Law of The Naked

Dedication, your roots, the book, Gwion Gwion girls, Pilbara humour, a mystery

Managers wherever you are ... unite!

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I'm incited by intent as it amuses my mind

to let a tune carry words. I'll hurry and sing

I'll find my tribe song, fetch my blood songs

Softly words on my tongue, sayings are boiled down

hurrying upon my tongue, playing on my teeth.

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The frost told me the tune, the rains send me rune songs

poems came in the breeze, came on waves from the ocean

birds gave songs, the tops of the trees whispered witch anthems

I've wounded them up to a ball. I've made bundles of them,

laid the balls in the sledge, put the bundles at bottom of the toboggan

I've brought them home in my sledge, drawn the toboggan to the shed

I've stacked them on the loft, thrown them into the copper case.

For ages my poems dwelled in frost hidden in hideaways

Should I bring in my poems, rescue them from the frost

bring my case to the stove, lay my casket on the bench,

below the neat rounded ceiling crowned by the ridge of the roof?

Should I open the treasure box of words, lock up my rune casket

Should I wind up my clues, loosen my bundles of songs?

Mighty tunes I'll sing, let beautiful songs free.

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From Kalevala the song Luonnotar and Vaeinaemoinen

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The book I dedicate to my sister Laila lost since childhood

and to my grandpa Uki, a guide to the domains of Kalevala songs.

Since inheritances oblige to tell old folk tales to the future child.

In the Danish foster soil I found the same songs

boiling in my native blood as in the rocks upon Dal.

In the mirror of the very past we are all cousins.

The roots of the tribe tree are spread and all over mother Earth,

when looking back a couple hundreds of generations

- neither could all be named for their words to all poems in this song.

On Dal May 1998

The goddess Freya speaks to her sister Hyndla and Ottar Innsteinson on the road to Valhalla.

among men in Midgaard?

... That is all your tribe poor Ottar.

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Normally people have only a few generations in mind. That is back to grandparents and possibly their parents. In Danish tongue are words for older generations by the prefix "tip" to oldfather. One may put as many tips as generations to go farther back as tip-tip-tip-oldfather for an example.

Genealogists dig as deep as judgement books and parish registers allow. That is as in my case back to the seventeenth century to the first known roots in Karelia. When I studied the history of Dal, I found that following a royal family tree from the eleventh century to a living family today is possible. Nevertheless, it is only in a few cases one may go that far among them. Then one has to allow that women also may carry the family tree. To me it is natural, but between the organised noblesse they count only men.

They wrote the poem Hyndluljòd down in the fourteenth century, but the contents are many centuries older than that. There we meet the problem of lack of knowledge about many things. We may not create a family tree if there were no families.

Many indications may us think that before roman influence man lived in collectives. A settlement housed a population of related families. Nevertheless, land was not owned individually and generations followed each other without distribution of inheritance.

Our ancestors learned latest about private property and inheritance when they traded with the romans and later when they where legionnaires under the roman eagle. We may presume that at least the upper class of tradesmen founded their own family clans after the middle of the first century AD. Family names ending in -ungar, -ingar, -lingar was current in the Germanic world including the Anglo Scandinavian sphere. However, our kind of family counting biological inheritance and owning of property came first when taxation became common probably about 800 AD in some parts of Sweden ... as far as we know at this stage.

In the past we have to consider the small population overall in Northern Europe. For instance at Dal the taxation in 1413 counted less than three hundred farmers. To this come a dozen of the nobility and perhaps only a few of higher degree. In books of 1613 they register about four thousand five hundred adults.

... the same population as Stockholm at the time. Just before the great emigration in the middle of nineteenth century population was around 80000 at Dal. The astonishing fact is that the methods of agriculture were almost the same during this period. So if we go further back in time we may not expect too many settlements with numerous populations.

