Searching for the Slavic Soul

Computer-generated voiceover for this Substack post

I’ve done my best to provide a phonetic transliteration, but—as is often the case—Slavic words and names are still prone to mispronunciation by the AI reader.

You can find the original post with correct spelling and formatting here:

https://witia.substack.com/p/deities-of-rus

Computer-generated voiceover for this Substack post

I’ve done my best to provide a phonetic transliteration, but—as is often the case—Slavic words and names are still prone to mispronunciation by the AI reader.

You can find the original post with correct spelling and formatting here:

https://witia.substack.com/p/an-overview-of-slavic-gods

In this episode:

-> How to stop being a useless freeloader and become a Slavic hero

-> What do Russian byliny tell us about how to make decisions and how to live

-> How to worship Slavic Gods

-> When will the 3rd season of Searching for the Slavic Soul start and what it will be about

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Bibliography:

M. C. Harrison, Byliny Book: Hero Tales of Russia

K. Michajłowa, Dziad wędrowny w kulturze ludowej Słowian

J. A. Álvarez-Pedrosa, Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion

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Links:

Translation of interview with Piotr Grabowski (about dziady)

https://witia.substack.com/p/dziady-in-the-spring-in-the-fall

E10S1 about dziady:

https://witia.substack.com/p/episode-10-ok-boomer-be8

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https://witia.substack.com

Witia's email:

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Artwork for this episode is Богатыри by Виктор Васнецов

Computer-generated voiceover for this Substack post

I’ve done my best to provide a phonetic transliteration, but—as is often the case—Slavic words and names are still prone to mispronunciation by the AI reader.

You can find the original post with correct spelling and formatting here:

https://witia.substack.com/p/the-idea-of-one-god

In this episode:

-> on the cohesion and stability in time of the Slavic language and culture

-> why the stories the moder West tells you are BS

-> why any aspiring Slavic Pagan should reject the BS moder narration

-> what did pre-Christian Pagan Slavs fight for

-> why you should focus on making your family stronger and healthier

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Bibliography:

T. Łabuszewski, K. Krajewski, Powstanie Styczniowe w prasie konspiracyjnej 1939-1944

R.F. Barkowski, Bitwy Słowian

D. Frisby, The Secret History of Gold

M. C. Harrison, Byliny Book: Hero Tales of Russia

Monumenta Poloniae Historica series II, t. I,

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Links:

We Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi

https://musaalgharbi.com/paperback-edition-we-have-never-been-woke/

Hołodomor

https://youtu.be/33aUCO-KAn4?si=o1hODKjp6Hqnk-Q4

E9S1 (conflicts and disagreements between Slavs)

https://witia.substack.com/p/episode-5-lets-argue-a6e

E21S1 (why you don’t deserve to have stuff you can’t defend)

https://open.substack.com/pub/witia/p/episode-21-the-wars-of-slavs-949

Translation of a conversation about dziady

https://witia.substack.com/p/dziady-in-the-spring-in-the-fall

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Witia's substack:

https://witia.substack.com

Witia's email:

[email protected]

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Artwork for this episode is the the beginning of the second Freising manuscript, photo by Marjan Smerke

In this episode:

-> Why all living Pagan Slavs are undeserving of respect or anything else

-> Why it will always be hard to follow Slavic Native Faith if you are a 1st generation Slavic Pagan in your known family

-> Why being born in a hospital might not be such a dealbreaker I previously thought it was

-> How to tell whether you are in sync with your Dola

-> Why you need to suck it up and start having honest conversation with your family

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Links:

E22S1 (where the story of Mściwój is told):

https://witia.substack.com/p/episode-22-planning-your-afterlife-6a8

E3S2 (on how to remedy your various demonic possessions):

https://witia.substack.com/p/shadow-work-with-an-axe

E9S1 (on Dola and Niedola):

https://witia.substack.com/p/episode-9-dola-and-niedola-adf

E10S1 (on the Badlands of pseudo-Paganism):

https://witia.substack.com/p/episode-10-ok-boomer-be8

Bitter fleabane:

https://plantiary.com/plant/erigeron-acris_10504.html

Karl Pillemer, “Fault Lines. Fractured Families and How to Mend Them”:

https://www.karlpillemer.com/books/fault-lines/

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Bibliography:

K. Moszyński, „Kultura Ludowa Słowian”

O. Osadczy, „Dwuwiara. Synkretyzm chrześcijańsko-pogański w kulturze słowiańszczyzny wschodniej”

F.J. Tschan, “The Chronicle of the Slavs by Helmold, Priest of Bosau”

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Witia's substack:

https://witia.substack.com

Witia's email:

[email protected]

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phot. D. Gordon E. Robertson CC BY-SA 3.0

In this episode:

Why not valuing your family makes you a Christianised neo-Marxists brainwashed zombie;

What Slavic folk songs and early Medieval legal codices tell us about the functioning of the complex system of Slavic family;

Why your family is your fourth dimension – your depth in time;

Why any aspiring modern Slavic Pagan should recentre own life from oneself to his or her family.

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Art for this episode: Teodor Axentowicz, "Kołomyjka"

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Bibliography:

J. Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World

R. Zienkiewicz, Piosenki gminne ludu pińskiego

J. B. Rakowiecki, Prawda Ruska

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E19 S1 A view from Marx's armchair:

https://witia.substack.com/p/episode-19-a-view-from-marxs-armchair-64f

E12 S1 Sticks and Carrots of the Pagan World:

https://witia.substack.com/p/episode-12-sticks-and-carrots-of-ca8

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Witia's Substack:

https://witia.substack.com/

Witia's email:

[email protected]

In this episode:

How to start feeling emotions like a normal human being

What is spirituality and why you need it

Why you are an easy prey for the weakest of demons and don’t even know it

Why you need to do something about it before you even start to think about calling yourself a Slavic Pagan

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Bibliography:

Kazimierz Moszyński, Kultura Ludowa Słowian, Część II, Kultura Duchowa, Zeszyt 1

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Witia's Substack:

https://witia.substack.com/

Witia's email:

[email protected]

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art by Joanna Lewandowska

In this episode:

Why your self proclaimed identity is BS

What is the ultimate goal of any Slavic Pagan

The maps of meaning of Slavic Paganism

Homework for this month

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Bibliography for this episode:

Марияна Цибранска-Костова, Осиновяването в средновековни правни паметници на Славянския юг

Karol Modzelewski, Barbarzyńska Europa

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Episode 9 of season 1

Story about the Snake King

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Witia's Substack:

https://witia.substack.com/

Witia's email:

[email protected]

1st episode of season 2 of Searching for the Slavic Soul:

Why the 1st season was stopped

Why you are zombified morons and need to be taught how to become humans again

What is ancestral veneration

Lesson 1 on ancestral veneration + homework

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Transcript of the episode

Episode 22, season 1

Episode 20, season 1

Episode 3, season 1

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