Paganism in the Netherlands | Throughout History, and within Modern Traditions
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As a dutch person i find it such a shame that so much information of our ancestors history is gone and forgotten. But thanks anyway for sharing what you know :).
Thank you, Jacob. I am in Michigan where I and MANY have Dutch Ancestry. We even have cities in western Michigan named Holland and Zeeland. My ancestors came from northern Groningen. So interesting!
Michigan has so many towns inspired by Europe, its really interesting
Rockford, Mi here!
Harrison Michigan here
Holland here! Van Wieren
Heyyyy im from holland area too hahaa omg hi fellow Dutchie!!!!
Guess what, Ive cleaned betsy devoss' house before hehe
I got chills when you were saying the prayer to the goddesses. It was beautiful.
So beautiful! 🍎🔥
Women come first
When you start to any prayer remember the goddess
It will increase your love towards others because mothers/goddess are a sign of unconditional love to their kids
From a Hindu
We call godddesses as mothers
I did too! My family is Irish/Danish and German. I felt like Rann heard you and wanted to pass along her thanks for the kind words
All right lass gan to. The UK for more
I can't tell you how much this video means to me. My ancestry is from the Netherlands. I loved seeing the beautiful landscape and hearing about the traditions of my ancestors.
I hope you can come and visit us one day so you can see where your ancestors came from :)
It is very special to visit Holland when you have Dutch ancestry!
Do you live in the Netherlands too, or is it that you at some point in life found out about your ancestry? But that you don't live here? If you're really interested, you could travel to The Netherlands sometime. Our country is quite flat, but if look and search around you can find pretty beautiful places of nature. I'm 99% percent sure I myself am of Germanic heritage. First of all I've been born and raised here. (Still live here too) Also, I live in an area that's close to the German border.
My family is from Groningen and Friesland, in fact many of my family still lives there. I've been able to find out that they lived there from at least the 1400s til the 1940s. I'm so incredibly proud of my Dutch/Frisian heritage and this just adds to that. Thank you.
I live in Belgium, so just south of the Netherlands. I think it's amazing because this is so close to my home, I literally live 2 hours by car away from where you filmed
My grandfather taught me loads about the Germanic gods whilst growing up int he north of the Netherlands.
hello and greetings from the netherlands i've been looking at your vedios for a while now i never expected you to ever come to the netherlands🇳🇱
Het is wel grappig dat die gast nu waarschijnlijk ook in Nederland is
Good day my friend, i live in the Netherlands i recently watched Vikings after that i tried the magic truffels called Valhalla wich are legal here in the Netherlands. This made me and my friend start talking about the topic of nordic paganisme. That combined with the sirie Vikings really sparked my interest in learning norse/Germanic paganism. I love this video and wil be watching more of your content. Thanks for sharing this information and i sure do think you have a verry interesting channel. Thanks cause this is a few hours of extra content and nolage for me. :)
Also i will send you a dm or something if i get a change to read dutch books about old paganism here in the Netherlands. Mabey i will be able to translate and share some of the information with you.
Southern Netherlands was a great mix of the Kelts and Germanics (Batavi). together with some Roman spices here and there. Great area to do research on paganism. Myself I'm from the old Frisian areas.
Great to see this, Jacob. Thanks and enjoy your time in Europe ;) If you get the chance try to visit a concert of Baldrs Draumar (Frisian pagan folklore)
I like to see you've visited De Efteling.
And as we say in Dutch: Moge de Goden je gezind zijn.
Goed gezind, I presume.
Mogen, meervoud, of: moge (gebiedende wijs) het zo zijn dat...
En menapii ( Zeeland/ Vlaanderen)
Perhaps also something to consider, although the evidence is little, is the linguistic evidence still in the Dutch language and in Afrikaans its daughter language. The weekdays still have the names of Germanic gods. Donderdag is cognate to Donar, Thor. Woensdag, Wodan, Odin. Vrydag, Frija. Dinsdag or Things Day, over which Tiw or Tyr presided. Words even still in Afrikaans would have been Germanic pagan in older context. Words such as heil, heilig (holy), Wy and deriviatives (consecrate), cognate Old Norse Vé, same with Wierook (incense) . Hel and Hemel (heaven) are found in Germanic Pagan contexts. We have words specifically related to a storm and wind but also anger, woed, woede cognate to Odin's name as well. There are also place names in the Netherlands like Donderberg, a possible Thor connection there. Personal names with the "Ans" element (although these may be from German as well, but Old Dutch and Old High German were still close). Anselm, Ansu, Ansie cognate to Os and As for "god" as one of "Aesir".
