Forwarded from Germanic Faith (Kyle Davis)
Found this online:
The Jelling “Great Stone” (c. 965) has been laser-scanned to 0.1 mm accuracy. Digital epigrapher Martin Grønnesby counted 183 serpent scales on the left coil and 182 on the right, matching solar year halves. Midpoint scale sits exactly beneath the runic word jul (Yule), aligning with winter solstice. Copper pigment traces highlight every 30th scale, likely month markers.
Bluetooth’s inscription boasts: “Harald made Denmark Christian.” But the calendar snake quietly taught converts the church feast cycle—Easter falls 94 scales after Yule, pinpointed by an oversized boss. This fusion of pagan zoomorphics and Christian chronology eased conversion, turning a propaganda stone into a community planner.
No medieval document mentions the feature; its rediscovery via 3-D imagery shows Viking artisans embedding astronomical knowledge in public art. Visitors today snap selfies with the serpent, unaware they’re beside a granite smartwatch that has kept perfect solar time for 1,060 years. #jellingrunestone
The Jelling “Great Stone” (c. 965) has been laser-scanned to 0.1 mm accuracy. Digital epigrapher Martin Grønnesby counted 183 serpent scales on the left coil and 182 on the right, matching solar year halves. Midpoint scale sits exactly beneath the runic word jul (Yule), aligning with winter solstice. Copper pigment traces highlight every 30th scale, likely month markers.
Bluetooth’s inscription boasts: “Harald made Denmark Christian.” But the calendar snake quietly taught converts the church feast cycle—Easter falls 94 scales after Yule, pinpointed by an oversized boss. This fusion of pagan zoomorphics and Christian chronology eased conversion, turning a propaganda stone into a community planner.
No medieval document mentions the feature; its rediscovery via 3-D imagery shows Viking artisans embedding astronomical knowledge in public art. Visitors today snap selfies with the serpent, unaware they’re beside a granite smartwatch that has kept perfect solar time for 1,060 years. #jellingrunestone
Forwarded from European Identity
According to Hesiod and the Homeric hymn on Aphrodite, the goddess after rising from the foam first approached the island of Cythera, and thence went to Cyprus, and as she was walking on the sea-coast flowers sprang up under her feet, and Eros and Himeros accompanied her to the assembly of the other great gods, all of whom were struck with admiration and love when she appeared, and her surpassing beauty made every one desire to have her for his wife.
Forwarded from Volkism vs Modernity
Buddhism is worse than christinaity. At least most christians just ignore their own dogma and taboos.
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One of the very few remaining European cowbell masters from Romania, who still makes them by hand.
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