#volkhov

[mim70]

Volkhov riv., Old Ladoga, Leningradskaja oblast', Russia

[sunwhashaman]

Hello! Im sunwha being a shaman for few years for now and im about to share the life of me and plus wanna help people more :>

I hope everyone have a good day, and thanks to my gods

Im also became a maiden of Kostroma by the fate too.

Im still learning on it. And will be learning from gods until i die.

I hope i can have good times and respectful and embrace it together.

Bless you everyone♥️

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Korean Shamans doing ritual name gut

Wishing and granting , finding the gods and wish come true

Such a hard job

But its worth it

Its small but slavic altar i made

Its nothing much now but i believe it will be better and better when the time goes by :)

[nememachine]

i am Very Normal™ about them

(images from March & April)

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SAINTS&READING: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 1ST, 2025

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Venerable Macarius the Great of Egypt (390).

St. Macarius the Egyptian, Troparion, A desert dweller, an angel in the flesh,/ and a wonderworker wast thou shown to be,/ O our God-bearing father Macarius,/ for having acquired heavenly gifts through fasting, vigilance, and prayer,/ thou dost heal the infirm,/ and the souls of those who have recourse to thee with faith./ Glory to Him Who hath given thee strength!/ Glory to Him Who hath crowned thee!// Glory to Him Who worketh healings for all through thee!

Kontakion, Tone IV, The Lord truly set thee in the house of abstinence/ like a star which wandereth not,/ guiding the ends of the earth with light,/ O venerable Macarius,// father of fathers.

SAINT MARK, ARCHBISHOP OF EPHESUS (1444)

Saint Mark Eugenikos, Archbishop of Ephesus, was a stalwart defender of Orthodoxy at the Council of Florence. He would not agree to a union with Rome based on theological compromise and political expediency (the Byzantine Emperor was seeking military assistance from the West against the Moslems, who were drawing ever closer to Constantinople). Saint Mark countered the arguments of his opponents, drawing from the well of pure theology and the teachings of the holy Fathers. When the members of his own delegation tried to pressure him into accepting the Union he replied, “There can be no compromise in matters of the Orthodox Faith.”

Although the members of the Orthodox delegation signed the Tomos of Union, Saint Mark was the only one who refused to do so. When he returned from Florence, Saint Mark urged Constantinople's inhabitants to repudiate the union's dishonorable document. He died in 1457 at fifty-two, admired and honored by all.

VENERABLE THEODORE OF NOVGOROD FOOL-FOR-CHRIST (1382)

Blessed Theodore of Novgorod was the son of pious parents and wealthy citizens. Having been raised in strict Christian piety and reached maturity, he took on himself the ascetic deed of foolishness for Christ’s sake. He gave all his possessions to the poor, and he lived in great poverty until the end of his life, not even having a roof over his head or warm clothes on cold days.

When he discovered a mutual enmity between the Novgorod citizens of the Torgov quarter and the inhabitants of the Sophia quarter, Blessed Theodore pretended to be feuding with Blessed Nicholas Kochanov (July 27) who lived in asceticism on the opposite Sophia side. When Blessed Theodore happened to cross over the Volkhov Bridge to the Sophia side, then Blessed Nicholas pushed him over to the Torgov side. Theodore did the same thing when Nicholas chanced upon on the Torgov side. The blessed ones, spiritually in agreement with each other, by their unusual behavior reminded the people of Novgorod of their own internecine strife, which often ended in bloody skirmishes.

The blessed one possessed the gift of clairvoyance. By warning people to see to their bread, he was actually predicting an impending famine. Another time he said, “This will be bare, it will be fine for sowing turnips.” This was his prediction of a fire that devastated the streets of the Torgov quarter. Blessed Theodore foresaw his own end and said to the Novgorod people, “Farewell, I’m going far away.”

During his life, the citizens of Novgorod saw him as a saint pleasing to God and highly regarded him. After his death in the year 1392, the holy fool was buried, at his request, in the Torgov quarter, at Lubyanitsa in the church of the holy Great Martyr George, at the porch where the saint usually loved to spend his time in unceasing prayer. A chapel was built over his sacred relics.

1 Thessalonians 5:14-23

14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all. 15 See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil. 23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Luke 17:3-10

3 Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him. 5 And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." 6 So the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. 7 And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down to eat'? 8 But will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink'? 9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not. 10 So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, 'We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.'

