Is Halloween evil? Where does All soul's day come from? How have the different pagan festivals of Europe influenced the way it is celebrated today? Many European pagan celebrated an annual feast of the dead, from the Celtic Samhain to the Slavic Dziady. This indicates a common Indo-European origin.

In this podcast I look at all the pagan festivals that preceded the Christian Halloween, aka All Soul's day, and explain how they are connected.

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I am joined by Angriff and Redbeard, who wish to argue that the Norse Goddess Freyja is the same as the West Germanic goddess of the dawn Eastre/Ostara. They have a great theory that deserves your attention and connects myths of Freyja clearly with other Indo-European goddesses of the dawn.

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This old English folk song seems very pagan and has some clear parallels in old pagan mythology. It is the story of two magical people, originally gods, usually wizards in the song, who can change their shape. One, often a blacksmith, is pursuing the other, often a virgin girl, who attempts to escape by transforming into animals and things, but he pursues by also transforming. It is a bit un PC!

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Where did Odin come from? Was he a shamanic figure influenced by the Saami or was he based on the Roman god Mercury? Why did Anglo-Saxon kings claim his as a divine progenitor? Was he Indo-European or even older? I explain the historical origin of the Norse god, Allfather, and I explain the metaphysical significance of his threefold manifestation as depicted in the Gylfaginning.

This was an unscripted video covering a lot of ground.

More info: http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/woden-and-his-roles-in-anglo-saxon-royal-genealogy/

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Why do pagans love mead (mjǫðr in Old Norse)? What is the esoteric meaning of the mead ritual and what is its metaphysical significance? As for the substance itself, was it just an alcoholic drink or did it contain hallucinogenic mushrooms too? Why was it associated with the god Odin? All these questions and more are answered in this video.

Learn more: http://survivethejive.blogspot.se/2014/08/hyperborean-hallucinogens.html

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Bronze Age Mindset is a controversial book which came out last year, self published by an anonymous author who claims to be a Russian and calls himself Bronze Age Pervert. It is tempting to dismiss it but many are realising it has real substance. In this review i will explain what I liked about it and what I disagreed with. Is it merely a doctrine for national nudism or is there more going on? There is much to discuss!

How to pray like an Indo-European pagan. Where should you conduct prayers and rituals? What can you sacrifice at a blót and what libations can be poured? What should you say in a prayer and which god do you invoke?

I answer these questions and explain the tripartite format of Indo-European prayer with reference to Sigrdrífumál and the cycle of reciprocal gift giving. I also show you what my shrine and idols look like and how I make an offering to them.

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Music: Wolcensmen and Cefin Beorn

Anglo-Saxon pagans appropriated the Celtic burial mounds and Bronze age burial mounds in a new religious context, using them to bury their own dead and also for meeting places. The Christians later adapted these burial places for yet another context, as an execution ground and a designated haunt of devils and demons. Pagans today often worship at Neolithic monuments in an anachronistic way quite incongruous with their original purpose, but this does not make it less authentic paganism when we consider how historic pagans themselves appropriated monuments of other peoples for their own purposes. Ancient structures inform our sense of the past within our ancestral spaces and this helps us to contextualise time, allowing us to understand the past and our relation to it through our relationship with the land.

This talk was delivered to the Tiverton Pagans
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Source: Semple. S., A Fear of the Past: The Place of the Prehistoric Burial Mound in the Ideology of Middle and Later Anglo-Saxon England. (1998)
Theme: Wolcensmen

A reading of the poetry of Ezra Pound. This excerpt from Ezra Pound's translation of an Anglo-Saxon poem called The Seafarer is a quintessentially Poundian example in its treatment and translation of poetic forms. First I read the translation by Ezra Pound and then the original Old English Anglo-Saxon version. The translation by Pound is only of a segment of the poem so I have only read the part of the Anglo-Saxon poem that Pound translated. This recording was made in 2012.

Truly this is the English language at its best, the translation by Ezra Pound is closer to the sound of the original, rather than the meaning, and therefore retains its style.

Professor Alan Outram, Head of Archaeology at University of Exeter is one of the world's leading experts on ancient horse DNA and the domestication of the horse. In this interview he explains how his views have changed since his 2009 paper on the Botai domestication of the horse. Prof. Outram contributed to a paper, published in May 2018, entitled, “The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia” in which the Yamnaya, most likely the Proto-Indo-Europeans, are posited as the potential domesticators of modern horses, rather than the Botai who were pushed out of Kazakhstan by the Yamnaya or related steppe pastoralists.

He also discusses the role of the Sintashta culture in developing horse based warfare and chariots, the related Andronovo culture's contribution to Indian DNA and the Afanasievo culture's spread into East Asia.

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