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15 May 2026 10:42

Occasionally people on forums and social media attempt to classify my phenotype

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15 May 2026 10:39

I love this little naked character in the margin of the illuminated Anglo-Hiberno manuscript known as the Barberini Gospels. Dated to the 8th century, when the English were only just Christian, the art is of the insular Celtic-Germanic style but with non insular influences. Who knows what this little chap represents if anything?

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14 May 2026 12:30

“Point the blade forward and blow upon it. Then a little snake will creep forth from the hilt. Then lower the sword and make it easy for the snake to return into the hilt.”
~Kormáks saga
The term wyrmfáh, wyrm-decorated, appears in Beowulf. Far from mere decoration, these zoomorphic patterns sought to imbue the sword with guardian spirits.
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14 May 2026 11:36

Europeans were the first to ride horses over 5000 years ago
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Reich and co released a new paper pushing back on the theory that Sintashta horses 4200 years ago were the first truly domesticated horses.

Besides Yamnaya being earlier riders, even pre Yamnaya steppe herders also rode: eg. Repin culture rode and Stog related Usatovo had horse imagery on their vessels so probs did too

But EEF also rode horses, including late Funnebeaker folk of Boleráz and Salzmünde cultures and also Baden culture

Corded ware in Germany carried on the tradition.

It was a European phenomenon from Germany to the steppe.

Wild horses at the time of LBK in Neolithic Europe were small but started to get bigger by TBK times and peaked at Corded Ware period. This is evidence they were being bred to be bigger in Europe for domestic use.

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13 May 2026 10:26

A breakdown of the new preprint, Silva et al 2026, and the findings in regards to the DNA of Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon England, Vikings and Picts

https://youtu.be/eUItBKksK3U

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12 May 2026 16:08

I jumped the gun with the claim about Ivory Bangle Lady this morning. I throught I had identified her and used two AI's to confirm and both said i was right, but they were wrong. AI is rubbish! Turns out that sample is a man from Viking age Yorkshire. Will go over the supplements in more detail

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11 May 2026 14:39

Roman soldiers in late antiquity carrying their commander on a shield.

Reenactors: Legio XI CPF
photo: Marcia Mummia Fannia

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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

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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.

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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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15 May 2026 10:41

I recently posted a fibula from Denmark which featured the Odinic dual bird motif except the "ravens" had the bodies of beasts and were therefore griffins. The use of two griffins instead of two birds is not unique to Denmark. I saw the above 6th/7th c. Alemannic buckle from La Roche-sur-Foron in Southern France at a museum in Geneva. The two griffins have the stylised curly beaks of the dual "raven" motif found across the Germanic world. The griffin is absent in Germanic myth but is seen in Germanic art, perhaps due to Scythian influence.

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14 May 2026 12:30

Announced roughly a year ago, MAPTISM is finally out
https://maptism.org

MAPTISM dot org serves as a repository for all Maptism maps, animations, threads, graphics and other materials, easily and quickly accessible in full resolution and also in "tiled view".

Currently host to a selection of curated maps, most with their respective articles and sources, over the coming days it will be updated to contain all Maptism maps and animations, as well as ported and reformatted twitter threads for easier viewing and reading.
~160 maps are on the backlog and will be ported over in the coming days.

The site also includes a Commission form for easier Commission processing and more information for what type of Maps and Services we are able to provide: its not just prehistory!

Right now, the main highlights are the Corded Ware and 2nd century Germanic threads ported over as well as the Mycenaean Maps.

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14 May 2026 11:49

NEW EPISODE — Radio North Sea International — Episode 22: Thailand for Heathens

https://hearthfireradio.com/watch?v=WEtVzGYb

Having just returned from his fourth trip to Thailand, Tom reflects on why he likes it there. In this episode Tom explains the spiritual benefits Heathens can reap from experiencing non-Abrahamic religious traditions and great wild and ancient forests abroad. He explains how the Yaks, the Thai equivalent of Jotnar, are integrated into their religion and what we can learn from this and other aspects of Therevada Buddhist religion. End music: Zheng Wen - Ramakian

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13 May 2026 10:35

Grip strength map for west eurasia both women and men

North Europeans tend to have high grip strength as compared to South Europeans,Caucasians,middle easterners and other west asians

Research paper:-https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333580053_34_Grip_strength_across_Europe_-North_South_and_EastWest_divides

Карта силы хвата в Западной Евразии (как для женщин, так и для мужчин)

Северные европейцы, как правило, обладают более высокой силой хвата по сравнению с южными европейцами, кавказцами, жителями Ближнего Востока и другими народами Передней Азии.

Научное исследование:— https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333580053_34_Grip_strength_across_Europe_-North_South_and_EastWest_divides

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12 May 2026 22:34

Friends in Scotland!
You may wish to attend this screening and discussion based on a film with me in it about paganism. Edinburgh

https://www.meetup.com/forestway/events/314585742/

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12 May 2026 13:10

You really don't hate them enough

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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