"I'll tell you when I've had enough *sówh₁-mo-s, woman! Just keep filling my beaker!"
Читать полностью…"When we cannot find the boundary between the inner and the outer, there is nothing to be done but give truth the credit, and say that the body is a part of the soul, or even the soul itself. The moment we grasp a stone firmly in the hand, we have grasped the soul of the stone—it is the soul we can feel. It is always possible for the body to be sucked up by the soul and vanish away, to emerge into the light again some other time. The spiritual can leave the material to reveal itself under other forms, but when it does appear and lets itself be seen, heard, and felt, then the manifestation takes place in virtue of that nature the soul possesses. However far away it may go, it still has matter bound up in it. To a certain degree, it is possible to speak of soul and body, but the distinction does not go so deep that it is possible to wrench the one from the other."
The Culture of the Teutons by Vilhelm Grønbech.
Ok it didn't come from Orkney but the heel stone of Stonehenge still went a bloody long way!
Читать полностью…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.
Good guidance.
Don’t ask for wealth, ask for help to acquire wealth.
Don’t ask for your enemies to be harmed, ask for help in defeating them.
etc
Inside the Temple of Vitaly Sundakov, near Moscow. The idols represent Rod, Veles and Perun.
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Figures from "Yamnaya Funerary Trends and Socio-Economic Dynamics in the East and West (Communication for The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC, Budapest, April 2024"
One reveals that Yamnaya were disproportionately male and had low life expectancy.
The other shows that Yamnaya are the most common steppe barrow builders, with iron age Scythian peoples building fewer. Medieval Turkic tribes preferred to reuse old barrows
Tonight is the full moon of Blot month. Bede says the English traditionally sacrificed cattle to the gods at this time but he didn't say which ones.
Professor Richard North argues that Bede's use of the Latin vanis is a rendering of the Old English cognate of 'Vanir' which would be Waene. Not everyone agrees with him but if you do then it is a time to blot to Ingui Frey, Easter/Freyja etc.
The importance of sacrifice at this time of year continued long after Christianisation in the form of St Martin's day. In France the taking of vows in the woods or at sacred spring on St Martin's day was banned in 578 AD. In Ireland people were still sprinkling sacrificial blood in their house on St Martin's day as recently as the 20th century!
Besides being an unruly bunch of king killers, the Heruli were also allegedly the tallest of the Germanic tribes
Читать полностью…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.
Читать полностью…Yamnaya Domestic - with sound
"I'll tell you when I've had enough *sówh₁-mo-s, woman! Just keep filling my beaker!"
Original art by Christian Sloan Hall
New vinyl decals for your car, bike, chariot etc depicting the Odinic Sigurd from the DR-BR55 bracteate. Made to order here in Devon - available in 2 sizes, many colours
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The modern mind, due to Plato's influence, finds it hard to discuss the Germanic equivalent of the soul without distinguishing it from the body.
Читать полностью…Skara Brae is an entire village of Neolithic homes which predate the pyramids! I went to see them for myself https://youtu.be/bhPPG5pM4oM?feature=shared
Читать полностью…Three men dressed in Vendel era clothing salute the great barrows of Uppsala, Sweden
Читать полностью…Detail shots of the Vendel era draugr of the barrow in The Northman (2022) - taken from "The Northman: a call to the gods" which is a book about the film's production. You can learn more about the pagan details of the film in this comprehensive film about its esoteric heathen lore.
Читать полностью…The Helgakviða Hundingsbana II shows us the kind of intercession our ancestors would have asked for, and expected, from the Gods; when Dagr prayed to Odin for revenge on his father’s killer, Odin gave him his spear.
This shows us another tenet of the Germanic pagan worldview; they didn’t ask that the Gods enact revenge or strike down their enemies on their behalf, but rather, aid them in righteous actions they had set in motion.
Painting by Knut Ekwall, 1876.
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New vinyl decals for your car, bike, chariot etc depicting the Odinic Sigurd from the DR-BR55 bracteate. Made to order here in Devon - available in 2 sizes, many colours
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In Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, he wrote that Blōtmōnaþ sacrifices continued post-conversion, offering animals to the Christian god instead. He noted that before the sacrificial feasts, they’d build huts from the boughs of trees around their temples which had been converted into churches; possibly a remnant of building demarcation fences around weohs.
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The radiant Lady herself, Freyja, 8 inches tall in tulip wood with younger futhark runes and a natural Danish oil finish. This was a fun one to carve, tulip wood is awesome.
Читать полностью…I was interviewed recently in Amsterdam
https://youtu.be/z47A7QzACfE?feature=shared
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”