Begettress of Æneas’ lineage,
delight of men and Gods, nourishing Venus,
Thou fillest, under Heaven’s gliding signs,
ship-bearing sea and fruitful lands, because
each kind of living thing is born through Thee
and, come to life, goes on to look at Sunlight.

Even Lucretius Carus, a lovesick madman and critic of traditional religion, could not deny the power of the Goddess Venus, and honored her with these and other lines of his poem On the Nature of Things.
King Romulus consecrated the month of April to this Goddess, who was worshipped by Roman noblewomen after the first sliver of the April moon was seen.
Just as Romans dedicate the month of April to the Goddess Venus, some Germanic peoples dedicate Eastermonth, roughly corresponding to April, to the Goddess Easter (Ēostre, Ōstara), who is clearly the Germanic homologue of Venus.
The corresponding Vedic Goddess is known as Uṣas (“Dawn”, cognate of Easter) and Vanas (“Loveliness”, cognate of Venus).
- Jōsēphus Græcus, The Sun Riders

⚡️The Celtic THUNDERER⚡️

Who is the Celtic Thunderer god, the equivalent of Thor and Indra?
Do the Celts even have a Thunderer mythos that has survived, or was it lost forever?

We search across the Celtic lands to answer this question once and for all.

WATCH:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWMgExBaltI&feature=youtu.be

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

*Manu and *Yemo DEBUNKED: Response to Crecganford (Proto-Indo-European Creation Myth)

[Go to the 33 minute mark for the linguistic debunking of the claim that Ymir = Yama = PIE *Yemo.]

- Bruce Lincoln's endlessly regurgitated Proto-Indo-European Creation Myth reconstruction, known as the "*Manu and *Yemo" twin sacrifice myth, is a linguistic and mythological deception. As a myth, it never existed, and it is not the Proto-Indo-European Creation Myth in any way.

Those who continue to spread it across the internet, such as the Youtuber Crecganford and other scholars and amateurs in the field, must confront the flaws in this reconstruction and move past Lincoln's theory entirely.

WATCH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuZe7GngXsU

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Celtic Parallels to Odin’s Myths 👁️

Celtic myth has parallels for essentially all of the famous events of the Odin mythos.

If there is any central Odin myth that I am missing here, please comment below.

The primary Celtic Odin is the Gaelic Fionn (aka Eber Finn) whose Welsh linguistic and mythic cognate is Gwyn/Gwion.

No other god in Celtic myth has anywhere close to the enormous set of precise parallels to Odin that we see circling Fionn/Gwyn.

In the Gaelic case Fionn, leader of the Fianna “mannerbund” is juxtaposed to a rival/friend Fianna leader named Goll, “the one-eyed”.

Based on mythic parallels we can see that the two rival-friend Fianna leaders, Fionn and Goll, are two sides of one and the same deity: the one-eyed mannerbund god. Fionn further has a primordial double, named Fintan, who continues the same Fionn/Odin type mythos and who is also esoterically identified with the one-eyed Salmon of Knowledge, Goll Essa Ruaid. Once again we see “Finn” vs “Goll” names as two epithets of the same being. Note: this is not the Rudra vs Siva duality, but closer to the Rudra-Siva vs Mahakala Bhairava duality. Instead, the seer and peace-weaving brother of Eber Finn, named Amergin, is the Siva parallel.

Lastly, based on clear parallels to Odin and to Eber Finn, we can deduce that the Welsh Efnysien, the hostile one who is juxtaposed to his peace making brother Nisien, is another form of the Welsh Odin who is aka Gwyn.

If we then take this grouping of mannerbund gods, centering around the name Fionn/Gwyn and one-eyedness, we can see that parallels to essentially the entire Odin mythos are preserved in Celtic myth, and more beyond what we have of Odin as well.

