Europe's Last Goddess 🇫🇷

[@WickedFelina]

The Romans would leave an offering to the gods of foreign lands. Each area had a different god or goddess so, the romans would ask who it was? They knew to respect them. Only if they were having a conflict from foreign people did they go to war with them. They conquered the land but not the gods. Very inspirational that she survived. I would love to know her history, and her name. Sad all these are lost to time. Thank you for your hard work and blessed presentation.

[@TheGreenKnight500]

I think there's something noble about that Roman style of syncretism. As they traveled into or conquered new lands, they respected local gods as different versions of their own. I know some consider this a cynical decision to keep the empire together, but I think the fact that they would make offerings to those gods shows genuine piety on their part.

[@abbasalchemist]

It also goes to show Paul's polemical use in the Areopagus of his sermon to the Unknown God.

[@Anaris10]

Yet they slaughtered the Druids....

[@oraetlabora1922]

​@@TheGreenKnight500 That is not syncretism.

[@oraetlabora1922]

​@@Anaris10 There is something called war.

[@aadityapratap007]

Thanks for highlighting this story Tom. It's great to know that someone has held to their roots.

[@bas-tn3um]

regardless christianity was willing accepted by your ancestors.

[@bas-tn3um]

@@ToyotaVan-qz2bn has no argument so im a bot. cope any harder and youll need a hanky to wipe away your tears.

[@ALOK-pe5fp]

​@@bas-tn3um He is Hindu

[@forgottenfuryan]

You're not wiatt stop pretending to be us

[@Batega_toh_Katega_Hindu_108]

@@bas-tn3um Many of our people were easily brainwashed especially when they didn't knew the nature of their enemy. but unbrainwashing them is one of the most difficult parts we don't know if we will succeed. we need all help we can get to unconvert our people back their roots.

[@DVX_BELLORVM]

I'm so happy to see you doing a video on this and spreading knowledge of the Vénus of Quinipily amongst Anglophone viewers who otherwise might not have been aware of it. This statue is truly one of the great surviving treasures of pre-Christian European religion still located 'en plein air.'

[@jamesmurphy1389]

Wonderful series and a powerfully moving contribution to the cause of European cultural survival. I have three classical statues in my garden and friends frequently think I'm barmy if they see me bowing to any of them. I tell them I'm calling forth in my soul the qualities of beauty, truth and power that the gods and goddesses embody so resonantly - and insodoing, thanking the deities for their existence! This causes them to pause and wonder.....

[@ravenodinson7483]

There was something uplifting and magical about this video and its content.. I can't quite put my finger on what it is.. Have you ever been to a cool, shady forested part of an old woodsy grove and felt a deep, dream-like magic in the air? Like you have transported to a Tolkien like dimension? That is what I feel embedded into this video. There is indeed something profound about the Goddess in this video...

[@eliasorbon450]

Keep up the great work. Cheers!

[@berserker4940]

Thomas thank you for your work. It brings glory to the Gods. It was a pleasure to meet you here in the states a few years back.

[@arghapirate2427]

What a great video never knew about this! Also awesome that you and the Golden one help each other out!

[@Samuel32425]

Another great video, Tom. Keep up the quality

[@Wyattinous]

Thank you so much for your work in bringing this beautifully resilient piece of history to light for us all to see and find inspiration in. From what I’ve read, her statue and humble residence seems to me the very story of pre Abrahamic religious survival as I’ve seen it today. Weathered and scuffed, thrown at the wayside by those who chose to disdain her, but picked back up and loved by other locals who will always be around in their own piety and appreciation. And the Gods may be here to see it all and remember. May they forgive us all.

[@florisbrieffies2758]

At 1.35 a nightingale sings at the goddess. A symbol of love - poetic.

[@just_a_lady]

Danke Tom, your videos continue to enrich my family's reconnection to our ancestors. Hope to see that you're able to cross the pond in the not too distant future. The very best to you and yours!

[@dumoulin11]

It's really great to hear about where part of my family comes from. Thank you!

[@bleunwenn]

Fascinating! I will have to visit the Iron Lady at some point. Thanks for another video from Brittany, I appreciate that. 🙏 I'm glad the bishop... couldn't stop the statue from being retrieved. 🗿✨ Nothing can stop a proud folk.

