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Easter has dawned! But it was rainy and so foggy we couldn’t see the sun rise! We did briefly see the full moon as he peaked from the clouds late last night

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O, great Goddess,
glorious beauty!
Radiant rider,
Rays of the dawn
Easter, we embrace
And endow with gifts
Hands high,
Hearts gladdened.

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In Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana, a simple offering format is outlined in a statement by a jötunn woman who is being tormented by her sisters:

Hét ek þá á Þórr at gefa honum hafr þann, sem hann vildi velja, en hann skyldi jafna með oss systrum.

I then vow to Þórr to give him a buck of his choosing, but he should make even with us sisters.

The format is:

1) Promise to the deity
2) Dedication of an animal
3) Requested action in exchange for the animal

In the instance of this saga, this is not an explicit sacrifice by the petitioner at that moment, but like in other sagas, the long-term cultivation of an animal to give as a sacrifice to the deity at the appointed time.

This is similar in function to the dedication of Freyfaxi by Hrafnkell Freysgoði in Hrafnkels saga. In a later part of the saga, the horse is sacrificed to Freyr.

A similar event occurs in Flóamanna saga, when Þorgils Þórðarson during his tumult with the god Þórr after his conversion, realizes that one of the oxen he has aboard his ship was one he dedicated to him. He had the ox thrown overboard to propitiate Þórr, as Þórr wanted what he was owed.

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Anders Kvåle Rue - A moonlit reconstruction of the Oseberg ship burial, Vestfold, Norway, AD 834

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The statue 'Tors Fiske' by Anders Wissler in Stockholm (1903) depicts Thor fighting the Midgard serpent. Photo 2013

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A Norseman beneath the Northern lights by Anders Kvåle Rue

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The Irish annals depict Gaels voluntarily going apostate and adopting Norse culture and religious practices.

There was a fairly distinct Thor cult presence in Ireland, as I have indicated in this post.

Excerpts from The Memory of the Norse in Ireland in Middle Irish Dynastic Narratives by Ann Caroline Humphrey, 2023.

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Hail Ostara / Ēostre!

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AI rendering of the reconstruction of a Yamnaya male from Novoalekseevka, Ukraine

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The conversion of English kingdoms to Christianity began with their kings but did NOT end there.

The last Heathen English king, Arwald, died in 686. Bede was born in 672/3. In Bede’s own land of Northumbria there had been mass reversion to Heathenry in 633 following the death of their Xian king.

The idea that Bede’s account of the goddess Easter can be seen as “faulty history” as some claim, is absurd. He very probably met Heathens as first hand sources! Or even if he was too sheltered in his cloisters to have experienced rural peasant culture, the elder monks around him, and travelling merchants would have FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE of English Heathens. Many of them raised by Heathen parents!

There is absolutely no way he could have made up an imaginary goddess to explain the name of such an important Christian holiday. It would go against all his purposes to do so. This is wishful thinking from certain Christians who want to throw shade on what is an uncontroversial fact among philologists.

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New video.

In a very rural part of Essex is a church tucked away in a small village. Within this church there are several treasures with much mystery and myth behind them, including a face carving and several swastikas! Join me as I get special access to this church to film this special video.

https://youtu.be/s9GuBYYEbTs

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https://www.popsci.com/science/king-arthur-rare-book/

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Hello dears, please be understanding extreme antiquity of vedic civilisations. Ayurvedic medicines dating to 10,000 BC. R1a haplogroup present in archaeological finds from Uttar Pradesh dates to 100,000 years before present.

You simply need to do proper research for understandings.

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"Bytuene Mersh ant Aueril,
When spray biginneth to springe,
The lutel foul hath hire wyl
On hyre lud to synge.
Ich libbe in loue-longinge
For semlokest of alle thynge;
He may me blisse bringe;
Icham in hire baundoun.
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Between March and April,
when the blossom begins to spring,
the little bird takes its pleasure
in singing in its own language.
I live in love-longing for the loveliest of all things.
She can bring me to bliss;
I am in her power."
- Middle English poem

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To continue...

Having a family tree that extends beyond the 18th and 19th centuries helps to establish a sense of continuity back into prehistory, because we garner a sense of where we would be in any given generation. Some modern Pagans choose to ignore their entire heritage from the Middle Ages simply because they don't have a family tree. It's easier to identify with projected, mysterious Pagan ancestors than it is with Christian ancestors from the Middle Ages if one lacks a family tree.

However, if you know your real ancestors—your family lineage from the 1800s going back to the 1500s, 1400s, 1300s, and earlier—you know yourself. It is perfectly acceptable to identify with our culture and ancestors from the colonial era, the medieval era, or the Victorian era and still be a Pagan. It is perfectly acceptable to practice the habits and customs, and to take a liking to our ancestors from any century, and still be a Pagan. For context, historical Germanic Pagans depicted the Gods in the cultural context of their day and were—for the most part—men and women of their time. They were completely connected to their ancestral heritage, knew their ancestors, and had established forms of worship without having to think about it—whereas today, many people don't have that. This is why it is so important to formulate these things.

A notable example comes from Adam of Bremen's 11th-century Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum. In it, Bremen describes the way in which the idols of the Gods were adorned at the temple at Uppsala. Óðinn is described as wearing armour and wielding weapons (which Bremen likens to portrayals of Mars). This shows that historical Pagan Swedes depicted the Gods in armour and with weapons that were modern to them in their day. The same is true for the Lindby idol of Óðinn, the Rällinge statuette of Freyr, and the Eyrarland statuette of Þórr, all of which show the Gods wearing a conical hat that was common across Scandinavia in the Viking Age.

