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04 Mar 2025 14:32

My children saw these offerings at woodhenge today and felt the need to pick daisies “för guden” to add to the pile

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01 Mar 2025 20:00

Everything I said in this video five years ago about the origin of the Celts seems to have been vindicated in this new paper.

Urnfield > Hallstatt > iron age celtic cultures around Europe.

Please can everyone stop referring to Bronze age British and Irish artefacts as “Celtic” now.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.640770v1?ct

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01 Mar 2025 13:07

Reconstruction of a female headdress from the Novo-Yabalaklinsky-1 burial ground associated with the Srubnaya culture. A successor of the Yamnaya/IE culture.

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28 Feb 2025 20:58

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28 Feb 2025 11:00

A new study on the genetics of pony breeds finds that Western ponies including the Shetland pony, Connemara pony, Icelandic horse, Miniature horse, and Falabella all share a closer genetic relationship to East Asian horses like the Debao pony than to European horses. They also have paternal lineages linking them to Eastern horses. They infer potential geneflow from Yakutian horses into the ancestors of European ponies.

This, they propose, is not to imply that ponies have a separate origin from domestic horses. Rather they claim that most modern ponies descend from an ancient pony-sized lineage, related to the Yakutian horse but also originating in Yamnaya DOM2 horses from Eastern Europe's steppe.

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26 Feb 2025 12:37

The Neolithic stone rows which began in Brittany and are also found in Britain in places like Dartmoor are so often associated with hills and with other megalithic monuments that many conclude they were procession paths leading up hill towards stone circles and tombs.

However at Yelland, Devon, there was an example of a stone row discovered in an estuary marsh and it pointed towards the estuary mouth. The stones have subsequently sunk into the silt since being discovered in the 19th century.

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26 Feb 2025 10:16

The contents of the Bronze age barrows were then believed to be “Celtic” and pertaining to the culture of Druids, when in fact they predate the arrival of true Celtic culture in Britain by more than 1500 years. The illustrations from over 250 years ago of beads, bones and fragments of Bell Beakers from the barrows are still easily recognisable as belonging to that early Indo-European culture.

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26 Feb 2025 10:15

En route to Avebury in 1721, in the Kennet valley he felt the need of a geological map
“I have often wished that a map of soils was accurately made, promising to myself that such a curiosity would furnish us with some new notions of geography, and of the theory of the earth, which has only hitherto been made from hypotheses.” The greatness of his work is based on this tendency towards maps, plans and drawings as in the precision of his drawings of Stonehenge and Avebury.

WS correctly perceived that the innumerable barrows dotted about southern England were of pre-Roman origin by their situation in relation to the Roman roads, either jutting over them or by their lack of proximity to them. He also correctly attributed many of the southern hill forts to the earlier Belgics, rather than the Romans.
William Stukeley first travelled to Stonehenge in early summer of 1719 with Roger and Samuel Gale. He wrote at the time

“The Wiltshire downs, or Salisbury plain, (as commonly call,d) for extent and beauty, is, without controversy, one of the most delightful parts of Britain. But of late years great encroachments have been made upon it by the plough, which threatens the ruin of this fine Champlain, and all of the monuments of antiquity thereabouts...And however I succeed in accounting for these wonderful works: at least. I shall be instrumental in preserving their memory, in giving just drawings of them.” Stukelev's book 'Stonehenge A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids' was first published in 1740.

Stukeley spent many weeks in the next five years accurately measuring, observing and recording. He concluded that Stonehenge was not of Roman origin as others supposed but that the measurements, in cubits, suggested an earlier civilisation. He believed it was a Temple to the Ancient Druids, built by immigrants from the near east, possibly Phoenicians, who had entered this country by the Promontorium Herculaneum, Hartland Point.

His belief that Stonehenge was built c. 500 BC and that Phoenicians were involved was wrong, but indeed it was built by people originating in the Near East (Anatolia), more like 2500 BC, although they had nothing to do with Druids or Phoenicians. His guesswork is still very impressive based on the limited resources at his disposal. Stukeley's accurate drawings of Stonehenge are still used by archaeologists to this day.

