"Revive European Animism..."

Revive European Animism Paganism, Wyrd, Asatru, Wicca 

ThunderWizarddotcom YouTube channel

http://www.Thunderwizard.com

For 50,000 years, Europeans were animist polytheists who believed that all of the manifested Cosmos possessed a spirit with which humans could directly interact and communicate. It has only been in the last 500 or so years that peoples of European descent have lived outside their immediate resources. This change took place when our European ancestors abandoned their ancient animist traditions. The consequences were devastating. 

Today our modern world was shaped primarily by people of European descent and it is this modern Western culture that has been separated from it's traditional animist ways that has created plagues, racism, slavery, global warming, nuclear weapons, air pollution, economic disaster, etc... These are not divine punishments, but merely the natural consequences of the decisions made by a people who have forgotten their ancient animist traditions. Let's return to our animist roots. Let's return to the "Old Ways" that kept our people and our traditions alive for 50,000 years.

Music - 'Promentory' by Trevor Jones

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Animal Totemism

TotemAnimalIntroduction

AviaVeneficaVideos YouTube channel

Avia Venefica YouTube channel (current)

An introduction to Animal Totemism: What it is, Why it's relevant, and some thoughts on identifying your totem animals.

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'Totems: The Transformative Power of Your Personal Animal Totem' (Brad Steiger; 1997)

Brad Steiger is a legend, having authored over 200 books. When he researches something, it's very interesting and thorough. He's a good name to look up on YouTube, as he's been a frequent guest on Jeff Rense and many other programs.

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Spirit Animal Totems website

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Ghost programs and the metaphysical issue: Part 15

Saturday "ghost night"

For the past year or so, I have referred to Saturday evening as "ghost night." This is mostly because the Lifetime Movie Network (LMN: DirecTV channel 253) presents a lineup of programs dealing with the ghost/spirit issue. Last evening they presented their new lineup with 'My Haunted Vacation', 'The Haunting Of...', 'My Haunted House', and Psychic Intervention. Spirit medium Kim Russo is featured on the 'The Haunting Of.." and the newer 'Psychic Intervention'.

Kim Russo, unlike "The Long Island Medium" in my opinion, appears to be the real thing. Even if one of the celebrities featured has a definite link to a place entirely unrelated to their family members who've passed on, she always makes a connection with them on top of the issue at hand. With all of these programs, it's sort've hit and miss; with some cases more interesting than others. 

I really wish the network would bring back 'Reincarnated: Past Lives', which I think was ultimately the most significant program of them all. They aired four programs last year. Apparently the soul moves on to the next incarnation when it's ready, whether in ten years or five hundred years. A "spirit" is a free spirit, while a "ghost" is in a repressed state.. stuck and perhaps isolated in one location.

Also last evening featured 'The Dead Files' and 'Ghost Adventures' on the Travel Channel (DirecTV channel 277), two popular programs for the network. Spirit medium Amy Allan of 'The Dead Files' uses an entirely different approach than Kim Russo, apparently because she has different abilities. She virtually never makes a connection to the clients' family members who've passed on unless they have become a ghost (not a spirit) at that location.. and perhaps a problem. Also, very unlike Kim Russo, she confronts various types of paranormal entities. Some of them were never in living form, and apparently some were just "brought into existence" from conditions of the history of the house or property.

For example, a house can just "assume a spirit" of it's own at some point; or a poltergeist is actually "created" by a living person's emotions and energy.. and can become an entirely separate spirit. I suspect that this can occur from love and positive energy as well.. Also, a ghost can eventually just morph into something entirely different, apparently always eery and negative. I don't know if that would destroy the soul or not. So many questions...

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Return of The Divine Feminine

'The Return' 

Fallen from the brightest light
Into the darkest black water
Emerging to begin Divine plight
Many stood up and fought Her

Lands are bathed in blood
Cleansed by the sacred fire
Lost ones sink into the mud
Lifting my great sword higher

The battle isn't over quite
Until the last one falls
The end is now in sight
No hiding behind high walls

Peace and tranquility restored
Nature now starts to bloom
At last pull down my sword
Place flowers on their tomb

--Tia L Douglass
 

Temple of Theola

Temple of Theola YouTube channel

Tau Tia L Douglass

Church of St. Mary & St. John (Celtic Gnostic Church)

BeTheSolution.net


I don't necessarily agree with everything presented, but I agree with the basic gist of it. "Maturnalism," rather than male-energy "Feminism": and a balance of energy.. The Saturnian hexagram (aka "Star of David") is a very ancient symbol which combines the "sacred masculine" (the upward triangle) and the "sacred feminine" (the downward triangle).

