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The barrows are not made from the local chalk, but from stacks of turf. These pieces of chalk were found nearby inscribed with what are presumably the sacred shapes of the late Neolithic eg. the rhombus
My son, with his plastic sword, prayed to the king in the barrow that one day he will be a great king too.
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Very amusing when certain Christians say paganism isn’t a real tradition because it hasn’t got an unbroken line.
Christian priests don’t descend from the Kohanim. Christianity doesn’t have an unbroken connection to Judaism because it represents a break from it. Therefore Christianity, by this definition, isn’t a proper tradition.
Paul says that the new tradition is based on faith in Jesus and not bloodline and that there is “no longer Jew or Greek”. A new tradition is by definition not a tradition
Christian priests don’t descend from the Kohanim. Christianity doesn’t have an unbroken connection to Judaism because it represents a break from it. Therefore Christianity, by this definition, isn’t a proper tradition.
Paul says that the new tradition is based on faith in Jesus and not bloodline and that there is “no longer Jew or Greek”. A new tradition is by definition not a tradition
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Very amusing when certain Christians say paganism isn’t a real tradition because it hasn’t got an unbroken line. Christian priests don’t descend from the Kohanim. Christianity doesn’t have an unbroken connection to Judaism because it represents a break from…
Also despite using titles such as Pontifex Maximus, Christianity obviously doesn’t represent a continuation of Roman paganism either as it literally opposed it
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Today my friend and I repaired the grave stone of my 6th great grandmother, Sarah Rowsell, in Wimbledon.
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Ran into Tom Roswell (Survive the Jive), one of the few people I truly hold in high regard. In this moment, our power levels merged like the joining of lightning bolts.
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Get back to the country and prepare to pray at the hearth only to find a dried out tawny owl there. Presume it got trapped months ago and was mummified
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For some reason Early Anglo-Saxons of the 5/6th century liked hanging bowls of Celtic manufacture. These sometimes display a Celtic art style that resembles the La Tene style from 500 years earlier. Additionally they are completely absent from the Celtic Western side of Britain (0 in cornwall/Devon, Wales) and are rare in Ireland (17) and Scotland (7) compared to Eastern England (117).
I believe these bowls were used for libation offerings, but this has not been proven. The Anglian king's burial at Sutton Hoo contained more than one Celtic hanging bowl, and one of them called bowl 2 is especially interesting because it had been recently modified with Germanic art added to it in the 6/7th century.
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I believe these bowls were used for libation offerings, but this has not been proven. The Anglian king's burial at Sutton Hoo contained more than one Celtic hanging bowl, and one of them called bowl 2 is especially interesting because it had been recently modified with Germanic art added to it in the 6/7th century.
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The copper bowl itself is Celtic in origin, perhaps centuries old. The circular and square motifs on the side contain typically Celtic art reminiscent of the ancient La Tene art that was no longer in use. The centre of the bowl also contained a fish which could spin around. This may have represented the salmon of wisdom from Celtic mythology.
But the bowl had been repaired - patched in one place with silver and etched with two birds (probably Woden's ravens). On the underside there is a circle of clearly Germanic knotwork from Style 2 which originates in Scandinavia. In the centre of the circle is a zoomorphic fylfot of the exact same kind found in contemporary finds from Sweden.
So the pagan English were acquiring these old, likely pagan, bowls from the Christian Britons and then modifying them with Odinic imagery so they could be used for Germanic pagan rituals. The trend spread from England to the rest of the Germanic world with 26 found in Norway, 2 in Sweden, 1 in Denmark and 4 in continental Germanic Europe.
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But the bowl had been repaired - patched in one place with silver and etched with two birds (probably Woden's ravens). On the underside there is a circle of clearly Germanic knotwork from Style 2 which originates in Scandinavia. In the centre of the circle is a zoomorphic fylfot of the exact same kind found in contemporary finds from Sweden.
So the pagan English were acquiring these old, likely pagan, bowls from the Christian Britons and then modifying them with Odinic imagery so they could be used for Germanic pagan rituals. The trend spread from England to the rest of the Germanic world with 26 found in Norway, 2 in Sweden, 1 in Denmark and 4 in continental Germanic Europe.
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A map showing siliqua silver Roman coin finds as evidence of Saxons who served as mercenaries in the Roman military
Here is an older map showing Saxons as Roman mercenaries based on finds of Roman belt sets and fibulas up to the year 400 AD, mere decades before the Saxons invaded Britain
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