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wishful thinking on the part of the so-called discoverer and highly speculative at
best.
On the other hand, some of the ancient technologies have been “revived” to some
degree. Cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, and other behavioral
scientists occasionally come together in a team effort using historical knowledge from
their respective fields to recreate some of these, such as ancient sword-making or
boat-building, for example. Most all of these technologies which have been recreated
in such a fashion were used to produce artifacts such as can be found in the
archeological record from ancient grave or habitation sites: houses, clothing, jewelry,
ancient cookware, weapons, boats, etc. Even certain medical practices have been
rediscovered by “team-sleuthing,” but a “system” such as astrology, without written
or archeological evidence will remain little more than an armchair archeologist’s
evening reverie.
Germanic sky lore will probably always remain somewhat of a mystery, but from
the fields of comparative folklore and comparative mythology, there is some evidence
that the skies over ancient northern Europe played a fair part in the formation
and maintenance of the overall Germanic world view. Much of this information
would reach far back into prehistoric times, however, and most likely will not ever
leave the realm of archeo-anthropological speculation. Consequently, much of what
follows is little more than observations and coincidences and cannot really be proven,
but backed by information from comparative folklore from neighboring geographical
areas and areas which are related to the Germanic region culturally, at least there
are some shreds of credibility to the theories presented here.
There is one other concept that is probably part of the Teutonic ancestral heritage
that will need to be applied rather copiously in this presentation. It is named
after an English philosopher of the 14th century and modern writers and scholars
often dump it by the wayside when contemplating obscure topics such as northern
European sky lore: Occam’s Razor. The philosopher was William of Ockham, sometimes
spelled as Occam, and his philosophy was simple: the simplest explanation
is often the best. Six hundred years down the line, dazzling complexity replaces
simplicity, and the exquisite beauty of a Shaker chair is forgotten for all the glitter
and moving parts of the “Amazing La-z-teen Vibra-lounger with Built-in End Tables.”
Enter: the New Age. “Vibra-lounger theories” are not necessarily wrong nor
are they generally malicious, they are simply overly complex, utilizing improbable
comparisons, and are usually unnecessary. All in all, the philosophy called “Occam’s
Razor” is good and sound and probably can stand to be applied a little more often
in this day and age.
The wide ranging, personally collected folklore of Jakob Grimm’s Teutonic Mythology
and Otto Sigfrid Reuter’s Germanische Himmelskunde play a special role in