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02 Jan 2025 10:50

A very small one-eyed Odin figure recently found in Norddjurs, Denmark. ᚬ

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02 Jan 2025 10:17

Another interesting discovery from the new twigstats method, which is better at distinguishing British from Nordic ancestry than previous methods, is that there were Britons with Nordic ancestry during the Roman occupation long before the Anglo-Saxons came. This was probably the result of Roman soldiers of Germanic origin mixing with locals. They specifically look at one skeleton from York with 25% Nordic Iron Age ancestry

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01 Jan 2025 18:06

This map from "Die Beizeichen auf den völkerwanderungszeitlichen Goldbrakteaten" by Charlotte Behr shows the distribution of bracteates with a swastika (fylfot).

They are mainly in Denmark and Southern Sweden.

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01 Jan 2025 15:16

He got this wrong regarding Yule. The Yule moon is the one he calls Winter moon (in January)

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01 Jan 2025 12:38

2024 was a pretty good year for me.

-Starting Heathenry launched
-3.4 million views on YouTube and 28k new subscribers
-1.4 million likes on X, 80k reposts, 1.8 million media views
-Radio North Sea International launched on Hearthfire
-Completed the Hyperborean Odyssey series in Norway and Scotland
-Delivered talks in Vancouver, London and Amsterdam
-Article published in Unherd
-Many great new DNA papers came out: The kurgan hypothesis and Sredny Stog origins of PIE was vindicated , and the possible origin of the Germanic folk was identified in Sweden. Jive Talks for each were popular
-It was nice to interview Dave Martel and Raw Egg Nationalist
-I was interviewed by Georgina Rose, Thor from NM&B, Beau at Lotus Eaters, Uberboyo, Greyhorn pagans, Dialogue show of Reality Check radio, Break the Rules, Koortsdroom Café podcast, and Thinking Class podcast

Keep Surviving the Jive in 2025!

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31 Dec 2024 16:01

𝖄uletide and New Year’s Eve divination was and still is a practice in Scandinavia, especially in Finland . Probably because it’s one of the times of the year when the veil is as thinnest between the world of the living and the other side.

Today it’s common to practice molybdomancy, and that’s a complicated word I would assume as good as no one that practices it knows it by that name. But it’s to melt lead or tin and let it drop into water and then you try to interpret what you see in the formations it has created that is the answer to your questions is.
It’s essentially like reading in tea or something of that effect and is seen by most like a funny little tradition or game.

An other more daring method is called Årsgång (Year-Walk).
There are thousands of records that describe the tradition or retell stories about it. The core area of ​​divination seems to be in Småland, in southern Sweden, where the tradition is mentioned in writing as early as the 17th century and then in several writings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Today it’s probably very rare that anyone attempts it.

Usually it was during specific holidays like, during the Christmas nights, at Christmas Day, St. Stephen's Day or New Year - sometimes even at Midsummer - that a person who wanted to get a glimpse of the future could perform the ritual. The person who would preform it would secretly isolated themselves in the dark and abstainfrom food and drink for about 24 hours. At midnight the person would go to one or more parish churches, walk around these counterclockwise, often three or seven times (that is, the magic numbers). When that was done, the person became sensitive to the supernatural powers and found out through visions and hearing what would happen in the village in the coming year. Usually by looking into the key hole of to the church door. It differs from other forms of folk divination, as it was glimpses of the future of the entire settlement, not just of an individual or a family, that were of importance. Those who did this could see processions of corpses, and thus got to know who would die in the area, hear cannon shots or see fires which heralded war and accidents, or hear how scythes hit the fields or how they hit stones, which was a signs of good or bad harvest. In the cabins, people could be seen sitting headless if they were condemned to die during the year, but if they sat with crowns on their heads, they were married instead.

During this walk to and fro the church all sorts of supernatural benevolent beings could try to scare or try to kill the walker. One of them as a ghastly boar with fire and brimstone in its glowing eyes or snout that could carry away the walker or split him in half by running through the person. This boar was called Gloson (The Glowing Sow).

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30 Dec 2024 00:57

Pagan Finns used to feed snakes in the vicinity of their house, usually beneath a sacred tree, such as a spruce (Picea abies) or rowan (Sorbus aucuparia). A sacred birch (Betula pendula or Betula pubescens) might be called Jumalankoivu (God's birch).

