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07 May 2026 14:41

Also on YouTube now for you weirdos who only listen to podcasts on video hosting sites

https://youtu.be/D2SQSrRYv8I?si=YA9_oL1HYtfL2RSo

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06 May 2026 15:49

Artistic Reconstruction of an Andronovo man from Kazakhstan. Clothing patterns were inspired by Andronovo pottery patterns. I have done an artistic reconstruction referencing this skull before but wanted to improve accuracy and realism.

Source of skull reference is from this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361084568_Solodovnikov_KN_A_complex_study_of_anthropological_materials_of_the_Maitan_burial_ground_of_the_Bronze_Age_Alakul_Culture_in_Central_Kazakhstan

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06 May 2026 10:47

The gods of the sea gypsies of Thailand https://youtube.com/shorts/WHBVLiQc1x0?si=AkmxbsBZnAeYmM84

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04 May 2026 15:55

There are still some of these left but don’t delay ordering if you want one

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01 May 2026 08:06

In addition to my new video about Easter, you should check out this older one which explains the connection of Easter to May day

https://youtu.be/SkYkF184ceo

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01 May 2026 08:02

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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30 April 2026 15:13

The Easter moon will be full tomorrow night and the night after. It is appropriate to blot to the dawn goddess as the sun rises tomorrow morning or the following morning

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30 April 2026 15:11

It was formerly a tradition among English Christians to watch the dawn at Easter. Francis Young writes,

“you might be lucky enough to see the sun dancing in the sky as it rises, rejoicing at the resurrection of Christ – although tradition also records that the devil usually manages to put a hill in front of the dancing sun to stop people seeing it”

The association of Easter with the rising sun to me seems to point to the fact that Eostre was the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn as the etymology of the name also shows

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23 April 2026 09:38

NEW EPISODE — Radio North Sea International — Episode 21: Heathen Shamanism

https://www.hearthfireradio.com/watch?v=aDaEKJuI

Does Heathenry include shamanism? Drawing heavily on Danish archaeologist Lotte Hedeager's 2011 book Iron Age Myth and Materiality, Tom examines her groundbreaking reading of Migration Period gold bracteates as direct evidence of 'Odinic shamanism': the central figure (Odin) shown in ecstatic trance, riding Sleipnir or flying with raven 'helping spirits' (Huginn and Munin) on soul-journeys between worlds, surrounded by animal-style art symbolising shape-shifting and transformation. This is cross referenced with written sources on Norse shamanism and with anthropological discussions of what shamanism is.
End music: Ginnungagap - Duel Ravens

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23 April 2026 06:09

The Anglo-Saxons were NOT diverse!

New interview coming with European Conservative

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16 April 2026 13:49

Back in the jungle. My happy place

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15 April 2026 09:08

Today is the 20th anniversary of my YouTube channel! Two decades in the game.

In 2006 it was just a place to upload film projects from university but in 2009 I renamed it to match my Survive the Jive blog created in 2007, and then I began uploading pagan and historical content.

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12 April 2026 05:19

Attended an intense Buddhist festival today in a cave- the festivities occur here annually in the run up to Songkran.

The prehistoric cave system is usually a quiet holy place for Buddhists but on this night it is stuffed with pilgrims and is all lit up.

Hundreds of people trampling over the bat shit to offer the images of Buddha flowers, gold leaf and incense.

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12 April 2026 05:13

New study by De Angelis et al sampled 78 skeletons from a Norman cemetery near Godalming used between 9th-13th century.

They compared them to thousands of other samples, drawing on previous work such as Gretzinger et al 2022
The samples from Priory Orchard in Godalming (POG) are actually LESS French than modern English are.

These Norman era skeletons from Surrey were very Nordic, with mainly Swedish and Danish affinities, not French.

There are no studies of Norman DNA in France so the authors are flying blind in that regard, with no clear source population to compare them to.

This is just one cemetery so not conclusive for all England in regard to Norman influence but is certainly the best window into Norman genetics we have so far.

QpAdm stats with dodgy models showed less convincing results as an alternative to f3 and pca models.

