they make you homesick for a place, you have never been and a life you never had...

THIS speaks to my soul. So beautifully. So clearly. LOOOOOOOOVE!

Heilung ist episch und Anoana ist mein Lieblingslied. Wie tief Maria mit ihrer Stimme gehen kann ist fantastisch.

This is my favorite song ever!! I just attended my first Heilung ritual a few weeks ago here in LA and the music felt tru my bones it was an amazing experience.

This is how I time travel....

The official music video for "Anoana" is also a lovely thing to behold.

Good reaction. Saw them in Denver in Oct and they are every bit as good as you imagine. They are playing Red Rocks next April (night of a full moon).

Nice to see you finally got to Heilung I recommended them to you a few years ago and you kinda blew me off saying you weren't interested. Now you know what I was talking about I knew your reaction would be good so thanks for finally reaching to them

Love their new live set up with the throne, art work and lighting.

Just subscribed. Unfortunately missed them. Saw them live last Oct in Greensboro NC. I'm 79 and have seen countless concerts in my day and their show is spectacular! I dare say the best I've ever seen. Very theatrical "Rituals" and my God those amplified drums. My chest is still vibrating, lol!

Check out their live version of Krigsgaldur (sp?).

Hey Just, you're giving me a great start to the year. First the great Franco Battiato and now Heilung hahaha. You see how everything I recommend ends up loving you. There are many curious facts about Heilung. They work hand in hand with archaeologists and all the texts of their songs are extracted from tombs, inscriptions on swords, on helmets, and in various documents preserved from the time about 1000 years ago. In this specific case, nothing is known about the meaning of the lyrics, except for the word Landawariar which means protector of the earth, also knowing that Anoana is the name of the adult actress who performs the official video. Heilung's costumes are completely correct, since each clothing is adapted with special care to the period, both proto-Germanic and northern European at that time. They make the instruments themselves, like the drums to which they give, let's say, a baptism of blood, while some are true museum pieces like an ancient rattle full of human ashes. These instruments have also caused them problems, especially human bones for tapping, with which they have had problems on the borders of some countries, especially in Russia. Well, nothing more for the moment. If you make other Heilung videos again, especially from the first album or the first concert, I will be able to tell you a lot, a lot of history and information about the meaning of their lyrics. For the moment I will tell you the following from his official Anoana video He lyrics for this piece are mainly taken from bracteates: golden, circular coins or amulets found in Northern Europe that date from the 4th to 7th centuries CE. They are often fitted with a decorated rim and loop, which indicates that they were meant to be worn and perhaps provide protection, fulfil wishes or for divination. The bracteates feature a very significant iconography influenced by Roman coinage. They were predominantly made from Roman gold, which was given to the North Germanic peoples as peace money. In Anoana, the listener has the chance to delve into a collection of likely encoded spells from the Migration Period and get a touch of magic from the Dark Ages. The intention of the piece is to playfully reconnect to an incantational language of a period where the North was richer in gold than any other region. Our forefathers presumably enjoyed a time of great prosperity and it may make us rethink how dark these ages real Above the sign on the womb of the giving birth mother is probably a painted version of Ægirs Hjelm/Aegishjalmur/Ægishjálmr ("Ægir's Helmet"), which is a symbol described in the Poetic Edda as a symbol of ultimate protection, physical, mental and spiritual referred to as protection against all kinds of fear "Ægir/Ægi" means "Sea" in both dialects of Old Norse and is also the name of the personification of the sea. "Ægir's Gate", describes the eddies that drag ships to the bottom of the sea. Ægir / Ægi has often been described as an old man with a long white beard, and to see him standing still in the water was a bad omen, as he surfaced to drag people and ships to the bottom of the ocean. Ægirs Hjelm is described in the Poetic Edda in a stanza with a shape-shifting dragon, Fafner, whose blood is poisonous. The dragon guards a treasure and, with the help of Ægirs Hjelm's spell, is invincible. In The Galdrabók, the symbol is also described as something "you wear on your forehead, between your eyebrows"). In any case, this must be taken with tweezers since it may be wrong. About the solar eclipse perhaps these images would be connected with the symbol of the black sun. For the ancients, the sun was the source of life, as it provided them with heat and energy. The lack of him was just the opposite. For the ancient peoples, it seems that the periodicity and continuity of day and night made us think not only of the existence of 1 sun, but of two suns, one bright and luminous and the other black. One represented life and the other death. This could be translated as the balance between light and dark and its connection to the world of the dead and the living. In it, the dawn of the day was interpreted as the rebirth of life and its renewal. That is why eclipses were so important for all primitive and ancient cultures: When the sun disappeared in broad daylight, they predicted that eclipses would bring about great changes, or that even in the worst case, the world could come to an end. This is the original letter: [María] Athilr Rikithir Ai Eril idi Uha Ijalh Fahd Tiade Elifi An It Athilr Rikithir Ai Landawariar Año Ana Fahd Tiade Elifi An It Aelwao Ano Ana Tuwa Tuwa Tau Liu Ano Ana Tuwa Tuwa [Kai] UL FOS LAU LAL GWUL PED UL ULD AUL LEI ELw ATH RET LAE TyS Otro REI GUI AU AU LA OA SEJS ZUL AU AL HaR HaS Ka TIL AZ Ha IR EL UNOZ LEIT Una DZ GUI UI THUL UHNG Ur OI WHUG DIT La La LIH LaL Ur USK GLa Jue LAL La La La TLG Jue TiL Ur Ur Ur Ur Gel THuL So Oth LAU IA TyL LI RAI WUI IL DAI TU Han UTH A IUr EL AL Dan An ERUI AL EIZ An RA TIU An KU AK The language is proto-norse. The language that the people living in scandinavia during the migration periode spoke in.Pre-viking era. The only words of Anoana's handwriting that are known with certainty is Landawariar (Protector of the land) About the Heilung costumes we can affirm the following: Kai Uwe Faust's tunic includes elements of the original peoples of Eurasia from the Stone Age to the end of the Iron Age; the helmet is based on a historical model from about 9000 years ago. Maria Franz's dress takes various types of Viking attire, being added by the singer several ornamental strips of the mane of a white horse. Her headdress is Siberian. Christopher Juu, meanwhile, wears historically correct Viking clothing. A hug and have a very good morning. 😁

