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Myth; Ritual; Runes; Glean insight into the Northern myth-world!

Andreas Kornevall joins AO Premium to present the Norse creation myth and the story that lies at the very heart of Norse mythology: the Birth of Wisdom. He will reveal the relationship between the runes and the Norse creation myth, and will discuss ancient rune amulets such as the ancient bracteates and runes stones.  Join us to discover theories of how rune amulets were used magically, and what influenced the magician who worked with them throughout the thousand-year history of runic writing.  It will be a journey that will take us to ancient mystery cults and to lost star constellations.  Much of this material has never before been translated into English. This compelling webinar will be a combination of storytelling, lecture and discussion.

Andreas is able to offer one-to-one sessions of his study material for those interested, please contact: [email protected] for more details. | AndreasKornevall.com

Andreas Kornevall grew up in South America, Sweden, and Switzerland.  He spent several years volunteering with charities around the world, after which, he co-founded www.workingabroad.com —a non-profit volunteering and travelling site, which has sent thousands of volunteers across the world.  He also directs the Earth Restoration Service Charity, which aims to enhance ecological integrity, by planting new woodlands around the world. www.earthrestorationservice.org  In response to the sixth mass extinction he co-founded the Life Cairn movement: memorials for species rendered extinct at human hands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_Cairn

As a writer he was the winner, 3rd prize, of the wordhut.com short story competition.  His writing on myth and ecology has appeared in books and publications such as the Dark Mountain Books, Resurgence Magazine, Permaculture Magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, Earth Lines, Positive News, Spiritual Ecology, The Barefoot Dairies, Kindred Spirits, The Ecologist, and more. His work has been covered by both The Guardian newspaper and the BBC.

As a storyteller he has worked with Sussex Past, the oldest archaeological society in the UK, to revive the ancient Pagan Anglo-Saxon Creation Myth, telling stories inside the iconic Lewes Castle, and he regularly works with the National Trust in the UK in re-storying the landscape of the South Downs in Sussex where he lives.  He has also delivered lectures at UK Universities in Norse Myths, and is an active member of the ‘Forn Sed’ (Old Customs Association) in Sweden which works closely with ancient Norse culture, traditions and spirituality, unearthing old legends, forgotten folklore and endangered Norse languages.

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The technical term for the study of sound at archaeological sites is “archaeoacoustics”, an area Paul Devereux has been involved in for over 20 years, even before it became the ‘in thing’.  In his return to Ancient Origins Premium, Paul will describe the three basic ways sound can be studied at various ancient sites, using many site examples from around the ancient world. And, yes, he will play soundtrack clips from some of them, so you can hear the old stones ‘speak’!

Paul is editor of Time & Mind – the Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, the author of the ground-breaking ‘Stone Age Soundtracks’ (signed copies obtainable from PaulDevereux.co.uk), and he will be giving the keynote address at the ‘Archaeoacoustics III’ conference in Tomar, Portugal, early in October – shortly after this webinar, in fact. AO Premium Members will be getting a sneak-peek at the things that will be discussed at the conference.

Paul Devereux BA, FRSA, is one of the pioneers of what used to be called “earth mysteries”, a field that later morphed into “ancient mysteries” and other terminology, having worked in the subject area for over four decades. Paul has authored 27 books and has written many dozens of articles for both popular and academic publications.  His main areas of research interest and involvement include multi-perspective studies of ancient sacred places and landscapes, the exploration of sound at archaeological sites (‘archaeoacoustics’), unexplained aerial phenomena (which he terms ‘earth lights’), the use of altered mind states by ancient peoples, along with general consciousness studies (including a major program of dreamwork at ancient sites). 

Paul Devereux is author of Stone Age Soundtracks| Paul Devereux.co.uk

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Was an ancient chieftain devoured by toads? Delve into the ancient landscape and learn about a portal dolmen at Trellyffaint which is littered with ritual monuments—their use and date yet unknown!

The much-ruined burial monument, known as Trellyffaint, is considered to represent the remains of a Portal Dolmen. The folklore associated with the monument dates back to the medieval period when Welsh historian and geographer, Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales), believed that Trellyffaint, or ‘Toad’s Hall’, was so-named because a chieftain buried inside the tomb had been hunted and eaten by toads!

In late 2016/early 2017, a team of archaeologists, led by researcher Dr George Nash from the University of Bristol and co-founder of the Welsh Rock Art Organization, uncovered through geophysical survey the remains of a possible Stonehenge-type prehistoric henge monument next to the south-eastern section of the monument, standing 250 meters east of the Welsh coastline and Cardigan Bay, UK. 

In April 2018, Dr Nash and co-director Carol James will be directing a small excavation program that will hopefully identify two clear circular anomalies and tie-down a dating sequence.  They regard these features may possibly be henges, precursors to Stonehenge (otherwise referred to as hengiforms) each measuring around 12 meters in diameter and possessing a possible ditch.

Dr George Nash has been an academic and professional archaeologist for the past 30 years and has undertaken extensive fieldwork on prehistoric rock-art and mobility art in Chile, Denmark, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Norway, Sardinia, Spain and Sweden. He has written and edited many books on prehistoric art and prehistoric monumentality, including: Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean Island Ritual   |  Visit Dr Nash’s Website

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Göbekli Tepe, Turkey: Lying half-a-mile across a tough limestone plateau from the main sacred mound, is a 22ft-long T-shaped monolith that, like many other examples around the world, never got finished or moved to the main temple site.
Aswan, Egypt: In the famous granite quarries lies the largest obelisk ever recorded. Cut out of granite, and estimated to weigh 1168 tons, it never got removed from the quarry that the pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt were built with.

Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Still reclining in the rock quarry alongside the edge of a volcano on Easter Island, is the largest Moai on the island. Unfinished and sleeping, it waits for the gods to return to erect the 270 ton Moai into place.

Today: Freemasons still carry out rituals at ancient quarries and local shamans revere them as sacred places.

These are just a few examples of what may have been part of a very ancient tradition that the megalith builders partook in, that was passed down through multiple generations, and was part of a ritual technique that may have been seen to bring the stones to ‘life’ and imbue them with ‘power’, as well as leaving clues to future generations as to how they worked, quarried and moved these stones.

As we’ll see as we survey these sites and man more worldwide, it quickly appears that the ancients deliberately left ‘signatures’, incorporating abstract style, technique, relief carvings, and even hidden geometry, metrology, geodesy and number systems. Hugh Newman returns to AO Premium to take a closer look into the secrets of the megalithic quarries.

Hugh Newman is a world explorer, megalithomaniac and author of Earth Grids: The Secret Pattern of Gaia’s Sacred Sites (2008); co-author of Giants On Record: America’s Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files with Jim Vieira (2015), and is published in four Ancient Origins e-books. He has been a regular guest on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and Search for the Lost Giants and organizes the annual Megalithomania conferences and tours and co-organizes the Origins Conference in London with Andrew Collins. 

He will be speaking and hosting Megalithomania 2017 in Glastonbury on 20th-21st May 2017. Details at: www.megalithomania.co.uk

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