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15 Feb, 08:02

A new paper on Goth and Suebians in Iberia. Suebian elites in Spain show almost entirely Northern European ancestry (92-95%). 14 Visigoth burial samples had greater than 80% Northwest European Ancestry (3 of which were full NW Euro). There were also 27 samples with mixed NW Euro and Iberian ancestry. Dates from 4-6th century.

The Germanics did not leave a genetic legacy in Iberia though

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614606v1

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14 Feb, 23:24

New appearance on Break the Rules with a deep discussion of esotericism, religion and history

https://youtu.be/p8EDRg84XLA?feature=shared

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14 Feb, 15:02

Yamnaya reconstruction by Nechvaloda
“burial 5, mound I (Nizhnyaya Orlyanka). Pit culture 3600-2300 BC
Source: Bogachev A. V. Kuznetsov A. V. Khokhlov A. A. Veneds: Indo-European context. Samara, 2022. S. 115.”

https://sapiensbio.ru/rekonstrukczii/avtor-nechvaloda-a-i-graficheskaya-rekonstrukcziya-licza-po-cherepu-muzhchiny-yamnoj-kultury/

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13 Feb, 19:24

Near Lejre, Denmark A fragment from one of Scandinavia's most magnificent helmets emerged from the ground in 2024. The fragment is gold-plated and decorated with red gemstones, and comes from the period from the end of the 7th century to the middle of the 8th century, just before the start of the Viking Age. Photo: Kristian Grøndahl

It resembles the brows on helmets from Anglo-Saxon England and Vendel era Sweden

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13 Feb, 19:17

Raven fylfot ring - Gothic

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13 Feb, 14:18

Interesting piece showing Woden wearing a headdress similar to figures from the Sutton Hoo finds. I cannot find much information about this archaeological find (?) apart from it is said to be dated to the 6th-7th century.

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12 Feb, 22:44

Jive Talk: I had the pleasure of talking to @PaulWaggenerofficial and we discussed the different kinds of challenges that the young face compared to older guys. Paul also explained some of his personal religious beliefs

https://youtu.be/Pd07kWSBgsI?feature=shared

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12 Feb, 19:35

Bede tells us that the second moon of the Anglo-Saxon heathen year was called Solmōnaþ meaning “Sun month”. This marks the returning power of the sun goddess known in English as Sunne and in Norse as Sól and explains the Old English word for Lent, Lencten which means “lengthening” in reference to the lengthening of the days at this time of year.
Bede wrote that Sol month was the month of flat cakes which the heathen English gave in offering to their gods - presumably to Sunne specifically. These round sun cakes became the English Christian tradition of pancake day celebrated at the start of Lent.

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12 Feb, 19:35

Happy Solmōnaþ!
(Sol-Month)

The name was recorded by the Christian Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede in his treatise De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time), saying that "Sol-Monath can be said to be the month of cakes, which were offered to their Gods"

In Old English, “Sol” is mostly used to refer to soil or mud. Implying that this month is sacred to the Earth-Mother Goddess.
However, this could only be one of the meanings of the word in this context. “Sol” is also believed to mean “cake” and can perhaps be linked to the English custom known as souling. In this tradition one would go house to house and sing songs where the guests would be gifted “soul cakes” in exchange for prayers. This tradition is usually credited to be Christian, but as with most Christian traditions, this one may indeed be Pagan.

So be sure to give an offering of cakes to the Earth-Mother.

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12 Feb, 13:52

In this video I put forward my beliefs about Odin and Galdr. I do not think that Odin got galdra from the waters of memory via Mimmir although it is tempting to see Mimir as his unnamed uncle, rather i think he got galdra from his uncle while hanging on Yggdrasil. It is possible his uncle also gave him the runes. Runes and galdra are related in an obscure way which I explain here.

https://youtu.be/K9m6jHITqvc?feature=shared

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12 Feb, 13:51

“Throughout my 30 years of working with the runes, they have taken on various aspects depending on who I was and what I was doing at the time. The best way I can try to explain them is almost as their own organisms that live symbiotically with the individual who has chosen to “take them up.”

Advisors, sages, teachers - but also sometimes potent forces of upheaval and reorganization, acting almost like a powerful hallucinogen can, to forcibly show a different perspective that may at first feel completely foreign or uncomfortable.

At other times, they seem to be like trees planted on the estate. They grow, spread root and leaf widely, and spring from small seeds, become saplings, and eventually, mighty giants that we have grown alongside and know by name and appearance, as well as the countless layers of experience we have with them.

Like the rings of a tree, the rune is a series of many circles, concentric, expanding, leading us wider and wider and then back in to the heart. They are repositories of deep, hidden information, as well as storage vessels of things that we do not wish to forget…”

From my upcoming program “Hamingja: A Runic Program of Life Reform.”

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11 Feb, 17:45

Collin Cleary reviews the book Holy Europe by Aki Cederberg.
https://counter-currents.com/2024/12/aki-cederbergs-holy-europe/

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10 Feb, 23:29

My Icelandic friend thinks all Anglos evolve into Norf fc and he sent me this to show what I will look like

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10 Feb, 10:34

The discovery of a Bell Beaker Burial, Porlock, Somerset, England in 1896. The early Indo-European grave dates to 2400-2000 BC

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10 Feb, 07:47

Genetic admixture model for KST001 an approx 5800 year old WSH sample from a barrow near the Caucasus at Konstantinovskiy in Russia.
kurgan 4, grave 17. Context information: Single inhumation in north-south orientation with a wooden covering in a rectangular grave-pit. The grave was robbed and
destroyed in antiquity. but a ceramic vessel was documented.

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03 Feb, 20:47

Feel like the engineer in Prometheus up here

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03 Feb, 20:27

Downloaded by @MegaSaverBot 🤖

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03 Feb, 19:28

Tried the local Icelandic delicacy of sheep head

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02 Feb, 21:05

Decent decor in this Icelandic Viking pub

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02 Feb, 19:39

We RETVRN

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01 Feb, 23:20

Some photos from the last two days riding horses and bathing in hot springs here in Iceland!

