Pagan Iconography on Bracteates with Dr Scott Shell

Scott Shell received his Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley. The emphasis of his study has been on historical linguistics, runology and mythology. He runs a YouTube channel called @Scott T. Shell (Continental Germanic Heathenry) which focuses on the pagan religion of the Old Saxons. Tonight he will discuss the iconography and runic inscriptions found on Germanic bracteates of the Migration era.

Odin Rituals in the 19th century - Solstice special

A Survive the Jive Solstice special. In keeping with the tradition of telling ghostly stories at Yule, here is a special about Odinic sacrifices in Sweden and England during the 19th century. Edited by Wodenwyrd.

Sources:

 
 Higgens, T. W. E. “A Survival of Odin-Worship in Kent.” Folklore, vol. 7, no. 3, 1896, pp. 298–99. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1253238.
 GUNNAR OLOF HYLTÉN-CAVALLIUS - 1863 Wärend and Wirdarne. An attempt in Swedish Ethnology.

Music:

 Wodenwyrd, Deep Gnome, Baerdcyn

Millenniyule 2023

Here's my appearance on Millenniyule 2023 in which Woes and I discuss the ongoing battle against anti-whites in academia. This is the ninth year of Millenniyule!

Norman DNA: Viking or Semitic J2a?

 

 Were the Normans French or were they Vikings? DNA may reveal the answers but so far only two studies have looked at Norman DNA and there are problems with both. In this video I look at two Norman Y haplogroup studies to see what we can learn and I debunk the claim that J2a in Europe comes from "ancient Semitic kings"

Why did Medieval Europeans claim descent from Trojans? And other Historical questions

 

 I had another chat with Edward Dutton aka The Jolly Heretic recently. But this time it was in person rather than online. Here's the full interview - the good stuff about history and the origin of woke is in the second half. In the first half Ed asked me personal questions about my school and such. 

Was medieval London so diverse that black people suffered most from the plague?

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.

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... 

Art by Ryan Murray

Survive the Jive in Greece

 Three videos in which I visit the ancient temples of the Greeks in Athens and the surrounding area. 

Ancient Greece Revisited and Survive the Jive at Temple of Poseidon

Michael and I discussed philosophy, history, religion and psychedelic drugs

Burying animals under foundations: An Indo-European pagan folk custom

 

The custom of burying an animal under the foundations of a house is not only very widespread, found in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Finland and beyond, but is also very old, dating back to the Indo-Europeans of the Bronze Age Europe. It even spread as far away as America and India! In this video I trace the customs origins and dispersal and explain the magical function of the animal and human sacrifices underneath the home.

 

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'

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

8 "Great Black Britons" who were NOT Black

 

For black history month I am taking a look at the list of 100 Great black Britons because quite a few of them are definitely not black and some aren't British either! This is my list of the top eight people who are called Black Britons even though they weren't black.

Interview on New Culture Forum about Fake Black History

 

 On today's Deprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt, a senior editor at the European Conservative, and Evan Riggs, freelance writer, are joined by Tom Rowsell, historian, filmmaker and youtuber at Survive the Jive

Debunking the BBC's Horrible Black History

How to set up a Heathen Altar in your Home : Paganism 101

A guide for setting up an altar to the gods inside your home which you can use for domestic worship. Many people are requesting this kind of content and its been nearly six years since I last made a video like this, so here you go!

The First Civilisation? Vinča culture with Ben Elliott

The Vinča culture of Serbia is one of the first human civilisations. Possibly the first to smelt copper, one of the earliest uses of a symbolic proto-script and a hyper industrious producer of advanced ceramics including the earliest anthropomorphic life size clay busts. Yet few know of the wonders of this ancient culture. In this episode, I spoke to the historian Ben Elliott who travelled to Serbia to make a film called Quest for Vinca which aims to increase awareness of these fascinating Neolithic people.

The OLDEST TOMBS on Earth? Megalithic Origins (4900 - 2700 BC) | Ancient...

