>>1877388Okay, I see how it's gonna be. Listen here you subhuman piece of shit.
I am European, my ancestors are European, and I live in Europe. I don't need to discover the realm of my ancestors, because I am already in it, and of it--my traditions, and the traditions of my peers, are all simple continuations of long-held practices from as far back as the Iron Age or more. Yes--Yule, Easter, Midsummer, and All Hallow's Eve (here translated from my language for you), four major pagan festivals, are part of my identity in a fundamental, non-LARP way (i.e practiced from childhood as family events), regardless of how Christianised or commercialised they have become--which is not much at all, outside America. In fact, because the vast majority of people in my country are atheist, because they still practice these traditions of pagan origin, they are effectively pagans, whether they know it or not. You almost reached this point in your original post, however, you made the incorrect distinction between "non existent pagan identity" and "existing traditions", failing to realise that these are actually one and the same.
You seem to believe that people who identify as pagans are some kind of LARPing hippies in the forest, but you couldn't be further from the truth. Let me qualify that there are a small number of self-proclaimed "pagans" on e.g reddit heathenry, but they are completely irrelevant, and have nothing to with neofolk, volkisch movements, European traditionalism, etc.
By the way: "long dead myths that probably have no historical basis" do you realise how idiotic you sound here? All our fairy tales, yes the ones European children are told by their parents and in preschool, are pre-Christian, with meaningful themes and metaphors. The ancient pagan texts that remain are just fragments of a larger oral tradition that survives to this day.