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01 Feb, 23:17

I commissioned the expert Bronze Age sword smith Neil Burridge to forge this replica of the Huntshaw dagger from Darracott moor in Huntshaw, Devon. The largest barrow in the grave field has a road going straight over it.

Read more…
survivethejive.blogspot.com/2020/04/they-b…

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01 Feb, 21:44

I am a sensitive *young Hyperborean

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29 Jan, 17:23

Preparing for my flight

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29 Jan, 08:38

This lecture compares Indian and Homeric epics to look at the Indo-European customs surrounding “abduction” of women and concludes there are formalised and legal forms of wife abduction and there are illegal ones.

It is clear that the story of Frey and Gerd conforms exactly with legal abduction in which a messenger (Skirnr) is sent in advance. Whereas the Jotuns taking Iðunn was completely illegal ie: against IE custom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWS9CixLBgs

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28 Jan, 18:10

Max Planck map showing the dynamics of the Migration Era

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28 Jan, 15:22

For me it was "other". Almost every Heathen I met is one of the above though. I got into Heathenry via other kinds of paganism which I got into via philosophy. I didn't include that option because it hardly applies to anyone but me

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28 Jan, 14:10

Heathens judge by phenotype. The 12th century Christian Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus wrote of an old king's daughter who he says "men believed" could judge a man's status by his physical appearance. When Olo Vegetus came to her Father's court, with a glare so fierce that brave men cringed beneath it, she acclaimed him "a kingly-born hero". All asked him to remove his hood and when he did they all admired his golden hair but he kept his eyes half closed so as not to terrify them.

Saxo's scepticism was at odds with common beliefs of his forefathers. Anyone could judge the merit of a man by his face alone.

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28 Jan, 13:13

🚨 New Documentary 🚨

The swastika or FYLFOT was used by ancient Germanic peoples such as the Goths, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. But what did it mean? Some say it was a symbol of the sun, some think it was borrowed from the Romans. In this video I explain how the fylfot was actually connected to the cult of the god Wotan aka Odin.

Watch on YouTube or Odysee

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28 Jan, 10:51

Highly based WAINE (Woden avatar) depicting a mask-helmet face with two raven heads above.

Source: https://samlinger.natmus.dk/do/asset/1968

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28 Jan, 10:49

Artistic Reconstruction of a male of the Bronze Age Fatyanovo culture. They were the result of an early eastward migration of the Corded Ware after admixing with the Globular Amphora culture (from which their pottery shows influences). They are the earliest group to have y haplogroup R1a-Z93 which is common in modern Indo-Iranian speakers.

They lived in the forests of western Russia and had an economy of pastoralism however it was not as mobile as the Yamnaya. Weapons included the classic CWC stone axe but later also ones made of metal. Bears seemed to hold importance to them as some axes had the shape of a bear head carved into it along with ornaments made of bear claws and teeth. They later would develop the Abashevo culture which is the ancestor of the Sintashta and the Srubnaya.

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28 Jan, 10:48

“Veizt þú eigi ódauðlig goð vera Óðinn, Þórr ok Frey, Frigg ok Freyju, er konungar göfga?”

“Don't you know that Óðinn, Þórr and Frey, Frigg and Freyja, who are honored by kings, are undying gods?"

Vítuss saga, AM 180 b folio.

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18 Jan, 21:24

A seax with a beautifully preserved carved handle was excavated in Skälby, Västerås, Sweden and was found in the remains of a settlement's well. I wonder what the story is there...
Think I'm gonna copy the design.

Photos by Acta Konserveringscentrum

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18 Jan, 12:36

There are clear allegories in our attested Germanic myths, and possibly the best example of this is a self-consciously allegorical myth of Thunder [Þórr], particularly his visit to the etten Outyards-Lock [Útgarða-Loki] which is narrated in prose in the Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson. Let us briefly summarize its contents:

Thunder, Lock [Loki] and Thelf [Þjálfi], Thunder's servant, travel to the Ettenland. There, they encounter the Outyards-Lock, who challenges them to a series of contests. Lock enters a food-eating contest against an etten but loses because the opponent not only eats the food but also the table and bones alike. Likewise, Thelf, who is very swift, goes into a racing contest but couldn't win, because his opponent was too fast. Thunder faces three challenges: drinking from a horn he cannot empty, lifting a cat he cannot raise fully, and wrestling an old woman who easily overpowers him. What's the catch? The mythic narrative ends with Outyards-Lock explaining to Thunder the reality of the challenges that were faced:

In that food-eating contest Lock lost to Lowe [Logi], whose name means "Flame."

When Thelf couldn't outrun High [Hugi], it was because nothing is swifter than "Thought," which is the meaning of High's name.

When Thunder couldn't drink the horn, it was because the horn was connected to the entire ocean, and what Thunder managed to drink lowered the sea level. The cat wasn't a cat, it was the Middenyard serpent, and Thunder managed to lift one of its paws which frightened everyone. And the old woman was Eld [Elli] herself, whose name means "Old Age," whom no one can defeat.

This myth can justifiably be called self-consciously allegorical because at the end of the narrative all its allegorical content is revealed to the audience. It goes on to show that allegory could be employed in myths, and that it could also be their constituent part.

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17 Jan, 08:10

Judge Clinton Sternwood is introduced in Twin Peaks as a kindly, affectionate old timey American. Then he delivers this line to the man he is about to judge in a murder case:

"The law provides us structure to guide us through paralysing and trying times, but it requires our submission to its procedures and higher purposes. Before we assume our respective roles in this enduring drama, just let me say that when these frail shadows we inhabit now have quit the stage, we'll meet and raise a glass again together in Valhalla."

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17 Jan, 08:10

RIP David Lynch. See you on the other side

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17 Jan, 08:09

Due to copying errors these look more like snakes now but I am certain they were two birds

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17 Jan, 08:09

Shield of the Cornuti according to the Notitia Dignitatum

The Cornuti ("horned") was an auxilia palatina unit that belonged to the comitatus of Gaul, and is attested on the northern border since 355. In 357 it was led by the tribunus Bainobaudes in an attack against the Alemanni who had attacked the Roman territory and had later retired on a small island.