Please read for yourself in each of these tales to find the Celtic versions of these Odin-type myths (details change!):


1 Odin loses an eye (see: Fintan loses an eye in “The Hawk of Achill”, also see the one eyed Goll/Goll Essa Ruaid)
2 Odin gaining wisdom at Mimir’s well (see: Fionn in “The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn”)
3 Odin on the Windy Tree acquiring the runes (see: Fionn in “The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn”)
4 Odin’s death being tied to the rampaging beast Fenrir (see: Fionn in “The Chase of Síd na mBan Finn and the Death of Finn”)
5 Odin’s parentage from Borr, son of Buri (See: Eber Finn, son of Galam son of Bile, in “The Milesians,” from Lebor Gabala Erenn)
6 Odin dividing Earth and Sky (see Eber Finn in “The Milesians,” Lebor Gabala Erenn)
7 Odin stealing the mead (See: Fin Mac Kinealy in “Balor on Tory Island”)
8 Odin finding Askr and Embla (See: Efnysien greeting Gwern in “Branwen daughter of Llyr”)
9 Odin leading the mannerbund (see: Fionn leading the Fianna in misc. tales)
10 Odin and the Wild Hunt (see: misc. Gwyn folklore)
11 Odin shamanically turning into a fish (See: Fintan in “Cessairians” from LGE, see also Goll Essa Ruaid and Gwion-Taliesin in “Hanes Taliesin”)
12 Odin killing the servant who sleeps with Frigg in Gesta Danorum (See: Fionn in “Fionn and the Man in the Tree”)
13 Odin fathering Vidarr, killer of Fenrir (see: Fionn as father and grandfather of Oscar, killer of the Boar of Formael in “The Chase of Síd na mBan Finn and the Death of Finn”)
14 Odin being “Jalk”, gelded (see: Efnysien bursting his own heart in “Branwen ferch Llyr”)
15 Odin fathering Valli, avenger of the death of Baldr (see: Amergin fathering Conall Cernach, avenger of the death of Fergus, who was killed like Baldr)



Parallels to Rudra that Norse myth doesn’t necessarily have
1 The Vratya (Rudra-Agni) of the Atharvaveda gives rise to Mahadeva by catalyzing the feminine gold within Prajapati (see: Cumhaill (Vratya/Rudra-Agni) fathering Fionn (Mahadeva) via the daughter of Tadhgh (=Prajapati) in “The Cause of the Battle of Cnucha”)
2 Rudra shoots Prajapati as uniting with his “daughter” (see: Goll killing Cumhaill in “The Cause of the Battle of Cnucha”)
3 Siva drinks poison and turns blue (see Fionn in “The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn”/Gaedhil Glas in LGE “The Gaedhil”)
4 Mahakala overcomes Kali (see: Goll in “The Cave of Ceis Corann”)

- O’Gravy
@solarcult

- Yeats

"These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye:
The weak lay hand on what the strong has done,
Till that be tumbled that was lifted high-
And discord follow upon unison,
And all things at one common level lie.
And therefore, friend, if your great race were run-
And these things came, so much the more thereby-
Have you made greatness your companion,
Although it be for children that you sigh:
These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye."

Setting the record straight:
Lugh = Tyr

Be more inquisitive.

https://x.com/StructuralMyth1/status/1808201862723797368

Most people speaking on this subject don’t know what is even coming out of their mouths.


I’ll tell you the actual Tyr equivalent hand-losing.

Cuchulainn (“the Hound”), cornered and wounded, binds himself to a stone. Lugaid (form of Lugh) kills him.
As Cuchulainn drops his sword it cuts Lugaid’s hand off, an immediate reaction to being neutralized as when Fenrir bites Tyr’s hand off.
Fenrir is indeed bound to a stone in Snorri’s version.

Cuchulainn reincarnates into a boar (the Boar of Formael) that is later killed just like Fenrir, among other parallels.

So we have this other hand-severing myth, that has much more aligning it with the Fenrir scene.
And it is Lugaid who has his hand severed by the bound “hound”.

Lugh is Tyr. There is no counter-argument based on actual myths.

Stone-bound figure with canine characteristics causes the loss of a hand in a God. That god is Lugaid.

People look at Nuada and see “hand severed” and that’s all they think matters. It’s really lazy in retrospect but even Dumezil posited the connection.

He then later retracted it when he realized it was wrong!


Another confusion put to bed.

