Interesting gripping beast mount recently found in Denmark.

It must also be said; Anders Breivik had previously declared himself a Christian nationalist, and had requested visits from a Christian priest in prison.

In the past few years, he has declared he’s an “Odinist”, and that he was secretly praying to Odin whenever he was praying to the Christian god.

Anders Breivik’s entire case is suspicious; he also managed to afford a van, two guns, and hundreds of rounds whilst reportedly being unable to hold down a job. His recent religious revelation seems to be part of a sinister agenda to demonize and attack paganism as a whole.

Why are the powers that be so afraid of paganism? Well, as Europeans are increasingly aware that they’re under attack, perhaps they are also realizing that Christianity offers no shield, as a truly universal religion in which peoples hostile towards us have shrouded themselves, while the pope calls for god to break down borders.

Pagans are leading the charge in advocating for the peoples of Europe, which is why we’re becoming the target of these defamation campaigns. Brace yourselves, but also, pray to the Gods, and have faith.
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Some more thoughts on the Breivik situation…

(For those unfamiliar, Anders Breivik chose to protest mass immigration…by going to a summer camp run by Norway’s leftist party, and shooting several Norwegian teens.)

I have shockingly seen someone saying he deprived our enemies of future recruits. This is the wrong take.

We need to remember, teens are nothing if not malleable. Homeschooling is ideal, but the reality is, many of us can’t afford to, and will have no choice but to put our children through the public indoctrination system.

I remember my teen years. The Gods know, I was taught several vile left-wing ideas in my time in public school.
But then I left. I worked, travelled, interacted with different people and cultures, some similar to our own, and some you don’t want anywhere near you. I read, historical, philosophical and religious texts, further than the cherry-picked passages I was taught in school. Within a short year, I was able to detoxify and reforge my own identity.

Teens who are infected with these ideas need real-world experience, good role models, people who can articulate and defend the ideas and values that are often dismissed as stupid and uneducated. I am proud to see many great men and women in our circles taking up this banner. Above all else, difficult as it is, they need patience and understanding-not bullets, as Breivik gave them.

Besides, a man who survived Breivik’s attack went on to become a prominent left-wing activist. No matter how anti-European the left becomes, he’s forever galvanized against those fighting for his people, and by extension, his own people.

At best, Breivik was lost and deeply misguided, at worst, he was a patsy to make all of us look bad. He is not, and never was, a pagan. He is a kinslayer, and Níðøggr awaits him in Helheim.
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New early sword pyramid found in Melhus, Norway. A few similar examples were found in Sweden and Lithuania, with four stylized animal heads and/or helmeted faces; perhaps the four stags and/or dwarves around Yggdrasil or Hvergelmir. 𐃏

“The Hildr of battle stands every morning under a red shield; now the victory-maidens have established hard sword-play for the Danes. You have to fight with a sword, like everyone; Óðinn, the hard father of Baldr, wishes to choose the wretched, dark slain.”
~Anonymous Lausavísa from Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa
Painting: Irish Gaels attack a Viking raiding party, by Angus McBride.
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“Hildr stendr hverjan myrgin
hjaldrs und rauðum skildi;
nú hafa sigrmeyjar settan
sverðleik Dǫnum harðan.
Eiguð víga vægi
vill Baldrs faðir illan
Óðinn harðr sem allir
óljósan val kjósa.”

Another interesting composite wolf warrior motif from Denmark. The figure’s moustache forms into jaws, but also two raven heads. ᚨ

A large Viking Age equal-armed brooch, found in Chernihiv, 9-11th Century. This style was widespread across the Viking world, used singularly to fasten the neck of a tunic or dress, along with a pair of tortoise brooches.

Just watched Agora (2009), a film about Hypatia. Overall, a solid film; they did change a few details, but it didn’t pull punches in showing the bloody realities of Rome’s conversion.
(Spoilers below)

Set design and costuming is excellent. The library and Serapium of Alexandria are faithfully reconstructed (from what was left of them), with the surviving victory column. The soldiers’ armour is a few centuries old for the time, but the rest is solid.

Accurately, most Christian insurgents are not Romans, but Levantine peoples-resentful conquered peoples, and most of their new converts are slaves and the poor, who significantly outnumbered ethnic Romans at this point in many parts of the empire, brought in as auxiliaries and cheap labour.

The Romans dismiss them as common criminals, not realizing their sheer numbers until it’s too late. Some Roman characters follow suit and convert, but only after the Christian mob has gained enough strength to pose a real threat.

Halfway through, it briefly pivots to persecution of Jews. They could’ve taken it a step further; ironically, Constantius II had passed numerous laws before Hypatia’s time granting them special protections and privileges (while outlawing paganism under threat of death), but eventually, this failed to save them from the rampaging Christian mobs in the late empire.

Eventually, motivated by religious hatred and biblical teachings about women, a mob of fanatics lynched her. The film toned down her death significantly, and incorporated an original character; in reality, they skinned her alive with pottery shards. Perhaps they knew showing Christian viewers their true history wouldn’t sell well.

Overall, despite a few forgivable inaccuracies, gonna give it my seal of approval.

Interesting pendant from a burial in Grävsta, Sweden, of a stag with a snake in its mouth; two totem animals associated with Yggdrasil and the afterlife in the Eddas, with the snake associated with the underworld and reincarnation, and the stag with ascension to Valhalla. ᛉ

An equal-armed brooch from Birka, with two stags, Dáinn and Dvalinn, around a stylized depiction of Yggdrasil and/or Hvergelmir. Wearing the cosmos on your chest. ᛉ

An incomplete horned Woden figure found in Marham, Norfolk, 5-7th Century. It’s interesting how abstract the face is; perhaps the maker wished to emphasize that Woden could appear in many forms, or didn’t claim to know the true face of Woden. ᚩ

Bledsian Līða! 𐃏

This small silver figure with a gold wire wrapped around its neck was found in a bog in Kymbo, Sweden, known as the Kymbogubben. It’s been proposed to be a votive offering representing a hanged man, or Odin Himself hanging from Yggdrasil. The way the feet angle downwards seem to indicate hanging. ᚨ

…the Kymbogubben has also been proposed to be Freyja wearing Brísingamen. I tend to agree that it’s Odin; Germanic Iron Age figures of goddesses tend to have more emphasis on the hips and chest.

An Anglo Saxon goddess figure from Higham, Kent, perhaps Frīg or Ēostre.

A strap end with an elaborate composite wolf warrior motif found in Denmark, the beard morphing into jaws. ᚨ