Sagnamaðr Stark
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Independent Indo-European historian. Germanic pagan. Outdoorsman. Goði. ᛟ
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I always thought there could be more to Freki and Geri, and Huginn and Muninn.
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Wolves and ravens have a very unique relationship in nature. Wolves will follow ravens to food, and ravens will alert the wolves to danger while they eat.
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A 7-9th Century Sasanian Persian king and a 7th Century Anglo Saxon Cyning.
Photo by Eran ud Turan, armour by Nadeem Ahmad and Paul Mortimer.
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This carved head of Odin was found during the excavations of Oslo’s old town, and what’s particularly interesting is that it dates to the 12-13th Century; long after the conversion of Norway was allegedly complete. ᚬ
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An Udmurt pagan shrine in Udmurtia, Russia.
Udmurt Paganism, known as Udmurt Vos, has remained prominent among the Udmurts despite pressure from the Orthodox Church and Khanate of Kazan. Despite Soviet repression, in 1960, the village of Karamas-Peljga was reportedly 70% pagan.
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Hard to say who gets more triggered upon seeing pictures of altars, practice and rituals; e-Christians or McViking playgans.
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A beautiful pagan shrine on the Oredezh River, near St. Petersburg, Russia.
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I’ve been noticing a trend among pagan circles to vehemently reject, or attempt to disprove, our Indo-European ancestry, oddly enough just as it was proven that the Indo-Europeans originated in Europe with the Sredny Stog Culture.
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This very Odin-like Gallo-Roman statue was found in Moux, southern France, and is believed to depict Lugh with his ravens/crows and his dog Failinis.
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Another key difference between the Germanic pagan vs. Abrahamic worldview is that Germanic paganism is world-affirming vs. world-rejecting.
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Art: The Funeral of a Viking by Frank Dicksee, 1893.
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No hate like Christian love, some things never change.
Remember; in much of the Western world, both vandalism and incitement to vandalism are criminal offences. If you catch one of these wankers red-handed, you can report their sorry ass and press charges. ᛦ
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Celt fighting German, Central Europe, 100BC, by Angus McBride.
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A Nenet shaman worshipping at godpoles in Naryan-Mar, Okrug, Russia.
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In northern Germany, horse-head gables can still be seen on Low German farmhouses. Rudolf Simek noted that they were referred to as “Hengst und Hors” (Low German: Stallion and Mare) as late as 1875; very likely a remnant of the cult of the Divine Twins.
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Etruscan wolf head helmet, 6-5th Century BC. The wearer would have viewed through the jaws. The teeth have been partially reconstructed, and it may have had eyes and ears attached back in the day. An Indo-European masterpiece.
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This Bronze Age petroglyph at Tanum is thought by many to be the oldest depiction of a maypole.
Happy May Day!
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A new Anglo Saxon copper alloy patrix from Kent with an Odinic horned figure.
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Regarding Icelandic stave magic.
Icelandic magical staves have always been a controversial topic in modern Heathen circles. Many will argue that they are somehow “Christian”, as staves used in later Icelandic magic bear resemblance to the contents of the Key of Solomon.
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A Roman tomb was recently unearthed in Giugliano, southern Italy, dating to the 1st Century. One of the frescoes inside depicts Hercules and Mercury capturing Cerberus…very reminiscent of early depictions of Tyr and Fenrir further north. ᛏ
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Certain “academics” continue to insist that the runes are mere letters, with no esoteric or spiritual element.
So they’re just going to ignore…
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The very word rune, from Proto-Germanic rūnō, means secret.
In the Hávamál, Odin hung from Yggdrasil to obtain the runes.
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ᛟᛊᛏᚨᚱᚨ / ᛖᚩᛋᛏᚱᛖ
Ostara, spelled Ēostre in Old English, is the Germanic goddess of the dawn, the shining one who revives the land after winter.
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Painting: Ēostre by Jacques Reich, 1908.
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Pagans stay winning.
The theory is that the complex electromagnetic field generated by the sun, which is similar to the electromagnetic impulses produced in the brain, may be evidence of consciousness.
In other words, science is catching up to what our ancestors always knew. ⴲ
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A rune stick from the Oseberg Ship burial with a runic inscription, “litet vis maðr”; Man knows little.
ᛚᛁᛏᛁᛐ ᚢᛁᛌᛘ
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Pagan practices mentioned in Cnut’s laws, 995AD;
-Making offerings at waterfalls and trees.
-Making oaths to heathen Gods.
-Saluting and worshipping the sun and moon.
