Forwarded from Stam van de Vos🦊, hekserij en heidendom van de Lage Landen
This 53 centimeter long sword is from the last century of the Bronze Age and is dated between 925 and 800 BC. It was probably made in Central Europe and ended in the river De Maas, near Thorn-Wessem in Central Limburg. It was found there in 1962 during dredging work. Together with Leiden University, Luc Amkreutz conducted extensive research into the signs of use on the sword. It appears to have been used extensively and has probably seen many combat situations in the sometimes not very peaceful Bronze Age society of Central and Northwestern Europe. The irregular shape of the blade indicates intensive repairs and tightening of the metal.
So this sword from was clearly an intensively used fighting sword, unlike other bronze age swords such as the sword of Ommerschans or Jutphaas. They were not used for battle, but were made to be left behind as an offering and ritual status symbol in a river or grave. Swords were also often made unusable and bent and then sacrificed. https://historiek.net/3000-jaar-oud-zwaard-van-thorn-wessem-blijkt-flink-gebruikt/139959/
So this sword from was clearly an intensively used fighting sword, unlike other bronze age swords such as the sword of Ommerschans or Jutphaas. They were not used for battle, but were made to be left behind as an offering and ritual status symbol in a river or grave. Swords were also often made unusable and bent and then sacrificed. https://historiek.net/3000-jaar-oud-zwaard-van-thorn-wessem-blijkt-flink-gebruikt/139959/
Historiek
3000 jaar oud zwaard van Thorn-Wessem blijkt flink gebruikt
Het zwaard uit Thorn-Wessem was duidelijk een intensief gebruikt vechtzwaard waarop de sporen van strijd leesbaar zijn, anders dan bij andere bronstijdzwaarden zoals het zwaard van Ommerschans of Jutphaas.
I thought that the Bible looks down on great wealth, and material possessions. I suppose popes and priests are like the shepherds getting rich off of their sheep by brainwashing them to believe they must donate their hard earned coins to the church. These men and women of God are living lavish wealthy lives with private jets, multi million dollar mansions.
Forwarded from Old and New European Art and Aesthetics
Meadow Elves (1850). Nils Blommér (Swedish, 1816-1853).
These are old words from the Slavic bylinas (traditional folkloric Slavic/Russian epic oral poems) about a Volkhv (Slavic pagan wizard, wiseman, magus, sage, seer..).
The words describe a tall, old man with white beard, who is wearing a dark cloak with a hood. He always wanders the forest alone. In his hands a magic staff, and if he raises his staff to the sky, and whispers sacred words, the sun will disappear, and in its stead will appear storm clouds, and it will blow the wind of such stretch, that even birds won’t be able to take flight. But if he puts his magic staff to the ground, immediately the nature will calm down
The words describe a tall, old man with white beard, who is wearing a dark cloak with a hood. He always wanders the forest alone. In his hands a magic staff, and if he raises his staff to the sky, and whispers sacred words, the sun will disappear, and in its stead will appear storm clouds, and it will blow the wind of such stretch, that even birds won’t be able to take flight. But if he puts his magic staff to the ground, immediately the nature will calm down
This is in Russian, but it talks about these words here. I don’t know who these people are. Hopefully they are not some kind of communists or Abrahamic religion pushers. I don’t know who they are or what they stand for. I just found this topic about Slavic Volkhv to be interesting.
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If you are intelligent enough, you can obtain useful information from any source without being manipulated by this source.
Personally I can find useful bits and pieces of information just about anywhere.
I know how to take that which I need, that which I can benefit from, and leave behind all that I don’t need.
I am not afraid to check out any source, even if this source promotes a worldview that directly opposes my own, because I know how to scan through different sources, and collect valuable information without getting caught in their mental, and emotional traps that they set up for gullible people.
I know that they put seeds of truth mixed with their lies, and they put the seeds of truth in order to attract people, and mentally trap them.
I collect those seeds of truth, and leave without getting caught up in their psychological manipulation.
If you don’t know how to do this, then by all means do not check out the sources you consider dangerous