"Also on the sarcophagus are Pakal’s ancestors, arraigned in a line going back six generations." This should probably read "arranged". Sorry, I get distracted while reading things with spelling or grammar errors.
'Racial intolerance was a minute concern before Christianity and no race was considered less than another.' Utter tripe. Racial Intolerance can be traced back far into ancient history, and even prehistory. The Romans considered anyone who did not speak Greek or Latin a 'barbarian' and considered many people as essentially savages.
The deniers are also wrong in assuming there were no Jews in Northern Europe in pre-Christian times: there were Jews in the Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire ruled much of Western Europe.
Evidence suggests that the pagan Vikings considered their religion/tribal gods superior to all others, especially when they overcame them in battle- because they were basically stuck in the Iron Age where the rest of Europe had moved ahead.
. It also bears mentioning that neo-paganism and modern worship of the Norse gods is a highly sanitized version of the religion. I want to ask so called Odin Worshipers when the last time was that they sacrificed slave girls to him, or raised the raven banner before a battle, as a sign the gods accepted the sacrifice of all those they slew.
Yes, Norse Paganism was a highly militaristic religion with some incredibly violent and bloodthirsty practices, including human sacrifice: for which there is evidence in Scandinavian and non-Christian sources.
It also bears mentioning that the Vikings were major slave owners, and slave traders. They sold thousands upon thousands of people they captured, generally from Europe in North Africa, the Middle East, and the Byzantine Empire. Their main market was in the Islamic world, but its often not mentioned. We don't like to talk about pagans selling Christians as slaves to Muslims.
Besides of which, there were plenty of Christian Vikings as well: case in point, Gudrid the 'far traveller' one of the early Scandinavian explorers and settlers in Vinland. A Christian woman. Iceland was settled by men from Scandinavia, many of whom took women from Christian Ireland, Scotland and mainland Britain with them as sex slaves- and according to legend, the country was home to a community of Irish Monks when the Vikings arrived.
So much for good old Northern European/Scandinavian religious hegemony. Its a myth. The pagan Vikings were basically just piratical followers of a war-cult. Who held back the intellectual development of Europe, possibly by centuries by destroying its centers of learning and pillaging or destroying its libraries.
I have a question. Is part of the article missing? The last sentence may or may not need a period. If the comma is correct, part of the article is missing
You don't actually have to die to experience heaven here and now, but you do have to earn it. Heaven and hell are states of awareness available both before and after translation (death of the physical body). Neither is a particular place, but each is the way the human awareness experiences existence in the here and now. Since we are always here and it is always now, the condition is eternal until one moves to another state. Religions have a long tradition of obscuring this set of facts to make Heaven and Hell places where one goes for disobeying the dictates of whatever particular religion or cult is being imposed. To get to the real heaven, or to experience Self and then God Consciousness, a devotion to love and service and the highest moral standards is required. Jesus, along with many others, pointed the way according to the vocabularies of the times when these spiritual giants lived. The tradition continues to present times with the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master, a long line of spiritual Master teachers, currently the focus of Eckankar. This will naturally be disputed by persons and organizations with a vested interest in social control and flows of peoples monies.
There's a lot of history on this collection of rings, being between 2,200 and 1,800 years old. It will be interesting to see what they will go for at auction.
There were also other cultures around the middle-east before Islam came along, could you tell us what happened to them? Well I can, Islam and their followers destroyed them.
Islamophobia? Who trows acid on the face of a 3-year-old or on anyone else? Not single Brit, but I know who just might. So if you consider the history and what is happening at the moment in muslim countries or in many european cities where there is now muslim communities, you should be scared. Rape and grooming gangs? Rotherdam? go to England, Sweden , Belgium, France, Germany, cities are burning and the culprit is always the same.
Amen! Islam and their spoiled men-children were the invading force. Its should be obvious to anyone who does little research on their mentality and culture. Now it seems history is repeating itself, but this time whole world will be called to defend against this scourge. And all those who assisted in their invasion will be charged with treason. What would it take to make these uneducated brainwashed people who have major issues with inbreeding, to see that they have been wrong for a long time, I don't think they can.
