No.227 [Last50 Posts]
Post pagan altars and places of worship in this thread.
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No.229
Apparently Santa is also a worthy God. Hail Santa.
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No.230
>>229It seems Santa might actually be Odin:
http://tavernkeepers.com/is-odin-santa-claus/According to some traditions, Odin would carry “Yulenir” (one of Odin’s many names, literally meaning “Yule figure”) on the great hunt on the winter solstice. Then children would place their boots, filled with carrots, straw, or sugar, near the chimney for Odin’s flying horse, Sleipnir, to eat. Odin would then reward those children for their kindness by replacing Sleipnir’s food with gifts or candy. Now you begin to see the modern practices of leaving a cookie for Santa and a carrot for his reindeer and hanging stockings from the mantle with hopes they would be filled with toys. Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.235
>>230Sanataclaus is based on the Dutch figure Sinterklaas which is indeed based on Wodan
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No.251
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No.301
6,000-Year-Old Temple with Possible Sacrificial Altars Discoveredhttp://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=31916A 6,000-year-old temple holding humanlike figurines and sacrificed animal remains has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in Ukraine.Built before writing was invented, the temple is about 60 by 20 meters (197 by 66 feet) in size. It was a "two-story building made of wood and clay surrounded by a galleried courtyard," the upper floor divided into five rooms, write archaeologists Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko in a copy of a presentation they gave recently at the European Association of Archaeologists’ annual meeting in Istanbul, Turkey.Inside the temple, archaeologists found the remains of eight clay platforms, which may have been used as altars, the finds suggested. A platform on the upper floor contains "numerous burnt bones of lamb, associated with sacrifice," write Burdo and Videiko, of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The floors and walls of all five rooms on the upper floor were "decorated by red paint, which created [a] ceremonial atmosphere." Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.315
>>251fuck off with your pop-cult
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No.319
Mine, with my patron Thor and Freyr along with Tyr
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No.321
>>319The gods would be proud.
What's in the right bowl? I hope you haven't been 420 blazing anything.
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No.322
>>315You have angered Ebola-Chan. A slow agonizing viral holocaust will be your fate.
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No.325
>>322whowee there
go back to quadchin
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No.331
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No.332
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No.379
>>321Thanks anon
and nope I sure haven't been smoking any marijuanas today
>I see visions of Vanir when I indulge upon the blessed weed
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No.4968
>>227
How do I set up an altar?
What do I do with it?
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No.4972
>>4968
also, how would I do a blot?
Do they have to be done at certain times of the year or whenever? are they just a general sacrifice? do I need an altar?
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No.4992
>>227
I just did a little research on how people set up norse altars today, and came back cringing. There are so many people who are clearly missing the point, they're whiny little bitches who are playing at some weird mish-mosh of paganism and wicca and whatever else made them feel like a special snowflake inside. They make me sad, and I'm sure they make their ancestors sad.
However, this Horgr seems to have some promise–at least, it was actually referenced in the sagas. Just an altar made of stones, blessed with an ox's blood, but at least there's some evidence people actually did it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6rgr
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No.4993
>>4992
Explain/give examples of the cringe-y shit. That way people can use the info to not commit the same mistakes.
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No.4995
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No.5399
>>319
Shrine after I moved, decided to change the layouta bit
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No.5423
>>5399
>"dreamcatcher"
>item use to dry the scalps of whites they had scalpe to "catch" their very dreams
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No.5426
>>5423
thats why I use it as a sunwheel you faggot
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No.5427
Here's a question: What are good ways to make an altar small enough for a college dorm?
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No.5429
>>5427
get small bowl of dirt from a place you consider holy (or is truly holy, like dirt from around a runestone or history site)
now carve 3 sticks into god images. It is well attested from many sources that the Germanic tribes, especially the northern and eastern ones, made use of such god-poles, where a long pole with a god face was carved at the top.
your goal is to make a miniature version of that with 3 gods of your choice, although the most common were Odin, Thor and freyr.
if you do not have the artistic skill or time to carve faces on the sticks then just carve the names if the gods in runes
the second thing you'll need is a small pile of stones kept in a container in front of the god images. This is another well attested aspect of Germanic shrines, where the pile of stones was used for offerings of liquid nature like blood or mead.
thats pretty much all you really need, but if you have room for more then get creative
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No.5460
does anyone know what kind of altar a Gael would make?
t. clueless
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No.5567
>>5460
Bump, would also like to know.