[captain-price-unofficially]

Rare moment of kindness from a German soldier to a civilian on the Eastern Front. Volkhov area, 1942

[zoe248]

Trilobite of the Day 50

Asaphus kowalewskii (Lawrow, 1856) Middle Ordovician, Middle Llanvirnian Middle Aseri Regional Stage Duboviki Formation Volkhov River, St. Petersburg region, Russia 7.5 cm

"You know I have a weird one when I have two different angles for it"

[pinturas-segunda-guerra-mundial]

1941 11 19 La División Azul en Possad - Ferrer Dalmau

repost, previously captioned as Volkhov river but seems to be the later defense of the bridgehead at Possad

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

July 17, 2004

The President visited an excavation site in Staraya Ladoga. Anatoly Kirpichnikov, head of the archaeological expedition and full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, briefed the President on the ancient structure dated to the year 896.

After a conversation with members of the expedition, Vladimir Putin went to Sopki, an area on the Volkhov River where the grave of Oleg of Novgorod, the famed Russian ruler of the late 9th and early 10th centuries, is believed to be located.

[vi-sigoth]

This assessment mostly gets it, but it glosses over another glaring problem. OP says “George would have to have an awakening of virtue.” And there lies the big problem, the other massive can of worms you have to open when you discuss GRRM:

George R.R. Martin is an agnostic. Too spineless to commit to a religion, too spineless to commit to being an out-and-out atheist. He’s a lapsed Catholic, and he makes it very clear in his books for the most part that religion = bad, and devoutly religious people = REALLY bad. The Faith of the Seven is a lazy parallel to Catholicism, and aside from MAYBE two or three people in his entire universe, all adherents to the faith are awful people. Baelor Targaryen was was a stupid zealot volcel, the High Pope Septon who reigns at the beginning of the main series is lazy, fat, and decadent, the High Sparrow and his Faith Militant are all evil, corrupt, and stupid. The Septas who serve the High Sparrow are nasty, evil bitches. The Silent Sisters exist basically as a way to punish slutty women, and no other reason at all, none. (I was not raised Catholic so if someone wants to jump in and elaborate on all the ways the Faith of the Seven fails to be a good parallel to Catholicism, please feel free.)

Okay, Visigoth, you say. But that’s his “Christian” parallel. He’s a lapsed Catholic so he has negative feelings about Christianity. What about the other religions in his universe? Well, the Faith of R’hollr, which is basically his Zoroastrian/Manichaeism dualistic religion has two main representatives in OTL: Melisandre of Asshai, and Thoros of Myr. Melisandre is a slut and a liar, and frequently lies and uses illusions to get people to believe in her powers, and her “prophesies” and visions are almost always wrong. And she’s also a dumb zealot (see the pattern here?) She has used legitimate powers once, for evil (killing Renly). Thoros has the very real ability to bring people back from the dead, but every time Berric comes back from the dead, he emphasizes that there’s nothing, no afterlife, just a void. (You get it guys? Get it? People who believe in an afterlife are STUPID! You’re a fucking idiot for believing in that). Okay.

What about the Faith of the Old Gods? The Faith kept by the Children of the Forest and the people that inhabit the North of Westeros. Maybe this one is better, it’s modeled on European pre-Abrahamic pagan belief. Maybe GRRM writes this one in a less lazy, uninformed way?

UGH. No. As someone who is a Celtic/Gemanic pagan and has studied lots of history, myth and legends around that subject, I can give my resounding opinion on this—GRRM writes his Pagan parallel just as lazily as he writes his Christian and Zoroastrian ones. The Faith of the old gods involve praying to faces carved in trees. That’s it. Nothing else. Nothing. That’s not how pagan belief worked, AT ALL. Pagan belief amongst Europeans (I know nothing about any other region so if you want to know why Aztecs cut people open and threw them down pyramid steps, you’ll have to ask someone else), if I can generalize, had several main tenets, none of which GRRM apparently bothered to research.

1). Belief in many gods who were good and benevolent, and who created human kind and the world they lived in. These gods were prayed to, made temples and altars for, and offered things like burnt offerings and libations. These gods oversaw the natural universe, i.e., crops coming in every year, thunderstorms and snowstorms, the birth of children, marriage, deaths and so on. Northerners and Old God believers do pray, but not that much, and to no one. There’s NO named gods? At all? Nothing?

2). Belief in ancestor worship and reincarnation. Uh oh! We can’t have that! Being proud of your ancestry and your blood line is for FASCISTS.

3). Priests, shamans, druids, goðis, volkhovs—whatever you want to call them. People had religious officiates. The went to them for medical aid, to officiate weddings, to bless newborn babies—all the things you go to your local pastor to and probably them some. Yes, these officiates often had hierarchical rankings—if Julius Caesar can be believed, there was possibly a “High Druid” or, if you will, a “Druid pope.” The only example we have of any sort of “higher up” in this religion is Bloodraven, and is he a noble Druid who has been bestowed higher powers? No, he only gets his visions at the expense of him painfully growing into a giant Weirwood, and he speaks in riddles and half-truths to Bran.

