Kúrlander

Easter eggs of the Baltic variety.

@SaP011 Patriots.

Sweden 🇸🇪: Eritrean immigrant taxi driver rapes a 15-year-old girl. Her boyfriend organizes with his 3 older brothers, they trick the foreigner into a nature reserve with the promise of sexual favors, overpower him, strangle him and hang his body from a tree in the forest (trying to stage it as suicide). Arrested. The oldest of the 4 brothers (18 at the time) gets life sentence. The other three brothers and the girl herself get between 3 and 4 years in closed youth detention (the girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend got 3.5 years each for aiding and abetting, as they weren’t at the scene). In appeal, three brothers acquitted of murder, the oldest one gets 7 years instead of life, the others get closed youth care.

Oh man, if he flatlines and gets brought back on Easter, I'll never hear the end of it.

1. Pilsudski was born in Zulow because his parents escaped there from Samogitia post-1863 - both of his parents were Samogitian szlachta and his father was a high ranking insurgent in Raseiniai. His family lived in samogitia going back centuries, and most of his familys activity was limited specifically to Samogitia. He and his family publicly defined themselves as "Samogitian", but more often, "Lithuanian" - and in his writing, he referred to baltic Lithuanians as "actual Lithuanians". Jozef and his family knew the Lithuanian language as well. 2. In the only article that speaks about "Pilsudski being a Belarusian", the author states "false answers were often given by revolutionaries to confuse the police". "Belarusian" back in those days was widely perceived to be a Russian aligned identification. 3. He smuggled more than just Belarusian books, he smuggled all kinds of literature, Lithuanian books too.

New work using ancient and Modern DNA looking at the origins and spread of various East Asia Y-haplotypes.

@vidsthatgohard Professional white person.

Whatever this is, put it in the Olympics

@viewsceo Strokemogged!

Clavicular just PASSED out and started convulsing after getting choked out 😳

@FortressLugh Also nude except for the belt, which is one of the hallmarks of the mannerbund.

The Finglesham buckle, mid 7th century. Displayed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The figure is very similar to other spear-bearing figures with "horned" helmets and belts, in both Germanic and Celtic tradition.

OG Blitzkrieg & Prigozhin In 1581 Polish-Lithuanian Michal "Thunderbolt" Radziwiłł covered a total of 1,400 km across russian territory, only to burn villages, murder people, and force terrified Ivan the Terrible to evacuate his family when Radziwiłł stood in front of his palace.

@JeremyMacKenzi “We didn’t want regime change” Killed their leader on day 1.

Most delusional copium speech ever given by a US President.

Prometheus creating the first man.

"The Irish Celts have no creation myth". Actually, they do. It's at the end of the Tain, and it parallels everyone else's in the Indo-European world.

@Kenedhloger Does that make you a Chew?

My DNA results just came in!

@PunishedAbammon @Sagnamadr Lot's a legendary hero's in IE mythology have wolf associations though. Cu Chulainn sought fame and glory, but not Fenrir. I think there's some similarities there, but not connections in the same ways there are between various gods and heroes across the branches of mythology.

@Neurilogical @Sagnamadr Name means hound - described as a wolf, fame hungry, being bound to a stone & bursting 2 fetters / vats of water with the 3rd holding, the method of killing Fenrir & the Boar of Formael. It's in the video & thread I linked above.

I’ve always thought there was more to the story of Týr and Fenrir. (Thread) It’s important to remember; in the Eddas, Fenrir expressed no ill will towards the Gods before his betrayal and binding at the hands of Týr.

@PunishedAbammon @Sagnamadr They're found in every branch of IE mythology, and yes, with specific gods. But Cu Chulainn/ Lugh have many more similar legends with other gods than he does with Fenrir. Taliesin say's there's even more connections, but what are they?

@Neurilogical @Sagnamadr You can't just generalize missing limbs / eyes though. They are used very specifically with certain god types.

@PunishedAbammon @Sagnamadr It's talking about the prevalence of missing limbs/ eyes in IE mythology. It's a common theme. Lots of legends have names associated with wolves and storyline elements that contain a missing part of the body. That's not much of a link between those two specifically.

@Neurilogical @Sagnamadr But it's talking about one eyed God and koryos themes not the similarities between Fenrir and Cu Chulainn.

@PunishedAbammon @Sagnamadr It's pointing out that the theme is common, not that there's a direct connection between those two specifically.

@Neurilogical @Sagnamadr I don't understand what your quoted text has to do with Cu Chulainn or Fenrir?

@PunishedAbammon @Sagnamadr There are some similarities between the two. However, Fenrir and Cu Chulainn are not as close and connected as some others IE myths, imo they just contain some common themes often found in IE mythology.

@Sagnamadr Summary of the similarities in myth here: x.com/StructuralMyth…

Paganism doesn't require historical continuity because it's "Natural Religion." The Gods are always there, the entire Divine Hierarchy is always there. You can always find your way back to the Law through Reason and Piety. At its most extreme form (and I concede that not all my fellow Pagans would agree) the names we use to call on the Gods, Angels, and Divine Spirits don't matter at all. If we forget them, we will find new names for them. Abrahamic religions, being revealed religions, require continuity because without the correct preservation and interpretation of the Revelation, the whole religion is lost. If it's revealed tomorrow that half of the Eddas are a forgery, Germanic Paganism will continue. If it's revealed that half of the Gospels were forgeries, it would provoke a crisis in Christianity.

Tough to say. But a message + corruption can change significantly over the course of a thousand years. The Catholic Church was by no means perfect; we have the modern scandal around how they tried to hide the pedophiles in their own ranks to remind us of this. However… The organization and laws that the Church implemented is also one of, if not the main reason, why Europe ended up leapfrogging every other civilization as far as technological and scientific advancement is concerned. I know, sounds counter intuitive when we know how corrupt they were all throughout the Middle Ages right up until today. But that’s the way it played out. If you weren’t born a noble in Europe over a 1500 year span, your life sucked from start to finish. The Church was literally the institution someone could join to seek refuge. They implemented the guilds, directed labour etc etc, all those things that led to eventual greater mobility and innovation. As for the very beginning … Well, anyone again not a noble was essentially a slave that was going to be worked to death. Why wouldn’t they gravitate towards that message? They didn’t care about blood or anything else for that matter. Christianity was literally the only thing that ever promised them some sort of freedom; Specially in the afterlife.

People don't understand how insane the explosion of Christianity was: - There were maybe a thousand Christians at Jesus's death. - In 100 AD there were still only about ten thousand Christians. - One hundred years later it was still less than one percent of the Roman empire. - And then a hundred years later there were over SIX MILLION Christians, more than 10 percent of the population. - Go forward another 150 years and there are over 30 million Christians and it is the official state religion of the Roman empire. It's one of the most stunning transformations in world history. And yet there is wide disagreement on why it occurred.