Nordic SUN CULT in the Kivik tomb 🇸🇪 // Ancient History Documentary

The rock art from the tomb of Bredarör at Kivik in Sweden is a window into the forgotten world of the Nordic Bronze Age. In this film I interpret all the esoteric imagery, including; sun-wheels, solar crosses, war chariots, armed warriors and ritual axes and boats. With the latest archaeological data, 3D scans and new CGI animations of the art, this film gives a new perspective on a tomb which is 3400 years old!
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Music:
Syrkr - old father
Khan kurra - little dragon
Syrkr - the tree that bleeds
Xurios - steppe expansion
Bansure Raga
Syrkr - the piercing wind
Borg - the May queen enters the circle
Halindr - Hummocks in the fog
Borg - the choosing ceremony
Stewart Keller - lush landscapes
Stark von Oben - Imperator
Art:
CGI by Robert Molyneaux
Bronze age rites at dawn, Indian chariot, hellhounds, Wolf Viking by Christian Sloan Hall
Kivik reconstruction by Arvid Fougstedt 1936
Bronsåldern by Nils Asplund
Fra Bronsåldern by Rasmus Christiansen 1925
NBA king by Beaker Lady
Bronze age map by Dan Kogosov
Beaker Koryos by Moccus Art
Sources:
Bertilsson, Ulf et al. “The Kivik Tomb: Bredarör enters into the digital arena” New Perspectives on the Bronze Age (2017): 289-306.
Froncek, T., ‘The Northmen’ 1975
Goldhahn - Bredaror on Kivik: a monumental cairn
and the history of its interpretation 2009
Kaliff & Oestigaard ‘Werewolves, Warriors and Winter Sacrifices
Unmasking Kivik and Indo-European Cosmology in Bronze Age Scandinavia’ 2022
Kveiborg, Jacob & Ahlqvist, Laura & Vandkilde, Helle. (2020). Horses, Fish and Humans: Interspecies Relationships in the Nordic Bronze Age. Current Swedish Archaeology. 75-98.
Nordquist, G & Whittaker, H. (2007). Comments on Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas B. Larsson (2005): The Rise of Bronze Age Society. Travels, Transmissions and Transformations. Norwegian Archaeological Review. 40. 75-84.
00:00 Intro
01:20 About the barrow
04:27 Chariot of the sun
08:18 Legio Gloria
09:18 Wolves and warriors
10:07 Something fishy
11:22 Horse cult
12:40 Hooded procession
15:16 Lurs and gongs
15:59 Men with hats
16:18 Axe cult
16:51 Big hats and boats
19:55 Werewolf Koryos
23:02 Conclusion

[@Survivethejive]

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[@lightofthemoon5566]

Ever thought about doing a video on the Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians and Alans? Or comparisons with modern Ossetians with their connections to ancient Iranian peoples?

[@SonoftheAllfather]

Thank you for the video, Tom. Perhaps you could ask Marcvs to have a t-shirt printed with your logo and "VERY Indo-European" on it? :) I'd buy one of those.

[@Survivethejive]

@@SonoftheAllfather I sell those in my store

[@SonoftheAllfather]

@@Survivethejive Fantastic. I'll check it out. Cheers..

[@SonoftheAllfather]

@@Survivethejive It has the chad Yamnaya on it too. HAha that's awesome.

[@Mateorann]

wake up bae, new survive the jive dropped

[@19ICXC93]

Im out of crack lol

[@matthew-dq8vk]

Yeah toms stuff is really good for learning about the Celtic and Germanic dark ages

[@RobinLynnGriffith]

That's right 😊

[@Azrael1st]

The smart phone is your wife

[@TheGoldenOne]

'twas a glorious day in Kivik!

[@AxionXIII]

I swear, if only the Lithuanians had written down 10% of their ancient mythology, we would have so many more answers to questions we have today. Great video👍

[@Survivethejive]

True

[@varjovirta3085]

But didn't lithuanians preserve some of their mythology? Or have I misunderstood this? Or was it already so fragmented when people really started to get interested again?

[@faucistopguy1852]

@@varjovirta3085 there was more of a preservation of rites/rituals and the names of Gods than there was a preservation of actual myths themselves, and virtually nothing was written down.

[@varjovirta3085]

@@faucistopguy1852 That's shame man. Gonna be guessing game forever

[@kmshallaed8989]

Damn! Makes me value Snorri all the more.