Anyone with even a little historical perspective comprehends that Islam is a religion of the sword and that the Crusades were a defensive war. Everywhere Islam reigns there is death and despair. All over the Middle East and North Africa there lie the ruins of abandoned cities that were out to the sword. Everywhere the Mediterranean touches was Christian until the rise of Islam and Muhammad's evil warlords spread their bad it religion by genocide, rape, pillage, and slavery.
Everywhere the world of Islam borders peoples of other religions there is endless war and within Islam there are only slaves and the predators that rule them.
The builders of castles throughout Europe, including Great Britain were not Anglo/Normans, Anglos, Saxons nor Celts but Normans. Normans are Frankish Jews and descendents of the Romans (Sephardic Jews). They built castles to protect themselves and their Persian (Holy Roman) Empire from the locals who were Celts and Anglos. Some were also Saxons or Anglo/Saxon. Saxons are also of Jewish genetics. This is an important point as they are Middle Eastern and not European with their heavy Neanderthal traits.
The castles in Wales (Welsh people are Jewish as are Gaelic/Scots) were actually slighted by the Anglos after the civil war which Cromwell (Anglo) won over the Cavaliers (Jews AKA Luciferians).
Hi!
My last name is Lapp, and I can trace my Lapp heritage back to Southern Germany and an ancestor's emigration as an Amish person to Lancaster, PA, USA. I am quite interested in the Sami peoples, and Scandinavia, The Vikings, etc. I have only visited Scandinavia once so far, but hope to go many more times.
I travel Our World, for work and on my own, and am really interested in ancient history. Thank you for this article and the information.
Note: My mom and sister are both Pagans, and believe in many of the same things as the Sami peoples do.
Namaste...
PS-My older son is at U. of Toronto, studying European Studies and Spanish.
Hi!
My last name is Lapp, and I can trace my Lapp heritage back to Southern Germany and an ancestor's emigration as an Amish person to Lancaster, PA, USA. I am quite interested in the Sami peoples, and Scandinavia, The Vikings, etc. I have only visited Scandinavia once so far, but hope to go many more times. I travel Our World, for work and on my own, and am really interested in ancient history. Thank you for this article and the information. Note: My mom and sister are both Pagans, and believe in many of the same things as the Sami peoples do. Namaste...
Russia was under Tatar occupation nearly 400 years. Baba Yaga actually originated from Babai Aga - a male Tatar ruler. ( Aga is a Tatar honorific title). Since in Russian language Babai Aga sounds exactly like Baba Yaga and Baba in Russian means old woman, over time the character became perceived as female.
Notably, Russian / Ukrainian folklore includes another evil character, Ded Babai ( literally, Old Man Babai). Ded Babai is a scary old man and little children are warned that if they do not behave, Ded Babai will take them. Clearly Baba Yaga and Ded Babai refer to the same historic figure, Babai Aga.
The article is wrong in saying that circumcision was introduced in the United States for health reasons. It was started by John Harvey Kellogg, a religious fanatic, as a way to repress men's sexuality. During the 1800s, English speaking countries were plagued by Victorian morality, which proselytized the idea that humans had no right to enjoy sex.
It's disturbing that Americans continue to accept a stone age ritual that violates human rights in the 21st century.
I found the article interesting, but it reminded me of an essay I wrote for the Head of the School. I had been away from home and used a good book written by an expert. The prof said kindly. "You have to consider the nature of the evidence' There was a lot of information in the article, but it drew obvious conclusions to conform with her world view. Auto didactic education loses out on review by experts. One tends to assume one is right.
Jesus had learned his theology well and had benefited from his time with the teachers in the temple. He quoted from the prophet, but interpreted through the perspective of the stoics. He cut through a lot of the verbiage with straightforward instructions. Obey the ten commandments if you wish, but if you just love God, and love your neighbour as yourself, you'll be obeying them anyway. Dangerous stuff with learned priests about who wanted to be paid.. He dropped hints about. Which of the three Marys did he marry? Probably Mary of Bethany, though he had royal blood through his mother's first secret marriage to Antipater.
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"Also on the sarcophagus are Pakal’s ancestors, arraigned in a line going back six generations." This should probably read "arranged". Sorry, I get distracted while reading things with spelling or grammar errors.
