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Who built the first stone circles? The megalith builders of Brittany - from the migration and rise of the first farmers to the demise of the culture. This feature length documentary shows how the famous megalithic monuments of Britain and Ireland, such as Stonehenge, derive from many earlier ones in Brittany. Who were the first farmers in France? Why did they start building the impressive megalithic chambered tombs or the enormous standing stones known as menhirs? This documentary looks at the world's first tombs, some close to 7000 years old, and traces the development of the dolmens and other tombs from 5000 BC to 2700 BC. We also learn how the first farmers interacted with the Mesolithic Western Hunter Gatherers who were already there, and how they may have influenced this megalithic monument tradition. Learn how the exquisite jadeite ax heads of the Neolithic were symbols of power imported from the far away Alps. We visited the tombs of Gavrinis, Petit Mont, Table des Marchands, the Barrow tomb of Kercado and the truly ancient Saint-Michel tumulus among others. You will also learn about the 4 mile long alignments of Carnac and what they were made for. The adventure starts at the 9 maidens stones in Cornwall and ends on the stunning coasts of Morbihan in Brittany. This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive Subscribe star: https://www.subscribestar.com/survive-the-jive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive Drone and additional camera work in Cornwall by @ROTPband Sources and music listed on my website: https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-oldest-tombs-on-earth-megalithic.html 00:00 Introduction 01:54 Cornish megalithic monuments 05:00 Origin of the Megalithic people and culture 09:48 Barrow of St Michel 10:40 Barrow of Tumiac 12:07 WHG and LBK influences 15:53 ​​Early Dolmens 17:15 Covered Alley of L'Île-Grande 17:48 Standing stones / Giant of Manio, Menhir of St Uzec 18:56 Grand menhir Brisé of Locmariaquer 21:52 Table des Marchands 23:32 Carnac stone rows 27:21 Kercado passage tomb 29:31 Jadeite ax heads 33:32 Mané-er-Hroëck barrow 34:08 Jadeite ax heads 2 36:53 The long barrow and the longhouse 40:34 Gavrinis barrow tomb 43:32 Petit Mont tomb 47:08 Conclusion

The coastal resort of Sounio boasts the proud temple of the mighty Greek god Poseidon Lord of the Sea! I explain who this god was, why he was associated with horses and earthquakes and consider the meaning of the myths in which he has homosexual relations... This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive AGR video: https://youtu.be/8yq6Oy0ztEM Sources: Ken Dowden "The Uses of Greek Mythology" 1992 Music in order: Stewart Keller, Kevin Beorn, Halindir

Animal sacrifice under the home? Grab Atlas VPN for just $1.83/mo+ 3 months extra before the BIG DEAL expires: https://get.atlasvpn.com/Jive The custom of burying an animal under the foundations of a house is not only very widespread; found in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Finland and beyond, but is also very old, dating back to the Indo-Europeans of the Bronze Age Europe. It even spread as far away as America and India! In this video I trace the customs origins and dispersal and explain the magical function of the animal and human sacrifices underneath the home. This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive Sources: Eliade, Mircea - Zalmoxis - The Vanishing God-The University of Chicago Press (1972) Hukantaival, Sonja. (2009). Horse Skulls and "Alder-Horse": The Horse as a Depositional "Sacrifice" in Buildings. Archaeologia Baltica. 11. 350-356. Kuzmina, The Origins of Indo-Iranians, 2007 Manning, M. Chris. “The Material Culture of Ritual Concealments in the United States.” Historical Archaeology, vol. 48, no. 3, 2014, pp. 52–83. O’Reilly, Barry. “Hearth and Home: The Vernacular House in Ireland from c. 1800.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, vol. 111C, 2011, pp. 193–215. Ó Súilleabháin, Seán. “Foundation Sacrifices.” The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 75, no. 1, 1945, pp. 45–52. Søvsø, M., et al. 'Om hugorme, dyrekranier og tordensten– bygningsofre og andre skikke med rødder i folketroen' 00:00 Introduction 02:19 Iron Age 03:40 Britain and America 06:37 Saint Oran of Iona 07:56 Manole of Romania 09:22 Indo-Iranians 12:31 Ireland 15:02 Scandinavia 20:34 Finland and Alder horse 22:25 Conclusion