Some inhabitants of the New World relate to those who came with Mayflower. It is a noble way to get more right than others are (as far as the own peacemakers are strongest perhaps). Yet when young skinheads or other youngsters without roots are talking about their own tribe it is mostly taboo.

Nevertheless, I see no difference when my fishes in the aquarium, smallest livings, herbs, animals or humans form tribes or use to stick together if some threat appears. The other day a circus was in town. They made a small fence for some small animals like a pair of lamas, a donkey, a zebra and a few ponies. At the beginning the donkey followed the zebra as they where pals. It is a natural reaction for all beings to stick together until all of them have settled to peace.

Many beings have the habit to cooperage within the own species and in certain cases with other inhabitants on earth. It is more common than we may imagine.

My way of judging and thinking are in the general in the echosophic way. This means that all phenomena in our big house, the world is to be considered and used when analysing our living and behaviour. I use a new word to picture this. It is composed in the same way as ecology and economy and means wisdom of the house ... the house in the Gorby style. However the word "European house" has been used long before Gorby as for instance by Gustav II Adolf.

When skinheads talk about their tribe and their blood it is of course what they have learnt about their roots and belonging. Mostly they are young people and according to law in Scandinavia responsibility lies on parents and society until the youngster reach the lawful age.

They amaze me when Americans or USA, the land of freedom and right as they say, thinks about dead penalties for children. What a nest of barbarians! No one should have the right to destroy its own kind. That is the law of the living spirit. If they should punish anyone, it is the parents and those in society responsible for education and care of children. The behaviour of Americans is against all to which I was brought up.

It is also against all I have written in my books. It is against the law about humanity. I read it in the remains of distant ancestors. For them everyone had almost an imperative necessity to take care of the weakest in society. If one bargains about it, one is bargaining about life and soon one may destroy life. When caring we all preserve humanity and life on earth. In wider perspective the "house" is our living room where our larder and recreation are.

So if our youngsters behave as they had no roots and no common denominator with our ancestors they have not learnt better. Worst of all if they look upon other nationalities as enemies. It is lack of responsibility in the older generation and society. Society almost encourages raw behaviour these days ... did the old Greeks say that too? Maybe I am growing old. Freedom should not be anarchy. Only the collective may restrict the beast in man.

When I started my search for deeper roots, it was practically of curiosity. My body and soul are always burning in search to get an answer to what things is about. It is a wonder I have a nose left when I think about the places in which it has been. My brain needs fuel all the time and only new knowledge keeps the fire burning. I am born independent with self-confidence and with no need for roots to stabilise these things. However, I simply have to know why man is acting the way He does.

I realise that the next generation has to define own opinions about the world. Try to dictate to a youngster how to do, and that with strength will do the opposite! Increase of knowledge or data throughout the growth of man form opinions and outlook for the life.

If people only know about the last centuries it is almost about the struggle between people without everlasting culture. If they know about five thousand years of roots the present is less exiting because one sees most at a distance. It is absurd when the Swiss, Norwegian and Americans armour themselves to the teeth in a time of peace. Historians see that the periods of war are short and that the cheapest way of setting conflicts is thorough negotiation.

Nevertheless, I think youngsters ought to have the same guidance as I had as a foundation of my outlook for my future when I was young. No one forced me to my outlook, but guided me by examples and gave me the means for knowledge. Best of all adults treated me with respect. If you say that a skinhead is a bad boy he will become as bad as his fantasy may carry him.

The living young generation has almost the same poor knowledge about roots as my generation born in the absurd period with Hitler as chief shaman. At the beginning my book was not meant to be an address against racism. However if people know their roots better perhaps, they will see that we have much more in common than in differences. They say that we genetically have 98 % in common with the orang-utan. I believe that when I see my round stomach, my baldhead and my fluffy hair on the sides.

Still, I know too well those gods and fools are not listening, because they are from another world. Many people listen only to what they want to be true.

