okay okay this video is not about anglo-saxon Israelitism. if you don't know what that is then
you're lucky, because it is something that is very very dumb, that very dumb people believe,
about anglo-saxons being one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. if you google it you will
encounter an enormous amount of rubbish that you should never ever waste your time with. this video
is about actual things that really happened in history. basically to do with the Anglo-Saxon
conversion to Christianity. as most people are aware Christianity is actually a Judaic Abrahamic
religion and the anglo-saxons formally worshipped pagan gods of their ancestors; Woden and
Ingui-Frey. I've made videos about both of them. but they had to be convinced to convert to this
new religion and their religion had formerly been about being very very conscious of traditions;
about what their ancestors had done, and preserving the ancient ways. now, how could they
then be convinced to worship a foreign god? how could they be convinced to change from worshipping
warrior gods to a meek god of forgiveness? how could they be convinced to worship a God who has
a chosen people of a completely different race from another part of the world? well we can see
partly how they were convinced by the skilful use of poetry and slight tweaking of the stories
in the Bible to make the Jews seem more like anglo-saxons and to equate the anglo-saxons with
Jews so that when the anglo-saxons were reading about the Bible and about the Jewish people they
didn't think of them as being so foreign and that they maybe thought they were a bit like them. I'm
going to look in this video at a few examples to demonstrate exactly how this was done. the first
example is Andreas; in this poem the Mermedonians are bad pagans and the bad pagans are somewhat
familiar to the anglo-saxons because they have already been told by the bishops and such, about
bad pagans in Europe; the Vikings the Danes. so by equating the Danes with bad pagans in the Bible,
like the Mermedonians, it therefore equates the anglo-saxons as being like the Jews who uphold the
old faith. "I shall dispatch Andres immediately as shelter and as solace in this heathen city.
He shall redeem you from this racial hatred." This is very similar to another anglo-saxon poem,
this one's called Judith, and in Judith the Assyrians are the bad pagans who are equated
with foreigners in Europe, thereby showing the Jews to be like the anglo-saxons. and
in this story there's a very bad pagan called Holofernes and being a bad pagan in Christian
religion - that means you go to hell - and in that poem they describe it as "snake hell" and
this is very similar to what we think of in anglo-saxon pagan, like Germanic pagan,
conceptions of Hell where Níðhöggr in norse paganism is said to gnaw at the roots of the world
tree deep in the underworld. "snake hell" is not really a very Christian way to describe hell. the
third and perhaps most interesting of the three is a translation of Exodus from the Bible into
Old English and it's dated to about the eighth century. "great was that hand-payment, and to him
the Lord, gracious, gave also the power of arms against grievous terror; he overcame by means of
battle the customs of the enemy race." In these lines 19- 21, Moses is depicted like
an Anglo Saxon warrior leader, and in line 29 the Jews are described as the chosen people,
and there's an allegory between the Anglo-Saxons and the Jews, each of whom have migrated from one
land to the next, and are seen to be "chosen." well the anglo-saxons were supposed to conceive
of themselves as being like the Jews, in the sense that they had migrated and also in the sense that
they were "chosen." Not chosen to be Jews but chosen to be Christians, and that that was the
new faith. Therefore anglo-saxons were able to consolidate a new identity that was Christian but
not offensive to their sensibilities as northern Germanic people. and also it habituated them
to very foreign conceptions, theologically and culturally, that were really Jewish. of course
if the Jews are meant to be seen like anglo-saxons in Exodus, migrating across the desert, what then
does that make the Egyptians - the bad pagans? probably to be seen very much like the Vikings.
however they're not just seen like the Vikings, in this sense, but could also be seen a bit like
the anglo-saxon pagan ancestors. you can tell that from the kind of language that's used to
describe the Egyptians: "there was most of Ing's army drowned to death by ancient punishment." In
line 33 it describes the Egyptian army as the ing Here, which means the army of Ing. now Ing
is Ingui-Frey - it's an anglo-saxon god. It's who the Anglo-Saxons often believed themselves to be
descended from. A very important deity. now here they're being encouraged to conceive the Egyptians
as being like their "bad" ancestors who were still pagan in those days.... there were still in the
8th century, pagans in England. so, this way they could be shown who the naughty people were - the
pagans in the Bible - and to equate them with those pagans in their own families and in their
own communities. in fact, the use of Ing is used three times to characterize the Egyptians. They're
even called the Inge-folc "the race of ing" and of course we know the Egyptians had absolutely
nothing to do with anglo-saxon deities. in this way the anglo-saxons were deceived into
thinking of their own ancestors as foreign, and of a foreign race as being like them. I
talked also in my film From Runes to Ruins about the conversion of the anglo-saxons,
and I made it clear that once the Anglo Saxons converted to Christianity they used Woden as an
ancient progenitor figure very much like Abraham is used by the Jews, and they all trace their
genealogies back to Woden who was himself shown in Anglo-Saxon genealogies to be descended from Noah,
because they had to reconcile their pagan ways with the new Christian narrative of history.
this quite a complex process of integration and it shows how propaganda and psychological
manipulation are used to trick people into giving up their ancestral ways, and adopting new ones,
because if you tell them the truth, they wouldn't go along with it. a warning from history.