In that same year, the Cornuti fought the Alemanni in the Battle of Argentoratum, under the command of the Caesar Julian. When the Alamannic cavalry caused the Roman equites to flee, the Cornuti and its twin unit, the Brachiati, held the enemy horsemen until Julian rallied the Roman cavalry and brought them back in battle. Despite the Romans being victorious, Bainobaudes, the tribune of the Cornuti was killed.

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16 Jan, 11:02

Fascinating new paper looks at a British tribe, the Durotriges, and finds that they had a matrilocal system with a single local female lineage dominant, and men from Gaul being brought in and "married" into the tribe. Most Iron Age tribes in Britain were the same as their Bronze Age ancestors but some Southerners like the Durotriges mixed with men from France and this is probably how Celtic languages arrived in the British Isles.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6

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15 Jan, 12:07

Congratulations to all our Baltic brothers who worship the gods of old

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15 Jan, 12:07

"On Thursday, the Lithuanian Parliament officially recognised Baltic pagan religious association Romuva." 👏🏻

Read more: https://www.delfi.lt/en/politics/seimas-officially-recognises-religious-community-romuva-120071821

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15 Jan, 11:06

Swastik very auspicious Indian sign and everywhere is swastik is because Indian brought civiisation to. All world was Hindu please see the evidences here

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15 Jan, 08:45

This bronze figurine fitting was found in 1865 at Frøyhov in Norway, a place name indicating a cult of Freyr. The object dates to 160-190 AD and has an elder Futhark runic inscription which is one of the oldest ever found. It may have been fitted to a sword.

It is sometimes translated as a name, 'Inga(n)da', which features the other name of the god Freyr "Ing". Germanic *ing seems best to be etymologised as a reflex of PIE *h2neḱ-/h2nenḱ- ‘reach, attain’ and the Frøyhov form may either be a maker’s inscription or a theonym, and the figurine itself is likely to be an image of InguiFreyr

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14 Jan, 18:20

"The night before (my Mother's) death I had a frightening dream. I was in a dense gloomy forest...Suddenly I heard a piercing whistle that seemed to resound through the whole universe. My knees shook. Then there were crashings in the underbrush, and a gigantic wolfhound with a fearful, gaping maw burst forth. At the sight of it, the blood froze in my veins. It tore past me, and I suddenly knew: the Wild Huntsman had commanded it to carry away a human soul. I awoke in deadly terror, and the next morning I recieved the news of my Mother's passing.

....It was Wotan, the god of my Alemannic forefathers, who had gathered my mother to her ancestors - negatively to the "wild horde," but positively to the "salig lut," the blessed folk. It was the Chrisitan missionaries who made Wotan into a devil. In himself he is an important god - A Mercury or Hermes, as the Romans correctly realised, a nature spirit who returned to life again in the Merlin of the Grail legend and became, as the spiritus Mercurialis, the sought after arcanum of the alchemists."

Carl Jung

https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2010/09/jung-on-wotan.html?m=1

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14 Jan, 16:32

Happy Yule ❤️

Remember, one like = one blót

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14 Jan, 16:26

Heill Óðinn, Herjan, Jólfaðr, Draugadróttin, leader of the Wütende Heer. May You stir the righteous spirit in our Folk and guide us to victory.
Gⴲðan Jⴲl!

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14 Jan, 16:25

Yule mask, carved from ash and blackened.

Witig and wōd, wulf ic eom
Nihtes ic hergige heorðgenēatum

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14 Jan, 16:12

7 men and 3 women attended the Hearth of Devon Yule blot of January 2025.

Horse meat was dedicated to Woden and pork to Yngui Frey. The men donned masks in honour of the einherjar.

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14 Jan, 11:35

New find from Wiltshire. One of Woden’s ravens?

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13 Jan, 10:25

My Hearth in Devon switched to the lunar-solar calendar in 2019. Previously, when I lived in Sweden, I held blots on sunsteads, but one particular Midsummer, I think it was 2017, there was a full moon up at the same time as the Midsummer sun. It was an extraordinary experience at a Nordic Bronze Age barrow. We were all enamoured with the moon although we thought it was a solar rite.

In hindsight it was a foreshadowing of my adoption of the lunar-solar calendar

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13 Jan, 09:19

Hail Yule father! Hail Frey and his father! Health to the king and may he bring us victory by Woden’s will

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12 Jan, 16:02

(Instagram handles linked).
A few days ago we got to know about a new hit piece on my husband, Marcus @thegoldenjarl , from a leftist freelance journalist @myvingrenjournalist that supposedly has been ‘’investigating’’ us and others around ever since perhaps 2021, or earlier, with the purpose of extracting personal information to create a foul film where she has proceeded to link, in a derogatory manner Marcus and who knows, perhaps me too, with hateful activities. ‘’Hacking Hate’’ will premiere on cinemas around Sweden on 17th of January.

Upon investigating her, I found that she has been using at least 2 fake accounts, AI-generated, swedish_housewife12 and mjolnerhammaren, together with fake created children, only using her face. She has followed me here together with all my followers list. Perhaps she has started conversation with key people, perhaps she has shared provoking thoughts/posts so she gets you to say something you shouldn’t otherwise. She has tried to gain the trust of some users that maybe got to follow her fake AI-generated accounts back and interact.

But the worst is just to come: I have a private Instagram account, whose biography description hasn’t been changed ever since starting it. It says ‘’A private account with pictures of our children, ONLY for family & close friends.’’ - Somehow she thought it would be a great idea to try to follow my private account to, by deduction, use the pictures of our children in her hit piece. This is vile.

She wanted to be able to follow a private account, whose description clearly states PICTURES OF CHILDREN, to gain access to the pictures of our children and use them for her film associating not only us, but our 1 and 5 years old daughters with her foul, poorly investigated, claims of hate in her soon-to-premiere ‘’Hacking Hate’’.

Why would this left-wing extremist journalist want to have access to the pictures of our children?

