Survive the Jive Podcast

There is a terrible new development in Medievalism. A push from activists to completely ban the use of the word Anglo-Saxon. It started with grievance monger Rambaran-Olm complaining that Anglo-Saxon is exclusionary and that AS studies are too white. Her blogs and complaints resulted in the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS) agreeing to change its name. This podcast depends on your su...

This is an excerpt from a new film entitled "In Search of the Earth-Mother of Anatolia" - In this scene I visit the ruins of the holy Lycian site of Letoon where the goddess Leto was worshipped in ancient times. I read a story from Ovid about how Leto came to Lycia and had a run in with the local peasants when they wouldn't let her drink from a pond. This podcast depends on your support: Paypal: h...

Is Halloween evil? Where does All soul's day come from? How have the different pagan festivals of Europe influenced the way it is celebrated today? Many European pagan celebrated an annual feast of the dead, from the Celtic Samhain to the Slavic Dziady. This indicates a common Indo-European origin. In this podcast I look at all the pagan festivals that preceded the Christian Halloween, aka All Sou...

I am joined by Angriff and Redbeard, who wish to argue that the Norse Goddess Freyja is the same as the West Germanic goddess of the dawn Eastre/Ostara. They have a great theory that deserves your attention and connects myths of Freyja clearly with other Indo-European goddesses of the dawn. This was originally a patron exclusive stream from June 2019. I made it public in September. You can see mor...

This old English folk song seems very pagan and has some clear parallels in old pagan mythology. It is the story of two magical people, originally gods, usually wizards in the song, who can change their shape. One, often a blacksmith, is pursuing the other, often a virgin girl, who attempts to escape by transforming into animals and things, but he pursues by also transforming. It is a bit un PC! T...

Where did Odin come from? Was he a shamanic figure influenced by the Saami or was he based on the Roman god Mercury? Why did Anglo-Saxon kings claim his as a divine progenitor? Was he Indo-European or even older? I explain the historical origin of the Norse god, Allfather, and I explain the metaphysical significance of his threefold manifestation as depicted in the Gylfaginning. This was an unscri...

Why do pagans love mead (mjǫðr in Old Norse)? What is the esoteric meaning of the mead ritual and what is its metaphysical significance? As for the substance itself, was it just an alcoholic drink or did it contain hallucinogenic mushrooms too? Why was it associated with the god Odin? All these questions and more are answered in this video. Learn more: http://survivethejive.blogspot.se/2014/08/hyp...

Bronze Age Mindset is a controversial book which came out last year, self published by an anonymous author who claims to be a Russian and calls himself Bronze Age Pervert. It is tempting to dismiss it but many are realising it has real substance. In this review i will explain what I liked about it and what I disagreed with. Is it merely a doctrine for national nudism or is there more going on? The...

How to pray like an Indo-European pagan. Where should you conduct prayers and rituals? What can you sacrifice at a blót and what libations can be poured? What should you say in a prayer and which god do you invoke? I answer these questions and explain the tripartite format of Indo-European prayer with reference to Sigrdrífumál and the cycle of reciprocal gift giving. I also show you what my shrine...

Anglo-Saxon pagans appropriated the Celtic burial mounds and Bronze age burial mounds in a new religious context, using them to bury their own dead and also for meeting places. The Christians later adapted these burial places for yet another context, as an execution ground and a designated haunt of devils and demons. Pagans today often worship at Neolithic monuments in an anachronistic way quite i...

A reading of the poetry of Ezra Pound. This excerpt from Ezra Pound's translation of an Anglo-Saxon poem called The Seafarer is a quintessentially Poundian example in its treatment and translation of poetic forms. First I read the translation by Ezra Pound and then the original Old English Anglo-Saxon version. The translation by Pound is only of a segment of the poem so I have only read the part o...

