Tristan S. Rappさんのイラストまとめ

@goblintowndrunk California has a cool idea but falls foul of the general US failing of "don't put the name of your polity ON the flag"

@arisroussinos One of the many victims of Mysterious Early Bronze-Age Steppe-Peripheral State-Collapse

New Subnautica film-adaptation looking decent

The Death of Balder and everything surrounding it is a deeply intricate and fascinating topic, clues to which we find scattered across everything from Old English poetry to the Finnish Kalevala. Yet as relates to Rurik (and ultimately Amleth), it is but one competing background

In Saxo, Hoder or Hotherus is a de-mythicised, human hero, the brother of king Adils of Sweden. Achieving overlordship over both Sweden and Denmark, he enters into a lovers feud with a likewise de-mythicised Balder, killing him before being slain by Balder's half-brother, Bous

The Advent of Amleth, Prince of Jutland - THREAD

The story of Amleth is, for a poorly attested legend from the mists of the Nordic dark ages, as "current" now as it is likely ever to be. Between the release of The Northman & the enduring fame of Hamlet, let us explore the roots

There are many other symbols worth discussing, whose meanings are often either utterly distorted or at least greatly simplified. Yet those must be topics for another day.

The symbol was like most of those we've covered originally a Christian one, the meaning being quite evident from the name. It's exact origins are unclear, but it dates back at least as far as the 1500s. The triangle has always been a sign of the Trinity in Christian iconography.

This is for instance exhibited in the German symbol of the Drudenfuss, a 'Drude' being a form of malevolent spirit. Here, the pentagram was a symbol to *ward off* the daemonic, yet the association had been made. The leap from preventing to controlling the dark was perhaps obvious