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08 Apr 2025 10:22

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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07 Apr 2025 14:37

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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07 Apr 2025 13:48

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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06 Apr 2025 20:37

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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06 Apr 2025 01:14

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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05 Apr 2025 10:17

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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04 Apr 2025 15:59

Amazing that this text was revealed with a vaporwave edit

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03 Apr 2025 12:19

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

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31 Mar 2025 16:34

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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30 Mar 2025 22:17

Spontaneous stream playing the new Ethno guessing game

https://x.com/tom_rowsell/status/1906413846379508134?s=46

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28 Mar 2025 08:42

A Valkyrie pendant found in Wickham Market, Suffolk, 9-10th Century. The design on the shield is similar to the common pattern on Alemannic zierscheiben. 𖣐

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28 Mar 2025 08:28

Declaration of Via Electri:

We are members of Via Electri, an organization for Traditional European Pagans. We have come together during this time when our native European traditions are facing many challenges. We are united in our common struggle and our common values. We have a shared understanding that there is an injustice in this world that we strive to defeat to restore balance and order in this world.

This is a fundamental position that we hold all native European traditions to include. This does not imply fundamentalism, because traditional Paganism allows for all traditions to coexist, each nation having its approach towards the Truth.

Still, we do not imply moral relativism, because we consider the fundamental purpose of all native European traditions to be the preservation of cosmic balance, the Law. The Cosmic Law is upheld by each nation according to its own traditions, each nation respecting its own Gods.

The traditions of each nation are passed down in practice. Native European traditions do not rely on the revelation of prophets or the dogmas of the initiated. Native European traditions rely on the continuation of correct ritual behaviour. The process of learning this correct behaviour may take years and some nations have had schools to train ritual specialists, but the enactment of rituals rely also on the heads of families.

All native European traditions regard the family as the model for society and we hold that the family is also the smallest unit in any society of Mankind. Families also provide the hierarchical model of interaction and behaviour within nations, between nations and between nations and their gods.
Correct ritual behaviour must be morally right. Men uphold the cosmic order by upholding traditions that are deemed virtuous. Of course the details on the exact definition of virtues may vary between European nations, by virtues we mean values that fundamentally guide an individual's behaviour towards the benefit of his family and nation.

Thus, we at Via Electri share the following basic values: respect towards the cosmic balance; acknowledgement of each nation having its own gods; basis of religion being in tradition; family as the basis of society; virtuous behaviour. By our work, we aim to further these values in Europe for the betterment of our nations.

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26 Mar 2025 22:47

Temples of the Frisian Heathens

https://youtu.be/RkyIZglJBc8?feature=shared

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25 Mar 2025 22:39

THE SOUL OF CHIVALRY goes LIVE TODAY at 4pm EDT

There are two ways you can watch it:

1) Go to https://philosophicat.vhx.tv/products and you can either purchase it for download or rent it for 3 days

2) Sign up as a channel member at PhilosophiCat" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/@PhilosophiCat
(A couple of people have said they don't see the video on YouTube- you may need to go under your membership tab, as YouTube seems to be a bit slow in updating the main video page)

Happy Spring Equinox!

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25 Mar 2025 21:56

"After recognizing that “nothing exists, all is permitted,” and the “freedom of the spirit,” the inevitable consequence is the challenge: “Now prove the nobility of your nature.”"
Julius Evola

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07 Apr 2025 16:13

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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07 Apr 2025 14:35

Hail Ostara / Ēostre!

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06 Apr 2025 20:38

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

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06 Apr 2025 09:52

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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05 Apr 2025 22:34

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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04 Apr 2025 15:59

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

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04 Apr 2025 14:39

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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03 Apr 2025 12:15

"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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31 Mar 2025 15:10

Close call on the Iceland trip. Good thing we were in a decent 4 wheel drive. storms are no joke

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28 Mar 2025 09:09

An IVC terracotta figure with a pointed cap with ornaments and trousers characteristic of the Andronovo Culture. This may represent the earliest contact between the Indus Valley Culture and the Indo-Europeans.
Similar ornaments were used by the Slavic and Baltic tribes, and are still found across India today.
From Rtam: x.com/rtam86418021

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28 Mar 2025 08:42

The Eyrbyggja saga mentions another form of sacrifice to Thor…

“The circle where the court used to sentence people to be sacrificed can still be seen, with Thor's Stone inside it on which the victims' backs were broken, and you can still see the blood on the stone.
Though this assembly place was held to be highly sacred, people were not forbidden to ease themselves there.”

Makes one wonder how many stone circles were used in a similar manner.

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27 Mar 2025 12:04

A new interview is up. Illegitimate Scholar asked me about the ancient history of European peoples

https://youtu.be/x6RrA44qEcY?feature=shared

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26 Mar 2025 22:13

new aDNA preprint:

"Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups"

The swampy region of Netherlands, Friesland, schleswig-holstein was host to a population with high WHG ancestry thousands of years after WHG went extinct.

This unique group of swamp people eventually mixed with IE invaders to form the Bell Beaker folk who went to Britain.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644985v1

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25 Mar 2025 22:39

I enjoyed this new documentary which touches on many of the themes in Evola’s The Mystery of the Grail.

His ideas about the meaning of romantic relations within the context of chivalric literature are interesting.

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25 Mar 2025 21:55

"Wilt thou do the deed and repent it? thou hadst better never been born:
Wilt thou do the deed and exalt it? then thy fame shall be outworn:
Thou shalt do the deed and abide it, and sit on thy throne on high,
And look on today and tomorrow as those that never die."
Sigurd the Volsung: The Wisdom of Brynhild By William Morris