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12 Jan, 16:02

This documentary is a pathetic throwback from the 2015 era of hysterical left wing censorship. They conjure up moral panic with their paper folk devil “racists”

Make sure to review the doc on imdb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32144488/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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12 Jan, 10:30

TOMORROW is the big day, the height of Yule. The second full moon of the Yule season rises tomorrow night and so many heathens, myself included, will be feasting and making offerings to Woden. The saga of Hakon the good reveals that originally there were three days of feasting and that you needed ale to last throughout! My hearth has only a one night feast of horse meat, during which we will make solemn Yuletide oaths concerning how we will improve ourselves by next winter.

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12 Jan, 10:30

"The sonargǫltr or sónargǫltr was the boar sacrificed as part of the celebration of Yule in Germanic paganism, on whose bristles solemn vows were made, a tradition known as heitstrenging."

"And they would sacrifice a boar in the sonarblót. On Yule Eve the sonar-boar was led into the hall before the king; then people laid their hands on its bristles and made vows."

#Yule #paganism @EuropeanTribalism

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12 Jan, 10:29

An Eldskál "fire bowl" burns before an image of a god

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11 Jan, 16:50

This bracteate from Over Hornbæk, Denmark has the runic inscription contained within a worm terminating at each end in the heads of Odin's ravens.

Such a cool design!

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10 Jan, 19:48

Yes I think it is Woden with seven ravens 🐦‍⬛

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10 Jan, 19:48

An Alemannic zierscheibe with an image of Odin (or in Old High German, Wuotan). The right eye appears squinted shut, a tendril or serpent wraps around His neck, and the object in His hand resembles a drinking horn. The stance is similar to that of the Odin figure on the Torslunda Plates. ᚨ

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10 Jan, 17:52

Spend all week editing video about swastikas.
See swastikas in my dreams.
Take a break in bath this evening.
Look down at my leg.
Am I going insane?
Can you see it?
👀 react if yes

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10 Jan, 14:16

Doesn't resemble the big dipper to me TBH.

I have never seen a single example of a Germanic swastika with a clear connection to stars/constellations or the alleged representations of the annual seasons in any of the hundreds of examples I have seen.

Additionally the claims it represents the constellation do not hold up to scrutiny when you consider the actual reality of how they saw the stars back then.

The linked article explains that:
-all constellations rotate
-the lines making the swastika don't exist
-to draw the four arbitrary positions would require a conception of a 4 part year (which Heathens did not have -the year had 2 halves)
-The only places where the big dipper can be seen going in a full rotation are so far north that the stars are barely visible in summer anyway, only winter.
-in the viking age the pole was located between the north star (polaris) and β of the little dipper - so not around the pole star as claimed

other points of my own:

Since the zoomorphic germanic swastika (specifically the bird varian) originates in Scythian art and can also be a triskele or a shape with more than 4 birds, it is not clear the number 4 has any significance to it
- the geometric Germanic swastika was borrowed from either celtic, etruscan or Roman art and none of those were far North enough to recognise the rotation of the big dipper around the pole star.
-Numerous contexts of the Germanic swastika pertain to high status Odinic individuals and there is no particular association of the aristocracy, Odin or the ravens used to make the zoomorphic variants with the stars or this specific constellation (except a claim by Cleasby & Vígfusson that it was called Odin's wagon)
-There is no actual reference to "Óðins vagn" as many claim, in Norse literature. Rather Grimm infers something like this from 15th c. Dutch "Woonswaghen"
-The Swedish chronicle calls it karlwagen and Grimm connects this to Thor since karl is a suffix for Thor's name in Sweden.

I hope Mr. Sagnamaðr will watch my forthcoming Swastika video and reassess his opinion of this symbol

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10 Jan, 14:16

An Anglo Scandinavian disc brooch with a knotted swastika design, found in Norfolk, 9-10th Century. This was a very popular design, but this one is unique in that it’s the only example I’ve seen with gilding. With this popular Viking Age variation of the swastika, one can easily see the shape of the Big Dipper in the arms.

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09 Jan, 13:51

Hiked up to a Bronze age barrow on Dartmoor today. Such pilgrimages are more enjoyable if the sun happens to be shining as it was today. Still a very cold wind up high on the moor though so I hope the men who built it did so during the summer!

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09 Jan, 10:09

Horned spear dancer and berserkr art by Hungerstein. Animated with AI

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09 Jan, 09:26

Bee hives.

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08 Jan, 16:52

fruity Furholt has coined the term “Violence-inequality complex” prompting Weltkrieger to make this highly accurate map of ancient cultures

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08 Jan, 12:18

Some additional points:

The other instances of prophecy (the primary practice associated with seiðr), Oðinn is not the one prophesying. In Baldrs draumar, he raised up a dead witch in the underworld to tell him what he needed to know.

The instances of prophecy as mentioned in Ynglinga saga 7 are of an euhemerized version of him, and therefore should be looked at with some scrutiny. The saga gives a specific overview of what these different practices and types of magic are, but his association is primarily with galdr, shapeshifting, weather/element manipulation, battle-sorcery, herb-magic, and knowing the language of birds. Some of the practices such as shapeshifting are reminiscent of the Sámi Noadi practices. They are also said to be able to send out their spirit in the forms of animals while their bodies are sleeping.

In the instance of his impregnation of Rindr, Sigurðardrápa denotes this was accomplished by seiðr (seið Yggr til Rindar), but in Grógaldr it is denoted as galdr (þann gól Rindi Rani).

The accusation of the Samsø episode in Lokasenna in my view is really just that, an accusation, which is the premise of the senna style poetic form. Óðinn here is said to have used a drum like völva. He was said to have vitka líki fórtu verþjóð yfir, or have fared in the likeness of a warlock over men. The term vitka used has a connotation of controlling the senses, such as in vitkask, which refers to the recovering of one’s senses, or recovering from being in a swoon. The term vitka is associated with Finns (finnvitka, meaning to bewitch like a Finn), as they (or their mixed descendants) are typically the purveyors of sorcery in the sagas. In this lost story, it’s likely that Óðinn had used sorcery to control the senses of the men on Samsø.

My personal view on the matter is that Óðinn being a god, is not subject to the moralities of men. When in preparation for the Ragnarok, he must do what must be done and use every potential resource possible.

