May Day and Easter Goddess of Dawn
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2018
- All around Europe there are ancient pagan ceremonies on the 1st of May which used to be dedicated to the goddess of dawn. In Ireland they have Beltane, and in England there was Maypole and Morris dancing which used to be for the Anglo-Saxon goddess "Ēostre" from German "Ostara". We can see similar pagan customs in Wales, Scotland, Romania, Lithuania and at the Valborg celebrations in Uppsala Sweden. In this video I explain how they can all be traced back to the Indo-European goddess of dawn, Hausos (*h₂éusōs).
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NOTE: Brigid is primarily associated with Imbolc/St Brigid's day on 1st February at the start of Spring. This is when the straw crosses are made, not on Beltane. However, I maintain that Beltane as the first day of Summer was also associated with the dawn goddess. The Irish divided the year in two, with alight half of Brigid and a dark half of The Cailleach. Brigid's half of the year starts on Beltaine and ends on Samhain.
Are you aware of any connection between Belenus and Beltane in Celtic customs, or just a naming coincidence?
wrongfully convicted the reverse is true in germanic, celtic, slavic, baltic paganism where moon is male and sun female
can you clarify this at all? why is Brigid associated with Imbolc if you say that does not fall within her half of the year? is Imbolc a false association ?
eoster =estrogen?
Just a note, Bealtaine is pronounced with the "e" sound, so Bealtaina is more like what is said
I have not words to express how much I appreciate this channel.
In sweden girls are supposed to pick 7 different wild flowers and put them under their pillow in midsummer. This will make them dream of the man that they will marry.
This seems pretty similar to girls going into the woods (thats where they pick the flowers so same thing..)
Unfortunately nightmares of traitors and diplomatic invaders will invade those dreams.
I love how this channel gets rid of the derogatory undercurrent of the word "pagan." Pagans are awesome!
In Brazil we have a festival in June called "St. John's Festival", it's obviously meant to be catholic, but many European traditions can still be seen, such as the kids dancing around the pole with ribbons, the making of a big bonfire with boys and men daring each other to jump over the ashes, and kids carrying paper lanterns.
Na festa do Divino Espírito Santo há a presença da dança do pau de fitas também. É interessante o espetáculo teatral das cavalhadas e a coroação do imperador do divino.
When I was 10 and I was chosen to be the May Queen of my village, it felt like the biggest honour of my little life at the time!
As a Briton I’ve always known of our traditional celebrations such as Morris dancing etc, but a catholic upbringing has only put Christian emphasis on it, it’s fascinating to know the true meanings behind our traditions
Your profile picture is very chad
My daughter is born in may, and named Aurora... Goddess of the dawn :)
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May queen"
(great video as always, by the way)
Lovely line. Many have tried to make this out to be a wish for something new, out with the old in with the new (spring clean), but I would argue that Zeppelins *new* is the old ways of paganism (and/or mysticism - non-christian) seeing as they dabbled in this.
Or it may ba about a girl coming of age (hedgerow being the pubic hair)
I get it now! Never knew what that meant before.
Currently studying for history and folklore exams. I've given up media for studying, but desperately needed a break from staring the books, and this was the perfect video for it :]
I have watched your videos for some time now and wish to express my greatest appreciation for them. I have learned things never taught in any of my physical anthropology, linguistics , or history classes. As a typical American I am a mixture of Scandinavian, Anglo Saxon, Celts. Learning more of my ancestors beliefs, traditions, origins et al is priceless. Again thank you.
Wish we could get your videos on BBC Teach rather than their multiculti rubbish.
The ironic thing is, I learn more about other NATIVE cultures from STJ than from any of the usual dreck pushed by the MSM.
You're stuck on a multicultural planet. Better get used to it.
@@37Dionysos So let whites have our own homeland
@@37Dionysos I'm fed up hearing about how "Anyone can be English", "Anyone can be Russian" "Nothing is truly Swedish" etc
@@lizs606 Great idea! How about Alcatraz? The Lesser Antilles? Then they can pretend there are no other nonwhite people and reality won't keep laughing at their "superiority."