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Symbols and symbolism - Avia Venefica

 
Avia Venefica links

Whats-Your-Sign.com

Symbolic-Meanings.com

YouTube channel

Old YouTube channel

Facebook


2 other links

Symbols.com (great symbol site)
 
SymbolDictionary.net

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'The Wicker Tree' (movie review)

'The Wicker Tree' is a sequel to 'The Wicker Man', as well as part two in The Wicker Man film series from the UK. This 2011 film was written and directed by Robin Hardy, who directed the original classic in 1973.

This movie followed the same basic plot as the original---as well as the 2006 remake---with people being carefully set up and lured to a location, all having something to do with modern "paganism." This was a great idea for a film, but not a very good film.

This film, set in lower Scotland, lacked any alluring elements. The locations, the scenes, the characters, or even the pagans themselves... all lacked any mystery to them. The wonderful coastal Isle of Man location of the original had all of those aspects and more. The music, although promoted as a big part of this production, lacked the mysterious pagan spirit of the original; and even the sexual expressions, although overt, were bland and pointless.

I'm not just trashing a sequel for not living up to the original, as I did like the 2006 remake just on its own merit. In the original, there was at least a certain "pagan charm" and purpose to everything. Although hiding a dark side, the pagans did have a culture and values. In 'The Wicker Tree', they were portrayed as sex nuts.. without values, without morals, without any charm, without even good symbolism. I read something, which may or may not be true, that suggested that Robin Hardy wasn't amused that some pagans today and since the original... actually see that movie as like "a cult following." Perhaps this movie was his way of "making it right with God" in a Christian sense?

Sir Lachlan Morrison (Graham McTavish), who headed the pagan village, was portrayed as what was apparently something of a corporate "eco-terrorist." Although I ignored any concept of "pagan defamation" from the get-go, I think I can say with certainly that no true pagan would be an environmental abuser. I thought that was a little much.

The protagonists were Christian "redeemers" from Texas, there to convert the "heathens" of as least this little corner of Scotland. Therefore, the film certainly had a powerful plot in which to play out the "Christian vs. Heathen" theme. However, missing was the intrigue and terror in even "the setting up" process! There was nothing interesting or different about the folks in this village outside of being "rural" and a bit aloof.

Just for the record, the film described this fictional pagan tradition as "the old religion of the Celts," and the the ceremony as "the Queen of the May." The original 'The Wicker Man' was reviewed on this blog here.

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Equinox (1970)

While on the subject of movies, yesterday I saw a movie that I hadn't seen since I was very young called 'Equinox'. I saw it on the old "Creature Features" in the Bay Area. When I happened to see it in the listing on Turner Classic Movies, I expected it to be in black and white, as I saw it on a black and white tv in the late 70s. For a movie which was produced for only $6,000, I thought it turned out well. It was produced by some college students, and filmed over a three year period, and eventually picked up by Janus Films. It was a B-horror movie, but a very special B-horror movie. It was bold without overdoing it, and the special effects weren't bad at all. While watching it, I thought that this must have influenced the "Evil Dead" movies.. and apparently it did.



Equinox (also known as The Equinox... A Journey into the Supernatural, and released on home video as The Beast) is a 1970 American independent horror film directed by Dennis Muren and Jack Woods, and starring Edward Connell, Barbara Hewitt, Frank Bonner, and award-winning science fiction/horror writer Fritz Leiber. The plot focuses on four teenagers having a picnic in the canyons of California who stumble upon an ancient book containing secrets of a strange world that exists alongside humans, and consequently unleash a plethora of evil creatures and monsters.

Some interesting hard-to-find information on any film can be found on the movie reviews on the Internet Movie Database. One reviewer from Finland apparently had the same experience as I did.

If you saw this film when you were in your teens then you are in luck, for you will think it was a wonderful curiosity. For so many years, the film stayed inside my head and I wondered what ever became of it. Finally, it was on cable one night and I managed to see it all over again. Of course, being older, one is more likely to dismiss it as 'amateurish' but it really is a special kind of film. The premise deals with a lost book of the dead called the "Necrominicon" and how it suddenly effects a group of students out for a picnic in a backwoods forest. They encounter an eerie park ranger who wants the book back for his own sinister ends. Also included are plenty of monsters that are really quite good for the time and the budget involved. Take a look at the flying demon, even though you can see the wires on the wings, he's still pretty evil looking. This isn't really 'bad' at all and doesn't deserve to be on any banal shows that exploit that realm. It is a great little horror film done with patience and wit.
--Bartok Kinski, IMDb reviewer, Finland 

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Irminfolk of New York - "Folkish Summer Hallowing"

Apparently the Irminfolk is to New York State, what the Asatru Folk Assembly is to Northern California. Their website is Irminfolk.com. They have actually developed their own beautiful currently if you want to look up that article and video. They're looking to purchase some significant land as an Odinic retreat. These are ideas that set a good example for what can be accomplished.

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