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08 Jan, 12:10

The final version of McColl et al is out and they don’t know where this alleged source of East Scandinavians and I1 is but suggest North East Sweden, Finland or Åland

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08 Jan, 12:10

'The Eastern Scandinavians first detection 6-800 years after the earliest Corded Ware populations in Scandinavia (Extended Data Fig.-9A), and the presence of a Hunter-Gatherer ancestry, not well represented by the three waves of Hunter-Gatherers previously identified in Scandinavia, points to an additional, late arrival into Scandinavia by the ancestors of the
Eastern Scandinavians. The Hunter-Gatherer ancestry suggests a link across the Baltic or from the northeast along the Baltic coastline.

With regards to their Steppe-related ancestry, the Corded Ware individuals from Lithuania (4842–4496 BP), Latvia (4833 BP) and Estonia (4638–4400 BP) are not well-modelled by the Eastern Scandinavians, suggesting a source region further north (Supplementary Fig. S5.28). Notably, Corded Ware and Hunter-Gatherer genomes from Finland and the northeast coast of Sweden are not represented in the dataset, and may also be a suitable source for the Hunter-Gatherer ancestry in Eastern Scandinavians.

Such a location would be consistent with strontium isotopes of the Late Neolithic Swedes of Central Sweden which link with eastern and northern Sweden, Finland and possibly Karelia and with similarities in pottery styles between Late Neolithic Sweden and the Kiukainen culture (4500–3800 BP) of southwestern Finland and the Åland Islands47–50 389 . Combined, the results point to the presence of an unsampled hunter-gatherer population, likely carrying I1 haplogroups, admixing with a Corded Ware-related population, similar to those of Scandinavia, to form the Eastern Scandinavians somewhere between Finland and Northeast Sweden. At present, no genomes from this region and time period exist.'

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08 Jan, 09:24

The words descending from Proto Germanic “Walhaz” such as “Gaul”and “Wales” all refer exclusively to Romanised peoples. The word was never applied to Finns, Turks, Native Americans etc. Therefore it probably never meant “stranger” in general but specifically foreigners of the South associated with Rome.

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07 Jan, 12:32

The amber merchant

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07 Jan, 10:33

The University of Oslo has recently launched the Great Viking Survey, a wide-ranging study to explore how people across the world perceive and engage with the vikings as history and heritage, and to map the many ways in which contemporary media and academia shape these views. This online survey invites anyone, anywhere, over 18, to share their thoughts on the iconic viking warrior figure, as well as the enduring legacy and memory of the vikings in the modern world. In doing so, researchers will be able to shine an unprecedented light on the means and mechanisms that allow images and myths of the vikings to be shaped and spread in the public sphere.

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01 Jan, 17:06

This map from "Die Beizeichen auf den völkerwanderungszeitlichen Goldbrakteaten" by Charlotte Behr shows the distribution of bracteates with a swastika (fylfot).

They are mainly in Denmark and Southern Sweden.

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01 Jan, 17:05

These maps show the distribution of all gold bracteate finds in Europe and Scandinavia.

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01 Jan, 14:16

He got this wrong regarding Yule. The Yule moon is the one he calls Winter moon (in January)

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01 Jan, 14:14

These are the dates (and UK times) for the full moons in 2025. I don’t use the common Strawberry moon / Sturgeon moon names etc as these are derived from American Indian culture. Instead these names are derived from Anglo-Germanic sources.

Full Moon date and time

13 January (10.27pm) First moon, Winter moon
12 February (1.53pm) Sol moon, Horning
14 March (6.55am) Spring moon, Lent moon
13 April (1.22am) Easter moon, Grass moon
12 May (5.56pm) Milking moon, Pasture moon
11 June (8.44am) Sailing moon, Fallow moon
10 July (9.37pm) Hay moon, Summer moon
9 August (8.55am) Weed moon, Harvest moon
7 September (7.09pm) Holy moon, Wood moon
7 October (4.48am) Winter moon, Vintage moon
5 November (1.19pm) Blood moon, Blot moon
4 December (11.14pm) Yule moon

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01 Jan, 11:38

2024 was a pretty good year for me.

-Starting Heathenry launched
-3.4 million views on YouTube and 28k new subscribers
-1.4 million likes on X, 80k reposts, 1.8 million media views
-Radio North Sea International launched on Hearthfire
-Completed the Hyperborean Odyssey series in Norway and Scotland
-Delivered talks in Vancouver, London and Amsterdam
-Article published in Unherd
-Many great new DNA papers came out: The kurgan hypothesis and Sredny Stog origins of PIE was vindicated , and the possible origin of the Germanic folk was identified in Sweden. Jive Talks for each were popular
-It was nice to interview Dave Martel and Raw Egg Nationalist
-I was interviewed by Georgina Rose, Thor from NM&B, Beau at Lotus Eaters, Uberboyo, Greyhorn pagans, Dialogue show of Reality Check radio, Break the Rules, Koortsdroom Café podcast, and Thinking Class podcast

Keep Surviving the Jive in 2025!

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31 Dec, 15:02

You can learn more about the Swedish “year walk” and other divinatory practices from across Northern Europe in this film.

https://youtu.be/i0KrLUoRwUI?feature=shared

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31 Dec, 15:01

𝖄uletide and New Year’s Eve divination was and still is a practice in Scandinavia, especially in Finland . Probably because it’s one of the times of the year when the veil is as thinnest between the world of the living and the other side.

Today it’s common to practice molybdomancy, and that’s a complicated word I would assume as good as no one that practices it knows it by that name. But it’s to melt lead or tin and let it drop into water and then you try to interpret what you see in the formations it has created that is the answer to your questions is.
It’s essentially like reading in tea or something of that effect and is seen by most like a funny little tradition or game.

An other more daring method is called Årsgång (Year-Walk).
There are thousands of records that describe the tradition or retell stories about it. The core area of divination seems to be in Småland, in southern Sweden, where the tradition is mentioned in writing as early as the 17th century and then in several writings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Today it’s probably very rare that anyone attempts it.

