The Golden One

My quest for wisdom in Basque Country delayed the podcast episode a few days, but it will be out tomorrow or the day after 🌞

Santiago Matamoros 🇪🇸

Castillo de la Mota, San Sebastian 'tis a fortress strategically placed to oversee and protect the city (the location also provides some great views). https://x.com/legiogloria/status/1806973341212783027

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^🇸🇪 On a related note, Sweden is the Holy Land 🙏 This is not a subjective, but an objective, statement. I will elaborate on this later on. Read Chad's post above in the meantime.

https://t.me/thechadpastoralist/2869 A thought I have been pondering recently is the idea that some Germanic myths originated with the indigenous hunter-gatherers of Scandinavia. Namely, the creation of man from trees, as explored in the Vǫluspá. We do know that pre-literate cultural groups such as the Anglo-Saxons were certainly capable of reciting 12 generations of ancestors (namely, King Penda), which is about 350 years if we assume that the average generational gap back then was 20-30 years. Thus, we can infer that their ancestors (who originated in Scandinavia and northern Germany) were capable of this, too. In the case of the East Scandinavian cluster, we know that they had emerged somewhere in East Sweden around 2600 BC and went on to replace the West and South Scandinavian genetic clusters in Denmark and Norway by 2000 BC. It is this population, the East Scandinavians, that formed the "predominant ancestry source for later Iron and Viking Age Scandinavians", and most Germanic peoples, as explored here. Given that the majority of ancient Europeans were primarily patrilineal (which we can infer based on archaeological and genetic evidence), it seems likely that the East Scandinavians were as well. Given that the predominant Y-haplogroup amongst them was I1, it seems possible that they understood themselves to have been directly descended from hunter-gatherers indigenous to Sweden about 400 years prior to their emergence (in the form of patrilineal stories of their ancestors, etc.). By 2000 BC, the East Scandinavian cluster was already admixed with steppe ancestry for about 400-600 years, but again, their male lineages were not of steppe origin and their burial customs were stone cists, not kurgans (until they incorporated them into their own tradition and became the elite of the Nordic Bronze Age). Their steppe ancestry technically came from their mothers while their main side came from their hunter-gatherer fathers. So I think it is hypothetically possible that they may have brought some form of myth of man's creation from trees with them into Denmark, which ultimately would have come from their patrilineal hunter-gatherer ancestors.

🌊 I will reelmaxx a bit more then I will make some longer videos. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TdAqslsY8_A

Greetings from Bayonne, France ⚜️🇫🇷 LegioGloria.com

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The sea, the sea! I post physique to tell you that it is the Atlantic, but it feels a bit like the Mediterranean as well. On a similar note, Euskadi (Basque Country) does indeed feel different from the rest of Spain. I will elaborate on this later on!