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@thetraditionalheathens
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667subscribers
-11 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002140806840 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thetraditionalheathens |
| Created | Between 1 November 2023 and 31 May 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thetraditionalheathens |
Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept 2026, 19:40 | 667 | +1 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 02:02 | 666 | -6 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 08:43 | 672 | -5 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 12:52 | 677 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 18:15 | 678 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 18:04 | 678 | first reading |
17 posts held, back to 24 July 2025 — 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 page of 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 17 posts for this entry, the most recent from 21 October 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
118 reactions across 16 posts, in 5 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 46.6% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 55 | 46.6% | |
| ⚡ | 23 | 19.5% | |
| 👍 | 16 | 13.6% | |
| ❤🔥 | 12 | 10.2% | |
| 🔥 | 12 | 10.2% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 16 of the 17 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 118 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 17 most recent posts we hold, published 24 July 2025 to 21 October 2025, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
The Ranheim Cult Site: A Glimpse into the Old Faith In 2010, workers near Trondheim uncovered a buried pre-Christian ritual site now known as the Ranheim cult site. Beneath the soil lay a stone altar (hörgr), a small temple (hof), and a processional pathway. Charcoal samples date its earliest suggestive use to the 5th century, with activity believed to have lasted until the 10th century. Before conversion reached th…
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The Tree of Life in Germanic Mythology At the heart of our mythology lies an epic tale that spans time itself. It begins with creation, builds toward a climactic destruction, and ends with a glimmer of renewal. This is the tale of the Germanic people, past, present, and future, a story that continues to grow with each generation. Central to every mythology is its cosmology, the account of how the universe came to b…
"The Norsemen came from the East, and brought a common stock of tradition with them. Settled in the Scandinavian peninsula, they developed themselves through Heathenism, Romanism, and Lutheranism, in a locality little exposed to foreign influence, so that even now the Daleman in Norway or Sweden may be reckoned among the most primitive examples left of peasant life. We should expect, then, that these Popular Tales, w…
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Leif Erikson Day – October 9 Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed from Greenland and reached Vinland around the year 1000. Long before Columbus, the Norse set foot on this land, carrying with them their strength, their faith, and their traditions. Leif’s voyage stands as proof of the courage and vision of our ancestors. The effort to recognize this history in America was led by Rasmus B. Anderson, a Wisconsin …
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The "Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg" Long before the rise of the Germanic tribes, a woman was buried along the Saale River in what is now Germany around 7000 BC, during the Mesolithic age. Archaeologists found her seated in the grave, wearing an elaborate headdress made from roe deer antlers, surrounded by tools, animal teeth, and red ochre. Beside her lay an infant. Her burial is unlike any other from that time. As one …
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"In this time two brothers arrived from Saxland, one was named Hengist, and the other was named Horsa, and a third was named Þiðrik. They went to meet the king, and offered to defend the land with three hundred men, and they said that Mercury had directed them there. The king asked who Mercury might be. He answered, “some call him Oðin, and our ancestors have believed in him, just as they have believe in Þór, Tyr, Fr…
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Join us on October 4th at 7:00 PM EST for a live panel discussion hosted by The Norroena Society. We’ll be exploring Völsa þáttr and how Christian propaganda shaped the way this story was preserved in Norse lore.
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Currently traveling but I will be making some new posts soon!
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Would you listen and partake in a live discussion by researchers working with The Norroena Society on our channel if we host one?
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
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The History of the Lombards The Lombards, a Germanic people who came to rule most of Italy in the 6th–8th centuries, preserved a story about how their name was given by the gods. Two early sources, the Origo Gentis Langobardorum and Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum, record this tradition. Paul, a Christian monk, called such tales silly, but he still preserved them. The Lombards, first called the Winnili, we…
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As a general rule, our policy is not to promote individual guests at our events. Our focus is on creating a cultural experience rooted in our ancient Germanic heritage. By keeping the emphasis on the event itself rather than on who is attending, we allow everyone to take part without feeling the need to be in the spotlight. That said, we are making an exception to announce that Mark Puryear, director of the Norroena…
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The Battle of Ragnarok by E. Phillip Fleischer
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Showing the 12 most recent of 17 posts we hold for @thetraditionalheathens. 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.
The poll we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered it when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
Would you listen and partake in a live discussion by researchers working with The Norroena Society on our channel if we host one?
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.
The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.
Read from the 17 most recent posts we hold, published 24 July 2025 to 21 October 2025. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.
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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Republishes
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Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 3 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
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 12 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Traditional Heathens” (@thetraditionalheathens), 667 subscribers as measured 12 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thetraditionalheathens.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.