Four images of Thor 'The Wind Raiser' 8th-11th C. CE "Perkins provides numerous written examples of Norse sailors attempting to conjure up wind magic, often through the invocation of the God Thor, who is charged with special responsibility for the weather. Perkins relies on a detailed explication of a passage from the little known Icelandic þáttr (tale) to argue that, as with his better-known hammer-wielding influen…

Channel
Pagan Image Vault
@PaganImageVault
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
192subscribers
-5 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001446704352 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @PaganImageVault |
| Created | 2 April 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 28 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 28 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/PaganImageVault |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026, 12:38 | 192 | -1 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 12:17 | 193 | -3 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 02:36 | 196 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 11:35 | 197 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:57 | 197 | first reading |
Engagement
8 posts held, back to 10 August 2024 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 8 posts for this entry, the most recent from 13 September 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
Copper Ship Brooch from Denmark 800-1050 CE. National Museum of Denmark. "The earliest Byzantine record of the Rus' may have been written prior to 842. It is preserved in the Greek Life of St. George of Amastris, which speaks of a raid that had extended into Paphlagonia. Contemporary Byzantine presence of the Rus' is mentioned in the Frankish Annals of St. Bertin. These relate that a delegation from the court of the…
The 'Valkyrie' from Hårby 800 CE. Note the swastika on the shield. "Contemporary foreign sources testify abundantly that the Byzantine Greeks, even prior to 852, knew the Russes to be Scandinavians. Luidprand of Cremona, who was in Constantinople in 949, writes of the Byzantine capital that it is situated among dangerous neighbors, for at its north it is menaced by Magyars, Pechenegs, Khazars and Rusii, "Whom we cal…
Arrival of Rurik to Ladoga by Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926) "The Povest' preserves the tradition that the Slavic tribes of Northern Russia, in common with their Finnish neighhors, were for some time tributary to the "Varangians from beyond the sea." Stirred to revolt by the exactions of the latter the Slavs eventually rebelled, but were unable, according to the Povest' to arrive at any satisfactory inter-tribal under…
Hungarian captains from the 9th-10th C. CE: Kund (the Fourth Captain), Lehel (the Fifth Captain), Bulcsú (the Sixth Captain), Örs (the Seventh Captain) from the Chronicon Pictum (Page 26), manuscript dated to 14th C. CE. "943 CE: Allied with the Kievan Rus, a Hungarian army attacks the Byzantine Empire. Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos buys peace, and accepts to pay a yearly tribute to the Hungarians." -taken from Wikip…
Hungarian sabers from Geszteréd, Rakamaz, Karos, and the so-called "Sword of Charlemagne/Attila", 9th-10th C. CE. Note the "Sword of Charlemagne/Attila" is dated to the 10th C. also and is of the Hungarian type. More images & info: https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2024/08/hungarian-sabers-from-gesztered-rakamaz.html
"In situ sabre and sword belt, from an early Magyar warrior's grave 9th-10th C. CE. This hilt design was widely used by the Magyar. (Hungarian National Museum; photograph courtesy of Tamas Hortsin)". From book: 'Mounted Archers of the Steppe 600 BC-AD 1300', Osprey Publishing. Note the swastika design. "[The Hungarians] are armed with swords, body armor, bows and lances. Thus, in battles most of them bear double arm…
Magyar (Hungarian) sabretach plates 9th-10th C. CE More images and info: https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2024/08/magyar-hungarian-sabretach-plates-9th.html
Showing the 8 most recent of 8 posts we hold for @PaganImageVault. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 28 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Pagan Image Vault” (@PaganImageVault), 192 subscribers as measured 28 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/PaganImageVault.
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