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12 Jul 2024 10:08

“Contrary to materialism, tradition does not explain the higher through the lower, ethics through heredity, politics through interests, love through sexuality. However, heredity has its part in ethics and culture, interest has its part in politics, and sexuality has its part in love. However, tradition orders them in a hierarchy. It constructs personal and collective existence from above to below.”

Dominique Venner

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10 Jul 2024 17:01

BTW the above design by Christian Sloan Hall is based on SF-92CD45 from Ousden, Suffolk

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10 Jul 2024 12:49

An Anglo Saxon seax mount from the Staffordshire Hoard with an entwined animal design. In the early Anglo Saxon period, even the smallest surfaces were beautifully decorated.

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09 Jul 2024 12:43

Some pictures of the hills and dolphins here in the Hebrides. A magical region of Britain

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08 Jul 2024 08:05

This was an interesting one. A kerykeion, done in a Germanic style.

I opted to go with Urnes type serpents, though I had to adapt and simplify them slightly to keep the piece's strength. Also, as its quite fragile, I had to do most of the shaping with a knife rather than the usual chisels and gouges which was fun. Stuck a modest little othala rune in there too.

The carving stands at 12" tall and is made completely out of ash, blackened off, rubbed back again and coated in Danish oil.

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07 Jul 2024 18:15

Rocking the raven god drip in the fjords. Based on an Anglo-Saxon depiction of Woden. Get yours here

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07 Jul 2024 08:16

Today I am back on Orkney for the first time in 13 years!

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06 Jul 2024 17:06

The largest Viking archaeological site in Britain, Jarlshof, Shetland. The longhouse is behind me. Two ravens flew over croaking just before

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06 Jul 2024 11:59

We invite you to participate in the first annual Exiles of the Golden Age conference, a cultural event featuring international and local speakers which aims to introduce both new and mostly forgotten ideas and perspectives to an audience struggling with modernity.

Our keynote speaker this year is Tom Rowsell, a British historian and content creator best known for his YouTube channel, Survive the Jive, which deals with Indo-European history, spirituality and genetics. Other speakers will touch on a wide variety of subjects, from Western philosophy to spirituality, but the motivation of all those who speak and attend this conference will be the same: to find our way, through a dark and broken world, to a new Golden Age.

The conference will take place on Saturday, August 17th in the Lower Mainland (BC, Canada, specific location TBA). Space for this event will be limited.

Tickets may be purchased using the link below:

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/exilesofthegoldenage/1166152

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06 Jul 2024 11:57

Love the animal style on these parts of a Pictish sword from Dunrossness

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06 Jul 2024 09:21

“Issues with the steppe hypothesis: An archaeological perspective
Iconography, mythology and language in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age southern Scandinavia by
Rune Iversen”

Since so many typically IE cultural elements spread not with the initial WSH expansion in the 3rd millennium BC but with secondary ones in the 2nd millennium BC, Iversen suspects they have a later source. This is the reason elements like wool, chariots and such are so important in Celtic and Germanic culture for eg. He postulates that it could be due to Sintashta influence spreading from the steppe to the greater IE world of Europe and i agree.

Excerpt From
Indo-European Interfaces
Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander & Anders Richardt Jørgensen (eds.)

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06 Jul 2024 08:17

Ceremonial Skythian Akinakes from Filippovka-I Burial Ground.

The animal style art resembles later Celtic and Germanic art

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04 Jul 2024 18:06

⭕️ The last horse sacrifices. Horse remains show Pagan-Christian trade networks supplied horses from overseas for the last horse sacrifices in Europe.

Horses crossed the Baltic Sea in ships during the Late Viking Age and were sacrificed for funeral rituals, according to research from Cardiff University.

Published in the journal Science Advances, studies on the remains of horses found at ancient burial sites in Russia and Lithuania show that they were brought overseas from Scandinavia utilizing expansive trade networks connecting the Viking world with the Byzantine and Arab Empires.

Up to now, researchers had believed sacrificial horses were always locally sourced stallions. But these results reveal horses from modern Sweden or Finland traveled up to 1,500 km across the Baltic Sea. The findings also show that the sex of the horse was not necessarily a factor in them being chosen for sacrifice, with genetic analysis showing one in three were mares.
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04 Jul 2024 10:25

My ship has left Norway. Had a wonderful time there. Next stop is Shetland!

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02 Jul 2024 21:29

Throwing accusations and slander at other men on the internet is ergi as fuck and, if you're going to do it to hold other men to account, you'd better have some proof. This online community of folkish heathens can be amazing at times, and at others it's downright poison.

Maybe we should start holding these slanderous individuals to account. The very act of trying to destroy a man's reputation based on lies is itself dishonourable

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11 Jul 2024 19:41

An old Viking nautical curse, read in the style of Willem Dafoe’s curse in The Lighthouse (2020), taken from a 12th century Danish text by Saxo Grammaticus.

After battle, while bathing in the sea, the legendary Danish king Hadding is attacked by a sea monster which he slays. This offends a furious goddess who arose before him and spake the following words…

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10 Jul 2024 15:00

Lokasenna 22-23 indicates that Loki’s behaviors as described by Odin, were not viewed favorably by the Gods. It’s safe to assume that humans should not be behaving this way either.