[@ungerjs90]

Legio Gloria is supremely aesthetic. I will go forth and wear wool, lift weights and praise the Sunne.

[@SonoftheAllfather]

I always get compliments on my Legio Celtica shirt.

[@julvadas]

Oh yes im sure you do

[@midmiddleton163]

Magical indeed. The past is amazing for the people that lived around the North Sea. Thanks for the video.

[@DanDavisHistory]

Wonderful, thank you. What an incredible site.

[@Survivethejive]

Cheers Dan . beautiful countryside thereabouts also

[@TheWizardOfTheFens]

Tom! I have a video of me and my wife riding toward a Bronze Age barrow in a forest near west stow in suffolk. Neither of our horses would go in any direction but around it anti clockwise!

[@harrietharlow9929]

Very interesting. Animals can often sense things we cannot.

[@larsnordstrom364]

This is so fascinating. Thank you for al that you do! As an old Swede I love learning about the bronze age, they left so many cool things behind.

[@drraoulmclaughlin7423]

Fascinating! And brilliant animations :-) I wonder if these were the Hyperboreans described by the ancient Greeks? - The Great Temple of Apollo in the Far North?

[@Survivethejive]

I think so. Scandinavia had a more pleasant climate at the time and was more focused on solar worship

[@Ian-yf7uf]

@@Survivethejive Corded ware spreading to Sintashta seems to be the common link, but I can't say for sure. Just seems plausible due to new DNA and past material evidence

[@whangadude]

The algorithm served this up to me a few days after it offered me Wardruna and Heilung music video clips. I've been blessed to learn more about my ancestors and their ways. Thanx

[@Survivethejive]

Wonderful thanks for watching

[@RobotoForgoto]

The ideas of ancient cultures being more connected than previously thought is very exciting to ponder. Being connected is more interesting than being apart.

[@djprincegrandmasteryrjdalo2905]

I need to be there this ideas and even knew, daddy has been a while, Xpress in the ancient astronaut theory as well

[@russell3521]

Praise the Sun!

[@magnusheister8466]

I remember the day I recommended this site to you in a comment a few yers ago in one of your videos, happy to see that you visited it and saw the truly potent symbolism there. Eastern Scania is a holy place. Thank you for bringing it light and your efforts in this video.

[@neolithictransitrevolution427]

Please do more on the Pre Indo European Boat cult theory you have presented. The culture of the Baltic/Nordic area, and how it blended with the Indo-European, seems very understudies and underreported in comparison to the direct Yamnaya descendants, but you have really peaked my interest.

[@andersschmich8600]

I agree, that would be interesting.

[@MrFredstt]

As always, another spectacular documentary, Tom. You do great work keeping our history alive

[@Survivethejive]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@torloka99]

Fascinating. It's strange to me how no chariots or lurs have been found in Sweden, like they have been in Denmark, despite the fact that they are so often depicted on rock art here.

[@Survivethejive]

They must be out there somewhere

[@Starkodder1963]

Lurs have been found in Sweden.

[@torloka99]

None as impressive as those found in Denmark though.

[@zipperpillow]

Just because you've seen one, doesn't mean you know how to make one.

[@kevinlawler3252]

Absolutely fantastic work Tom, very enjoyable video. Bravo 👏.

[@nandukumars5213]

Recently I discovered your channel after I watched your conversation on the Sham sharma show. I too am interested in Ancient pegan cultures and find your videos insightful. As a fellow pegan I'll keep supporting your work. ❤ from India

[@Clemeaux_]

Yet another fantastic video. The quality of your work is insane, thanks for taking the time and effort in creating this for everyone else. A true gift from the Gods.

[@AbcDef-gw4dg]

Sun God 'Surya/Aditya' is a prominent manifestation of God in Hinduism. Sun god has 7 horses in his chariot. We visualize the sun as having pulled by 7 horse (generally green but sometime they are of 7 diffrent colors.) Similarly moon god 'chandra/soma' is pulled by charitr of 7 Swans

[@soderlund3610]

Wait now, our politicans in Sweden said we don't have a history 🤔

[@jagosevatarion8822]

"There are no ethnic swedes and at the same time everyone can become a swede!"

[@parchment543]

Not that this is a surprise, but I received no notification or immediate recommendation of this video.

[@Survivethejive]

Did you click the bell for notifications?

