On this day we British remember the brace men who have fought for their country, especially in WW1. These are two of my ancestors. Lt. Vere Rowsell of Coldstream guards and Lt. Edmund Wilkinson of loyal North Lancashire regiment- may they be remembered #poppy #rememberanceday #ww1 #militaryheroes
“Well, we’re all in this together, boys. Each one of us must think, not of himself, but of his pals. We must stick by our pals, which means our country. Our country is our people, remember. It took a war like this one to bring that home to everybody.”
— Henry Williamson in his autobiographical novel about WWI ‘A Test To Destruction’
The Culture of the Teutons by Vilhelm Grønbech.
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Tom Rowsell speaks at PAGAN FUTURES, London, UK 25/6/2022
Arts by Vsevolod Ivanov
I spent half a month working on a cruise ship, travelling around Norway and the Scottish islands. Part 1 of my Hyperborean Odyssey is in Western Norway, beginning with the ancient burial grounds of Gunnarshaug and Rehaugane near Norway's Viking capital Avaldsnes, then admiring the fjords around Ulvik and Olden and finishing off in the rainy city of Alesund. This is a historical travel series.
“The Giants at Dovrefjell” is a Norwegian folk song written down in the 16th century. There are also similar versions in Denmark and the Faroe Islands. It can be seen as an echo of the Nordic pagan culture or a lament at the loss of the priestly caste who knew how to interpret the runes.
The verses of the song present 12 brothers who have magical abilities, one that can control weather and another can see what is happening in far away lands. The chorus asks “who will move the runes when we ourselves cannot”.
All Indo-European religions were hierarchical. Authority in spiritual matters was not determined by doctrine but by the ruling of the priestly caste (druids, godis etc). The loss of this caste meant the loss of the old ways and the associated wisdom.
Two Aryans of the Andronovo culture charge down a defender of the Indus Valley Culture c.1500 BC. Art by Christian Sloan Hall
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Why did Celts of the British Isles build over 4000 hill forts during the Iron Age? The answer may have something to do with the conflict between those Bronze Age cowboys who maintained traditional pastoralist transhumance lifestyles, and those in the forts who depended more on arable farming. This can also explain why British Celts were the most lactose tolerant people on Earth at that time. In this documentary I visited Barbury Castle in Wiltshire, Castle an Dinas in Cornwall and several other magnificent Iron Age hill forts.
The British Iron Age is the conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, when referring to the main island and its smaller islands. This Age lasted from the first significant use of iron for tools and weapons in Britain, to the Romanisation of the southern half of Britain, ie- 1200 BC to 100 AD.
Life was mostly peaceful, as a warrior culture was a deterrent against raiding.
Metalworking an textiles (above), were finely crafted and had robust practicality.
People lived a rural life, including some who lived beside rivers, lakes an the sea
Tribal warfare occurred, plus 3 roman invasions - the first one being repelled.
This is a wild boar artifact that was made by British Celts over 2000 years ago.
The Brythonic language was spoken in Britain by its native Celtic tribes, although there were tribal variations of this, with those in south-west Britain speaking Cornish up to 500 AD, where after Old English came to replace.
the second image is a Germanic warrior! Those are Germanic not Celtic artefacts
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Were the Odinic wolf cults monolatristic?
Is there any evidence of this?
Or is it more likely Odin was their patron God but they still worshipped or at least acknowledged the rest of the Gods?
I expect they were focused on one god while dedicated to the cult at least, but not for their entire lives.
Hello Survive the Jive. We are your Russian-speaking fans who have plans to translate your videos into our language and ask for your permission to do this.
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Question might be useless or uniteresting since there isn't a universal dogma or a sense of it. But how would practising pagans deal with issues like disability? Or are there perhaps some common views you've come across? What I mean with the question is how for example the Shinto sense of purity/harmony still somewhat affects attitudes toward disability, disease(mind and body) as a sign of impurity and historically even moreso. Thank you~
Far too broad because Paganism encompasses pretty much every religion since the dawn of time. Archaeological evidence makes it clear the Proto-Indo-Europeans of the Yamnaya culture from whose religion most European pagan religions derive, did not like disabled people. An 18-35 year old Yamnaya male who was buried adjacent to a barrow ( Flat Grave 5 of the Yamnaya Culture Leshyovsky I burial ground) displayed probable slipped femoral capital epiphysis of his right femur and degenerative joint disease. He appears to have undergone an elaborate ritual ordeal of extreme torture and mutilation (his right thigh had been crushed by a heavy blow and his left leg and skull had been gouged to the bone.) He was reportedly buried in a prone position, face down and contorted and not underneath the barrow as is normal. One can speculate if this was done because he was disabled. In any case they must really have hated him. Many cultures would discard disabled children at birth, but an honoured person who became disabled from injury could still be honoured. There is evidence of disabled people living to old age way back in the ice age.
I have been working with the epic heavy metal artist Christian Sloan Hall again, this time to produce some artwork of Western Steppe Herders for my upcoming video on the Yamnaya people. It is hard to reconstruct eneolithic people of the steppe due to lack of evidence for much of their material culture, but we did our best and drew on many sources to try and get it right. Now I shall explain why he depicted them this way.
Because we couldn’t find any Yamnaya clothing, we referred to images of clothing from other eneolithic steppe cultures, namely the Mariupol culture and the Azov-Dnieper culture from the Mamaj Gora cemetery and also referred to female clothing of the later Bronze age Andronovo culture. The burial caps are common to all, and since Yamnaya fall in between those two, it is probably safe to say such hats were worn by their men and women too. We can see from Yamnaya stelae that the men wore pointed beards and sometimes went about naked or semi-naked and also that they wore sandals but Christian depicted this man wearing shoes like those of the Azov-Dnieper culture. Trousers do not appear in the archaeological record until around 2000 BC, but leg wraps are found around Neolithic Europe and Christian has given him these as they would be useful in the colder months when riding a horse.
They are both wearing braids because linguistic evidence reveals there was a PIE word for hair braids. The man has silver hair coils on his braids as these are attested in many Yamnaya burials as are dog /wolf teeth necklaces.
There is evidence for tattooing in the Yamnaya offshoot Catacomb Culture. We can see the tattoos on finger bones where the lack of flesh between skin and bone resulted in stained bones. We should presume that these tattoos covered other parts of their body too but we cannot tell for sure where, however we have Iron Age Scythian tattoos as a reference tool.
Iron Age Scythians also used deer antlers as cheek pieces for their horses, and the pre-Yamnaya Sredny Stog culture also had what appear to be antler cheek pieces so Christian has depicted the Yamnaya horses with similar tack wear.
The weapons and pottery depicted are directly attested in Yamnaya archaeology.
