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04 Dec 2024 11:59

The Germanic kings depicted on golden bracteates often have a very particular pompadour/braided pony tail mullet combo hair style. In many variations it actually terminates in the head of a bird and may represent Odinic wisdom issuing forth from the head in the form of a raven. This image of some variations of it is taken from Hauck (1985)

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03 Dec 2024 12:20

🇱🇻🇱🇻The skull of a man belonging to the hunter-fisher Kunda culture in Mesolithic Latvia. Baltic HGs apparently had a religious use for the amber in their region and associated it with the passage to the afterlife. Baltic amber would play an important role in later European prehistory and in historical migrations. The men at the archaeological site of Zvejnieks had yDNA haplogroups R1b, I2 and Q. They were on a genetic cline between WHG and EHG, with a shift towards the former. 🇱🇻🇱🇻

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03 Dec 2024 11:16

I-L699 found in Hittite period Anatolia too. Possibly pre-Yamnaya steppe source like Sredny Stog

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03 Dec 2024 10:53

One of the Rock cut Bronze age tombs in Vounous Bellapais, Cyprus contained a man from Scandinavia- possibly a wandering mercenary?

The i in I1 stands for intrepid

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03 Dec 2024 00:50

A new study looks at drug use among Germanic tribes in the Roman era and concluded that the little spoons the warriors wore on the hip were for administering a drug. The study shows they had access to many narcotics including ergot fungus from which LSD is made.

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02 Dec 2024 15:21

Eoh here is thought to be a nickname for someone with an Eo prefix to their name such as Eomer, Eomund (Ström 1939, 14–15)

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02 Dec 2024 13:15

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The story of Saint Brannoc and the last Celtic pagans of England

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01 Dec 2024 18:34

“Helgi rose above heroes all Like the lofty ash above lowly thorns, Or the noble stag, with dew besprinkled, Bearing his head above all beasts, And his horns gleam bright to heaven itself.”
~Helgakviða Hundingsbana II 37, Bellows
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Picture is a stone from Visby. The combination of the imagery of the stag and serpent both invoke the afterlife, with the serpent representing Helheim, and the stag Eikþyrnir, and with it, Valhalla. This stone and particular imagery may be related to Helgi, as he reincarnated three times before being taken to Valhalla by Odin.

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01 Dec 2024 18:33

The fact that the same symbols are used in Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts shows there was a shared religion. We also can tell from the following account that stags and snakes were depicted in Anglo-Saxon pagan temples.

"Let us raise a hymn, especially because He who thrust into Tartarus of terrible torture the ghastly three-tongued serpent who vomits torrents of rank and virulent poisons through the ages deigned in like measure to send to earth the offspring begotten of holy parturition... and because where once the crude pillars of the same foul snake and the stag were worshipped with coarse stupidity in profane shrines, in their place dwelling for students, not to mention holy houses of prayer, are constructed skilfully by the talents of the architect."
— Aldhelm's letter to Heahfrith, 680s

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01 Dec 2024 18:33

Compare these coins. The first from 9th c. Denmark depicts a stag surrounded by three holy signs; a mask (Wodin?), a valknut and a coiled snake.
The second, from 9th c. Ribe, has the mask but the valknut is replaced by another snake. the stag's antlers look like an Ing rune.
The third, also from Ribe, has the snake and the valknut but the mask is replaced by a ring or torque.
The fourth is from Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, and introduces the Christian cross.
The stag evokes Scythian imagery, while the snake evokes the underworld. The meaning of the Woden mask and Valknut are unclear.
Ponder these symbols of power, friends.

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30 Nov 2024 18:53

Can’t think of anything more English than the 1000 year old tradition of fox hunting, charging through a 5000 year old stone circle!

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30 Nov 2024 18:51

Another weekend ramble on the moor. Another megalithic marvel. The stone circle of Scorhill through which the local fox hunt galloped! See video below

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29 Nov 2024 15:59

Those who know... 👁

Anglo-Saxon Chad by Finn Shawyer
Music: Danheim - Blotjarl

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29 Nov 2024 15:56

Another example of a bird-crested helmet pendant from Tissø, Denmark.

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29 Nov 2024 15:55

Something pagans hear a lot from Christians and other naysayers is that we have no direct line of succession to our ancestors (so we should just give up).
Kashmiri Shaivism was revived from its sacred texts multiple times, when all of their Gurus were killed in the many Muslim conquests of Kashmir. It can, and will, be done again. ᛉ

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03 Dec 2024 17:04

The Montem Mound, Slough: 1,500 Year Old Saxon Monument
Archaeologists have discovered that a 20-foot high mound in Slough, long believed to be a Norman castle motte, is actually a rare Saxon monument built 1,500 years ago.

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03 Dec 2024 12:19

Nordic Bronze Age Sun Dancer Girl based on the clothes and artefacts from the burial of the Egtved Girl, 1370 BC by Joan Francesc Oliveras.

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03 Dec 2024 10:55

A new paper preprint, "Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages", has just been released and we have new Bronze Age Greek samples with steppe dna including four males with Yamnaya related y haplogroup R1b. There were also Mycenean samples with J2-L283 which was found in one western Yamnaya sample (the rare J2 in the steppe) which means that may also be a paternal steppe link. Source: Supplement files from the paper https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1.supplementary-material

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03 Dec 2024 09:42

A new paper attempts to confirm the early population sources for the various IE language families. It matches what I have said about Corded Ware being the main source.

