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Germanic pagan Ian Read is best known for his neofolk project 'Fire + Ice' which “takes the purity and philosophy of early music and melds it into a message redolent with powerful seeds of honour, truth, loyalty and the bond of true friendship.” Ian is also Drihten (lord) and Rune-Master in the Rune-Gild, an initiatory school devoted to the esoteric and exoteric study of the Germanic runes.Learn more on his blog: https://runa-eormensyl.com/This podcast depends on your support:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejivePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveSubscribestar: https://subscribestar.com/survive-the-jiveKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/survivethejiveFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJive

The Proto-Indo-Europeans of the Pontic Caspian Steppe and other parts of Eastern Europe in the neolithic worshipped a paternal deity who they called Dyḗus ph₂tḗr “sky father”. With comparative linguistics and comparative mythology we can learn a lot about this ancient god from whom Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter, Irish Dagda, Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́ and Norse Odin and many others also derive. In this video I explain what we know about the god’s mythic roles relating to cattle, his relationship to other gods in the Indo-European religion and his association with different animals in later pagan religions.This podcast depends on your support:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejivePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveSubscribestar: https://subscribestar.com/survive-the-jiveKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/survivethejiveFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJiveMusic in order:theme song: Wolcensmen - SunneAltyn Tuu - Altai Tuva Xurious - Steppe expansionElegiac - Ashwind interludeDoug Maxwell - Bansure ragaSjhof - path to the templeOrmgård - SjálfsfornStark Von Oben - ImperatorHalindir - Hedelandet IIKevin McLeod - DhakaMyling - TöckenBorg - The May queen enters the circleSources:Anthony, D., ‘The Horse, the Wheel, and Language’ 2007Dumezil, G., ‘Mythe et Épopée’ 1973Dumezil, G., ‘Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty’, 1988Kershaw, K., ‘The one-eyed god: Odin and the (Indo-)Germanic Männerbünde’ (Journal of Indo-European studies monograph) 2000Lincoln, B., ‘THE INDO-EUROPEAN MYTH OF CREATION’ 1975Matasović, R., ‘A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion’ 2010Mylonas, G. E., ‘The Eagle of Zeus’ 1946Puhvel, J., ‘Victimal Hierarchies in Indo-European Animal Sacrifice’: The American Journal of Philology , Autumn, 1978, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 354-362 Puhvel, J., ‘Comparative Mythology’ 1987

Sturla Ellingvåg is an economist and historian from Norway currently collaborating with the roots of the Vikings at the Lundbeck Foundation Centre for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen. He also runs his own YouTube channel called Viking Stories.Sturla recently collaborated on a genetic paper titled Population genomics of the Viking world. The findings of the paper have been reported on by a number of mainstream media worldwide, but the reports misrepresent the findings and Sturla has spoken out against this. Today we will hear more about what the paper actually shows about Viking diversity.This podcast depends on your support:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejivePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveSubscribestar: https://subscribestar.com/survive-the-jiveKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/survivethejiveFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJive

The legend of The Wild Hunt is found across Europe in different forms; Originally led by Odin (Woden), in Britain it was said to be led by King Arthur or Herne the Hunter, but always it remained fearsome, and nowhere more than Dartmoor has the dread of the black hell hounds of the ghostly nocturnal hunt been greater feared. In Dartmoor the Wild Hunt is especially associated with a most peculiar and ancient oak forest called Wistman's Wood. In this video I visit the forest to see if I can encounter the hunt for myself.....the result was terrifying!This podcast depends on your support:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejivePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveMerch: https://teespring.com/stores/survive-the-jiveMusic:, Andrew Weis

New discoveries in archaeology and ancient DNA have provided fascinating insights into the mysterious people who built Newgrange and Stonehenge. 2020 has seen the discovery of the world's largest prehistoric monument, a massive Mega-henge right next to Stonehenge at Durrington. At the same time, scientists have looked at the DNA of dozens of skeletons from Neolithic people of Britain and Ireland and realised that, far from being egalitarian, these megalith building societies had an elite caste comprised of what appear to be closely related, and in one case severely inbred, god-kings. Whilst looking through the new data, I came to realise that there was an interesting correlation among the phenotypes of this Neolithic elite - and I have a theory that the inbreeding may be related to a deliberate attempt to preserve archaic phenotypes from Mesolithic hunter gatherers, who the Neolithic invaders intermixed with when they first arrived in Britain and Ireland. In this new documentary you will learn all about megalithic people and their monuments; from passage tombs, to long barrows, dolmens and stone circles. Never before has such revealing light been shone into the darkness of this mysterious stone age culture. This channel depends on your support:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejivePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveSubscribestar: https://subscribestar.com/survive-the-jiveKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/survivethejiveFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJiveTwitter: https://twitter.com/SurvivetheJiveMusic in order:Theme song: Wolcensmen - SunneXurious - Steppe expansionHalindir - The WeaveHalindir - Hedelandet IIBark Sound Productions - EldTom May - Atlantis fallingBark Sound Productions - EGDChris Zabriskie - CandlepowerSources:-Cassidy el al (2016) https://www.pnas.org/content/113/2/368|-Cassidy et al (2020)https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2378-6.epdf-Horton’s Neolithic houses (2014) https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/hortons-neolithic-houses.htm-Olalde et al (2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25738-Paulsson, B. S., (2018) https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/9/3460.full.pdf-Rivolatt et al (2020) https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/22/eaaz5344-Rivolatt et al (2015) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0125521 - Shennan, S. “The First Farmers of Europe” (2018)- Info on SUERC-9172 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/suppl/2017/05/09/135962.DC1/135962-1.pdf