4). Rules and laws that governed behavior and morality (blasphemy was particularly frowned upon among Germanics).

5). Worship and veneration of lesser beings like land or water spirits. Okay, so there’s some trees with faces in them. Anything else??

6). Holidays??? Does anyone in this entire made up fantasy universe have a single holiday???? No specific celebrations that follow the strange years-long weather patterns? Wouldn’t the beginning of spring be a pretty big deal in a world where winter can last years? Where’s the summer feasting and bonfires?

7.) SONGS AND PRAYERS? I can get that maybe GRRM wanted the Old God Faith to contrast with the Faith of the Seven, which does have a “Bible” I guess (The Seven-Pointed Star) but just because there’s no written tradition doesn’t mean there can’t be any oral tradition. No prayers or songs? No harvest songs? No silly songs for children so they can learn the god’s names or anything like that?

Uh-oh! It sounds to me like that might be a little…too…dare I say it…ORGANIZED for poor ol’ George.

8.) The Afterlife. This is where I just can’t with GRRM. Beric says there is no R’hlloric afterlife, and what about an Old God afterlife? Who are all the voices in the trees that Bran hears? They’re dead Children of the Forest greenseers. Okay, so there’s an afterlife? No, you just go into a tree.

WHO CREATED THE TREES. WHO CREATED THE CHILDREN OF THE FOREST. IF THE COTF HAVE SOULS, WHAT OR WHO GUIDES THESE SOULS INTO THE TREES? WHO MADE HUMANS IN THIS UNIVERSE? WHO CREATED THE WORLD?

The Old Gods? The Seven? R’hollr? The Great Stallion? The Lion of Night? The Drowned God? Pick one, George. Pick one, you fucking fat, lazy coward.

But that’s the thing. George won’t pick one. George will never present a good, uncomplicated example of a decent, moral person from any of his religions, and he won’t flesh any of them out properly, because George thinks that religion is for people that are stupid, or people that are evil.

What’s the oldest profession in the world? It’s a shaman. It’s a person that communed with the powers on high and made known those powers to humankind.

But if you asked George R. R. Martin? He would tell you it was a prostitute.

[mim70]

Volkhov riv., Old Ladoga, Leningradskaja oblast', Russia

[chantssauvages]

Le Rêveur du Dnipro

Le jeune Antyp passait des heures sur les berges du Dnipro, observant les eaux majestueuses qui reflétaient le ciel changeant. Les collines boisées entouraient la rivière comme des bras protecteurs, et le vent portait avec lui l'odeur du bouleau et de la terre humide. Antyp était fasciné par les récits de Saint André, ce saint qui, disait-on, avait parcouru les rives du Dnipro, bénissant ses eaux et prophétisant l'avènement d'une grande cité.

Liubech était douce et paisible. Les journées s'écoulaient lentement, rythmées par les cloches des sanctuaires troglodytes et les prières murmurées des moines. Mais le cœur d'Antyp était partagé. Restera-t-il ici, dans cette ville taillée dans la roche, où chaque pierre semblait raconter une histoire, ou suivra-t-il la route ancienne qui menait au Mont Athos?

Il savait que la route des Varègues passait par le Dnipro, serpentait jusqu'à la Lovot, puis au lac Ilmen, avant de rejoindre le Volkhov et finalement la mer des Varègues. De là, on pouvait gagner Constantinople et, au-delà, le Mont Athos.

Chaque soir, alors que le soleil se couchait derrière les collines, Antyp écoutait les anciens raconter les voyages sur cette route, les récits de marins, de commerçants, et de pèlerins.

— Le Dnipro est une artère, disait un vieil ermite. Une artère qui relie les peuples et les âmes.

Antyp contemplait l'horizon. Son cœur oscillait entre la sérénité de Liubech et l'appel lointain du Mont Athos, où les cieux semblaient plus proches de la terre.

Ainsi, entre l'ombre et la lumière, le jeune Antyp devait choisir son chemin.

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There is much debate about the arrival of the Varangian Rurik to rule - from his parentage to the controversy over whether this event can even be considered the beginning of Russ...

[cinaraslan]

Volkhov ya da Volhov, kuzeybatı Rusya'nın Novgorod Oblastı Novgorodsky ve Chudovsky İlçeleri ve Leningrad Oblastı Kirishsky ve Volkhovsky Bölgeleri'nde bir nehirdir. Ilmen Gölü ve Ladoga Gölü'nü birbirine bağlar ve Neva havzasının bir parçasını oluşturur. Nehrin uzunluğu 224 kilometredir ve drenaj havzasının alanı 80.200 km²'dir