While Midsummer may have faded in popularity in America, the traditions sure haven't! They merely transferred over to the Holiday of Independence Day (4th of July). Two notable examples include the use of Fireworks, which were once used to scare away malicious spirits, Guns were also at times fired off instead. While another notable tradition is the use of sparklers, which are the modern incarnation of a European tradition involving the burning of brooms covered in pitch to produce sparks. They would be lit by the young men at the Midsummer Bonfires and they would go around chasing each other with them sending off sparks. -TLK

July by John Leighton 1864

June Update:

June was our first month back from our Hiatus. The Podcast came back with a roar and the new format seems to be working wonders.

If you missed the podcasts you can find them here: https://anchor.fm/hyperborean-radio

Or check them out here:
The Journey Begins Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0l5bTXYqs&t=1s
Geedunk Nautica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avO-3fm31NQ
The Iron Gods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc40Tp90eHU&t=2545s

We also got a few Blog Posts up in June:

Flytting: https://wylderhomesproject.life/2021/06/09/the-basics-of-flyting/

American Folklore:https://wylderhomesproject.life/2021/06/27/tall-tales-american-demigods/

Hertha, German Goddess: https://wylderhomesproject.life/2021/06/30/hertha-the-germanic-mother-earth/

Thanks for Following us on Hyperborean Radio, and to all those Wylde Folk out there on the Wasteland thanks for getting us to 400 Subscribers. Be Great, Be Strong, and follow the Wylde Way!

Also Happy Midsummer to All!

Doc Holliday is a folkloric hero and renegade of the American West. He is most famous for being a part of the shootout at the O.K. Corral along with Wyatt & Virgil Earp. Though many other tales exist of Doc Holliday, while once a somewhat dandyish Southern dentist Doc Holliday was diagnosed with Tuberculosis, he then moved to the west for his health. Then realizing the illness would kill him he began to court death in battle to avoid death in hospice. Even walking into hails of bullets while methodically loading his gun and taking out a man per shot, all in order to court death. He even spent time running around with Billy the Kid. His time of solitude in the wilderness even resulted in him "Coming to know the many gods" as he once said. He failed to get his wish to die in battle and instead died in a hospital bed at age 36, he lived more in 36 years than most do in a hundred. He lives on as a true American Pagan Hero. -TLK

Hello to all those out there in the Wastelands of Modernity. Tune in to https://anchor.fm/hyperborean-radio/episodes/Strength-and-Sacrifice-e13ibee to hear us discuss the virtue and importance of strength of both body and character. The concept of true sacrifice and devotion. As well as the importance of overcoming adversity and striving to be stronger, better, the best you can be. Check us out on Anchor where we drop our F-Bomb's instead of H-Bombs, and to all those out there in the Wasteland, in the Immortal Words of Robert Oberst Stay Strong and Pretty. Be Sure to catch up with the new episodes before our new one this Sunday!

Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West 1816

Johnny Appleseed is a folk hero of America. In real life he was a man born around the birth of the nation named John Chapman who went around speaking of the spirit world, bartering apple trees, and wandering in the woods. His story was ripe for mythology and he eventually ended up in American Folklore as "The Spirit of the Frontier" existing as a folk hero and forest spirit. A more modern title of his is "The American Dionysus" which was given to him due to the plentitude of cider apples that were planted by him, as well as wildman archetypal aspects.-TLK

Benjamin Franklin once tried to promote an American Phonetic Alphabet of his own design. Each letter would make a single sound he also removed letters such as "C, J, Q, W, X and Y" Which he thought were redundant. This was done in a similar vein to his push for the Turkey as our national bird. In order to spearhead new ideas and define American culture as a distinct and new way of doing things. Neither the Turkey or the Alphabet ended up taking off though. So the Latin Alphabet and Bald Eagle remain.-TLK

An old video I made years ago, Happy 4th of July my fellow Wylde Hyperborean Folk across the pond from Mother Europa.-TLK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiqZI9MczEA&list=PL0IsLiQJnTeIjFgl_us995y3IAEHpLJDa&index=14

American-Grove Mindset. #Regrowthesacredgroves

Hello to all those out there in the Wastelands on this fine Independence Day, today we discussed the continuation of European Pagan customs into American culture. Especially those that pertain to Midsummer, as you sit near the bonfire and hear the noises fall to earth, enjoy the tales of days gone by of Folk heroes of the frontier, and of the line of tradition from ages long gone and down to us. Just as Lady Liberty holds a torch, so too do we hold that of our traditions in our hand. A flame that we pass soul to soul, generation to generation. Stay Strong, Stay Great, Stay Wylde. https://youtu.be/-vmm2g8rtAs

Happy 4th of July

Thomas Jefferson was a founding father and the third president of the United States. During his life he served as ambassador to France helping secure them as an ally in the revolutionary war. He also wrote the declaration of independence, served as vice president and president, bought the Louisiana purchase, sent men to fight muslim pirates, published the Jefferson Bible, helped push both the Germanic government system and freedom of religion as core values, he served as the idealist for the Yeoman among the founding fathers. When he eventually died he died the same day as his rival John Adams, on July 4th, 1826. At his home of Monticello, with all its splendor and agricultural experiments.-TLK

Legacy: Thomas Jefferson is one of what I will call the "Big 3" of the founding fathers alongside Washington and Franklin. his actions resulted in our independence, westward expansion of the nation including my home state of Iowa, founding of the navy to fight Muslim Pirates, the integration of numerous crops such as Sesame which he kept in his gardens, but the most enduring legacy is his push for freedom of thought and the pursuit of happiness among the people. He envisioned an Arcadian world in America full of self sufficient Yeoman. The Jefferson Monument holds several quotes and a statue of the Founding Father, in a structure reminiscent of Greek shrines and temples. In a way his very legacy was one of freedom and the right to choose who and what we wished to be. Was her perfect? No. Was he a great man who is a Founding Father a Romulus and Remus to our nation? Yes, yes he was. -TLK
P.S.- I plan on doing longer blog posts on many of the founding fathers. I want to do more research before I do Jefferson.

As promised a wee bit longer post on Jefferson, he'll also be the first founding father to get a deep dive in time. Hope everyone had a good 4th.-TLK
P.S.- The Ameriposting will go back down to regular levels after the Holiday.

A Summer Day by Arnold Bocklin 1881

For any Balts out there, our friend Daug put this out about a year ago-TLK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Ymc5g6_To

The figure of Mother Goose, is an interesting one. She appears as an imaginary author of French Fairy Tales & English Nursery Rhymes. She appears as a women in a witches hat riding atop a goose. She has her origins in far older folklore perhaps as far back as Frau Herre riding a goose in Gaulish art or figures such as Berthe Pedauque "Swan-Footed Queen" who was absorbed by Christian artists, she was a swan or goose footed goddess who spun tales and flax in French folklore. Mother Goose even appears in old Pantomimes alongside another figure with folkloric deity origins, Harlequin.-TLK

The altar of Ragutis
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