Dr.Stukeley is best known as the first person to discover the alignment of the stones with the midsummer and midwinter solstices. He also named the group of two upright stones topped by a horizontal lintel as a 'trilithon' (from the Greek for 3 stones). With Edmund Halley, the astronomer, he proposed that the builders of Stonehenge had aligned the stones with the magnetic north.

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24 Feb 2025 22:50

Even more worthy of note is the hart Eikthyrni, which stands in Valhall and bites from the limbs of the tree; and from his horns distils such abundant exudation that it comes down into Hvergelmir, and from thence fall those rivers called thus: Síd, Víd, Søkin, Eikin, Svöl, Gunnthrá, Fjörm, Fimbulthul, Gípul, Göpul, Gömul, Geirvimul

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23 Feb 2025 09:21

🚨 New Documentary 🚨

The swastika or FYLFOT was used by ancient Germanic peoples such as the Goths, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. But what did it mean? Some say it was a symbol of the sun, some think it was borrowed from the Romans. In this video I explain how the fylfot was actually connected to the cult of the god Wotan aka Odin.

Watch on YouTube or SurvivetheJive:c/swastika-fylfot:5?r=AEKqgwkPWidrWMdxwxNjBE8p3kA9tT6n">Odysee

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23 Feb 2025 09:02

Lindisfarne I presume

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19 Feb 2025 22:53

Most of the time when you see people predicting the complexion, hair colour and eye colour of ancient people online, they are using Hirisplex to estimate it. But this test above makes it clear that while it is pretty accurate when it comes to eye colour, it confuses hair colour calling brown hair black and blonde hair red, and it gets skin colour wrong a lot, calling dark skin "very dark" and calling light skin "intermediate". FYI this technique was used to claim Cheddar man was "black" and that Yamnaya are "dark" - in reality the Yamnaya were no darker than Europeans are today.

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19 Feb 2025 21:38

NEW STJ FILM!

The rock art from the tomb of Bredarör at Kivik in Sweden is a window into the forgotten world of the Nordic Bronze Age. In this film I visited the great rock barrow with my mate The Golden One, and I interpret all the esoteric imagery, including; sun-wheels, solar crosses, war chariots, armed warriors and ritual axes and boats. With the latest archaeological data, 3D scans and new CGI animations of the art, this film gives a new perspective on a tomb which is 3400 years old!

https://youtu.be/JLbpm4McNUY

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15 Feb 2025 09:02

A new paper on Goth and Suebians in Iberia. Suebian elites in Spain show almost entirely Northern European ancestry (92-95%). 14 Visigoth burial samples had greater than 80% Northwest European Ancestry (3 of which were full NW Euro). There were also 27 samples with mixed NW Euro and Iberian ancestry. Dates from 4-6th century.

The Germanics did not leave a genetic legacy in Iberia though

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614606v1

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14 Feb 2025 16:02

Yamnaya reconstruction by Nechvaloda
“burial 5, mound I (Nizhnyaya Orlyanka). Pit culture 3600-2300 BC
Source: Bogachev A. V. Kuznetsov A. V. Khokhlov A. A. Veneds: Indo-European context. Samara, 2022. S. 115.”

https://sapiensbio.ru/rekonstrukczii/avtor-nechvaloda-a-i-graficheskaya-rekonstrukcziya-licza-po-cherepu-muzhchiny-yamnoj-kultury/

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03 Mar 2025 09:12

Some idiotic people saying I am anti-Celtic because I don’t support the BS celtic from the west cope.

Also saying I don’t produce enough content about Celts because I hate them.

In 2024, 6 videos dealt with Germanic cultures and 5 dealt with Celtic ones. Hardly a major bias!

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01 Mar 2025 13:08

Archaeologist Ivan Semyan has posted a reconstruction of the female headdress of the Sintashta culture. Burial ground Stepnoe 7. The author of the reconstruction is archaeologist Elena Kupriyanova

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28 Feb 2025 21:03

This copper alloy mount was found in Cambridgeshire in 2009. It is dated to around 650 AD and depicts Woden carrying two ritual spears and wearing a ritual horned headdress.