A sneaky criminal pinched my wallet when I visited the Parthenon in Greece. Don't make the same mistake I did. In this video I visit the Panathenaic stadium, the Olympeion temple of Zeus, I talk about the Elgin marbles, then I climb the Acropolis to the Parthenon and the the Erechtheion This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive Music by: Hilidgaldr, Simon Jacobs, Kevin Beorn

after looking at the Parthenon last week I decided to check out the marbles from within which are now in the British Museum

The BBC produced a song for the Horrible Histories children's program called 'Been Here From the Start' which makes several spurious, misleading and outright false claims about black people living in ancient Britain. From Cheddar man to Septimius Severus and the Moors, I debunk the lies contained in the BBC video and present the truth. Clips of the BBC video are included under UK fair dealing law which allows such use for criticism of the copyrighted material. This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive Bitcoin: bc1qq4x3pwvpq7kxu0ws8wm7f0yu8cuddfgl9349um

A guide on setting up a heathen altar to the Norse/Germanic gods in your home. How to arrange an altar for the gods, different kinds of domestic altars according to the recommendations of three of the most important heathen organisations in the English speaking world (The Odinist Fellowship, The Norroena society, Ealdríce Théod), where to put your altar in your house, what items you need to have, what kind of altar cloth, where to put the hlautbolli, what kind of idols to use, where to put the mead horn etc. I will also show you my personal altar set up. This video is full of ideas and tips for new pagans but I hope will also be useful for the seasoned practitioner. If you want more Paganism 101 video guides then let me know in the comments. This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive Links to the groups mentioned: http://www.odinistfellowship.co.uk/ https://norroena.org/ https://ealdrice.org/ The brief drumming song is by Ansuz Society (futhorc) 00:00 Domestic altars: the basics 04:55 Odinist Fellowship 07:14 Norroena Society 13:51 Ealdríce 18:18 My personal altar setup

Brittany in France has one of the densest concentrations of megalithic monuments in the world but hundreds if not thousands have been destroyed - approximately 45% of them are gone in parts of Brittany. Now we have lost 39 menhirs which were destroyed to make room for a Mr. Bricolage hardware store! #Shorts #carnac #bricolage This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive

The Hunting of the Earl of Rone is an ancient ceremony in the village of Combe Martin in England which resembles the film “The Wicker Man”. Although local legend has it that the ceremony derives from the capture of the Earl of Tyrone who fled from Ireland in 1607, I demonstrate in this documentary that it has clear parallels in European pagan customs and in Hinduism, which proves that the procession, the hobby horse, the fool, and the drowning of the straw idol originate in pre-Christian seasonal Anglo-Saxon rites. This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive Sources: -Ashe, R., Ashe, G., ‘Folklore, Myths And Legends Of Britain’ 1973 -Fern, Chris ‘Early Anglo-Saxon Horse Burial of the Fifth to Seventh centuries AD’ in Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 14, (Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007). -Frazer, James George. ‘The Golden Bough; a Study in Magic and Religion’, 1935. -Walker, C. ‘Strange Britain’ 1989 -Tacitus, Cornelius, The Agricola; and, The Germania, H. Mattingly (trans) - https://earl-of-rone.org.uk/old-texts/ - https://www.inyourpocket.com/warsaw/rites-of-spring-drowning-marzanna-winters-witch_72571f Drone and additional camera work by @ROTPband Music: Borg, Xurious, The Whole Other #Exmoor4all #devon #paganism

Easter comes originally from the name of a pagan Anglo-Saxon goddess called Ēostre. This video tells you all there is to know about her and also looks at other Indo-European dawn goddesses around Europe and Asia to whom she is related! Art by Christian Sloan Hall This channel depends on your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive

Through comparative mythology we can reconstruct the earliest Indo-European beliefs about the cosmos and the afterlife as far as 6000 years back. but Indo-European religion has many features in common with Siberian and Native American religions. These three groups all share common ancestry from an ice-age population called Ancient North Eurasians, so we can even reconstruct cosmological beliefs of a Siberian people 20,000 years ago! This film helps you to understand the most ancient and fundamental pagan beliefs concerning death, the underworld and reincarnation. Thanks to Jack Jones, Graman, Christian Sloan Hall and Pete Amachree for contributing original works of art for this film. Links to their work and to that of other contributing artists as well as a list of sources for the film are all on my blog: https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2022/07/indo-european-and-ancient-north.html