Asatru Folk Assembly - 10⧸18⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 67 - ᛖᛗᛚ

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00:05:00.000 can everybody hear me i can hear you

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00:05:24.720 all right cool swan can you say something so we can see if we can hear you all right

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00:05:48.560 if those of you that read lips might have saw me say um that i hope we got our tech issues figured

00:05:56.880 out um we do not but i think we're getting getting closer um i know that producer nick

00:06:04.500 is putting in a lot of effort on that we really appreciate it uh so yeah this week we're as usual

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00:07:03.880 we are having

00:07:07.000 this is the second

00:07:10.920 to last of our

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00:07:14.740 on the Elder Futhark runes

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00:07:23.100 it's been nice and we'll

00:07:24.260 keep having Svan on every other week

00:07:26.880 we're just going to figure out something different to pivot to

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00:07:33.720 thinking any top of the show news that folks need to know next week for the first time

00:07:40.600 barring any uh flight delays or technical difficulties victory never sleeps will be broadcast

00:07:48.920 from on the road in tennessee we are going to be at siggerheim next weekend so the final weekend

00:07:57.160 of this month we'll be at sigerheim for celebrating winter nights it's going to be very exciting

00:08:04.840 we've got a lot of great people showing up um both spawn and myself and nick are going to be there

00:08:11.400 so it should be a should be a great weekend i'm really looking forward to it to it and i would

00:08:16.360 love to share that experience with all of you guys so if you are able to uh to do that that

00:08:23.240 would be great we'd love to see you reach out to your local folk builder and let's make it happen

00:08:29.880 also coming up is going to be feast of the einher yarn south dakota

00:08:36.280 and i'm sure nickel got a graphic for us on that it's too small for me to but the weekend of

00:08:45.160 november 9th through 12th here we go 9th through 12th um if you guys can make that that would be

00:08:51.400 awesome i'm going to be out there i believe the mcnellens will be out there as well so we would

00:08:55.960 love to see you there uh again reach out to your local folk builder or any of you know any of the

00:09:01.320 folk builders and we can get you squared away um it's going to be a nice event we'd love to have

00:09:05.640 you there i think that's what we've got for right now um it's fine can you start us off this evening

00:09:15.640 talking about the rune Ehwaz for folks that have never heard of it before.

00:09:24.920 Yeah, absolutely. This rune is titled Ehwaz. There's some interesting things about this rune

00:09:36.400 and the next rune. First and foremost, this rune is not in the Younger Futhark. It is in the

00:09:43.280 anglo-saxon and it is in the um obviously the elder but the true meaning of this rune really

00:09:51.600 comes from the anglo-saxon rune poem um the names are of course the edwaz is a uh

00:09:59.520 reconstructed name from the gothic name ewaz with an i just uh um i yeah it's i-h-w-a-z

00:10:09.720 um and the anglo-saxon is ao or a simply um and all of them mean different things in slight

00:10:19.660 variation some are referring to a stallion others are referring to a horse the way that a lot of

00:10:26.420 people i try to tell them that they could really equate this to the horse's understanding like the

00:10:31.820 Latin word for horse equus or equestrian has the same root as this meaning, but we have a lot of

00:10:39.780 different words for horse. We have horse, we have stallion, mare, and lots of things like that. So

00:10:46.720 it's worth noting that if people are like, how does this mean horse? That's really the best way

00:10:51.880 to root it is in the linguistics of understanding equus or equestrian. This rune is also truly

00:10:59.840 interesting because in the elder food art it starts the the the uh the two that are really

00:11:06.560 known for their basically double stem and they're they're often mixed up and confused because

00:11:14.160 they're so similar um in shape but this symbology uh generally represents the legs of the horse and

00:11:23.280 the saddle in between uh or the resting saddle sometimes there's variations of it where it's

00:11:28.720 it's um even just the the middle part is is flattened out

00:11:36.080 but the uh overall meaning of this rune is unification through corrective action uh

00:11:46.560 generally through teamwork uh and and this is symbolized predominantly through

00:11:54.480 the horse and rider and the dynamic this room i think ultimately has um connections to um

00:12:07.600 kind of being a multiplier rune and i think that's very interesting that it comes after uh

00:12:13.520 burkano so we have as if for those that were uh tuned in um two weeks ago and we talked about

00:12:20.640 the the coming of the age of tiwas as an epoch or as a as a movement and then after tiwas there is

00:12:28.640 the encapsulation and the birthing or the uh the germination of this of the seed and the fruitfulness

00:12:34.800 of of uh life to come um this rune i think also coincides with that that there is a time of great

00:12:45.360 movement a unification a uh a sense of everyone moving in one direction it's not necessarily

00:12:54.160 like manas in the sense that it's about community it's about what it takes to make community so

00:13:02.320 again very very interesting that it comes at following in such auspicious uh rune set um

00:13:10.240 Um, this rune in divination throws people off, uh, sometimes because they don't exactly know

00:13:17.860 what it correlates to. And I would say that any sort of, whether it's light or dark, it's always

00:13:24.380 talking about the unification of forces and whether or not they're working well together.