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

We have discussed above that Weden [Óðinn] is the supreme God of the Germanic people in the Eddic sources, and that all the Gods are Gods by virtue of sharing His divine essence. What many people do not know, however, is that this idea is attested in our earliest literary sources, namely Tacitus' Germania. In c. 9:

"Among the gods Mercury is the one they principally worship. They regard it as a religious duty to offer to him, on fixed days, human as well as other sacrificial victims."

There's little doubt about the identity of Mercury being in reality the same God as Weden. This identification of foreign Gods using the lens of Roman religion is called Interpretatio Romana, and we have discussed the Interpretatio methods at length in our previous posts. Nevertheless, we can be sure that Tacitus here uses this method because he tells us about it elsewhere, in c. 43:

"Among the Naharvali [...] they say that their deities, according to the Roman interpretation, are Castor and Pollux: that is the character of their godhead, of which the name is ‘the Alci’."

We get more interesting information about the ancient Germanic understanding of Weden, however, when Tacitus discusses the Suebi, and in particular the Suebian Semnones, who are said to be the most ancient and the noblest of the Suebian tribes. He says, that they performed human sacrifices to a God, who can be identified with Weden based on the fact that earlier Tacitus confirms that it is to Him that the Germanic people give human sacrifices. And he gives the following description:

"This whole superstition is based on the belief that from this wood the people derives its origin and that the god who reigns over all dwells there, the rest of the world being his obedient subjects."

The Latin expression that is used is 'regnator omnium deus', the God who Rules All, and thus, Tacitus couldn't be more clear in confirming that the ancient Germanic view of Weden was that of a Most High God.

I’m always asked to respond to these posts of people trying to speak “authoritatively” on Celtic myth, who clearly have never read a single one of the primary texts.

In all honesty, I get second hand embarrassment. But I’m not here to bully. Celtic myth is confusing.

For those who want to say Lugh is = to Odin: Name a single narrative myth that they share. Not a vague family relation or association.

I’ll show you what I mean.

Who is the lord of the Gaelic “mannerbund” (the Fiana) who receives knowledge from a magic well?

Finn.

Who is the leader of the Wild Hunt?

Gwyn, Welsh linguistic cognate of Finn.

Who loses an eye and transforms into a fish, as Odin also does?

Fintan, divine ancestor of the sovereign god Nuada.

Who fasts under a magical tree to gain the power of prophecy, next to waters that turn all things white, after drinking from a magical cup?

Finn.

Who is considered the storehouse of all knowledge?

Fintan.

Who divides Sky from Earth along with his two brothers, as Odin does with Ymir’s body?

Eber Finn.

Who steals back the wondrous liquid from the giant in the tower and sleeps with his daughter while there?

Finn Mac Kinealy.


Finn. None of these myths belong to Lugh. Lugh does not lose an eye, or turn into a fish, or gain wisdom from a well, or lead the wild hunt or lead the Fiana.

IN FACT LUGAID MAC CON’S FIANA LEADER IS FIONN MAC CUMHAILL.

Almost all of Odin’s myths are reflected in the myths of Finn/Fintan, none in Lugh.

Name me a single narrative, full mythic story, that Odin shares with Lugh/Lugaid.

As long as you remain silent in response to this question your claim stands refuted.


Come back to the subject when you’ve studied more. Until then, stop spreading misinformation to those who won’t know better.


- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

CERNUNNOS Part 1:
the Horned God of the Indo-Europeans (his Full Mythos)

watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQbBWkBUi7M&feature=youtu.be

Most people still believe — incorrectly — that the mythology of Cernunnos, the Horned God, has been lost.

In this video I identify the narrative myths of Cernunnos in Gaelic, Welsh, Vedic, Hittite, Norse, Roman and Greek traditions.

This god is in fact everywhere.
Just because his myths have been misunderstood does not mean they have been lost.

Much can be learned by placing all of the versions of his myth side by side, as I do here for the first time ever.

By doing so we uncover one of the most surprising proclamations of heresy from the ancient world:

“Hard Polytheism” was seemingly treated as heretical in the Norse tradition, and this is one of the issues the “Cernunnos” myth revolves around and reveals.

See for yourself.



Thanks to Arno Preiner for his help with this project.

