Survivalism, Permaculture & Bushcraft

Did you know that the white and red stripes on a windsock are not for decoration?

They actually indicate precise wind speeds.

Here's how.

Science and facts💡

“The Evenks have a belief that life never ends. The fire lit by ancestors will be maintained from generation to generation. My ancestors were reindeer herders. They lived in a chum, my grandmother sang folk tunes to my mother, and she passed them on to me when I was little. Children are always close to the upper world of spirits. It is from there that their soul bird flies to us, to which we address our songs.

The Evenks are an indigenous people of Russia. Descendants of the inhabitants of the Tungusic state, the golden empire. Today they live in territories from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean, from the Arctic Ocean to the steppes of Mongolia. They spread Tungusic culture and heritage. Now it's my turn to pass on the traditions further, through my songs. Grandmother to mother, mother to me, and I to the whole world. I am Aina, 🔗 an author and folk performer.”

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“Another time the Chudes¹ came in great numbers to Lake Nuortijärvi — for Nuortijärvi lay along one of their main routes through Kola — and they laid waste to an entire Skolt Sámi village, killing every soul. Only one lass they spared, taking her along with them, supposedly as a cook.

At the mouth of the Lutto River they stopped and spent the night in an abandoned cabin. There the lass began to pity the men, saying:

«You poor fellows are terribly dirty and your clothes are in a dreadful state. Would it not be a good idea now to wash all your garments clean, since there is plenty of water and a kettle here? I will do the washing.»

«Well, that would be fine,» said the men, and they took off all their clothes and lay about completely naked in the sauna while she went off to do the washing. But she stuffed the rags, the kettles, and everything else into the ice-hole and fled.

At last the saundrels² realized the washergirl’s treachery and set off in pursuit of her. But they all froze in the winter frost. One of them managed to run as far as Rippisalmi before collapsing onto the ice, bent over and exhausted.”

— Samuli Paulaharju: Kolttain mailta (1921) [“From the Lands of the Skolts”], p. 32. Quoted segment translated by Wäinölä.

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¹) The Čuđit are hostile foreign raiders or enemies in Sámi tradition, often associated locally with peoples approaching from the south or east.

²) Neologism from sauna & scoundrel. Coined for this post. Original text has the word saunakyöpelit, but in lack of a suitable accurate translation, a wee bit of liberty was taken.

Photo: Skolt girl Marja Gerasimov doing laundry. Taken by Frans Äimä, Kolttaköngäs, Petsamo, 1927. Colorized and extended sideways [incl. actual manual work, not just clicking on buttons]. Original photo (CC BY 4.0): Finna.fi 🔗

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Saw this going around. In the UK it's getting harder to be sure your meat is not being cruelly halal slaughtered. Heads up, I recently discovered that most lamb slaughtered for export from NZ is halal! And I heard that upwards of 80% of lamb slaughtered in UK is now halal!

The lefty cognitive dissonance of accepting violent and hateful ideologies is making it so that animal abuse, child abuse, domestic abuse, and sexual brutality are all being normalized in the name of "tolerance."

We must make animal welfare a right wing issue. Our way is not to blindly accept the torture of animals. Even if we raise animals for food, we must ensure dignity and respect for all stages of the process.

Halal awareness needs to spread. Westerners against the world in terms of our standards for respect and welfare of animals.

Aldi is a German company and the Germans have a better historical track record than most for animal welfare. The big bad baddies put the most advanced animal protection laws in place in the 1930s!

If you've ever wondered what the ancient Finnish or other Finno-Ugric hillforts looked like, of which often nothing but a couple of portal stones remain, then here's some good news.

There is ample reason to believe that the fortification seen in this 1898 photograph (top; colorized) taken by U. T. Sirelius in Khanty territory in the Vasyugan region of Siberia is fairly close to e.g. ancient Finnish ones.

Saitpa nei'on, voitit vallan,
Sorrit jo sotiveräjät,
Langetit jo lautalinnan.

— SKVR VII2 3003. Ilomantsi, Europaeus, D. E. D. H, n. 201. 1845.

[ You won the maiden, won dominion;
you crushed the battle-gates,
you brought down the plank-built fortress. ]

Lower-left photo: the "battle-gates", lower-right photo: Hakastaro hill, the site of an ancient hillfort. Photos by Leif Rajalin.

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Americans have invented a foldable shotgun that fits easily in a backpack

On the lies agendized scientists tell to make us believe human races are one species:

"When classifying animals into species, the public is shockingly misled about what this definition actually means. We are often told that the ability to produce fertile offspring is what defines a distinct species.

