The recent horse meat scandal involving Tescos burgers, Ikea meatballs, Findus lasagne and Taco Bell has got people wondering why the English don't eat horses. I covered this subject in my recent dissertation. The answer is to do with paganism. The Catholic church realised that eating horse meat was connected to pagan rites in the North of Europe, rites associated with gods like Odin, Thor and Freyr, so they banned it. You can read the full essay at the link below:
This video explains the story of the Norwegian King Hakon the Good who refused to eat the sacrificial horsemeat offered to him by his heathen subjects. I cook myself a nice bit of horse meat to demonstrate that it is perfectly delicious, even if it does have pagan connotations.
Batak traditional religion is still practiced today, in a modernised form called Malim. Christian missionaries from Germany and Holland and more recently Indonesian Muslims and the state have marginalised the traditional Batak religion, and even Malim is not recognised by the state. However, many practice Malim, and there are European accounts from the 19th century of what the old religion was like too.
The Batak believed there are three worlds, the middle earth of men, the underworld of ghosts and demons and the heavens ruled by the creator god called Mulajadi Na Bolon. His first creation was Manukmanuk Hulambujati, a magical chicken with an iron-beak who laid 3 eggs from which other gods hatched.
The music in this film is called a gondang and is the traditional and sacred music of the Batak people of Samosir island on lake Toba. This film includes traditional Batak wooden carvings and a dancing funeral puppet.
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Took a trip to the ancient ridgeway at Vallbyåsen, Uppland, Sweden, on which is an Iron age grave field. Nearby there is the Broborg, a vitrified hill-fort built in the migration era. The site was in use since neolithic times, as the stone cup marks nearby show. The rocks of the fort were cemented together by glass, through a very clever process of applying extreme heat to the rocks...or maybe that was just a side effect from the legend of Grimsa, a Viking queen who was burned alive in the fort. We can't know for certain but it is a spooky and evocative place in any case.
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Music: Wolcensmen - Beneath a wreath of firs
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My review of the new book published by Whyte Tracks "The Seed of Yggdrasill - Deciphering the Hidden Messages of Old Norse Myths". The book can be bought through Amazon and other online bookstores worldwide.
Her channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/LadyoftheLabyrinth
The quality of the review suffered a bit due to the extreme heat we are experiencing in England at the moment. I hope I have done the great book justice.
At the end of the video you can see a short clip from my new documentary film on Anglo-Saxon paganism - From Runes to Ruins.
Watch it here: https://fromrunestoruins.vhx.tv/
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In traditions around the world we see the same mythological trope of a god disguised as a beggar so that he can test mortals. Very often this is based on a moral that one should uphold the ancient tradition of honouring the guest in one's home. The myths usually show the god, who can be Zeus, Shiva, or Odin, punishing the mortals who fail to show them proper hospitality when they visit. What lessons can pagans learn from these myths?
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Art:
Christian Sloan Hall
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Christopher Steininger
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Ryan Murray
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Music:
Wolcensmen - Sunne (opening theme)
Halindir - The Weave
Khan Kurra - Little Dragon
Chris Zabriskie - Virtues Inherited, Vices Passed On
Kevin Macleod - Dhaka
Doug Maxwell - Bansure Raga
Sean O Rourke - contentment is wealth
Elegiac - Odinn
Borg - The Conquest of Summer
Torulf - Rite of the heart
Chris Zabriskie - Candlepower
Primary Sources:
Atharvaveda
Heimskringla
Homer, The Odyssey
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Orchard, A., (trans) The Elder Edda (2011)
The Rigveda
Sturluson, S., The Prose Edda
Togail Bruidne Dá Derga
Vidyaranya Swami, Shankara Digvijaya
Secondary Sources:
von Glinski, M. L., Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Murnaghan, S., Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey
00:00 The beggar as god
00:42 Ancient Greece
08:01 India
13:46 Ireland
14:43 Norse
22:15 Conclusion
23:16 Credits
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Here are a selection of Old English quotes taken from a number of different Anglo-Saxon literary sources including: The Wanderer, Beowulf, Precepts in the Exeter book and the Seafarer. Each quote concerns the typically Germanic, fatalistic concern with "wyrd" which sort of means fate. Wyrd was understood in pagan times as a kind of thread of webs which was woven, and was very difficult to change, even for the gods. The concept of wyrd survived in Christian times and these quotes are all from Christian sources. Even the "weird sisters" from Shakespeare's Macbeth are basically the Norns, who weave the threads of wyrd.
