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This is a survey of religions from the earliest of times starting with ancient ceremonial burials and gifts goods, followed by the development of massive kingdoms and Temples. In this series we will dig deep into pre-Israelite cults and how they influenced Judaism and ultimately Christianity, what were the political motivations behind the scripture and the gospels? Then we will conclude with the Holocaust in the 1930's and look at how religion may have been involved in the murder of over 6 m ...
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The Heathen History Podcast

The Heathen History Podcast

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Find us on Twitter - @HeathenHistory The Heathen History Podcast takes a deep dive into the modern history of Heathenry, a new religion based on the practices of the pre-Christian Germanic and Norse People. Each episode we will dive into a different person, event, or organization to tell their story and examine how this shaped modern Heathenry. Heathen History is an inclusive podcast.
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Jameson Foster is an ethnomusicology PhD student (University of Colorado Boulder, Peabody Conservatory) and journalist with specialized knowledge in the music history and culture of the Scandinavian countries. The Nordic Sound Channel is a platform for sharing his knowledge and passion for the education and promotion of Nordic music, both past and present.
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Welcome to the History of Cyprus Podcast. Follow us on Instagram and support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheHistoryofCyprusPodcast https://instagram.com/thehistoryofcyprus I’d like to thank each and every participant (and every future guest) in this project as without their time and hard work in their respective fields of archaeology, linguistics, social and political history, this would not have been possible. Every month I will be releasing a new episode as it relates to C ...
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Anglo-Saxon England is a podcast looking at the history of Anglo-Saxon England, beginning with the end of Roman Britain and ending with the Norman Conquest. We will not only talk about the history but also the literature, culture, and historiography of the Anglo-Saxon period. This show strives to offer an accessible but scholarly rigorous overview that will appeal both to beginners and to experts.
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Three Norwegian music enthusiasts delve into the rich tapestry of albums spanning genres and eras. Discover the stories behind the recordings, the artists who crafted them, and the tales their tracks tell. Connect with us on Instagram: @burningmidnightamp Facebook: @midnightamp Email: burningmidnightamp@gmail.com
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Nordic Animism

Rune Rasmussen

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NORDIC ANIMISM IS A PODCAST and PROJECT HELMED BY RUNE HJARNØ RASMUSSEN. Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is an historian of religion, Ph.d., educated from the Universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen.Rune has lived in many countries and done fieldwork in a number of contemporary (primarily Afro-descendant) religions, but since childhood he has been strongly interested in Nordic religion. Today Rune is working on applying contemporary developments in anthropology to rethink the way we address Nordic reli ...
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Blood on Gold Mountain

