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12 Apr 2023 23:24

An amazing Germanic buckle found in Kölked, Hungary, 7th Century. The figure could very well be a depiction of Odin, with the snake and two wolves.

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12 Apr 2023 08:59

I distantly descend from both William Marshal and the Bohun family via their maternal lineages. These two screenshots of parts of my family tree show the lines of descent.

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11 Apr 2023 21:27

Veelinnurahvas / The Waterfowl People (1972) is also on YouTube. It was made by the former president of Estonia and tries to link the European Finno-Ugric speakers to the more Eastern speakers listed above. This is a unique trait of Finnish and Estonian nationalism which accepted a denigrating description of themselves by their neighbours as Asiatic peoples. In reality of course Estonians are very much European and this is rather like those Europeans who insist they are kin with Indians and Iranians because they speak Indo-European languages!

That said, this is an excellent ethnographic document and a beautiful piece of cosy film making. It is fascinating to see shamanic and hunting traditions of such peoples.
https://youtu.be/hYzYe3jAOyQ

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11 Apr 2023 21:20

The Proto-Uralic worldview according to Vladimir Napolskikh (1992).

Deciduous trees were seen as mediators between the middle world and the upper world, whereas coniferous trees were mediators between the middle world and the lower world. Even today sacrificial offerings are given under deciduous trees among the Finno-Ugric peoples, such as the Mari.

In the upper world there is a spring that feeds the world stream, and a lake or ocean of life, from where all human life originates and where migratory waterfowl spend the winter. The Goddess of life, the consort of the Creator God, decides over births and rebirths. She also sends the waterfowl along the Milky Way ("bird's track" in Finnish) to the middle world.

The world stream runs down to the lower world, where illnesses and all kinds of harmful things reside. This realm is guarded by the hound of the underworld, and in later times he became the helper of sages.

In the middle world there was no single supreme deity, but a host of lesser ones.

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10 Apr 2023 09:26

A pretty good beginner's how-to and basic breakdown of offering and sacrifice. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq0_7KLv8K5/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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09 Apr 2023 22:01

Colin Wilson's notion of peak experience has been very influential on my own beliefs

https://youtu.be/uNvLVEfBjBI

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09 Apr 2023 20:15

Scientific evidence that bronze age Iberians used psychoactive drugs
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/tripping-in-the-bronze-age/

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08 Apr 2023 14:45

Viking ladies by Einherjar manga

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07 Apr 2023 11:47

Swedish pagans of Samfundet Forn Sed worshipping the Vanir at Easter in 2016
https://youtu.be/RzqHPnECXWQ

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07 Apr 2023 09:40

Those Christians who object to referring to the holiday as Easter since that is an Anglo Saxon pagan goddess could revert to the somewhat archaic English word "pace" which is cognate with the other Hebrew derived words most European countries use to refer to the resurrection holiday with, and which comes from the Jewish word for Passover. There are still folk songs in England about "pace egging"

https://youtu.be/yAfqUnVvPtQ

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05 Apr 2023 17:16

May day celebrations in Britain, particularly in the West Country, are notably pagan in their aesthetics. This documentary looks at one such celebration in Cornwall and one in Devon. Each very different but clearly both containing rites of pagan origin.
https://youtu.be/TQfMoAxaNkU

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05 Apr 2023 13:34

Scythian vid is now well over an hour long. Could end up at 1.10 - hopefully this proves interesting enough to attract attention. Sometimes it seems everyone is obsessed with Scythians but I am never quite sure how my videos will perform

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05 Apr 2023 11:12

Based on the data posted by Genos Historia, I created this bar chart showing the avg levels of WHG admixture in Late Neolithic European farmers. As you can see, there was considerable variation and the exact reason for the WHG "resurgence" is not clear yet.

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04 Apr 2023 19:08

The megalithic culture of the Atlantic coast is of course dated to the Neolithic era. However its long been suspected that the tradition has its origins in the Mesolithic culture that preceded it. This is suspected in the very earliest monumental earthworks in Brittany.

Perhaps in fact it was a kind of response to the encounters, conflict, and merging of Mesolithic hunter gatherers and Neolithic farmers in various places like in certain parts of Iberia.

Or perhaps it wasn't during initial contact but rather due to the Hunter Gatherer resurgence of around 4400 BC where relatively small numbers of hunter-gatherer males seem to have taken over farming societies in central Europe and in Iberia.

The spread of the Megalithic culture happens after then so maybe these events somehow gave rise to new beliefs and practices relating to death, the afterlife, honouring the ancestors, and the tribe's relationships with the land.

Anyway there's a new paper looking at the aDNA of Portugal around this time and how it relates to the rise of megalith building; "Hunter-gatherer genetic persistence at the onset of megalithism in western Iberia: New mitochondrial evidence from Mesolithic and Neolithic necropolises in central-southern Portugal", by Carvalho et al.

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04 Apr 2023 09:52

This Vendel era ring sword pommel from Endre parish, Gotland, has an interesting motif of two figures, seemingly looking upward with bird or animal like jaws while grasping the start of the twisting snake like animals which terminate in the heads of wild boars.
photos by Matt Bunker.

