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29 Nov 2024 15:41

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."


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28 Nov 2024 00:47

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

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27 Nov 2024 11:09

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 2024 09:12

A simplified diagram explains very clearly the genetic history of Iberia

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26 Nov 2024 23:14

apotropaic charms on a body chain from Gepid context in Romania 5th century

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26 Nov 2024 10:02

Phylogenetic structure of West Eurasian lineages.

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25 Nov 2024 16:56

This paper on Icelandic and Faroese haplogroups is disappointingly limited in scope. Just looking at haplogroups is a bit dated. They show Iceland and Faroes have separate founder lineages with little mixing between them after founding. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2024.1462736/full

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25 Nov 2024 14:45

Anglo-Saxon viagra!

https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2014/05/folk-use-of-agrimony-digestive-remedy.html

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23 Nov 2024 21:41

Would you like to see a video of me drunk on a boat in Istanbul? https://youtu.be/nSQUiF5WKC8?feature=shared

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22 Nov 2024 14:24

Among the many figures carved on the keel of the Oseberg Ship was this image of a man gripping his beard, very similar to the figure of Thor from Lund; likely a small image of Thor to protect the ship from storms at sea.

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22 Nov 2024 12:33

Carved idols of Freyr and Tyr at the Solvang Viking Museum, USA. They were created as props for the film The Northman.

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22 Nov 2024 10:13

Map of territory associated with the earliest Indo-European culture, Sredny Stog

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21 Nov 2024 15:12

This Yamnaya themed design is available on shirts and jumpers in my new store. The striking artwork titled High Barrow by Ukrainian artist Valentin Kolontay depicts various attributes of the Yamnaya culture with the Kernosovskiy idol in the centre, standing above sacrificial oxen skulls and with a solar wagon being drawn across the sky behind. Very Indo-European indeed!

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21 Nov 2024 12:02

Trailer for Cederberg's latest book https://youtu.be/CW5ANrbzo88?feature=shared

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20 Nov 2024 10:36

Adding on to HaV’s post, regarding pagan coherence…

Firstly, the Eddic Poems, which make up our most important sacred texts, are backed up by hundreds of years of continuity. For example, images of Sigurd sucking his burnt thumb on 5th Century bracteates, images of Wayland on 5th Century Frankish coins and 7th Century picture stones from Gotland, and parallels of Eddic poems in other Germanic literature. For example, stanzas of the Hávamál have parallels in The Wanderer, the Hákonarmál and the Fóstbrœðra Saga. Things like these show that our Eddic myths were consistent for hundreds of years across the Germanic world, before they were collected and written down.

Secondly, many tenets of the moral structures and worldviews of the pagan religions of Europe have parallels in other Indo-European religions, most notably Hinduism, the many branches of which form the oldest continuously practiced religion in the world; that’s consistency. While many sects have changed over the centuries, many have retained the original Vedic rituals and beliefs.

Lastly, assuming the original poster is Christian, it’s ironic that he talks about coherence, as the second half of the Bible is Jesus ripping apart established moral structures and traditions, not to mention Christian history is plagued by centuries of sectarian infighting, and many churches around the world now ignore and contradict Biblical teachings to keep the tithes flowing in.
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28 Nov 2024 16:27

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 2024 11:13

Sending equine energy to my Indo-European brothers today!

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27 Nov 2024 09:14

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 2024 09:04

Sanmark (2010) application of a “shamanistic” cultural model of the soul to Germanic polytheism matches up well with with the hugr/fylgja/hamingja/hamr components

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26 Nov 2024 10:35

Armenians descend from a massive migration of Levantine people in the Bronze age. This reduced their steppe ancestry a lot, replacing 45% of the population.

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(24)00391-4

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25 Nov 2024 17:19

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25 Nov 2024 14:46

Betony is one of Woden's 9 magical herbs. How to identify it and use it https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2014/04/folk-use-of-betony-healing-herb-with.html

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25 Nov 2024 12:42

Behind the idol of Lord Ing by @wessex_woodcrafts the flood waters of Devon are rising over the land

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23 Nov 2024 14:28

A look at various sources on Norse and Frankish berserkers in ancient Europe and the continuation of cult customs associated with Wōden worship.

-Frankish Fighting
-Mad Norse and Frankish Warriors
-Pagan-Christian Syncretisation

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22 Nov 2024 13:37

Starkad was a many armed hero of the Vikings; blessed by Odin and cursed by Thor. This Starkad art is by Christian Sloan Hall and was created for a new film in which you can learn all about the problematic hero Starkad
https://youtu.be/8xn6qn3Baco

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22 Nov 2024 10:21

Western hunter gatherer edit

When a farmer or steppe enthusiast says hunters do not exist

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21 Nov 2024 15:28

This design available on tees and hoodies, includes 3 Nordic Bronze age petroglyphs from Sweden. 2 from Tanum and 1 from Kivik. Get yours now!

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21 Nov 2024 12:43

The Durotriges were a West British tribe of the territory in the first map. The second heat map shows the genetic distance of modern peoples from Iron Age Durotrigian samples using G25.

Clearly the British isles still have a strong genetic affinity to the Iron Age Britons

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21 Nov 2024 11:11

Tomorrow night it is Voice Chat time here on Telegram - for patrons only on Patreon and Subscribestar

20:00 UK time
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20 Nov 2024 10:36

"Pagan Coherent Moral philosophy vs others"

1. Strawman and disingenuous as it implies Abrahamic faiths actually have a coherent moral philosophy. Answer is they don't, that can't explain a lot of topics and can't get along with each other.

2. Is this morality based on Abrahamic paradigm and understanding of ethnics? Then everything will fall flat. Or be civic morality, which is a modern invention and isn't cohesive either.

Below is my reply after being tagged in this discussion.

He knows where to find me.
He can easily read what I write or have presented in my posts and books.
I have engaged with this misunderstanding of Ethnic faith and Abrahamic usage of the word "pagan" for strawman arguments more than enough.
Everything these so-called "prophets" of Abrahamics have presented were stolen from others or self-fulfilling prophecies.
This labeling of "paganism has no structure" is ignorant at least and intentionally in denial at best.
Rome, Greece, Hittites, Sumer, Egypt, Vedics, Shintō, Persia, Buddhism, and Daoism all present cohesive world view and structure.
For Celto-Germanics or Slavics who didn't have a written record until later, their oral tradtions presents a concise world view.
Most Indo-European faiths have a common world view, moral structure, and cosmology when compared.
Acting as if they don't is disingenuous and the typical strawman argument presented by Abrahamics with an agenda.