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.