Ever thought about doing a video on the Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians and Alans? Or comparisons with modern Ossetians with their connections to ancient Iranian peoples?
Thank you for the video, Tom. Perhaps you could ask Marcvs to have a t-shirt printed with your logo and "VERY Indo-European" on it? :) I'd buy one of those.
I swear, if only the Lithuanians had written down 10% of their ancient mythology, we would have so many more answers to questions we have today. Great video👍
But didn't lithuanians preserve some of their mythology? Or have I misunderstood this? Or was it already so fragmented when people really started to get interested again?
@@varjovirta3085 there was more of a preservation of rites/rituals and the names of Gods than there was a preservation of actual myths themselves, and virtually nothing was written down.
Tom! I have a video of me and my wife riding toward a Bronze Age barrow in a forest near west stow in suffolk. Neither of our horses would go in any direction but around it anti clockwise!
The ideas of ancient cultures being more connected than previously thought is very exciting to ponder. Being connected is more interesting than being apart.
Fascinating! And brilliant animations :-) I wonder if these were the Hyperboreans described by the ancient Greeks? - The Great Temple of Apollo in the Far North?
@@Survivethejive Corded ware spreading to Sintashta seems to be the common link, but I can't say for sure. Just seems plausible due to new DNA and past material evidence
The algorithm served this up to me a few days after it offered me Wardruna and Heilung music video clips. I've been blessed to learn more about my ancestors and their ways. Thanx
I remember the day I recommended this site to you in a comment a few yers ago in one of your videos, happy to see that you visited it and saw the truly potent symbolism there. Eastern Scania is a holy place. Thank you for bringing it light and your efforts in this video.
Please do more on the Pre Indo European Boat cult theory you have presented. The culture of the Baltic/Nordic area, and how it blended with the Indo-European, seems very understudies and underreported in comparison to the direct Yamnaya descendants, but you have really peaked my interest.
Fascinating. It's strange to me how no chariots or lurs have been found in Sweden, like they have been in Denmark, despite the fact that they are so often depicted on rock art here.
Yet another fantastic video. The quality of your work is insane, thanks for taking the time and effort in creating this for everyone else. A true gift from the Gods.
Recently I discovered your channel after I watched your conversation on the Sham sharma show. I too am interested in Ancient pegan cultures and find your videos insightful. As a fellow pegan I'll keep supporting your work. ❤ from India
Sun God 'Surya/Aditya' is a prominent manifestation of God in Hinduism. Sun god has 7 horses in his chariot. We visualize the sun as having pulled by 7 horse (generally green but sometime they are of 7 diffrent colors.) Similarly moon god 'chandra/soma' is pulled by charitr of 7 Swans
I'm currently reading "The One Eyed God" by Kris Kershaw, it's an excellent read and covers much of this period and the Mannerbund / Koryos cultic practices. Kershaw references the view that members of the Koryos enter it after a period of training that lasts a number of years. During that period and when a member of the Koryos the young men are in a specific sacred state, not a child nor an adult member of the society, they are in a liminal state. Perhaps the mound- grave was used to handle deaths among that specific group. As for the Omega symbols perhaps they symbolise the womb that the initiate member of the Koryos emerge from as they pass through the various initiatory stages into adulthood.
Would you ever cover information around the Dorian invasion, or the Greek Heroic age and how the Greek Peninsula because Indo European after the collapse of (what I understand to be) the Early European Farmer descended, or at least government, Mycenaean greek period? Also, sorry for making requests, I do hate that, but I find your perspectives informative.
I love your animations. Also I really appreciated the fact that you pronounced the Swedish names properly. Great video! Also the cardigans and linen trousers are very stylish.
Tom Roswell you've excelled yourself! I've always wanted to visit the Bronze Age burial mounds in Thy in Jutland and the Neolithic megalithic tombs in Falbygden near Gothenburg, but not really so much Kivik. But after your video, I now certainly must!
It is very flattering to hear an English speaker pronounce Nordic place names correctly - and I mean that quite unironically. As for the Kivik grave, it is such a massive building project that the chieftain laid to rest there must at least have been king of all of Scania, if not all of Denmark and southern Sweden.
Yupp, people tend to forget that in scandinavia, people lived here 1000s of years before the vikings- so in that sense its both modern day swedes AND vikings ancestors we look at. In Norrköping I looked at hällristningar from 3500 + years ago, funny to see a depiction of boar hunting AND very near on the road is a sign "warning for boar" (...vildsvin) in other words, the same animal that roamed the land here for 4000 years ago is still around, heck it might even be their piggy ancestors on the carved rock. You tend to forget how crazy that is.
@@slappy8941 Jive does an important work because even among us swedes, we sometimes pretend our history started with vikings. I love vikings and our heritage but we have 1000s of years with history before those people, and proto runes that leads up to it- and boat burials. In fact, many carved things on rock keeps showing boats, taking to the sea has always been in our blood.
