What is the afterlife like in your ethnic religion?

What is the afterlife like in your ethnic religion?

>Shinto
>It's a dark realm of death, where life is never supposed to meet because it is dirty.

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Ours is kinda stolen from greeks, so standard burning hell and awesome heaven.

If you die on the battlefield, you meet your gods for an epic diner

Ahh sorry. Ethnic religion. Go to walhalla as a warrior dying on the battlefield otherwise go to hel wich is a cold miserable place with an underworld goddess by the same name ruling over it. Half her body is rotten.

Atleast thats the best source coming from the edda wich was written down much later in Scandinavia. Might not be acurate for early continental germanics.

To be fair, Hel just seem a metaphor for literal inexistence.

Maybe Varg was right about Valhalla being another metaphor for reincarnation

Upside-down underworld ruled by malevolent Tuoni and his wife Tuonetar. When you die you set on a journey to there. Dead were lost spirits in the living world until they got there. Everyone eventually ends up there as shades/ghosts regardless if good or bad. Some dead can remain as spirits (literally called "nature", luonto) overseeing their relatives in the living world. If the living saw their dead still wandering around, they'd help them leave and to progress on their journey. Shamans could travel to the underworld to seek for knowledge and spells.

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When you die, you cease to exist, but at the end of time, everyone who has lived and died will be judged finally by God; those who are judged good will live forever in God's kingdom where everything is good and where the son of God will rule as king, while those who are not judged good will cease to exist completely and forever.

Confit Byaldi?

There is no heaven or hell. Only different types of purgatory described as “realms”. Naraka for sinners, Swarka for the blessed

What happens after the dinner?

based
here we call it "Neraka" for hell, "Syurga" for heaven

>Ethnic religion

Are you Jewish?

Also, hell isnt eternal, you’re sent off to swarka after you repent getting boiled or have centipedes eat you alive

It's teleologically interesting man.
Nothing after the dinner, you leave your place for another warrior I suppose

I'm not sure if the Dacians had any concept of afterlife.

In Thai we call it
Narok and Suvarr(g)

As a mutt I lack one of those, so instead I shall tell you about the local injun tribe.
>They believe there is an afterlife that one must be prepared for (via cremation and horse slaying ceremony), and that deeds in this life will be punished or rewarded in an afterlife. “They also believe that at death the soul is taken into another world by an owl, hence the hooting of that bird is regarded as ominous of an approaching death.”
Details are scarce as the 900 or so of them left are very hush hush about their traditions.

Dont think its a metaphor for inexistance. Germanics probably just associate a cold and miserable existance to be the norm, both in life and death. Only bravery on the battlefield gives you a different path.

You have mormons wich is your own made up thing.

Based

A big party for those who died bravely
Ice for those who died a coward

India, Siam and Malay are part of Bharata after all

No. Christianity is the ethnic religion of Englishmen and Australians. Jews are not Christians. Jews don't believe in an afterlife at all, by the way.

Oh yea, in that case we have this autism.

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will be transfered into a paradise where all my fantasies will become real for eternity.

You basically continue living your life from the point you died, as a spirit. Stay the same age you died at, keep the same body, disabilities and all. Spirits of good people manifest as white fog; bad people - black fog. After a while, some spirits move on to inhabit animals, birds or trees, becoming one with the nature, at least for a while, others take the journey towards the "forever fatherland", that is located somewhere far away in the east, on top of a tall mountain. The dead climb the mountain, atop of which the gods live in a beautiful garder, that's always full of warmth and light

I'm pretty sure Anglo native religion is Germanic

based absorption into fatherland

Atheism
Nothing

Argentinians are all soulless NPCs so no such thing as ethnic religion

>Jews don't believe in an afterlife at all, by the way.
False, according to their mysticism once the massiah comes back it will be frugal, people will be elevated spiritually, no more wars etc. Jews will be on top of the scheme of course. At the end of the spiritualisation process, the entities are transfered towards a higher dimension, what you could call paradise or heaven. The bottom, impure souls etc. Will do another turn (there are multiple cycles of elevations, albeit limited).

really nothing? dead people can come back as kami right?

it kinda sucks that we know so little about early germanic religion because it seems it changed a lot from tacitus descriptions to the edda a thousand years later.
tyr, the god of bravery, apparently was ranked higher in the past.
tacitus also described a holy grove wich no man may enter that is not tied up and if you trip you have to continue crawling or something. said god demanded total obedience.
but you can also find thors hammer amulets very early on so his role apparently remained the same.