Professor Alan Outram, Head of Archaeology at University of Exeter is one of the world's leading experts on ancient horse DNA and the domestication of the horse. In this interview he explains how his views have changed since his 2009 paper on the Botai domestication of the horse. Prof. Outram contributed to a paper, published in May 2018, entitled, “The first horse herders and the impact of early...

Arya Akasha return to Jive Talk to discuss 'the Role of Priests' in Indo-European religion. What have the pontifex, the flamen dialis, the Brahmin, the Druids, the Godi and all the other priests of pagan religions in common? What is their social function and the justification for their authority? What is their relation to other castes and authorities? These are all important questions to consider...

I gave a talk in London on the subject of Britain and her people. I begin with the prehistoric European hominids of the darkest regions of history and move past neanderthals to the hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic, Cheddar man and the WHG of the Mesolithic, the Anatolian derived farmers of the Neolithic and on to the Indo-Europeans of the Bronze Age and the Germanic invasions of the Migration...

A live stream in which I unpack the findings from the latest paper on Viking Age DNA from Margaryan et al (2019) Population genomics of the Viking world. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/703405v1 This podcast depends on your support: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejive Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.com/survive-the.. . Facebook...

Arya Akasha is a research institute headed by Tristan and Curwen who join me this evening to discuss their theories on religion. They study and live the wisdom of the medieval Norse pagan religion and the Ancient Vedic religion. Their theories concern all Indo-European religions but focus specifically on two: the Nordic and the Hindu. I have lots to ask these learned chaps and I am sure you do too...

All around Europe there are ancient pagan ceremonies on the 1st of May which used to be dedicated to the goddess of dawn. In Ireland they have Beltane, and in England there was Maypole and Morris dancing which used to be for the Anglo-Saxon goddess "Ēostre" from German "Ostara". We can see similar pagan customs in Wales, Scotland, Romania, Lithuania and at the Valborg celebrations in Uppsala Swede...

The greatest pagan Viking hero is my hero Hakon Jarl. He was a reactionary apostate who restored the temples and sacrifices and promoted paganism across Norway and beyond during the 10th century. He was against Danish Christian power in Norway and ought to be remembered as a hero to pagans all over the world. I also think he was the inspiration for the Skyrim character Jarl Ulfric. Some sagas say...

The Norse god Týr is sometimes called a battle god of minor significance, while others argue. based on etymology that he was once the chief god of the Germanic peoples - a sky father. However, perhaps neither argument is entirely correct. In this video I am joined by Angriff and Dr Boaz and we will discuss Týr and the Proto-Indo-European sky father in the context of Georges Dumézil's theory that h...

"The Indo-Europeans, In Search of the Homeland," by Alain de Benoist, republished by Akrtos, is a crash course in over a century of Indo-European studies . I joined Caroline to discuss the issues of Indo-European Studies presented in the book as well as extrapolate upon the information presented by the author with our own insights from our individual studies and perspectives. We look at the origin...

Cognitive evolution and European history. Modern population genetics shows that enormous genetic replacement occurred in Neolithic Europe which as well as changing the religions in Europe surely had an effect on heritable traits like intelligence and behaviour. I am speaking to Dr Edward Dutton aka The Jolly heretic about what the implications of these genetic shifts are in terms of the cognitive...

A talk on the way that national origin myths, whether rooted in prehistory, religion or modern science, inform and consolidate collective identities. I explain why different peoples in medieval times thought their ancestors were Trojans, Hebrews or Scythians. I also explain why I am against, what I call "mushroom nationalism" and that this fake version of history, far from fortifying identity, is...

Henry Williamson is one of my favourite authors. He had an unsentimental and pure view of nature which informed his general views on life and enabled him to write some of the most widely celebrated books on animals and the English countryside every written. For several reasons, I feel a personal connection to his work, which I shall explain in this stream.

In this speech delivered at the Asgardian festival in 2016, Thomas Rowsell explains how the Norse pagans had a caste system similar to that of the Hindus and how the two religions have much in common.