[@steveforde7475]

I'm currently reading "The One Eyed God" by Kris Kershaw, it's an excellent read and covers much of this period and the Mannerbund / Koryos cultic practices. Kershaw references the view that members of the Koryos enter it after a period of training that lasts a number of years. During that period and when a member of the Koryos the young men are in a specific sacred state, not a child nor an adult member of the society, they are in a liminal state. Perhaps the mound- grave was used to handle deaths among that specific group. As for the Omega symbols perhaps they symbolise the womb that the initiate member of the Koryos emerge from as they pass through the various initiatory stages into adulthood.

[@theworldofnature3617]

15:37 amazing, perfectly accurate portrayal of the ancestors 😂 I love this channel

[@yanjulio]

Man, this video is awesome! It's amazing to see how you identify the Indo-European footprint all around Europe and beyond. Quite cool.

[@rtkyalpazz2497]

👍🏽✊🏽🙏🏽

[@northhugr]

Extraordinary to learn about! Your videos truly stir the mind to imagine the extraordinary world of our past!

[@bigbosco6979]

I absolutely love stuff like this but it also upsets me how nuch has been lost thanks to a certain desert cult.

[@12345678927164]

The sun cross, the power of light to drive out darkness lays within all Nordic men. We should all wear this symbol as proof of our power.

[@friedrichbaeker]

Another glorious video on the lesser known history of Europeans.

[@VeritasIncrebresco]

Tom, your documentaries keep getting better and better. Greetings from a degenerate NYC

[@1stdebunker]

home boy modeling for Legio Gloria is looking STURDY. gotta give the man credit where it's due

[@Ian-yf7uf]

Thank you Tom! Excellent work as always.

[@gilgoofthegrove5072]

i like how in depth you always go into symbology and meaning and everything =) its somehow FUN to consume these ideas

[@Survivethejive]

thanks for saying so

[@Perceval777]

Top quality documentary! Much better than anything the bbc can produce these days!

[@kmshallaed8989]

I love your animations. Also I really appreciated the fact that you pronounced the Swedish names properly. Great video! Also the cardigans and linen trousers are very stylish.

[@kellybraille]

Wonderful program. Such a good job. I'm so glad that you could visit such a wonderful site - thank you so much for sharing it!

[@soderlund3610]

The "Kings grave" is located near the old village Ravlunda (Amber grove in english). Btw, what i understand the hats are calendar hats

[@raystargazer7468]

Another great video! :D Blessings to you!

[@renaissancesage]

Interesting and well done. It’s the first time I’ve been to your channel. It came up on my algorithm. I became a subscriber. The graphics were spectacular and helped a lot with the understanding.

[@aeternitasromae]

The animation of the figures on the stones is amazing. I'd love to see similar stuff in future, really brings it to life.

[@taybak8446]

Tom Roswell you've excelled yourself! I've always wanted to visit the Bronze Age burial mounds in Thy in Jutland and the Neolithic megalithic tombs in Falbygden near Gothenburg, but not really so much Kivik. But after your video, I now certainly must!

[@YoungChunds]

Another banger. Solid video

[@nullgravity2583]

Loved the video. Especially the 3D animation, I hope you do more of those. Bit less energy on this one which might put off new comers, but I know your videos are quality😉

[@lmonk9517]

I'm a little late catching his doc. very good stuff and I think valid interpretations of the art and burials.

[@quezcatol]

Yupp, people tend to forget that in scandinavia, people lived here 1000s of years before the vikings- so in that sense its both modern day swedes AND vikings ancestors we look at. In Norrköping I looked at hällristningar from 3500 + years ago, funny to see a depiction of boar hunting AND very near on the road is a sign "warning for boar" (...vildsvin) in other words, the same animal that roamed the land here for 4000 years ago is still around, heck it might even be their piggy ancestors on the carved rock. You tend to forget how crazy that is.

[@slappy8941]

Yeah that's kind of how it works.

[@quezcatol]

@@slappy8941 Jive does an important work because even among us swedes, we sometimes pretend our history started with vikings. I love vikings and our heritage but we have 1000s of years with history before those people, and proto runes that leads up to it- and boat burials. In fact, many carved things on rock keeps showing boats, taking to the sea has always been in our blood.

[@matthewsuchomski2593]

fascinating video as always.

[@emilyanawalt7703]

Fantastic! Thank you so much

[@glens6757]

The animations make the ancient art come to life - adds to excellent great storytelling.

[@KonradsEmpire]

very interesting. I love those ancient drawings as well, and the animations. Nice video STJ

[@Survivethejive]

Glad you like them!