 

The entire history of the megalith builders of Neolithic France's western Brittany region from the migration and rise of the first farmers to the demise of the culture. This feature length documentary shows how the famous megalithic monuments of Britain and Ireland, such as Stonehenge, derive from much earlier ones in Brittany. Who were the first farmers in France? Why did they start building the impressive megalithic chambered tombs or the enormous standing stones known as menhirs? This documentary looks at the world’s first tombs, some close to 7000 years old, and traces the development of the dolmens and other tombs from 5000 BC to 2700 BC. We also learn how the first farmers interacted with the Mesolithic Western Hunter Gatherers who were already there, and how they may have influenced this megalithic monument tradition. Learn how the exquisite jadeite axe heads of the Neolithic were symbols of power imported from the far away Alps. We visited the tombs of Gavrinis, Petit Mont, Table des Marchands, the Barrow tomb of Kercado and the truly ancient Saint-Michel tumulus among others. You will also learn about the 4 mile long alignments of Carnac and what they were made for. The adventure starts at the 9 maidens stones in Cornwall and ends on the stunning coasts of Morbihan in Brittany.

 Sources:

• Cassidy el al (2016)  
• Cassidy, L.M., Maoldúin, R.Ó., Kador, T. et al. A dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society. (2020).  
• Fowler, C., Olalde, I., Cummings, V. et al. A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb. Nature 601, 584–587 (2022).  
• Paulsson, B. S., (2018)  
• Petrequin, P. et al,.- The production and circulation of alpine jade axe-heads (2016) 
• Rivollat et al., 2015 
• Scarre, Chris, 'The Study of Neolithic Brittany', Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany (Oxford, 2011; online edn, Oxford Academic, 16 Mar. 2015) 
• Shennan, S. “The First Farmers of Europe” (2018) 
• Le Roux, C-T., 1999a. L’outillage de pierre polie en métadolérite ue type A. Les ateliers de Plussulien (Côtes-d”Armor): production et diffusion au Néolithique dans la France de l’ouest et au-delà. Rennes: Travaux du Laboratoire Anthropologie. Préhistoire et Quaternaire Armoricains 
• Le Roy et al.,Funerary behaviour of Neolithic necropolises and collective graves in France. Evidence from Gurgy «Les Noisats» (Middle Neolithic) and Passy/Veron «La Truie Pendue» (Late Neolithic) (2014) 
• Whittle, A., ‘Very Like a Whale’: Menhirs, Motifs and Myths in the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition of Northwest Europe. 2000.

Destruction of Carnac Megaliths in France!

Brittany in France has one of the densest concentrations of megalithic monuments in the world but hundreds if not thousands have been destroyed - approximately 45% of them are gone in parts of Brittany. Now we have lost 39 menhirs which were destroyed to make room for a Mr. Bricolage hardware store! Now the pro-migrant mayor of Carnac who defended the desecration and made jokes about it, is saying he has received death threats.

@survivethejive #carnac #breizh #france🇫🇷 #neolithic #history #learnontiktok #fyp #stonehenge #brittany #ancienthistory #defendeuropa #defendeuropeanculture #pagan #mrbricolage ♬ original sound - Survive the Jive

Real Life Wicker Man - The Earl of Rone

 

The Hunting of the Earl of Rone is an ancient ceremony in the village of Combe Martin in England which resembles the film “The Wicker Man”. Although local legend has it that the ceremony derives from the capture of the Earl of Tyrone who fled from Ireland in 1607, I demonstrate in this documentary that it has clear parallels in European pagan customs and in Hinduism, which proves that the procession, the hobby horse, the fool, and the drowning of the straw idol originate in pre-Christian seasonal Anglo-Saxon rites. 

Sources:

-Ashe, R., Ashe, G., ‘Folklore, Myths And Legends Of Britain’ 1973
-Fern, Chris ‘Early Anglo-Saxon Horse Burial of the Fifth to Seventh centuries AD’ in Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 14, (Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007).
-Frazer, James George. ‘The Golden Bough; a Study in Magic and Religion’, 1935.
-Walker, C. ‘Strange Britain’ 1989
-Tacitus, Cornelius, The Agricola; and, The Germania, H. Mattingly (trans)
- Sources for Earl of Rone
- Marzanna

From Draugr to ZOMBIES - with BOG LORD Dave Martel

 

 The living dead are a source of anxiety and fear in the sagas of Icelanders where they are called draugar, and the walking dead remain a popular monster in modern fiction in the form of zombies and vampires. In this JIVE TALK, Big Dave Martel aka the BOG LORD joins Tom Rowsell to discuss the enduring motif of the "after walker" in medieval and modern literature and cinema.

