Folkloric account of Odinic practices both in Kent and Exmoor involving the hanging of animals in trees. I have witnessed and photographed stags hung up high in branches in the forests of Sussex myself

Gamers may like to check out this new Roman themed game created by my colleague Roy Douglas who has contributed CGI art to STJ

https://youtu.be/sCTNPnKC7Yo

AI tyranny is already here. Just received a twitter strike for advising AA to chop garlic with a knife.

Previously had account suspended for warning Lord Miles he could be killed if he went to north sentinel island, and for saying the BBC ought to die.

It picks up words like die, kill or knife and automatically suspends the account. Then the review fails because there are no human staff

"The basic principle followed by the Indo- European peoples was of a divine order sustaining the whole universe. Law was seen as something bestowed by the Gods upon humanity in order for man to avoid all impiety and injustice through adherence to traditional values...He who follows Tradition remains faithful to his ancestral heritage by perceiving the divine in all moments of his life, thus bearing witness to the values of truth, justice, loyalty and honour. Inner dedication to traditional principles leads to a genuine awareness that shapes one's life by infusing it with a higher significance."

Raido

Ireland's great poet, Seamus Heaney, visits a Celtic idol on Boa island in this beautiful little film. Real folk horror vibes. May the Irish resist globalist oppression and remember their gods.
https://youtu.be/DSpoPBb8LAg

A Frankish silver belt buckle tongue was appropriated by Saxon pagans who removed one eye of the face so that it represents Wotan
https://rotergeysir.net/old-saxon-wodan-image-north-of-bremen/

My son leaves an offering to a weoh stapol

Core Germanic zone 500 BC and related migrations of Germanic peoples.

Proto Germanic words for family and their reconstructed modern English cognates

"The primary appeal of a universal religion to a ruling elite may be its potential as a force for enhanced social cohesion. ... It appears that this utilitarian view contributed toward the popularization of Zoroastrianism throughout the Persian Empire by King Cyrus (d. 431 B.C.), in Alexander the Great's advocacy of Hellenistic ecumenism, in the expansion of Hinayana Buddhism during the reign of the Indian Emperor Asoka (d. 232 BC), in the expansion of Mahayana Buddhism throughout China during the Tang dynasty (620-907), in the legitimizing of Christianity by Constantine in 313, and in the military-religious expansion of Islam under the Caliphate (632-661) and the Umayyad Dynasty (661-750). Also, as will be discussed in Part II, some Germanic leaders appear to have utilized Arian Christianity to preserve their ethnocultural identity, while others utilized Roman Christianity to enhance the level of social cohesion throughout their realms."

"The primary contribution of Bellah to the current inquiry is his analysis of "the phenomenon of religious rejection of the world characterized by extremely negative evaluation of man and society and the exaltation of another realm of reality as alone true and infinitely valuable." This word rejecting orientation tends to be manifested in universal religions and is contrasted by Bellah with the world-accepting orientation of primitive religion, which is "concerned with the maintenance of personal, social and cosmic harmony and with attaining specific goods - rain, harvest, children, health - as men have always been. But the overriding goal of salvation that dominates the world-rejecting religions is almost absent in primitive religion and life after death tends to be a shadowy semi-existence in some vague designated place in the single world."

"In certain instances, "the breakdown of internal order led to messianic expectations of the coming of a savior king." These destabilizing social developments seem to have contributed to the emergence of the historical, universal religions, which are distinguished from the archaic, folk religions by their transcendental, world-rejecting character. Bellah explicates:

'For the masses, at least, the new dualism is above all expressed in the difference between this world and the life after death. Religious concern, focused on this life in primitive and archaic religions, now tends to focus on life in the other realm, which may be either infinitely superior or, under certain circumstances, with the emergence of various conceptions of hell, infinitely worse. Under these circumstances the religious goal of salvation (or enlightenment, release and so forth) is for the first time the central religious preoccupation...
From the point of view of these religions a man is no longer defined chiefly in terms of what clan he comes from or what particular god he serves but rather as a being capable of salvation...'

This description of historical, universal religions is significant, since it also describes the ideological milieu from which Christianity emerged. It may be compared with the earlier observations of Ernst Troeltsch:

'A new era of creative religious experience and sensitiveness to religious influences characterized the close of the ancient world. The way had been prepared for this change by a number of factors, which may be briefly enumerated: the destruction of national religions, which was a natural result of the loss of national independence; the mingling of races, which led naturally to the mingling of various cults; the rise of mystery religions with their exclusive emphasis upon the inner life, and their independence of questions of nationality and birth; the fusion of various fragments of religion which had broken away from their national foundation; the philosophical religion of culture with its varied forms of assimilation to the popular religions; the need of a world empire for a world religion, a need which was only partially satisfied by worship of the Emperor.'"

From James C. Russell — The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity.

One way to imagine the Scythian ethnogenesis and spread is as a ball bouncing. It drops from West Russia/Belarussia (fatyanovo) in a fall of about 1000 years to the East end of the steppe (passing from Sintashta to Andronovo) bouncing at the point of the Karasuk near the Altai mountains, and then, as Scythians, returning West as far as Ukraine in just 300 years. Imagine a slow fall, with a much faster bounce back

"Genetic evidence coincides with Jordane's account of a Scandinavian origin of the Goths. Olade et al 2019 conducted a study on several Visigoth remains in Iberia. Sample I12163 was found to be ~65% Germanic (resembling modern Swedes from Gotland and Danes from Jutland), and ~35% local Iberian (resembling modern Portuguese and Spanish people). Sample I12023 had no Southern European admixture but a significant Welsh/Breton-like signal on top of their base Scandinavian DNA. Sample I12032 was roughly ~50% Germanic and ~50% Iberian, whilst another sample labelled I120234 was ~85% Iberian and ~25% mixed Celtic and Germanic ancestry."

THE VISIGOTHS: History, Origin, Genetics