I so enjoyed watching your reaction to this Heilung performance. I have been obsessed with them (and others such as Skald, Wardruna and Omni) and so enjoy seeing others discover them. Here’s hoping to seeing you at one of their upcoming rituals!

Wow, so much atmosphere

That gave me chills!

A little background going on here - from their official video. A child born under an eclipse in Old Norse was thought to be imbued with special powers allowing them to assume the form of an animal or restore its life from death. With regard to the eclipse itself, the Sun is pulled in a chariot by two horses ... who were chased by Skoll, a great wolf born of Fenrir. Skoll's sibling, Hati.... chased the moon. Ragnarok... their version of the end times was related to this event in which the Old Norse thought would occur of Skoll finally caught up with the Sun, and Hati finally caught up to the Moon... devouring them and unleashing the end times among those who believed it. So.... here's this video showing ceremonies with a whole lot of drumming going on which is what the Old Norse did way back then in an attempt to scare Skoll and Hati off from their heavenly pursuits. Anoana does a fantastic job of putting it together.

I saw them in Copenhagen. a great experience.

you are wiking. we all come from the same root. its just a more distant branch. resonance to somthing our thinking mind cant find relation to. but our heart does.

Must be the rutting season lol! Love the imagery! All very Druidism! Got the juices flowing! I'm off to a sacrifice! Great stuff! x

You really need to hear the band Fleet Foxes and their song "Third of May". Although not directly similar the "folkiness" is evoked.

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Nice bit of folk music. If you want some more folk (a song for mothers day - all about the love of the singer's mother) by an artist from back in the days of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, who was murdered by the Taliban , which you have to pretend you're watching in a remote Turkmen tent on a Soviet TV, in a part of the mountains where the reception isn't very good, then you might enjoy this performance of *Enna* kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jd13ksadltDQZac.html

The only rap I listen to now is Viking rap.

Never heard of this band before. Parts reminded me strongly of the Cocteau Twins.

I do find it appealing, but do I find it authentic? I’m thinking here in comparison to Hawkwind ‘Ghostdance’ at Stonehenge in the early 1980s and someone like Buffy St Marie ‘Power in the Blood’ with Tanya Taguq?

This is very nice but I can't help but think that Dead Can Dance did it first.

Well, it's no Tull.

'First and last men walk this earth, but only a few survive. I'm the Wizard Of Aus and i've got it all planned for my first nuclear device'.

Lovely fusion of modern instruments and (presumably) ancient ones, a modern rock sound and an old folk style, an indeterminate language and the universal language of music...but I don't really need to hear it again. Despite the unfamiliar throat singing, costumes and general ambience of the performance, I found it rather unexciting. Nice in the way that a cup of cocoa is nice but I'd rather have a double malt whisky.

For me it's the zenith of the highest stage ridiculousness with a minimum of musicality!🙄 Next....😒

One comes to these things trying to keep an open mind, one really does. But take away the sets, costumes, and amateur dramatics, and what have you really got... a relatively simple, monotonous, and repetetive tune. All a bit bread and circuses for my liking.