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From the exceptional privilege of burial within holy ground the idea could easily arise that the ghost of the buried king or priest partook somewhat of the nature of the divinity and should share in his worship. Some approximation of hero and divinity seems to glimmer through part of the representation on the Phaistos sarcophagus.

R.Farnell
Greek Hero Cult and Ideas of Immortality

Why temples being destroyed is not as bad as it may seem

It radicalizes Pagans worldwide by showing that there’s no peaceful solution to abrahamism and the government will never be on our side

Art by D.Narbut

D.Narbut
Dnipro river pier

Mykyta the Tanner and the dragon

During the Viking age, it was common for a family to give one of their children to another family to foster. It was a bond that could link a man to his social superior. Typically, a child from a superior family was raised by an inferior family. The foster parents received either payment or support from the birth parents. Fostering was not the same as adoption. It was a legal agreement, and an alliance. Ties between foster-relations could be as strong or stronger than those between blood-relations.

Families and Demographics in the Viking Age
W.R.Short

In addition, fostering was a way to redistribute children among families. Because the infant mortality rate was so high, some couples had no live births. It has been suggested that the percentage of couples without live children was as high as 20% in the Viking age. Fostering was a means to bring a child into a family that had none.

Families and Demographics in the Viking Age
W.R.Short

Svyatoslav the Brave’s childhood also serves as an example of foster-parenting since the future king was raised by guardians and tutors voivodes Svenaldr and Asmundr

Svenaldr and Asmundr accompanied Svyatoslav in his first battles. Obviously they were the ones actually commanding the troops, but the future king grew up used to the battlefield.

There’s an interesting theory when it comes to Svenaldr. Some say that he betrayed Svyatoslav and it is possible. After all it’s odd how the king ended up dying in an ambush while his general returned safely. Ultimately we will never know the details and it’s possible that Svenaldr just got lucky, but some point out that Svyatoslav was an inconvenience to the the aristocracy and merchants who wanted to ally with Byzantium and convert to christianity which would be impossible with a militant Pagan on the throne.

Vikings

Molfar

Hutsul warlock

“Kolovrat” symbol is mere modification of swastika and only has been appearing much less throughout the history than it is attributed in present day. Also, the name itself is of modern origin. “Kolovrat” only gained on importance in the last decades of 20th century because of an attempt of Slavic Paganism reconstruction, where this symbol became a imaginary symbol of the movement. Nowadays, it is widely used by neopagans, reenactors, soldiers and companies targeting these groups with their marketing campaigns.

T.Vlasatý

A necklace from Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine. Debatably 11th century. It’s similar to kolovrat, but is not the same exact symbol.

Variations of swastika used to decorate pottery from Early Middle Ages. No exact matches to kolovrat.