Micah Huang, Hao Huang, and Emma Gies

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1871 Los Angeles was a dangerous place, especially for the refugees, migrants and troublemakers who lived on Calle De Los Negros, at the heart of Chinatown. Yut Ho, a beautiful young refugee, came to LA and fell in love, only to be drawn into a showdown between two of Chinatown's most notorious gangsters. Before long, the entire city was caught up in a life or death struggle where old-world values of kinship, honor and loyalty clashed with new-world issues of race, sex, and identity. The ens ...
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**My apologies on my audio quality for this episode. Working off an old laptop for this particular recording. Early Christianity in Cyprus dates back to the first century AD, when the island was part of the Roman Empire. According to tradition, the apostles Paul, Barnabas, and John Mark traveled to Cyprus to spread the message of Christianity. The …
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Send us a Text Message. A new kind of album review on the Nordic Sound Channel. And what better way to return to the grind than with a new release from one of my favorite Nordic singers, Eivør. Patreon.com/nordicsoundchannel "Eivør calls her Nordic home in the remote Faroe Islands a landscape of extremes. Sitting in the North Atlantic Ocean just ab…
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There's a good chance that you might have heard of a recent study published in May 2024 that revises our understanding of when Cyprus was first settled. You can read more on it here: Archaeology Magazine. ...but to borrow a short excerpt from the article, "It had been argued that hunter-gatherers only traveled to inhospitable islands in the eastern…
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Viking activity in England evolved over time. What began as small-scale raids on vulnerable monasteries gradually evolved into attacks on key trading settlements and, ultimately, into full-blown invasion. It is incorrect to suggest that Viking activity was always the same. Rather it became larger and more ambitious as time passed. Credits – Music: …
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Rune gives an introduction to the Scandinavian folk school model and the Heathen Christian Synchronist who changed the face of Denmark. OUT NOW - Aun_ Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic Tradition Pick up your copy at: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/9-books-and-calendars/62-coming-soon-the-aun-book/ https://www.youtube.…
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In this episode, "The Queen is Dead," is a reference to Asherah, the Queen mother / goddess of Israel/ Heaven. We complete the saga of the war of kings on Sodom and the dramatic escape of Abraham's nephew Lot. Did Abraham have other covenants with other kings that might have jeopardized the relationship with his Lord? Who was this Mechelzadek in Ge…
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Rune discusses the uncomfortable portrayal of some of our most beloved deities in mythological and sacred texts. OUT NOW - Aun_ Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic Tradition Pick up your copy at: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/9-books-and-calendars/62-coming-soon-the-aun-book/ https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the No…
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In this episode we dive deep into The Walker Brothers' enigmatic and final album, "Nite Flights," released in 1978. Join us as we explore the creative process behind this groundbreaking record, which saw the band take a bold leap into avant-garde and experimental territory. We'll analyze each track, starting with the haunting opener "Shutout," the …
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The Viking looms large over the early medieval period as a whole, despite only erupting onto the scene in the late eighth century, several centuries after the period is usually thought to have begun. They were such a disruptive force that inspired such profound spiritual and cultural shock among the states of Europe that they are even given their o…
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In the part of the story, Abraham's Lord negotiates the treaty with Abraham that will give him protection while monitoring the dangerous trade routes (The King's Highway) from bandits. This way the k8ng can safely send caravans from Babylonia to Egypt without interruption. Also, to seal the deal, Sarah must carry the King's seed so that his royal b…
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If you're listening to this month's Primary Source, you're hearing from the acts of Cyprus' patron saint, St. Barnabas. St. Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew who converted to Christianity and undertook missionary work across the island and beyond. In the Acts of the Apostles, he was accompanied by St. Paul most famously confronting a magician named Elymas…
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In this episode, we explore the Sodom and Gomorrah story in the Bible but from a literal and secular standpoint. In this telling of the story, it's not Bible God who crashes down on the Sodomites, it's Abram's Lord who launches a full military attack in the small cities. Not because they were evil and just wanted to have gay sex, but because after …
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Rune proposes how to engage in a dialogue, of sorts, with various strands of traditional Nordic euro-animisms to create a naming ceremony. Rune's new book AUN, Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic Tradition is out now!!! The book introduces the dialogues and realizations that have materialized through 2022 and 2023 concerning…
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After just under 70 episodes, we come to a point that I have always imagined as the dividing line in this series: the Norse invasions. What is coming is a huge undertaking, so I wanted to take the opportunity to look back on where we have been; to highlight key themes and to clarify my stance on the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’. Credits – Music: 'Wælheall' b…
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For this month's episode, I speak with Tassos Papacostas (King's College London) about Cyprus during the Middle Byzantine Period. We touch upon the political and economic changes that characterize the period in addition to the population movement from urban centers to rural ones (focusing on the 10th century settlement of the Troodos region in part…
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Send us a Text Message. Join me in welcoming Jonathan Barendsma of Gealdyr, a rising star in the dark folk scene. In this conversation, Jonathan and I discuss the importance of music and art as escape and vicarious living for those in difficult situations, a mutual love of soundtracks, and dancing the line between Nordic and Celtic soundworlds. Sup…
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Rune collaborates with Dr. Justine Sledge of the Youtube channel Esoterica to discuss the history of Runes in academia, their impact on 'New Age', the 'Fourth Wave', and their intersection with esoteric practises, including Aldaruna. Rune's new book AUN, Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic Tradition is out now!!! The book in…