[@Survivethejive]

he died but she lives!

[@fabricio-agrippa-zarate]

By now, I'm ready to make a "pagan" eurotour: visit every single prechristian religious places from Europe.

[@AskTorin]

Good luck, that's a looong trip my friend!!

[@DanDavisHistory]

Fascinating! Never heard of this, what an amazing story. Thanks for the film.

[@csrencz6942]

Great stuff lately StJ still getting caught up on your Greek adventures

[@DaliwolfBacon]

This was great! Thank you!

[@Phorquieu]

Fascinating, that you would find and report on this important story. Truly amazing! Thanks for doing this! It is great work!

[@breohtbrusmid489]

Glad to hear hér story. Á breton legend í came across 'The Gro' ac' tells of a boy called Houarn (iron) who is lured away by 'The Gro' ac Of The Lake' and must be saved by his sister. I wonder if the statues time in and out of the waters formed the local legend?

[@youio9063]

i very much enjoyed this video. thanks so much, sir 🙏🏻

[@Swakinnn]

Amazing video as always, Tom. The veneration of Pagan gods and goddesses was never really stopped, but instead, these gods and goddesses became saints, losing much of their esoteric and metaphysical value. So its beautiful to see a pure Pagan goddess devoid of Christianization still being worshipped.

[@rabbitrun777]

There’s a lot more metaphysics in dante than there is in the illiad. Medieval literature was adding metaphysics to stuff not taking it away.

[@JP-zz7en]

Brittany was one of the pagan enclaves during the Middle Ages and part of the modern age, others were northern Spain (mainly in the Pyrenees), the island of Sardinia in Italy, the Apennines, the Alps, the Dalmatian islands, Rügen in northeastern Germany, Mani in the Peloponnese, Jormsburg in western Poland, the Carpathian Mountains, mountains in Albania, the Caucasus region, the Urals, northern Scandinavia and perhaps more.

[@Erdwick]

Wonderful video. As a Hindu who worships the native Gods and a follower of the Goddess this video was really wonderful to watch. Great work as always.

[@AskTorin]

❤️💪🙏

[@aphillips229]

I recently bought some wool socks from Finland. I used to think that wool was scratchy and uncomfortable but now I sit here based and wool sock pilled.

[@ottokis308]

Happy to see you supporting a brother like the golden one. He is a good man.

[@Lukemacleary]

I appreciate you covering French/Celtic/European ancient history, as an American it's not something we get exposed to at all, and that's a shame, seeing as the French had such an impact on our history, culture and population here in my country from the revolution on; and before that, influencing nearly every event in the Kingdoms of Europe and their Colonies; our ancestral lands. I often wonder if an American would learn Irish, French and German to a level of understanding the etymological roots, they would unlock some ancestral knowledge of history none of us today could fathom. Nearly all of our personal names, our surnames, our towns and customs are rooted in these languages and cultures, if not Native cultures (which sadly had less of an impact on our society). Also all three of those languages are related; and furthermore, related to our native English tongue.

[@ermining1]

This has nothing to do with France. At the time grabs did not exist and this is in Brittany where our culture is different.

[@Lukemacleary]

@@ermining1 I'm pretty sure Brittany has a thing, or two, to do with what is geographically (and historically) understood to be "France" It's a region. I included it in my comment specifically, to let readers know that history relating to the French region is important world history, and not simply things- "to do with France" as you said.

[@Lukemacleary]

@@ermining1 Go ahead and debunk the video for having FR in the title too.

[@ermining1]

@@Lukemacleary the video doesn't have France in the title and if it did I would most defenetly disagree. Firstly I'm Breton and l a historian with a strong interest on language history in Brittany. Saying it's France is like saying Edinburgh is in England. France does not recognize by its constitution (one and undividable) any cultures within France. The example outsiders can understand is if l instead of the UK you had England saying no all of this, Scotland, NI, Wales is England and should only be called England. This has been a form of colonization since the revolution as Brittany did not want to lose its autonomy (1789). Prior to that it was autonomous and independent up to 1488. Why this is not French history is because it just isn't since France didn't even exist at the time when the statue was built and also because it has nothing to do with French culture (Breton is a mixture of Gallo and Breton culture France is not it is mostly Latin). This political strategy that France promotes across the world that it is just one country is a way to continue cultural colonialism it has been pursuing since the revolution to this day. For example still today there are issues with Breton and Gallo being banned, or a french version of Breton being thought in public schools, or funding being removed from historical sights (barnenez is a great example of this) and brought to Paris. So no this is not France and has nothing to do with French culture. Or will you say that Greenlandic heritage for example is Danish and remove the word Greenland when talking about it?.