I love your videos sir. This is my favorite YT channel. Thank you so much. Incidentally, the name of the pub in my village here in the West of Ireland is called 'The May Queen'. The family that own it now tell me it was called that for centuries and they kept the name not knowing what it meant. Trout and Salmon fishing is big here, so I think they assume it is to do with May Flys and so on. I did a bit of digging, and the village was founded by English settlers (it wasn't always invasion and conquests) in the 1300s. So the name of the pub probably goes back to then. It demonstrates the enduring cross-pollenisation between IndoEuropean cultures. In the same way there are Sheela Na Gigs in England and France. At the core, we are the same people. The archetypes are always self-evident.
Also, just to point out that the collection of dew was central to European Alchemy also.
OpenSourceOccultTV awesome to see you floatin to this channel!
In Hungary we also celebrate May Day, and we have similar maypole customs. More precise, it's akin to the Romanian one, which you mentioned. PS: Keep up the good work!
"the romanian" customs from transylvania
I can add that this is still a very active pagan feast on the Dutch island of Texel. Where they light huge bonfires all over the island on the 30th of april. They color the faces of children black with ashes as well! They call it 'Meierblis'
We have the same thing in Sweden, called "Majbrasa" (lit. May (bon-)fire) 🙂
In Lithuania, Christian May crownings were celebrated. The imposition of Communism destroyed that so now Easter is more celebrated than May day (which became a hated communist celebration). Ausrine was the goddess of the dawn (Ausra means dawn and is a popular name for girls). In folklore she is always associated with the morning star and she prepares the way for the Sun. As in all things, the religion is both transendental and practical. There's a folk song ''migla migla rasa rasa'' which has been recorded by Skyforger which means ''oh fog, oh dew'' and describes the ''sacred wedding'' of the sons of gods. (There's an english translation of the lyrics.) I think fog and dew are a good way to describe the dawn of a spring day in Europe.
Thanks for this. Hail Ausrine
'christian may crownings' -eww... get abrahamic religions out of Europe.
Finally!!! Been waiting fir a survive the jive video. I am literally going to get a cup of tea and enjoy this!
Great song and voice in the beginning! Maypoles, dances and festivities are still the tradition in Southern Germany-Austria. The occupiers luckily did not succeed in re-educating the Germans 100%.
The Germans received special treatment since 1945 and as Frankfurt School brainwashing worked so very well it was implemented all over the so-called "civilised, judeo-christian, western world". Quote by Thomas Carlyle: *"The future of Germany is the future of the world."*
What an interesting video! Something especially interesting for you: I’m from Estonia and estonians haven’t really been associated with indo-europeans because of our language which stems from the uralic tribes. However, even we celebrate May Day on the last day of April, and it’s called Volbriöö, meaning the night of the volber. It is associated with witches and bonfires are common!
During Easter I was thinking, hmm why haven't STJ put out a video on the topic? What a lovely surprise to see my wish come true together with both mayday and Swedish midsummer! Really enjoyed the video. High quality stuff, as always ;) As a Swede, I think I could add some things:
I don't think there's much to add on our may day celebration, except for the name "Valborg". Which I find interesting since Val- reminds me of Valhalla and -borg meaning castle, or city, makes me wanting to infer that Valborg is indeed a feast in honor of the gods, having a feast in your city (borg) of similar proportions of those in Valhalla. I know that the prefix Val- is used in different combinations in the Edda, but I'm not sure if this is just a coincidence in this occasion. Since Val- usually refers to "the slain". Maybe someone else knows more about this?
But on midsummer however, I can add that it is also a tradition for young women to pick 9 different flowers in 9 different fields, jumping over 9 hedges and finally putting them underneath their pillow so that they will dream of whom they shall marry. Another note on our midsummer festival is that the first Swedish record of a may-pole (also called the "midsummer-pole") being erected, or at least mentioned in writing, was as in the 17th century. I read one theory proclaiming that the German worker immigrants brought that tradition over. But then, there's a lot of "research" trying to undermine our heritage.
