Viking Coins:
Eye of the Mind
Were the Viking coins, minted from the 7-10th century, small votive diagrams to describe meditation techniques that could be carried in one’s pocket, rather than money?
The text covers the history of 1,500 years of meditation practice in Scandinavia that started in the 6th century BC with Goths who knew the secrets of the the mystic numbers of Pythagoras that resulted in the knowledge of Vikings who minted carefully designed meditation diagrams on “Haithabu horse coins”. The text covers the development of a breathtaking history of design not yet noticed by scholars who never expected that Buddhist meditation techniques were once practiced in Europe. The rich visual language expressed by symbols found on Linear A and B clay tablets and illustrated on the Phaistos Disk in Greece was developed during centuries until it finally ended with the highly abstract images on coins and rune alphabets that was used to write votive messages on standing stones to express their knowledge about how the mind and the body functions in an interdependent way, following the meditation system of the Buddha. The same system is still taught, unchanged after 2,500 years: knowledge of the “unwritten doctrines” of Plato and mystic numbers of Pythagoras was never lost, only forgotten.
Viking Coins: Eye of the Mind
Viking coins minted since the 7th century are mysterious and cryptic, very little is known about the meaning. It is generally thought that “illiterate Vikings” copied the themes they used – crosses were automatically interpreted as Christian, supposed crude animal images are interpreted as monsters, dragons and porcupines.
There is a lost history, much older, that is not recognised by experts, the sophisticated information expressed by Viking on their coins is hidden to untrained modern eyes. Were Vikings aware of the mystic numbers of Pythagoras, used since the 6th century BC?
With careful investigation Viking symbols can be traced back to the earliest Greek coins minted in Boeotia near Delphi, symbols that were used unchanged for up to 1,700 years before the meditation practices – illustrated on objects ranging from the Vix crater and Phaistos Disk to the Old Norse rune inscriptions in the Maeshowe cairn in Orkney – were finally replaced by Christianity and forgotten. The lost links of Buddhism in Europe are exposed in this video, a clip with animated text (no sound) that is a summary of findings described in an illustrated text:
Viking Coins Eye of the Mind.