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Bardcore or tavernwave is a somewhat new music genre where the artist is remaking popular hits from today to make them sound like if you were at a renaissance fair. It’s pretty interesting to hear songs you hear while shopping at Nordstroms being played with instruments from centuries ago. It makes you wonder if the people at that time would find today’s rhythm good enough to dance to.
Funny enough, the name of genre is somehow tied to internet memes and the lockdown in 2020. The meme of the pallbearers dancing with the coffin on their shoulders went viral during this year. A funny song was added to the clip to add humor and it went viral. Thus the name, “bardcore” was christened into our brain-rotted minds.
You are placed on your knees with your arms restrained. Your ribs are pierced from behind and then pulled from your spine. A hand comes through the gaping wound and pulls your actual lungs behind to make a sick depiction of an eagle spreading it’s wings. The worst possible way to die. The vikings are legendary for their ruthlessness and this is the bloody legacy which people like me sit in awe thinking about.
Eagles were heavily associated with death and blood in Norse mythology, which could be the origin of this story. Specifically, a mistranslation of three major stories which come from ancient skalds which are similar to bards (bardcore) who were a high-class society members who were tasked with learning the histories of great families and conveying that through song. The three stories all have the same basis, a man avenging his father by overpowering then performing the brutal blood eagle on his father’s killer. All 3 stories mention a son cutting a man’s back with this blood eagle but it’s argued and very possible that this was just a mistranslation when the Norway was converted into Christianity. The old skalds would use vague phrasing for whatever reason. Perhaps to allow the audience’s mind to participate in the story, or maybe they would use few words as a scaffold and fill in the gaps with personal innuendos; idk. Chances are the blood eagle was never actually performed in the Nordic tales but does that mean it has never been done at all? In the history of man? I mean it showed up in some englishman’s head when trying to understand thousands of years later so who’s to say it had never occurred to anyone before that? Perhaps in the mind of a more capable, wicked, mad man. Even if that exact method had not been done I think it’s a graphic and awesome image to portray the brutality and power that are associated with these peoples. Either way you can see some graphic blood eagle depictions in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
The apocrypha are a group of texts which are associated with the bible but are not actual canon or what the church accepts as part of the bible. The word isn’t exclusive to biblical themes but for this post we’ll mostly focus on the religious apocrypha. The standard bible most people know today has 80 books, but most aren’t aware that there are an extra 14-16 books which have been excluded. Most famously, the book of Enoch has began to trend in the last few years because of the mention of Nephilim or giants who are the children of women and angels who lusted over them. If you’ve spent a half hour on tik tok you definitely know what I’m talking about.
In the 16th century the word began to take on a new meaning. At that time, the word was used as an adjective to describe something which was false or mythical, interesting how definitions like to drift that way. Throughout history many religious groups argued whether or not to include the 14 books, most of which denied the collection. The Eastern churches however have included the books in their canon. Even today religious groups debate on which books are actual scripture and which ones are hoaxes.
The apocrypha has been handled by mostly occult groups throughout history, one name worth mentioning is Zoroaster who is a sage which apparently dominated the ancient world with his spirituality. Interesting guy im sure well be talking about him soon.
Books:
-Book of Enoch
-Jubilees
- Solomon
-Judith
-Ecclesiasticus
-Meqabyan
-Bel and the Dragon
and more
1st time I came across this word was in the Elder Scrolls universe. In the fifth video game, Skyrim you are sent into an alternate, Lovecraftian, dimension by reading a strange “Black Book” where old books go to rot and ancient wisdom is forgotten. The air seems rotten and murky. All around you are a mess of books. Some piles stacked as tall as buildings and none of the words make any sense to you. Long corridors are walled by books in languages long gone away from the mind of man. As you walk through them, they swing in any direction which doesn’t make sense and where theres a small gap in between the pages where you can look out there is a grated wall and beyond that is an open sea with no land in sight. The only way out of this dimension is to find/read all pages of the Black Book until your mind is able to push you out of it.
