Good timing. I recently passed my infant son through Men an Tol to make sure he isn't changeling! My wife passed through the hole of the river stone in Dartmoor which makes women get pregnant and then became pregnant within a month or two

My friends did a hand fasting at their wedding. It was very beautiful!

Most non-Welsh people struggle greatly with the pronunciation and throatiness of Welsh names, but you did really well with them. Was quite impressed.

Bulgaria has a few places with healing stones, ( промушилки ) "to pass through". Passing through stone hole or arch, leaving the old clothes behind is associated with rebirth. One such of place in Скрибина has known to have a dweller and protector, a big black snake, a shape-shifter which can manifest as person sometimes. Snakes are associated with healing in many cultures. Changing their skin is a symbol of rebirth.

This is fantastic research. These stones with their oath making and healing rituals may even go back before the Celts into the neolithic or even further back.

Just want to say thank you for making these videos!

Excellent explanation of the connection between Lugh and Odin, many compelling parallels. Thanks for the informative presentation

Watching your videos is like finding missing puzzle pieces. Absolutely wonderful work!

There was also a Nordic tradition (described during the 1800's but the tradition was likely many centuries old by then) to heal sick children through the hole made by two branches of a tree, having grown into each other and forming a loop. I was unaware of this being done with stones as well, but find it likely to be due to celtic influence rather than the other way around. It also reminds me of the old descriptions of how certain individuals would "walk through the earths jewlery", as it can be translated, in a kind of marriage ceremony between brothers at arms or others who wished to create a strong bond between each other. The reason for the association with Oden/Odin, I suspect, come from his shamanic and ritualistic nature. Traveling between worlds, shapeshifting, forming bonds between kings and warriors (such as himself and the berserkers). And he was, after all, a king. A leader with, among other things, a juridical role and a need to make compromises at times. The similarities with a round holes similarity with Draupners shape was likely also a factor. As for the rope, there is a song about how he sacrificed himself to himself, by a noose in a tree, while being stabbed with a spear. This may all be partially connected to fertility, as indicated in your following comment. The female tightening noose, the male thrusting spear, an object passing through an opening. The extremity of a finger or arm going into the hole of a ring. Fertility, be it for children, fortune, kinship or a productive buisness partnership. We know, after all, that the power of recreation was more respected in pre-christian Europe than later in time.

There's something similar in the middle of a river bed before the cascade not far from the town I live in. We, the locals, thought it was a weird natural freak geological occurrence. It's common for those who find the feature to let kids climb through it. Actually, you're hard pressed to stop kids doing it. The little nippers just love it. BTW, I live in Australia

One of these stones with a hole near my home in N Ireland. It's a fertility stone. Male and female put their hands through to create a fruitful union.

makes you wonder where the term "holy" actually derives

I just found your channel, I’ve been guided to learn more about the Celtic gods

Another fantastic video! Thank you for your work 🙏🏻

Excellent channel, I always watch this after working on stuff for mine, to relax.

Didn't Odin have an oath ring named Draupnir from which 8 more rings dripped every 9 nights?

I would suggest you try and make a live chat with Tom Roswell from survive the jive to talk about the similarities and differences between Celtic and german myth. It would be a banger bro!!

Really interesting stuff. Keep them coming. Great work 👍🏻

Thank you, Sir. Always good content!.

I've always considered that the Odin stone was associated with Odin because Odin is the one eyed god, and the stone has one hole.

Delighted to discover your channel. Great work!

Fantastic video. Great research. Thank you

I love the new design stuff and intro. It makes this unique channel feel even more rare & special!

Great story as always

Coolness! Very fascinating... 🌟

Now i learnd something new

Great video, thank you fruend.

Loved the talk.... Thanks!

In Germany? Than i must visit it some day.I didn't knew that

Very interesting episode

Very interesting. Thanks.

This is awesome.

