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Post by Tautalos on Oct 17, 2005 18:21:51 GMT -5
Isnt Lada the name an old car used to have? Yeah. Female. She is a Slavic counterpart of Aphrodite, actually. Aphrodite is somehow connected with the Spring, just like Lada. And that's interesting, because in Lusitania (in the territory that is today Portugal) there is an old inscription written in Latin but mentioning pre-Roman indigenous Deities (i.e., Lusitanian, or archaic Celtic, or, in some way, archaic Indo-European) that refers the name of a Deity named Lida. In the ritual inscription, made during Spring, the Goddess receives the sacrifice of a she-goat.
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Post by Tautalos on Oct 17, 2005 18:43:51 GMT -5
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Post by Tautalos on Oct 17, 2005 18:48:09 GMT -5
A couple of years ago, I watched a reconstruction of Kupala celebration in polish TV. It was far more professional That was art, i.e., make-believe; this is religion. The comparison is thus meaningless.
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Post by asdf on Oct 17, 2005 19:07:40 GMT -5
You make QVP look like a chump[/b].
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Post by Tautalos on Oct 17, 2005 21:49:09 GMT -5
You make QVP look like a chump[/b].[/quote] What's that?
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Post by asdf on Oct 17, 2005 22:05:53 GMT -5
QVP was this Alpinid[/b] supremacist who in every post bolded or italicised something.
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Post by geo on Oct 18, 2005 11:08:15 GMT -5
Good discussion and very interesting links by tautalos. Jim fitzpatrick is well-known for illustrating the myths concerning the invasions of ireland into two books: 'The book of conquests' and 'The silver arm', both reissued under paper tiger editions. Shee-eireA nicely rendered site with extensive coverage of irish mythology. Daemonia nympheGood effort to reconstruct hellenic music. They use restorations of ancient hellenic organs, while the aesthetic result draws from 'new age' at times. SvetlojarYoung band from russia mixing traditional musical elements into progressive/folk rock. The result is excellent.
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Post by Tautalos on Oct 18, 2005 20:24:03 GMT -5
www.skyforger.lv/ - Skyforger (reference to Perkunas, Celestial God of Thunder, War and Forge), Latvian pagan band, that started as a folkish black metal band, but that made an excellent album of pure folk (believe it or not), named «Zobena Dziesma» (Song of the Sword). www.wcer.org/ - World Congress of Ethnic Religions, international organization that include pagan groups of several countries. The site haves a forum.
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Post by geo on Oct 20, 2005 9:43:39 GMT -5
Of course! I keep a close eye on skyforger since 2002 when perkonkalve was released. From then it was clear they had enough flame to perform the feat that was zobena dziesma.
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Post by jam on Oct 24, 2005 16:26:28 GMT -5
Oh the mighty english man has spoken! Stupid little englishman, yes, Aphrodite sounds better than Dazdbog. WHy dont you tell us about your own englishj god names so that we can compare? Oups! You have no God names from england do you??? Only traditions of evil witches and foul medieval torture chambers, you pathetic little english people! Too bad too bad... So what does the little filthy english man tell us? Than a nerdy jew would make a film entitled 'Mighty Aphrodite', and Aphrodite is a well known Greek name. Whats your point, little englishman? Even if what you say happened, guess what, the only place a nerdy jew would be able to make such a film, would be .....you got it! An anglo country! Like Britain or America! And the only audience who would pay to see such a film, would be ......you guessed it englishman! Blondie little englishpeople like you!!!! And you would enjoy the film quite a lot! The name Aphrodite thouhg doesnt lose anything from unworthy people using it, thats a fact. Calm down my little Greek friend, surely you must know that name-calling only serves to make the name-caller appear juvenile and lacking intelligence, us English simply rise above such childish behaviour. As for names of Anglo Saxon gods, well you should know at least some of them seeing as you probably use them quite often there is of course 'Sunna' the goddess who gave her name to the day 'Sunday' 'Mani' who was the moon god and whom the day 'Monday' is named after. 'Tiwaz/Tyr' who was god of war and whom the day 'Tuesday' is named after. 'Wodan' the head god of whom 'Wednesday' is named after. 'Thunor' the god who gave his name to 'thunder' aswell as 'Thursday' and 'Frigga' the goddess of fertility whom 'Friday' is named after of course with the complete dominance of English as the world language these names are used in every corner of the world literally billions of times a day, especially with the use of the World Wide Web that was so kindly given as a gift to the world by that great Englishman 'Tim Berners Lee'. You Greeks probably have your own names for days of the week but I like 99.99 % of the world wouldnt know 1 of them. Those aren't specifically "English", but rather generic Germanic gods, at least most of them. And the rest of the Germanic world didn't get the names from English, that's for sure.
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Post by zemelmete on Oct 25, 2005 0:47:53 GMT -5
www.skyforger.lv/ - Skyforger (reference to Perkunas, Celestial God of Thunder, War and Forge), Latvian pagan band, that started as a folkish black metal band, but that made an excellent album of pure folk (believe it or not), named «Zobena Dziesma» (Song of the Sword). In latvian language thunder [god] is "pçrkons" not "perkunas" (it is in lithuanian language). I am not big fan of Skyforger, but sometimes listen it. I like that in "Zobena dziesma" mostly are little known latvian folk songs (many other latvian artists usually use popular folk songs).
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