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Trying to combine Giger and Germanic Interlace styles to create a vision of Hell.

The full moon of Blōtmōnaþ is technically tomorrow but it appears full now. This is an important time to make an offering to the gods and ancestors

And another new find by Jørgen Frost - a Viking age "god mask" mount. This one is quite unusual, especially the bared teeth.

Heathenry in it's revived state is a century in the making Germanic paganism's revival begins with the efforts of Victorian antiquarians, artists and eccentrics of the Romantic period but the first proper self proclaimed Wodenist/Odinist was an Australian Nazi-sympathiser in the 1930's called Alexander Rud Mills. History Channel claims the Nazis themselves were pagans, but that isn't really true. Only Himmler and a few of his mates dabbled with some pagan themes and aesthetics, but they were not actually pagans - or only few of them were. There were even some genuine Heathens who were thrown into concentration camps by the Nazis. Mill's work in Australia didn't lead to anything in the 30's, and his Heathenry was not very authentic either, but it was important because in the 60's it influenced significant people like Else Christensen who established the Odinist Fellowship in 1969 in Florida. She then influenced people like Stephen McNallen who founded the AFA in 1976. In Europe, Heathenry was first established in Iceland by Ásatrúarfélagið in 1972 where it was called Asatru. In England, Stubba founded the Committee for the Restoration of the Odinic Rite in 1973, which was based in Stepney, Tower Hamlets - in the 80's this was built up to become the Odinic Rite charity which later split into the modern group called the Odinic Rite, while the charity status was kept by the other group called the Odinist Fellowship (unrelated to Else's OF). Both of these still exist. McNallen was uploading videos promoting Heathenry to YouTube from around 2008/9 while I first reverted to Heathenry in 2009, influenced mainly by philosophy and other books, and soon began uploading videos on the subject of Heathenry too. Since 2010, the majority of Heathens have been brought to the faith through online content rather than via books and outreach as in the past. This process has taken 100 years at least, but many assume Heathenry just emerged as an online phenomenon, not realising this online activity was a continuation of decades of offline work.

Anglo-Saxon artefacts at the British Museum in London. Most of them come from the Sutton Hoo burial - including the lyre, the rotating fish mount, and the bird shield mount.

This sculpture from Valais in Switzerland dates to around 2500 BC and is associated with the Beaker folk - it resembles similar anthropomorphic stelae of the steppes. It depicts an archer with a bow diagonally across his chest, a belt beneath it and a patterned tunic in the fashion of the time. His arms are resting above his belt. His stylised face looks like he is wearing a helmet with a nose guard, although afaik no such helmets have been found dating to this time.

Viking SAGA film broadcast at FAB! archaeological film festival in Italy. 🇮🇸🐦‍⬛️⚔️ 'Sagas of the Raven Land' is a history documentary in which historian Tom Rowsell journeys to Iceland, immersing himself in the landscapes that inspired the Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age. He rides native horses across the fells, bathes in hot springs, and traces the footsteps of legendary saga heroes like Eirik the Red and Egill Skallagrimsson. CLICK HERE TO WATCH IT NOW

FRESH new find

IBD sharing fig from the above paper seems to show that North Germany had a greater connection to Britain.

A new paper shows that after the fall of Rome, some Romans preferred to stay behind the limes and marry South German women around Altheim, leaving mixed offspring in the 6th century. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389635889_Historic_Genomes_Uncover_Demographic_Shifts_and_Kinship_Structures_in_Post-Roman_Central_Europe

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.

Pagans are those who say “Yes” to life

There are loads of artistic depictions of the Celtic hill forts built in Iron Age Britain, but few of the forts made nearly 1000 years later in Migration era Northern Europe. Sandy Borg in Sweden, picture 1 below, had stone walls which made it rather advanced for the 400's AD. There are very few forts in Germany compared to Scandinavia at this time, so it may be that the 5th century Saxon fort of Heidenstadt was influenced by such Nordic ones. I have generated 2 images of Heidenstadt using ChatGPT and Grok (see pics 2 and 3). The fort had wooden walls built on a bank, which can be seen on the lidar scan (pic 4). No evidence of settlement within has been found, but I suspect that is because the peaty marshy land has destroyed the buildings - therefore i included some structures. Many gold and other finds have been found in the marshes around the fort showing wealth and power was centred there.

“I stood at noon when the maidens dread Came forth ere the battle, to choose the slain, And at nightfall the raven's foot was red, And the wolves were met on the darkening plain. Then hewed the hanger, the sword smote sore, I held up the flag till the day went by; It was glued to my straining clasp with gore - Wrap it round me when I die!” The Battle Flag of Sigurd (1872) NB: Sigurd was a Teutonic dragon slaying hero whose battle flag guaranteed victory but also death to he who bore it

Romans should pay reparations for this!

Germanic auxiliaries in the Anglevari and Cornuti regiments of the Roman army used this design on their shields in the 4th century. The same design is found on contemporary sword decorations from bogs in the territory of the Angles. This example came from Ejsbøl bog in southern Jutland. The two birds represent the ravens of the god Woden. You can honour your ancestors and gain the same power from the symbol they sought, with this new shirt.

LMAO at the low IQ Christians posting stuff like this as an "own". Can hardly imagine how such people tie their own shoe laces.

One thing people don’t know about geneticist Lazaridis is that he hates Germanic people. See how inaccurate the rendering of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany was under Otto III. Why would he post that?

The X account location feature that recently dropped is not always accurate. It says Red Ice is based in Ireland and I am based in Australia. However, it has been revealing many Christian crusader accounts come from India. Also, this allegedly “Swedish” account which is anti-pagan and pushes anti semitism of the Christian Identity “we wuz hebrews” variety, was created in Israel. I have argued with this account which claims Jesus was an "Aryan" and that Germanics come from Israel in the past, and it argues in very bad faith - almost like a third worlder. At first "she" denied the location as another of the above errors, but many remained suspicious because of the account using poor Swedish and English (All Swedes speak great English). Then someone managed to dig up that the profile picture "Jonna" uses is actually of a Czech model. Then this Jonna deleted their account. It seems obvious that this person was a bad actor, pretending to be a European, in order to promote anti-Heathen propaganda.