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10 April 2026 08:58

LXXVII. Orphic hymn to Aurora

The Fumigation from Manna.
Hear me, O Goddess! whose emerging ray leads on the broad refulgence of the day;
Blushing Aurora [Eos], whose celestial light beams on the world with red'ning splendours bright:
Angel of Titan, whom with constant round, thy orient beams recall from night profound:
Labour of ev'ry kind to lead is thine, of mortal life the minister divine.
Mankind in thee eternally delight, and none presumes to shun thy beauteous sight.
Soon as thy splendours break the bands of rest, and eyes unclose with pleasing sleep oppress'd;
Men, reptiles, birds, and beasts, with gen'ral voice, and all the nations of the deep, rejoice;
For all the culture of our life is thine. Come, blessed pow'r! and to these rites incline:
Thy holy light increase, and unconfin'd diffuse its radiance on thy mystic's mind.

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07 May 2026 14:14

Cardial was a Neolithic culture in the western Mediterranean between 6500 and 5000 BC. We have about 20 ancient DNA samples from this culture. Below is an infographic which describes some interesting facts about their genetics.

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06 May 2026 15:49

Boar skull baseball cap, Çatalhöyük, c. 6300 BC

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04 May 2026 16:08

Starting Heathenry is a ritual-focused online course which will furnish you with the knowledge and confidence to practise the Heathen religion alone or with others, making wise decisions about worship based on reliable historical evidence. The course teaches you how to construct Heathen prayers for yourself, not according to the established rites of any modern group, but according to what historical sources show.

Starting Heathenry assumes you are interested in Germanic paganism, know about the gods and myths, and want to begin practising this religion, but require guidance on how to do so. It is based on a micro-learning structure which is proven to improve knowledge retention by 18-80% in students compared to other learning methods. The 10 lessons include over 50 videos, and quizzes to access from your phone or computer.

Access more than 5 hours of learning material bit by bit, as you please. A modern method of learning about an ancient religion.

Your path to knowing the gods through ritual starts here

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01 May 2026 15:43

Don't miss this episode, seriously. Essential listening

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-barrow-as-the-symbol-of-western-man--70975784

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01 May 2026 08:05

Skipping the May pole at May fair today

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01 May 2026 08:02

Best places to celebrate May day in England

Padstow, Cornwall.
Helston, Cornwall.
Hastings, Sussex.
Minehead, Devon.
Torrington, Devon (although their May fair is on the weekend following May day itself).
Oxford, Oxfordshire.

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30 April 2026 15:12

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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24 April 2026 07:06

Full interview now up

https://youtu.be/mEhHQb33L1o?si=jQgXiMY9ET_XpWah

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23 April 2026 09:33

Free preview episode of Radio North Sea International is now available on Survive the Jive podcast.

There is no more potent, holy and enduring symbol of Western man, than the barrow! It links the Iliad, Beowulf, the sagas, the Celts, Germans, Scythians and slavs! 6000 years of excellence!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kBU8PMDAAkn3oM6WSwfHZ?si=vwILAZpuRIO5IfoUAPW1Ag

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21 April 2026 03:00

Today I visited the Moken on Surin islands in the Andaman sea. The Moken are an Austronesian race of sea gypsies who worship nature spirits and their ancestors which are represented with god poles known as lobong. These spirits can bring good fortune, protection, illness, storms, or misfortune, requiring propitiation through offerings of food, drink, and prayer. The labong all face towards the sea because this is such an important part of Moken culture- the source of both prosperity and danger.

There is barely any difference between this and our own ancestral tradition. Our gods and spirits are represented with similar god poles for which libations are poured.

I firmly believe there is a natural and true human religion which is accessible to anyone who is willing to cast aside the false teachings they have accumulated and to listen intently to the other world. That’s why so many human religions were so similar in this respect

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15 April 2026 14:10

Today I celebrated by returning to the Thai national park where I made a video 11 years ago

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14 April 2026 08:11

Songkran in Thailand 🇹🇭
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRV21uEF

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12 April 2026 05:13

The Norman conquest did not result in an increase in French ancestry but it does seem to have facilitated later contact with medieval France when the present French ancestry likely arrived.

My own interpretation is that the Normans were largely Nordic people but because they spoke French their victory reorientated British politics towards the south. Therefore the post Norman period resulted in much greater contact with France and a resulting genetic influence from France on England in the High Middle Ages.

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11 April 2026 08:31

There are still some of these left but don’t delay ordering if you want one

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10 April 2026 08:53

“Your damned, obnoxious, detestable pity! Call it what you please: world brotherhood, charity, conscience.. I take one look at you, each and every one of you, and all I see is contempt for yourselves and all you stand for. Do you know what it means?
Can't you see where it's leading? You've got to be crazy.
Grazy or desperate. You've got to be out of your minds just to sit back and let it all happen, little by little. All because of your pity. Your insipid, insufferable pity!'”
Camp of the Saints