#folkism

I don't actually plan on starting this anytime soon, and I don’t intend to publish it within the next few months—I’d rather give myself some time and develop this blog further first—but I am curious if anyone would actually read it:

Somewhere in my long-term plans, I want to share my personal reflections on Rodnovery (rodzimowierstwo) and Slavic culture/identity in general. I have this feeling that Tumblr is heavily dominated by an American perspective, which often bypasses the European one—especially regarding the lesser-known pantheons.

However, I’m torn: should I publish in my native language, Polish, in in English or in both?

I intend to create content for 'baby pagans' who might not be aware of the absolute mess we have to deal with, for example, in the context of Slavic beliefs, or 'where do potentially problematic attitudes in Rodnovery even come from?' Because while I’m personally happy that we’re all returning to the old ways and the old gods, it also triggers quite a few personal doubts, hesitations, and anxieties for me.

While I admire the American and British pagan communities, I don’t believe that white supremacy, fascists, and potentially TERFs are the only problems in the pagan community.

I've been awake since about six this morning. Damn weather shifting too quickly to catch up. Thankfully I didn't end up having any muscle spasms, but I think it was a near thing.

I'm not doing well this morning, however. I just ended a friendship that I now realize in hindsight was a long time coming. My now Ex-Friend, one of My longtime best friends in the Pagan and Polytheist community for the past seventeen years revealed Himself as a major Trans phobe, and outed Me as BiGender in a space where I try to keep My identity on the download for safety reasons. Thankfully the moderator in said space caught it in time and took care of it, but I'm dealing with a bit of fall out over the whole thing.

I've been observing this now ex-friend for the past year now. Some things He said late last year caught My notice, as He said some terrible things towards Women, which was weird for Him. I watched Him head into Heathenry over a gradual period, focusing His devotion to Odin. I was wary of this, because said Ex-Friend has always been more on the Conservative siade of the Politics, but before now has always dwelled on the Moderate end of thing. Not anymore, apparently. I'm sad to say He drank the Trump Cool aid, and one of the things I saw on His persoanl Facebook wall before the situation happened this morning was a post letting Everyone know He is a proud new member of the Asatru Folk Assembly.

Here's a reminder that Folkism is the scum of the Earth and Folkish, and Terfs while I'm at it, aren't welcome on this blog, or any spaces that I uphold. You can all fuck off straight into the nearest natural disaster.

The idea that one is barred from worshipping the Hellenic Gods and Daemons because of their skin color, physical features, ethnic ancestry, or genetic markers is un-Hellenistic in origin. It reduces the Universal Powers to a less than human level, defining their presence as no more influential than a single genetic component. It is a form of anti-theism, and a very malicious one.

Where was the place or time for race in the apportionment of Powers in the Universe? When the Gods were setting the first cause in motion, do these people think they planned on only making themselves known to a single race? In the late era of the religion, when it had spread the furthest and undergone its most sophisticated developments, Hellenic polytheism was no longer just a race tradition bound by blood but an entire civilization unto itself.