I am very excited to announce that I'm in the process of completing and publishing my very first book!😄 It will be covering a topic I've been discussing for over a year and have spent many months researching. Our fairytales are more than just bedtime stories, they are ethnic myths as old as time itself. This book will be about the beloved fairytale of Sleeping Beauty and how it functions as the myth of our spring and dawn goddess Ostara.🌹🌄

From the symbolism of the thorns and Thurisaz rune, to the significance of spinning figures and fates, forgotten heathen traditions of spring, and the tale's resemblance to the saga of Siegfried and Brunhilde, this book will be a deep dive into the heathen nature of one of Europe's most famed fairytales. I hope to have it out by Easter, but in the mean time if you'd like to consider supporting me on patreon and receive an advanced copy of the book, the link is below! I'll be sharing lots of previews on Telegram as well! Skal!
https://www.patreon.com/thorinaustrison

The ultimate origin of the Vedic deity Indra is uncertain. In the Lithuanian language, which bears striking similarity to Vedic Sanskrit, the planet Jupiter is simply "Jupiteris"; the deified Goddess symbolised by Jupiter, however, is named Indraja. This would require a linguist's eye to be certain of an etymological connection but, combining a cursory morphological analysis with mythological evidence, it is overwhelmingly likely that both Indraja and the Vedic storm deity Indra share an etymological root that has a Proto-Indo-European basis.

The European Elder Tree (species: Sambucus nigra, from the family Adoxaceae) holds a prominent place in native folklore.

In pre-Christian times, Indo-European peoples utilised the properties of the Elder Tree for medicinal and spiritual purposes, and thus they held it in reverence.

In the British Isles, it was customary to tip one's hat towards the Elder Tree as a mark of respect, and specifically in England & Scandinavia, those taking from the tree must ask permission from the Elder Mother (Danish: Hyldemoer) to use its materials.

"Old girl, give me some of thy wood and I will give thee some of mine when I grow into a tree" — typical recitation in England & Scandinavia.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

These links will bring you to the beginning of each project. Scroll down for full details.

I’ll update this as new projects are added. (Keep an eye out for other tasty morsels of info posted in between projects.)

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Booze

- Prison Wine
- - Progress Day 1
- - Progress Day 3
- - Day 3 Test Rack
- Harvest Yeast from Beer
- ...Continued

Build

- Trash Can Root Cellar
- Tripod Lashing

Cook

- Applesauce
- Chicken Stock
- ...Continued
- Farmer’s Cheese
- Sourdough

Discuss

- @RWDS_bot

Forage

- Acorns

Grow

- Burlap Sack Potatoes
- Carrots
- Companion Planting Basics
- Companion Planting Herbs
- Dry Beans & Peas
- Ginger
- Living Plant Trellis
- Loofah
- Spring Planting Guide - March
- Sprouted Onion Planting
- Sprouting Questionable Seeds
- Tomato Planting
- Vermiculture

Livestock (+ Butcher)

- Beehives - quick guide
- Butcher Your Chicken - video
- Chicken Coop for Egg-Layers
- Chicken Run for Egg-Layers
- Eggs - Fresh vs. Store-Bought
- Geese
- Killing Cone
- Ladybugs
- Large Animals
- Meat Chickens pt. 1
- Meat Rabbits
- ...Continued
- Muscovy Ducks
- Plucking Your Bird
- Primal Cuts
- Raken House
- Roosters

Network

- Build Relationships with Farmers
- Build Your Tribe

Prepare

- Apple Cider Vinegar
- Apple Pectin for Jams & Jellies
- Churn Cream into Butter
- Render Used Bacon Grease
- Wood Ash Soap - pt. 1
- Wood Ash Soap - pt. 2

Preserve

- Intro to Canning
- Peachwaffen Preserves
- Pemmican
- Potted Meat
- Preserving Abundance
- Water Bath Canning
- ...Continued
- Zero Waste

Read

- Construction Lashings
- FM21-76 - must have
- Guerrilla Gardening
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Store

- Lysol Replacement Disinfectant
- Pet Fish Antibiotics for Humans

Watch

- Butcher Your Chicken
- Channel Summary

🏛 sorry for the long absence everyone it’s because of this current Covid 19 situation. Speaking of that please everyone be safe! We will have our weekly Roman trivia question starting back up soon so look out for that! Have a great day everyone! 🏛

Take it easy SPQR Central, looking forward to any new content. Real life comes before Telegram so it's very understandable.

Medb, Goddess of Mead and Sovereignty

Medb, queen of Connacht. From the Proto-Celtic *medu-, “mead” or *medua, “intoxicating.” Legendary stand-in for the goddess of mead and sovereignty.

Medb and her cognate, the Indian Madhavi, with derivatives such as madhu, “sweet, honey, mead,” are daughters of the ideal kings Eochaid Feidlech and Yayati, kings who are models of justice, and rulers of a Golden Age.

As Madhavi sacrifices her womb to save her father’s kingdom, in so doing producing four sons who correspond to the three social functions, Medb’s sister Clothru agrees to bear a son by three fathers in order that her family’s line will have heirs, a son who when born is divided into thirds by two red stripes. This son, Lugaid Riab nDerg, then becomes High King of Ireland.

Medb guarantees the permanence or the renewal of the triad of royal virtues defined according to the three functions and provides for the establishment of good kingdoms.

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Virtue In Heroic Society

“Every individual has a given role and status within a well-defined and highly determinate system of roles and statuses. The key structures are those of kinship and of the household. In such a society a man knows who he is by knowing his role in these structures, and in knowing this he knows also what he owes and what is owed to him by the occupant of every role and status. In Greek (dein) and in Anglo-Saxon (ahte) alike, there is originally no clear distinction between ‘ought’ and ‘owe’, in Icelandic the word ‘Skyldr’ ties together with ‘ought’ and ‘is kin to’. But it is not just that there is for each status a prescribed set of duties and privileges. There is also a clear understanding of what actions are required to perform these and what actions fall short of what is required. For what are required are actions. A man in heroic society is what he does.” - Alasdair MacIntyre

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https://telegra.ph/Quest-ce-que-le-Paganisme--Que-signifie-%C3%AAtre-Pa%C3%AFen-04-03

Qu’est-ce que le Paganisme ? Que signifie être Païen?

A translation of our first article in French.

-Matamoro, The Sun Riders
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