bion the Borysthenite,
Whom the ferocious Scythian land brought forth,
Used to deny that there were Gods at all.
Now, if he’d persevered in this opinion,
One would have said he speaks just as he thinks;
Though certainly his thoughts are quite mistaken.
But when a lengthened sickness overtook him,
And he began to fear lest he should die;
This man who heretofore denied the Gods,
And would not even look upon a temple,
And mocked all those who e’er approached the Gods
With prayer or sacrifice; who ne’er, not even
For his own hearth, and home, and household table,
Regaled the Gods with savoury fat and incense
Diogenes Laertius
Whom the ferocious Scythian land brought forth,
Used to deny that there were Gods at all.
Now, if he’d persevered in this opinion,
One would have said he speaks just as he thinks;
Though certainly his thoughts are quite mistaken.
But when a lengthened sickness overtook him,
And he began to fear lest he should die;
This man who heretofore denied the Gods,
And would not even look upon a temple,
And mocked all those who e’er approached the Gods
With prayer or sacrifice; who ne’er, not even
For his own hearth, and home, and household table,
Regaled the Gods with savoury fat and incense
Diogenes Laertius
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Forwarded from Pagan Revivalism
This is a historical depicion of Thor fishing for Jormangandr from the Altuna Runestone in Uppland, Sweden made in the 1,000s. Some people judge this depiction for being child-like but it may have been an intentional choice by the runemaster. The stone was erected in remembrance of a father and son who tragically died in a fire. The inscription says:
Véfastr, Folkaðr, Guðvarr had the stone raised in memory of their father Holmfastr, (and) Arnfastr.
Both father and son were burned, and Balli Freysteinn, of Lífsteinn's retinue, carved (this).
It's reminiscent of a quote from the Havamal, "A son is a blessing, though born late to a father no longer alive: stones would seldom stand by the highway if sons did not set them there." - Odin - Havamal - 72
Let this stone depicting blessed Thor and Odin's words guide you to remember our ancestors, to focus on the family and give honor and glory to our Gods who watch over and guide us.
Véfastr, Folkaðr, Guðvarr had the stone raised in memory of their father Holmfastr, (and) Arnfastr.
Both father and son were burned, and Balli Freysteinn, of Lífsteinn's retinue, carved (this).
It's reminiscent of a quote from the Havamal, "A son is a blessing, though born late to a father no longer alive: stones would seldom stand by the highway if sons did not set them there." - Odin - Havamal - 72
Let this stone depicting blessed Thor and Odin's words guide you to remember our ancestors, to focus on the family and give honor and glory to our Gods who watch over and guide us.
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