Loki said:
“Silence, Odin.
You always judge battles
unfairly for humans.
You have often given
defeat to the better side
when you shouldn’t have.”

Odin said:
“You know,
even if I did judge unfairly,
and made the better side lose,
I know that you,
For eight years,
lived on the earth down below
as a cow in milk, and as a woman,
and you’ve given birth to children-
I call that a pervert’s way of living.”

Lokasenna 22-23

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09 Jul 2024 19:26

An interesting supposition, that the rapid and drastic changes that occurred between Primitive Irish and Old Irish may have been due to influence from a now extinct substrate. I doubt it would be pre-Indo-European considering that the pre-Indo-European population of Ireland bad already been thoroughly replaced millennia before. If these drastic changes were due to a local substrate language, it may have been the now extinct pre-Celtic, but Indo-European, language of the Insular Bell Beakers. If so, it may be a hint that the language(s) of the Insular Beakers survived until several centuries deep into the first millennium AD


From this paper: https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/38/77/24stifter.pdf

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08 Jul 2024 17:02

Today I am on the Isle of Skye. Saw dozens of dolphins, many seals and a pair of white tailed eagles feeding their chick

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08 Jul 2024 07:58

The man behind the "haaail haaiil" StJ theme tune was good enough to grace my podcast with an interview. Dan Capp of Wolcensmen discusses the pagan themes in the lyrics of some of my favourite selections from his discography in this musical podcast....https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagan-english-folk-music-with-dan-capp.html

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07 Jul 2024 08:16

At the standing stones of Stenness, Orkney, 2010

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06 Jul 2024 18:36

Elon temporarily banned British ANTIFA organization "Hope Not Hate" for doxing.

You should mass report their dox posts whenever you see them.

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06 Jul 2024 13:05

The multifaceted nature of Wōden/Óðinn:

In Víkars þáttr in Gautreks Saga, Starkaðr, the warrior blessed by Óðinn, consults his foster-father Hrosshárs-Grani on the best course of action to take when King Víkars ship is unable sail due to a lack of wind.

Hrosshárs-Grani suggested that a sacrifice to Óðinn would ensure fair sailing weather. Hrosshárs-Grani was none other than Óðinn in disguise, which is interesting because, in this instance, we are shown the multifaceted nature of Óðinn as a divine being.

In this case, Óðinn seeks King Víkar's death to take him to Valhǫll, but the note on Hrosshárs-Grani suggesting a sacrifice to Óðinn for fair sailing wind shows us that Óðinn, by nature, is not limited and encompasses a variety of factors relating to the divine and human life.

This is further exemplified in the Loka Táttur where Óðinn helps a farmer protect his son by creating rapid crop growth overnight. Moreover, in the Vǫlsunga Saga, King Rerir prayed to Óðinn for a child atop a burial mound. The prayer was accepted, and the legendary hero Vǫlsungr was born.

These examples ultimately provide us with an insight into the divine nature of Óðinn as a god and the various ways He is able to oversee different aspects of human life.

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06 Jul 2024 11:59

Heads up for Canadians! See you there

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06 Jul 2024 11:56

Landed in Shetland today. Felt like raiding. Might delete later

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06 Jul 2024 09:10

5'3" bronze worker with acromegaly who looked like this making weapons for the Sintashta warrior aristocracy.

Dwarves are real, confirmed.

"New skull and facial reconstruction of a man from the Sintashta burial culture who suffered from Acromegaly, made by Dmitry Pozdnyakov
Andrey Epimakhov et al. / Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2024."

Stole this off Nrken on Twitter.

Read more here.

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04 Jul 2024 22:31

Steppe salt traders? There is a theory that Yamnaya (and likely earlier steppe groups) traded salt to local EEF groups for metal.

Source:

https://journals.iaepan.pl/sa/article/view/3438/3276

Page 105 - 107

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04 Jul 2024 17:00

Anthropomorphic megalithic stelae were widespread in the 3rd millennium BC. In IE and non IE lands. It is impossible to determine where they originated at present but clearly they show widespread cultural contacts before the IE expansions

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02 Jul 2024 21:29

The warrior aristocracy of Bronze Age Europe were buried in warrior graves with personal weaponry - like daggers, swords, and spears.

But there were other objects in these graves like hair combs, bronze razors and tweezers, cloak pins, and awls for tattooing the skin, that all speak to a profound interest in clothing, personal grooming and in adorning the warrior.

So what can this all tell us about this aristocracy, the beliefs and practices of these elite men, and the nature of masculinity in prehistory?

Find out by watching this video!

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02 Jul 2024 21:21

Vidarshov in Norway was a site of cultic activity believed to have been dedicated to Víðarr.

The site was built on a farm, indicating that the temple was overseen by a local chieftain. The foundations of the chieftain's longhouse date to 200-400 AD, predating the Anglo-Saxon migration.

On a ridge within the surrounding forest, 25 large cairns and burial mounds dated to 500-1000 AD surround the site, suggesting that the site was a centre of religious activity in use over many generations.