-Worshipping fire, wells, stones and trees.
-Animal guising; likely the practice of masked Yule processions.
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I’ve acquired a 1943 German print of the Poetic Edda, Hugo Goring translation. It was first published in the 1920s, and was one of the first widely published translations in Germany. It’s filled with beautiful German pagan revival-era art. I will post more in the weeks to come.
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Closeups of the sword from Vendel grave I, 6-9th Century.
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Murchad, son of Brian Boru, clashes with Sigurd, earl of Orkney during the battle of Clontarf (April 23, 1014), by Angus McBride.
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I’m noticing a disturbing new trend among conservative Christians across the West, to call everything they don’t like “paganism”.
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Painting: Hermann returns from the Battle of Teutoburg Forest by Paul Thumann (1834-1908).
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Newly discovered Bronze Age sun cross stone from Mols, Djursland, Denmark. ⴲ
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We as pagans have a very important opportunity in the years to come.
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As more and more churches across the West continue to regurgitate the same anti-European talking points as the radical left, more and more people of European descent have been leaving them.
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“Then spoke Third: “But (Odin’s) greatest work is that he made man and gave him a soul that shall live and never perish though the body decay to dust or burn to ashes.””
~Gylfaginning, Faulkes translation
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Painting by Lorenz Frølich. 1/2
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“YoUr AnCeStOrS cOnVeRtEd!!”
Might I suggest reading the Heimskringla and finding out why. Spoiler: they didn’t convert because Christianity was demonstrably true, but because Olaf Tryggvason and Olaf II took members of their families hostage-or worse.
Art by Anders Kvåle Rue.
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A possible insight into the berserkrgang phenomenon…
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In the east of the Indo-European world, certain Shaiva Traditions encourage ascetic, monastic lifestyles. For example, on the hardcore end, the Aghori.
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While modern pagans face multiple challenges, such as subversives and the sea of false information around our faith, in my opinion one of the most understated threats to modern paganism is the lack of professionalism in the online pagan community.
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A Germanic wooden godpole from Possendorf, Thuringia, 1st Century. ⴲ
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The Rö Runestone is one of Sweden’s oldest runestones, dating to the 5th Century. It is the longest known Elder Futhark inscription found in Sweden. It was found on Otterön island in southern Sweden in 1919, and appears to have been raised in memory of a Suebian warrior.
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A persistent misconception you’ll hear is that Tyr is somehow the “original” Sky Father/head of the Germanic pantheon. However, this argument is based solely on oversimplified linguistics.
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Art: Tyr, der Schwertgott by Carl Emil Doepler, 1882. ᛏ
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An Anglo Saxon buckle with two entwined filigree serpents. Found in King’s Field, Kent, 6-7th Century.
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The sun cross may be one of the most prominent symbols of Germanic and European paganism as a whole.
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While the Swastika was used all over the world, the sun cross saw the most use in Europe, and was used throughout the Bronze Age and Iron Age.
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Katharine Simms and Charles McQuarrie wrote that the Fianna warriors favoured the Culán haircut, and would have “devilish markings” on their foreheads, possibly tattoos.
Among the Iroquois, this haircut is known as the Wolf’s Tail, and was given to cultic wolf warriors. 1/2
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“And when (St. Patrick) was preaching the faith to them as to others and came to confer with them where they held their assemblies, they adopted the plan of howling at him like wolves.”
~Konungs Skuggsjá
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Something pagans hear a lot from Christians and other naysayers is that we have no direct line of succession to our ancestors.
Kashmiri Shaivism was revived from its sacred texts, when their Gurus were massacred in the many conquests of Kashmir. It can, and will be done again. ᛉ
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@hringhorni1
Varg’s acolytes legitimately get angrier than Christians upon seeing pics of pagan rituals and shrines.
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An amazing Germanic buckle found in Kölked, Hungary, 7th Century. The figure could very well be a depiction of Odin, with the snake and two wolves.
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The Anglo Saxon “Janus”-this bronze padlock was found in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, dating to the 6-7th Century. Could be a Romano-Germanic depiction of Janus, or perhaps Hengist and Horsa.
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Panpsychism proposes that because complex electromagnetic fields similar to that produced by the brain are found throughout nature, that life emerges from consciousness, rather than consciousness beginning with life, and that consciousness flows into you after conception. 1/3
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This beautiful raven visited me earlier, gave it an offering of bread and orange.