Also interesting that they identify a second steppe invasion to Greece with a Corded Ware source after the initial Yamnaya one from 2200 BC. 2 Bronze Age Greeks plot like BA Scandinavians!

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02 Dec 2024 15:23

Like many of you, I'm a big fan of Tolkien's work.

I'm rewatching the LOTR films for the first time in about 15 years. I decided that I wanted to be able to re-read the books without imagining Peter Jackson's vision and actors. Then, when I had children, I wanted them to have the same rare privilege I had; of reading the story before seeing the films. We finished reading the books together about a month ago.

We started with a fan edit of The Hobbit (M4's, which edits 'these movies down to match closer to what was written while also rectifying many common critiques'). I had only seen the first Hobbit film when it came out, and was quite disappointed with its execution—too much CGI, deviations from the book, and just felt a lot less meticulously crafted than the LOTR films—so I never bothered with the second and third. M4's edit was pretty good (though I don't have the frame of reference to compare it to the theatrical version(s)), but still didn't amaze me. The best scene, hands down, was the first meeting with Gollum. Let's not even speak of the absurd DEI casting of Esgaroth and Dale, which would have had Professor Tolkien rolling in his grave.

In contrast, having started to rewatch the LOTR films, I'm reminded of how incredible they are; the casting, effects, score, pace, attention to detail, editing and emotion. It feels like every single individual involved was working at the peak of their ability. The CGI is used sparingly and somehow looks more believable, 25 years later, than the crass CGI of The Hobbit. It's sad to say, but there is no comparing The Hobbit and LOTR films.

Just wanted to share those thoughts with you.

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02 Dec 2024 15:20

Part of the Kirkheaton Stone (Yorkshire England) that reads ᛖᚩᚻ ᚹᚩᚱᚩ ᚻᛏᚫ eoh woro htæ or 'eoh made this'. Eoh meant (war) horse in OE whilst êoh meant yew-tree.

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02 Dec 2024 00:52

New interview I did for Thinking Class podcast. delve into the genetic ancestry of the British peoples and how Genetic studies reveal the stability of Northwest European ancestry over time, the significance of ancient monuments, and national myths such as those surrounding King Arthur, the impact of Christianity on Germanic cultures and the evolving narratives that shape British identity

https://youtu.be/ECmO5D4DwNU?feature=shared

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01 Dec 2024 18:34

Stags and serpents together just as in Anglo-Saxon temple

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01 Dec 2024 18:33

The way the antlers of the stag on the coins in the previous post stretch up into a geometric pattern is the same as the stag depicted on this Viking era Överhogdal tapestry. I suspect this depicts the world tree and the stag Eikþyrnir. The Slavs depict their world tree in a similar style as you can see from the 19th century Russian tapestry on the right.

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01 Dec 2024 18:33

The gilded deer 🦌 on the right in the montage image is from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC, it is Scythian. The similar but less impressive finial on the bottom left was a grave deposition from China, roughly contemporary but most likely more recent. I suspect this shows the Scythian influence on the Chinese. The deer on the top left is about 1000 years younger, and tops a staff found in the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo king’s burial.
At Alaca Hüyük in northern Turkey peoples of the Russian steppes appear to have established a kingdom in the centuries prior to 2000 B.C. The rich graves of their princes contain a wealth of silver and gold bowls and vases, copper battle-axes, and solar symbols, and in addition a number of enigmatic foot-high figures of bulls and stags such as the one in the second image, apparently intended as standards.

Was the stag one of the original Indo-European tribal standards? The similarities between these four figures are striking!

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30 Nov 2024 18:51

Freyja receives Brisingamen by Greg Hildebrandt

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29 Nov 2024 16:01

My wife and I visited the Hof Ásatrúarfélagsins in Reykjavík today. The building is currently under construction and has been for some years. I thought it was interesting that the project was right next to university.

Behind me is the memorial to Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, the first allsherjargoði of the Ásatrúarfélagið in Iceland. He was a sheep farmer by trade, but was interested in traditional poetry and wrote a number books about traditional poetry such as Bragfræði og háttatal. He recorded the album Edda in 1990, on which he sang the Eddic poetry in traditional form which I will link below. He was a leading figure in the resurgence of heathen tradition here in Iceland.

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29 Nov 2024 15:57

Frankish belt plate, 7th century, copper, a zoomorphic fylfot comprised of raptor heads. Photo by Matt Bunker at the collection of the National Archaeological museum, France.

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29 Nov 2024 15:56

Intimidating fashion statement from this man of the Khvalynsk related Ekaterinovka site. These people were like Yamnaya but with higher levels of EHG.

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29 Nov 2024 15:55

Interesting find from Hornsherred, Zealand, Denmark; an Iron Age pendant depicting a head with a bird’s head sprouting from it. This may depict a type of helmet we have yet to find an intact example of, like unto the boar-crested helmets.
Or perhaps…Odin as Arnhöfði. ᚨ