King Arthur was supposed to come king of Dumnonia here in Tintagel, Cornwall

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Returning to the topic of the highest god, Odin. First I address why the Romans weren't entirely wrong when they compared him to Mercury/Hermes. Then I present my theory about how Odin learned the nine sacred songs called Galdra and why this is related to his role as the god of the runes. The dankest god, Odin, and esoteric theories go together like runes and galdra. I look at the origins of runes themselves and the usage of runes in conjunction with galdra and thus seek to solve the mystery of the runes and the god who first learned them on the world tree.

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Sources:
Snorri Sturlusson, Prose Edda
Poetic Edda: Sigrdrífumál, Havamal, Voluspa, Rigsthula
Tacitus, Germania
Ibn Fadlan, Risala
Snorri Sturlusson, Lausavísur
Völsunga saga
Grettir’s saga
Ynglinga saga

00:00 Intro
01:10 the dankest god
03:05 Odin and Mercury
06:46 Great Rebellion sponsor
08:22 Loki and Prometheus
15:02 the origin of Runes
24:00 Runic elites
27:12 Galdr
31:54 Runar and Galdra
39:30 Chants preserve knowledge
43:06 Sacred arts / conclusion

Why do some people have blue eyes? What is the evolutionary advantage of having blue eyes? Where did blue eyes evolve? Blue eyes have piqued curiosity for centuries, standing out as a mesmerising and rare trait among humans. Discover the underlying science behind blue eyes as we explore various theories and genetic factors that contribute to their existence. They were mainly associated with Mesolithic Western Hunter Gatherers like Cheddar man but the origin and story of this phenotype is complicated. A new study from Liverpool may have the answer as to what benefit this trait has - better ability to see in low light.

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Sources:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.17.576074v1
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm

The torc or torque was a status symbol for Celts, Thracians, Persians and Scythians in the Iron Age. But where does the torc originate? The oldest torcs appear in the late European Bronze Age.

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Music: Stewart Keller - Button Light Pink

Folklorists in 19th century England and Sweden recorded ancient pagan rituals of hanging animals in trees, in accordance with known ritual sacrifices for the Viking god Odin. The pagan rituals survived for much longer than people realise!

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Sources:

Higgens, T. W. E. “A Survival of Odin-Worship in Kent.” Folklore, vol. 7, no. 3, 1896, pp. 298–99. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1253238.
GUNNAR OLOF HYLTÉN-CAVALLIUS - 1863 Wärend and Wirdarne. An attempt in Swedish Ethnology.

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Music by Wodenwyrd, Deep Gnome, Baerdcyn

Norman origins. Go to https://historicmail.com/THEJIVE and use the code THEJIVE to get 10% off on Historic Mail’s Xmas Sale and help support the channel. Thanks to Historic Mail for sponsoring this video!

Were the Normans French or were they Vikings? DNA may reveal the answers but so far only two studies have looked at Norman DNA and there are problems with both. In this video I look at two Norman Y haplogroup studies to see what we can learn and I debunk the claim that J2a in Europe comes from "ancient Semitic kings"

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Viking DNA https://www.youtube.com/live/wc1GOPN5X3g
Viking DNA 2 https://www.youtube.com/live/x9ijsYu0yGM
Anglo-Saxon DNA https://youtu.be/BBUea_HM83s

Sources:
Rasheed, M E H & Montgomery, Eric & Youseffi, Mansour. (2023). The human Y-Chromosome DNA haplogroup of the Norman kings of England and their families. Journal of Physics Conference Series.

Historical Genetics of the Cotenin Peninsula
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/related-research/historical-genetics-of-the-cotenin-peninsula
http://closducotentin.over-blog.fr/2016/04/resultats-de-l-etude-d-adn-historique-sur-les-diasporas-scandinaves-en-cotentin.html

Seton family https://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/centreforlifelonglearning/genealogy/geneticgenealogyresearch/scottishclansandfamilies/setonfamily/

Margaryan, A., Lawson, D.J., Sikora, M. et al. Population genomics of the Viking world. Nature 585, 390–396 (2020)

Montgomery, H., 'The God-Kings of the Vikings' 2010

00:00 who are the Normans?
01:24 Norman haplogroup study 2016
07:42 Historic Mail
09:29 Do Normans descend from Semitic kings?
17:36 Is J2 a Semitic haplogroup?

A new article from The Guardian has claimed, based on research by Dr Rebecca Redfern, that many plague victims in medieval London were black Africans and that this is because of racism. However, a look at the sources justifying this claim reveals it cannot stand up to scrutiny.

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Redfern, Rebecca & Hefner, Joe. (2019). “Officially absent but actually present”.

Klunk, J, Duggan, AT, Redfern, R, et al. Genetic resiliency and the Black Death: No apparent loss of mitogenomic diversity due to the Black Death in medieval London and Denmark. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2019; 169: 240–252.