I agree about the German immigrants theory being suspect, but the etymology of Valborg from walpurgis is well attested afaik
tfw jeff hehe yeah!
Hastings has Jack in the Green. which is rather big about 20,000 people attended this year. in it we slay the spirit of summer (the Jack) to bring about summer.
The 1st of May is my birthday! I was brought up with what it means from both my European ancestors and to my AmerIndian ancestors, who also had a Wheel of Eight. Nahul, hatak holcha panshi homma yvt pisa achukma! You've given me an idea for a character to put in a book. Cha bvn la.
I really appreciate all the hard work you put into making these, especially the depth of your research which always tries to reach the root of every custom, tradition, and feast day. Hopefully your charisma will compel as many people as possible to look into these roots and realise that the deeper we go, the more in common we have and the more we can find to unite over. To fight globalisation, it's equally important that we preserve all the specific wee customs particular to certain localities, and remember about the big picture, the eternal and annual truths of nature revered throughout Europe (and perhaps beyond).
*May* you have a blessed and fruitful May!
After viewing this, I feel the need to watch 'The Wicker Man'. The original of course.
Mike Ehinger the very same thing just crossed my mind😎
"KILLING ME WONT BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN HONEY!!!" Lol. Yah, the Edward Woodward original is the best, but Nicholas Cage's remake is pure comedy gold.
Merry meet, merry part and merry meet again.
In Germany there is a maypole and a big dance on valborgsmäsafton as well. And the boys put up decorated birch trees (anonymously) in front of their adored girls house in the middle of that night.
My grandmother (in Ireland) used to scatter flowers on the door step at the front door on May Day for some reason.
Very insightful and enlightening video as always!
Part of the orthodox easter in Greece is built upon the Adonia, an ancient festival in which women mourn for the death of Adonis.
Also the Greek variant of the dawn godess must be "Eos" (in Aeolic greek: Auos, in Doric: Aos), although I don't know when she was celebrated..
Hurray Hurray, the first of May; outdoor lovin' starts today.
Is what my grandfather used to say.
we used to celebrate may day in america...in a watered down version but none the less recognized.
15:51 "The dew looked whitish." Obviously dew was associated with seed; the white, female moon-goddess within the male, personified by the May-Queen, its male counterpart being the (red) egg associated with the sun. It always blew my mind how this sacred doctrine of something female within the male and something male within the female (Ying Yang a.o.) actually turns out to be in line with current scientific insights on DNA, sperm cells having two x chromosomes and egg cells having a y chromosome.
The ancients came to such conclusions through contemplation on the book of nature, something I doubt many would be capable of today. Great video as always, thank you very much and greetings from Leiden!
Brendan Hall Ah, I figured seed and semen were pretty much synonyms, but always good to have a native step in and clear things up, heheh.
The cake you mentioned reminds me of the ancient Greek popanon (πόπανον), a cake they would sacrifice to e.g. Asclepius at Epidaurus in order to be physically healed from a disease. Before throwing it into the fire they'd sprinkle it with holy water. Not entirely sure about the significance of the ritual though... Although loaves of bread are often associated with phallicism, which I guess might apply to cakes as well.
I always saw 'fertility' as the ultimate source of any ritual, of anything sacred (think of all the scandals involving sexual impropriety within religious organizations), but it is not always entirely clear to me what the symbolism is ment to signify. There often is something red or white involved, the red being associated with the fixed sun, the fixed hearth and its sacred fire, but even the volatile white is associated with Zeus' lighting, through which he makes heaven and earth shake and takes possession of the will of the individual (during an orgasm). So somehow there is fire within the white as well...? It always seemed very Droste-ish to me...
Anyways, the point is that the volatile needs to be fixed in order for life to occur. This is the ultimate source of all (albeit unconscious) symbolism, its modern exponent mostly being sports. Think of the serpent, turning into a staff, st. George fixing the dragon, Jesus holding a little bird in his hands etc..