Waiitttt I hear Jeremy Soule music!! Soundtrack from Skyrim to be precise 🤘❤️

I can't remember where I heard this, but I remember somebody saying that Odin was said to be any place where light is let through one spot. Like when the sun light shines a beam through an opening in the tree canopy or an open spot on the roof. Just thought of that now as these stones are meant to replicate that effect. Its weird when the light gets concentrated like that, when you go hiking and you walk underneath a beam of light like that, concentrated beam from the canopy above, when it hits your skin its like this full body tingle you get...its great.

Now i'am curious

Thank for covering Odin. I have a channel also where I have linked Odin to the Tree of Life and the Washington Monument.

Namaste they are doors you cant see it or think of it as 3d the dots on the surface create holographic images astral travel into the stone its a fractal between spirit and here its a matter of density like us we aren't solid either 🖖

The moment I heard Menhir I remembered fond memories of Obelix creating these stone structures.

In ancient egypt txts talk about evil spirit cant travel through a circle but only at angles, and since evil spirits were thought to cause illnesses and what not, it makes sense.

are these related to the ancient "serpent eggs" carried by celts?

native americans' call them medicine. Good strong medicine for your infinite spirit, Stand tall!

Another possible connection to Odin: Jackson Crawford translated a power of Odin's spear to be that it: "never stopped in its thrust" which matches the spear piercing through the stone.

I always saw parallels between ODIN and LUGH. It's cool that I wasn't crazy.

Any link between Balor One Eye and Odin, also of One Eye. The same with King Nuada and Tyr/Tews both with one hand. The Vanir (Celts) vs. The Aesir (Asia - Germanic/Norse).

O hEochaidh Hoy, Haughey, Hoey Tuatha De Danann, Red Branch, Darini, Dal Fiatach Dynasty, and Hoy Island Orkney Haey for high Island Old Norse, been tracking my ancestry all through here, truly amazing, very much enjoyed, thank you, all the very best. The stone at beginning looked to me like a man and women embracing. I am thinking we were the same possibly Celtic Norse at that time, trying to figure it all out.

Boy do I enjoy this kind of stuff!! Especially the Goth writers of their time, put a lot of this and folklore in their stories among Roman, Celtic, and Norse gods and legends. There's this story called, "The Cairn Upon The Headland" that everyone should hear; it's on KZfaq, just put that name in and it's one of the coolest short stories that has this type of awesomeness in it.

Also, it would be great if you could have told us from which century are each of these legends and stories, especially if they are either pre or post Christianity era

The Skyrim soundtrack really fits this man

Anyone else notice the skyrim background music at the start?🎵🥰

@15:24 Lughnasadh means 'Lugh's Sleep' = the sun's decline and 1st harvest -- it's kinda like a funeral feast - gather useful things in prep for Samhain and the wait till Imbolc, which is when the fire is rekindled; next is Beltain is maintaining and feeding the fire.

The Farmer's Market a town away is always and only open on Wednesday.

In Germany we say Wotan but i think it's the sam God as Odin?

nice skyrim music!

Well, I for one, am sorry the mob didn't succeed in burning that farmer's house down. There should be punishment for destroying ancient art or spiritual artifacts.

Great video, pieced together beautifully. Is there any other evidence for a Celtic Yggdrasil? I would be very interested in this topic, golden apples, oak groves, yew lined churchyards etc Edit: I see you've already done a few videos surrounding this topic

Enlightening as always. Are you still working on your translation of the battle of moytura?

In Indian weddings, the bride wears a band of bangles. Is that possibly a pan-Indo-European sharing of this concept or did it arise after the Vedic period?

I thought holes in stones were gaint beads for the Gaint Martial Goddress... Always sreaching forward, ty.

Would like to request more content on Greek Mythology please 😎😉

For some reason, I'd never connected oath rings with oath stones. A bit thick, with that one. ;) Thanks!