There is the Bergakker runic inscription on a sword scabbard, it has been suggested that it may be an attestation of Old Dutch (Old Low Franconian). Although the Germanic languages were all still so close at that time.
Thank you for sharing! I'm from Antwerp. The Troll/Kabouter King in the hollow stump used to be my favourite creature in the fairytale forest of the Efteling as a child (still is), alongside the fairies and trolls from Droomvlucht ride (which is one of the most popular attractions in the park).
Dutch folklore is an amazing amalgamation of Celtic, Germanic and Mediterranean traditions (and who knows what else). We can't talk fully about it anymore in a scientific or authoritative way, but the folk spirit remembers and keeps on producing these tales and creatures of times otherwise forgotten. This can be an amazing stepping stone into connecting with the ancestors, the land and the otherworld, but it requires a bit of a leap into the unproven (which I think we could use a bit more of in our midst).
I will definitely visit these barrows, now that I know they exist, they're not too far from where I live.
Blessings and greetings from Antwerp, Hail!
Maurits, of course it is indeed possible to discuss the kabouters, the little folk, known throughout Europe these were nature spirits, the oldest Scandinavian writings mention these as the wise spirits inhabiting rock walls. These sacred stones (also known in Latvia etc) of advice and judgement were destroyed by jealous bishops. There is still a sacred stone of the 'nutons' in the Ardennes.
@@Foxglove963 Thank you for sharing this information! I'll have a look at the nutons.
I live in The Netherlands and am happy with this video 🙌🏽
Glad you enjoyed it!
Before you all pray pray to the goddesses because mothers come first and then country they are signs of unconditional love to their children
Then give treats to the children at home, girls first because...... I hope you find out..
Revive the pagan culture
From a Hindu
Nehalenia is an antagonist is the Sailor Moon series. As a Dutchy I love the randomness of the universe that this ancient goddess is kept "alive" through the medium of anime.
Thank you for being so respectful of the gods, goddesses and aspects of these old spiritual ways.
I’m so glad to find this. I’m not a professional or an author but I’m thinking about writing a historical fiction story about the life of the Yde Girl, she was a sixteen year old who lived in what is now the Tynaarlo area of Drenthe Province in the northeastern Netherlands in around the 1st century (the Iron Age) and was buried in the Stijfveen bog after what was most likely a ritual sacrifice (it’s believed to be connected to her having scoliosis), and I wanted to have a specifically ancient Dutch context for what the religion and culture of her tribe might have been like. It’s also possible the sacrifice was done to ward off a Roman invasion, but the Romans never did come to Drenthe. I’m not sure which Germanic tribe her people would match with, but on her Dutch language Wikipedia page it says her people were the “earliest inhabitants of the Saxon area”. But because obviously so little is known about the religion of the people who lived in the Netherlands at that time, I’ve decided to resort to using very archaic Dutch equivalent words and names of those from the later Norse and western Germanic mythologies and personal names, like when it comes to the gods the Anzen would be the Æsir, the Wanen would be the Vanir, Woden or Woen would be Odin, etc. The Taaldacht website is a wonderful resource for that. The girl definitely would have known of and seen the hunebedden, but I don’t know if they would have been important or meant anything to her culture. In my story she would be aware of how much the world has changed since her lifetime and she’d be looking back at the world she knew.
Coming from a country that a Dutchman Abel Tasman came to before captain James cook.. New Zealand. We have strong Dutch and Scandinavian ties in my area. One of my great great grandmothers in my family was half Dutch and she married a Dane. We are also Irish, Scottish and English.
This really touched my heart 💛especially the prayer really opened something inside of me… Thank you for doing this healing work 🙏🏻💛
Greets from Holland 😉
Wat leuk dat je ons koude kikkerlandje zo waardeert, ik ga zeker kijken! 🇳🇱
Gr uit Zweden floortje doe ze de groeten daar.
Vrouw Holle is spreekt mij erg aan. Welke spreekt jouw aan?
Zo er zijn dus meer Nederlanders hier
@@j-sneep4224 hail de oude goden
@@dteun tsjaad
Gezellig!
Hi! I'm from north italy and after taking a DNA test I discovered my Belgian/ Dutch Flemish and Gallic roots (Cenomann tribes who settled their main city in Brescia-lombardy) that represent the most part of my genome (more than 65%). So this video is really important to me thank you. In my opinion if everybody in the world took a DNA test our view about people and cultures would be more respectful, we are all connected but at the same time we are special and unique.
Lombards where famous for their long beards and where germanic in origin.