00:13:30.580 So it can, in a good sense, it could mean that you have found a new, uh, person to make alliance

00:13:38.560 with you have found a person to work with or you have found a mode in which you can achieve your

00:13:44.000 goals that's perhaps like a horse um where it's it it's able to take you further than you thought

00:13:52.000 you could just on your own work um in a in a negative sense it could mean that there's things

00:13:58.720 falling apart that there are components to your uh whatever your question is the the components

00:14:05.520 of your question might be falling apart and causing um as far as stavr or or uh rune times

00:14:16.080 this rune is and i have always used it this way as a multiplier rune a passage to carry runes

00:14:24.480 forward to amplify their their uh ultimate goals it's kind of like the um the slingshot or the

00:14:33.680 the rail system in order to really project the rune into the willful manifestation

00:14:40.320 so it's deeply connected to teamwork and that is what ultimately i i believe the

00:14:48.720 the uh it was the horse rune as it's referred to is all about

00:15:03.760 yeah um

00:15:08.000 i'm trying to think of what to add i think that spawn covered it pretty well um one thing to

00:15:14.240 consider on it is it's not it's not just about the horse as as a concept it's about the horse

00:15:27.200 as a mount. It's about

00:15:29.180 the horse as

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00:15:31.900 I don't

00:15:40.940 want to just

00:15:43.140 say tool of

00:15:44.940 because it's not that. It's a partnership

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00:15:48.740 man and beast

00:15:51.280 to be something more, to

00:15:53.080 accomplish something more.

00:15:54.660 um the horse and rider are something more than the horse by themselves or than the you know

00:16:03.620 the man by himself man upon a horse becomes something different um that's the very root of

00:16:11.560 european warrior aristocracy is you know the the warrior that isn't just a warrior by himself he's

00:16:19.640 where it gets up on a horse and all of a sudden that's something special that was special from

00:16:23.480 roman times all the way into we see the night at the height of the middle ages um special level

00:16:30.180 middle ages and it doesn't have to do with the partnership i think it's also a greater truth

00:16:35.060 that is expressed in it um that it is the man rides the horse the horse doesn't ride the man

00:16:45.060 The idea of the willful, astral self riding atop the more bestial, primal parts of man's nature.

00:17:04.360 They're both good, they're both important

00:17:07.040 But the nobility and the will has to ride upon the primal and the lusty and the chthonic

00:17:20.240 And I think there's something to that

00:17:22.620 I think certainly we see that throughout Western esoteric tradition

00:17:30.340 Through Hermeticism and other things

00:17:32.580 it's a recurring theme because i think it's a it's a truth that our people have known since

00:17:37.380 since old times um nick could you go ahead and throw up that room tone for us

00:17:54.260 i forget that the screen that i'm looking on is real tiny so uh let me

00:17:59.700 cool the horse is a joy to princes in the presence of warriors a steed

00:18:07.100 in the pride is the pride of okay i'm sorry i'm gonna have to look at this on a different

00:18:13.620 screen screen because i am unable to see it um actually swan could go ahead and read it for us

00:18:22.100 Yeah, absolutely. So, let's see. The horse is a joy to princes in the presence of warriors, a steed in the pride of its hooves. When rich men on horseback bandy words about, and it is ever a source of comfort to the restless.

00:18:45.320 Sorry, I didn't move my camera a little bit there.

00:18:47.720 No, that's good. I appreciate you for the assist there.

00:18:52.100 Um, I think that's pretty straightforward. I think that it, uh, you know, it encapsulates

00:18:59.040 a lot of what Svahn said and he, you know, in his, in his rundown of it, even, even mentioned

00:19:03.720 that this gives the meaning of it, you know, in a pretty straightforward way. One of the

00:19:10.000 things that I think is, I don't know, just for, to further illustrate the point is how

00:19:21.540 special that is that a horse a fine speed is two princes among warriors because it elevates a

00:19:34.440 warrior to be a whole class better or different it literally elevates them but it makes them

00:19:41.840 a powerful force of of that combination of things and people have recognized that since

00:19:50.400 since forever. I think that Svan's talk about this rune being one of enhancing other runes

00:20:00.760 or carrying them forward or empowering them, I think is very spot on. And I think it speaks

00:20:08.440 a lot to that idea of partnership, of an ordered partnership. And that's what I've got on this

00:20:21.680 one. We've got a few questions lining up. And I do have a couple things. Please. One is,

00:20:31.940 we were talking about the epochs of time and i had made reference to the idea of the um