CARN EUNY: Cornwall’s 2000 year old CELTIC VILLAGE

Cornwall, or Kernow in the Cornish language, was once part of an independent Celtic kingdom called Dumnonia. In this documentary we travel 2000 years back in time to the Celtic iron-age village and roundhouses of Carn Euny. The Iron Age village preserves some of the oldest Celtic architecture, as well as a mysterious passage and chamber called a fogou and a sacred well which has been in constant use since pagan times. We shall also see reconstructed Celtic roundhouses from Butser ancient farm to get an insight into the daily life, culture, religion and economy of the Ancient Britons.

Sources: 

 - Berresford Ellis, Peter., ‘The Ancient World of The Celts’ (Constable, 1998) 

- Borlase “The Natural History and Antiquities of Cornwall, and Observations of the Scilly Islands" 

- Christie, P., et al (1978). The Excavation of an Iron Age Souterrain and Settlement at Carn Euny, Sancreed, Cornwall. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 44, 309-433. 

-Walker, Charles ‘Strange Britain’ 1989

SCYTHIAN GODS: The Religion of the Steppe Barbarians

Historical full length documentary on genetic origins of the nomadic steppe conquerors the SCYTHIANS - Learn about the ancient Scythian gods of Eurasia, and how the first nomadic horselords of the Ponto-Caspian Steppe practiced shamanism and offered animal sacrifices to their god of war! 

 Sources:

•  Albuquerque, C., ‘On the Scythian Pantheon’ 2018, Medium. 
• Bokovenko, Nikolay. (2015). The Emergence of the Tagar Culture. Antiquity. 80. 860-879. 10.1017/S0003598X00094473. 
• Cunliffe, B., ‘The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe’ Oxford:2019. 
• Gershkovich, Y., Romashko, O., ‘Scythian sanctuaries of Ares: archaeological date and Herodotus' testimonies’ (in English) | - Academia.edu. 
• Herodotus. The Persian Wars, Volume II: Books 3-4. Translated by A. D. Godley. Loeb Classical Library 118. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921. 
• Juras, A., Krzewińska, M., Nikitin, A. et al. Diverse origin of mitochondrial lineages in Iron Age Black Sea Scythians. Sci Rep 7, 43950 (2017). 
• Kuz’Mina, E.E., & Mallory, J.P. (2007). "Chapter Three. Classification of sites and the primary features of Andronovo unity". In The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: 
• Sharkey, B. Predators and Prey: Cosmological Perspectivism in Scythian Animal Style Art. Arts 2022, 11, 120. 
• Stetsyuk, V., ‘Scythian Mythology’ (for alleged Chuvash etymology only)
• Iranic encyclopedia  
• Musaeum Scythia Blog 

SUN CULT in a Nordic Bronze-Age Tomb at Kivik, Sweden

The rock art from the tomb of Bredarör at Kivik in Sweden is a window into the forgotten world of the Nordic Bronze Age. In this film I interpret all the esoteric imagery, including; sun-wheels, solar crosses, war chariots, armed warriors and ritual axes and boats. With the latest archaeological data, 3D scans and new CGI animations of the art, this film gives a new perspective on a tomb which is 3400 years old!

Arvid Fougstedt 1936

Art: 

CGI by Robert Molyneaux
Bronze age rites at dawn, Indian chariot, hellhounds, Wolf Viking by Christian Sloan Hall
Kivik reconstruction by Arvid Fougstedt 1936
Bronsåldern by Nils Asplund
Fra Bronsåldern by Rasmus Christiansen 1925
NBA king by Beaker Lady
Bronze age map by Dan Kogosov
Beaker Koryos by Moccus Art 

Sources: 

Bertilsson, Ulf et al. “The Kivik Tomb: Bredarör enters into the digital arena” New Perspectives on the Bronze Age (2017): 289–306.
Froncek, T., ‘The Northmen’ 1975.
Goldhahn - Bredaror on Kivik: a monumental cairn and the history of its interpretation 2009
Kaliff, Oestigaard ‘Werewolves, Warriors and Winter Sacrifices Unmasking Kivik and Indo-European Cosmology in Bronze Age Scandinavia’ 2022.
Kveiborg, Ahlqvist, Vandkilde. (2020). Horses, Fish and Humans: Interspecies Relationships in the Nordic Bronze Age. Current Swedish Archaeology. 75-98.
Nordquist, Gullög & Whittaker, Helene. (2007). Comments on Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas B. Larsson (2005): The Rise of Bronze Age Society. Travels, Transmissions and Transformations. Norwegian Archaeological Review. 40. 75-84.