I'd like to add from the Rus tradition and on why this holiday is important to people and especially norse people. I'm not sure if it is celebrated the same way in Poland or other Slavic tribes but in Russia it is still celebrated as it was prior to the "Christian-isation" of it. Prior to easter people are expected to eat a certain kind of diet around the spring equinox, in a form of cleanse and re-birth every year and this comes from pagan times. After a long winter of surviving on meat and animal products it was essential to go get your vitamins and they also probably had a chance to raise meat for the coming winter. Also a similar ritual of where a bon fire is burnt is performed, however it is also an effigy of a woman/goddess/deity and after she collapses people are supposed to jump over her in the same manner as people do at burning man today lol. (Symbolizing being reborn in the flames)
Love your footage! April/ May time has always been my favourite !
I'm learning so much from your videos! Keep up the great work!
Glad to hear it!
Interesting here in Germany it's good luck to marry on May Day or in May in general; the traditional month of wealth, happiness and love.
Fascinating video. Thanks so much for posting, answered a lot of questions for me!
Mr. Rowsell, I am not sure if the following suggestion would coincide well with your Spring-themed topics of late, but all the same I was wondering if you might make a video on the recurring appearance of Apples as a symbolic fruit in pagan traditions; for instance the Apples of Iduna of Norse tradition, The Hesperidean Apples of Greek tradition, and The Isle of Avalon(the name of which is thought to denote association to Apples). The Apple always seems to represent immortality in some form or another, but I should like to see an examination into what that might actually entail or represent for the practitioners of the Old Ways.
The myth has a Proto-Indo-European origin.From wikipedia: David Knipe theorizes Iðunn's abduction by Thjazi in eagle form as an example of the Indo-European motif "of an eagle who steals the celestial means of immortality." In addition, Knipe says that "a parallel to the theft of Iðunn's apples (symbols of fertility) has been noted in the Celtic myth where Brian, Iuchar, and Icharba, the sons of Tuirenn, assume the guise of hawks in order to steal sacred apples from the garden of Hisberna. Here, too, there is pursuit, the guardians being female griffins.
Wonderful video, as always!
Thank you for mentioning Lithuania. Dawn in Lithuanian is Aušra (Aushrah), and in dialects - Auštra and Austra. First is quite popular female name in my country the third one is less popular but exists as well. Now I'm beginning to wonder why cult of Virgin Mary is so popular in Lithuania.
The Maypole thing is the same here in germany, and in some regions there is the custom that young men place a young birch tree in front of the house of the girl of their interest. I don't really now about this but maybe there is a link to the romanian may customs through the german settelers in transsylvania, and not so much through older indo germanic roots, but that's just an idea.
Their is a similar tradition to the may queen here in westphalia and northern germany in general, it's tied to Pentecost nowadays and called "Pingsterbrut" (pentecost bride), a young girl from the village plays the "Pingsterbrut", she will dress in white and accompanied by her court (the other kids) will go from house to house singing to the people (and collecting sweets). that's got to be pre-christian and just tied to pentecoste in later time.
A very good video, really enjoyed that!
I honestly never heard of Armindeni. I should look into it a bit. Thank you for the content. Well researched as always!
This is one of my favorite channels.
Thank you so much for all your research. Have celebrated both may day and midsummer as a child. That makes total sense that the midsummer decorating the pole is later further North in the year. You help me so much make sense of what is deeply felt by so many. Blessings to you x
Very good job. I just know this channel and I've already subscribe! ;)
Thank you for all the cognate information.
This is so informative :D Thanks so much for the video
Tom I love your videos you have taught me a lot on paganism , and my ancestors way of living keep it up!
Fantastic video! Going to share it with my wife, a history teacher, who will no doubt find it useful for enlightening some young minds
Truly the best channel on YT.
Omg, glad to know this channel for my paper :'D you're my savior! Thankyou!
Happy to help!
Best damn pagan channel on Yt, never stop my friend.
Great video as always
Fascinating. Thank you for an informative presentation.
In the Basque Country we have May Day celebrations, although we're not Indo-European. We celebrate it with a special dance called Zinta Dantza, meaning "ribbon dance". Two men will hold a wooden pole that has ribbons attached to the top, women will dance around the pole while holding a ribbon, which results in the ribbons braiding around the pole.
