¿Who are the old Gods?
In a period of our history, in ancient Europe when Flavius Constantine was just a child and Christianity was still persecuted by the Romans, in the lands of Eastern Europe, there existed small groups of peasant men and women. Their life was dedicated to agriculture, cultivation, craftsmanship and blacksmithing.
Far from the influence of the powerful Greek and Roman gods, of Zeus, Jupiter, Hares and Mars, there were small peoples who, in the need to understand a little better the forces of nature that surrounded them, began to create their own gods, in their own image and likeness. Not the magnanimous gods, surrounded by riches and brutalized by greed and pride. But Gods who linked their existence and their power with nature itself: Gods of water who brought abundance to man; Gods of the sun who provided the light and energy necessary to create life; Gods of trees, animals, the moon, the stars.
To pray to them it was necessary to create altars in their names, and to please them it was vital to follow their laws. Just and sensible laws, aimed at completing the humble life of human beings. Their names were varied, and their faces changing, so that one could discover two peoples worshipping different figures and names, but being the same God or Goddess. When Constantine reached the climax of his life, and Christianity began to acquire more and more strength, these religions were lost, as well as their rites and their prayers. But part of their identity endured, for generations until reaching the present day.
My job, as heir of these teachings, is to spread the old teachings through what has been called "The Brown Book." It is not my duty to convince people at the expense of their own beliefs, but to awaken in them curiosity; and, with a lot of luck, to sow in them love and conviction for the old Gods.
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