{"id":11657,"date":"2020-08-08T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2020-08-16T15:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T21:49:11","slug":"11657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11657","title":{"rendered":"Northern Wolves: Garb and Shiny Boots in a Polish Pagan Order"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tattoos on the body of Igor G\u00f3rewicz, a noted Polish Slavic Pagan famous for Viking reenactment (not ZZPW).<\/p><\/div>\n

In his article “Wolves among the Sheep: Looking Beyond the Aesthetics of Polish National Socialism<\/a>,” Polish cultural anthropologist Mariusz Filip<\/a> examines the symbolic meanings of tattoos, re-created medieval garb, and modern paramilitary uniforms in the Polish Pagan group Zakon Zadrugi \u201cPolnocny Wilk,” (the Order of Zadruga “Northern Wolf”).<\/p>\n

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Military-style boots worn by ZZPW members.<\/p><\/div>\n

The artiicle is part of the “Paganism, art, and fashion” special issue<\/a> of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies<\/em>, guest-edited by Caroline Tully<\/a>. It and the other contents will be available as free downloads for a limited time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his article “Wolves among the Sheep: Looking Beyond the Aesthetics of Polish National Socialism,” Polish cultural anthropologist Mariusz Filip examines the symbolic meanings of tattoos, re-created medieval garb, and modern paramilitary uniforms in the Polish Pagan group Zakon Zadrugi \u201cPolnocny Wilk,” (the Order of Zadruga “Northern Wolf”). The artiicle is part of the “Paganism, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[271,299,5,218,229,4],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fashion","tag-pagan-studies","tag-paganism","tag-poland","tag-pomegranate","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-11657","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5710,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5710","url_meta":{"origin":11657,"position":0},"title":"Polish Pagans Hold Congress","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"February 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The news article, \"Locals demand removal of \u201cdemonic, pagan\u201d sculptures on tourist folklore trail in Poland,\" starts this way: A small community in northern Poland is embroiled in a dispute over 13 wooden sculptures of spirits based on local folklore, pitting Catholics warning of \u201cdemonic idolatry\u201d conservatives against officials seeking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Catholicism\"","block_context":{"text":"Catholicism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=catholicism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/folkloric-statue.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13637,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13637","url_meta":{"origin":11657,"position":3},"title":"New Issue of The Pomegranate","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Links to articles from the newest issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, (vol. 24, no. 2). These articles are paywalled \u2014\u00a0but you know a librarian, don't you? If you don't, you should. \"The Religious Biographies of Polish Traditional Wiccans: Leaving the Catholic Church, Conversion to Wicca,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":399,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=399","url_meta":{"origin":11657,"position":4},"title":"A memoryNewlyweds, M. and I\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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