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

CERNUNNOS Part 2: The True Origin of Exodus in Indo-European Myth (Moses, Aaron, and Yahweh)

watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkMDH6h1tU

In investigating the Cernunnos mythos I have found, almost by accident, the origin of the majority of the Exodus narrative.

The conclusion of our investigation is almost beyond belief:

The narrative details of the biblical Exodus seem to have been mostly borrowed from an Indo-Iranic source (either Iranic or Indian).

This video lays out the numerous points of alignment that demonstrate this likelihood.

“Cernunnos” found his way into the Bible.

— And not as someone you would expect.


Video editing by Arno Preiner.
Thanks to Arno for his help on this project.

Thumbnail Art by MOROSOPHVS


- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

A quick summary of the points from my last video showing that the Exodus narrative was likely adapted from an Indo-Iranic source:

The Origin of Exodus in Indo-Iranic Myth

https://telegra.ph/The-Origin-of-Exodus-in-Indo-Iranic-Myth-Revealed-Moses-is-Dadhici-Aaron-is-Daksha-08-01

The Ultimate Cohencidence

I’m going to tell myself that Religion for Breakfast saw and is responding to my last video, since I just asked this very obscure question, which I haven’t seen fully addressed elsewhere before:

why exactly does Aaron have a horn-shaped mitre hat in artwork?

(His character is based on the Indo-European “Cernunnos” god type.)

However, Religion For Breakfast slightly misrepresents the Moses “horned” etymology here by calling it “only” metaphorical for “glory,” and a couple of commenters correct him for this. The meaning of “horned” is still present there.

This shows a tendency to explain more elusive and mystical details away with accounts that simplify ambiguity.

If anyone who watched my Exodus video was wondering about Aaron’s headdress, have a look at this video, as it gives great historical detail about its possible origin.


Do you think it settles the question?

Is the horned headpiece Aaron is shown with a “coincidental” mystical re-emergence of the horns of the deity underpinning his character, rather than being based on an original (obscure) Jewish tradition?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fzubjTIaDm8

As usual, please ignore and block scam-spammers using our name.

We are NOT messaging people with questions like this.

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

In part 2 of my last video I discovered the source of the Book of Exodus.

For those who want to get to the point, I made a shortened clip version summarizing the concluding parallels.

Cernunnos in the BIBLE? Exodus Source Discovered (Clip/Summary)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=on6wM6OoqjQ

Some people have asked how to support my effort to reconstruct the Celtic and Indo-European mythology and theology.
I wake up each day with a fire in my head for this project but limited in the time I have to put into it, so after years of solving mythic mysteries for the sheer desire to have a functional pagan religion, I’ve just set up a Patreon to allow others to join the effort if they wish.

If you appreciate the research l publish in my articles and videos, and want to see the larger project reach its culmination (such as the completion of my second book, Breoghan’s Tower and the continued release of new videos on all the important topics I have in mind), you can join the Patreon at the link below and add fuel to the fire.
patreon.com/TaliesinsMap

Thank you all for reading and following along. We will raise the level of the discourse if it kills us.

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

Cú Chulainn is a mysterious figure.

Nonetheless, he does have a direct equivalent in Norse mythology, an equivalent many find shocking.

But this parallel only becomes really decisive when we uncover a myth whose hidden meaning has never before been understood:

the reincarnation of Cú Chulainn as a rampaging beast.

New video:

Cú Chulainn: his Norse Equivalent and Hidden Myth (Response to @FortressofLugh)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-d1yMDpe9Ks

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

Who is the Celtic Odin?

The Celts have their own version of The One-Eyed God, the Lord of the Mannerbund.
The god of Wisdom who turns into a fish.

People truly don’t realize how unchanged and well-preserved he is in the Celtic traditions, as they usually don’t know where to find the full set of his myths, which are laid out in this video.

It is understandably shocking to find that almost every core myth of Odin is paralleled by this one Celtic god type — and not by the god types most commonly thrown out there.

The One-Eyed Celtic ODIN (Response to @FortressofLugh)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkSTb8jBPGc

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

Hymn to the Gaelic Gods 1 (adapted from the Rig Veda)

An example of praise to the Celtic Pantheon and an example that Celtic Paganism can build upon.

- O’Gravy, The Sun Riders
@solarcult

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OzCSyTF3nc4