For some it is easier like the American way sees other people as enemies. There are no proportions in their fear as in America are only a few groups of Indians left. Yet, they wear peacemakers against the "red". I use them as an example because they are all our family, and all we read about.

Of course we relate us in the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon world to each other more than with slaves and folks in the Middle East. Nevertheless, we are the same tribe and ancestors of the world are just about our tribe. We in Northern Europe have in common that very little is written about the thoughts, rituals and customs of our earlier ancestors. My book is a trial to give us as much a verbal world as Egypt, Sumer and Ionia. That means we have something to compare with instead of comparing us with "wild, primitive Stone Age people."

Knowing about ancestors and history is to see why we think the way we do ... and at the best avoid doing the mistakes our forerunners did. It is a human habit to do mistakes. Otherwise we would not know what is right or best way in lack of comparative antitheses. Much of the life is a middle road between too much and too little. Our ancestors had the symbol of two twisted snakes. The snake was as living length symbol for time and dynamic living. Some see life as a struggle between opposites.

Christianity divides in bad and evil, but who knows when something is bad or evil. It may alter with time. One has to live and make decisions every moment and may not rely on rigidly predetermined rules of life. Fundamentalism is more like two frozen untwisted snakes.

When one realises that if one has the perspective of civilisation as far as we know, which is not more than 15000 years or four hundred and fifty generations. We know much only for about five thousand years or hundred and fifty generations, while increases in population are known for the only the last centuries. With lesser population the chances for kinship are greater than in numerous ones.

The evidences of relationship between Middle East and the NorthWest Europeans lie in the fact that many animals and herbs have reached us. That stands also for techniques of agriculture developed in the Middle East. With this we have also got congeniality. The myths are like operating instructions for tools and agriculture. Only a farmer may really understand how much experience they need in farming. In fact in the climate of Stone Age and with fewer productive remedies it was a risky business. The latest theory about the South American temples like Machu Picchu is that they were used to decide time of farming. It varies with height and location in a huge area like South America.

One has to remember that they had to harvest otherwise there would be no food on the table. They could not go to the shop or buy food in the neighbourhood. Once they had invested in agriculture they had left other possibilities.

Maybe my roots are going back to Karelian shamans. Maybe I sometimes am a mind reader and am more sensible than normal and have more fantasy than normal people. So they told me when I was about ten. However the secret was that I read much and knew much more than others. The result was of course that I could put together much more new figures than those living with fewer facts in their mind could. In private I was envious when other fellas could imagine witches, trolls, elves ... I was simply blind on that eye and believed only in real things.

So they astonish me when some scientists know for sure many facts about the mind of our ancestors. I t is as they have dug up a book in plain English where they tell about their fears and images. They say that they know our ancestors feared the moon and Mights and many other things. To overcome that they had mystic and magic rites in the nights and whatever a lively mind may imagine.

I hope I do not speculate that much, as I am following the advice of Wittgenstein: If you do not know what you think, keeping your mouth shut is better. I do not deny that there have been people with lively mind. That is the case today too. Other facts to keep in mind are that our European ancestors had same rites, tools, and animals as in the so-called "high cultures". The only difference was less luxuries and less complex techniques in our sparsely populated northern woods.

Much of ours believe is a question of the vocabulary we use. If I use the category word Mights we easily think about something primitive and less civilised. But if we in the pragmatic way compare for instance the methods of agriculture know and then the only real difference is our more effective tools and machines. Our ancestors "cut out" a living space and did their best to follow nature. For the rest they could only pray and hope the Mights gave gain again. Not much has changed and we may sometimes have our doubts when modern techniques use pesticides in several moments to overrule the Mights.

Racists generally speak about blood as common denominator for their own tribe. Yet in reality it is only a fragmentary denominator. Blood is of course a substantial symbol, but in fact it is red in all races. I suppose the idea of blood comes from old tales about heroes and so on. The real knowledge about history is often in inverse proportion to the arguments when it comes to motivate the Aryan tribe.

