Survive the Jive: All-feed

I was interviewed recently in Amsterdam

https://youtu.be/z47A7QzACfE?feature=shared

My daughter walking along a stone row - Neolithic procession route

Can’t describe how huge the moon was today. Photo doesn’t show it

Besides being an unruly bunch of king killers, the Heruli were also allegedly the tallest of the Germanic tribes

Also had a potter around the menhirs of Merrivale today

The 9 maidens or 17 brothers at Belstone on Dartmoor is thought originally to have been comprised of up to 40 stones. They surround a cist burial meaning it is likely a Bronze Age rather than Neolithic monument.

Procopius left an account of a Germanic tribe of the middle Danube, the Heruli, and their experiment of living without a king.


>Heruli kill their king
>realise republics are crap
>Need a king of Scandinavian blood from the Germanic homeland
>Send ambassadors North to fetch one
>He dies on way South
>Ambassadors go back to fetch another
>Emperor Justinian has a native Heruli in his court “Take him”
>”Thanks for the King, Emperor of plague”
>Ambassadors return with their 2nd Scandi king
>Send Justinian’s man back to Byzantium
>”Sorry but we don’t like this one”

The mythopoetic schizo mind sees signs even in the shower

“VELEDA” “faith in nature”

Cross section of a "royal" Skythian barrow, 4th century BC
Artist: Evgeny Kray

My 4 year old son: what did the people in Asterix call the gods?

Me: well the Romans called them deus (sic i used singular not plural)

Son: is that like Tyr?

Do you need... escapism?

STJ edit by Jompa on tiktok

Absolutely wild scenes in Hatherleigh, Devon last night. The carnival preserves the old tar barrel burning tradition 🔥🛢🔥

https://www.tiktok.com/@survivethejive/video/7435657826980072737?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7379905566569940512

"If I don't come back, I shall have gone to a glorious death which every man living, without exception, wishes. I wish no one to mourn for me as it wouldn't allow me to feel my cheery self"

Lieut. Vere Norman Rowsell OBE MC VD - 14th Sep 1916

The pernicious, far left, blood libel "lions led by donkeys" narrative of WW1 is mere class-war propaganda with no basis in reality. On remembrance day we honour those who served, regardless of their station in life.

Video by Dan Snow, with whom I do not usually agree

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” Robert Howard

Sketch of an Iron Age Kurgan with an anthropomorphic stone statue standing on its top, near the village of Pervomaievka, eastern Ukraine. Sketch after Kornjienko.

Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson singing a piece of his version of the Völuspá.

The Heathens, like the modern wokes, viewed words as violence. But unlike wokes, they did not think violence was bad, only that it required retribution. Since insults and accusations had the power to reduce the greatest man to a mere nithing, it was not in any way an "escalation" to respond to an unflattering accusation by killing a man.

Any spoken word is like a magic spell. It brings a potential reality into being. This is why mass media is so powerful. The most powerful magic is media. If a witch tried to curse you, you would strike her with a sword before she could finish. If a man insulted your lord, you would kill him to regain the honour otherwise lost.

Even Christian prayers were seen as provocations,as Grønbech writes: "Once, when the Britons were attacked by the king of the Northumbrians, they had taken a small army of monks with them, and placed them in a safe spot to pray during the fight. King Ethelfrid, with practical sense, first sent his men to cut down the monks, and then proceeded to deal with the warriors. "If they call on their god to help them against us," he said, "then they are fighting against us, even though they use no weapon, since they oppose us with their prayers." Granted, such prayers were actually addressed to God, but Ethelfrid knew that even though the strong words made a slight detour, they would certainly end in the men for whom they were intended.

The modern Heathen should regard any kind of spoken defamation in media or elsewhere as a provocation.

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"Familial history is not sensed merely as a series of events following one on the heels of another; nay, the living are filled by their ancestors. All history lay unfolded in its breadth, so that all that had once happened was happening again and again. Every kinsman felt himself as living all that one of his kin had once lived into the world, and he did not merely feel himself as possessing the deeds of old: he actually renewed them in his own doings. Any interference with what had been acquired and handed down, even if acquired from raiding or robbery, had to be met with vengeance, because a field of the picture of honour was crushed by the blow. But an openly expressed doubt as to whether that old grandfather really had done what he was said to have done is just as fatal to life, because it tears something out of his living kin; the taunt touches not only the dead man of old, but still more him who now lives through the former's achievements. The insult is a cut into the man himself; it tears a piece out of his brain, making a hole which is gradually filled with ideas of madness."

The Culture of the Teutons by Vilhelm Grønbech.