Still 5 % has Nordic 🧬
You evoking and honoring the goddesses, brought me tot tears... Thank you for doing that! Hugs from Frisia
My grandmother was Dutch grandfather German. I'm Pagan.
Thank you for this amazing video!My parents are Dutch,and my mother is from the south,and I love this part of the Netherlands.
Great to see you being in my country Jacob, welkom!
I visited the hunebedden when I was younger! They're very cool, definitely worth a visit. I later also found out that they used to leave valuebales, like jewelry or something like pottery in there with the deceased. I suppose, like the Egyptian, so they could take it to the after life. Sadly there were grave robbers that would've taken everything.
I learned this awhile ago in school and its been like 10 years, so not sure I remember it correctly.
Hello! I love these videos you're doing! A huuuge swath of my ancestry are immigrants to the U.S. from The Netherlands. I used to think that was kinda boring, but it's actually fascinating and I'm proud of it now.
Glad you enjoyed this video! Hope you are able to visit some of these places one day
Wow! You’ve managed to find Toterfout? Most Dutch don’t even know about it’s existence. Cool! One of the first places I’ve ever visited to explore my pagan roots.
Amazing video, beautiful landscape shots, and incredible information! I look forward to more of your journeys which, like Wodan, shows the enlightenment within that can come from traveling across worlds. Shamanic because even travel itself is stepping outside of one's normal space and comfort to experience something different. Although I've primarily connected most with my German father's side from Swabia (with one of our ancestral lines also from Celtic Northwest Spain) and thus a more distinctly Alpine Germanic Paganism that survived within folklore and traditions, my entire maternal side is Flemish-American only three generations removed from Vlaanderen. There are similarities with the Southern Netherlands especially in the blending of Germanic and Celtic traditions of the Belgae. Not only do we have our own Deities of the Low Countries such as Nehalennia and the Matronae (Triple Goddesses/Nornir), but folk tales or fairy tales exist about Ostara; there are place-names and local legends involving Wodan and Donar; traditions of the Wild Hunt which are prolific in the Low Countries, etc.. Much can be reclaimed from folklore and traditions that I believe are surviving remnants of our Paganism with only a thin-veneer of being "Christian" (and specifically "Catholic" in my own ancestors' case). With due respect to the Norse/Scandinavian, I think its important for people of Continental ancestry to discover our regional variations that can occasionally be different from the Norse sources. Perhaps there is such a strong tradition of the Goddesses especially because of the low proximity to the sea and the river systems which are the life-blood of the Low Countries, so a strongly Feminine spiritual energy?
Excellent video Jacob.
Greetings from New Zealand
Thank you for sharing this. I live in the state of Washington in the USA 🇺🇸
its cool to see that when paganism got nerfed by the Christian Empire, in modern day its rising from its own ashes like a great phoenix! cool to see that it survived in Netherlands a little
You should go to Iceland and talk about their paganistic beliefs! they errected their first ever temple to the Norse gods in 1000s of years in 2018!
I never knew that the folklore stories were to teach children how to be safe. That makes a lot of sense now that you say it. Life lessons in a story. So cool. Thank you for your videos. I have subscribed to your channel. I appreciate the care and detail you explain everything. I just started my pagan journey and your videos are extremely helpful in my journey.
Glad you found your way here!
Come to denmark and drink some mead with me 😁😁😁 I live near Rammedige 😁
I love hearing about the pre-Roman cultures.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
i'm here for this! my grandfather's family is dutch
What a beautiful place! Love from Germany and may ODIN bless you all 🍂⭐❄
I love traveling vicariously through this channel.
I’m loving this series and I can’t wait to see more 😊 As always the imagery is beautiful and very informative. My husband is of Dutch descent and I really enjoyed the historical content 💕
Thank you for such a beautiful and educational video. I’ve only recently found your channel and I’m loving it. Your book looks lovely. I just ordered it and am getting excited for it to arrive.
Hope you enjoy my book, I also will be working on a book on travel soon!
This is so wonderful to learn, and I appreciate your videos so much. I have so much information about my Norse and Celtic pagan ancestry, but so much of my Dutch pagan ancestry has been a mystery. Learning about Nehalennia, Sandradiga, Hludsna, Vagdavercutis, Viradectis, Badhuhenna, Tamfana… so remarkable! Thank you for sharing all your work, education, and beautiful goddess ritual. Hail to the Goddesses!🔥🍎
What a Beautiful & Insightful Video💖 TY
Holy shit what an amazing video😍
Really nice and beautiful video! I myself am Dutch. I've been born here and to this day still do. Not sure I'd ever live in another country. I've seen 2 of the hunnebedden that you showed in the video, one only once, and the other a few times or so. Since that one's the closest to where I live. I'm 99% sure I'm of Germanic heritage, since I live in an area that's close to the German border.
