I've recently came across a video that shows some very interesting things found in our most ancient settlements!

Animal statues: Did you know Ice Age Europeans were sculptors? This particular video shows "bison" aka the native European Aurochs. Several other statues have been found, including those of bears and other animals, even of Gods and Goddesses. Some are made of clay others are made of bone or soft stone.

Depictions of Animal-Human Hybrids: This video shows a recreation of 'the sorcerer' from the cave of the Trois-Frères, which bares a very strong resemblance to the Celtic God Cernunnos.

Ice Age Wunjo Rune: Did you know that Wunjo, or a symbol shaped like our modern letter P, have been found over many Ice Age caves! This debunks the idea we got our letters soley from the middle-east. The hypothesis as to how these emerged is understandable but still a hypothesis. Either way goes to show, with the 32 Ice Age symbols, that our folk were writing long before the middle-east.

Dr. Genevieve von Petzinger, a badass archeologist & anthropologist lady, discovered written language in the Aurignacian and Gravettian cultures (pan-european cultures during the ice age) dating as far back as 40,000 years ago. This date coincides with the first evidence we have a Pagan beliefs from the same location.

The term 'alphabet' is a misnomer here. I suspect, like all ancient languages, they started off as logo syllabaries or hieroglyphs then became more simplified and abstract over time. This particular Ice Age language was in use all across Europe for 30,000 years!

It is interesting to recognize that writing originated tens of thousands of years before the middle east, in Europe; the same location as the first evidence of Paganism, as well as our actual homeland!

Despite what some "academics" claim, Ice Age Europeans are our Ancestors, and it shows a rich history of development far, advancing other cultures in the same time period.

Mark gives a talk on Our Ancestral Endowment at Vetrnætr in the Black Hills.

Our Ancestral Endowment - The Norroena Society https://share.google/i85rn7pyVZwkYjXfO

◇ PIE in the Sky ◇

Over the years here on Pagan Revivalism, many folk know I am a skeptic of the pie-perennialist position. Many folk have requested for me to do an entire show dedicated to tackling this ideology, like we did in October with axiality. Most folk have never heard the other side of the argument, until now.

Join us after winter solstice, 12/25/25, as we do a full take-down of pie-perennialism. We will cover their genetics, linguistics, material culture & comparative-mythology arguments, why they're easily defeated and much more!

This will be the most controversial show we have produced, but it is also the most important. For as we revive, we need to understand our actual foundations. If those foundations are faulty & foreign, cobbled together by mashing different religions together into a hypothetical ur-religion, we set ourselves up for failure.

This is a show you will not want to miss, as we break-down and take-down the pie, a new-age revisionist cult, only here at Pagan Revivalism channel.

This is a clip from a recent Grimfrost episode featuring a pie guy named Anders Kaliff (link here). Among the standard pie guy arguments trying to tie native European religions to india, one argument he makes shows why pie guys dont take ancestral faiths seriously.

Týr = Denis Penis

To prove this argument, one needs to completely disregard all archaeology and the legends of this religion itself. Nowhere is it mentioned, or eluded to, that Tyr was originally the head of the Æsir Gods. You think this would have been something mentioned in Lokasenna, but no. "Tyr was the original head, why, because this word sounds similar to another word, which we made up as a hypothetical bridge, therefore it must have been the same lol."

Kaliff goes on to suggest à la Georges Dumézil that the Æsir-Vanir war is fake because you can, by disregarding every difference that makes a distinction, Vanir Gods are the same as other alleged pie gods.

This pie ideology reveals profound ignorance to the legends they claim to research.

The frequency of new life on new earth

For those who are more musically and tonally inclined, you may find this interesting. Outside of Volcano National Park, on the big island of Hawaii, you can visit lands enveloped by flame and rock from within the Earth. As it moves on land it destroys everything in it's path, burning old life and covering old world with the new. As it cools it cracks, leaving crevices for new life to emerge in the new land. Like all living things they produce a frequency, and with the right tool, we can hear It as as music. And among new life on new land they play a single note which, as they grow and interact with others, turns into a crescendo.

The lava and new life is representative of at the end of Ragnarok, where fire and destruction rain but hidden away life reemerges once more. Mirrored also by the destructive fires of christianization, only for Pagan Revivalism to emerge and grow again.

This is the frequency of new life. The tone of a new era. A hymn of victory over chaos!

◇ PIE in the Sky ◇

The core claim made by Dumézil to support his pie myth claims is the three functions of his Trifunctional Schema, which are:
1. sovereignty/magic
2. war
3. fertility/productivity

This tripartide structure is imposed post hoc, not an uncovered secret.

For starters, his ideas dont fit with the sources. Odin for example has sovereignty, magic & war aspects. Multiple gods in multiple religions cross these 'rigid boundaries,' making his tripartide system false by examining the sources. When you cherry pick examples, and ignore counter examples, your model becomes unreliable. Besides, any deity can be shoehorned into a function by redefining the function post hoc.

This system is also falsified by new evidence. Specifically, Hittite mythology (pre-1500 BCE) lacks this trifunctional Pantheon, which is instead dominated by storm gods and chthonic pairs, with no clear “third function” fertility class.