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12 Apr 2023 11:09

Colourised reworking by Alexei Nechvaloda of a Soviet era reconstruction of an Eastern Yamnaya man of the Caspian region (Samara).

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12 Apr 2023 08:59

I descend from his brother John Marshall II

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11 Apr 2023 21:20

Veelinnurahvas / The Waterfowl People (1972)

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A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari, and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The footage was shot in Altai Krai, the Nenets Okrug, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari El, Karelia, and Estonia. The first documentary in Lennart Meri’s Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno–Ugricarum series.

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11 Apr 2023 18:31

STJ hoodie wearer in the wild

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10 Apr 2023 09:22

In Völuspá the Gods were loving, "ástgir", when they first gave life to man.

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09 Apr 2023 22:00

Nietzsche wrote in in a letter of 1865 to his friend Von Gersdorff:

“Yesterday an oppressive storm hung over the sky, and I hurried to a neighbouring hill called Leutch.... At the top I found a hut, where a man was killing two kids while his son watched him. The storm broke with a tremendous crash, discharging thunder and hail, and I had an indescribable sense of well-being and zest.... Lightning and tempest are different worlds, free powers, without morality. Pure Will, without the confusions of intellect-how happy, how free.” (Life of Nietzsche by Halévy)

The philosopher Colin WIlson commented on Nietzsche's account, writing:

"The experience seems simple enough, and yet its effect on his way of thinking was far-reaching. Normally the sight of blood would have been unpleasant to him; now, the exhilaration of the storm combined somehow with the smell of blood, the flash of the knife, the fascinated child looking on; and the result was the sudden intuition of pure Will, free of the troubles and perplexities of intellect: an intuition which was release from the thought-riddled nature' which had so far been his chief trouble."

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09 Apr 2023 09:42

The Benin bronzes are the most advanced works of art ever produced in sub Saharan Africa. Most of them are from the 15th and 16th century but a few are medieval, as old as 13th c. It was assumed that the Nigerians must have learned metallurgy from Portuguese traders but now that is called a racist theory. However a new analysis shows the brass comes from Germany, likely via Portuguese traders.

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-benin-bronzes-german-brass.amp

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07 Apr 2023 19:16

Besides the problem with English Christians using the word Easter, there is also a problem with the other Christians calling it Pace/Pascha (from Hebrew pesach meaning "passover")

-Jesus' last supper was his Passover Seder celebrated by Jews on 15th/16th of Nisan month. They eat it at the start of Pesach which last for 7 or 8 days
-This was days before his crucifixion (exact number disputed maybe 4 or more)
-Xians believe he was resurrected three days after crucifixion
-So the resurrection might not even have been during Pesach

I honestly do not care what they call it. Call it Easter or Pashca or kwanza, it makes no difference to me, but I think, if I was a Xian, I would call it the 'feast of the resurrection', since that it what they are actually celebrating instead of using names of Jewish or pagan festivals!

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07 Apr 2023 11:12

Was going to open Skythian doc with this, but decided it is too boring. Basically a disclaimer, preempting shitty comments. Leaving it here in case anyone wants to know why I pronounce it the way I do!

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06 Apr 2023 12:50

Late Neolithic wooden disc wheel for a wagon or cart dating to around 2900 BC, preserved for thousands of years in a wetland in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

This was the site of a settlement and the well preserved wooden remains show the people lived in pile dwellings. You can see the house remains around the wheel in the excavation picture. Amazing preservation.

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05 Apr 2023 15:34

Don't normally post music but since tonight is the full moon of Eastermonth, have some of this! https://youtu.be/TmGLpuLX9vI

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05 Apr 2023 12:45

You know for sure an offering to Woden is accepted if two ravens fly over afterwards. This has happened to me a couple of times (although one time was after a blot to Freyja not him).

Anyway, the problem for anyone in the East of Britain is, that there are no ravens. Another good reason to move to the West!

NB: Their range has expanded a bit since the map was made and they are seen along most of the south coast now.

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05 Apr 2023 10:34

Artistic reconstruction of a Yamnaya man and clothing was created with the assistance of TheChadPastoralist

We unfortunately do not know much about the fashion of the Yamnaya but archeology can give some clues. We know that they used hammer head shaped carved bone pins which may have been used to fasten cloaks or other clothing.

Beads of bone and/or animal teeth were likely used to decorate clothing (this was also seen in Sredny Stog). The bones beads on his cloak are from a real Yamnaya necklace.

Also pairs of silver hair rings were worn but it is up to speculation on how they were worn. One theorized usage was affixing then on the end of braids. Another possibility places them higher on the head as seen by placement on a skull from a Yamnaya burial (however it is hard to tell if that is the original placement as items can be disturbed in a burial).

Lastly his facial hair was styled from the steppe stelae.

In the new future we will be releasing a version of the Yamnaya with his full outfit.

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04 Apr 2023 11:39

An extinct cave bear has been discovered in melting Siberian permafrost by reindeer herders out hunting. The bear, discovered on the Siberian island of Bolshyoy Lyakhovsky is approx 22,000 years old.

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04 Apr 2023 09:30

Grimm didn't make Ostara up. Charlemagne translated the month names and gave April as Ostarmonath