At 0:52 you can clearly see a modern axe head. So either this guy really has had contact and has been given items or is really good in his forge...
Uncontacted people using an axe ?
Very strange
'Racial intolerance was a minute concern before Christianity and no race was considered less than another.' Utter tripe. Racial Intolerance can be traced back far into ancient history, and even prehistory. The Romans considered anyone who did not speak Greek or Latin a 'barbarian' and considered many people as essentially savages.
The deniers are also wrong in assuming there were no Jews in Northern Europe in pre-Christian times: there were Jews in the Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire ruled much of Western Europe.
Evidence suggests that the pagan Vikings considered their religion/tribal gods superior to all others, especially when they overcame them in battle- because they were basically stuck in the Iron Age where the rest of Europe had moved ahead.
. It also bears mentioning that neo-paganism and modern worship of the Norse gods is a highly sanitized version of the religion. I want to ask so called Odin Worshipers when the last time was that they sacrificed slave girls to him, or raised the raven banner before a battle, as a sign the gods accepted the sacrifice of all those they slew.
Yes, Norse Paganism was a highly militaristic religion with some incredibly violent and bloodthirsty practices, including human sacrifice: for which there is evidence in Scandinavian and non-Christian sources.
It also bears mentioning that the Vikings were major slave owners, and slave traders. They sold thousands upon thousands of people they captured, generally from Europe in North Africa, the Middle East, and the Byzantine Empire. Their main market was in the Islamic world, but its often not mentioned. We don't like to talk about pagans selling Christians as slaves to Muslims.
Besides of which, there were plenty of Christian Vikings as well: case in point, Gudrid the 'far traveller' one of the early Scandinavian explorers and settlers in Vinland. A Christian woman. Iceland was settled by men from Scandinavia, many of whom took women from Christian Ireland, Scotland and mainland Britain with them as sex slaves- and according to legend, the country was home to a community of Irish Monks when the Vikings arrived.
So much for good old Northern European/Scandinavian religious hegemony. Its a myth. The pagan Vikings were basically just piratical followers of a war-cult. Who held back the intellectual development of Europe, possibly by centuries by destroying its centers of learning and pillaging or destroying its libraries.
I have a question. Is part of the article missing? The last sentence may or may not need a period. If the comma is correct, part of the article is missing
You don't actually have to die to experience heaven here and now, but you do have to earn it. Heaven and hell are states of awareness available both before and after translation (death of the physical body). Neither is a particular place, but each is the way the human awareness experiences existence in the here and now. Since we are always here and it is always now, the condition is eternal until one moves to another state. Religions have a long tradition of obscuring this set of facts to make Heaven and Hell places where one goes for disobeying the dictates of whatever particular religion or cult is being imposed. To get to the real heaven, or to experience Self and then God Consciousness, a devotion to love and service and the highest moral standards is required. Jesus, along with many others, pointed the way according to the vocabularies of the times when these spiritual giants lived. The tradition continues to present times with the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master, a long line of spiritual Master teachers, currently the focus of Eckankar. This will naturally be disputed by persons and organizations with a vested interest in social control and flows of peoples monies.
There's a lot of history on this collection of rings, being between 2,200 and 1,800 years old. It will be interesting to see what they will go for at auction.
About as valuable as a murder from the murderer's perspective.
Totally agree!!! Just watch YouTube: Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner for a very detailed account of what actually happened!
There were also other cultures around the middle-east before Islam came along, could you tell us what happened to them? Well I can, Islam and their followers destroyed them.
Islamophobia? Who trows acid on the face of a 3-year-old or on anyone else? Not single Brit, but I know who just might. So if you consider the history and what is happening at the moment in muslim countries or in many european cities where there is now muslim communities, you should be scared. Rape and grooming gangs? Rotherdam? go to England, Sweden , Belgium, France, Germany, cities are burning and the culprit is always the same.
Amen! Islam and their spoiled men-children were the invading force. Its should be obvious to anyone who does little research on their mentality and culture. Now it seems history is repeating itself, but this time whole world will be called to defend against this scourge. And all those who assisted in their invasion will be charged with treason. What would it take to make these uneducated brainwashed people who have major issues with inbreeding, to see that they have been wrong for a long time, I don't think they can.
