Two faculty members of an American International University in London, Dominic Alessio and Robert J. Wallis, have demonstrated the poor quality of their research and their commitment to perpetuating outright falsehoods and scare-mongering with the publication of a new book titled ‘Faith, Folk and the Far Right.’ The intention of the book seems to be to generate religious hatred and fear towards Heathens.

A number of demonstrably false claims are made about me in the book, all of which serve to prove the partisan, dishonest and sensationalist nature of the book as well as the sloppy research it is based on. I shall list some of them here:


1. That I am a member of the Odinist Fellowship and that this charity is racist
FACT: My group, the Hearth of Devon is no longer affiliated with the Odinist Fellowship since 2023. The Odinist Fellowship is not a racist charity.
2. That I attended a “Fascist” event 8 years ago in Stockholm. Repeating an unsubstantiated claim by UK activist pressure group Hope not Hate, the authors describe an Identitarian event as Fascist, which ignores the actual definition of these highly distinct schools of thought.
FACT: I have never attended a Fascist event.
3. That Dan Capp, a musician who performed at my Pagan Futures Conference is “far right”
FACT: Dan Capp’s ideology is not right wing in any conventional sense and his music performance had no political meaning or lyrics at this conference.
4. "Rowsell’s videos include Ariosophic-inspired themes such as the ‘Real Hyperboreans".
FACT: None of my videos, including ‘Real Hyperboreans’ published 8 years ago, have any influence from Ariosophy. I reject Ariosophy entirely. The video references an outdated theory by Indian researcher Bal Gangadhar Tilak and then contrasts this with current genetic findings from four peer reviews scientific papers linked in the description.
5. "(Real Hyperboreans) purports to give a more scientific defence for the existence of an ancient and ‘robust’ Northern Eurasian civilisation."
FACT: I never described a civilisation among the primitive ANE Hunter-Gatherers of Siberia.
6. "he film suggests that the bloodline of these ‘Aryan’ peoples disappeared due to ‘race mixing”
FACT: I never said anything about race-mixing or bloodlines. I talked about the autosomal ancestry of ANE inherited by later peoples as was demonstrated in the linked sources eg. Nick Patterson et al,, Ancient Admixture in Human History, Genetics, Volume 192, Issue 3, 1 November 2012, Pages 1065–1093.
7. Then the authors mention an even older video, published 10 years ago, and claim that it “ends with a critique of international bankers that includes, alongside the narrative, a Nazi-era image of a Jew. What is more, the emblem of the production company at the end of the film, ‘Lucio Films’,is a crossed L and F, thereby resembling a swastika.
FACT: 10 years ago I commissioned a freelance video editor named Lucio to create this video. His logo is simply the letter L and F and any resemblance to a swastika is purely coincidental. The image they claim to be a “Nazi era image of a Jew” is neither, but rather a stock image licensed by Clker-Free-Vector-Images — Pixabay (CC0) and depicts a caricature of Scrooge from Dickens’ a Christmas Carol. It is widely used in modern left wing propaganda as an image of a white Western capitalist and did not exist in Nazi Germany. (very poor research!!)
8. They claim that a video, published 7 years ago, entitled ‘Hebrew Anglo-Saxons? Medieval Conversion Tactics’ is “anti-Semitic” and an ‘Ariosophic-inspired narrative’ and that I, Tom Rowsell “makes the ... argument that Jews used ‘propaganda and psychology’ to trick the heathen Anglo-Saxons into converting to Christianity”

FACT: At no point in the video do I say anything anti-Semitic or anything inspired by Ariosophy. I quote Christian sources by Christian authors who attempted to convert Anglo-Saxon Heathens. At no point do I attribute any of the quoted sources to Jewish authors or claim that Jewish people had any direct role in the conversion of the English people to Christianity. The video only mentions Jews in the context of the Biblical Hebrews that are referenced by early Christian authors in England. There were no Jewish people in Anglo-Saxon England.


The truth of my statements can be verified by simply watching the videos which are all still up because none of them breaches the YouTube terms of service. It is worthy of note that the authors ignored all of the dozens of videos I have made in the last 7 years. This should be seen as a tacit admission that nothing I have made is remotely racist in that period. The three older videos from much earlier are also not racist or anti-Semitic, despite what the authors claim, as can clearly be seen when viewing them.

Alessio has previously contributed to Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right: CARR Yearbook and to The Radical Right During Crisis: CARR Yearbook 2020/2021showing that he is primarily a left-wing activist and not a genuine scholar.

I urge all readers to write to Richmond American University London and to complain about these egregious, slanderous lies. [email protected]

https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2025/09/faith-folk-and-far-right-is-trash.html

Quite an interesting article about the decline of religiosity in America and the need to define the right according to a secular perspective

https://gildhelm.substack.com/p/the-apostates-they-deserve

Europeans domesticated horses 5000 years ago.

