by Jules Joseph Lefebvre

“But to us, Apollo, splendid in your golden hair, grant in your own contests..”
- Pindar, Odes (472 BCE)

“Golden-haired Apollo still loves the state of Syracuse and honors Hieron, the city's lawful ruler.”
- Bacchylides, Epinicians (470 BCE)

“The golden-haired god [Apollo] sent gentle-minded Eleithuia and the Fates to help her.”
- Pindar, Olympian (472 BCE)

“..beloved of the gold-haired god, Apollo, in fullness of heart..”
- Pindar, Odes (472 B.C)

“Golden-haired far-darter, son of Zeus..”
- Aristotle, Rhetoric (367 BCE)

Túath is a common Celtic word traceable to Indo-European (teutā). It means 'tribe', a term for the basic social unit of Celtic society, made up of 3,000 people, & ruled over by a king (Ir. rí, Gaulish rīx, Welsh rhí). The Túath system was most long-lasting in Ireland.

Indra the singers with high praise, Indra reciters with their lauds, Indra the choirs have glorified.
Indra hath ever close to him his two bay steeds and word-yoked car, Indra the golden, thunder-armed.
Indra hath raised the Sun on high in heaven, that he may see afar; He burst the moutain for the kine.
Help us, O Indra, in the frays, yea, frays, where thousand spoils are gained; With awful aids, O awful One.
In mighty battle we invoke Indra, Indra in lesser fight; The Friend who bends his bolt at fiends.
Unclose, our manly hero, thou forever bounteous, yonder cloud; For us, thou irresistible.
Still higher, at each strain of mine, thunder-armed Indra's praises rise; I find no laud worthy of him.
Even as the bull drives on the herds, he drives the people with his might; The ruler irresistible;
Indra who rules with single sway men, riches and the fivefold race; Of those who dwell upon the earth.
For your sake from each side we call Indra away from other men; Ours, and none others, may he be!

Rigveda 1:7 Indra

Teutates was a Celtic god who was worshiped in ancient Gaul and Britain. His name is related to the concept of the túath, & means "father of the tribe". The tribe was seen as having divine life-force to the ancient Celts.

Gothic architecture is supreme. Rooted in the Northern European soul.

Hail Pugin and the Gothic revival. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Pugin


Also based very Indo-European STJ is Gothic gang too.
https://youtu.be/pI6D_kgM_Zg

Another glorious Sunday is nearly upon us. May the radiant undying sun's blessings be given to his loyal followers.

Hail all that is solar.
Hail the Gods
Hail the Sun.

A poem by a member of our community:

I look without, at morrow's Hue
Luminescent Golden Blue
Dawning on those dying leaves
Adieu ye Summer Days and Eves

And now the pluming Fire-Cloud
Burning 'way the twilight shrouds
Announces forth that rising Day
Bidding darkness Heed! Give way!

But gone now is Glee of Summer Months
Now Banshee shrieks and One-Eye Hunts
For Ettin souls at Even's War
Beware hooves' clank in wood and moore
Lest ye be taken to the skies
On Grey-Beard's endless Winter Ride

Keep safe and warm and Keep Alert
In cabin, cottage, hut or yurt
Until that Yule-Day Sun doth rise
And end the Sun-Wheel's long demise
And Halt the frigid Winter-tide
Be Warm, Be Ware, and Watch the Skies!

Happy Equinox everybody! Fall is here. Samhain/Ancestors' night is on the 28th of October on the New Moon. If you live near a relative's grave make sure you remember to place a candle on it in remembrence of them.

The Yamnaya Culture phenotype was interesting; their skull shape and facial features were much like Vikings or Romans, but they did not possess the genes for blue eyes (OCA2). They did, however, have fair skin (HERC2), unlike the WHG and Neolithic Farmers they replaced in northern Europe.

They also had dark hair, although they carried the gene for blonde hair types as well.

The Equinox happens twice a year at the Loughcrew Cairns in Co. Meath. Throughout time people have gathered to honour and celebrate the sun at these ancient passage tombs, which are over 5,000 years old. Autumn's Equinox falls on September 22nd/23rd.

The Lay of Rig (Rígsþula) is an important poem of The Edda. In it, the tripartite structure of society - as in in the Indo-European tradition - is presented; Heimdall travels and figuratively fathers all three races that correspond to the classes of labourer, farmer and noble.

Rígsþula, 13;

Daughters had they, Drumba and Kumba,
Ökkvinkalfa, Arinnefla,
Ysja and Ambott, Eikintjasna,
Totrughypja and Tronubeina;
And thence has risen the race of thralls.

The thralls correspond to peasants, or one of the 'houses' of society.

Similarly, the farmers' race born in the 25th stanza represents the next house, followed by the nobleman born in the 34th.

The author demonstrates the values of nobility from his description of their qualities and what he does for them;

36; 'Then out of the thicket came Rig walking,
Rig came walking taught him the #Runes.'

37; '(He) made his horse gallop, wielded his sword;
He awakened a war, began to redden the plain,
Began to fell dead men, he fought to gain lands.'

38; 'Then he alone ruled eighteen settlements;
He started to share his wealth, offered to everyone.'

Finally, the Lay of Rig concludes showing both the benevolent and faustian aspects of the Noble Caste;

42; 'Those born to Lord grew up there,
Tamed horses, bound rims to shields,
Smoothed arrow-shafts, brandished ash spears.'

43; 'But the young Kin learned Runes to use,
Runes everlasting, the runes of life;
Soon could he well the warrior's shield,
Dull the sword blades and still the seas.'

This poem is significant because it demonstrates Nordic social stratification along Indo-European lines; tripartite, yet devoid of a priestly class. Or perhaps this wasn't considered important, or perhaps it was taken as a given that the nobility performed priestly roles.

"Friday" retains an almost uniform pre-Christian tradition accross European languages. In Romance languages, the name for Friday is a variant of the Latin diēs Veneris (Venus' Day).

French: Vendredi
Spanish: Viernes
Italian: Venerdi

The Greek ἡμέρᾱ Ἀφροδῑ́της (hēmérā Aphrodī́tēs) uses the Goddess Aphrodite, their equivalent to Venus.

The Germanic langauges also base the name for Friday upon their Goddess of broadly equivilant function; Frejya.

Old English/Modern English: Frīgedæg/Friday
German: Freitag
Afrikaans: Vrydag
Old Norse: Frjádagr
Norwegian: Fredag

Image: Freyja and her boar Hildisvíni, Lorentz Frölich 🇩🇰 (1895)

Happy sunnōniz dagaz! Hail to Sunne! Christians should be shamed for trying to steal this day from us. Sunday is heathen and belongs to the Teutonic peoples as a day we honored the sun for giving us light and warmth, which is far more precious to us in the north than in the desert where they have an abundance of it.