I didn't know what the hole was for 😊

I can tell you the holes . We're to see into future or past as well. To tell ones fate and how to change it. Among many other uses.

Are oath stones related to the "sword in the stone" of Arthurian legend? A sword can be an oath, yes?

interesting

I have read about the dragon-stones in Ireland (Serpent-stones, adder-stones, druids-glass, Cailleach-stones) which this reminds me of, this also remind me of 'Thor's-ring' in Dublin that people would swear on and also the act of swearing on the Bible at an alter.

Great video as always! :D so interesting! I feel like I always learn a lot watching your videos! ♡ I wonder if the the bound figure on the Kirkby Stephen stone & the Gosforth Cross has any relation to these hole rocks? :0 as they show figures sealed/bound with ropes (being depicted on stone might be significant?) I think one is of Loki though. Not sure if they are related... but your video made me think of them! :0

What a godsend this is! I've been very intrigued by the Norse-Celtic connection. Initially I thought all that knotwork was Irish, but the Irish were so heavily (more than I knew) influenced by the Norse that their cultures blended. It stands to reason their gods would intertwine as well. Lugh as Odin/Woden! Oh boy! I'm off to apply that to my interpretations.

"That Odin must have been associated with the binding power of the oath": It's said that Gungnir, Odin's spear, has the power to uphold any oath that is made upon it.

9:59 - Aslan was sacrificed on a stone table...

We talk about "magical" healing properties. But if we could go back, we would find structures like stone circles or the alignment of 2:20 that could be rendered energetic-electromagnetic by erecting them on ley lines and placing copper ropes beneath them. It is reported that Indians used large magnetic copper ingots (made with iron impurities) as "medicine." So we are ignorant of the ancient ways. Perhaps next time we will resurrect them!

Or very similar

Like an olden day mri scanner how odd is that

just watched a recent video my metatron.. said the continental celts didn't really paint themselves.. do you agree ?

Of course the Church 😫

When someone was chained to the stone was someone on the other side attempting to cast a spear through the hole in a form of judgement by the Gods?

While most of not all of these stones have man made holes. Is it possible any had a natrual origin, that were venerated for the unusual holes ?

probably represents odin's eye right

Not a mention of giants hmmm intresting

Also look up king Arthur's castle Arizona. Built when i was one. Im on facebook with my seal

Doesn't Stonehenge have 56 holes for lunar cycles? Maybe it was a definition of knowledge to go someplace, pilgrimage, or a "world" like Enoch saw. It probably built on that. I don't know a whole lot, but I think things exploded in Irish folklore randomly when several people became schizophrenic because I talk to certain things and inside out, out inside. He associates his anger with a lightning strike. He then becomes lightning that strikes and things happen when lightning strikes back.

Elsweyr !!!

There's a cluster of these in BotW

I know that music when I hear it...😂

Oh hung on a tree sounds familiar

Does Odin, mean "one eye""?

They worshipped his body

@8:07 the stone looks like a head on profile to me.. more like an American Indian though, than European.

Well that is certainly an improvement over the Canaanites passing their children (first borns) through the flames to their deaths.

Och ok i never came to that lol😁

Germanic and Mediterranean mythologies are the ones with the most in common with Celtic mythology.

How does Bethesda feel about you poaching the music from Skyrim?

Human sacrifices are still practiced today We call it capital punishment.

I lov hand fasting (;

...Odal lands will be returned... ...the age of balance cometh... forn sidr

Odin translates Aw damn Adam

Dude.... volume.

Juice s’s.

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Consider the esoteric and spiritual meaning. Is that hole also know as the Needles Eye? To pass thru requires much purity. The seed of purity promised in the Christian New Testament is a purity achieved with strict vegetation diet, also recieving the New Adam seed. These purfications are with those who escape the deception of murderer god. They do not make their body a grave with carcass eating and therefore are gaining a goodheart of flesh and escaping the hardheartedness . Peace

Og glory holes