In traditions around the world we see the same mythic trope of a god disguised as a beggar so that he can test mortals. Very often this is based on a moral that one should uphold the ancient tradition of honouring the guest in one's home. The myths usually show the god, who can be Zeus, Shiva, or Odin, punishing the mortals who fail to show them proper hospitality when they visit. What lessons can pagans learn from these myths?This podcast is also available as a YouTube video with accompanying visual aids. The Survive the Jive podcast depends on your support:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejivePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveSubscribestar: https://subscribestar.com/survive-the...Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/survivethejiveFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJiveTwitter: https://twitter.com/SurvivetheJivePrimary Sources:AtharvavedaHeimskringlaHomer, The OdysseyOvid, MetamorphosesOrchard, A., (trans) The Elder Edda (2011)The RigvedaSturluson, S., The Prose Edda Togail Bruidne Dá DergaVidyaranya Swami, Shankara DigvijayaSecondary Sources:von Glinski, M. L., Simile and Identity in Ovid's MetamorphosesMurnaghan, S., Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey

Is Odin's wife Frigg the same as his lover Jord the Earth goddess? William P. Reaves thinks they are the same figure and that her cult survived in to recent times among German peasants who called her Frau Holda. I will briefly review his book on the subject here. This channel depends on your support:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejivePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveSubscribestar: https://subscribestar.com/survive-the...Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/survivethejiveFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJiveTwitter: https://twitter.com/SurvivetheJive

The British Isles draw their rich mythological heritage from Brythonic, Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse sources yet all have been filtered through the much more recent and severely distorting lens of medieval Christian chroniclers. People like Geoffrey of Monmouth invented their own additions to many historical and legendary stories which persist to this day. This means the mythology derives more from scholarship than folklore. Geoffrey Ashe did a good job of sorting fact from fiction while compiling all these myths in his book. This podcast depends on your support:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejivePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveSubscribestar: https://subscribestar.com/survive-the...Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/survivethejiveFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJiveTwitter: https://twitter.com/SurvivetheJive

Where did blonde hair come from? How did it evolve and what purpose does it serve for human beings? Why is it more common in Scandinavia? Is Scandinavia the birth place of blonde hair? Did Indo-Europeans bring blonde hair to Europe or was it already there? What is the relationship between lactose tolerance, the ability to drink milk, and blondism? There are many questions people have about blonde hair and I am going to try and answer them in this live stream tonight!This channel depends on your support:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejivePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveSubscribestar: https://subscribestar.com/survive-the...Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/survivethejiveMerch store: https://teespring.com/stores/survive-the-jiveFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJiveTwitter: https://twitter.com/SurvivetheJive

Ralph Harrison has been an Odinist for 40 years. He is the Director of the Odinist Fellowship, the UK’s only registered charity for the indigenous faith of the English people. They acquired a 16th century chapel in Newark which was consecrated on Midsummer's Day 2014 as the first heathen Temple in England for well over a thousand years. You can donate to the charity or the temple using the links below. Ralph and I had a nice chat about the Heathen religion, its rise in popularity in recent years due to the success of TV programs like Vikings, and also the dangers the faith faces from new age influences like Wicca and naturalism. Contact the Odinist FellowshipEmail: odinist.fellowship@pobroadband.co.ukOF website: https://www.odinistfellowship.co.ukAddress: ODINIST FELLOWSHIP,B.M. EDDA,LONDON WC1N 3XX.Newark Temple website: http://www.odinisttemple.uk/Newark Temple Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OdinistTemple/The Survive the Jive podcast depends on your support:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejiveSubscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/survive-the-jivePaypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejiveKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/survivethejiveFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJiveTwitter: https://twitter.com/SurvivetheJive