Who built the first stone circles? The megalith builders of Brittany - from the migration and rise of the first farmers to the demise of the culture. This feature length documentary shows how the famous megalithic monuments of Britain and Ireland, such as Stonehenge, derive from many earlier ones in Brittany. Who were the first farmers in France? Why did they start building the impressive megalithic chambered tombs or the enormous standing stones known as menhirs? This documentary looks at the world's first tombs, some close to 7000 years old, and traces the development of the dolmens and other tombs from 5000 BC to 2700 BC. We also learn how the first farmers interacted with the Mesolithic Western Hunter Gatherers who were already there, and how they may have influenced this megalithic monument tradition. Learn how the exquisite jadeite ax heads of the Neolithic were symbols of power imported from the far away Alps. We visited the tombs of Gavrinis, Petit Mont, Table des Marchands, the Barrow tomb of Kercado and the truly ancient Saint-Michel tumulus among others. You will also learn about the 4 mile long alignments of Carnac and what they were made for. The adventure starts at the 9 maidens stones in Cornwall and ends on the stunning coasts of Morbihan in Brittany.

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Drone and additional camera work in Cornwall by @ROTPband

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00:00 Introduction
01:54 Cornish megalithic monuments
05:00 Origin of the Megalithic people and culture
09:48 Barrow of St Michel
10:40 Barrow of Tumiac
12:07 WHG and LBK influences
15:53 ​​Early Dolmens
17:15 Covered Alley of L'Île-Grande
17:48 Standing stones / Giant of Manio, Menhir of St Uzec
18:56 Grand m..

The Vénus of Quinipily is a statue of a goddess that has been worshipped in Brittany for about 2000 years. It was originally associated with the Roman occupation but the local Celts continued to worship her into modern times. I went to pay my respects to her...

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Who were the Celts? https://youtu.be/a2TVpq8lj6w
Ancient stones of Brittany https://youtu.be/fCK1EZasxgk
Cornwall's Celtic village https://youtu.be/lf7EtembxwI

Art by Ryan Murray
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Sources:
JOBBÉ-DUVAL, E. “LES IDÉES PRIMITIVES DANS LA BRETAGNE CONTEMPORAINE.” Nouvelle Revue Historique de Droit Français et Étranger, vol. 35, 1911, pp. 257–330
Douglas-Cooper, H. Mellor, B., (2000). 'Secret France: Charming Villages & Country Tours.'

Music in order:
Hilidgaldra - viking
Wodenwyrd (feat. Baerdcyn) - Wulfslæp
Graal Knyght - Alpenfuchs

The British Museum houses some of Lycia's greatest sculptures taken from the ancient city of Xanthos which I have also visited in one of my films:

https://youtu.be/cbgwtfd8kWA

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Animal sacrifice under the home?
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The custom of burying an animal under the foundations of a house is not only very widespread; found in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Finland and beyond, but is also very old, dating back to the Indo-Europeans of the Bronze Age Europe. It even spread as far away as America and India! In this video I trace the customs origins and dispersal and explain the magical function of the animal and human sacrifices underneath the home.

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Sources:
Eliade, Mircea - Zalmoxis - The Vanishing God-The University of Chicago Press (1972)
Hukantaival, Sonja. (2009). Horse Skulls and "Alder-Horse": The Horse as a Depositional "Sacrifice" in Buildings. Archaeologia Baltica. 11. 350-356.
Kuzmina, The Origins of Indo-Iranians, 2007
Manning, M. Chris. “The Material Culture of Ritual Concealments in the United States.” Historical Archaeology, vol. 48, no. 3, 2014, pp. 52–83.
O’Reilly, Barry. “Hearth and Home: The Vernacular House in Ireland from c. 1800.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, vol. 111C, 2011, pp. 193–215.
Ó Súilleabháin, Seán. “Foundation Sacrifices.” The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 75, no. 1, 1945, pp. 45–52.
Søvsø, M., et al. 'Om hugorme, dyrekranier og tordensten– bygningsofre og andre skikke med rødder i folketroen'

00:00 Introduction
02:19 Iron Age
03:40 Britain and America
06:37 Saint Oran of Iona
07:56 Manole of Romania
09:22 Indo-Iranians
12:31 Ireland
15:02 Scandinavia
20:34 Finland and Alder horse
22:25 Conclusion

A sneaky criminal pinched my wallet when I visited the Parthenon in Greece. Don't make the same mistake I did. In this video I visit the Panathenaic stadium, the Olympeion temple of Zeus, I talk about the Elgin marbles, then I climb the Acropolis to the Parthenon and the the Erechtheion

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Music by: Hilidgaldr, Simon Jacobs, Kevin Beorn

after looking at the Parthenon last week I decided to check out the marbles from within which are now in the British Museum

postscriptum to my recent film in which I discuss a Platonic parallel to the Celtic head cult and an Islamic equivalent of the world tree in hell. You can watch the original film on YouTube https://youtu.be/exlcT_iL9-U

A preview from my soon to be released doc about Indo-European cosmology. This part attempts to connect the 'water of hell' (itself associated with memories of the dead and divine wisdom) with the IE tradition of ritual beverages such as honey mead - thus explaining why early IE people took ritual beverage vessels to the grave.

