eUROPEAN iNDIGENOUS kNOWLEDGE (eik)

RECOVERING A PRE-AGRICULTURE SEASONAL CALENDAR FOR ATLANTIC WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES

AWAKENING THE HORSE PEOPLE

This image represents an annual cycle of deeply held, seasonal activities and movements (lifeway) for at least one band of Aquitainian (proto-Basque) speaking hunter-fisher gatherers of the Atlantic margin of France (see map) prior to their displacement by neolithic cultures.   This ever-growing pool of cultural knowledge has been gathered over the last fifteen+ years through a process of ancestral recovery.    Information presented in this calendar has grown from a variety of sources including scientific research, archeological findings, intuitive experiences, language recovery, and cultural practice.  The ongoing accumulation of intuitive ancestral recovery combined with academic research allows for this calendar to grow and evolve.   The calendar is offered especially for those persons whose ancestral recovery work takes them farther back in time than connection to neolithic or “Celtic” ancestors and ways of life.  It is my deepest hope that this seasonal cycle will also serve as a source of inspiration for others to recover, grow, and follow their own people’s ancestral lifeways and seasonal relationships.  This is ancestral recovery in its truest form – and yes, it can be done!

Ancestral Recovery Yields Pre-Neolithic Calendar      >LINK<

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ANCIENT SPIRIT RISING: RECLAIMING YOUR ROOTS & RESTORING EARTH COMMUNITY

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will lord of the stone age

Learn prehistoric skills from the world's leading flint master through immersive courses in the heart
of Norfolk, UK and  master the art of ancient survival - foraging, weapons,  hide-tanning, drum-making
and many others.      >LINK<

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cailleach's herbarium

BY SCOTT RICHARDSON-READ

Communalism, Reciprocity and hospitality were, and are, at the heart of Creideamh-sìth, fairy faith and Scottish animist belief.     A different system of community was in place in Scotland before the impact of imperialism was fully felt - things could be hard, but because it was hard, folk knew their community and survival depended on cooperating and no one hoarding the wealth and. Some say this changed when the Statutes of Iona happened, as the lairds were kidnapped by the English imperial force and forced to sign the agreement, which meant, amongst other things, their descendants, and anyone worth more than 50 cows, were sent to be educated in the world of commerce in the English system.

This meant the idea of communalism, hospitality and reciprocity became overwritten in a top-down way, you might say, by the goals of commerce.   At the heart of the communalism way of life was an understanding nature, and ecology was also part of the community, along with people, and we needed to work together to thrive. These ideas at the heart of the creideamh-Sìth.      Of course, nature became less of a partner as things progressed and the reformation took hold, and the drives toward “improvement” were made. The notions of a collective working together became more about ownership, working for an employer and money for “them.”

If we hold to the Creideamh-sìth it means exploring these more connected ways of relating to one another, with an understanding that no one can survive alone or outside of nature. We need to rekindle these relationships as a matter of urgency, but how they might express themselves today is still hard to fully see. This is explored in the book "Mill Dust and Dreaming Bread" and through the writing on the Cailleach Herbarium website.       
​https://cailleachs-herbarium.com

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