In practice our species do not inherit behaviour and knowledge. That we have to get thorough parents and education. The real roots are a question of how deep we dig. If we really want to know origin, we have to go to the sources. That means to go back to the time an idea was born for an example the conventions of time. Thus, we are back to the Sumerians at least five thousand years ago. The moon calendar is perhaps more than 15000 years old in its roots.

Real heritage is what we use every day for living. No one could grip the huge amount of common memory we operate with when we grow up to normal citizens. It is our common knowledge and the really useful kinship. From this follows that we have got something from most of the world. We owe a lot of thanks to our ancestors who by experience made rules for everyday living so that is mostly automatic in our lives.

In the poem about Hyndla it is about a man Ottar but also about goddesses. A goddess is of course a mirrored human idol and up to the reality at the time. We should call it an idealised fiction of how the older generation or the leaders wanted to lead the population.

It was a usual development that the leaders of a land or tribe at a stage said that their origin was the main gods. So that the leader was god-begotten. We do not know if folks believed in the demagogy. In the Anglo-Saxon chronicles the first kings originated the first names of their family tree to the gods of the tribe and the last names before a real name was the three midwives.

Earlier in the religious societies lead by priest the gods were a parallel world to the livings and doings in the real world. Then it was up to myths and customs how it was in practise. As we shall see, it was not so different from life in known farmer societies. In our terms that tells us that education was former to blood.

I suppose the Hyndluljòd was meant to be model commemorative speech at funerals as that of Ottar Innsteinson. In our days the historians want to create a family of gods like the Greek Pantheon. They mention Hyndla only a few times in the books about the Edda. In fact she is a new discovery of today to me as I here describe it.

Anyhow late storytellers use details from the Edda to form a new tale about the Nordic pantheon. One may say that the Edda is still living. They also wrote tales about important people at the time to store memories and experiences for the future child.

I find that Hyndla may be a sister of the main goddess of moon Freya, a cousin to Sumerian Inanna. Her sister Ereshkigal was partly the dark moon, partly the Queen of Underworld. Maybe Ottar originally is the more known Od, companion of the Maid an early archer. In the myth of Inanna he was the companion named Dumuzi. Observe Inanna was the stronger part in that marriage. The Egyptian an Sumerian rituals of funeral was alike the spring rituals and with an open mind we may see that same is the case in Christianity

It seams reasonably to think that these poems were meant for the upper class. Those with own brains and spirit, which flew to Valhalla while the body or ashes, went downwards.

Do not hang up on the name Freya, it was the latest known name and in local use. She had many names like Mardol, the shining (as the moon) ... Haurn and Gevn, the giving (like moon and rain) ... Syr, the sow (fertility). In the oldest caves in Bretagne are found statues or carvings of a sow, to show the main issue of humankind. That is to get plenty of food for the family. But at different places and times she had as idol other names. On the Northern carvings she is the home woven girl with her hair in a plait.

The poems say "it is all your family and roots". That applies also to you and me more than five hundred years after they wrote it down. Furthermore it points at least five more year hundreds back when they created it because it is about the old goddesses. It is also our roots and heritage. For Inanna as forerunner we have to go about five thousand years back. In that time our roots are more mixed not only in Northern Europe but also with the Southern cultures.

Thes books are summary of more than twenty years of full time studies in the ideas used in stone and Bronze Age. Usually we go backwards in time line. So did I, when I started with a study in the history of my home province Dal in the early middle age and seventeenth century. But in older history it is the wrong way, because one may see and measure the time with our values. Instead we ought to se how ideas and means were developed to fit the conditions at the time. Of interest is also how they invented new methods and means during the history.

Nowadays it is almost a cult and way of life to create new things. In the early civilization a ritual and work went on for a thousand years with few new inventions.

