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24 Aug 2024 16:34
Devon looks beautiful this weekend
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24 Aug 2024 09:08
Study finds that megalith buillders had “a good rudimentary grasp of physics, geometry, geology and architectural principles”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02776-w
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23 Aug 2024 14:10
The divine horse twins, sons of sky father, went forth to conquer. Yet only one succeeded. Horsa was killed while Hengest had more victories, Remus was killed while Romulus founded Rome.
Art by Alex Cristi animated with AI
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23 Aug 2024 13:35
Reconstruction of a very large, approx. 46 metre longhouse at Hunneberget in Vætland, near Kristianstad, Scania, Sweden (from Björk & Carlie 2003).
Dating to the Nordic Bronze Age c. 1600 - 1400 BC.
This is just before the Mycenaeans in Greece started building palaces, like they'd seen the Minoans doing on Crete.
The reconstruction has been made after an idea by Ulf Säfvestad. The long-house has two storeys at one end, based on the position and dimensions of the roof-bearing posts.
Drawing by Björn Nilsson.
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23 Aug 2024 10:58
It's funny this poll seems to show the Neolithic is the least interesting time I talk about according to Telegram users but on X when I asked where to go everyone asked me to go to more stone circles and henges in Britain! I ignored a lot of them because I have a forthcoming video on Neolithic Orkney anyway so don't want to keep going over the same things and the Brittany film was pretty comprehensive for this era IMO
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22 Aug 2024 10:31
Artwork by Didrik Magnus-Andresen.
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22 Aug 2024 08:28
Perhaps they believed the world was this shape? I suspect it depicts something holy, pertaining to the gods, such as that each of the interior shapes represents a different world within the other.
Others think it is a lunar solar calendar. Others have claimed it shows the British understood the ratios PI (3.1416) and PHI (1.6180339) or the use of 3,4,5 triangulation, millennia before Pythagoras. I don't know about that.
I should add that the 9 square grid in the centre was holy for the Germanic pagans in the historical period for whom it was a means to call up the dead from the underworld
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21 Aug 2024 18:30
Another Bronze Age cist discovered on Dartmoor. I swear it is holy ground for British folk https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/stunning-bronze-age-burial-chamber-discovered-on-the-english-moor
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21 Aug 2024 14:06
New paper on EEF/WHG interbreeding
“we show that for both routes the percentage of farmers who interbred with hunter-gatherers and/or acculturated one of them was strikingly the same (about 3.6%).”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51335-4
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20 Aug 2024 23:29
I enjoyed the Nordic kitsch of the Scandinavian venue for the EOTGA event in Vancouver
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20 Aug 2024 22:16
In addition to many historical Germanic kings being descended from divine ancestors, they were also demi-gods. In chapter 78 of his Getica, the Gothic author Jordanes reported that the Goths would promote their kings to the status of demi-gods if they had a substantial amount of luck and skill. He uses the term ansis, which is the Latin glossing of the Gothic term anses, coming from Proto-Germanic *ansuz.
Tun Gothi haut segnes reperti arma capessunt primoque conflictu mox Romanos devincunt, Fuscoque duce exstincto, divitias de castris militum spoliant, magnaque potiti per loca victoria, jam proceres suos, quorum quasi fortuna vincebant, non puros homines, sed semideos, id est Ansis, vocaverunt. Quorum genealogia ut paucis percurram, vel quis quo parente genitus est, aut unde origo coepta, ubi finem effecit absque invidia qui legis vera dicentam ausculta: Horum ergo heroum ut ipsi suis in fabulis referent, primus fuit Gaut...
'Once the Goths were aware, they took their weapons and soon overcame the Romans in the first clash, they slew Fuscus, the commander, and looted the treasure from the camp of the army; because of the great victory they had gained in this region, they thereafter called their foremost men, through whose luck they had won, not mere men, but demi-gods, that is, Ansis. Their lineage, as I shall briefly say, or who was born from which parent, and where the lineage had its beginning and ending, to this they listen attentively when it is spoken. Of these heroes the first was Gaut, as they tell in their own stories.'
In medieval Norse poetry, Gautr is the most common byname for Óðinn with 18 instances, followed by Yggr at 14. Gautatýr ('God of the Geats') is an epithet referring to Óðinn as the god of the Gautar - the Old Norse word for the Goths - who were the progenitors of the Swedes, the Svíar and Gutes, Visigoths and Ostrogoths.
The name Geat also appears in Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies as 'Geta' in Asser's
Life of King Alfred where he lists the West Saxon noble ancestors. Additionally, the homonym Geat in its plural form 'Geatas' is the tribe to whom Beowulf belonged.
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20 Aug 2024 11:38
Reconstructions of Steppe herders (Yamnaya related) by D.V. Pozdnyakova
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20 Aug 2024 11:31
Reconstructions of Steppe herders of Samara region (Yamnaya) by A.I. Nechvalody
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19 Aug 2024 10:24
And so ends the first Exiles of the Golden Age conference! ⚡️
It was an overwhelming success thanks to our speakers, the community organizers, and of course those who attended.
Most came from BC but a fair contingent travelled from all over the country to attend and we thank you so much for doing so.
Special thanks to our speaker Tyler, who gave an impressive speech on philosophy of mind, phenomenalism and the embodied soul.
And of course thank you to our esteemed keynote speaker, Thomas Rowsell, who gave an excellent speech on the history of indo -Europeans, burrows and paganism.
Working with the speakers, the video will be released ASAP and if you left your information on the mailing list we will be in touch.
This is only the beginning ⚡️
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18 Aug 2024 17:08
Excellent turnout today at Exiles of the Golden Age.
One of my many takeaways was; there were far more like-minded folkish pagans than I’d have ever imagined in my town and surrounding area, and I’ll be staying in touch with several. Your people are closer than you think, you just have to find them.
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Painting by Branwulf.
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