“Young men nowadays behave differently from when I was young. Then, they were eager to do something for their own renown, either by going a-viking, or gaining goods and honor elsewhere in dangerous undertakings. Now they care only to sit with their backs to the fire and cool themselves with ale, and there is little manliness or hardihood to be looked for that way. You have certainly nothing much either of strength or height, and the inner part answers no doubt to the outer, so you will hardly come to tread in your father's footsteps.

In olden time, it was the custom for folk of our sort to go out on warlike expeditions, gaining wealth and honor, and that wealth was not handed down from father to son. No, they took it with them to the barrow, wherefore their sons must need find theirs by the same road.”

old Ketil Raum the boomer Viking to his son in Vatnsdæla saga

This new paper shows that 14k years ago a population in the South Caucasus was mostly WHG descended until a CHG group came from the Zagros and largely replaced them, with about 18% admixture from the original population plus around 10% from ANE.

It also says that EEF have Natufian ancestry via Anatolian Hunter Gatherers.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124005638

The Culture of the Teutons by Vilhelm Grønbech.

Why the Hellenic folk are easier for modern Germanic man to understand than his own Heathen ancestors

Trump has ancestry from these Scottish islands https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxTgwJPpxbxF5dcOygbX5MprU4677GrPzu?feature=shared

Am considering a video or a few shorts about early British saints who provide insight into the paganism of the isles.

-St. Birinus preaching from the Saxon barrow in Berkshire

-The 24 children of the Irish king in Wales, Brychan, who went to preach to the last Celtic pagans in North Devon and Cornwall in the 5/6th century including St Morwenna, St Nectan, St Endelienta
-Also St Brannoc of Braunton, another Welshman who preached to the last Celtic pagans of 6th c North Devon.

One interesting creature from Estonian folklore I’ve learned about while here is the Kratt.

A Kratt is made from household items, odds and ends. A farmer will build a Kratt and then use magic or an incantation to bring it to life so that this creature can do the farm work for him, alongside anything else he wants done.

The similarity of Kratts to artificial intelligence has led to this character being used as a metaphor for AI in Estonia. The Algorithmic-Liability law is also called the ‘Kratt law’.

Interestingly, Kratts inevitably turn on their masters and try to kill them. Unless, the farmer can destroy it first.

Perhaps there’s a lesson to be learned from the old stories here… 🤔

Colourised reconstruction of the Gallaeci Warrior Statue from Outeiro de Lesenho, Boticas, Portugal. The original is featured in my short video about Torcs

btw the cool Odin Yogi shirt I am wearing in this interview is not one of my products. It is made by Vinland Battle Wear

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I appeared on Break the Rules with Gnostic Informant. I go over the revelations in Indo-European studies and the revival of pagan religions in this new interview

https://youtu.be/6Q1Gt5VDp7U?feature=shared

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This film includes a description of a Welsh magical technique of divining the future at midnight in a churchyard on Halloween. If you intend to try this out then better watch this video first. 🎃
https://youtu.be/i0KrLUoRwUI

A quick oil painting after a few weeks off. Idol by @SigmundVolsungsson from Þunorsblōt

Autumnal traditions: One of the maddest, most spectacular folk traditions of the British Isles is the annual burning of the tar barrels in Ottery St Mary in Devon. The chaps who lift the flaming barrels are called barrellers; they have to be local, born and bred, and they begin lifting running the tar barrels at the age of seven! https://youtu.be/qnXx6jvsQto

My article for WhyNow explains the potential pagan influences on the 5th November UK Bonfire night
https://whynow.co.uk/read/bonfire-night-is-an-orgy-of-religious-hatred-older-than-we-think

Today I swam in 11 C seawater then enjoyed the traditional bonfire night in the evening

An interesting talk on Germanic paganism on the continent, particularly among the Franks https://youtu.be/pkplfVd2DPE?feature=shared

an Anglo-Saxon bronze zoomorphic triskele ornament found in the Cotswolds, possibly a pendant. Each leg terminates in the head of a serpent - a motif seen both in Scandinavian art and also in Celtic art. You can buy garments in my store with such zoomorphic triskelions on.

NME review of Gladiator 2 also points out Romans didn’t have cafes but neglected to mention that they didn’t have tea either

A new Cambridge study argues that the Iron Age Greek Protogeometric style originated in twelfth-century BC Macedonia.

This might go some way to supporting the theory of a Dorian invasion. Ancient people believed the Dorians came from the mountains of Macedon

Everyday 🤷🏼‍♂️

I shall visit Holy fell this winter! Hail Thor!

“Brennus, the king of the Gauls, found no dedications of gold or silver when he entered a (Greek) temple. All that he found were images of stone and wood, he laughed at them to think that men, believing that gods have human form, should set up their images in wood and stone.”