Usually it was during specific holidays like, during the Christmas nights, at Christmas Day, St. Stephen's Day or New Year - sometimes even at Midsummer - that a person who wanted to get a glimpse of the future could perform the ritual. The person who would preform it would secretly isolated themselves in the dark and abstainfrom food and drink for about 24 hours. At midnight the person would go to one or more parish churches, walk around these counterclockwise, often three or seven times (that is, the magic numbers). When that was done, the person became sensitive to the supernatural powers and found out through visions and hearing what would happen in the village in the coming year. Usually by looking into the key hole of to the church door. It differs from other forms of folk divination, as it was glimpses of the future of the entire settlement, not just of an individual or a family, that were of importance. Those who did this could see processions of corpses, and thus got to know who would die in the area, hear cannon shots or see fires which heralded war and accidents, or hear how scythes hit the fields or how they hit stones, which was a signs of good or bad harvest. In the cabins, people could be seen sitting headless if they were condemned to die during the year, but if they sat with crowns on their heads, they were married instead.

During this walk to and fro the church all sorts of supernatural benevolent beings could try to scare or try to kill the walker. One of them as a ghastly boar with fire and brimstone in its glowing eyes or snout that could carry away the walker or split him in half by running through the person. This boar was called Gloson (The Glowing Sow).

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30 Dec, 00:02

The Sacred Rowan
Sorbus aucuparia, known as rowan or mountain ash, is a humble yet powerful tree in nature as well as mythology. Latin "sorbus" means "red" and English "rowan" comes from Germanic "raud-inan" which means "to redden", referring to the red berries and their usage. The Old English name cwicbeam and the Old Dutch name kwekkeboom both mean something like "life-tree". A fitting name: the berries are popular food for birds and the saplings are often eaten by wildlife. These names, combined with the evidence of using the twigs/berries to protect against evil magic, a practice widespread in Europe, give us valuable insight into the usage of the rowan in Heathenry. The meaning of the Old English "têafor" is also connected: magic by reddening.
The third image shows the rowan that saved Thunor from drowning in the Vimur river, as told in the skáldskaparmál. This, together with the fact that rowans often grow under or nearby oak trees, connect the tree to Sif, Thunor's wife.
Hail the lively rowan!

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29 Dec, 23:57

Pagan Finns used to feed snakes in the vicinity of their house, usually beneath a sacred tree, such as a spruce (Picea abies) or rowan (Sorbus aucuparia). A sacred birch (Betula pendula or Betula pubescens) might be called Jumalankoivu (God's birch).

These snakes were called elättikäärme (lit. "a snake that is fed / supported").

In the Finnish village of Kieppi in Mäntyharju there were two snakes called Pissu & Sussu living beneath a sacred rowan. They were given the first fish caught in the springtime, tidbits from slaughter during fall, and the first milk after a cow or a woman had given birth.

The tree itself was sacred, as were the snakes, and offerings were brought to it, even after it had been felled for one reason or another.

In Tunnila in Sulkava there used to be a tree underneath which offerings of food were left for the dead, the elves, and various spirits.

Ill fate would befall those who disrespected or mistreated a sacred tree or snake.

Photo: Sacred spruce of the house of Kinnunen.

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29 Dec, 15:10

Scythian plush bird from a frozen barrow of Pazyryk, Siberia.

This plush bird, approximately 2,300 years old, originates from the Altai Mountains in Siberia. The artifact is constructed from felt and reindeer fur. The bird's form, including its wings and beak, was carefully shaped using stitched felt.

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29 Dec, 15:06

Artistic Reconstruction of a male of the Bronze Age Fatyanovo culture. They were the result of an early eastward migration of the Corded Ware after admixing with the Globular Amphora culture (from which their pottery shows influences). They are the earliest group to have y haplogroup R1a-Z93 which is common in modern Indo-Iranian speakers.

They lived in the forests of western Russia and had an economy of pastoralism however it was not as mobile as the Yamnaya. Weapons included the classic CWC stone axe but later also ones made of metal. Bears seemed to hold importance to them as some axes had the shape of a bear head carved into it along with ornaments made of bear claws and teeth. They later would develop the Abashevo culture which is the ancestor of the Sintashta and the Srubnaya.

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29 Dec, 14:57

So it appears the Graunidad misreported that the newly found Kent ring-sword has "a blade bearing a runic script". The lead conservator clarified "There appear to be large runes, central on the scabbard. Also tiny ones on metalwork associated with the sword." Less unusual but still interesting. They have not yet been interpreted. Here are some photos of the pommel taken by Paul Mortimer

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29 Dec, 14:13

Interesting public art in Sweden

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29 Dec, 12:36

Really weird to me that the Thule video came last. It was an extraordinary place.

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04 Dec, 14:10

Early 6th century Spatha found in Snartemo Norway. Among the other grave goods found with it is the extremely rare swastika patterned textile, pictured here with a modern reproduction

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04 Dec, 10:59

The Germanic kings depicted on golden bracteates often have a very particular pompadour/braided pony tail mullet combo hair style. In many variations it actually terminates in the head of a bird and may represent Odinic wisdom issuing forth from the head in the form of a raven. This image of some variations of it is taken from Hauck (1985)

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03 Dec, 16:04

The Montem Mound, Slough: 1,500 Year Old Saxon Monument
Archaeologists have discovered that a 20-foot high mound in Slough, long believed to be a Norman castle motte, is actually a rare Saxon monument built 1,500 years ago.

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03 Dec, 11:20

🇱🇻🇱🇻The skull of a man belonging to the hunter-fisher Kunda culture in Mesolithic Latvia. Baltic HGs apparently had a religious use for the amber in their region and associated it with the passage to the afterlife. Baltic amber would play an important role in later European prehistory and in historical migrations. The men at the archaeological site of Zvejnieks had yDNA haplogroups R1b, I2 and Q. They were on a genetic cline between WHG and EHG, with a shift towards the former. 🇱🇻🇱🇻

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03 Dec, 11:19

Nordic Bronze Age Sun Dancer Girl based on the clothes and artefacts from the burial of the Egtved Girl, 1370 BC by Joan Francesc Oliveras.