[@darkhorsedojo]

Completely agree this was a great video mate. Cheers

[@neolithictransitrevolution427]

Would you ever cover information around the Dorian invasion, or the Greek Heroic age and how the Greek Peninsula because Indo European after the collapse of (what I understand to be) the Early European Farmer descended, or at least government, Mycenaean greek period? Also, sorry for making requests, I do hate that, but I find your perspectives informative.

[@Survivethejive]

Maybe

[@Flamejante_]

Fascinating past. thx for the video.

[@CelestialTrail]

High quality and informative material. Loving the background music too

[@Survivethejive]

Glad you liked it!

[@nullgravity2583]

Wearing cloaks and worshipping the sun and wolves with your friends sounds cool asf

[@thoughtfox12]

Bronze Age Scandinavia is a really fascinating place

[@JD-hb4hw]

My favourite channel on youtube. Thanks

[@Survivethejive]

Wow, thanks!

[@nullgravity2583]

Video ideas: >Indo-European flood myth >Indo-European constellations >Doggerland (that would make for good title and thumbnail)

[@bobbyg5154]

Awesome, Tom. Or Glorious might be more appropriate. Thank you.

[@asterzavi]

Amazing

[@Yngve-Freyr-Njordsson]

Excellent content!

[@Survivethejive]

Glad you think so!

[@JacksonDunnoKnows]

Great stuff bro! And hope to see you on the skaldic archive again! You all are a great part of our "growing" community. 🍻 Edit- and I believe it to be Irish/celtic influence. But some fish symbolism is meant to infer one who dives deep in the waters of our universe, and whom returns with answers. Not sure if the bronze age norse had similar symbolism or not. I'll look more into that.

[@jayar1]

My family is from southern Sweden I’m pumped I found this!

[@PizzamudGames]

Commenting for the algo cause Tom has too much integrity to post lower quality vids more frequently for the algo to bless him.

[@Maharaaja.]

more about Rigveda please!

[@florisbrieffies2758]

Under a golden sun, Eyes on chariots, Thougths on fish, Walking down the procession. That, I wish. Thank you for the content

[@audunedvinmagnussen9894]

Great Video

[@Survivethejive]

Thanks!

[@Indo-European-lad]

Great work as always I really enjoyed this video especially because I have always enjoyed solar imagery and artwork. Though one question I have is what the meaning and purpose of the golden hats are for or is this unknown.

[@raneknudsen4785]

It is very flattering to hear an English speaker pronounce Nordic place names correctly - and I mean that quite unironically. As for the Kivik grave, it is such a massive building project that the chieftain laid to rest there must at least have been king of all of Scania, if not all of Denmark and southern Sweden.

[@Survivethejive]

Thanks but, as i said, it wasnt a chieftain

[@martinan22]

Fascinating, thank you for great video! Interpretation of tablet 8 I have heard is that two different peoples / clans, coming of two different wombs (bottom picture) both participate religious ritual (middle picture) and then become one, with a united pantheon / ancestral cult. There is also an old theory that the similarities between Scandinavia and eastern med comes from Phoenecians setting up trade stations here. This theory is from before so much was known about Indoeuropeans, like, first half of 20th century. Things brought to support this is proposed remnants of middle eastern counting system in Germanic languages, such as eleven and twelve suggesting a base 12 counting system. Also the old meaning of hundred was 120, which is divisible by, well, I do not know how it works in detail. So that theory would work well this interpretation of tablet 8. However, it is a bit anti Indoeuropean, so maybe only valuable as a history of ideas. I also heard that eleven and twelve have been explained as sound shift rather than remnants of base 12 counting system.

[@Survivethejive]

Not heard that one!

[@koryonos]

shivers all throughout this film

[@Frithuz]

Great video! Just a couple of hundred meters away from Kungagraven, the large ship barrow, Ängakåsen, is located. Very special place close to the sea.

[@Survivethejive]

Yes I discussed that at length in my video about stone ships

[@faryafaraji]

Hey Tom! Saw your comment on my video in the KZbin studio but couldn't find it this morning so I'm writing here (my older videos seem to have the automatic "hold comments for review" setting and sometimes the comments seem to disappear when I enable them.) About the possible steppes connection with the lyres, I assumed you were referring to Azilkhan Tazhekeev's finds in Dzhetyasar and the resemblance with the Sutton Hoo lyres. If you were referring to any other finds, I'd love to know of them as I want to address possible non-European connections in future videos. Cheers and keep doing your great work mate!