These snakes were called elättikäärme (lit. "a snake that is fed / supported").

In the Finnish village of Kieppi in Mäntyharju there were two snakes called Pissu & Sussu living beneath a sacred rowan. They were given the first fish caught in the springtime, tidbits from slaughter during fall, and the first milk after a cow or a woman had given birth.

The tree itself was sacred, as were the snakes, and offerings were brought to it, even after it had been felled for one reason or another.

In Tunnila in Sulkava there used to be a tree underneath which offerings of food were left for the dead, the elves, and various spirits.

Ill fate would befall those who disrespected or mistreated a sacred tree or snake.

Photo: Sacred spruce of the house of Kinnunen.

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29 Dec 2024 16:06

Artistic Reconstruction of a male of the Bronze Age Fatyanovo culture. They were the result of an early eastward migration of the Corded Ware after admixing with the Globular Amphora culture (from which their pottery shows influences). They are the earliest group to have y haplogroup R1a-Z93 which is common in modern Indo-Iranian speakers.

They lived in the forests of western Russia and had an economy of pastoralism however it was not as mobile as the Yamnaya. Weapons included the classic CWC stone axe but later also ones made of metal. Bears seemed to hold importance to them as some axes had the shape of a bear head carved into it along with ornaments made of bear claws and teeth. They later would develop the Abashevo culture which is the ancestor of the Sintashta and the Srubnaya.

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29 Dec 2024 15:13

Interesting public art in Sweden

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29 Dec 2024 12:44

The Danes are similarly genetically stable. This is despite the fact that Denmark has experienced regular population turnovers due to Germanic peoples in Germany and Scandinavia fighting over the territory. But since they are of the same stock the overall admixture proportions didn't change much

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29 Dec 2024 12:41

Charts showing admixture levels using Yamnaya/steppe, (Western) European Hunter Gatherer and Anatolian Neolithic Farmer for the modern English/Welsh, and Scottish compared to the Iron Age.

Remarkable genetic continuity!

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28 Dec 2024 12:41

The biggest videos of the year have been the talking head youtube format ones about blue eyes, trump, and English identity. The most well researched talking head video this year was also the least popular - "Odin explained"

There is a rule for YouTube, the more effort you put into a video in terms of research and filming, the less popular it will be!

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28 Dec 2024 09:32

Afaik the newly discovered Saxon sword from 6th century Kent is only the second one ever found with a runic inscription on the blade itself. Many have runes on the pommel and these are added after construction. But to have inlaid runes on the blade is far less common

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27 Dec 2024 21:35

Great doc about Molochansk temple barrow

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27 Dec 2024 21:26

Wassail season soon! This is a lovely film of a Devon wassail except a woman who tries to kill the magic by praying not to spirits but to YEAST!

https://youtu.be/e-Lksq6xZSs?feature=shared

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02 Jan 2025 10:49

The Lund 1 runestone depicts a bearded Odin mask flanked by two wolves, which appear to be carrying swords and shields.
The inscription reads;
“Þorgísl, son of Ásgeirr Björn's son, raised these stones in memory of both of his brothers Ólafr and Óttarr, good landholders.”

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02 Jan 2025 09:32

The full paper of this preprint has been published by Nature with this artwork. In my summer talks in Holland and Canada I described the ancient DNA of our ancestors recovered from barrows as containing the “runes of blood” which are being deciphered now by scientists. The art literally depicts the runes for DNA nucleotides A, G, T, K in a double helix lindworm

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08275-2

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01 Jan 2025 18:05

These maps show the distribution of all gold bracteate finds in Europe and Scandinavia.

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01 Jan 2025 15:14

These are the dates (and UK times) for the full moons in 2025. I don’t use the common Strawberry moon / Sturgeon moon names etc as these are derived from American Indian culture. Instead these names are derived from Anglo-Germanic sources.