Fascinating, thank you for great video! Interpretation of tablet 8 I have heard is that two different peoples / clans, coming of two different wombs (bottom picture) both participate religious ritual (middle picture) and then become one, with a united pantheon / ancestral cult. There is also an old theory that the similarities between Scandinavia and eastern med comes from Phoenecians setting up trade stations here. This theory is from before so much was known about Indoeuropeans, like, first half of 20th century. Things brought to support this is proposed remnants of middle eastern counting system in Germanic languages, such as eleven and twelve suggesting a base 12 counting system. Also the old meaning of hundred was 120, which is divisible by, well, I do not know how it works in detail. So that theory would work well this interpretation of tablet 8. However, it is a bit anti Indoeuropean, so maybe only valuable as a history of ideas. I also heard that eleven and twelve have been explained as sound shift rather than remnants of base 12 counting system.
Fun fact, wool retains a reasonable amount of its insulating value even when wet. Don't remember the percentage but fandabidozi spoke of it when explaining ways great kilts can be used for survival.
Great stuff bro! And hope to see you on the skaldic archive again! You all are a great part of our "growing" community. 🍻 Edit- and I believe it to be Irish/celtic influence. But some fish symbolism is meant to infer one who dives deep in the waters of our universe, and whom returns with answers. Not sure if the bronze age norse had similar symbolism or not. I'll look more into that.
Interesting and well done. It’s the first time I’ve been to your channel. It came up on my algorithm. I became a subscriber. The graphics were spectacular and helped a lot with the understanding.
Loved the video. Especially the 3D animation, I hope you do more of those. Bit less energy on this one which might put off new comers, but I know your videos are quality😉
I hope it pleases you to know that someone as far south as Melbourne, Australia, was entranced by this video. I loved every minute of this presentation. Your voice is so clear and beautiful to listen to. I have a background in Hinduism and have been studying all things related to yoga, Vedic astrology and Hindu mythology for over 20 years. I thought it was so interesting that you showed film from your travels in India and that you were able to make links to their chariot and sun worship of Surya, the Sun god.Thank you for all your efforts.
This is excellent! I have only just discovered your channel and it's amazing! So much awesome content to get through! By the way, the link to spring on your merchandise isn't working.
Great work as always I really enjoyed this video especially because I have always enjoyed solar imagery and artwork. Though one question I have is what the meaning and purpose of the golden hats are for or is this unknown.
@@soderlund3610 Very neat. I find the origins of dog breeds to be an increadibly interesting subject. In the modern day were we mix and match and they are all pets it "seems" unimportant. But the type of dog a region and culture create speak greatly about their life style and how they interacted with the world.
I greatly appreciate your making the distinction between a Solar cult and an elevated social status in assigning a chariot and horses as a symbol in the early period of Europe s history. It is possible that the chariot and horses became a Solar cult symbol in W Europe as well after a contact with the Iranics who had this symbol of solar practices from an earlier period.
How cool weren't our ancestors? Fascinating. I just wish they would have been able to write down more. So much wisdom and history lost us. Hail our ancestors. Awsome video.
They wrote down more than you think. Charlemagne and other Xian autocrats and the ethnic cleansing of Pagans in the first thousand years of the cross/torture cult saw to the burning of these scrolls.
Even though I find some interpretations a bit far fetched, I believe that you are right on many points. It is fascinating how those symbols, particularly the Sun wheel, are found all over Europe. I suppose you know that for the Celts, this son wheel evolved into the wheel of Taranis the thunder god who travelled in a Chariot just like Thor and produced thunder with the wheels. Those similarities make me think the the (proto) indo Europeans probably had a very similar cult that, because of natural barriers and distances evolved into the many pagan cults of Europe. Too many similarities to be something other than that.
It's funny, I haven't received your vids to my inbox for a year at least, well over i'd say, then just happened to otherwise come across your vid and clicked on it, and found that the sub had been taken off 'alarm all'. And I know that I didn't do that. If I remember right, last I saw your vids you were getting banned from social sites for some stupid misunderstanding of something you'd said, or maybe it was some malicious dipstick that would take offence to his own shadow. In any case, glad I've found your channel again, love your work and the mythology and history that you make so evocative and come to life pictorially with your explanations, descriptions and elucidations.
@@Survivethejive You’re sure, bro, that your Contin is being surprised because it’s actually being suppressed or it’s because your Contant is fine and you’re just using topics that are somehow a bit controversial?
It’s very interesting to see the theories of what the depictions means. I’ve never heard of this specific place although I have been to Kivik 2-3 times. (Swede.)
is it possible that the twin solar wheels represent the sun and moon with the moon as "the sun of the night". the sun and moon are each drawn across the sky by a horse. so is it possible that having two of them is to represent both sun and moon side by side? i'm just spitballing here so there may not be any relevancet in this
I like you pagan guys very interesting I mostly like Greco-Roman traditions Just finished "The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome" also did my ancestors test & found 5% england & northwest european 5% ireland 4% sweden & denmark got other euro blood but less
