Fred sent me an interesting article earlier this evening, and it’s interesting to me not because of what the scientists say (they are partly wrong), but because it fits so well into what I said in ‘Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia‘ and also in ‘MYFAROG‘.
Rather than accept the hypothesis that the ‘Celts’ (I guess he means ‘Ancient Britains’) sacrificed people – even their kings – to the gods, we should see this in a different light.
What we know is that in the Viking Age the Scandinavians replaced their kings too, when they did not perform their tasks as they should. There is one example in the sagas, where a king is executed, and sent with Óðinn to the realm of death. There are many more examples though, of men cutting wooden idols, wooden poles often, with carved heads on them, representing deities. They did this when they were to take over the high seat; as the new king or simply as the new head of the family. They then drank a toast, and made a promise to perform some act of heroism.
Every now and then the sword got stuck in the wooden idol, and if they could not get the sword out, they would not be allowed to take over the role as the new king or new head of the family. Instead, the next in line would be allowed to try; and if he managed to pull the sword out of the idol, he instead would get that new role. He then had to perform the task, the act of heroism, promised by the person who cut the idol,
Now, perhaps I don’t have to mention this, but of course this is what Arthur did, when he pulled the sword from the rock (an idol), and thus became the king of Britain. He then had to unite all of Britain to one kingdom under his rule, as must have been promised by the man who cut the idol. I can add that ‘Arthur’ means ‘bear’, something that is not a coincidence – and something that is or will be explained in the Bear Cult videos by my wife.
Cutting the idol with the sword was perhaps a younger European tradition, but it mighh well have existed alongside the more brutal execution of the old king. I don’t know.
So, they executed the old kings and cut their idols with swords.
Why?
You see, they did not sacrifice their kings to the gods; their kings were god-kings, and their idols represented their deities! They actually killed their own deities! In some cases only symbolically (the cutting of idols), and in some cases physically (the ritual execution of the god-kings).
Again we can ask: Why!?
Because in order to be reborn, you first have to die. And if a god-king (a real deity!) has become weak, the only way for him to regain his youthful strength and beauty, is for him to die – and then be reborn.
The man who pulled the sword from the idol/god corpse would become him. He would take over, as a renewed deity. A reborn deity.
The god-kings of Ancient Europe – of Britain, of Gaull, of Iberia, of Dacia, of Scandinavia etc. etc. etc. – were not just one god though; they were all of them: TîwaR (Týr), ÞônaR (Þórr), WôðanaR (Óðinn), FraujaR (Freyr), BalduR (Baldr) etc. etc. etc., and each and every god had to be killed when they grew weak. Therefore the kings were ‘over-killed’, or rather killed in all sorts of manner, as described in the article linked to above. They had to kill all the gods, not just one of them! Therefore the god-kings were hung, stabbed, strangled and some times burned, or killed in other other manners. In order for them all to return, rejuvinated, reborn and strong again, they had to be.
There were no human sacrifices to the gods in Ancient Europe. Not in Scandinavia. Not in Dacia. Not in Great Britain. Not anywhere.
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Hail the European Gods and Goddesses! Hail and Joy!