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Is death an obstacle to be overcome? An enemy to be conquered? Or the only chance we have to assimilate with the gods?

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Pagans Futures is a conference organised in association with the Survive the Jive™ Historical Research Project.
The theme of this conference is- 'Preserving European spiritual traditions in a globalised future'.
The purpose of this conference is to bring together polytheist thought leaders of the Indo-European traditions to consider building a philosophical framework for preserving the integrity of our traditions within an emerging new world order
Historian, YouTuber and renowned polytheist Thomas Rowsell known for the Survive the Jive YouTube channel shall be the keynote speaker.
Dr.Borja Vilallonga, Ph.D. is a scholar of history and religion previously at Columbia University, New York University, and the University of Newcastle. He has devoted his research to the relationship between traditional religion and modernity and runs a YouTube channel called @The Modern Platonist
There will a live musical performance from the pagan folk artist @Wolcensmen
Audience participation is encouraged during a Q and A session with the speakers
It is estimated there are over 250,000 pagan polytheists in the UK in addition to a similar number of Hindus
Current political rhetoric regarding alleged ‘common values’ of ‘global humanity’ deliberately marginalises, excludes or misrepresents the deeply held beliefs of polytheists
Advancements in technology pose challenges to those who uphold pagan systems of ethics
Let us address these issues and more, together!

Sturla Ellingvåg is an economist and historian from Norway currently collaborating with the roots of the Vikings at the Lundbeck Foundation Centre for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen. He also runs his own YouTube channel called Viking Stories.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm5dy5GevN0ju6f2-QXXCzA

Sturla recently collaborated on a genetic paper titled Population genomics of the Viking world. The findings of the paper have been reported on by a number of mainstream media worldwide, but the reports misrepresent the findings and Sturla has spoken out against this. Today we will hear more about what the paper actually shows about Viking diversity.

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Thor is a Viking god who was mainly worshipped in Scandinavia but also in Britain. There are sacred cult sites to Thor in the UK and the Norse god of thunder also shows up in some local folklore. This video looks at a couple of interesting examples from Derbyshire and Surrey.

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Odin art by Christian Sloan Hall
Drone footage by Mr MSL
Stock footage from Envato

Music by: Borg, Bark Sound Productions, Xurios,

Many people have requested I post this song since it is not available anywhere else online.

Easter was originally the name of a pagan Anglo-Saxon goddess. This video tells you all there is to know about her and also looks at other goddesses around Europe and Asia to whom she is related!

Art by Christian Sloan Hall

This is a reconstruction of building D2 at the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Yeavering. It is widely agreed to be a pagan temple or shrine room which the early English called a weoh or hearg. The building contained no evidence of human habitation at all, but did have a large pit containing sacrificial animal bones, mainly oxen skulls. There are also three post holes behind a partition wall which are thought to have been where the idols of the gods stood.

Such temples are well attested in historical sources. Bede says that King Rædwald kept a temple with shrines to the old gods. Elsewhere Bede recounts the story of Coifi the pagan priest in Northumbria who defiled a temple, and he also says that the Christian King Earconbert of Kent destroyed many temples and idols in 640AD. A letter from Pope Gregory to Abbot Mellitus, written in 601AD, requests that the temples of the English idols are not to be destroyed, but instead only the idols destroyed and replaced with altars, holy water and relics, which means early church buildings may originally have been pagan temples. The idols were most likely made of wood and then decorated but none survive in the archaeological record, but such idols have been found in Celtic and Nordic contexts and are also attested among Slavic and Baltic pagans.

Art by Robert Molyneaux https://www.artstation.com/robertmolyneaux
Read more about Yeavering here: https://exarc.net/issue-2015-2/ea/yeavering-reconsidered

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The Final Pagan Generation recounts the story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked pagan holy sites and temples. Watts examines why the "final pagan generation"—born to the old ways and the old world in which it seemed to everyone that religious practices would continue as they had for the past two thousand years—proved both unable to anticipate the changes that imperially sponsored Christianity produced and unwilling to resist them. This book is relevant today due to obvious modern parallels.

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In this video I will show how the 2nd Merseberg charm, a magic spell from medieval Germany, proves that ancient Indo-Europeans also had special magical spells to keep their horses alive - by healing them. The examples I give come from a 19th century Swedish spell, an Irish spell from 1938 recorded in the archives of the folklore dept. at UCD, the second battle of Maige Tuired, and Book 4/12 of the Atharva-Veda.

I also look at how the Norse used horses for black magic too - namely the níðstang or shame pole which requires a severed horse's head.

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Odin heals Baldr's horse by Gramanh Folcwald
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Andronovo chariot and vikings by Christian Sloan Hall
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