Comments by "Will Mosse" (@willmosse3684) on "Norse Pagan Altar/Hörgr-The historically accurate way" video.

  1. Great video. I am not totally sure about citing Stone Henge (or various other cairns in the British Isles) as an example of a Horgr in the strict sense that you are describing, relating to Germanic, Celtic or other Bronze Age and later European faith systems. Firstly, you were quite specific that Horgr were about Blot that were based on the lunar and not solar calendar. But Stone Henge is aligned based on the solar calendar, with the sun shining directly through the central stones on the solstice each year (which I always understood is where the idea of celebrating the summer soltice originated). And I believe this is the case with various large cairns too - the solstice sun shining through their entrances. And this presumably relates to the second point, which is that as I understand it, Stone Henge and various of the cairns were actually built before the proposed arrival of the Yamnaya/Indo-Europeans into what is now Britain and Ireland, and hence they were built by the Neolithic hunter gatherers that lived there before they were largely replaced by these Indo-Europeans. Given that it is the common descent from the Yamnaya incomers that is theorised to provide the link between the similar religion of various European peoples - Norse, Germanic, Celtic etc. - then it would seem that both the alignment with the solar calendar and their early date would preclude them from being part of the same wider religious group? Unless you are positing an even earlier religious link than from the Indo-Europeans? Or perhaps I have misunderstood some or all of this? If you feel like it, let me know your thoughts. Cheers 🍻
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