Account of Brennus from Diodorus Siculus

A spectre is haunting Cornwall

HALLOWEEN 🎃 SPECIAL 👻 in which Dave Martel and I discuss the history of horror and our favourite Halloween films 🍿

https://youtu.be/WjMkr9Ra8OI?feature=shared

In depth lecture on Iron Age wooden idols and the extent to which they are “Celtic”

https://youtu.be/viAb9U2hkho?feature=shared

Chapter 4 - Thorolf Most-Beard Comes Out To Iceland, And Sets Up House There.

"Thorolf Most-Beard made a great sacrifice, and asked of Thor his well-beloved friend whether he should make peace with the king, or get him gone from out the land and seek other fortunes. But the Word showed Thorolf to Iceland; and thereafter he got for himself a great ship meet for the main, and trimmed it for the Iceland-faring, and had with him his kindred and his household goods; and many friends of his betook themselves to faring with him. He pulled down the temple, and had with him most of the timbers which had been therein, and mould moreover from under the stall whereon Thor had sat.

Thereafter Thorolf sailed into the main sea, and had wind at will, and made land, and sailed south along and west about Reekness, and then fell the wind, and they saw that two big bights cut into the land.

Then Thorolf cast overboard the pillars of his high-seat, which had been in the temple, and on one of them was Thor carven; withal he spake over them, that there he would abide in Iceland, whereas Thor should let those pillars come a-land."

".... Thereafter they espied the land and found on the outermost point of a ness north of the bay that Thor was come a-land with the pillars. That was afterwards called Thorsness."

-The Saga of the Ere-Dwellers (Eyrbyggja saga)

In the Saga of the Ere-Dwellers, Thorolf Most-Beard turns to his god, Thor, for guidance when faced with a difficult decision—whether to make peace with the king or seek new fortunes elsewhere. Thor reveals Iceland as his destined land, highlighting the deep reliance on divine intervention. Thorolf dismantles his temple, bringing sacred timbers and soil with him, ensuring Thor's presence on his journey. Upon reaching Iceland, he casts his temple pillars, one bearing Thor’s image, into the sea, declaring he will settle where Thor wills them to land. When they wash ashore, the area is named Thorsness, demonstrating the profound importance placed on the gods to guide and protect their followers, shaping both their actions and the land they claim.

Artwork Norsemen Landing in Iceland, by Oscar Arnold Wergeland, 1877

HALLOWEEN 🎃 SPECIAL 👻 in which Dave Martel and I discuss the history of horror and our favourite Halloween films 🍿

https://youtu.be/WjMkr9Ra8OI?feature=shared

NEW VIDEO NOW LIVE!

After the Yamnaya culture, the bronze age steppe was dominated by the Catacomb culture. Their fascinating burial tradition reveals a complex society of warriors and herders. Their kurgans or barrows covered the Pontic Steppe as did their cattle and ox-drawn wagons.

They were bronze smiths, wagon builders, artists, and warriors. They may be the ancestors of the Mycenaeans of Ancient Greece and even influenced the later Indo-Iranian speakers of the steppes, like the Scythians, Cimmerians, and Saka.

This is the story of the incredible Catacomb culture.

I hope you enjoy the video. Please do share it with others.

Cheers!

Terribly sad to think about

I talk often about the loss of burial mounds from modern farming and industry (19th and 20th centuries mainly).

This is an example of how many were lost in parts of Ukraine thanks to Soviet era farming.

Just obliterating thousands of burial mounds in a few decades. Burials and barrows that had been there for perhaps four thousand years or more.

In some cases, these mounds were first mapped by a handful of archeologists around 1900 - 1917 before being destroyed 1920s onwards.

I also gave a second and more informal talk the night before for those who couldn’t get tickets for the main JFvD event

My talk on the significance of the barrow to Indo-European identity for JFvD in Amsterdam

Some people WRONGLY dismiss Halloween as a commercial American custom. Others think the origin of pumpkin jack-o'-lanterns is exclusively Irish or at least “Celtic”. In reality these lanterns are as much British as Irish, and the tradition is found in other Germanic nations such as Germany and Sweden too.

Prior to the American pumpkin tradition, people in Ireland, Scotland and England used turnips, swedes and mangelwurzels. The lanterns were associated with the Catholic holiday of All Hallow’s Eve in Ireland, but protestants in Britain sometimes moved the festival, such as in Somerset where it was held on the last Thursday of October and was called “punkie night”. Punkie means ‘jack-o-lantern’ in West Country dialect and these were carried about in a tradition much like trick or treating in America. They didn’t always have faces carved on them, but they were always intended to scare away evil.