In a scientific paper titled First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship, it states that human skeletal remains belonging to the Yamnaya culture indicate the practise of horseback riding as early as the 30th-century BC.

The reconstruction of what a male belonging to the Yamnaya culture possibly looked like is based on a skull found within a burial mound from Samara, Russia. Archaelogical research states that his face was painted with red ochre and that other Yamnaya burials featured canine tooth necklaces. The reconstruction was created by The Beaker Lady.

The people belonging to the Yamnaya culture - who geneticists refer to as "Western Steppe Herders" - are one of the three core ancestral populations of modern European (White) people, along with Western Hunter-Gatherers (the indigenous Stone Age ancestors of modern Europeans) and Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (the agriculturalist revolution ancestors of modern Europeans). This means that ancient Europeans domesticated the horse and that Europeans are responsible for modern equestrianism.

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I am reliably informed that the inscription here is unlikely to be a nickname of the chieftain as I previously said.

A better translation would be “elk-destruction” and this is plausibly just a reference to the carving of a dog hunting an elk or deer on the same object. Previously i thought this image might have been a graphic representation of the man’s name, just as some of my ancestors put a rose and a well on gravestones to looks like Rows-Well.

Tangential to this, i know of the Rosewell tombs due to a letter by a relative of mine, Thomas Rowsell, to an ancestor (Norman Rowsell) written in 1898, in which he writes,

“When I was in the neighborhood of Bath, I discovered at Dunkerton Somerset exists the Cradle of the Race. In the little village churchyard is an old Tomb with inscriptions almost obliterated, dating about the beginning of the 17th century. On it I found ‘sacred to the memory’ of three generations, the first called Rosewell, the next Rowswell and the next Rowsell”

if Rosewel be the origin of my family name then the etymology is Saxon. It comes from a metathesised corruption of Middle English Roweshill, from a contraction of Old English Hrōþwulf “honour-wolf”

Tonight is the full moon of Weed Month 🌕

So named because the weeds grow a lot at the end of summer.

“Statues and altars, and the preservation of the unextinguished fire, and in short, all such particulars have been established by our fathers as symbols of the presence of the gods; not that we should believe that these symbols are gods, but that through these we should worship the gods.”
~Julian the Apostate ᛉ

Read the fragments of Celsus

The Runestone Hypocrisy

https://x.com/coal_christian2/status/1946710145167241321

This bracteate pendant was found in a field in Norfolk in Jan 2023. It depicts the Roman emperor Honorius on one side and a figure with a cross on the other.

Honorios ruled during the Anglo-Saxon migrations and this proves that the Anglo-Saxons were already Romanised, due to serving in the Roman military, prior to arriving in Britain. They were all pagan at this time, but they copied the Christian imagery of the Emperor seen on Roman solidi coins.

The tradition of imitating the solidi as bracteate pendants originated in Denmark, specifically on Funen in the 4th century. It became a widespread practice from England to Sweden among Germanic Heathens, and developed so that the Roman emperors were replaced by Germanic kings with Odinic motifs.

Compare it to this very similar pendant copy of an Honorius solidus from the continent.

The custom was established in Denmark and Germany by former Roman auxiliaries, and was associated strongly with the cult of Woden.

The Anglo-Saxons merely continued it in Britain.

New Bronze Age hoard of the Lusatian culture found in Görlitz, Saxony. This culture was related to that of the Early Celts.

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/bautzen/goerlitz-weisswasser-zittau/bronze-zeit-schatz-klein-neundorf-100.html

Quite heartening to find this rune chalked up on a barn wall next to an old Thing site in rural Angeln in Germany.

Many remember the old ways

This barrow at Asthall near Witney in Oxfordshire is one of the last made here. Erected by Anglo-Saxons in the seventh century - it was a time when most of the land was Christian, yet some persisted in the ancient ways.

The Devil's humps are 18 miles from where it is alleged Bishop Wilfrid's ship ran aground in the year 666 AD, near Selsey, West Sussex. The ship was attacked and a pagan priest (gydda) stood atop a barrow and chanted galders to harm Wilfrid.

Barrows were the primary point Anglo-Saxon pagans used for magic but also for gatherings. They were also the focus of early Christian missionary activity.

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I have been reading the supplementary PDF of the new Scythian paper and came across an interesting paragraph about R1a-Y2 (which was just found in a Don Scythian sample). R1a-Y2 descends from R1a-Y3, which in turn comes from R1a-Z94, itself a descendant of Fatyanovo R1a-Z93. In modern populations, R1a-Y2 and its downstream subclades are generally associated with South Asia. So far it hasn't been found in currently sampled Sintashta or Andronovo males. However, according to the quote, there is an Abashevo sample with R1a-Y2. This is important because Abashevo is the ancestor of both Sintashta and Srubnaya. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any additional information on this sample beyond what was provided in the quote.

Link to paper (quote found on page 53 of the supplementary pdf): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads8179