Thursday 23 November 2023
Friday 10 November 2023
Film Review: River's Edge (1986)
I joined Frodi for the Decameron film review festival to talk about the 1986 film River's Edge. Hear me explain the boomer vs generation X dynamic and the danger of hyperreality in this review of the 80s (anti) teen flick River’s Edge.
Tuesday 7 November 2023
Europe's Last Goddess: The Vénus of Quinipily
The Vénus of Quinipily is a statue of a goddess that has been worshipped in Brittany for about 2000 years. It was originally associated with the Roman occupation but the local Celts continued to worship her into modern times. I went to pay my respects to her...
Thursday 2 November 2023
Survive the Jive in Greece
Three videos in which I visit the ancient temples of the Greeks in Athens and the surrounding area.
Labels:
Ancient Greek,
ancient history,
athena,
athens,
european history,
greece,
hephaestus,
pagan temple,
parthenon,
poseidon,
travel,
vlog
Tuesday 24 October 2023
Ancient Greece Revisited and Survive the Jive at Temple of Poseidon
Michael and I discussed philosophy, history, religion and psychedelic drugs
Labels:
Ancient Greek,
ancient history,
neopaganism,
philosophy,
Psychedelics
Monday 16 October 2023
Burying animals under foundations: An Indo-European pagan folk custom
Sources
- Eliade, Mircea - Zalmoxis - The Vanishing God-The University of Chicago Press (1972)
- Hukantaival, Sonja. (2009). Horse Skulls and "Alder-Horse": The Horse as a Depositional "Sacrifice" in Buildings. Archaeologia Baltica. 11. 350-356.
- Kuzmina, The Origins of Indo-Iranians, 2007
- Manning, M. Chris. “The Material Culture of Ritual Concealments in the United States.” Historical Archaeology, vol. 48, no. 3, 2014, pp. 52–83. JSTOR
- O’Reilly, Barry. “Hearth and Home: The Vernacular House in Ireland from c. 1800.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, vol. 111C, 2011, pp. 193–215. JSTOR
- Ó Súilleabháin, Seán. “Foundation Sacrifices.” The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 75, no. 1, 1945, pp. 45–52.
- Søvsø, M., et al. 'Om hugorme, dyrekranier og tordensten– bygningsofre og andre skikke med rødder i folketroen'
Saturday 7 October 2023
Ban Anglo-Saxon: the full story 2019-2023
The full interview with me on the Lotus Eaters is now up on YouTube. I reveal not only how Mary Rambaran Olm and Erik Wade sought to ban the term "Anglo-Saxon" but also how they conspired to depict me as a white supremacist in several academic journals as revenge for my disruption of their nefarious schemes back in 2019
Labels:
anglo-saxons,
cancel culture,
communism,
interview,
medieval history,
medievalism,
woke
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