The Sámi (US SAH-mee, UK SAM-ee [8], also spelled Sami and Saami) are the indigenous Native Scandinavians, the Sámi-speaking people inhabiting the region of Sápmi (formerly Lapland), which today encompasses large northern parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
Historically, the Sámi have been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders. However, these terms are regarded as offensive by the Sámi, who prefer their own endonym, that is, the Northern Sámi Sápmi [9, 10].
Their traditional Native languages are the Sámi languages, which are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family. More: Sámi people
Finland is a county. It's no BuddhistBhutan, the last Himalayan kingdom in the world, with its "Gross Domestic Happiness" rating being of central concern. Yet it manages to be happy. It's close to Sweden, not far from Norway. It is Scandinavian. And cold. There is no reason to be happy there, unless one is just traveling. Try Monty Python Travel Agents to arrange a tour.
Morning zoo's Ally Johnson and Kevin Klein feed each other for attention (kroq.com)
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We're just a national symbol, relax
Jackie and Shadow are the second and third most famous eagles in the country, only behind the nation's Nazi-like insignia. See Uncle Baldy on the top of flagstaffs and elsewhere. But for the parents of cute chicks, see the Friends of Big Bear Valley cam above the lake: Big Bear Bald Eagle Nest 2025 | Friends of Big Bear Valley. We have other charismatic megafauna, like bears for example. bigbeargrizzly.net | Big Bear Grizzly. Those interested may also like to see a long train ride in Norway (live), where it is currently snowing.
Xochitl, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Rugged Indian Americans Indigenous Scandinavians and their teepees tents, 1900 (wiki)
Sami ("Laplander") life might not be possible without reindeer, just as Indians needed buffalo.
Who invented our European-American version of "Christmas"? Sami shamans in Siberia-Scandinavia-Arctic Circle (North Pole) -- with their reindeer obsession, big red coat and boots, long beard, stocking distribution (used as bags over the fireplace to dry psychoactive Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushrooms the shaman distributes to families living in yurts by entering through the "chimney" (open rooftop access where fire smoke is ventilated out by design. And even the reindeer get so high they "fly" by partaking of the magical mushrooms and the urine of the shaman or head reindeer, characteristically licking the snow for more of the molecule. Sounds unbelievable, but it's all true. The mushroom has a symbiotic relationship with pine trees, under which they grow, popping up as red and white wrapped "gifts." So we imitate the ritual by wrapping nice things in red and white, the color of peppermint canes, and placing them under the conifer pines tree we drag in for loved ones to find in the morning. It's like an Easter egg (mushroom vulva) hunt in winter snow with the helper Elves or mechanicals cybernauts speak of seeing and interacting with. It's starting to feel a lot like winter solstice time!
Ho ho ho, says the Shaman, gifts for everyone!
One of the least known ethnic groups of Europe. Who are they?
(Science) Aug. 18, 2024: Girl football? Forest spirits? Living in tents with advice of female shamans? Sápmi is the Sámi (\sammy\) people’s own name for their traditional territory. The Sámi people are the Indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and large parts of the Kola Peninsula. They live in what some used to call "Lapland" in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia. There is no reliable information on the population of the Sámi people; they are, however, estimated to number between 50,000-100,000. The Sami – an ethnic group who are known as the last indigenous people of Europe (or Laplandia).
Let's go through the genome, DNA, and haplogroups of many of the various peoples of Northern Asia. The natives of Siberia are a very interesting group to learn about, not very well known by the general public.
Let's touch on the fact that Hungarians, Finns, and Estonians all speak languages that come from outside the borders of Europe. Thoughts on the Sami, Ainu, and the native peoples of Siberia? Comment
It's hard-listening (as opposed to easy-listening) music(k). "Keep it brutal," Cannibal Corpse and others like to say. Is Dimmu Borgir (pronounced \dee-moo bore-gur\) now the greatest band ever -- in the extreme rock category in general and symphonic black metal in particular?
