Ask me anything! It has been a whole year since the last AMA so there are plenty of questions to get through. This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive ..read more

Chris Luttichau is a shaman who runs the Northern Drums Shamanic Training School from Cornwall and leads wilderness trips in northern Finland. Chris is Danish by birth but he trained with indigenous elders in North America, and now trains others in shamanic techniques. I visited him to learn more about shamanism, the fastest growing “religion” in the UK. Chris’ website is https://northerndrum.com ..read more

Robert Eggers' The Northman is the best Viking film ever made but some of the pagan themes within are too esoteric for everyone to understand. In this review, I explain the origin of the pagan rituals and symbols throughout the film and what they mean. This podcast is also available as a proper video on YouTube. Featuring Music by Torulf, Hildigaldra and Borg. This podcast depends on your support: SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/survive... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive ..read more

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 some of his findings in regards to the magical uses of runes by Germanic pagans on the continent and Scandinavia. This channel depends upon your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive ..read more

Stone age Herbalist is a dissident archaeologist, twitter personality and substack blogger. In this Jive Talk he describes the ancient origins of archaeology as a discipline, how it rose to a more rigorous practice in the modern era and then degenerated into modern woke archaeology. We discuss gay cavemen, transgender vikings, the migrations and invasions of Anglo-Saxons, Beaker folk, Yamnaya and others and finally end with a chat about anthropology in general. This podcast depends upon your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive ..read more

'The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool' by Joscha Gretzinger and colleagues (2022) has answered some of the much debated and controversial questions concerning the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England which began in the 5th century AD. The study finds that as much as 75% of the ancestry of skeletons from England in the cemeteries from that time comes from Germanic migrants from Germany and Denmark. In this video I break down the findings in a summary. Read the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05247-2 ..read more

A new genetics paper 'The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe' by Lazaridis et al boldly endorses a controversial theory for the origin of the Indo-European languages - that they were first spoken south of the Caucasus and were brought to the Yamnaya and related peoples who then spread them, rather being autochthonous to the region. In this impromptu and informal live stream I shall look at some of the claims within and offer my own takes in response ..read more

Tom Rowsell delivered this keynote speech at the PAGAN FUTURES conference in London on 25th June 2022. The talk addresses the conflict between an emerging religion of materialistic scientism seeking salvation through transhumanism (and other technophilic ideologies) and the practitioners of Traditional public forms of Indo-European paganism. This channel depends on your support: SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/survive-the-jive Telegram: https://t.me/survivethejive Crypto: https://bit.ly/3ysmtvk ..read more

Borja the Modern Platonist joins me in advance of the Pagan Futures conference in London on 25th June to discuss the same issues we shall address at the event; The question of transhumanism, salvation through technology, faith in 'progress' rather than cyclical time and how these ideas conflict with traditional pagan beliefs. To what extent are modern technophiles neo-Gnostics? How do their beliefs conflict with those of Platonists and other pagans? Tickets for the conference: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/survive-the-jive-live-pagan-futures-tickets-313306266477 ..read more

Interpreting myth: Verses 25/26 in Vǫluspá refer to the same myth found in chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning which tells the story of how a Jotunn in disguise deceived the gods to enter a deal in which he would build the walls of Asgard in exchange for the sun, moon and the hand in marriage of Freyja. This is one of the most misunderstood myths of Norse mythology so I have decided to explain it as best I can. End music by Stewart Keller ..read more