[@Lukemacleary]

@@ermining1 I understand what you're saying. All that I'm referencing is geographical region, and the populace under the administration in those regions. I'm not denying your own knowledge of your own home. But if you scroll up, the title does say fr at the end, at least, on my screen it does. And the fact remains that when Brittany is mentioned across the globe, most people think of France next.

[@michiganman2577]

Another awesome video by Survive the Jive !!

[@bruceruzicka6089]

Really cool video. Thank you.

[@inactivated101]

very interesting, this channel is very nice

[@johannespilvikukka6003]

I love stories of the little gaul village that resisted. Especially Obelix, he is my spirit animal.

[@fjallaxd7355]

Great video, as always.

[@joeholtster1891]

The last European goddess was Agnetha from Abba.

[@Anaris10]

Wasn't she lovely?.

[@Dominic-mm6yf]

There are many statues of Celtic deities,there is one in a London Borough.Thus one might represent Epona as its a double headed horse sculpture that originally came from a large house that has since got demolished.

[@ia2195]

Add at the end was so good to see

[@Jimmylad.]

I subscribe to the thesis that most in Europe continued performing their pagan rituals they just didn’t call them pagan anymore and probably couldn’t explain why they did it beyond just habit and ritual and custom. The Christianisation of Europe was ultimately superficial, the elites were Christians but I think the masses to borrow from St Bernard of Clairvoux description of the Irish were “Christian only in name”.

[@JP-zz7en]

Trollkyrka ("Troll's church") is a secluded butte-like rock in the heart of the National Park of Tiveden, Sweden, which served as a pagan sacrificial ground (horgr, see also blót) for centuries after Christianity became the dominant religion in Scandinavia. It may have been used as late as the 19th century, when popular tradition still held the mountain to be off-limits for Christians.

[@VanirTraditionalist]

Wool was in such high demand in the 19th century that across much of New England 60-80% of the land was deforested, with creation of sheep pastures as a major factor.

[@Survivethejive]

Britain still produces 4% of the world’s wool

[@jimmyfitz8168]

Cool story thanks Jive.

[@Survivethejive]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@elforeigner3260]

I hope Europe soon returns to the love of their ancestors and lands, the only thing that matters after millennia

[@JP-zz7en]

Fakse-Brokke was a figure of wood, shaped like the head and torse of a man, that was worshipped in Setesdalen in Norway until the late 17th century. He's regarded as possibly being the last remnant of pagan worshipping in Norway.

[@vojtazaruba5230]

wonderful video :)

[@macrolithic]

Probably somebody said it further down but the name means Iron witch.

[@artursbondars7789]

Come and visit Baltics, especially the land of goddess Mara - Latvia. We have plenty of female goddesses. From goddess of spirits and graves, to goddess of destiny and luck and most prominent of them all the goddess Mara, embodiment of Earth and whole material universe. She is also know in more than 50 other names as different "mothers". Our pagan traditions are still alive and kept, thou partly heavily synchronized with Christian.

[@lm3244]

I think you should review his previous videos for context on his beliefs, before smearing him as a liar. As many of the conjectural comments you made about his (possible) opinions, are proven wrong by simply watching some of his previous videos and podcasts. You really need to think deeply and without bias, before approaching a topic or person you clearly have gaps of knowledge in. The moment you claim someone is racist or lying, you must back it up with clear and concrete evidence - with justification. That doesn’t mean “he’s speaking negatively about footage intended to uplift a culture, he must be racist”. If I were you, do a deeper dive into his older videos and evaluate your opinions on him then.

[@jdkayak7868]

This is really fascinating! I was wondering if you could do a visit to Friesland as there are many folk beliefs in swan/water spirits and its not too far from the UK? As the Frisian people are one of the last European tribal groups with pride in their heritage/culture theres some distinct beliefs that haven't gone away. Theres many folks at the university of Ljouwerts that would help you possibly.