@Survive the Jive These celebrations remind me of the Newroz / Nowruz which literally translates to New Day. It is a very ancient Indo-European celebration going back to at least to the time of Zoroastrians and the Avesta. It is celebrated by Iranic peoples and the descendants of Turkified Iranic peoples in Central Asia on the Spring Equinox and it is the first day of the Persian year. They also make symbolic bonfires which they jump over and also paint eggs. I think that you could find many more links if studied further.
Thanks for the work you do,
I think it's great,
Great video. I must say, Bealtaine is pronounced 'Byel-tinna'
Morning dew tradition here > summer solstice. If no dew available, they bathe in springs and small rivers.
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Here, in Tolosa, Gipuzkoa 20 miles from San Sebastian, Basque country, on the 23rd of June we light the bonfires at dusk, at midnight jump over them and party all night. At dawn we walk barefoot on the grass (or wash in springs/fountains/rivers if there is no dew. This will keep you healthy the rest of the year...). After this we put a branch os ash tree on the main door so that bad spirits don´t come in.
Catholics tried to take advantage of these very rooted traditions by calling this festivity "San Juan" (St. John)...Donibane in Basque.
Hi T.Llyd, glad to see you use the arrano beltza (black eagle) of Navarra in its real color (red background).
I usually take Marie`s theories with a pinch of salt...
I think our ancestors where much more pragmatic than we are and easily took whatever they liked or found useful from each others' cultures.
By the way, for those who don´t know the "arrano beltza", it is the seal of Sancho VII of Navarre: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancho_VII_of_Navarre who was the younger brother of Berengaria of Navarre, queen consort of England after her marriage to Richard I (the Lionheart): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berengaria_of_Navarre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England
the crocus have been coming up in my garden and i was so looking forward to jumping the fire on Beltane but surprise, yesterday we got 8" of heavy snow and freezing rain here in Ontario . it might not even be melted by May. thanks for the vid.
Where I live in Cornwall. In Helston we celebrate the coming of May, with Flora Day (May 8th). I am certain that this goes back beyond pre-Christain times
Can you make video about tocharians?
GonoszManó HUN that would be great
In the Republic of Georgia (Sakartvelo, საქართველო) Easter is celebrated over several days at the very end of April. The most obviously pre-Christian part of these celebrations involves a family going to the graves of their ancestors and feasting with the dead. Georgian cemeteries often have tables built in family grave plots for this exact purpose. Families bring the feast to their ancestors and toast them, sometimes pouring out wine onto the graves. This is the time of year when food is becoming more plentiful with the warmer weather, and I like that the main celebration at this time of year has sharing this new bounty with departed family members as its centerpiece.
You should take a look at the dacian paganism too.
Armindeni is known to the people as the day of the worm, or the day of the drunkard. It's a popular holiday, with a fixed date of May 1. This date is considered the beginning of the spring, and the feast was held for the fruits of the earth and to avoid natural disasters such as hail or drought. Arminden is actually a deity of vegetation, so the feast has pagan origins. It is customary to put on this day a tree or a green twig at the gate, the door or the windows of the houses. It is also called the feast of Jeremiah, from the old Slav Jeremiah nidini (the day of Jeremiah).
In the rural tradition, Arminden was a tree cleansed with branches and adorned with wheat spice:
"The
young men were leaving in the woods, in the mountains and cutting the tallest tree (fir or beech) that they could bring on their shoulders. They cleaned it from the branches, but at the top left some of them, which they adorned. The Arminden was raised until noon in the center of the village. Strawberries were made of flowers and wheat. There was a competition of the young people who gathered and sometimes bets, earning the one who could climb up. On the Saturday before Arminden, each of the families went to bring a young birch and branches of lime. At dawn, long before the sun rose, when the morning light was barely lifted, and the dew was not scarred by light, every farmer put the birch at the gate and lime branches at the roofs of the house and the chaff. Then they adorned the interior of the house with flowers of jasmine and lime. "
I am from Romania, but i like to call it DACIA :-)
Nice, are you going to chop down a tall ol' tree this year?