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03 Dec, 10:16

I-L699 found in Hittite period Anatolia too. Possibly pre-Yamnaya steppe source like Sredny Stog

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03 Dec, 09:56

A new paper preprint, "Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages", has just been released and we have new Bronze Age Greek samples with steppe dna including four males with Yamnaya related y haplogroup R1b. There were also Mycenean samples with J2-L283 which was found in one western Yamnaya sample (the rare J2 in the steppe) which means that may also be a paternal steppe link. Source: Supplement files from the paper https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.supplementary-material

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03 Dec, 09:53

One of the Rock cut Bronze age tombs in Vounous Bellapais, Cyprus contained a man from Scandinavia- possibly a wandering mercenary?

The i in I1 stands for intrepid

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03 Dec, 08:42

A new paper attempts to confirm the early population sources for the various IE language families. It matches what I have said about Corded Ware being the main source.

Also interesting that they identify a second steppe invasion to Greece with a Corded Ware source after the initial Yamnaya one from 2200 BC. 2 Bronze Age Greeks plot like BA Scandinavians!

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02 Dec, 23:50

A new study looks at drug use among Germanic tribes in the Roman era and concluded that the little spoons the warriors wore on the hip were for administering a drug. The study shows they had access to many narcotics including ergot fungus from which LSD is made.

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30 Nov, 17:53

Can’t think of anything more English than the 1000 year old tradition of fox hunting, charging through a 5000 year old stone circle!

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30 Nov, 17:51

Freyja receives Brisingamen by Greg Hildebrandt

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30 Nov, 17:51

Another weekend ramble on the moor. Another megalithic marvel. The stone circle of Scorhill through which the local fox hunt galloped! See video below

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29 Nov, 15:01

My wife and I visited the Hof Ásatrúarfélagsins in Reykjavík today. The building is currently under construction and has been for some years. I thought it was interesting that the project was right next to university.

Behind me is the memorial to Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, the first allsherjargoði of the Ásatrúarfélagið in Iceland. He was a sheep farmer by trade, but was interested in traditional poetry and wrote a number books about traditional poetry such as Bragfræði og háttatal. He recorded the album Edda in 1990, on which he sang the Eddic poetry in traditional form which I will link below. He was a leading figure in the resurgence of heathen tradition here in Iceland.

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29 Nov, 14:59

Those who know... 👁

Anglo-Saxon Chad by Finn Shawyer
Music: Danheim - Blotjarl

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29 Nov, 14:57

Frankish belt plate, 7th century, copper, a zoomorphic fylfot comprised of raptor heads. Photo by Matt Bunker at the collection of the National Archaeological museum, France.

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29 Nov, 14:56

Another example of a bird-crested helmet pendant from Tissø, Denmark.

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29 Nov, 14:56

Intimidating fashion statement from this man of the Khvalynsk related Ekaterinovka site. These people were like Yamnaya but with higher levels of EHG.

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29 Nov, 14:55

Something pagans hear a lot from Christians and other naysayers is that we have no direct line of succession to our ancestors (so we should just give up).
Kashmiri Shaivism was revived from its sacred texts multiple times, when all of their Gurus were killed in the many Muslim conquests of Kashmir. It can, and will, be done again. ᛉ

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29 Nov, 14:55

Interesting find from Hornsherred, Zealand, Denmark; an Iron Age pendant depicting a head with a bird’s head sprouting from it. This may depict a type of helmet we have yet to find an intact example of, like unto the boar-crested helmets.
Or perhaps…Odin as Arnhöfði. ᚨ

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29 Nov, 14:41

Do humans come from Africa? This lecture looks at the latest evidence and where we are in the process of reconstructing the story of human origins. At 14:16 Lahr talks about the non-sapiens "archaic admixture" in Africa:

"Around 300/400,000 years ago the stem..that accounts for most of our ancestry assimilated a % (they suggest here 20%) of something older. How old? In some models..more than a million years old."

https://youtu.be/-sYhahwfY-k?feature=shared

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28 Nov, 15:27

This chap appeared on Rogan making some claims about the swastika as a prehistoric pan-global symbol proving far reaching international connections in prehistory.

The reason the swastika is so widely dispersed and appears in such diverse cultural contexts is that it is one of the simplest shapes a human can draw. It is very easily invented independently.

It was formerly used as a means to trace migrations of people, such as the Aryans, but this does NOT work. For example both the pre-Aryan IVC culture of India, and the Central Asian Aryans of the Andronovo culture had the symbol before they met each other. The Proto-Indo-Europeans did not even use the symbol!

The symbol also has different meanings in different contexts. In Hindu contexts it is a good luck charm and represents the sun. In Ancient Greece it was a decoration. In Germanic cultures, it was a symbol of Odin.

Trying to make a theory of everything for the swastika is like making a theory of everything for the square or the circle.

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27 Nov, 23:47

The Bronze Age moorland of Devon. With a roundhouse, barrows and old menhirs worshipped

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27 Nov, 10:13

Sending equine energy to my Indo-European brothers today!

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27 Nov, 10:09

Why do modern Christians sometimes accuse Heathens of atheism?

Historically the church accused Heathens of worshipping devils and demons. Whenever we Heathens worshipped wood or stone images of the gods and thereby encountered the numinous, the Christians said that these idols were actually possessed by demons who tricked us into calling them gods. When the images were made to speak in the way that Woden taught mankind, then the church said that this was due to the magic of wizards. When our necromancers went to barrows and caused the dead to rise and converse with the living, the Christians, whose religion does not allow for the Heathen to have the power to undo death, therefore said that this was the devil in the shape of a dead man. The Christians never denied that the gods appeared to speak through idols, they never denied that the dead appeared to rise and converse with Heathens, instead they made up explanations to cope with these realities and preserve their world view by saying we had been deceived by evil beings in the shape of the dead or the gods.