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Send us a Text Message. In this very special episode I'm joined by fellow musicologist and mentor Ross Hagen to talk heathen musicology and how he and Mathias Nordvig went about approaching "Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music" - a musicological book on the nordic pagan music scene. Thanks for the good…
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Surrey, much like Hwicce and Lindsey, has a history that can only be told by looking askance at sources. What emerges, though, is a frontier kingdom that was often subject to the vicissitudes of fate. Credits – Music: 'Wælheall' by Hrōðmund Wōdening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQfdqIyqJ4g&list=LL&index=5&ab_channel=Hr%C5%8D%C3%B0mundW%C5%8Ddeni…
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Rune shares a paper he wrote for Harvard Divinity School in response to (in very broad terms) the recent stereotype of the 'Q-Anon Shaman', and the motifs of colonial othering that this image both summons these stereotypes and, in a classic ideological turn, serves to silence the animist perspective. Rune's new book AUN, Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Heal…
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Send us a Text Message. https://seidrblot.bandcamp.com In this interview, I'm happy to be joined by Visy Bloodaxe of Seidrblot to talk about a range of topics including the music he makes with the band, working with wood, how a love of medieval music led to him learning how to build his own instruments, and finding escape through music in a world f…
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St. Neophytos the Recluse (Άγιος Νεόφυτος ο Έγκλειστος ca. 1134–1214) was a twelfth century Cypriot hermit and saint whose short chronicle, "On the Calamities Against the Country of Cyprus," provides us with an invaluable look into the Third Crusade and, more specifically, its impact on Cyprus which he considers an unmitigated disaster. He is decid…
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The great professor of Anglo-Saxon history, Simon Keynes, once called Lindsey a ‘kingdom without a history’. This is because there is no written evidence from the kingdom itself and only a tiny amount written about it from contemporaries. However, there is some evidence in the form of archaeology which has shed valuable light on aspects of Lindsey’…
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Send us a Text Message. Do musicians get the final say in what their music is called, and is genre meant to be a literal descriptor of the music we hear? In the 3 years I’ve been running this channel, covering the music of Wardruna, Heilung, and almost everything in that sphere, I have had endless conversation over what to call this music with many…
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The roots of the Black Cypriot community can be traced back to different historical periods. Cyprus, being under various foreign dominations, witnessed the movement of people from Africa, particularly through trade routes and often forced migrations. The archaeological record can certainly attest to a Black presence as far back as the Archaic Perio…
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Rune answers skepticism towards the proposal that animistic ways of life offer new ways of negotiating tensions between environmental and humanist concerns. OUT NOW - Aun_ Cannibal Kings, Cosmic Healing and the Recovery of a Nordic Tradition Pick up your copy at: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/9-books-and-calendars/62-coming-soon-the-aun-book/…
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Send us a Text Message. Long have I been enchanted by the music of Ævestaden. The way these captivating musicians utilize instruments typically associated with dark folk (such as the lyre and bukkehorn), but instead put it in a folktronica setting where it somehow just fits so organically is a feat within itself. Solen var bättre där was on my top …
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In this episode we journey back to 1971 to explore the debut album by Sparks, initially released under the name Halfnelson. We take a deep dive into the early history of the band, discussing how the Mael brothers' unique musical style emerged from Los Angeles's vibrant music scene. As we go track-by-track, Christer—who has never heard the album bef…
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In this episode, we pick up with Abraham, Sarah, and this anthropomorphic figure who would be Abraham's Lord. This is a literal interpretation of Genesis chapters 12 through 25, where we try to piece together the original redactor's intentions of the texts. It appears that in 90% of the story, this Lord is characterized as quite human and doing hum…
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This episode we will be looking at one of the most elusive of the small kingdoms which proliferated in early Anglo-Saxon England. The Hwicce were located mainly in what is today Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Gloucestershire. Their history is extremely patchy, but from what can be said they offer a unique view of the emergence and downfall of a …
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Rune discusses the current day saying 'finding my tribe', and modern concepts of tribe vs tribalism. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful t-shirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/53-aun-tshirt/ Follow Nordic…
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Rune talks with cultural ecologist Dr. David Abram about the ways in which ways of speaking may enhance our spontaneous impulse for reciprocity -- the bed rock for the animist way of life. https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful t-shirt design by Ludvig Levin: h…
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According to late Ottoman historian, Ronald C. Jennings, little is known “about the places of origins of Black slaves or free blacks in Ottoman Cyprus except that their presence can be documented by the 1590s in the judicial registers from Nicosia” -- as can be heard in this excerpt. Though a very short Primary Source, it is revealing. As was commo…
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Send us a Text Message. In this installment of the Nordic Sound Channel, I sit down with pagan folk veteran Kati Rán to talk about her two decades in the nordic dark folk scene, the changes she's seen take place over time, and of course, her new album Sála and her approach to the feminine skaldic perspective. Thanks for joining Kati, I'm really gla…
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Rune discusses 'Viking Washing'. The 'viking age' was a comparatively brief period of time in the history of pre-Christian Scandinavia. Given this, why is everything related to Northern European history somehow always cast in terms of the Vikings? https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism…
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