Cradle of Filth, whom they used to be compared to all the time, can't hold a candle to this symphonic virtuosity. And limp Larstellica is just common stock rock (except calm Kirk, who's kool). The thrash element makes sense, the punk intensity, but it's the unimaginable precision, the technical proficiency, the innate talent to put all this together into a beautiful whole, and never mind the addition of the real orchestra. It is all too much, in the best way, monstrous elements and all. These hits are from Death Cult Armageddon.
See if anyone can name this classical tune.
So one day we went to a yoga class in Venice Beach, California, and the instructor told everyone to call him "Maestro." After class, next to my beautiful girlfriend he was staring at, I asked him why "Maestro"? It turns out he was a classical music buff pulling a Seinfeld, feeling himself much more of an orchestra conductor in life than a yoga teacher. He claimed he could recognize any classical song in just a few notes, not only the Beethoven stuff but obscure tunes, too. I always wanted to stymie him and prove him wrong with the following song, "Eradication Instincts Defined," because he would never guess it was a bunch of anti-church Norwegian hooligans playing extreme black metal with such sophistication in orchestration:
"Eradication Instincts Defined"
They really do make music like this, with a real-life orchestra.
(D'N'A Reacts) We Yanks are so -- but we mean well in big hearted Texas
The QAnon Shaman Jake "Take A" Chansley must be happy to be carrying on a history of rampaging and seizing land and property to set up a new order, but Trump forgot him.
Leif Erikson: The First European in North America
Hi, we're here to rape and pillage
(Viking) Thanks to a rhyme we were forced to learn and repeat in grade school, many Americans believe that Crypto-Jew (Converso) Cristobal Columbus first discovered America in 1492, after sailing the ocean blue. But what if it were an Irish monk or Viking Leif Erikson who sailed the seas serene that were aquamarine?
This Viking Cruises® video chronicles how, nearly 500 years before the debt-ridden Italian (Jewish Spanish) explorer sailed the Atlantic, a 25-year-old Norse navigator named Leif Erikson and a crew of 35 men set sail to explore the seas west of Greenland.
Scandinavia is a cold subregion of Northern Europe where the native Sámi peoples live in the Xmas lifestyle or reindeer, shamanism, and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Viking = "pirate"
When Erikson arrived on the shores of what he called “Vinland,” he became the first known European to set foot in North America.
The Vikings knew about the Buddha: The "Helgo Buddha" Treasure
The great Guru Viking, a modern seeker with a podcast on audible.com and elsewhere.
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Helgo Buddha is a Viking treasure indicating world trade
Helgö is an island in Ekerö Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, situated on the lake Mälaren. The island's greatest width is about 0.9 mi (1.5 km), it is about 3.1 miles (5 km) long and covers 119 acres (48 hectares). Excavations are ongoing on Helgö.
The island is perhaps best known for a major archeological area. The old trading town on Helgö began to emerge around the year 200 AD, 500 years before Birka at Björkö.
The Helgö Buddha
The first archeological dig in 1954 uncovered the remains of the early settlement, including a workshop area which attracted international interest. The most notable finds included a small Buddha statuette from North India and a christening scoop from Egypt, both dating from the 6th century.
The Indian Buddha statuette, the Irish crozier [1], and the Egyptian Coptic scoop found on Helgö are presently on display in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm... More
ABOUT: Narrated by Viking Cruises Senior Vice President Karine Hagen, this short film traces Erikson’s history and his voyage into immortality. The son of intrepid Viking explorer Erik "Erik the Red" Thorvaldson, (Erik's son =) Erikson led the historic journey from Greenland to North America through uncharted waters without a compass. Although the discovery was celebrated for centuries in Norse legend and stories, many doubted the accuracy of those accounts. Doubts about Erikson’s discovery were finally dispelled in 1960, when modern-day explorers Helge and Anne Ingstad identified a Norse settlement located at the northern tip of Newfoundland that dates back to the exact time of Erikson’s voyage. In the United States, the achievement of the Viking explorer with adventure and exploration in his blood is commemorated every year on October 9th [when Greenlander, Neo-Nazi, and Norwegian Americans rampage quietly in their bedrooms and online]. Viking Cruises cherishes its Viking heritage and connection to seafaring visionaries like Leif Erikson. Karine Hagen of Viking River Cruises is our host. Learn more at vikingrivercruises.com
Most depressing island! (24 hours of darkness) Svalbard
(Joe HaTTab) ● Svalbard: The Northernmost Town on Earth
● Come take a walk with me (Joe Hattab) around Longyearbyen, the largest town on the Norwegian islands of Svalbard.
