We see pagan tradition through the prism of generations of modern religious thought. Through history and prehistory, the representations of the ancient gods and traditions followed by pagans have been marred by propaganda from other religious groups eager to rein in those they defined as `wild barbarians`. In truth, the word pagan is a Roman term meaning `country folk`, and the general concept of paganism is of oneness with nature and a quest to fully understand the world around us. Though historical accounts lead us to images of stone dildo-wielding women flashing their genitals at cattle, chieftains having sex with horses before slaughtering them and whipping sessions in mixed saunas, the underlying theme is of human similarity with animals and nature. Where modern religion aims to emphasise the difference between humans and the world around us, the ancient pagan perspective is that human beings are interdependent with the world they inhabit and that sexuality is a powerful and natural element in the success of a people.
There is a huge difference between the 4th century and the 8th century which is where most of our well kept pagan traditions came from.
sex with horses? …now, one of the first rules when your around a horse is what? DON’T STAND BEHIND IT!!! why? because it will kick the crap out of you, there are videos on YouTube showing stupid people getting kicked, funny and painful to watch
Lol, -whips- “Thank you!”
The same tradition with birch leaves is in Slovakia. Baltic and Slavic traditions cross over so much!
People in the past believed that eating you enemy will give you his power.Bulgarain khan Krum made a goblet from the skull of the dead byrzantian emperor Nikifor and used it for special toasts.
This is common in the history.Celts decapitated the dead bodies and removed the brains because the thought that even a dead enemy can harm you. 😉
“Killing the bones”. I like that – funny concept – destroy your enemy so much that thier individual bones die a death. ^_^
Disarticulation and exposure (sky burial style) was very common in ancient Europe – many of the barrows & chamber tombs were actually ritual areas where special community members were left to be picked apart by beasts, thier bones collected together and kept as a group. Later with the Aryan Indo-European peoples arriving that we see individual burials and a hero-culture.
in Scotland the Bean Clan caught travellers and ate them! so its possible that this place was home to a similar clan of misfits!