The widely used artwork is by Lindsay Kerr whilst the wooden carving is by Valgaut.

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28 Feb 2025 11:28

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27 Feb 2025 11:12

Tomorrow night is Patron Voice Chat night! If you are on a middle tier or higher on either Patreon or Subscribe star then you will get access to the chat group. I look forward to speaking to you all and answering your questions.

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26 Feb 2025 10:19

The so called Håga church near Uppsala in which I made my marriage vows, named my friend's daughter and conducted several other rites

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26 Feb 2025 10:15

On 5th July 1723, Lord Pembroke and Stukeley excavated one of the Cursus Barrows erected by the Beaker folk adjacent to Stonehenge. They treated the deceased respectfully, covering them up again after excavating and documenting the contents. Then they excavated another barrow and documented sacrificial animal remains inside.

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26 Feb 2025 10:15

Born in the 17th century, the man dubbed the saviour of Stonehenge, who first realised its solstice alignment, an early archaeologist who preserved and documented many of Britain’s Neolithic megalithic monuments, correctly realised they were pre-Roman and led some of the first proper excavations of Indo-European barrows. William Stukeley FRS FSA was an occultist, freemason LARPing as a druid!

Originally an Anglican clergyman, his antiquarianism led him to a career as a pioneering archaeologist. This fascination with the past cannot be separated from his unusual religious beliefs. He was a Freemason, influenced by Pythagoreanism and Neoplatonism. but believed that this was consistent with the beliefs of the ancient Druids who he thought had acquired the True Religion of monotheism from Phoenician traders in antiquity.

In 1722, he founded the Society of Roman Knights, devoted to the study of Roman era Britain. The Knights each took a name from the Celtic period, Stukeley's was "Chyndonax"

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23 Feb 2025 09:31

Tom Rowsell,Survive the Jive phenotype typing

Tronder+East Nordid+Borreby

Том Роуселл (Survive the Jive), фенотипування:

Трондер + Східний нордид + Боребі.

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23 Feb 2025 09:20

Merovingian brooch, 6th century

Merovingi or Merohingii ("sons of Merovech") were one of the establishing Frankish dynasties.
Merovech was the King of the Salian Franks.
They were a Germanic tribe who originally worshipped Woden.

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20 Feb 2025 11:52

Óðinn Worship in Christian Sweden

-Saints, Peasants and Warriors
-The Case of Eric Clauesson
-The Case of Ragvald Odenskarl
-Norse Paganism in the Middle Ages

During the Middle Ages, Óðinn worship continued in Sweden post-conversion. The court trials of Eric Clauesson (d. 1492) and Ragvald Odenskarl (d. 1484) provide a great insight into the way Óðinn worship evolved in 15th century Sweden.

All artwork created by Ryan Murray, commissioned by The Chad Pastoralist.

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19 Feb 2025 21:58

New preprint from Perretti et al has this figure for Bronze Age European complexions. The colour used to represent “dark” is darker than most Indians, all native Americans, South East Asians and Arabs. They made it as dark as people from Central Africa and South India.

You really expect people to believe 1/4 of BA Britons were as dark as that and 1/4 were as light as we are now? That kind of extreme variance in one homogeneous population on a cloudy cold North Atlantic island?

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19 Feb 2025 11:42

A Merovingian era amber bird pendant discovered in 2013 on the Baltic shore of Germany near Rostock. The runic inscription may be read as "FRAUA"

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15 Feb 2025 00:24

New appearance on Break the Rules with a deep discussion of esotericism, religion and history

https://youtu.be/p8EDRg84XLA?feature=shared

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13 Feb 2025 20:24

Near Lejre, Denmark A fragment from one of Scandinavia's most magnificent helmets emerged from the ground in 2024. The fragment is gold-plated and decorated with red gemstones,  and comes from the period from the end of the 7th century to the middle of the 8th century, just before the start of the Viking Age. Photo: Kristian Grøndahl

It resembles the brows on helmets from Anglo-Saxon England and Vendel era Sweden