Really enjoyed watching this video!
I really enjoyed this video. Definitely learning more about my dutch pagan roots.
Great video! I'm from South-Netherland and didn't know Swifterkamp. Looked great. I'm going to ask my clan to go there a weekend! I live close to the border of Germany and work with the Matronen.
Thanks for visiting my home country. Came across your video. And you visited some good examples. My favorite area is called de Regte Heide, which contains also several beatifull gravemounts. The whole area from Tilburg and Eindhoven have very much of early burial mounts and sites.
Glad you found your way here 🇳🇱!
Afrikaner from South Africa here. I have my family tree all the way to the 1400s inthe Netherlands. I have always wondered if there are more to my roots other than the brave Dutch Protestants that came to Africa. Thank you for giving us a glimpse into our past. Liefde en Groete uit Johannesburg!
From where in the Netherlands in 1400?
As I understand most of the farmers came from Zeeland (southwest of modern Netherlands.)
@@jacquelinevanderkooij4301 you are correct. Mostly from Zeeland, also Edam and even a naughty lady from Amsterdam. They believe that Maria Kickers has 76000 descendants who has the surname Botha in South Africa today..
I can't wait 🥺✨✨ Happy Pagan Hour
The Eftrling Park looks amazing!
Thank you for all you are doing! Many blessings 💜
I really enjoyed this video! That village y’all stayed in looks awesome. I can really see how connected a person souls feel to the ancestors there.
The tree in this video is a stunning spirit
Brilliant video. I have shared and suggested others watch. Thank you. Valuable resource for fledglings to Paganism, and those of us elders to re-jog the memory.
Thanks for sharing!
I have just recently stumbled across your channel. I am in love with it completely.
Welcome aboard the ancient religion train 🚂!
What a lovely production. Well done. I personally don’t consider myself Pagan (maybe I am more than I’m aware), but whenever I see Pagans and hear them talk they always strike me as caring and sensitive people. I mean honoring nature, history and your forefathers/mothers is a valuable thing to focus on, whatever label is attached to it.
Production and editing is super professional! Work on the thumbnails though, I almost skipped. Ai generate pagan gods, cut them out and add to your thumbnail. That tune at the beginning was awesome!
So I'm Dutch and as far as I know my ancestry is mostly Dutch. I grew up in Amsterdam but never felt at home in a city environment. I guess that's why I never was really interested in dutch history... this is actually the first time even hearing about these burial mounts!! But im getting a bit older and I think becoming a mother has made me think about my ancestors.
You have a very beautiful channel! Thank you for sharing your journey with us all 🍎
Excellent video. I’ve been to the Netherlands, but only saw Amsterdam and the like. I wished I knew of Efteling, it looks amazing. Oh well I guess I need another euro trip 😁
I think most dutch people would like people to go to the Efteling rather than Amsterdam 😂 (even though I liked Amsterdam too!)
Thank you for this such amazing rich history I just love learning new things and places
Thank you for making this video Jacob❤
My pleasure!!
THANK YOU 🌲🌲🌲
Growing up in the most southern part of the Netherlands I never came in touch with paganism at all. Only when I was exposed to baltic paganism in Lithuania (which still has a huge following and is deeply rooted in the culture) through my wife, I started to notice all the different landmarks around the place i grew up in which (most probably) have pagan roots. Although there are a lot of these pagan landmarks littered throughout the landscape, they are very hidden, as is the practise of paganism throughout The Netherlands.
Waar is dit precies? Die grafheuvels zijn heel mooi 🙏🏻❤️
Thank you for this beautiful video Jacob. Did you know that many farms, houses and even churches in the eastern (rural) part of The Netherlands still have pagan symbols such as sun crosses, runes, trees of life (Irminsul), etcetera?
Im Dutch and i'm not religious at all but i can appreciate whai i see here in this video, from a historic point of view
Never knew I had these hills next to my city. Thanks for sharing
What a great experience to stay there!
This is definitely gonna be my relax hour
Those opening shots though!!!