No, the native religion of England is the Church of England (specifically, High Church Anglicanism), and it's also the native religion of colonial cultures descended primarily from English culture.

Cool, I'm not really interested in Jews.

It's confusing because even the gods can die and go to underworld like Izanami

But then, most Japanese don't even know Shinto lol

Maybe only older peoples

>I'm not really interested in Jews.
Why ? The manifold of the creation integrates them, think about it two seconds. Newton was a deep believer, why did he pursue his knowledge ascension ? Hindus don't interest you ? Shintoists don't interest you ?

There seems to be a few concurrent beliefs going on, maybe more than one "religion" or maybe it changed over time.
>afterlife is a mirror image, right side becomes left, and left is right
>people would get burried in the ground head point west, looking east
>graves had stuff they'd "need" in the afterlife
>but also they'd get "burried" in trees
>also burned on pyres
>people would throw cats, birds of prey, animals with claws, to give claws to the deceased, to help them climb the mountain
>sometimes wives of the deceased men would also be burned with the dead, to accompany them

lol

maybe like coming back from hell in certain circumstance

I have no clue because slavs were too retarded to preserve any knowledge about their beliefs
Whatever wasn't destroyed by the church got absorbed by the church, hence so many catholicized customs of pagan origin

Why should I be? Some things just don't interest me. I also don't like and don't have any interests in certain types of painting or music or literature or clothing or food or sports. Are you going to ask my why I'm not interested in those? What am I supposed to tell you? I'm just not.

it'd make sense for some beliefs to get blended together, due to location. we had similiar beliefs in the sense that the kingdom of Tuoni was upside-down, either underwater, separated by river or its own island, if assigned a direction it'd be in the north. we would also bury in ground, trees and send out into the sea on a small boat, with all kinds of items to aid on their journey to Tuonela. everyday items too since it was believed existance would carry on pretty much the same after death.

Apparently, celtiberians believed in a similar afterlife as germans, glorifying those who die valiantly in battle.

And we know even less about beliefs of Sarmatians and other Iranic steppeniggers that settled here. Probably some weird twist on Zoroastrianism. They had a fire cult, that's pretty much the only thing we know for sure.

its really interesting actually that storry of going to the underworld to retrieve a loved one but failing also appears in greek mythology with Orpheus and Eurydice. Trying and failing to get someone back from the dead also appears in germanic mythology with the death of baldr.

Okay good for you.

Not really described. Most of it comes from Dante's inferno

Indeed and likewise.

There's almost no information about it but here's something that Trajan supposedly said

>We have conquered even these Getai (Dacians), the most warlike of all people that have ever existed, not only because of the strength in their bodies, but, also due to the teachings of Zalmoxis who is among their most hailed. He has told them that in their hearts they do not die, but change their location and, due to this, they go to their deaths happier than on any other journey."

Pretty similar to Scandinavian one
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>world tree with 9 branches (like scandinavian 9 worlds and world tree)
>The roots of a tree being under the ground were often regarded as a different world full of unseen chthonic beast—no place for living, breathing creatures. Furthermore, if the dead are buried there, no wonder the underground quickly becomes the underworld, the land of the deceased.
>A slight conflict between an image of an unpleasant place and a quite acceptable place to be can be seen in both Scandinavian and Lithuanian cultures’ worldviews. On the one hand, the Norse myth suggests that Hel is a gloomy place; on the other hand, majestic halls and feasts are described. The Lithuanian image of the Underworld is also dark, but this contradicts the fact that the Balts overall were inclined towards suicide and would choose death whenever a disaster descended
>Scandinavian Queen of the Dead is also similar to Lithuanian Giltinė (now usually directly translated as the Reaper). She is not mentioned among one of the four main Lithuanian gods, but the image is quite popular even today. The reason why she is worth of mentioning is her similarity to the Norse Queen of the Dead, while Velnias by his features is more similar to the Scandinavian Loki.

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Tl;dr Balts are grimier, suicidal Scandis

You just get reincarnated back in Britain again. The British celts were pissing off Caeser because of it.

>why yes, this religion from the middle east IS native to england

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>die
>respawn in home base

Hellfire forever with sinners
Or
Heavenly kingdom with boring people

The fuck is an ethnic religion supposed to be?

