The Winter Solstice & The Oak King 

As a student of Druidry, Yoga and Qigong, I LOVE how you tie in prana and Qi with the ancient belief structure of my genetic ancestors 💜

Omg! I was just going to PM you to ask your thoughts on the Holly king/ oak king solstice!!

There is also a real connection between oak and lightning, lightning is more likely to strike an oak in a mixed forest, a study looking at lightning strikes in a german forest over 11 years found 79 confirmed strikes of which 59 where in oak, 20 in spruce and 3 in pine. (not a single beech was struck although the forest was predominantly beech (70%)) this also reflects an old dutch proverb. "Voor eiken moet je wijken, boeken moet je zoeken" translates roughly as "Oak you should avoid, Beech you should seek" I believe that much of the spiritual life of ancient european peoples revolved around the oak from a very early age because of its importance as a staple food, the problem with oak (and other nut bearing trees, but oak specifically) however is that they follow a rather unpredictable mast cycle, mast being a year in which oaks produce more acorns (by an order of magnitude) then other years. I think this mast cycle and its unpredictable nature can have led to the adoption of cereal farming for its relative stable production by neolithic europeans. I wish there was more research done on this specific subject but could not find it, I find it a rather plausible idea though. As always, thank you for making these videos, I enjoy them thoroughly!

Thank you so much for the videos. They are always very well researched, informative and well put together. Thank you for all the time and effort you must put into creating them

Thank you for your videos and all the research you do. I also love your theories on the mythology it’s fascinating. I’m becoming addicted to your videos

Please keep making your awesome uploads! :D. #quality

This is a strangely true phenomenon and has truth

What is also interesting is the distribution map of Oak. Kind of narrows down the area where Indo-European could have originated and maybe the initial maximum extent of the early spread of Indo-Europeans...The distribution of the Crab Apple (Malus Sylvestris) also comes to mind... The maximum extent of both Eastwards seems to be the Upper Volga River and Lower Don River. Very interesting defined border these trees created....

Summer is also peak war/raiding/adventuring season, as it is between the sowing and harvesting of crops and isn't as brutal for travel as winter, so maybe there's a connection there: When the Sun/Lugh are the strongest is the best time for participating in one of his key associated activities.

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The Hound of Ulster is one of my favourite tales.

Lugh is neither a storm god nor a solar god, but more of a sky god at large who still maintains certain connections tae the earth (his foster mother, the Lughnasadh festival, his defense of trees and animals. He’s a sky god who’s still connected tae the earth, so in that way more a hybrid of the two almost, as we can see from his genealogy. He’s somewhat similar tae the Dagda in this way. It’s said that the long arm of Lugh blows in the wind. He’s also has a spear which is associated with fire and lightning, and he’s known tae be one of several Celtic Gods who wield lightning. He’s also associated with the sun and moon.

The Mistletoe is the only green thing left in the winter forest and fruits in winter. This might be seen as divine if it also grew on a Oak Tree.

Varg talks about this (lightning striking the Oak and the priests keeping the Mistletoe through winter) in his book Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia

Lugh is the champion of the sun and fighter of the Nightman.

so basically, "the eye is the window to the sol" 😏

My name means 'Oak/Dagda', found this video very interesting!

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What’s interesting is I’ve heard the Loki is perhaps an early Germanic adoption of Lugus, but sort of in the sense that he’s a reflection of how the Germans saw the celts, as mischievous perhaps, and his father is called in the edda’s ‘the cruel striker’ and his mother ‘pine needle’ which suggest that his father is lightning, and mother dry needles making him fire, and like Lugh’s grudge with the children of Tuireann, Loki and Taranis consistently bicker, and fight though they aren’t the mortal enemies that they are betrayed as in some marvel comics... I would like you opinion on this connection

Well done. Perhaps a correlation with the Norse more often as they are close in concept and proximity?

Painting, 25:27 into video: does that represent Celtic, Germanic, Greek or Roman tradition?

Does anyone have information on the background soundtrack?

Who else is looking at this on Yule 2021?☆

I know this has nothing to do with this story but I'm wondering cause I live in Indiana and between the month of November it warms up for one week or maybe just for a few days when you say Sun loses its heat power around September and it starts to get colder but where I'm getting at is on the month November Sun warms up and our people call this Indian Summer I've never understood that

So did the Celts have their own holiday version of Yule?

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KILL THE BACKGROUND MUSIC! TOO LOUD.