Best part is, it landed minutes after I gifted someone an Edda. ᚩ
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“In the first place, it is unmistakably evident that Indo-European religiosity is not rooted in any kind of fear, neither in fear of the deity nor in fear of death.”
~Hans F.K. Günther, Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans
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Pic: the Tjängvide Image Stone, Gotland.
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Up until recently, the Heiltsuk People of the Pacific Northwest maintained a wolf warrior initiation rite very similar to that of the Indo-European Koryos; the “dog-eater” ritual. 1/3
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A stone with a single Othala rune stood over a 7th Century Alemannic burial ground in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland, along the Rhine. A powerful reminder of the ancestors who came before us, and all they gave so that we may be here today. ᛟ
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The Old English language has a term which is a direct cognate with Sanskrit Ātmán; Æþm, meaning the breath of living things. Other cognates include Old Saxon Āthom and Old High German Ātum.
Pic from Æhtemen, of an Anglo Saxon “Green Man” with foliage coming from his mouth.
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A new silver Thor’s hammer amulet recently found in Markfield, Leicestershire.
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Something needs to be said.
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Just as so many modern pagans are rebounding off of Christianity, a lot are also rebounding off of the radical left, maybe even a woke church.
Painting: Trizna, by Andrey Shishkin.
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Two daggers from a Celtic chieftain’s burial in Hochdorf, Germany, 530BC. One has a sun cross on the tip of its scabbard. ⴲ
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This self-purported priest, “Pater Kleomenis”, has been disavowed by the Greek Orthodox Church. Basically he’s an internet tough guy who ordered a priest robe from Aliexpress so he could LARP as St. Boniface…but, he’s been arrested for vandalism. Pay him (and his fans) no mind.
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A gilt silver Thor’s hammer pendant recently found in Holstebro, Denmark. ᚼ
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An image of Odin hanging on Yggdrasil, found in Zealand, Denmark, c.500-700AD.
One eye is damaged, and the lips look parched, as he hasn't eaten or drank in nine days. The "horns" could be the heads of Huginn and Muninn. Note the Valknut/triquetra above his head.
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@itsGespa
All these wannabe Boniface lovers miss the point; if their religion were the one true religion, it wouldn’t have had to have been spread by force and coercion.
Not to mention, how Boniface’s story ends.
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Anglo Saxon pagan practices banned in the 8th Century Penitential of Theodore;
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-Making sacrifices, substantial and trivial, to “devils”.
-Eating food that had been consecrated to “devils”.
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The origin of the Sun Wheel symbol…
This amazing weather phenomenon is known today as a “sundog”. It’s caused by refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere, and very likely inspired the sun wheel/sun cross, the oldest continually used solar symbol in history.
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A pressblech stamp with an Odinic horned figure from Vejleby, Lolland, Denmark. ⴲ
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Interesting find from Hornsherred, Zealand, Denmark; an Iron Age pendant depicting a head with a bird’s head sprouting from it. This may depict a type of helmet we have yet to find an intact example of, like unto the boar-crested helmets.
Or perhaps…Odin as Arnhöfði. ᚨ
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A little known fact about Beowulf: a single Ēðel (Othala) rune is used three times in the original manuscript.
First, after the term swæsne (OE: beloved), second, before the name of the Scyldingas tribe, and finally, before the term -weard (OE: guardian),
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An impressive Germanic gold disc brooch from a noblewoman’s burial in Kölked, Hungary, 5-7th Century. Same burial as the famous buckle with an image of Odin.
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"To Hermoðr (Odin) gave a helmet and mail-coat, and to Sigmund he gave a sword. Triumph to some, and treasure to others, to many wisdom and skill in words, fair winds to the sailor, to the poet his art, and a manly heart to many a hero."
~Hyndluljoð 2-3, Bellows translation
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Julian the Apostate made a few interesting cases for polytheism in Against the Galileans.
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He argued that so many peoples having such drastically differing moralities, laws, religions and physical differences as being the work of multiple different gods,
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The Snartemo sword, found in Norway, early 6th century.
If you look closely at the gold foil on the handle, you can see a few tiermensch (beast-man) motifs. This could depict the interdependence and oneness of the natural world…or men becoming wolf warriors.
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The only complete surviving Roman Draco, likely based on the Dacian Draco.
The Dacians (like most Indo-European cultures) worshipped wolves, and the Draco was designed to make a howling noise when the wind blew through it, or when it was carried by a charioteer or cavalryman.