[@antoniescargo1529]

We have our own fisherman's sweater. Every fishervillage had its own pattern. When a fisherman's corpse was found on a beach they knew were he came from. Scheveningen, Katwijk, Den Helder, Urk etc..

[@inquisitive-]

2:14 very similar to several iron maiden that have survived. Possibly indicates what can be found in chambers underground nearby

[@inquisitive-]

Look at the torture devices housed in Dracula's castle. Same face on several of the iron maidens. Blood letting of all sorts have a very long history in the UK

[@roseinkhouse855]

I just got who it is your voice reminds me of! It’s Commodus from Gladitor.

[@sarahgilbert8036]

I lived in Brittany for 2 years, there is SO much old paganist sites, and many rites/ceremonies cloaked in a thin churcy veil to be kept alive. I did not know about this site - or I'd have visited.

[@chrisernst3043]

love it. big shoutout for callin out the fertility destroyingg microplastics

[@zeos386sx]

Is there any connection between her name and the celts penchant for chucking their swords into bodies of water. Is she the moistened bit that Monty Python spoke of?

[@alexanderjoughin5898]

Just ordered the fleece. Let's see if I look as good in it as the Golden One does.

[@Cherb123456]

Thank you!

[@JP-zz7en]

In fact it's remember me In the 19th-century, the Inishkea islands (northwest of ireland) were notable for the pagan religious traditions practiced there. One tradition involved a small terracotta statue of a saint known as the Godstone, or Naomhóg in Irish,[3][4] which was worshipped as an idol. It is possible that the remoteness of the islands somehow preserved some form of pre-Christian Celtic religion. In northem ireland.

[@GermanaMirza]

So, thanks to you, I can guess at last what was done to my mother when she was a small child and had colds and throat-aches all the time: She said, that she got "bespoken" by an old woman, but unluckily my mother doesnot remember much except that it involved a granit feeding trough for cattle. More unluckily my grandmother was not alive any more, so one could not ask her, what exactly was going on there. But thanks to you I can imagine quite well now. I live in Austria, we used to have the celtic kingdom of Noricum, and although the romanised, christianised townsfolk was evacuated to Italy by bishop Severin when Rome could not protect us from the germanic tribes any longer, the rural people were still there. And early christian clergy complained that they were still worshipping in the old way. (Later on, because we were not really christianisable, the irish bishop Virgil of Salzburg just kind of christened the old gods and x was afterwards simply "Saint x". But we are still carrying sticks aroung and plant trees on Mai 1st, burn dolls in fires in sommer, have Krampus and Perchten at the beginning of December etc.). So that was what they meant by "being bespoken"...... 💫

[@auntiecarol]

Bishops! Why are they always banning things?

[@tomcollins5112]

Wow. Old customs die hard, I guess.

[@petrairene]

As a buddhist with a fondness of nature spirits and local nonhuman sentient entities I'm pleased to see this! We also have to consider that the Catholic worship of the mother and the child is not Christian in origin but an adopted version of the Isis/Horus cult of ancient Egypt and then Rome. I usually light a candle in front of these statues when I visit a church.

[@josephfioretti6851]

The Catholics don't worship Mary, that would be blasphemy

[@Pop-zb3wr]

@@josephfioretti6851 They do though. She's a prominent part of worship, whereas she's not in Protestant worship (i am neither but have experienced both).

[@sharon_rose724]

​@@ianpick3218Crescent is also a Venusian symbol

[@bas-tn3um]

no it is not you are making an assumption. their no link between them the only judeo christian link comes before the jews left egypt which is indicated by the shape of the ark of covenant copying the egyptians. their is no evidence what so ever of a an egyptian influence on catholicisms early gospel stop spreading this myth.

[@manowail7456]

​@Pop-zb3wr catholics don't worship Mary. They venerate her, honoring her because she was the one woman chosen by God to carry his son. When you pray "to" Mary your asking her to pray with you. It's like telling her to go talk to her son for you about whatever your praying about.

[@uhlan1035]

It's always incredible to hear of these religious sites that were still being used even during times of heavy Christianization. What's more, you paint a picture of a real, living cult around her -- to the point that the local Church clearly got unnerved. It makes me wonder what Europe would be like with all of these sites still in tact, there would be ritual everywhere, mystery, magic, etc. And not just in the prison they call Churches on Sunday... but throughout the week. Truly the re-vitalization of Europe comes first with the re-connection with the gods who brought the communities together.