What Dumézil does is start with a conclusion and twist facts, post hoc, to "prove his case"

Dumezil was an atheist and obviously saw Gods as just ideas. This is the reason behind his disregard for details too. Reducing Gods to archetypes/functions etc is like saying that since John and Jack are both male, wear glasses and work as engineers they are secretly the same person! Of course we don’t do that with people since we know they are real, but when it comes to Gods such generalizations are often tolerated since the wast majority are atheists even in (self-proclaimed) Pagan circles.

The Mari Lwyd is a very old Welsh tradition around this time of year. Though it's exact origins remain a mystery, lost to the sands of time, it is a local folk tradition of a folk who's noble ancestors smile upon them. For emulation is the highest form of veneration, that's why we keep the fires of tradition alive; it is out of love we do these things, for those who guide us and whom gave us life, culture and identity. Our blessed Ancestors

Did you know, in the first chapter of book 8 in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, he writes about how many people knew Elephants have a religion where they venerate the sun, moon and stars with accompanying rituals 👀

Over the years I have been in ancestral faith there are really three main schools around identity & boundaries. If one has identity they by necessity have a boundary between what is & what isnt congruent with said identity.

• New-Age Heathenry
These folks have a vague identity of 'heathen.' A permeable outline insofar as they are able to incorporate any new or foreign ideals. When you examine what they believe, you essentially see a dotted-outline of heathenry, but nothing that distinguishes itself.

• Revivalist Heathenry
These folks have a defined identity, and with that has defined borders as dictated by the sources. These borders have a wide-berth as to allow exploration & innovation within reason, as to maintain the defined identity of 'what is Heathen.'

• Reconstructionist Heathenry
These folks too have an identity, which necessitates borders. However, unlike the Revivalists, Recons allow for little or no exploration into the unknown outside of the sources as to not inadvertently become 'non-heathen.'

Why I am a Revivalist?

Before I answer this question, I am going to examine & critique the other two first.

New-Age Heathenry isn't necessarily new. Today, you will find self-proclaimed Heathens mixing Germanic Heathenry with any number of foreign or new concepts. It's modern iteration began in the early years of revival, when there wasn't as much information on what Heathenry was. Because they did not know what it was, its identity became vague, then permiable. As it became permiable, it absorbed ideas from everywhere to the point where most dont care what the sources define Heathenry as. They will do whatever they want to do, solely because of how they feel as opposed to what actually is. Without a defined identity, Heathenry becomes whatever you want it to be, and therefore does not keep it's shape, and rather takes on what primarily fills in the gaps. Some people will use neoplatonism, but swap the Greek names for Germanic ones; but what that becomes is neoplatonism wearing the mask of, or larping as, Heathenry. Though it's modern iteration can base itself out of the mid-20th century, this mentality is actually quite ancient. When the Germanic tribe of the Franks conquered christian-occupied Roman Gaul, they incorporated jesus worship into their system for political expediency. This olive-branch of syncretism allowed for the foreign christianity to fester and eventually destroy all Heathenry. The morale is that syncretism leads to the death of those which engage in it by not protecting one's identity & borders.

Reconstructionists appear at first glance to solve the issues with the New-Agers. There needs to be a core identity. That identity must necessitate borders. The identity & the borders are dictated by the sources. However, because we don't have a full picture of what exactly, down to minute details, what it was, there are some gaps. This isn't as big of a problem as some make it out to be. In these gaps very little to no exploration is allowed, lest Heathenry becomes like the New-Agers, allowing Heathenry to become something it was not. This, on it's face, seems to be more of a reactionary response to the New-Agers, as opposed to just sticking with the sources. The reason being is some (not all) Recons will 'fill the gaps' with 'what Heathenry was before Heathenry.' Inso doing, becoming exactly what they avoid to be, by adding-in other foreign elements exactly like the New-Agers. The other path Recons take is to leave the gaps as gaps until more information comes their way via archeology. What remains is true to what Heathenry was, but quasi-incomplete; which, as stated previously, has the danger of becoming New-Age itself despite it's 'foundational safeguards.'

So why Revivalism? Historically, ancestral faiths were living traditions. I often think of Grimnismal, where Odin visits the king of the Goths in disguise. Before this event occurred, this was not a recorded legend. It was a specific legend, with a specific time & location. This is not New-Age, as it recognizes Gods continue to interact with us, whilst also not contradicting what Odin has done in the past. If it did change the essence of Odin, it wouldn't be authentically Heathen. I think of the PROSE Edda, which does change the nature of the Gods in certain places. These changes are known to not be authentic, thus using Grimnismal and the Prose Edda, we can define what is and what is not authentically Heathen whilst not being entirely closed-off or flash-frozen in the Viking Era.

A tree does not grow to its full potential if it remains inside of a pot. Likewise, as we Revive, we should allow the tree of our faith to grow naturally. We should have room to explore; but within reason, as to not become something we are not. This is why I chose Revivalism, hence the name of this channel. That, in my estimation, is why Revivalism is not just how our faiths operated in antiquity, it is not just the most practical path today, but in my opinion is Inevitable.