Yet, this definition is quietly ignored when reports of polar and grizzly bear fertile hybrids are creating a new species. This is called evolution via hybridization.

The same is being seen in the new coy-wolf-dogs in North America. Wolves, coyotes, and dogs are all distinct species, yet they can all interbreed and produce fertile offspring." - CE

From Learn from the Birds, PDF for subs - www.subscribestar.com/OakwiseBecoming

Male deities played a role in fertility rites in addition to female deities. My husband and I had a discussion about how man is the farmer & woman the soil. She can’t bring forth life without him. He lights the spark, sows the seed, and protects the saplings from the ravaging forces of nature. But, the soil is where the magick happens. It is a mysterious sort of alchemy that induces awe, respect, and must be nurtured and protected for the growth and health of the entire tribe. I truly believe that men saw this as their sacred duty.

In fact, the Slavic deity Makosh or Makosha is referred to as “moist Mother Earth” and associated with good and fertile soil. We know from folkloric accounts of Russian peasants that reverence for “moist Mother Earth” carried on into very recent times universally among men, women, and even the Russian Orthodox clergy! And, Thor's lightning bolt can be seen as his own fertility aspect.

Excerpt from "Eostre & Beyond" essay for subs https://www.subscribestar.com/OakwiseBecoming

CE

Permaculture in action: raised beds, pond and wildlife zones all getting integrated into one self-sufficient system.
The lesson for preppers: build redundancy, grow food, capture water and make every part of your property serve more than one purpose.
https://youtu.be/O6tfO1x0284

Please share in groups with UK people. Very important to reclaim our ethnic values of animal welfare in Western nations! Ban Semitic Kosher and Halal religious ritual slaughter which is torture.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762116

🇮🇸 Iceland has banned the import of foreign horses of other breeds since the 10th century in order to preserve the purebred Icelandic horse.

Icelandic horses have been bred on the island for over a thousand years. This breed is highly recognizable due to its short stature (only up to 145 cm at the withers) and thick fur, which allows it to withstand cold weather. These horses live quite a long time – up to 40 years.

Interestingly, it was precisely these horses that the Vikings rode, and it was they who brought them to the island in the 9th-10th centuries. It is believed that Scandinavian seafarers favored these horses precisely because of their short stature, as this allowed them to save space on their longships. Unfortunately, these horses rarely appear in feature films about Vikings.

Genetic studies of mitochondrial DNA have shown that Icelandic horses are related not only to European horses but also to the Mongolian horse (Nolf, Pamela M., "Detecting Icelandic Horse Origins," Icelandic Horse Quarterly, 2012). Apparently, the Mongolian horse admixture was acquired by Northern European horses before their introduction to Iceland, as the same admixture has been detected in Fjord, Exmoor, Highland, Shetland, and Connemara pony breeds. This suggests that all these horses descend from a single ancestral population.

Subsequent attempts to introduce Eastern blood into the Icelandic breed only led to the deterioration of the breed. And in 982, the Althing, the Icelandic national assembly, passed a law prohibiting the importation of horses of other breeds to the island. Therefore, Icelandic horses have maintained a pure pedigree for over a thousand years. Iceland's current legislation not only protects its horses from the displacement of other breeds but also from the diseases foreign horses can bring. Therefore, even an Icelandic horse cannot return once it leaves the country.

In 2017, Icelanders even decided to ban giving their horses foreign names. This requirement was put forward by the International Federation of Icelandic Horse Associations (FEIF), and the responsible horse registration committee in Iceland approved it. For a horse's name to be entered into the database, it must be traditionally Icelandic, such as Björk, Dakkr, etc. These are often the names of Gods and figures from Norse mythology. For example, it is not uncommon to encounter a horse named Baldr.

This concern for the genetic purity and uniqueness of Icelandic horses, and even the linguistic purism regarding their names, is commendable.

But I also involuntarily recall the words of the genius evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin, with whose statement we will conclude our short story. In his seminal work, «The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex» (1871), Darwin wrote:

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care. He is impelled by nearly the same motives as the lower animals, when they are left to their own free choice, though he is in so far superior to them that he highly values mental charms and virtues.

#Biology@thetruenorthener #History@thetruenortherner

Inspiring documentary about a Frenchman who left the 9‑to‑5 life to build a small earth and straw house off‑grid without a bank loan.
This video is about natural building, self‑sufficiency, and the idea of "tending the wild" instead of clearing everything away.
It features some pretty cool ideas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aucsiGWbEyU

The Neolithic reconstruction houses at the Stonehenge Visitor center.