Forwarded from Old and New European Art and Aesthetics
Thor lifts the Midgard serpent. Niels Hansen Jacobsen (Danish sculptor, 1861-1941)
WHG migrated to Maghreb
Ancient DNA from the Mediterranean region has revealed long-range connections and population transformations associated with the spread of food producing economies. However, in contrast to Europe, genetic data from this key transition in northern Africa are limited, and have only been available from the far western Maghreb (Morocco). Here, we present genome-wide data for nine individuals from the Later Stone Age (LSA) through the Neolithic in Algeria and Tunisia. The earliest individuals cluster with pre-Neolithic people of the western Maghreb (~15000-7600 BP), showing that this "Maghrebi" ancestry profile had a substantial geographic and temporal extent. At least one individual from Djebba (Tunisia), dating to ~8000 BP, harbored ancestry from European hunter-gatherers, likely reflecting early Holocene movement across the Strait of Sicily. Later Neolithic people from the eastern Maghreb retained largely local forager ancestry together with smaller contributions from European farmers (by ~7000 BP) and Levantine groups (by ~6800 BP), and were thus far less impacted by external gene flow than were populations in other parts of the Neolithic Mediterranean.
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB83667
Ancient DNA from the Mediterranean region has revealed long-range connections and population transformations associated with the spread of food producing economies. However, in contrast to Europe, genetic data from this key transition in northern Africa are limited, and have only been available from the far western Maghreb (Morocco). Here, we present genome-wide data for nine individuals from the Later Stone Age (LSA) through the Neolithic in Algeria and Tunisia. The earliest individuals cluster with pre-Neolithic people of the western Maghreb (~15000-7600 BP), showing that this "Maghrebi" ancestry profile had a substantial geographic and temporal extent. At least one individual from Djebba (Tunisia), dating to ~8000 BP, harbored ancestry from European hunter-gatherers, likely reflecting early Holocene movement across the Strait of Sicily. Later Neolithic people from the eastern Maghreb retained largely local forager ancestry together with smaller contributions from European farmers (by ~7000 BP) and Levantine groups (by ~6800 BP), and were thus far less impacted by external gene flow than were populations in other parts of the Neolithic Mediterranean.
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB83667
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@thegoldenone and I do not soyface but the epic power of this barrow brought us close to it!
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@thegoldenone and I do not soyface but the epic power of this barrow brought us close to it!
A short video of Marcus and I inside a stone ship setting
https://youtube.com/shorts/gQ6zkZYq7AI?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/gQ6zkZYq7AI?feature=share
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Pagan burial ground with @TheGoldenOne #vikingheritage #archaeology
“The deep nature of the human essence is rooted in the Divine, and man can disclose this nature in ecstatic ceremonies or ascetic practices. Hence one variation of the metaphysics of the mask.
When a person dons the mask of a God, his deep Selfhood (Divinehood) inside coincides with the God's mask on the outside.
But where and in what state, then, dwells the human nature suspended in-between, the very same everyday person who 'has put on a mask'? The paradox here is that the persona, the everyday personality (etymologically both mean mask or guise), is a mask that conceals the Divine, whereas putting on the mask of a God is essentially not a concealing of face, but its exposure, its discovery.”
Askr Svarte
When a person dons the mask of a God, his deep Selfhood (Divinehood) inside coincides with the God's mask on the outside.
But where and in what state, then, dwells the human nature suspended in-between, the very same everyday person who 'has put on a mask'? The paradox here is that the persona, the everyday personality (etymologically both mean mask or guise), is a mask that conceals the Divine, whereas putting on the mask of a God is essentially not a concealing of face, but its exposure, its discovery.”
Askr Svarte
Christopher Lee reads a Yuletide ghost story about a haunted Saxon barrow
https://youtu.be/yUSbAWyswN0?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/yUSbAWyswN0?feature=shared
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A Ghost Story for Christmas: "A Warning to the Curious", with Sir Christopher Lee
M. R. James's work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic…
A Yuletide warning for brainy young friends. Always direct your reading and learning towards the ultimate spiritual purpose. It is right for a young man so inclined to immerse himself in philosophy, theology and the world of ideas only if he ultimately manifests those ideas into a coherent way of being. The intellectually gifted can fall victim to a type of vanity that transforms them into wordcels incapable of living out the ideas they have studied. Theories become obstructions to the modes of being they present and the victims use them as masks to obscure their failure.
“All too often people forget that spirituality is essentially a way of life and that its measure does not consist of notions, theories, and ideas that have been stored in one’s head. Spirituality is actually what has been successfully actualized and translated into a sense of superiority which is experienced inside by the soul, and a noble demeanor, which is expressed in the body.” Evola
“All too often people forget that spirituality is essentially a way of life and that its measure does not consist of notions, theories, and ideas that have been stored in one’s head. Spirituality is actually what has been successfully actualized and translated into a sense of superiority which is experienced inside by the soul, and a noble demeanor, which is expressed in the body.” Evola
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Solstice Rites from sunup to well after sundown last night.
On the longest night, we know that the :S:un is returning.
We know that the blood of our ancestors and the myths of our people are evergreen.
Servants of the First Wolf, keepers of the fire on the mountain peaks.
Sieg Des Lichtes.
On the longest night, we know that the :S:un is returning.
We know that the blood of our ancestors and the myths of our people are evergreen.
Servants of the First Wolf, keepers of the fire on the mountain peaks.
Sieg Des Lichtes.
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In advance of Yule I shall just remind people that although in the past I pointed out that Odin's epithet JÓLFAÐR "yule father" sounds like Father Christmas, that is in fact just a coincidence. Odin was indeed the principle god of the Yule festival, but he is not related to Santa Claus.
Father Christmas and Santa Claus are two separate figures who got merged together recently. The latter was mainly in West Germanic speaking continental Europe and was based on Saint Nicolas, while the former was in France and the British Isles and is literally a personification of Christmas itself. Neither existed in Scandinavia or Iceland until recently. The Nordic equivalent was a goat and it is perhaps of relevance that early English depictions of Father Christmas depict him riding on a goat so there may be a connection between the Julbok and Father Christmas but maybe not.
The reindeer and North pole stuff is all modern invention from USA so any resemblance to Odin is coincidence.
Also, as a heathen father, I don't consider it pious to tell my children that the fat purveyor of plastic toys is our god. It isn't. I also refrain from referring to the small pointy hatted servants as "elves" since in our religion this term is reserved for honoured ancestral spirits. I prefer to say gnome so as to avoid confusion. The Nordic countries call them nisse but this may derive from a term meaning "ancestor" which raises similar concerns.
Father Christmas and Santa Claus are two separate figures who got merged together recently. The latter was mainly in West Germanic speaking continental Europe and was based on Saint Nicolas, while the former was in France and the British Isles and is literally a personification of Christmas itself. Neither existed in Scandinavia or Iceland until recently. The Nordic equivalent was a goat and it is perhaps of relevance that early English depictions of Father Christmas depict him riding on a goat so there may be a connection between the Julbok and Father Christmas but maybe not.
The reindeer and North pole stuff is all modern invention from USA so any resemblance to Odin is coincidence.
Also, as a heathen father, I don't consider it pious to tell my children that the fat purveyor of plastic toys is our god. It isn't. I also refrain from referring to the small pointy hatted servants as "elves" since in our religion this term is reserved for honoured ancestral spirits. I prefer to say gnome so as to avoid confusion. The Nordic countries call them nisse but this may derive from a term meaning "ancestor" which raises similar concerns.
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Intimidating fashion statement from this man of the Khvalynsk related Ekaterinovka site. These people were like Yamnaya but with higher levels of EHG.