We have two types of energy: life force, which is your physical body; and spiritual force, which is your consciousness. When you die your life force will either be consumed by the earth (burial) or by your family members (a process called endocannibalism, a form ritual cannibalism practiced within families).

Fire, water and lightning were considered to be unique energies between life force and spiritual force.

If you were consumed by your family, your life force would nourish them and your spirit would become part of them, thus strengthening their life force and spirit. If you were consumed by the enemy, your life force would nourish them and your spirit would also become part of them, however, you would be able to inflict harm upon them, and that's what they believed caused diseases and mental illness, when an enemy spirit found its way into your body.

If you were consumed by the earth, your spiritual force would be able to take many physical forms of living and unliving beings, such as animals, plants, the earth itself, fire, lightning, the rivers or even the weather. Animal attacks, landslides, falling trees, wildfires, thunderstorms, floods and any other harmful manifestation of nature are associated with spirits that took those forms in an attempt to inflict harm upon their enemies, or to protect their loved ones. They also believed the domestication of animals and plants was only possible because the spirits of their loved ones were carried into those living beings, and they already knew about selective breeding before the Europeans arrived (mainly through the domestication of dogs and chickens), however, they associated those positive behavioral traits with the spirits of their loved ones rather than genetic mutations that affect behavior.

This belief contributed to the disappearance of endocannibalism as a cultural practice and burials became the new norm due to its many spiritual advantages.

Pagan beliefs
Dunno abou iberia, but greeks have
> zeus and hades all that shit
Italians cheap copy of that, Balts and Scandis have world tree, Finns have their Kalevala and so on and so on

For that matter, I wonder what kind of beliefs slavs had

There's no such thing as the supernatural.

I agree. The spiritual realm is also part of nature. Not above or below it, but within it. And thus could be explained by science if we had the technology to study it.

I’m ethnically Mexican, so:

“There were different realms a person could go to in their afterlife. Warriors who died in battle or by sacrifice either went to a paradise in the east and joined the sun’s rising in the morning, or joined the war god Huitzilopochtli in battle. Women who died in childbirth were considered just as courageous and honorable as warriors who died, and thusly went to a paradise in the west and joined the sun’s descent in the evening. People who died from lightning, drowning, certain diseases, or particularly violent deaths went to Tlalocan, a paradise presided over by the god Tlaloc located within the Aztec’s thirteen heavens.
In contrast, those who died of most illnesses, old age, or an unremarkable death went to Mictlan, the Aztec underworld. Once in Mictlan, a person had to traverse through a harsh terrain with many trials in order to descend from Mictlan’s top level to its final ninth level. This grim path for those who died in more ordinary ways highlights how Aztecs perceived both life and death; in general, there was greater esteem for people who died from premature but honorable deaths than for people who avoided these endings and managed to grow into old age.”

What does that have to do with anything? Just post cool shit your ancestors made up, you mong.

Interesting blend between Animism and Paganism.

At this point most of Mediterranean Europe has been Christian for longer than any pagan religion before.

>Norse mythology
>Valhalla, where everyone fight, drink, eat and be merry
>Unless you die by accident, illness or old age, then you end up in Hel, a drab grey waste for the dead
>None of these matter, because in the end, all realms and people will be destroyed in Ragnarok and a new world will emerge, almost pure, but for Nidhoggr the dragon, who may or may not be causing trouble again
>Yes, our mythology ends on a cliffhanger

Either rebirth as another lifeform or joining with god or realising there is nothing and ceasing altogether

Really? In Northern Europe, it's exact opposite.

>Balts overall were inclined towards suicide and would choose death whenever a disaster descended

Some things never change.

It's our cultural heritage

We're suicidal vikings

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Well the Mediterranean basin has been Christian for at least 1700 years, since the years of Constantine. 1700 years before that, Indo-Europeans weren't even here, aside from maybe the Hittites in Western Asia. It's very unlikely that a pre-Indo-European religion had survived past the Indo-European invasions, so it's safe to say that Christianity is as close as it gets to an ethnic religion for the peoples living south of the northern limes of the Roman Empire.

That's quite sad actually, no wonder there's no info on pagan Iberian religion

The fact that we still haven't deciphered their language doesn't help desu

One could say Christianity is native to Jerusalem and therefore isn't your ethnic religion, but nearly every religion that isn't Animist have shared beliefs with other distant religions (including European Paganism and Polytheism, albeit under different names) so it doesn't really matter at this point.

Same as jewish (no afterlife, when you die it is over)