Really enjoyed what you had to say so subbed 🤟
My father is Pennsylvania Dutch and i am too my mother was deep Irish and Welsh i believe she had once said and why i wait so long to see how the ancient world once was i just realized some time ago from inside to seek for it I've had different dreams and before my parents passed away my father and mother i told only i can see images in the tree's where my father was pleased with a smile and he said always thank the gods for the gifts they passed down to you .I have and some times it can be scary especially with certain sacred trees which bears the nuts and i am thankful to see what i see
Your ritual gave me goosebumps
I am shocked you have found a goddes with this beautifull name Nehalennia in my own little Netherlands. And more shocked that she is all over the place. What?! How did I not know this?? Thank you for sharing this. I love when young ones (I am almost twice your age) teach me something. I will need to get into this, I want to get to know her. Thank you bearded young one, keep up the good work.
Thank you 🙏 I highly recommend going to the museum in Leiden and seeing her statues in person ❤️
Super cool! I live in the Netherlands and I'm always curious about this stuff 🥰
I lived for seven years in Holland and only heard about the new witches
But never met anyone. Thanks for this video 👍🙏❤️
Just come across your UA-cam channel new sub mate shout from england I'm a pagan guy love to the pagan community worldwide ❤ it's growing across Europe brilliant getting back to are ancestors roots culture
Great video - loved it - the prayer to the goddesses was very good - acceptance of all deities
Thank you for this. In an interview about a movie called “Redbad” I read something rather sad. As they were doing research for the movie, the filmmakers and scriptwriters found out that the romans and particular the christian church were very successful in destroying anything that had to do with our pagan ancestors. “Redbad” is a story worth diving into by the way.
I am from the lands of the Hunnebeds and always have felt disconnected somehow from my ancestors. I really liked your information and learned some new things. It helps finding the roots a bit.
Ps. Have you heard of vrouw Holle. She is interesting as well.
Erg leuke video! Bedankt en de groeten uit Groningen.
so idk if anyone mentioned this but ..those god totem things instantly made me think of the Fresno night crawler.
Very interesting, thanks
A Very interesting Video 👌🏻👍🏻
I love this!
May lord Odin and lord Thor bless and keep you safe brother be blessed be my friend
Skol!
History is very important to remember, teach and touch in some way. Not doing this will create empty spaces to never again to be filled. We can't like or understand all of history but not knowing it, we will not be able to understand the human condition.
Baduhenna was not a deity, but a forest where there was a battle between Frisians and Romans. We think we know where the initial Frisian uprising was targeted on (Velsen) but we still don't know the location of the Baduhenna forest or the villa that was mentioned. It could well be lost to the ever increasing size of the IJsselmeer (lake IJssel).
There is also a Frisian God called Stavo, and the myth of frisians being descent from Freya according to the Oera Linda. As well as mounts where churches being on top upon were connected with star patterns. I am from a city called Bolsward and it is the Bulls mount. We have a special day called BOLLETONGERSDEI. which is on the first day of September. When there is another cosmological event.
Hunebedden are not burialmounts but are build for communal protection during natural dissasters... Thanks for the video, Gretings, Henk from NL
Whatever you do or life leads you these moments can never be taken. Enjoy each second. Life is too amazing not to experience it.
Please visit Archeon theme park at Alpen aan de Rijn!
I have Ancestors from Friesland or historically known as Frisia
Fascinating, thank you. A note re religion in "North America." Important to distinguish between the U.S. and Canada. Demographics and culture are different in Canada (as well as many other things). In 2021, just slightly over half the population in Canada declared as Christian which I believe is less than in the States (63%). Roughly 35% in Canada declared no religion, Islam just under 5% and lower percentages for the other major religions.
The best translation of OLB was by Dr. FRanklin Pearce, a philologist who worked for the Library of Congress.
27:34 Thank you Jacob. This quite sums it up, what about 90% of the Dutch people wish, for someone from abroad to be aware of - not calling the Netherlands in the same breath with (the artificiality in many of the aspects to the culture of) Holland. Not that I don't like a n y thing in these western provinces, their overall image just doesn't do much justice to the beauty of the major part of the country and it's history.
I myself live near a small piece of nature reserve in the South close to the German border, called 't Jaomerdal, a peaceful little place with three or four of these burial mounds, and a name that according to folktale refers to the wailing you can still hear there at night, of the ghosts of Julius Caesar's slaughtered 14th legion. But it's a happy place worth every visit :)
That's kitchen magick!
Hludana was indeed worshipped by frisians. I worship her just like my ancestors did. I have no knowledge yet on badhuhenna. The norse gods were also worshipped by frisians, like odin and frigga (with other names)
Forseti was also apparently known in Friesland as Fosite
I wish we could visit Doggerland easily
Hi what is the beautiful music playing at 20:32 ?