[@MyrddnWllt]

It’s quite interesting that they moved from Dumnonia which has a prefix meaning ‘low’ or ‘deep’ and is situated at the very bottom of Britain, to the Brittany which is situated at the very top of Gaul and has a prefix meaning ‘high.’ I know that it’s named Brittany after Britain and Britons but it is satisfyingly synchronised nonetheless.

[@tomrainboro]

'Dumnonium' is often claimed to mean 'people of the deep valleys'.

[@ariovistus313]

Based Tom

[@judewarner1536]

3:30 ER GROACH HOUAR and AR GROAREG HOUARN are clearly expressions of the same phrase, so it makes no sense that different translations are provided for each one. The appellation "Venus" to any statuary might just as well be substituted by the word "female" as it has no connection with the Greek goddess, except where an original ancient Greek statue specifically represents her. Everywhere that the Roman Empire's ticket ran, they associated any local deity with the nearest equivalent Roman pagan deity, not just in Armorica. The appearance of respect was part of their colonial control process. Apart from drawing attention to the existence and potted history of the statue, this video is completely lacking in any academic validity in its speculations, suggestions and conclusions. It incorrectly gives a narrow local interpretation to factors that were, in fact, general and widespread. In summary: primary school level fabulation.

[@Survivethejive]

Sorry you feel that way Jude. The variant translations of Groach and Groareg I included are not the only ones I found. The term has also been translated as "witch" and "good woman" but I thought the translation of "water spirit" was especially pertinent to include due to the bath. Interpretatio Romano does not ALWAYS rely on Venus as the equivalent for local deities as you claim. In fact the Romans didn't even always compare foreign gods to Roman ones, but to other foreign ones such as when Tacitus refers to a Germanic goddess as Isis. This process was applied not only in their own colonies, as you correctly say, but also elsewhere as a way to understand the other and this tradition comes from the Greeks who did the same long before. The nearby deposits of idols of Venus, specifically, within a Neolithic tomb, show that there was a popular regional cult of Venus there - but I do not claim that the statue was originally intended to represent Venus - simply that it could have acquired the association with Venus as long ago as the Roman occupation of Armorica. Unfortunately none of the speculations in this video belong to the video itself, but are from folklorists and local historians as are the facts.

[@nyulbela]

Fantastic!

[@aeternitasromae]

a beautiful little folk tale

[@TantricBioHacker]

Can you procure a discount code for Legio Gloria Sweathers?

[@johnbrereton5229]

It's possible to assume that the Virgin Mary is actually the christian representation of the previous Roman goddesses. As all the Judaic gods are male and even in Anglicanism Mary is not revered, only in Roman Catholicism.

[@johnstanton8499]

Interesting ,there are some churches that pay Reverence to Mary in the High Anglican part of the Church of England . In Brighton the church of Saint Bartholomew’s worship Mary is a fantastic Eucharist

[@johnbrereton5229]

@@johnstanton8499 'High Anglicans' are to Chritianity, what Remoaners are to democracy, they just don't accept it and cling to Rome.

[@MS-Melas]

No Jahweh even had a wife in old jewish/canaanite worship, (canaanite and jews are the same people)

[@LynxSouth]

More that she is the substitute for the various European goddesses of the Earth/fertility. She wasn't in original Christianity, but the people all over held on to their favorite goddess, as the male-only divinities of the Christian religion offered no satisfying replacement for her. The Catholic church eventually gave in to popular pressure and allowed her to be venerated (not worshipped).

[@hibernianperspective6183]

Vive la Vénus de Quinipily!

[@lonwof2105]

Tell about the tonguless ones! Tell about what was done to the women of brittany!

[@gordonpeterson678]

Then skydaddy came and ruined everything.

[@JP-zz7en]

Similar to Peko (a king-god deity of harvest) in southeast estonia is still worshiping by the seto people.

[@jordanbey870]

It seems that every invader used existing sites and built on it..what a disgrace..