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Calling pagans LARPers is such a strawman argument. Venerating our ancestors, living by their values, and striving to be as great as them, are core tenets of paganism, both modern and historical. If you want to oversimplify it…LARPing as them. 1/2
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In 2016, Dagestani wrestler Said Osmanov filmed himself kicking and pissing on a Buddha statue in Kalmykia during a visit to a temple. He was promptly dragged from his hotel by an angry mob of Kalmyk Buddhists and beaten to a pulp, and forced to bow and apologize. FAFO
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This Danish Stone Age axe was inscribed with Younger Futhark runes in the Viking Age, and likely kept as an amulet. Found in Rugård, Denmark. The inscription reads ᛋᛚᚬᚴᚢ (“slóku”), possibly a runic formula or a personal title.
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Pagan practices mentioned in the Older Gulaþing Law, 11th Century;
-Performing blót; defined as sacrificing animals, sprinkling their blood on idols, and consuming the sacrificial meat.
-Eating horse meat or blood; related to blót.
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The Rígsþula holds a core tenet of the Germanic pagan worldview; in contrast to the Abrahamic and modern secular worldview, all men are NOT created equal.
…and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 1/2
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This is an excellent book; covers worship of Odin, connections with worship of Rudra/Shiva, and wolf warrior cults across Indo-European cultures.
Hey, look what I found…
Lord Odin/Wotan/Woden/Gaut compared to Lord Rudra-Shiva in the Indo-European context.
From The One-Eyed God by Kris Kershaw. 🧵
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This is another excellent read for any serious pagan.
It breaks down the various Germanic aspects were absorbed into Christianity in the Middle Ages. Jacob Grimm wrote about this quite a bit in Teutonic Mythology too. 1/2
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The Ågersta Stone is an intricate runestone which served as both a memorial, and a property marker. The inscription is carved on two entwined beasts, an enduring motif in Germanic art. 1/2
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Whenever you see something in pagan literature or folklore that resembles something you know from Christianity, there’s something that’s important to keep in mind.
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“DiSnEy OwNs ThE rIgHtS tO yOuR gOdS!”
Fun fact; while Disney does own the copyright to the Marvel heroes based on the Gods, Stan Lee himself declined to pursue copyright on the actual names of the Norse Gods, saying that they belong to the people of Scandinavia, and not him.
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Finds from a newly discovered 7th Century Alemannic burial ground in Rottenburg, near Stuttgart, Germany.
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The recent mass banning of pagan content creators across Meta, and StJ being denied entry to the USA raises the question: why would the powers that be fear a resurgence of paganism?
I think it’s quite simple.
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Art by Andrey Kilmenko.
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The Mesopotamian chief God, Hadad/Iškur, was often depicted similarly to Odin, with a bull-horned headdress, often holding a stylized thunderbolt; it’s possible that with the figure of Odin from Upplands-Bro, the crossed sticks in his hand are a stylized vajra.
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In Ireland and Scotland, Neolithic barrows are sometimes called “elf-hills”. In Iceland, Britain and Scandinavia, multiple mountains are referred to as homes of elves; for example, Álfaborg (fortress of the elves) in eastern Iceland.
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My goal is not to somehow blend every Indo-European religion into one, I have no desire to destroy the beautiful, true diversity of Indo-European cultural development.
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Painting: The Northern Gods Descending, by W.C. Collingwood,1890.
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The impressive Hillersjö Runestone is the second longest runic inscription in Sweden. It was found on the Snotastaðir/Snottsta Farm, recording a family’s lineage and inheritance rights to the farm.
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An early Anglo Saxon silver sword pommel from Gilton, Kent, where the famous Thunor hammer pendants were also found. Part of the runic inscription reads “emsigimer”; I am victory. ᛖᛗᛊᛁᚷᛁᛗᛖᚱ
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The drinking horn was a significant enough symbol of the pagan Germanic aristocracy and pagan traditions that the church went out of their way to demonize them, twisting them into a symbol of vanity and indulgence.
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I’ve always found it interesting how while the Germanic peoples lived in relatively humble dwellings, they lavishly decorated every inch of the small things; weapons, tools, armour, etc.
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In the Puranas, Prithvi, the Vedic Earth Mother, appears in the form of a cow. Prithu, an avatar of Vishnu, milks her, and her milk provides the Earth with vegetation. In the Gylfaginning, Auðumbla’s milk sustains Ymir.
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The Sun Cross can absolutely be considered an Odinic symbol.
Although it’s primarily a solar symbol, it can be a variation of the Swastika. One variation features four dots corresponding with the dots on the Hindu swastika, denoting the seasonal position of the Little Dipper. ⴲ
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