00:20:39.860 epoch of the sun or or so willow and and um transitioning into the epoch of tiwaz um

00:20:50.100 there is i and i can't speak for it because again now we're getting into the idea of like

00:20:55.940 prophetics but there was a kind of a message that i think my rune master taught me was

00:21:03.780 the hearkening of twins and again when i was told this i didn't know what to make of it whether

00:21:13.460 we're talking about mythic language whether we're talking about literalism but at the same time

00:21:17.540 again we're kind of shifting into a time where there's going to be a temple to tear

00:21:21.380 erected. And the significance of this temple is, I would say more than just a temple itself,

00:21:28.800 but there's also a lot more added to it. So about 10 to eight years ago, I would think of a lot of

00:21:36.720 conjecture, but now I'm starting to feel a certain way about the overarching ideas of this. And I'm

00:21:44.720 not stating that as some sort of like Nostradamus kind of thing. I would just, I wanted to bring

00:21:50.340 that up because i understand now to what one of the things my my rune teacher was telling me was

00:21:55.980 about the connection that this rune has to the sacred twinship whether we're talking about the

00:22:01.880 lord and the lady or whether we're talking about the sacred twins um like uh the algis if you will

00:22:08.600 i know algis as a rune itself has its connections to the sacred twinship but this rune as well in

00:22:14.720 relation to say like Hengist and Horsa or to Romulus and Remus. There is the overarching

00:22:22.360 Aryan premonition of the sacred twins. And so whether that is, it just seems all very, 0.73

00:22:34.240 very fascinating to me is what I'm getting at on that one. I think I find it

00:22:39.860 um now in as opposed to in retrospect now there's a lot that seems to be on that but

00:22:47.820 there's also some other points I wanted to make is that um in relation to uh works of fury and

00:22:56.220 mental ecstaticism uh this rune in particular is a powerful rune um I was always taught about

00:23:06.280 bind runes over the amount of three um as that is the dynamic number and this um rune in relation to

00:23:17.240 wunyo and to uh therzaz makes an interesting point when uh some people are referring to like

00:23:25.880 the rune magic that maybe will increase your fervor increase your statusism increase your

00:23:32.280 trance-like state of both mental and physical pitch, if you will. Take that for whatever the

00:23:41.320 people that are, whoever's listening tonight, take that for what you will and how it may be

00:23:45.820 something worth pondering about. But this rune kind of also encapsulates the idea of the philkia,

00:23:53.600 the follower, the part of the soul, as Al-Sharir Goli said, the chthonic part of the soul,

00:24:00.340 the primitive part of the soul that represents um your base nature and your mastery over it

00:24:07.560 so i i find that and that's i think would be falling somewhere in between and we're obviously

00:24:15.180 not talking about runic divination but more about maybe internalized rune work as opposed to

00:24:20.700 tying magic and carving runes and trying to manifest your will or um again reading runes

00:24:28.800 this is somewhere kind of more of an internal thing.

00:24:31.180 And I think this room has a lot of value in that.

00:24:39.040 Absolutely.

00:24:39.720 And it looks like we've got pretty good discussion going on in the chat room

00:24:42.780 so far.

00:24:44.120 I forgot to mention that Zach Phelps threw a donation at us.

00:24:48.200 And I appreciate that very much.

00:24:51.820 Did the little two beers clanking.

00:24:55.020 and $5 donation. Hail Matt and Svan. Hail the AFA. Well, hail to you, Zach, and hail

00:25:04.160 to Gibbers. We appreciate it very much. Yeah, feel free to go and look in the description

00:25:11.180 and use those little fancy bells and whistles because some folks put a lot of time and effort

00:25:16.500 in getting those. That said, let's get to our first question of the week.

00:25:27.100 So, and this one came in first this time. How are the nights of the hosts going?

00:25:36.560 Going pretty good. Going pretty good, I got to say. A little snag there at the beginning,

00:25:42.160 nothing too bad and it looks like we've got got a good momentum behind us also i love doing these

00:25:48.720 every week so it's exciting to get on here um i look forward to it also my car was in the shop

00:25:56.160 and it's not now so i don't feel like i'm 14 again now i feel like a grown adult who can transport

00:26:01.680 myself places so i'm doing i'm doing pretty good how's fawn doing tonight uh speaking of what you

00:26:08.800 just said kind of in the the same boat we're fixing a lot of uh vehicles and we're prepping

00:26:14.720 the house for an elder um our 102 year old great uh great grandmother to my children um are that

00:26:24.000 she is uh going to be um living with us soon so we're we're doing a lot of renovations and um i

00:26:30.960 mean even down to cutting branches off of trees to make space for a new um like outdoor garage

00:26:38.480 building so that we could fit extra things in there so there's there's a lot of stuff going on

00:26:44.080 here along with trying to make sure that we you know fix cars for travel as we're you know going

00:26:49.440 to be traveling down to um tennessee so there's a lot of components moving and you know getting

00:26:56.080 ready for winter nights at thor's off at the same time so lots of moving parts uh it's kind

00:27:02.240 And lots of birthdays. It's just absolute high speed here. I will say that much.