My main method is comparison to seek all from likeness to identity in form, ritual and methods. Comparison is between our northern farmer culture and the more known cultures in south. Cities were not seen in Northern Europe before Iron Age. Yet I also compare early time farmers and pastors with the culture in my youth in the forties and early fifties. At that time there were few tractors and machines in use. The farming was at places in an old fashion way with roots in the Bronze Age. Some tools and means were exactly as when they invented them in Bronze Age. So were some rituals about Lent clearly originated from Bronze Age. I have used some of those old tools in practise. The third culture I compare with is of course my deep study in the culture of Dal.

Here I have to define the word culture. Our normal use is to picture the sum of our inventions used in a certain culture. A culture is all the small additional inventions we make in technic as well as in customs and rituals. It creates a new value instantly or for a long time. The existence as value is depending on if people carry on and see it as a value. Exactly we have the category main culture, and under categories of special culture and the third are all fractions of additional culture. Valuation is often a question of aesthetics or an occasional value for a smaller group.

I am not a professional, but interdisciplinary in my formal studies and in other knowledge. That includes about ten years in higher schools. To this add at least six languages, twenty years in searching ideas of the past and of course sixty-one year on old Mother Earth. I have no taboos and no responsibilities to fellow scientists. My studies are more like a new discipline contending history of ideas and methods in stone and Bronze Age. I call it echosophy, because man in those days had to know about all in the whole house or universe. No restrictions or limits are allowed in searching for answers how mind of man were created and developed.

What a fortunate coincidence that in my province we have the most pedagogic rock carvings on earth ... they are well documented and near to check ... they knocked them in at one occasion and are surely ritual laws or calendars ... to this come a well-documented area of slab cists nearby the best rock carving.

Observe that in the archaeological language they are talking about to carve and carvings. In reality they have knocked most of the pictures in the rocks with a hand stone. Although in Haugsbyn a few rocks of clay slate have some figures from bronze age, which are carved or cut.

To interpret or sometimes decipher the rock carvings we need other than archaeological methods. That is because they content interdisciplinary knowledge if we use the academic language, which ordinary people see as gobbledegook ... Generally I write in a simple and understandable way, because I want to be clearly understood. One has to know about all aspects of life at the time as the carvings are about rituals and daily life.

Many archaeologists see Northern Europe as an isolated culture and will not look for similarities and import from Anatolia, Egypt and the Levant as the most frequent sources. There are two areas of evidence for parallelism. One is that agriculture and dome-sticated animals come from the south.

Without knowledge or instructions one cannot make success. To this add identity in some figures, ideograms, artefacts and other remains. One has to step over some pre-conceived ideas before our ancestors begin to tell about their days and life.

For those who want our generation to be the wisest in history it is hard to believe that perhaps man was wiser some five thousand years ago. Christianity is another filter ... in my youth they told ancestors were pagans and non-civilised people. Knowing that my generation has destroyed more life than all earlier generations together is a source for systematic doubts about civilization and mistrust in modern intelligence of man.

One cannot attain the truth about people without respect and love. As I say, they will not tell you anything.

This book may be divided in two. The first part is about the rock carvings on Dal. That is because they are pedagogic and easy to under-stand. Carvings and surrounding remains and artefacts cover a period from about 4000 BC. To 500 BC in steps and gives a good introduction to the another world of our ancestors.

The other part of the book is about other rock carvings and other signs of ideas not only in Scandinavia but elsewhere to seek kinship in ideas. It is more systematic and searching for evidence and similarity. A time line with explanations is showing how rituals and symbols and techniques developed other forms in time. I am afraid to use the word evolution because I see no value in the technologies of today. They are not meant for eternity and to preserve earth and humankind.

Now when I have almost finished my work I met the Gwion Gwion people in Australia. In a way they confirm that I am right in my writing, however they give me totally new angles to look from. The Gwion Gwion is an area in Northwest Australia where they have found the loveliest rock paintings in the world. They are the ultimate World Heritage in rock art. The most astonishing is that they have dated them to be made about 17000 years ago.

