It’s worth noting that the pantheon of gods and goddesses in the Lithuanian paganism was not fixed, many local gods and goddesses were also venerated by different regions and tribes.
More about Žemyna
Žemyna is a goddess of the earth and fertility in Lithuanian paganism. She was one of the most important and widely worshipped goddesses in pre-Christian Lithuanian religion. She is often depicted as a nurturing and protective mother figure, who provides bountiful harvests, fertile land, and protects the people from drought and famine.
In addition to her role as a fertility goddess, Žemyna was also associated with the land, its fertility, and the well-being of the people who lived on it. She was believed to have the power to heal and protect animals, plants, and people. She was also associated with the natural cycles of the earth, such as the changing of the seasons and the cycles of growth and decay.
Žemyna was often invoked in rituals and ceremonies related to agriculture, such as planting and harvesting, as well as in rituals related to birth and marriage. She was also associated with the household, and was sometimes invoked to protect the home and its inhabitants.
After the introduction of Christianity in Lithuania, the worship of Žemyna and other pagan gods and goddesses was discouraged, but many people continued to venerate her and other deities in secret, and many of her attributes and associations were absorbed into Christian saints and holy figures.
More about Perkūnas
Perkūnas is the god of thunder and lightning in Lithuanian paganism. He is one of the most important and widely worshipped gods in pre-Christian Lithuanian religion. He was believed to be the ruler of the sky and the heavens and was associated with the natural phenomena of thunder and lightning.
Perkūnas was also considered as a god of justice, and was associated with law and order. He was believed to have the power to punish those who broke the moral and social laws of the community. In this role, he was seen as a defender of the community against chaos and disorder. He was also associated with war, and was sometimes invoked by warriors before going to battle.
Perkūnas was often depicted as a powerful and fearsome figure, wielding a hammer and a thunderbolt. He was also associated with the oak tree, which was believed to be sacred to him.
In rituals and ceremonies, offerings were made to Perkūnas, such as bread, meat, and alcohol. These offerings were made to appease him and gain his favor, particularly during times of drought or other natural disasters.
Like other deities of the Lithuanian pagan pantheon, Perkūnas worship was discouraged after the arrival of Christianity, but many people continued to venerate him in secret, and many of his attributes and associations were absorbed into Christian saints and holy figures.
[These entries were generated by ChatGPT. I think they are interesting. ABN]
The problem is there is no authority or institution or power that will get there. Everything in USA and the West has been taken over, infiltrated, usurped. My words are not complicity, agreement, or defeatism. They simply describe how it is. We are today living as serfs in a dictatorship, the top of which is invisible to most of us. USA is hardly different from Ukraine in that nothing works and no one in power tells the truth or is not corrupt (with very few exceptions). This is how people have always lived. What is different today is we have more information and can see a little more clearly. Top powers are influenced by public moods and understanding, insofar as there is such a thing. But top powers also influence and control public moods and understanding with a power that is much greater and infinitely more agile than the sum total of the individuals that make up the public. ABN
I am not a fan of Ayn Rand but this clip is good and she was right but we have been taken over, Constitutional government essentially is no more. We may be headed into chaos and madness or the biotech revolution may make the chaos and madness worse or maybe it will make it better, less chaotic and crazy. We are and have been governed by forces over which almost none of us has any control. ABN
A Review of DiEugenio’s “Foreign Policy Coup” Theory
I have watched Oliver Stone’s documentary on the assassination of JFK, both the short version,JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, and the long version in four episodes, JFK: Destiny Betrayed. I recommend the latter, which I will discuss here. Although the technical parts (the bullets, the autopsy, Oswald’s CIA handlers) are interesting and partly new, I will focus exclusively on the theory regarding the main culprits and their motive. And I will discuss the larger work of James DiEugenio, who wrote the film—and probably interviewed the different contributors, although Stone appears to be doing it.
James DiEugenio has been investigating the Kennedy presidency and the Kennedy assassination from the time of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), which was largely a consequence of Oliver Stone’s Hollywood film JFK (1991). His first book was Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (1992, newly edited in 2012). In 1993, he founded Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination (CTKA), and co-edited Probe Magazine, now replaced by the website KennedysandKing.com.
Mike Krupa provides an excellent outline of the complex relationship between Poland and Ukraine and what he sees coming. At the end of WW2 Poles and Ukrainians were deliberately separated from each other due to severe ethnic differences, to put it mildly. Ukrainians who stayed in Poland were dispersed throughout the country to prevent them from uniting. Krupa does not see Ukraine surviving as a nation. Since this has been obvious from near the start due to NATO intransigence, it is hard not to see the destruction and depopulation of Ukraine as having been a primary goal of NATO/neocon goading Russia into this devastating conflict. Cui bono? ABN
AS TOM BROWN LEADS A pair of young, aspiring homesteaders through his home apple orchard in Clemmons, North Carolina, he gestures at clusters of maturing trees. A retired chemical engineer, the 79 year old lists varieties and pauses to tell occasional stories. Unfamiliar names such as Black Winesap, Candy Stripe, Royal Lemon, Rabun Bald, Yellow Bellflower, and Night Dropper pair with tales that seem plucked from pomological lore.
Take the Junaluska apple. Legend has it the variety was standardized by Cherokee Indians in the Smoky Mountains more than two centuries ago and named after its greatest patron, an early-19th-century chief. Old-time orchardists say the apple was once a Southern favorite, but disappeared around 1900. Brown started hunting for it in 2001 after discovering references in an Antebellum-era orchard catalog from Franklin, North Carolina.
Detective work helped him locate the rural orchard, which closed in 1859. Next, he enlisted a local hobby-orchardist and mailman as a guide. The two spent days knocking door-to-door asking about old apple trees. Eventually, an elderly woman led them to the remains of a mountain orchard that’d long since been swallowed by forest. Brown returned during fruiting season and used historic records to identify a single, gnarled Junaluska tree. He clipped scionwood for his new conservation orchard and set about reintroducing the apple to the world.
Now there is more mystery regarding the history of SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic in case of China.
Previously, SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences corresponding to both A,B lineage as well as USA-WA-1 was found within samples of Antarctic soil that were extracted and sent for sequencing in December 2019, 101 runs prior to the first sequencing of samples taken from “viral pneumonia of unknown etiology” patients from the Huanan seafood market by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It appeared that these samples were not the only samples that were taken from China in 2019, that contained sequences derived from SARS-CoV-2 and were decidedly NOT linked to the wildlife trade in any way.
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