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No.5572
Do you mean Specifically French Gauls or Celts in general.
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No.5573
>>5460
A Torque would be involved, the Celts are crazy for those.
>>5429
So what do you make a tiny rock well with stones and pour into it?
Do you let it evaporate or would you have to clean it so you aren't smelling old liquid.
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No.5574
"In particular, there was a trend to offer items associated with warfare in watery areas, evidence for which is found not only in the Celtic regions, but also in Late Bronze Age (and therefore pre-Celtic) societies and those outside of the Celtic area, namely Denmark"
That's something you could do, but not really an altar thing,.
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No.5575
>>5573
I have a Germanic styled oath-ring on my shrine that I use to make oaths and sometimes hold just in ritual
Im not sure if torques were used for the same purpose but im sure you could have one on an altar
And responding to the other part of your post, yeah basically. Its more of a pile of rocks than a well though. You ever see those piles of rocks on tops of mountains or along trails that people make for markers, called cairns? they look exactly like that.
for my indoor shrine I usually just sprinkle the offering of drink on the rock-pile just for practicality and then mark the heads of my statues with the same drink
for an outdoor cairn though its more appropriate to pour the drink out onto it and let it evaporate. these sorts of practices were well-attested in the sagas and it has a specific name in Germanic paganism, I just dont remember exactly
Oh and for the celtbro posting, this is also related because the word cairn originates from scottish and it was also a practice among the celts (or at least the british and scots)
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No.5612
>>5572
i said gaels, not gauls. gaels=ireland, scotland and isle of man.
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No.5703
celtfag here.
i dont know about asatru, but in the celtic religion, the adoration to the gods was made on the countryside; entire forests were the temples of the Gods, the clearings and the tops of hills, being places specially connected to the Gods, were the altars and the locations of feasts and celebrations.
Maybe there are some paralelism, just pointing it.
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No.5704
>>5703
Tactitus said the same thing about the early Germanic tribes, saying that they did not see it fit to imprison their gods in statues and that they were above human forms. He said some tribes even only recognized the Moon, the Sun and the Stars as gods, but the Romans said this sort of thing alot so it could be propaganda to make either look primitive.
I think its more likely that the early Germanics were much like the Celts and worshiped in Groves, as Tactitus said, and later the Saxons and Vikings imported the more Roman practice of making statues for their gods. At least they were rudimentary poles and tree trunks carved with human faces, which were still used later on as described by Ibn Fadlan, but by the late Viking age it appears the Germanics had large, elaborate statues inside grand temples. Whether this is indeed an imported Roman practice or a Native Germanic one that was only found in Scandinavia is unknown.
I dont know much about the Celts and their practices, although I know after the Roman conquest of Gaul, the Gaulish Celts began worshiping their gods in the form of statues roughly based on the Roman types. Before this the Celts dont appear to have used statues for worship.
However there is pic related, which predates the Roman period, but it does not appear to depict a God but rather an ancestor or king.
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No.5705
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No.5708
>>5703
This is true; to elaborate, there were also areas specifically delegated for worship ("temples" in the broadest sense of the term). For example, in Ireland worship of Crom Cruach took place in a field in a circle of stone idols with a gold one at the center. This seems to me the best way to go about things; you are in a place directly in touch with nature that also shows specific reference to a god.
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No.5712
>>5704
>>5708
I love to see how much in common all of these religions had, it really creates a sentation of bond, something deeper than nationality or personal identity.
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No.5753
>>5712
we're all just different flavours of europeans after all.
