Pictish DNA, the Scythians and Ancient Pictish Symbol Stones

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I visited Forres 5 years ago and saw personally the, Pictish “ Suenos Stones” they were impressive and encased in glass boxes and were about 12 foot tall!

My great grandfather came to Canada from Scotland. Thank you for the lessons. Scots have to be the most impressive people ever with their bravery, strength and determination. Proud of my grandfather's heritage.

the zed rod - a scythe maybe? The grain being attached. Fertility? The four points - Four cardinal directions, the sun in the seasons in transit? That they used such complicated symbolism says a lot about the depth of their belief system (to me!)

I have been researching the earliest iconography of western civilization. Circles and sixty-degree angles are highly significant. See the Gazelle cup, Ashurbanipal's threshold, the Magdala stone, etc. (I can provide way too many examples of this). Anyway, the Z-rod on that stone has 60° angles, which they could not have created without understanding the method set out by Euclid in "Elements." The related symbol of the half-arc with the three points can be found in mosaics across the ancient world. This is the form made by a large circle with two equal sided circles that meet at the center of the large circle. These symbols were basivcally abandoned by Western Civ under Catholicism, for various reasons that would have completely undermined the Semitic traditions, effectively destroying Western Civ. Ultimately, these symbols are related to a flower that was revered as being related to dawn, Eostare and Eos. The flower is the Crocus. If you want more info on that, I have a ton.

I think Bede (or his source) was just indulging in a bit of Early Medieval folk etymology (the same kind that had the Britons descending from Brutus).

As always, thank you for the lesson.

I am one of few descended from the Picts and presentations like this are rare and much appreciated. Archaeologists have uncovered foundations of roundhouses atop Kelman Hill in Aberdeenshire. That name has been passed down to me with the ujsual spelling variation. I am proud of my Scottish roots and that the Picts were Scots before the Scots were Scots :)

The picture with the two circles could be ochre pots for painting their skin. After all, it's right beside a picture of a hand mirror.

Great lesson. Thanks for your effort!

It's great that the stones Are still standing.

Because the earth's axis is tilted, the sun crosses the sky at an angle of 22° relative to the Pole Star, and the two points where the moon's orbit crosses this 'plane of the ecliptic' are where eclipses can happen. Aberlemno 1 [1:20] could be an aid for telling this tale.

Seems to me, Bede clearly described the Picts as patrilinear with the exception of rare cases of disputes around kingship. He also described the Picts as keen to mix with locals. Perhaps the authors of the research article had some dubious prior assumptions.

Thank you for the interesting video

Double disc seems to be something like yin-yang and the z-rods is like a turbulent zone between those two. In my culture (slavic) there used to be that duality and the cyclic battle between them, which evolved later on into christian st jerry and snake.

I would totally plop down and lean against an ancient Pictish stone. Jamie Frazier, here I come! Thanks for sharing the stones with us at home - they are beautiful!

Thank god for sub-titles!

I'd've never guessed you were 6'3" without you saying

Due to dogger Bank we were always connected to NW Europe. Only when it flooded was the connexion lost. Something to consider.

Good to hear there is great effort to preserve these atones.