One of the best parts about the time which we live is the abundance of information at our disposal.

Unlike the time of a hundred years ago, where information on ancestral faith was scattered. We have a wide array of translations, accessed from all across the world, for free in the public domain. No longer is introductory information locked within the walls of academia. Where one has to pay substantial sums to get a glance.

It's part of the reason why, wherever you look, the revival of ancestral ways is undeniable and inevitable.

In the functional polytheism of the Romans, the gods stand side by side and collaborate with one another. This is why it is always dangerous to assimilate one deity to another, as if they were to all intents and purposes the same. For such assimilation tends to deny the particular distribution of divine functions as it is evidenced in ritual.

John Scheid

The die is cast
Alea iacta est

Attributed to Caesar it is one of the most popular Latin phrases.
This is the only depiction of Rubicon crossing featuring the Gods I know. Seems fitting considering that the Gods always watch over great historical figures and events.

A football player told a Catholic college that women should aspire to be homemakers. What was the response of Catholic traditionalists from the university?

The sisters said that Butker's comments "seem to have fostered division" "instead of promoting unity" and that they disagreed with his suggestion that "being a homemaker is the highest calling" women should aspire for.

We reject a narrow definition of what it means to be Catholic," the sisters said. "We want to be known as an inclusive, welcoming community, embracing Benedictine values that have endured for more than 1,500 years and have spread through every continent and nation."

https://www.businessinsider.com/catholic-nuns-rebuke-harrison-butker-commencement-speech-benedictine-college-2024-5

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Sun ride by B.Olshanky

New translation in progress. The topic is traditional temple construction.

Examination of Slavic temples of VI-XIII c. shows that Slavs had pretty developed tradition of cult architecture and paraphernalia.
An example of this is a small temple found in the settlement of Zubrycka culture dating to the end of I - mid II c. AD near the Zagai village of the Volhynia region.
The temple is located in the center of the settlement. It’s shape resembles a human torso and is almost 1ft deeper than the surrounding earth.
An oval sacrificial altar was placed in the centre of the room and was 2.6x3.9ft long and 1ft deeper than the level of the floor.

D.Kozak

The altar pit is filled with coal, ash, small burned bones and pieces of ceramic. There were three poles in the Northern and Western parts of the altar. Maybe, they had some role to play in the sacrifice.
The short, North-Western wall of the room, opposite the altar, has a round recess, the bottom of which is fixed to the floor level.
At the bottom of the recess is a subtriangular, sandstone, anthropomorphic portrait, a bust of an old man with long hair, thick beard and brows. The portrait is placed in the circle and resembles a coin obverse. A head is cut roughly and the shoulders are outlined.

D.Kozak

Two lower jaw bones are found by the altar. One of them belonged to a 35 y.o. man, another to a 25 y.o. woman.
A clay, female figurine with broken off legs and head was found on the other side of the altar. There were fragments of ceramic and animal bones on the floor. Obviously, those things are to be interpreted as offerings to the deity depicted on the stone.

D.Kozak

It seems more likely to me that the temple was dedicated to 4 distinct deities, 3 of them represented by the godpoles and one by the stone bust.
Won’t speculate which deities people of Zubrycka culture worshipped, but it’s reasonable to assume that the stone one was the most important. Or maybe, the small settlement just had to make do with what little they had. As stated by D.Kozak an average settlement of Zubrycka culture had a population ranging from 80 to 210 people. Obviously, the majority were not carvers. Also, keep in mind that sandstone is notoriously hard to cut.

A pal asked me about household worship of ancient Slavs. I have already written on that a bit before. Some brushing up on the topic and I’ll write again.

In Slavic tradition, even after christianization, there was a special place in every household. It was a south-eastern corner of the house where ancestral idols and later christians icons stood. Similar to Greek household hearth or Roman shrine to the Lar Familiaris it was a sacred place of the house educated to the ancestral cult. Most modern Slavic Pagans continue this tradition also adding idols of the Gods to the corner as well as photos of the dead family members.

Red used to mean not only a specific color, but also beautiful e.g. red girl (красна девица) should be translated as beautiful.

At the start and end of the harvest, even though the idols were replaced by icons, people still upheld an ancient tradition of bringing the first and last hay sheaf to the red corner.

Another interesting thing to note about the red corner is that when a person was dying and after he/she died they were always placed with the head to the red corner. It was also believed that the deceased's soul stayed at the red corner for the first 40 days after death.

Also, communists managed to semi-successfully use the red corner tradition. The line of subversion came far by then. From Ancestors to jewish gods to jewish politicians.
You can still see it in modern ex-USSR countries, but at offices of government officials, not households like it used to be.