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No.11456
>>227
this is a pretty great thread so i'm just gonna bump this off the last page. Anyway, a few days ago i carved a little ingvie figure, with a pointy hat and a spear in his hand. and today i went to the "reaklif", this is a cliff not far away from where i live. according to legend, this cliff used to be a volcano, and it was used for big ceremonial fires and offerings to the god Stavo (according to some an alternative name for Thor), after whom the nearby town of Stavoren/Starum was named. In 1345 it was the site of a battle between hollandian forces, led by duke william IV, an ex crusaderfag who wanted to take over the free frisian sealands, aided by an army of flemish and french knights. The frisian "army", consisting mainly of angry farmers and fishers, managed to kill William and a major part of his army. Since 1945, this place is the site for a ceremony commemorating the battle. I went there, saluted the monument while mumbling "Eala Frya Fresena", and then i collected some earth. this was probably not the earth that had caught sacrificial blood or blood of some french knight, but i hope it will do. Now i wonder if i have to use three gods? i chose Ingvie first because he is a central figure in the history of frisia, the history of my folk. there is a frisian town called Franeker, the name of which has its origin in Froo's akker, the pasture of freyr. also, i have played with the idea of frisians being named after freyr, just like angles were named after Ing and saxons after saxnot. Do i need 3 gods? i guess wodan would be a good addition, as knowledge and wisdom are things i value, but i don't really have a need for victory in battle at the moment, and Thuner is a pretty cool god and perhaps some strenght would be appreciated but he doesn't really feel like the god i need right now. what other gods would usually be worshipped at altais?
>>319
what the hell is that scary mask thing lol
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No.11457
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No.11485
Ugh, why does everything have to look so edgy and tacky?
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No.11486
>>11485
that's a nice one, shinto?
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No.11487
>>11486
No, that's a shrine to Guan Di. Chinese folk religion.
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No.11505
>>11485
>edgy and tacky
Well, christian housealtars have a long tradition in europe and they look quiete decent.
If you dont want to make yours look too clogged up and wicca-tier you might just buy one of those catholic/orthodox ones and put a nonchristian figurine or carefully paint the motive of your god/s on the wood.
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No.11507
>>11485
who let the chink slip in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opfermoor_Vogtei
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broddenbjerg_idol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphic_wooden_cult_figurines_of_Central_and_Northern_Europe
Germanic heathen shrines were in fact "edgy and tacky" usually utilizing animal parts and wooden figures
get your shitty plastic chink figure out of here and post on /rel/ or something, do you not see the fucking board name at the top of the page? who the fuck are you telling us how to worship? I will hear a fellow white man who is Christian criticizing my religion but a nonwhite telling me what to do is like an ape trying to do my homework for me.
the hell happened to this board, are we really so slow that fucking chinks are allowed now?
>>11505
Alot of Catholic and Orthodox shrine arrangements are based on Roman household shrines from the old times so this works
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No.11677
>>11507
I might have someone carve something similar to this for me.
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No.15409
It would be pretty neat to build an altar in contemporary Danish design, I'm trying to figure out a way to accomplish this without having to do a lot of carpenting on my own.
Pic related: Chair designed by Grete Jalk, and modernized Shinto kamidana.
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No.15410
>>15409
That chair is gorgeous. I don't think there's any getting round doing woodwork if you want to make molded plywood furniture on your own though.
It would be great to see more beautiful contemporary ceremonial objects and art for pagan faiths.
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No.15411
>>15410
I was only using that chair as an example of Danish design, didn't say I would specifically make anything of moulded plywood.
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No.15416
>>15409
>>15410
Please don't, it looks fucking hideous
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No.16338
Put this together over the week. Any
proposals? Looking for some inspiration.
I've always liked Thor the most, so i want the altar to reflect him.
Also, i have a big piece of black canvas that i'm planning on painting something on, but i don't know what yet. Any inputs appreciated.
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No.16373
>>16338
not bad for a first shrine
used to have a very nice and elaborate shrine but Ive had to move and new place is shit, infested with cockroaches. refuse to consecrate my idols in such a place so I've opted for a more simple shrine based on Herodotus' description of the Scythian Temple to Ares. White altar cloth, a langseax consecrated towards war, and a short seax consecrated towards offerings and sacrifices. Both are adorned with red ribbons and white knotted strings. A red candle flanks the left side and a white candle flanks the left.
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No.16382
>>16373
Changed it up abit since posting the first pic. I re,oved the antlers, because i felt it made the space look asymmetrical. I've also gathered a bunch of idols, but unfortunately i couldn't find a sacrificial bowl made of wood.
Nice idea with the seax knifes.
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No.16418
>>16382
whos that picture supposed to be ? thor?
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No.16422
>>16418
Yes. It's a very modern depiction, obviously. But i like it.
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No.16427
>>15409
Doing a lot of carpentry on your own would make your ancestors prouder than any alter could make them
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