This snowy winter footage is mostly taken during a winter holiday in Dalarna in Sweden. The shots of the statues of the gods at the start were taken in Stockholm.
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Music used in accordance with creative commons license: Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - recorded by US army Band.
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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 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!
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Music:
Syrkr - old father
Khan kurra - little dragon
Syrkr - the tree that bleeds
Xurios - steppe expansion
Bansure Raga
Syrkr - the piercing wind
Borg - the May queen enters the circle
Halindr - Hummocks in the fog
Borg - the choosing ceremony
Stewart Keller - lush landscapes
Stark von Oben - Imperator
Art:
CGI by Robert Molyneaux
Bronze age rites at dawn, Indian chariot, hellhounds, Wolf Viking by Christian Sloan Hall
Kivik reconstruction by Arvid Fougstedt 1936
Bronsåldern by Nils Asplund
Fra Bronsåldern by Rasmus Christiansen 1925
NBA king by Beaker Lady
Bronze age map by Dan Kogosov
Beaker Koryos by Moccus Art
Sources:
Bertilsson, Ulf et al. “The Kivik Tomb: Bredarör enters into the digital arena” New Perspectives on the Bronze Age (2017): 289–306.
Froncek, T., ‘The Northmen’ 1975
Goldhahn - Bredaror on Kivik: a monumental cairn
and the history of its interpretation 2009
Kaliff & Oestigaard ‘Werewolves, Warriors and Winter Sacrifices
Unmasking Kivik and Indo-European Cosmology in Bronze Age Scandinavia’ 2022
Kveiborg, Jacob & Ahlqvist, Laura & Vandkilde, Helle. (2020). Horses, Fish and Humans: Interspecies Relationships in the Nordic Bronze Age. Current Swedish Archaeology. 75-98.
Nordquist, Gullög & Whittaker, Helene. (2007). Comments on Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas B. Larsson (2005): The Rise of Bronze Age Society. Travels, Transmissions and Transformations. Norwegian Archaeological Review. 40. 75-84.
00:00 Intro
01:20 About the barrow
04:27 Chariot of the sun
08:18 Legio Gloria
09:18 Wolves and warriors
10:07 Something fishy
11:22 Horse cult
12:40 Hooded procession
15:16 Lurs and gongs
15:59 Men with hats
16:18 Axe cult
16:51 Big hats and boats
19:55 Werewolf Koryos
23:02 Conclusion
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After nearly 2000 years since Hindus first arrived, Bali is now the last Hindu stronghold of Indonesia. Hindu temples and Hindu practice are different in Bali and India. This video looks at how the Balinese temples are organised and also the main theological difference of Indonesia Hinduism.
The second half of the video is concerned with the Sendratari Ramayana and shows it performed with Kechak at sunset at the Uluwatu temple in Southern Bali. The ballet depicts the ancient Indian epic of Lord Rama who, with heroic Hanuman the monkey, wages war on the Rakshasas of Lanka in order to rescue Sita. It is a very Indo-European myth, and I loved seeing it depicted in dance!
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Music: Wolcensmen, Xurious, Kevin McLeod
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The wyrm came crawling but Woden took nine glory-twigs and struck the adder so that it flew into nine parts.
Odin learned the secret of the runes after sacrificing himself to himself. The Scandinavian rune alphabet is called the futhark or fuþark, The Anglo-Saxon one is known as the Futhorc or Fuþorc. It was not just a system for writing but, much like with Japanese Kanji, each rune has its own individual meaning. The runes were used in religious rituals and were thought to be magic.
This music video shows ancient rune stones from Sweden and Britain. All of them were carved between the 7th and 11th century.
music :Jon Guignol - dead fingers
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footage by Survive The Jive.
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A look behind the scenes at Survive the Jive. First a reel of outtakes and bloopers, then a lengthy discussion of my workflow, my kit and my hopes for the channel. Finally a quick tour of my garden.
WARNING this video contains snakey friends
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Music: Bark sound productions and amalec
00:00 Bloopers and outtakes
16:30 Kit and workflow
44:53 My garden
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