The word punkie probably comes from Old English Pūcan or pūclas which were evil spirits in Anglo-Saxon folklore, cognate to Swedish and Norwegian puke “evil spirit”. The Irish word púca”spirit” is probably a loan from Old English as the p sound didn’t exist in primitive Gaelic.

The earliest attestations of carving such lanterns are from Worcestershire in England in 1840, Hampshire, England in 1838, and Scotland in 1808. So there is no reason to think it originated in Ireland. Various traditions of bonfires and carrying root lanterns or blazing fagots while going door to door for food existed across the British isles but the switch to pumpkins instead of turnips occurred in the USA.

The tradition of using turnip lanterns was still extant as far East as Sussex in 1973 when it was recorded among children there by Jacqueline Simpson in the Folklore of Sussex. Therefore, the introduction of the American pumpkin jack-o-lantern in Britain occurred while the native turnip tradition still existed, so there has never been a time when British people DIDNT make jack-o-lanterns for this season.

The same kind of tradition is attested in the 19th century among Germanic people on the continent who made vegetable lanterns between late October and early November. This tradition still survives in places and the lanterns are sometimes mounted on poles as they are carried about. Their names include:

German: Rübengeister ('turnip spirits')
German (Swabia): Schreckgesichter ('horror faces')
Swiss: Bochseltieren ('rumble animals')
South Germany and Lorraine, France: Rummelbooze ('turnip disguise')
German (Hesse): Gliihnische Deijwel ('glowing devil')
Swedish: rovgubbe ('turnip man')

As in the British Isles, the lanterns are often said to represent spirits and the children who carry them receive treats. Other times they are placed outside the house to protect the home from evil.

In my own video essay on the pagan origins of Halloween, I demonstrate that just as Halloween has a pagan precedent of Samhain in Ireland, it has other pagan precedents across Europe including Slavic Dziady, Baltic Mārtiņi or Mārtiņdiena, and the Germanic pagan festival which marked the start of Winter and was known in Old English as Winterfylleth, in Old Norse as Vetrnætr, and included a sacrifice made to elves (ancestral spirits) known as Álfablót.

Therefore this season has always been associated with spirits of the dead in many European cultures and Halloween is highly traditional and far from a merely commercial American innovation.

Reminder that turnip jack o lanterns aka punkies were not exclusively Irish but were common in England and even in Sweden! Evidently an old Germanic custom

https://youtu.be/xsM19qJB49c?feature=shared

Flashback to when I went for a jog on Halloween in 2015 and stumbled upon runestone U898 which mentions a Varangian Viking who died in the East.

Samples from The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans are now available.

The paper claimed that Proto-Indo-Europeans received their Neolithic Anatolian ancestry via Neolithic Armenians, rather than Neolithic Europeans, but that doesn't seem to be the case for the Yamnaya. Early European Farmers of the neighboring Trypillia Culture are a likely source.

The Sredy Stog people did have minor ancestry from Neolithic Armenians, varying by subpopulation, but they too had Early European Farmer ancestry.

I wonder if the authors were trying to appease Anatolian Hypothesis believers? Possibly attempting to save face after the terrible Southern Arc paper by linking the two theories? Either way, it's obvious that the Indo-European languages originated in Europe.

Vahaduo genetic distance from G25 coordinates of 2 out liar Yamnaya samples recently published.

Close to Nordic people, and alot like modern Europeans in general.

From Owen McCormick on X

The Harri, a Germanic tribe briefly mentioned by Tacitus, were said to be the most powerful of the Lugian group of states. They dominated large parts of Germania in the region of present day Poland and eastern Germany.
Tacitus writes in Germania:

As for the Harii, quite apart from their strength, which exceeds that of the other tribes I have just listed, they pander to their innate savagery by skill and timing: with black shields and painted bodies, they choose dark nights to fight, and by means of terror and shadow of a ghostly army they cause panic, since no enemy can bear a sight so unexpected and hellish; in every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered.

I think this could be Freyja and her cats

Fuerstenberg-type bracteate found in a grave in central Germany and dating to the 7-8th century possibly depicting Holle/Frigga

Jacob Grimm recorded a survival of Woden worship in Blekinge, Sweden and Mecklenburg, wherein farmers would leave a section of rye unharvested for Odin’s horse. They would braid the tops together and sprinkle them with water, take off their hats and bow, and recite thrice;

"Woden, take care of your horse now, with thistle and thorn,
so next year we may have better corn!"
Another version was;
"Woden, Woden, feed your horse now, with thistle and thorn, next year, better corn!"

