Fst distance to “core yamnaya”

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Ticking Iceland off the bucket list has filled out my travel map of Northern Europe. I have also now visited every single Germanic nation

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In Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana, a simple offering format is outlined in a statement by a jötunn woman who is being tormented by her sisters:

Hét ek þá á Þórr at gefa honum hafr þann, sem hann vildi velja, en hann skyldi jafna með oss systrum.

I then vow to Þórr to give him a buck of his choosing, but he should make even with us sisters.

The format is:

1) Promise to the deity
2) Dedication of an animal
3) Requested action in exchange for the animal

In the instance of this saga, this is not an explicit sacrifice by the petitioner at that moment, but like in other sagas, the long-term cultivation of an animal to give as a sacrifice to the deity at the appointed time.

This is similar in function to the dedication of Freyfaxi by Hrafnkell Freysgoði in Hrafnkels saga. In a later part of the saga, the horse is sacrificed to Freyr.

A similar event occurs in Flóamanna saga, when Þorgils Þórðarson during his tumult with the god Þórr after his conversion, realizes that one of the oxen he has aboard his ship was one he dedicated to him. He had the ox thrown overboard to propitiate Þórr, as Þórr wanted what he was owed.

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Channeling the ghost of Jonathan Bowden

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Matt and I have successfully finished filming in beautiful Iceland. Time to go

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South Iceland this morning

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Decent decor in this Icelandic Viking pub

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I commissioned the expert Bronze Age sword smith Neil Burridge to forge this replica of the Huntshaw dagger from Darracott moor in Huntshaw, Devon. The largest barrow in the grave field has a road going straight over it.

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Preparing for my flight

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Max Planck map showing the dynamics of the Migration Era

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Heathens judge by phenotype. The 12th century Christian Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus wrote of an old king's daughter who he says "men believed" could judge a man's status by his physical appearance. When Olo Vegetus came to her Father's court, with a glare so fierce that brave men cringed beneath it, she acclaimed him "a kingly-born hero". All asked him to remove his hood and when he did they all admired his golden hair but he kept his eyes half closed so as not to terrify them.

Saxo's scepticism was at odds with common beliefs of his forefathers. Anyone could judge the merit of a man by his face alone.

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Highly based WAINE (Woden avatar) depicting a mask-helmet face with two raven heads above.

Source: https://samlinger.natmus.dk/do/asset/1968

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“Veizt þú eigi ódauðlig goð vera Óðinn, Þórr ok Frey, Frigg ok Freyju, er konungar göfga?”

“Don't you know that Óðinn, Þórr and Frey, Frigg and Freyja, who are honored by kings, are undying gods?"

Vítuss saga, AM 180 b folio.

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An exceptional yet very odd find from a Viking Age woman's pearl set. Found in 1878 in Birka

https://samlingar.shm.se/object/887FB157-1D58-4665-86DF-7F333510016A

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Who is more Stog? Fst genetic distance to the Proto-Indo-European Sredny Stog culture

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According to the recently published paper from the Harvard lab on the origins of the Indo-European languages, the roots of the Yamnaya culture is hypothesized to come out of the Mikhaylovka culture. This group which forms a bridge from Sredny Stog to Core Yamnaya, expand from Ukraine.

According to one of the paper’s authors, Losif Lazaridis, he had the following to say on his twitter account.

The Yamnaya, proximal scions of the Serednii Stih archaeological culture that preceded them in the Eneolithic North Pontic region, and more distally composed of a mix of CLV newcomers and Dnipro-Don hunter-gatherers, largely eclipsed the previous inhabitants of the steppe. 4/
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The Yamnaya's precursors were formed by admixture ca. 4000BCE and experienced an interlude of relative isolation before the emergence of the Yamnaya horizon ca. 3300BCE. Our best guess of where this happened is in the vicinity of Mykhailivka in the Lower Dnipro in Ukraine. 5/

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Good bye Iceland. 🇮🇸

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Powerful embroidery of a swan god sex hallucination was hanging in our airbnb. Only hyperboreans understand

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So called “hot” spring

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Feel like the engineer in Prometheus up here

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Tried the local Icelandic delicacy of sheep head

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Some photos from the last two days riding horses and bathing in hot springs here in Iceland!

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I am a sensitive *young Hyperborean

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This lecture compares Indian and Homeric epics to look at the Indo-European customs surrounding “abduction” of women and concludes there are formalised and legal forms of wife abduction and there are illegal ones.

It is clear that the story of Frey and Gerd conforms exactly with legal abduction in which a messenger (Skirnr) is sent in advance. Whereas the Jotuns taking Iðunn was completely illegal ie: against IE custom


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWS9CixLBgs

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For me it was "other". Almost every Heathen I met is one of the above though. I got into Heathenry via other kinds of paganism which I got into via philosophy. I didn't include that option because it hardly applies to anyone but me

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🚨 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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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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There is no need for exhaustive rhetoric, nor a need for explanation on why we commit ourselves to our ancestral customs. The Gods established the customs, setting them down as law, and our forefathers maintained them for generations.

We are now in the age of reclamation, where we as true believers must reaffirm our faith in the Gods by practicing the customs as they have been passed down to us in the existing literature and material culture that we are fortunate to have. This will set the next generation of our kind up for success as we continue to rebuild.

Here is a look at some of the perspectives of historical heathens on the why behind their practice:

Altera sa est opinio bona de majoribus suis, qui existimant non suiss ineptos, ut nescirent, quid pro numine deberent venerari.

The other is a good opinion of their elders, who think that they are not so stupid as to not know what they should venerate as a deity.

Lapponia, Johannes Schefferus

Imo hanc putant se debere illis reverentiam, ut ne recedant ipsorum instititutis, & per hoc inscitiæ vel impietas eos argo.

Indeed, they think they owe them this reverence, so that they may not depart from their own inclinations, and thereby accuse them of ignorance or impiety.

Lapponia, Johannes Schefferus

Superstitiones majorem suorum diligunt plurimum, ac pro ratione istoc afferunt, quod sic vixerint & majores, quos parentes antiquos appellant, talesque ritus adhibuerint & usurparint. Accedit & tertia causa, inveterata consuetudo. Nam & ipsa aegre traditur oblivioni, cum presertim legis instar habeat.

Superstitions of their elders they love the most, and as a reason they adduce that their elders, whom they call their ancient ancestors, lived thus, made use and adopted such rites. There is also a third reason, long-standing custom. For even this is hard to forget, since it has the appearance of law.

Lapponia, Johannes Schefferus

The same sentiment is echoed by Ásbjörn of Meðalhús in his speech to king Hákon the Good, when the king bade his subjects to convert to Christianity in Hákonar saga góða:

“..en nú vitum vér eigi hvárt heldr er, at vér munum frelsi þegit hafa, eða mantu nú láta þrælka oss af nýju með undarligum hætti, at vér munim hafna átrúnaði þeim, er feðr várir hafa haft fyrir oss ok alt forellri, fyrst um brunaöld, en nú um haugsöld, ok hafa þeir verit miklu göfgari en vér, ok hefir oss þó dugat þessi átrúnaðr.“

“…but now we know not if we indeed have got our freedom, or if you would thrall-bind anew in this strange custom, that we must forgo the faith which our fathers and all our fore-elders had before us, first in the Burning Age, and now in the Mound Age; they were much greater than we, and all the same this faith has availed us well…”

Not everything needs a debate or a dissertation.

Keep it simple, keep it direct, and keep the customs.

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Proudly displaying this picture of a Viking axe by my son in my office

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