Rather than viewing our history as "Paganism -> gap -> revivalism," we should be viewing our history as a continuum. The Gods have always existed, and the functional structure and nature of the universe has not changed. Objective reality (i.e., that the Gods exist) does not—and therefore has not—changed due to shifts in consensus or changes in cultural context. We should strive to live in the now and cultivate the revitalisation of Paganism: enjoy and appreciate all of our history and all of our ancestors; use the sources on Germanic Paganism as a framework to establish our own authentic forms of worship; form real groups; and revitalise our worship of the Gods and the veneration of our ancestors.

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Interesting talk on Corded ware: using big data to identify the CW rite at a macro level.

Interesting point: the CW genetic signal expands before the burial rite appears. In other words the blood precedes the culture which follows afterwards.

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

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https://youtu.be/bMSmLZ90QAM?si=nanMEineWyYhEPY7

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It is profane to offer meat to the Gods that has been slaughtered and blessed under the Kosher and Halal laws, as these are ritual slaughtering methods which include prayers to dedicate the animal to a foreign god.

If you are going to offer meat, find a farm that does it without such methods — or raise it and slaughter it yourself.

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Sweden's tallest runestone stands at 4.6 m (15'). The runes reveal it was raised by Herulfr in memory of his sons Var and Thorgut. I visited it ten years ago.

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Anders Kvåle Rue depicts a scene from Flateyjarbok in which an idol of Þorgerðr is honoured

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Find it hard to keep up with all the different archaeological cultures, matching them to regions and periods etc?

My friend has created a Holocene periodic table for all of West Eurasia. He is going to keep updating it so this link will always be the latest version.

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I am experimenting with the image generator in ChatGPT to help create educational visualizations of bronze age steppe cultures.

The first image is of a Fatyanovo burial and the second image is of a Yamnaya man in front of a wagon. I uploaded into the prompts some of my artistic reconstructions in order to help guide the output. I then made minor edits to both images to increase accuracy.

The axe in the Yamnaya image was inspired by the axe artifact in this image linked below:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yamna_1.png

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NEW EPISODE — Radio North Sea International — Voyage to the Land of the Sagas

https://hearthfireradio.com/watch?v=RCOpLGMM

In February this year Tom journeyed to Iceland to make a film about the sagas for Survive the Jive. In this episode of RNSI, he recalls the events of the wonderful adventure based on his diary notes.

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In my recent video on the Yamnaya people, I mentioned that there is evidence of early smithing of meteoric Iron, in the form of a blade, among the Catacomb culture. It turns out this was also done by the Yamnaya people too. The Boldyrevo I Kurgan had several meteoric iron objects. The reconstruction pictured is of the Yamnaya man who was buried with these iron weapons, which before analysis, were presumed to be made of copper alloys.

https://nplus1.ru/news/2021/07/19/meteoric-iron

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It's worth adding that the Old Norse term for reincarnation as it is written in Helgakviða Hundingsbana is endrborinn.

We learn in Helgakviða Hundingsbana that Helgi—in his first incarnation as Helgi Hjǫrvarðsson—must go on a quest to the Hatafjǫrðr (Fjord of Hate) to fight the jǫtunn Hati (Hatred) and his companion Hrǫðmarr (Ocean of Rage) to win the love of the valkyrie Sváva, who has been protecting and guiding him.

Following this, Helgi must fight a battle by the Frekasteinn (Greedstone/Rock of Greed), where he loses the battle and dies. However, the poem ends with the reassurance that Helgi ok Sváva eru sagð endrborin — "Helgi and Sváva are said to be reincarnated."

Helgi then reincarnates as Helgi Sigmundarson, the son of the famous Sigmundr Vǫlsungr from Vǫlsunga Saga, and has an experience in which valkyrjur appear before him. One of the valkyrjur being Sigrún, the reincarnation of Sváva from the previous life. Helgi, in his new life, is prompted by Sigrún to embark on a similar quest as the last one, where he conquers Hatred, Rage, and Greed, as well as Death. It is only now that Óðinn determines that He wants Helgi in Valhǫll, so He hurls a spear at Helgi and kills him. Helgi is buried in a haugr, and Sváva comes to visit him. The two travel back and forth between the mound and Valhǫll to see each other.

For a comprehensive look at the theology of reincarnation from a Germanic perspective and what we can learn about it from Helgakviða Hundingsbana, visit this article on my Substack.

Other articles worth reading:
-Judgement and Punishment in Norse Mythology
-Germanic Morality
-Humans, Trolls and Hel (I)
-Humans, Trolls and Hel (II)

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A nonsense article claiming the Sutton Hoo helmet “formerly thought to have been made in Sweden” was made in Denmark.

Yes it is similar to Vendel era helmets from Uppland but no archaeologists have thought it was made in Sweden for decades. A local manufacture is usually considered most likely. That the patrice or pressblech designs are similar to one found in Denmark is simply because the same religious motifs were used on such helmets across the Germanic world.

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Amazing that this text was revealed with a vaporwave edit

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It is the full moon of our lady Easter next weekend https://youtu.be/buetaxczKDg?feature=shared

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NEW EPISODE — The Fyrgen — Episode 40: Woden's Folk with Wulf Ingessunu

https://hearthfireradio.com/watch?v=JHXRAsHE

In one of his most anticipated conversations, Dan talked with Wulf Ingessunu, the English founder and warder of Woden's Folk. Wulf has been a prominent figure in folkish Heathenry since the 1980's, and is known for his more esoteric stance, much of which is revealed in the numerous books and blog articles he has written.

Links: Woden's Folk Telegram | Woden's Folk Website | Inglinga Blog | Cultic Warrior Blog | Ar-Kan Rune-Lag

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