He noted that it was said during winter nights, he could be heard roaming the fields with his hunting dogs (Freki and Geri?).

This was likely a remnant of offerings on Winterfylleth and/or Álfablót; in the Austrfararvísur, Odin is mentioned during a sacrifice to the Álfar. In rural regions of Scandinavia and Germany, the Old Ways never fully disappeared.

Art by Carl Emil Doepler, 1905. ⴲ

Royal Scythian by Harjaz

My 4 year old son: Daddy, do you know what the cosiest thing of all is when it’s cold?

Me: what is it?

Son: it’s to go inside, turn off the lights and make a fire and pray to the gods. That’s the cosiest thing of all.

Prayer at the bull sacrifice to the Striker:
This bull has come willingly, eagerly, whole, unblemished,
bedecked with gold, to the place of sacrifice, in celebration and beauty.
A pure offering is this, without blemish or stain.
A proper offering is this, fit for the Undying Ones.
Through the fire, through the sacrifice, through its life,
the Striker is honored.
A proper offering is this, as it is right to give.
This bull to the Striker.

The full sacrificial ritual will be on https://www.hamingja.foundation/membership

þæ ne sy nan to þæs cwidol wif ne to þæs cræftig man þæt awendan ne mæge word þus gecwedene.

Self-proclaimed ‘Reddit Witches’ are complaining that they are finding it difficult to cast negative spells on Donald Trump because he has “some kind of protection around him.”

https://modernity.news/2024/10/23/witches-complain-they-cant-cast-spells-on-trump-because-he-has-some-kind-of-protection-around-him/

NEW EPISODE — Radio North Sea International — Barrows: The Monument of our People

https://hearthfireradio.com/podcast/barrows-the-monument-of-our-people/

The Indo-European barrow aka kurgan aka burial mound is a funerary monument tradition that lasted about 6000 years and spread from Eastern Europe as far as Chine to the East, the Atlantic to the West and Siberia to the North. This monument is not only the proof of our greatness but is also the sacred centre of the Heathen religion.

Important episode!

It’s not a smoking gun, but the evidence points to Europeans inventing the wheel.

“Although the new model may explain how the wheel was invented in Eastern Europe, potentially spreading from there, it may not be the last word on the topic. "I think it's still possible that multiple civilizations independently discovered the wheel on their own," James said.”

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1st-wheel-was-invented-6-000-years-ago-in-the-carpathian-mountains-modeling-study-suggests

Brent had misunderstood the IE theory such that he seems to believe all European paganism was derived from the Vedic religion. However, he was on the right track with identifying the mythic cognates.

“Those who lived in Asgard present to us now the usual confusing clutter of names, of ancient gods, great once, but overtaken by changes in human sensibility, of overlapping attributes, of sectarian preferences, the whole given a mysterious inner logic by that Indo-Aryan groundswell whose steady but almost imperceptible movement surfaces only in an occasional name, an occasional characteristic. Thus we have All-father, a variant perhaps of the Vedic Sky-god, Dyaus, altered by the Greeks to Zeus; for the Romans, a version of his name, Dyaus-pitar, or Sky-father, became the familiar Jupiter. In Scandinavian mythology, his attributes - but not his name - became those of Odin. Thus the divine was transmuted.”

Peter Brent “The Viking Saga” 1975

“Brodir had been a Christian and an ordained deacon, but he had cast aside the faith and become a renegade and sacrificed to heathen spirits and was very skilled in sorcery. He had armour which no steel could bite. He was both big and strong and had such long hair that he tucked it under his belt; it was black.”

Njal’s saga describes a strong Icelander named Brodir who, having been fully educated and ordained as a deacon, then reverted to the true faith.

Very interesting to consider axe head intensity in Bronze age Britain. If they were a currency then it reveals economic activity

Jacob Grimm recorded a survival of Woden worship in Blekinge, Sweden and Mecklenburg, wherein farmers would leave a section of rye unharvested for Odin’s horse. They would braid the tops together and sprinkle them with water, take off their hats and bow, and recite thrice;

"Woden, take care of your horse now, with thistle and thorn,
so next year we may have better corn!"
Another version was;
"Woden, Woden, feed your horse now, with thistle and thorn, next year, better corn!"

He noted that it was said during winter nights, he could be heard roaming the fields with his hunting dogs (Freki and Geri?).

This was likely a remnant of offerings on Winterfylleth and/or Álfablót; in the Austrfararvísur, Odin is mentioned during a sacrifice to the Álfar. In rural regions of Scandinavia and Germany, the Old Ways never fully disappeared.

Art by Carl Emil Doepler, 1905. ⴲ