But the modern Christian, particularly the very online sort, doesn’t bother with traditional Catholic doctrine. They go against the teachings of the early bishops and Saints who made the above declarations. Instead they accuse the Heathens of only pretending to believe in the gods and ancestors. In defying the Saints they are probably guilty of heresy within their dogma, but it is pertinent to consider why these modern Christians take such a radically different attitude toward Heathenry compared to the Christians of Early Medieval Europe. I think it is because they do not believe such things are even possible. For the majority of Christian history the belief in ghosts was taken for granted. It is the Protestant reformation that opened the door to a modern view that such beliefs are superstitious. From this great cleavage with the ancient world, the cults of scientism and materialism emerged. These cults are so pervasive that they inform the views of all Christians, not only Protestants but Catholics too, especially hyper-online Catholic converts. This explains why they accuse Heathens of atheism - it is a form of projection. These people do not believe in a holy ghost, nor in the witch of Endor’s necromantic power, nor in the talking serpent of Eden, nor in Nephilim or millions of horses with the heads of lions or any of the other fantastical beings that their holy book requires them to believe in. THEY are atheists and they do not believe in the Christian religion as they are supposed to, they merely pretend to. They pick and choose what to believe from the Bible, and they focus only on a soteriological doctrine from a universal god who, in the most sentimental terms, they describe as “love” and who is his own son who brings the message of “love” to mankind. This common Christian view is not really the religion of the Bible. It is practically atheism, and in many cases I suspect the “converts” are cynical atheists who find the aesthetics and consoling continuity of Christianity appealing because it has been present in our culture for so long. They don’t really believe in it. These are the people who then say we are only interested in Heathenry because we like the “aesthetic” - which makes no sense because the aesthetics of Heathenry changed a lot from the Migration to the Viking era and the modern Heathen religion has no prescribed aesthetic. They are really speaking about themselves because they do not know what it is like to encounter the numinous, or to enter communion with one’s departed ancestors.

I should stress that I have hardly ever had any negative experiences with Christians in real life throughout the 15 years I have practised the True religion, but rather our most fervent opponents are limited to the online sphere. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks".

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27 Nov, 08:14

If any designer wants to make one like this for Britain or Ireland then get in touch with me

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27 Nov, 08:12

A simplified diagram explains very clearly the genetic history of Iberia

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14 Nov, 08:29

I was interviewed recently in Amsterdam

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

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13 Nov, 21:39

My daughter walking along a stone row - Neolithic procession route

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13 Nov, 21:38

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

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13 Nov, 18:51

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

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13 Nov, 18:17

Also had a potter around the menhirs of Merrivale today

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13 Nov, 18:16

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.

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11 Nov, 15:35

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”

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11 Nov, 14:47

The mythopoetic schizo mind sees signs even in the shower

“VELEDA” “faith in nature”

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11 Nov, 14:17

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

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10 Nov, 18:42

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?

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10 Nov, 17:33

Do you need... escapism?

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10 Nov, 15:10

STJ edit by Jompa on tiktok

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10 Nov, 14:52

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

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10 Nov, 09:22

"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

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10 Nov, 09:21

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

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09 Nov, 09:07

“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

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09 Nov, 09:05

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.

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08 Nov, 16:52

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

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08 Nov, 16:40

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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08 Nov, 15:37

Remember that patrons have access to discount codes for merch on Teespring and Fourthwall

https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-merch-store-115610374?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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08 Nov, 15:27

Sky Father hoodies/ tees etc available in store now! https://survivethejive-shop.fourthwall.com/products/very-indo-european-sky-father-range-3?source=dashboard

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08 Nov, 13:32

"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.

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08 Nov, 13:00

“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

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08 Nov, 12:19

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

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07 Nov, 12:45

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

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07 Nov, 09:23

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

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07 Nov, 09:09

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.

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07 Nov, 08:42

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… 🤔

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05 Nov, 17:40

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

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05 Nov, 16:03

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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05 Nov, 14:13

I am starting a new web shop which is better value than Teespring (the products are cheaper for you) https://survivethejive-shop.fourthwall.com/

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05 Nov, 10:53

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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05 Nov, 10:52

in 2022 I had 462 patrons on Patreon and Subscribestar.

Now I have 301 on Patreon and 54 on subscribestar = 355

I still depend on my patrons to continue doing this work and I am every so grateful to them for their support. If ever you have enjoyed my content then you can thank them as much as me, because they made it possible.

Please consider supporting this project, even with a small monthly contribution, as it won't continue without patrons.

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04 Nov, 16:57

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

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04 Nov, 08:31

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

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02 Nov, 20:38

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

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02 Nov, 20:38

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

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02 Nov, 20:37

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

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01 Nov, 16:29

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

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01 Nov, 15:24

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.

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01 Nov, 09:04

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

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01 Nov, 09:04

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

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01 Nov, 08:50

Everyday 🤷🏼‍♂️

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31 Oct, 14:59

I shall visit Holy fell this winter! Hail Thor!

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31 Oct, 14:58

“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

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31 Oct, 11:47

A spectre is haunting Cornwall

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31 Oct, 09:25

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

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

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30 Oct, 12:43

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

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

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30 Oct, 08:18

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

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30 Oct, 07:38

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

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

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29 Oct, 20:21

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!

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29 Oct, 20:20

Terribly sad to think about

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29 Oct, 20:20

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.

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29 Oct, 13:14

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

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29 Oct, 13:06

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

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29 Oct, 11:07

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.

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29 Oct, 08:30

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

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29 Oct, 08:24

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.

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28 Oct, 20:08

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.

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24 Oct, 22:00

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

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24 Oct, 16:32

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.

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24 Oct, 07:04

I think this could be Freyja and her cats

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24 Oct, 07:04

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

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24 Oct, 07:03

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

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24 Oct, 06:53

Royal Scythian by Harjaz

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23 Oct, 19:32

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.

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23 Oct, 11:23

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

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23 Oct, 11:21

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

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23 Oct, 11:17

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/

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23 Oct, 09:45

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.

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23 Oct, 09:45

Important episode!

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23 Oct, 07:47

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

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22 Oct, 13:11

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.

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22 Oct, 11:25

“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

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22 Oct, 11:11

“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.

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21 Oct, 20:06

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

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21 Oct, 13:47

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

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Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed

Survive the Jive: All-feed