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Nerthusblōt 2024 With the Harvest Moon passing it's peak, our Order will convene at our sacred grove and observe the Nerthusblōt - a time of frith, tomorrow. Hail the Gods! You can read about the Nerthusblōt here: https://englishorder.com/rituals/nerthusblot You can read about the Goddess Nerthus here: https://englishorder.com/pantheon/nerthus Artwork: Purple Emperor Butterfly by Wildlorer_Art: https://t.me/Wildlorer_Art

It is refreshing to see such a surge of intelligent pushback against this broken methodology in our sphere. Far too often were criticisms of these (quite literal) leaps of faith as bland as the Hindu-types who parrot the latter. Weiter, Männerbünde! ⚡

Proto-Indo-European reconstruction is a dangerous business. It's very easy to draw unsound conclusions from nothing more than wild leaps and rough guesswork. There are some in the right-wing pagan community who take this way too far. You'll see such wild generalizations as "Lugh = Odin = Zeus = Shiva" etc. It's easy to see things that aren't there. For example, there's a well known Greek myth of Baucis and Philemon where two gods in disguise visit a town of wicked folk who violate the sacred custom of xenia, refusing to welcome the strangers. Only the good Baucis and Philemon take the strangers in and later only they are spared in a divine flood that wipes out the town. This is very clearly paralleled by the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah where YHVH sends two angels to test the wicked people of Sodom and only Lot welcomes them into his home, after which Sodom is destroyed and Lot is spared. If you were to apply the Lugh = Odin = etc. approach, you could not ask for a more clear "reconstructed" myth between the "last common ancestor" of the Greeks and Jews, leading you to a putative "Proto-Helleno-Semitic" myth, which is clearly gibberish. Proto-Indo-European reconstruction is fraught with danger and pitfalls. It should not be bandied about lightly. Seeing people proceed recklessly here, and then claim to be authoritative, is a big red flag. @folkishworldview

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🇸🇷 33-Year-old Discovers Source of an Amazon River and Uncharted Waterfalls Trekking Through ‘Brutal’ Jungle A British explorer has discovered the source of an uncharted Amazon river, after being stalked by jaguars and ravaged by army ants. The area has only ever been mapped by satellites, leading to solely inaccurate coordinates due to the jungle tree cover. The daring 33-year-old, Ash Dykes, beamed with joy after finding the start of the Coppename River in Suriname with fellow adventurers Jacob Hudson, Dick Lock and Matt Wallace They also named two undocumented waterfalls—Dykes Falls and Wallace Falls—after the team members who first spotted them in the largely unexplored jungle. Originally from Wales, but now living in London, he hired a helicopter on August 29th to drop them into the center of Suriname which is 93% forested. He and his team then spent the next six days fighting their way upstream in kayaks, carrying over 100 pounds of supplies—while being bitten by ticks and vicious army ants. “It is crazy to think that we are going to some places that the forest hasn’t ever seen a human footprint before. And it’s not surprising… It is brutal in the jungle.” 🔗 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/33-yo-discover-source-of-an-amazon-river-and-2-uncharted-waterfalls/

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