While I usually focus on Greek and Roman paganism on my channel, I thought I should make a post about the Basques and clear up some things that may need clearing.

While the Basques are largely ignored in thepagan community, this is solely based on the fact that...

...they do not speak an IE language, but, as we know, speaking IE is not equal to being Native European. In fact, Basques are as European as other inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula and surely they have less non-European admixture than those living in those parts of Spain...

...that are turning into desert as we speak.

The Basques were known to classical Greek and Roman authors. Strabo referred to them as "Vascones", while Julius Caesar grouped the northern Basques of modern-day France as Aquitanians.

Their metrial culture did not differ from...

...that of their Celtic counterparts, despite the lingusitic difference. I would personally speculate that, due to the mountainous terrain, the IE language (that later acquired the known Celtic features), while dominant in Western Europe, yet not in the Basque lands, because...

...of them being adjacent to the Pyrenees.

Moreover, it should be noted that they resisted (((christianization))) at the time the largest chucks of France and Spain had fallen to the filth. The famed "Battle of Roncesvaux Pass", which Catholic lie-propaganda transformed into...

...a struggle against Arab invaders was, in fact, a decisibe defeat that pagan Basques inflicted on christian invaders. And, some decades earlier, where the Basques not harassing the Arabs with guerilla warfare, the incompetent Charles Martel would never have won at Tours.

This alone should burst any bubble that christianity somehow acted as our shield against Islam. Another intersting tidbit is that Basques, until (((Sancho)))'s capitulation to the catholics in 903, allied with the (nominal) Muslim Banu Quasi (which means "descendants of Cassius)

...against both Muslim taifas and the Franks. Arab accounts from the 850s call the Basques as "sorcerers" and "polytheists" and accuse the Banu Quasi of not being true Muslims for allying with them. Thus, actual christianization of Basques did not materialize until...

...the 10th century and, even scholars have to admite that the actual process got fnalized between the 12th and 15th one, finished actually by the (((Inquisition))).

Brief note about Basque mythology: the evidence is scant, but Basuq deities and tales fit very well...

...into the patterns we have outlined for de-symbolizing the mythemes of Native Europeans. Ergo, Basque paganism is just another branch of the tree, albeit an obscure and poorly attested one.

Thanks for reading. Dixi.