It gives us Scandinavians perspective and the question "Why are we without?" Our excuse is of course the Ice Age, however there could have be similar in France for instance. Even the native Australians today have difficulties in understanding the pictures, since their style has developed too far from the root to give a feeling of being heirs.

The three pictures may illustrate even the Dreamtime we know. That means a different time concept and a wider span I call space-time. It is when the past and the future is part of your thinking and feeling. It is when you speak like old folks in my childhood about time to be in a specific time like a happening were all aspects belongs to the time.

The dancing girl is "present" time and could be in a ballroom today. The "twin-being" at right is past or future since I think it is a very old idea of "the embryo of life". It is before and after us. The great "Fisherman" shows abstraction and thinking on a much higher level than our imaginations about "primitive creatures". You do not create that kind of images without thinking.

We expect that gods should be like us and partly it comes from the Bible that tells us we were made as an image of God. Then the god must be very humanlike. Even our early ancestors in Europe were not sure what gods looked like. It is of course difficult because they are virtual idols we need for our thinking in two space-times simultaneously. We have the ability to make a virtual image and then work to create its physical appearance.

The pictures need an age before and that we look back much longer for the early human. The girls look like ours and are a good reference when we try to understand later ages. You can learn more about these from Michael Barry's Gallery. See my link page and also for the Bradshaw Foundation where you find a few in colour that are better than art in our time.

Pilbara is also and area in the corner of Australia. We meet a very different art and they think it have been "women's place" with their pictures. They have something of this still in their customs.

When I made categories out of them I saw that half of them seem to be men ... like our girls giggling about boys. However these women have distance to the other gender. Maybe the right girl say, "Yes, Master" with no obedience.

I think the two dots in next picture means pregnancy or giving birth. That is a natural field of interest for women. The other and longer period in their life is their monthly. As I see it in their pictures they see themselves in the flow between heaven and earth.

Vegetative life is also a part of their concern. From other places we can see that agriculture was from the beginning women's concern. It developed from their gathering to active growing. Later when peasants began to use draft animals it became a men's matter.

I have looked at the pictures only for a couple of months and I discussed with Michael and can hardly form an opinion. But the girls come very near to me like the girls in my surroundings. They tell about essential matters in women's world. Families and children are made out of this.

The heirs of these do not really see these as their heirs. There have been activities in the area for 19000 years. Some small signs connect them to the Gwion Gwion style and in a way to our time in the way I see. They are afraid that we "civilised again steal their heritage". They are not used to defend their territory and that in a commercial world there should be a high price on rarities like these.

Only if the pictures are known as high culture our world will protect them is the lesson our time give. It is the same as our rock carving being World Heritage and efforts are made to protect them. They are very rare and high cultural art and it should be our concern to protect them and give the native Australians all our respect.

Hard to believe that the rock art may be more than 17000 years old … and that our ancestors have the same appearance as we? Michael's work is about rock art from Africa, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Armenia, Arabia, Asia, Indonesia, and Australia.

I will be back in these two areas later on I think. They are a suitable reference when we begin to look at our Scandinavian space-time.

Ants are fooling around my baldhead since I saw this picture. In colours we see the footprints in the background and the entire configuration of carvings looks like a claim mark in Scandinavia. It is only that these are from Namibia and we have to ask "Were Norsemen on tour in Africa those days?"

When scientist see some new they ask always for physical evidence with an explanation in plain language. In this case they surely ask for boats. However I think much more phenomena are possible than we can imagine or find physical evidence of. Our ancestors were much more mobile than we can imagine. They had guts and hunted whales in northern Scandinavia at least 4000 years ago. Australia is also a proof. Thor Heyerdal has shown us that it is possible.

About Norsemen they tell us they were first on skies. I just wonder what they say in Karelia and in Tomsk Siberia where they also have pictures of the flying "Norsemen"?

21 August 2000 21:47:29