[@igorvoloshin3406]

Before the Pagan panteons, worship of the Nature spirits fluorished (and somewhere, for instance in Mongolia and Siberia still is!). Pre-pagan rites are still performed even now in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine. And the names of spirits are still known by everyone from the very childhood. Ukrainian mawkas, chugaisters and other spirits, including their ruler - the powerful Borúta are living in tales. Old German name for Borúta is Bormótha - the cruel spirit of the forest thickets and deadly swamps, needed to be sated by human sacrifices. You know - those tied men and women drowned in swamps, whose preserved corpses are found from Britain to Ukraine.

[@edwardrichardson8254]

Cybele is Phrygian (Turkey today). She was imported into Greece where she was not exactly popular and later Rome, where she was called MAGNA MATER or The Great Mother. The Romans imported her cult into the Republic when they were an inch away from being obliterated by Hannibal after the disastrous Battle of Cannae. Their cult object personifying her was a black meteorite carted over from an ally near the center of her cult. The Romans were so desperate they did something else we don't normally think of Romans doing: Human sacrifice. I believe there was an outright ban on human sacrifice in the Republic but they made an exception to sacrifice four individuals to propitiate the gods in their war with Hannibal. They buried them alive. Cybele existed on-again, off-again and famously so during the late Empire stage where St. Augustine identifies her as Christianity's greatest threat. Her priests were masochistic eunuchs and we get riveting accounts of them from Augustine's account of late decadent Rome in THE CITY OF GOD where he calls the rites of Cybele “obscene,” “shameful,” “filthy,” “the mad and abominable revelry of effeminates and mutilated men”: “If these are sacred rites, what is sacrilege? If this is purification, what is pollution? … The Great Mother has surpassed all her sons, not in greatness of deity, but of crime.” Cybele is a “monster,” imposing a “deformity of cruelty” on her castrated priests. Even Jupiter sinned less: “He, with all his seductions of women, only disgraced heaven with one Ganymede; she, with so many avowed and public effeminates, has both defiled the earth and outraged heaven.” Rather like the liquid gender Rainbow Monster we have today.

[@JP-zz7en]

In fact, in Brittany, until the beginning of the 20th century in rural areas, certain megalithic structures were still worshiped, believing that they had healing properties. In their prayers, they sometimes only invoked the power of the sun and the moon rather than the Christian saints. I believe that what finally destroyed Western European folk spirituality (paganism) was not Christianity, but industrialization, secularization, wars, the age of enlightenment.

[@thyandyr7369]

My wife liked the sweater part

[@drraoulmclaughlin7423]

Great video! Was there a particular day of the year associated with the goddess? I think Venus Victrix was venerated on August 12 and October 9. And of course, Venus Genetrix was important to Julius Caesar, but an ‘oracular deity’? Intriguing 🙂

[@redwaldcuthberting7195]

Vercingetorix.

[@Survivethejive]

I am not aware of any specific calendar association

[@drraoulmclaughlin7423]

@@redwaldcuthberting7195 I think Vercingetorix means something like 'Great Warrior King' in Gaulish (Continental Celtic). While Venus Genetrix is an aspect of the Roman Goddess Venus. In Latin a ''Foundress of the Family' and 'ancestor' of Julius Caesar through Aeneas 🙂 I don't know if the names sounded similar when spoken in ancient languages 🤔

[@Leberteich]

Surely St. Mary is a goddess that still is widely worshipped all across Europe?

[@MS-Melas]

Hebrew Mother of the Carpenter, not european but semetic hebrew jewish.

[@Leberteich]

@@MS-Melas I didn't say she was European. I said she is worshipped in Europe.

[@MS-Melas]

@@Leberteich shes not a goddess.

[@Leberteich]

@@MS-Melas Lives in heaven forever, mother of a god, and you can address her with prayer. Allegedly. Who do you think you are kidding when you call her a Saint instead of a goddess?

[@MS-Melas]

@@Leberteich i dont call her saint either. Jewish Woman, Mother of an Carpenter.

[@qualqui]

Interesting story you share with us here, its good to know the Iron Lady was restored to her holy chapel/niche. Although the Mother Goddess worshipped since time began in Mesoamerica, Tonantzin in náhuatl, we still worship her to this day, just baptized with a "christian" name, Our Lady of Guadalupe, a name given to Tonantzin by the Spanish friars, of a Virgin long forgotten in her native Extremadura province in southern Spain but brought over to win the "heathens" to everlasting salvation and glory.🙄I still consider her original name when I'm faced with a portrait of her and for me she'll always be Tonantzin.😊👍

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

Viva La Nuestra Senora Tonantzin.

