Survive the Jive Podcast

In this month's Jive Talk I answered patron questions about ancient DNA, the beliefs of pagans, cognates to the Nordic god Loki and more. I do at least one Jive Talk a month but not all of them are AMA sessions. You can also ask me questions in a direct voice chat on Telegram if you become a patron on Patreon or SubscribeStar.

I delivered a speech to the Traditional Britain Group for their Christmas social on the topic of how the Anglo-Saxons have informed English and by extension British and American identity over the centuries.

In this episode of the Jive Book Review we will look at The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing by John A. Grim. He describes the common features of the figure known as "the shaman" by anthropologists which is found mainly in cultures of Siberian origin: with his focus being mainly on the Yakut of Siberia and the Ojibwe Indians aka Chippewa, or Saulteaux Anishinaabe people of southern Canada and the northern Midwestern USA. I attempt to compare the features of the shaman and of shamanic religious practices to Indo-European religious customs, particularly in Nordic Germanic religion. This podcast depends on your support:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveAll Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJiveTheme song by Wolcensmen. Ending music by Altyn Tuu.

Cannabis sativa has been cultivated by humans for thousands of years both as a narcotic and also for making hemp fabrics. Brand new genetic and archaeological evidence places the original domestication event in China, but indicates that the plant was mainly spread by Indo-European peoples such as the Yamnaya and the Scythians. Cannabis was used in the funerary and religious rites in many pagan religions as well as in ancient Jewish rites in Israel.I was aided in research for this video by Chris Bennett of cannabisculture.comSee this blog post for a full list of sources I used: https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-ancient-indo-european-cannabis-cult.html

A new paper reveals a series of population replacements in Neolithic and Bronze Age Bohemia which are likely indicative of wider population replacements across Europe. Some of the samples from the paper are special and there is a lot to consider. It seems scientists are gradually more willing to admit that population replacements occurred a lot in history and were likely driven by violent male invaders from the Funnelbeakers to the Corded Ware and finally the Proto-Celtic Únětice. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/35/eabi6941This podcast depends on your support:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveAll Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive

I have been banned from Facebook without warning, reason or recourse. Please tell facebook what you think of their decision to ban me. In this video I also discuss a recent paper using craniometry to measure the impact of the Anglo-Saxon invasion. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252477I also answer live questions from the audience.Outro Cú Chulainn's Sleep by Lorcan Mac Mathuna

I discuss some of the recent findings in archaeogenetics and archaeology, mainly the two DNA papers regarding Indo-European invasions of Greece and Italy. The source of Indo-European languages in each turns out to be the Catacomb culture and the Bell Beaker culture respectively. I also debunk the claim that Goths were not originally from Sweden using the latest DNA evidence.Sources: Clemente et al, The genomic history of the Aegean palatial civilizations, (2021).Saute et al, Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula (2021) This channel depends on your support:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveAll Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive

Mark Mirabello, Ph.D., is a professor of history at Shawnee State University in Ohio and a former visiting professor of history at Nizhny Novgorod University in Russia. He has appeared on Ancient Aliens and America’s Book of Secrets on the History Channel as well as in the documentary The Kingdom of Survival. He is the author of The Traveler's Guide to the Afterlife which Examines beliefs from many different cultures on the soul, heaven, hell, and reincarnation; and also The Odin Brotherhood, first published in 1992, in which Mirabello reveals some of the secrets of a mysterious society in Britain which values "knowledge, freedom and power" as part of their occult work which honours Odin and the other Norse gods. I asked him about these and other subjects pertaining to magic, the afterlife and pagan beliefs.Learn more about him and his published works on www.markmirabello.com This podcast depends on your support:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveLinktree: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJiveTheme song by Wolcensmen. Ending song is Mossgrown path by Mauerbrecher.

Dan Capp's Wolcensmen creates heathen hymns from the mists of England. He was originally known as a member of the Anglo-Saxon themed metal band Winterfylleth but his acoustic side project Wolcensmen is now the focus of his work. Dan’s music evokes the persistent paganism in the folk ways of the peasants of England, and breathes life into a natural expression of the English folk soul. In this interview we discuss a few of his songs and the meaning of the pagan themes in his lyrics. Wolcensmen website: https://wolcensmen.com/This podcast depends on your support:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveLinktree: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJiveAll songs used with permission of the artist Dan Capp and are also permitted according to Fair Use policy since the artistic works included are all discussed within the podcast. I do not claim the rights to any songs used. Rings like Wayland, 'Neath a Wreath of Firs, Lady of the Depe © WolcensmenLorn and Loath, Of Thralls and Throes, Sprig to Spear © Indie RecordingsWinterfylleth - Æcerbot © Candlelight Records

What exactly are elves in the Anglo-Saxon pagan belief system? Did Anglo-Saxon pagans believe in an afterlife and Hell? I will answer all these questions in this video which is the second part of a 2 part series - I will also show you what their pagan temple at Yeavering looked like, and explain how the elves, orcs, dwarves, land wights and ents of their belief system were all classed as demons after Christianisation. This channel depends on your support:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive​All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive​Music:Chris Zabriskie - variousBark Sound Productions - variousBorg - compositions from The Triumph of SpringKevin McLeod - variousCefin Beorn - Se FrecaOrmgård - variousSjhof - Loki’s meditationStark von Oben - variousMyling - TockenMauerbrecher - mossgrown pathR. Shah - FRTR themeSir Cubworth - the throne roomKhan Kurra - litte dragonXurious - steppe expansionSources:Abram, C. ‘In Search of Lost Time: Aldhelm and The Ruin’, Quaestio (Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic), vol. 1, 2000.Dowden, Ken (2000). European Paganism: The Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.Doyle, Conan. (2018). Dweorg in Old English: Aspects of Disease Terminology. Gunnel, T., ‘How Elvish were the Elves?’ 2007.Hall, A., 'Are there any Elves in Anglo-Saxon Place-Names?', Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 29 (2006), 61-80.Hall, A., (2004). The Meanings of Elf, and Elves, in Medieval England. 2007.Lund, J., "At the Water's Edge" in "Signals of Belief in Early England"Lysaght, P. ‘the banshee: the irish supernatural death messenger’ North, R. 1997 Heathen gods in Old English literature. Pollington, S. 2011. The Elder Gods: The Otherworld of Early England.Price, Neil & Mortimer, Paul. (2014). An Eye for Odin? Divine Role-Playing in the Age of Sutton Hoo. European Journal of Archaeology.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)