Full Moon date and time

13 January (10.27pm) First moon, Winter moon
12 February (1.53pm) Sol moon, Horning
14 March (6.55am) Spring moon, Lent moon
13 April (1.22am) Easter moon, Grass moon
12 May (5.56pm) Milking moon, Pasture moon
11 June (8.44am) Sailing moon, Fallow moon
10 July (9.37pm) Hay moon, Summer moon
9 August (8.55am) Weed moon, Harvest moon
7 September (7.09pm) Holy moon, Wood moon
7 October (4.48am) Winter moon, Vintage moon
5 November (1.19pm) Blood moon, Blot moon
4 December (11.14pm) Yule moon

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31 Dec 2024 16:02

You can learn more about the Swedish “year walk” and other divinatory practices from across Northern Europe in this film.

https://youtu.be/i0KrLUoRwUI?feature=shared

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30 Dec 2024 01:02

The Sacred Rowan
Sorbus aucuparia, known as rowan or mountain ash, is a humble yet powerful tree in nature as well as mythology. Latin "sorbus" means "red" and English "rowan" comes from Germanic "raud-inan" which means "to redden", referring to the red berries and their usage. The Old English name cwicbeam and the Old Dutch name kwekkeboom both mean something like "life-tree". A fitting name: the berries are popular food for birds and the saplings are often eaten by wildlife. These names, combined with the evidence of using the twigs/berries to protect against evil magic, a practice widespread in Europe, give us valuable insight into the usage of the rowan in Heathenry. The meaning of the Old English "têafor" is also connected: magic by reddening.
The third image shows the rowan that saved Thunor from drowning in the Vimur river, as told in the skáldskaparmál. This, together with the fact that rowans often grow under or nearby oak trees, connect the tree to Sif, Thunor's wife.
Hail the lively rowan!

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29 Dec 2024 16:10

Scythian plush bird from a frozen barrow of Pazyryk, Siberia.

This plush bird, approximately 2,300 years old, originates from the Altai Mountains in Siberia. The artifact is constructed from felt and reindeer fur. The bird's form, including its wings and beak, was carefully shaped using stitched felt.

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29 Dec 2024 15:57

So it appears the Graunidad misreported that the newly found Kent ring-sword has "a blade bearing a runic script". The lead conservator clarified "There appear to be large runes, central on the scabbard. Also tiny ones on metalwork associated with the sword." Less unusual but still interesting. They have not yet been interpreted. Here are some photos of the pommel taken by Paul Mortimer

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29 Dec 2024 13:36

Really weird to me that the Thule video came last. It was an extraordinary place.

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29 Dec 2024 12:42

This graph helps you to understand why EEF levels rose after the Iron-Age

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28 Dec 2024 12:51

BTW the full playlist of Hyperborean Odyssey is here

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28 Dec 2024 12:35

It is time for the 2024 best STJ documentary poll. These were last year's results. I don't include all my videos, only the proper edited documentary films (not talking head stuff)

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27 Dec 2024 21:35

NEW VIDEO NOW LIVE!

On the bronze age steppe, over 4,000 years ago, the people of the prehistoric Catacomb culture built a huge, mysterious structure atop a high ridge above a river, flowing south toward the Black Sea.

Archeologists have called this structure a temple, or a sanctuary but what was this place?

What rituals might it have been used for and what god might they have worshipped here? What can it tell us about the Catacomb culture and their religious beliefs and cultural practices? And are there any other sites like this?

I hope you enjoy my new video. As always, your shares are massively appreciated. Cheers!

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27 Dec 2024 21:27

Today I shall wassail the orchard trees with my family. This photo is of my son wassailing last January. See this film to learn all about the pagan tradition

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26 Dec 2024 07:18

In 1597 a Scottish man by the name of Andrew Man was tried and later hanged (in 1598) for being a witch. He was charged with receiving magical powers from the 'Quene of Elphame'. Elphame, sometimes recorded as Elphen was derived from Elp (like Alp) meaning Elf and hame from the OE ham meaning village or home, so Elphame had a similar meaning as Álfheimr. Andrew Man was not the only person tried as a witch in contact with the Queen of Elphame. Another Scottish witch, Bessie Dunlop was burnt at the stake in 1576 for having a witches ‘familiar spirit’ from Elphame whilst Alison Pearson was executed in 1588 after she confessed to having visions of a fairy court also termed Elphame and conversing with their Queen.