[@Winterascent]

Really, we only have record of wool in the early bronze age? Was this brought by the Indo-Europeans or was it spreading with the Neolithic Farmers as the bronze age began? I would have thought wool would have spread around old Europe following the spread of those Neolithic Anatolian farmers.

[@Survivethejive]

The Neolithic farmers brought domesticated sheep to Europe in the Neolithic but they were not the wooly kind. The wooly kind were bred in the near east later on and first arrived in Europe in the 4th millennium BC, likely from two routes - one directly from Bosphorus into the Balkans, and another over the Caucasus where they were important for the Indo-Europeans who wore wool and drank sheep milk. The Indo-Europeans expanded between the 4th and 3rd millennium BC and during that time wool became more common.

[@dagon99]

Thanks

[@stowlicters8362]

video on Asatru perhaps?

[@Survivethejive]

I have done many video about Germanic religion (Asatru is a word for Germanic religion used in Iceland)

[@stowlicters8362]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeit, I mean the modern primarily American movement. they developed a modern Folk Futhark based off of all the previous runic types. I want to know your perspective on such matters as you are the one who primarily changed my mind about religion and ancestral worship. I appreciate all of your work and interviews, and have rewatched many!

[@stowlicters8362]

Part of me is saddened by formation of new customs, but I find their reasoning sound and logical. I just want to know you and others perspective. A political podcast I listen too supported them off of political grounds, lol. But they're largely secular. Even if "The Chairman" has said many Pagan like things, which made me happy.

[@AnulaibazIV]

@@Survivethejive The word Ásatrú is not just used for Germanic paganism in Iceland. It is commonly used when one is talking about North Germanic paganism.

[@gnomikon7836]

No, in a sense the romans conquered their gods by assimilation. Since they were based on greek Theology, it is no wonder that they were able to identify foreign gods by their atributes, because according to greek Theology there more than one Venus. Just like Hades is the cthonic Zeus, there are also cthonic and pneumatic Venuses.

[@Arkist15]

Awesome work as always! Any chance on a video about Roman Religion practice?

[@Survivethejive]

I have made two already

[@baronghede2365]

Polytheistic is the worship of many God's, Blessed Be.

[@AnythingAlessia]

Viva Europa

[@dreammfyre]

2:30 Actual cultural appropriation

[@Sandwich13455]

Im surprised at RC schools ,in history,lesrned the RCC Incorporated native gods from conquered territory into their own Pantheon then later into the church,building on top off pagan sites.

[@Sandwich13455]

Love the jumpers,my mother made a few for me!

[@Macfromwales]

It's the Medwa. She who's very name is medicine. All Hail Medea 🐉💜🐉

[@MilanKFP]

Do U practice paganism and if so what form?

[@Jahmilli]

Britannia should be considered a goddess

[@daddyyogi5761]

Nice 👍

[@Joe-os3vp]

5:34 Long may her *what* continue?

[@rueisblue]

Her cult. A very normal word to use in this context, hopefully you're ESL

[@Joe-os3vp]

​@@rueisblueYou're obviously ISL (irony as a second language). Or in shorthand: American. Watch a few Carry On films and one day you might get the joke.

[@rueisblue]

@@Joe-os3vp truly the height of wit you are

[@Joe-os3vp]

@@rueisblue We English are indeed the wittiest people. Although we will never match the American copy of Red Dwarf.

[@juancorzo5081]

That is not true at all. Almost all monunents we had to our gods were replaced by the virgin mary or some saints. You can still see the old sciptions of the true meaning of the statue in some of them. I agree the roman empire wanted not to conquer but to unite and expand. But religiously they did not respect the poeple's will.

[@TallisKeeton]

Am I mistaken or she looks suspiciously Egiptian? :)

[@Survivethejive]

You’re not th only one who thinks so

[@dylc5604]

Catholicism is quite polytheistic, at least in Ireland it seems that way. Praying to different Christian saints for different issues is just paganism but with extra steps.

[@hansgjerstad8895]

Last?

[@amazed2341]

Can legio Gloria make merino wool underclothes?

[@alexandrakoller9448]

❤

[@andrewstachowski3375]

Nice