Parts of it look familiar, but make no mistake. This place is different.
At 78 degrees north, it lies just 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) from the North Pole. And with over 2,000 permanent inhabitants, it is the northernmost real town on Earth.
There are only 50 km of road, including the small streets between houses, so people mainly get around the island on snowmobile.
In fact, there are more registered snowmobiles than residents.
Anyone leaving town is required to travel with a gun and someone who knows how to use it because the islands are also home to polar bears.
The average daytime high is below freezing for all but four months of the year, and from the end of October to mid-February, the sun doesn’t rise at all. This is the long polar night.
Joe, stop them, condemn them, sanction and punish them before they ruin our plans!
Yoohoo, Netanyahu! Shoot US missiles this way.
Norway, Ireland, and Spain said they are recognizing a Palestinian state in a historic move that drew condemnation [outrage, anger, hurt, fury] and plans for exacting revenge] from [and by genocidal] Israel and jubilation from the Palestinians [who are currently being tortured and exterminated].
(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 22, 2024)
Spain, Ireland, and Norway said Wednesday (May 22) that they would recognize a Palestinian state on May 28, 2024, a step toward a long-held Palestinian aspiration to be recognized as an official state.
This has come amid international outrage over Israel's war crimes, atrocities, and crimes against humanity in indiscriminately killing civilian and alleged combatants in waves of collective punishment.
The death toll and humanitarian crisis Israel is causing by its offensive in the Gaza Strip is inexcusable in spite of Israel’s propaganda and psyops campaign amid sits offensive attacks and escalations.
The almost simultaneous decisions by two European Union countries and Norway may generate momentum for the recognition of a Palestinian state by other EU countries and could spur further steps at the United Nations, deepening warmongering colonial Israel’s isolation.
Currently, seven member of the 27-nation European Union officially recognize a Palestinian state. Five of them are former east bloc countries who announced recognition in 1988, as did Cyprus, before joining the bloc.
Sweden announced recognition in 2014.
The Czech Republic, an EU member, says that the 1988 recognition by the former Czechoslovakia — of which it then formed a part — does not apply to the modern state.
Slovakia’s Foreign Ministry says that the two sides confirmed their recognition as Slovakia was becoming independent in 1992-93, and that the Palestinian state has a fully-functioning embassy in Bratislava since 2006. More
The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Shakyamuni ("Scythian Sage") had blue eyes.
The Origin and Purpose of Blue Eyes
(Survive the Jive) Jan. 22, 2024: Why do some people have blue eyes? What is the Darwin/Wallace evolutionary advantage of having blue eyes? Where did blue eyes evolve?
Blue eyes have piqued curiosity for centuries, standing out as a mesmerizing and rare trait among humans.
Discover the underlying science behind blue eyes as we explore various theories and genetic factors that contribute to their existence.
They were mainly associated with Mesolithic Western hunter gatherers like Cheddar man but the origin and story of this phenotype is complicated. A new study from Liverpool may have the answer as to what benefit this trait has -- better ability to see in low light.
The mystery behind Vikings: Groundbreaking DNA sequencing study shows they weren’t who we thought they were.
We all grew up watching several interpretations of Vikings in various forms of popular mass media, where one common thread binds them: their ferocity.
People think of them as bloodthirsty warriors whose main occupation was pillaging and plundering.
Hey, what's that guy doing here? - No, he's right.
They were mainly tall, red-bearded, heavy-set, fair-skinned, and blue-eyed, with long blonde tresses billowing in the air. Our ears almost ring with their battle cries and clanging metals for their fights ahead; they were intense, and we’ve pictured them that way for ages.
