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Every year in April, Judeo-Christians around the world celebrate Easter, the return of the Jewish Messiah Jesus from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. In Dutch and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish, this holiday is respectively called Pasen or påsk(e), derived from the original Aramaic Pasha and the Hebrew Pesah. On Pesah or...
read moreThe following are excerpts from the book On the Sacral Origins of the Germanic Death Penalties written by Folke Ström, published in 1942. As the title suggests, the author is tracing the nature of Middle Age death penalties and executions – and the laws surrounding these – to pre-Christian human sacrifices. In many cases, death...
read moreIn various movements and subcultures, and during different periods of time, the Thor’s hammer have gained popularity – and have been widely used by different kinds of people out of different reasons. We shall take a closer look at the history behind this phenomenon, and the underlying reasons to how it came to happen from...
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