So that's where the Romanian car company DACIA gets it's name from!
ᛋᛁᚴᚢᚱᛏ Well i am more germanic by blood, so i will double celebrate!! ^^
The communists used DACIA as the name of the car just to mock our history :P
Your the best teacher ever
In Finland on the first of may we celebrate 'Vappu'. Nowadays it's the day of 'Finnish work' and it's celebrated by upper secondary school graduates and the working class, so basically everybody. Modern traditions on vappu are getting wasted, making mead, eating doughnuts and making funnel cakes.
Ancient finns particularly on the western side of Finland rang bells and lit bonfires on open fields to shoo away bad spirits. Often they also let the cattle out for the first time that year and drove them through the fires believing it would keep them in good health. They also danced and made mead.
For some reason we don't lit bonfires anymore on the first of may, but in the middle of june on 'juhannus', the celebration of light and midsummer. Before christianity arrived, and for some time after that, it was celebrated as the day of Ukko to secure a good crop and to secure your fertility. Ancient traditions include: erecting birch trees next to doors, stairs and windows; and carrying flowers and small young trees indoors. They were also big on being loud and getting drunk.
Modern traditions on juhannus include: juhannussauna, drinking, and lighting those bonfires. Originally the juhannusbonfire tradition was active in eastern Finland, from where it spread to the whole country during the 20th century.
In the Swedish speaking parts of the country on juhannus they erect 'juhannussalko' meaning juhannuspole's. The pole's look identical to maypoles.
It's funny. Prior to knowing that our European ancestors used morning dew as a health tonic, I would walk through the dew barefoot on summer mornings sensing that dew has healing properties. It's like written in my DNA memories or something.
Great vid !
we have a modern iteration of the may day here in Poland. We call it the long weekend (3rd of may is the day of first constitution in 18th century and it's celebrated as a holiday= day off same as may 1st) and it's traditionally meet up with friends/family at barbecue with beer. Grilled polish kielbasa is a must during that time (i'm not joking :))
I don't know what a kielbasa is, but I really want one now!
a sausage. grilled kielbasa sausage + cold beer = ambrosia
Sounds awesome, now I want an ambrosia instead! I was in kraków once for a wedding, never stopped eating/drinking. Lovely place and lovely people!
Oh damn I love kiełbasa
You may be pleased to know that many people of Polish ancestry in the US have kielbasa year-round, including grilled outdoors. Lots of other Slavic communities also eat it a lot, so I think it must be similar to many traditional European sausages. People from all backgrounds enjoy it, although it's not always available in areas without Polish or other Slavic immigrants.
we do may dew in Galicia Spain, the day after the bonfire in midsummer... Around 24th of June,...or whatever day is San Juan...Saint John night... women who wants to get pregnant need to jump three times in the sea shore...specially Lanzada beach
Always loved your well researched content, I learned a lot, although I already knew most of Old Europe's religion. My birthday is on the 1st of May and if I may ask as a present >.< a video about pagans and animals and human sacrifice... Im really struggling with that in these days. Thank you, keep up the awesome work
In Iceland on jónsmessa (midsummer) you are supposed to roll around naked in the morning dew.
If you do this, what are the traditional benefits, please?
Love this channel, if possible could you do a video with difference between baltic and slavic origins
THANK YOU! I see many videos talking about the "origins" of the Maypole and none of them talk about the reality that the Maypole was originated in the pagan celebrations on the Beltane Sabbat
Well more likely Germanic than Celtic
Here in south-west part of Ukraine there is a tradition to cover up whole floor inside the chuch (except for the altar) with grass and steppe flowers during the Green Holidays (week after the fiftieth day after the Easter). Its fun how deeply the pagan tradition are sometimes build into orthodoxy.
Aw yes! I look forward to seeing you pop up on my subscriptions my man! Your content is well-researched and wonderful to listen to.
So what's happening on the discord channel? I just recently joined, and my brother and I (who's been on there for a while) were both kicked out? Would love to get on and talk about paganism!
Good singing!!!
My Nan was May queen one year! Back when we still had May queens...
