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PSA for those distressed and depressed

 

Great Book!

Fighting Giants

 Believing that we can control nature, getting nature to bend to our will is foolhardy.  We are a part of the very thing we seek to control.  And, a minority part at that.  The fact is that humanity can barely control itself.  Thinking we can bottle up a hurricane, tornado, or blizzard is just ludicrous.  It is better to fight the chaos that bubbles up within us.  This is something that we can control.  

Terry Unger 2023. 

Acceptance

 All of humankind needs food, clothing, shelter, love, and acceptance. Of the five, acceptance is the hardest to obtain. We need acceptance. Without it, we are outcasts in our world. Gatekeepers, nameless and faceless, for the most part, determine acceptance. Their measuring tool is whatever social media tells them it is. Do not fall prey to Gatekeepers and their social media masters. Accept and love yourself. Great strength begins here.  

Terry Unger 2023.

In Honor of Arminius

To honor this hero, I offer snippets from my new book, Finding Polaris ...

         Introduction, Part One - The Age of Arminius

Arminius of the Cherusci is a hero for all Germanic Heathens to know.  His words and deeds, his orlog spun Wyrd that has been felt for centuries, and should be appreciated today.  Arminius stopped the Roman advance past the River Rhine.  Caesar Augustus had plans to push Rome’s borders to the River Elbe, but Arminius at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE dashed all hopes of that happening.  Today we have a little better knowledge of Arminius and the Germanic peoples of that time.  In the past we have relied on Tacitus’ accounts in his book, The Agricola and The Germania. However, archeology carried out over the last twenty or so years shines a more positive and detailed light on the Germanic peoples of that era ...   

At the time of Arminius the Germanic peoples lived in well established agricultural economic societies.  According to archeologist Peter S. Wells – Despite what Roman authors wrote about them, the peoples of central and northern continental Europe practiced a fully settled agricultural economy, as their ancestors had for over four thousand years before the time of Arminius.  They lived in sturdy houses in small settlements situated on small rivers or smaller streams to assure a constant supply of water.  

Tacitus writes – Even iron is not plentiful; this has been inferred from the sort of weapons they have (Tacitus, Ibid pg. 105).  According to Wells, that was not the case.  Many communities produced their own iron tools from local bog ores. By the time the settlement of Meppen and others like it were inhabited around the time of Christ, iron metallurgy had been practiced in the region for about seven centuries, and many blacksmiths were highly knowledgeable in the techniques of producing sharp, and durable steel blades for knives, sickles, scythes, axes, spears, and swords (Wells, Ibid. pg. 114).  This was the environment that Arminius grew up in.   

Archeology has helped to tell a better story about Arminius.  If you enjoyed these snippets, there are many more within the covers of Finding Polaris.  Click on the title as it appears on the right of this blog and you will be taken to the book's Amazon page.  

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