Anyone with even a little historical perspective comprehends that Islam is a religion of the sword and that the Crusades were a defensive war. Everywhere Islam reigns there is death and despair. All over the Middle East and North Africa there lie the ruins of abandoned cities that were out to the sword. Everywhere the Mediterranean touches was Christian until the rise of Islam and Muhammad's evil warlords spread their bad it religion by genocide, rape, pillage, and slavery.
Everywhere the world of Islam borders peoples of other religions there is endless war and within Islam there are only slaves and the predators that rule them.
The builders of castles throughout Europe, including Great Britain were not Anglo/Normans, Anglos, Saxons nor Celts but Normans. Normans are Frankish Jews and descendents of the Romans (Sephardic Jews). They built castles to protect themselves and their Persian (Holy Roman) Empire from the locals who were Celts and Anglos. Some were also Saxons or Anglo/Saxon. Saxons are also of Jewish genetics. This is an important point as they are Middle Eastern and not European with their heavy Neanderthal traits.
The castles in Wales (Welsh people are Jewish as are Gaelic/Scots) were actually slighted by the Anglos after the civil war which Cromwell (Anglo) won over the Cavaliers (Jews AKA Luciferians).
Last I checked, the American Southwest was part of Mesoamerica.
Hi!
My last name is Lapp, and I can trace my Lapp heritage back to Southern Germany and an ancestor's emigration as an Amish person to Lancaster, PA, USA. I am quite interested in the Sami peoples, and Scandinavia, The Vikings, etc. I have only visited Scandinavia once so far, but hope to go many more times.
I travel Our World, for work and on my own, and am really interested in ancient history. Thank you for this article and the information.
Note: My mom and sister are both Pagans, and believe in many of the same things as the Sami peoples do.
Namaste...
PS-My older son is at U. of Toronto, studying European Studies and Spanish.
Hi!
My last name is Lapp, and I can trace my Lapp heritage back to Southern Germany and an ancestor's emigration as an Amish person to Lancaster, PA, USA. I am quite interested in the Sami peoples, and Scandinavia, The Vikings, etc. I have only visited Scandinavia once so far, but hope to go many more times. I travel Our World, for work and on my own, and am really interested in ancient history. Thank you for this article and the information. Note: My mom and sister are both Pagans, and believe in many of the same things as the Sami peoples do. Namaste...
Russia was under Tatar occupation nearly 400 years. Baba Yaga actually originated from Babai Aga - a male Tatar ruler. ( Aga is a Tatar honorific title). Since in Russian language Babai Aga sounds exactly like Baba Yaga and Baba in Russian means old woman, over time the character became perceived as female.
Notably, Russian / Ukrainian folklore includes another evil character, Ded Babai ( literally, Old Man Babai). Ded Babai is a scary old man and little children are warned that if they do not behave, Ded Babai will take them. Clearly Baba Yaga and Ded Babai refer to the same historic figure, Babai Aga.
The article is wrong in saying that circumcision was introduced in the United States for health reasons. It was started by John Harvey Kellogg, a religious fanatic, as a way to repress men's sexuality. During the 1800s, English speaking countries were plagued by Victorian morality, which proselytized the idea that humans had no right to enjoy sex.
It's disturbing that Americans continue to accept a stone age ritual that violates human rights in the 21st century.
I found the article interesting, but it reminded me of an essay I wrote for the Head of the School. I had been away from home and used a good book written by an expert. The prof said kindly. "You have to consider the nature of the evidence' There was a lot of information in the article, but it drew obvious conclusions to conform with her world view. Auto didactic education loses out on review by experts. One tends to assume one is right.
Jesus had learned his theology well and had benefited from his time with the teachers in the temple. He quoted from the prophet, but interpreted through the perspective of the stoics. He cut through a lot of the verbiage with straightforward instructions. Obey the ten commandments if you wish, but if you just love God, and love your neighbour as yourself, you'll be obeying them anyway. Dangerous stuff with learned priests about who wanted to be paid.. He dropped hints about. Which of the three Marys did he marry? Probably Mary of Bethany, though he had royal blood through his mother's first secret marriage to Antipater.
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