Very interesting! Here in the (lower)Saxon parts of the Netherlands we calibrate Easter by making a huge fire involving the whole village! Sadly it's cancelled this year because of Corona...
The old artifacts such as the golden hat point at a nineteen year cycle in which some years would be comprised of 13 Lunar months.
So when fitting that to the christian 12 fixed month calendar means there could well be inconsistencies in trying to fix festivals from one system to the other.
Hello Tom, brilliant video and info as always. Just wondered if you know of any decent calendars marking these types of festivals, etc, I could get hold of. Cheers 💪🏻
someone used to sell them on bigcartel
@Survivethejive I'll see if I can get hold of one. There's a lot of iffy ones about so I'm unsure about the best one we can have as germanic pagans.
Loved the history lesson.
Thank you for your videos. I made a small donation.
Have you ever addressed why you now live in Sweden?
When will you video on the Rugii come out? I hope you got my request.
I got it
Thanks for keeping the knowlegde of the past alive so it will come with us thru the young into our future:)
Thumbs up and a share from Norway
Here in Norway we have bonfire on midsummers eve, we call it st.hans aften or Jonsok
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire#Nordic_Countries
Nordic Countries[edit]
In Iceland, bonfires are traditional on New Year's Eve, and on 6 January, which is the last day of the Icelandic Christmas season.[citation needed] In Norway and Denmark,[citation needed] large bonfires are lit on 23 June to celebrate "Jonsok" or "St Hansaften" the evening before John the Baptist's birthday. As many other traditions in Scandinavia, St. Hans is believed to have a pagan origin, the celebration of mid summer's eve. In Sweden Walpurgis Night is celebrated on 30 April which includes the burning of a bonfire. In Finland, Midsummer Eve is celebrated with large bonfires.[6]
What can we say, it´s always nice to light a fire - being a bit cold and all!
It is still called "Maypole" in some parts of Sweden, not Midsummerpole.
Love your videos. Just note that Bealtaine is pronounced ‘BYEL-tenna’. Best wishes from a Catholic pagan.
Hi ..great video ...You spoke of Transylvania and how similar the customs were ...Transylvania was settled by Germanic Saxons (Sachsen) in the early middle ages...the area is called Seibenbergen which means Seven castles...a heptarchy Which is also very similar to Saxon England....just wanted to share that...thanks again my good sir!
Not sure if you’ve ever done this, but do you think you’ll ever make a video on Greek genetics?
Thamk you lovely video.In Australia we are all back the front. My previous comments clarify. But, I would love to heat about Idunn And her worship or days.I thougjt Iit msy be may day but please enlighten me , on her worship - thanks
As an Aussie, maypoles always were always this strange far off thing we were aware of but never did ourselves growing up, same as snow at Christmas. The weather is shitty in May (by our standards) and so some things just don't map well when cultures move around the world. The holiday has shifted to all different dates in different parts of the country and is now called Labour Day in most places, and it's lost all connection with May. But we did make Brigid's crosses with wool in school so there's that I guess.
@TheHuwhiteKnight How does one become a europagan? For me at least beliefs are something you're raised into and not a title you just designate yourself. Paganism is something of curiosity for me but I couldn't just make myself a pagan any more than I can spontaneously become a Muslim or a Taoist or whatever
This guy is the best
Happy May Day! Skal!!
When I see these rich European traditions it makes me sad how diluted or dead they are here in North America. We can’t even have Christmas Markets without being told it’s “non-inclusive.”
I just clicked on this video, and the ad was a woman asking "How many more videos on fertility are you going to watch today? " 🤣🤣🤣
Very informative, thanks so much! In Hawai'i we have Lei Day, basically a marketing ploy but perhaps not entirely given our formally recognized initial encounter with outsiders was Captain Cook. Hence the Hawai'ian flag. Again, much mahalos!
Thanks if I ever marry it will be on May Day.. well done
In India we celebrate 'Holi' festival associated with coming of summer. A firepyre is lite in night. Also it known as festival of colour. Next day colours are thrown at each other imitating nature which gives us colorful flowers.
Norman Roswell we remember you