Turns out, we were all wrong. In 2020, a DNA sequencing study debunked some of those theories. More
The Northman missing diversity: Could colored Vikings ("pirates") have existed?
(Geo Perspective) Ever wondered if there were many non-white people in Viking Scandinavia? The question has been solved. There were.
Vikings weren’t all Scandinavian, ancient DNA study shows
In the popular imagination, Vikings were fearsome blonde-haired warriors from Scandinavia who used longboats to carry out raids across Europe in a brief but bloody reign of terror.
But the reality is much more complex, according to an analysis of the genomes of 442 ancient humans from archeological sites in Scandinavia, the UK, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Estonia, Ukraine, Poland, and other Eastern European countries.
IMAGE: The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age was a far-flung transformation in world history. Margaryan et al sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites across Europe and Greenland to understand the global influence of this expansion (Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall).
The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term vikingr meaning "pirate."
The Viking Age generally refers to the period from 800 CE, a few years after the earliest recorded raid, until the 1050s, a few years before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
The Vikings changed the political and genetic course of Europe and beyond:
Cnut the Great became the King of England, Leif Eriksson is believed to have been the first European to reach North America — 500 years before Christopher Columbus — and Olaf Tryggvason is credited with taking Christianity to Norway.
Many expeditions involved raiding [Christian] monasteries and cities along the coastal settlements of Europe, but the goal of trading goods like [slaughtered] fur, tusks, and seal fat were often the more pragmatic aim.
“We didn’t know genetically what they actually looked like until now,” said lead author Prof. Eske Willerslev, a researcher at the University of Cambridge and director of the University of Copenhagen’s Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre.
“We found genetic differences between different Viking populations within Scandinavia, which shows Viking groups in the region were far more isolated than previously believed.”
“Our research even debunks the modern image of Vikings with blonde hair as many had brown hair and were influenced by genetic influx from the outside of Scandinavia.”
Prof. Willerslev and colleagues sequenced the whole genomes of 442 mostly Viking Age men, women, children, and babies.
The researchers analyzed DNA from the remains from a boat burial in Estonia and discovered four Viking brothers died the same day.
They also revealed that male skeletons from a Viking burial site in Orkney, Scotland, were not actually genetically Vikings despite being buried with swords and other Viking memorabilia.
There wasn’t a word for Scandinavia during the Viking Age — that came later. But the study shows that the Vikings from what is now Norway traveled to Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, and Greenland.
The Vikings from what is now Denmark traveled to England. And Vikings from what is now Sweden went to the Baltic countries on their all male "raiding parties."
“We carried out the largest ever DNA analysis of Viking remains to explore how they fit into the genetic picture of ancient Europeans before the Viking Age,” said first author Dr. Ashot Margaryan, a researcher in the Section for Evolutionary Genomics in the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen.
“The results were startling and some answer long-standing historical questions and confirm previous assumptions that lacked evidence.”
“We determined that a Viking raiding party expedition included close family members as we discovered four brothers in one boat burial in Estonia who died the same day. The rest of the occupants of the boat were genetically similar suggesting that they all likely came from a small town or village somewhere in Sweden.”
The scientists also found genetically Pictish people "became" Vikings without genetically mixing with Scandinavians.
The Picts were Celtic-speaking people who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late British Iron Age and Early Medieval periods.
“Scandinavian diasporas established trade and settlement stretching from the American continent to the Asian steppe,” said Prof. Søren Sindbæk, an archeologist at Moesgaard Museum.
“They exported ideas, technologies, language, beliefs, and practices and developed new socio-political structures.”
“Importantly our results show that ‘Viking’ identity was not limited to people with Scandinavian genetic ancestry.”
The genetic legacy of the Viking Age lives on today with 6% of people of the UK population predicted to have Viking DNA in their genes compared to 10% in Sweden.
“The results change the perception of who a Viking actually was. The history books will need to be updated,” Prof. Willerslev concluded.
The findings were published in the journal Nature. Source
A. Margaryan et al. 2020. Population genomics of the Viking world. Nature 585, 390-396; doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2688-8
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