Those working for the Ahnenerbe project set out to prove that the Aryan race was descended from Nordic gods, and spent vast ...

What about eggs and rabbits, are they pagan symbols too? We are sometimes led to believe the ... Several days of our week and months of our year are named after Norse gods, except for Saturday which ...

but held onto his cross as a symbol of fidelity to the one true God – something which saved him from being sacrificed to the pagan gods of the Vikings. Now within the second season of Vikings we see ...

Swedish archaeologists uncovered a rare 1,100-year-old Viking coffin grave containing weapons near Linköping, describing ...

and eggs as pagan symbols of fertility and rebirth. Fourth-century Romans already celebrated the rebirth of Sol Invictus (the sun god) on December 25, and there’s reasonable evidence that under ...

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