[@Survivethejive]

Yes that is exactly what I was referring to. Thanks for chasing me to reply.

[@manfrombritain6816]

Fun fact, wool retains a reasonable amount of its insulating value even when wet. Don't remember the percentage but fandabidozi spoke of it when explaining ways great kilts can be used for survival.

[@deansky-lucas7880]

I hope it pleases you to know that someone as far south as Melbourne, Australia, was entranced by this video. I loved every minute of this presentation. Your voice is so clear and beautiful to listen to. I have a background in Hinduism and have been studying all things related to yoga, Vedic astrology and Hindu mythology for over 20 years. I thought it was so interesting that you showed film from your travels in India and that you were able to make links to their chariot and sun worship of Surya, the Sun god.Thank you for all your efforts.

[@Survivethejive]

Appreciate your comment very much, thank you

[@caprikoziol4150]

Great documentary, and them cgi animations!

[@maxjub13]

This is excellent! I have only just discovered your channel and it's amazing! So much awesome content to get through! By the way, the link to spring on your merchandise isn't working.

[@Survivethejive]

Thanks Freddo. Which link isn't working? The llinks auto generated by KZbin?

[@maxjub13]

@Survive the Jive The 'view on Spring' button on any of the shirts. It's greyed out and I can't press it.

[@nerthus4685]

Nice to see the Golden One.

[@marywalk7306]

Learning a lot.

[@fabuloussloth8670]

It’s very interesting to see the theories of what the depictions means. I’ve never heard of this specific place although I have been to Kivik 2-3 times. (Swede.)

[@danielgoodwin543]

Awesome!

[@billbarton9046]

Nice one.

[@Survivethejive]

Thanks!

[@neolithictransitrevolution427]

Lol, I'm doing it again, but a full length video on Dogs in Indo-European culture would be amazing.

[@soderlund3610]

The dog they found in a stone age grave in Scania was similar to the swedish "Jämthund" but much bigger

[@neolithictransitrevolution427]

@@soderlund3610 Very neat. I find the origins of dog breeds to be an increadibly interesting subject. In the modern day were we mix and match and they are all pets it "seems" unimportant. But the type of dog a region and culture create speak greatly about their life style and how they interacted with the world.

[@benchokwaiman]

How interesting to learn that humans where interacting with each other all over Europe even around when did 1200 bc

[@jamess1958]

Anyone else not get a notification of this upload?

[@MW-W88]

The golden one and survive the jive 👌🏼⚡️⚡️

[@jpgaff7982]

luv me mounds, luv me megaliths, simple as

[@Paganfolklore]

Great 👍🏻

[@chopsandarchie7015]

Thanks!

[@ReactionaryPapist]

As a Catholic your videos are fascinating as always Tom.

[@PunkRockNerd10171]

the two sun wheels might represent the sun and moon which also correlate to the two wheels of the chariot

[@Survivethejive]

Yes or the sun in the day and the dead sun at night in the sea

[@RollingThunderModels]

Very interesting video! Great subject to chose! I have a question. How great was in your opinion the extent of contact between Mycenean Greece and the NBA? Wiki says there are many cultural similarities, could you maybe name a few striking similarities?

[@andrewfrumkin9632]

Dancing cbat was a nice touch

[@Survivethejive]

it is actually a nordic bronze age petroglyph

[@WBlake01]

The most brotherly sponsorship :)

[@LoudnessJP]

Thanks, very interesting=)

[@Survivethejive]

Glad you liked it!

[@Excommunicated-ei1ep]

Perhaps the sun wheels influenced the very design of chariot wheels themselves?

[@CapnPicard]

fascinating.

[@alexgabriel5423]

I greatly appreciate your making the distinction between a Solar cult and an elevated social status in assigning a chariot and horses as a symbol in the early period of Europe s history. It is possible that the chariot and horses became a Solar cult symbol in W Europe as well after a contact with the Iranics who had this symbol of solar practices from an earlier period.

[@understandingplato1134]

I'd love to see more on the role of chariots in myth and on the group that invented them.

[@Survivethejive]

watch my video on horse sacrifice

[@jagosevatarion8822]

Dan Davis has a very good video on the Sintashta culture who probably invented the chariots

[@josephmichael8522]

Cheers to you and thanks

[@Survivethejive]

Thank you too

[@BronzeAgeSwords]

cracking film