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Birka: The Mysterious Demise of a Majestic Viking Trading Center

The Viking Age in Europe brought a lot of key events and innovations, and greatly shaped the future of things that were to come. But there is a popular misconception that the Vikings were all about raiding and pillaging as they sailed to the West and the East. While they did sail all over and raided, traded, and brought kingdoms to their knees, the Vikings were also proficient in many other regards. Their major ports and settlements around Scandinavia were in many ways the hubs of trade and wealth - and Birka was one of the major settlements. An influential trading emporium, Birka was the place where all the goods from Eastern Europe and the Orient were handled, as well as goods from Scandinavia and Finland. Today, its remains lie just 30 kilometers outside of the Swedish capital of Stockholm. What is the story and the fate of this rich Viking city?

Source:https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/birka-0014809

#Birka #Viking Age #Trading city #archaeology #history

The Oldest Known Calendar in Europe is based on the Orion Constellation

In the late 1970s during the construction of an atomic bomb shelter, a shattered pot was found amongst the rubble. Archeologists were baffled by the strange patterns on the vessel, which dates back to 2600 BC until Dr. Aleksandar Durman finally cracked the code: it was a calendar. Yet, unlike the contemporary Egyptian or Sumerian calendars, this European timetable was based not on the sun or the moon but rather on the stars. Central to the charting of the seasons was the constellation named after the noble Greek hunter, Orion

Source:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/oldest-known-calendar-europe-based-orion-constellation-006296

#Orian the Hunter #Constellation #Ancient European Calendar #archaeology

The World Doctor’s Alliance

An independent non-profit alliance of doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals and staff around the world who have united in the wake of the Covid-19 response chapter to share experiences with a view to ending all lockdowns and related damaging measures and to re-establish universal health determinance of psychological and physical wellbeing for all humanity.

Source:https://worlddoctorsalliance.com/

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The Greater Reset

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The Ring Verse, from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, read in the...

#Tolkien #Lord Of The Rings #Gothic language

Faces of ‘Siberian Tutankhamun’ and his ‘Queen’ buried 2,600 years ago reconstructed by science

The Arzhan-2 burial of the Scythian ‘King’ and the ‘Queen’, found in 1997 and studied between 2001-2003 by Russian-German expedition is one the most extraordinary discoveries ever made by archeologists. Now for the first time the features of the powerful couple buried in their gold-encrusted, awe-inspiring clothing can be seen in life-like sculptures thanks to work of Moscow Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, and Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography.Two teams of anthropologists spent months meticulously building 3d models of the skulls, using laser scanning and photogrammetry to then re-create the faces of the people that ruled vast sways of steppes and mountains at the time when the Great Pyramids were getting built in Egypt.

Source: https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/faces-of-siberian-tutankhamun-and-his-queen-buried-in-tuva-some-2600-years-ago-reconstructed-by-science/

#Siberia #Altai #Tundra #archaeology #burial

(Real, Historical) Rune Spells

#Rune magic #rune spells #Norse heathenry #Healing spells

Nenet Shamanic Spring Ritual - how not to kill a Christmas Tree!

#Nenet shamanism #heathenry #pagan #ritual

A Tergo Lupi - Leaden (Tagelharpa & Ritual Drum)

#Heathen music #Dark Folk #Tagelharp

The Viking Calendar - The Names of Months and Days.

#Viking Calendar #lunar calendar #Norse heathenry

Grimfrost Academy - Viking Religion

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Wolves Howl in a Winter Wonderland

I love this...”I can go louder!” “No! Me! I can be loudest!”

#Howling wolves #snow #therapy for the hurt soul

The Legend Of Abhartach, Ireland’s Vampire Chieftain.

According to local legend Abhartach rises from his grave to drink the blood of his subjects. Although most probably a folk legend, it was written down as actual history in Dr. Geoffrey Keating’s Foras Feasa ar Eireann (A General History of Ireland) between 1620 and 1631, perhaps making it the oldest written vampire story in Western Europe.

Source:https://anomalien.com/the-legend-of-abhartach-the-irelands-vampire/