00:27:12.860 And then the second part of the question, maybe you speak this, Svon, because I do not.

00:27:19.120 Also, very important question. What is your favorite soy jack? Mine is cobson. I am completely out of the loop.

00:27:27.360 I don't speak that. So I have no idea how to answer the question. Svon, are you hip to that

00:27:32.900 lingo? I didn't know they had names. I'm familiar with the many variations of Soyjack. Actually,

00:27:41.040 in many variations that seem to be making themselves into reality, but I didn't know

00:27:46.280 they had names. That's a good one. All right. I honestly don't know.

00:27:57.360 i'm gonna look that up next question is will we be will we be doing the armon and rune set

00:28:05.360 next no i don't have any plan on it that's certainly something we can put down in the

00:28:10.720 list of suggestions is something to hit later though yeah and we've kind of been doing coinciding

00:28:18.800 of the arman and with um the elders who are covering it along with the others

00:28:25.040 um question does uh it was have an extended meaning of marriage i read that somewhere

00:28:37.520 i

00:28:45.360 kinda or it can but there's better options for that um

00:28:50.240 I mean, we mentioned its meanings towards partnership. And I think in that sense, it does.

00:29:01.200 I think that, you know, you could extend it to that. But

00:29:06.060 Gabo is certainly a more, I don't know, is a better choice.

00:29:14.160 and is a choice that is more certainly more commonly used for that purpose one that's much

00:29:21.880 more um on the face of it applicable to that situation um but but i see elements in it was that

00:29:33.500 that correlate to that depending on how you want to look at it and as i mentioned early on in this

00:29:40.960 series. The runes are lenses to see and understand the world through, and there's many truths to each

00:29:52.240 of the runes, and context provides everything. I don't think this is an illegitimate lens

00:29:59.340 to view a marriage relationship in, especially if it was put towards, you know, direct purpose.

00:30:09.660 if there was like, cool, we're going to engage in this project together as husband and wife.

00:30:21.320 So yeah, there's not, I mean, there are obviously wrong answers, but there's a lot of gray area,

00:30:26.640 yes, it could be used that way answers, where there are some that are very obviously intended

00:30:33.540 for a purpose. You can extend a lot of these for other scenarios and situations,

00:30:37.720 and they do provide a valuable, I don't know, perspective from looking at them through that

00:30:43.820 lens. Svon, do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah, I 100% agree with your

00:30:50.680 premising of it in a very, it's not quite the same. I would say, yeah,

00:30:59.780 Gabo and Manaz have far more of a linked meaning. You know, in my school of

00:31:06.680 um work uh gabo and manas are congruent together so they're seen as leo stover their their light

00:31:17.480 stabs uh whereas um gabo and ewaz are kind of um in opposition to each other or murk and so

00:31:27.240 So this rune, I think, has a lot more to do with perhaps leadership and following the idea of, again, even they talk about in the Marine Corps, you know, knowing when to lead and knowing when to follow.

00:31:42.800 And I think it has more of a poignant set of work ethic or goal achievement that isn't necessarily based on a partnership because I think partnership has a lot more of a bigger context than simply attaining a singular goal.

00:32:03.280 There's multiple goals going on at the same time, and it oftentimes involves a lot of give and take.

00:32:08.220 this is more about i think a sense of vision from the rider and accomplishment from the horse or

00:32:15.580 or the uh the team or the the foundry of um work going forth so i i i absolutely agree i don't know

00:32:25.340 if this is and this is i think where that confusion comes and i spoke of because of how closely they

00:32:30.700 are there is that confusion but manas i think better encapsulates the marriage unification

00:32:39.260 as one of the important things that holds the community together and we'll get into that

00:32:44.380 next room but yeah this is a little bit more focused and more of a top to bottom uh kind of

00:32:52.780 leadership to uh driving force productive force that's that's being led

00:33:00.700 all right oh i saw my spaced when i was going through my rundown at the beginning of the show

00:33:13.360 also do remember that these come out every friday as podcasts on spotify so please you know if you

00:33:24.540 are listening to this then we appreciate you being part of our audience if you have questions that

00:33:29.440 you want us to answer and you're listening to these through you know some other way than than

00:33:35.280 live you can always email questions to nrice at runestone.org and nick can get those set up

00:33:44.120 and uh in the queue for next time um

00:33:48.580 Robert E. Boily is, he got me into the soy jack lore. This is good.

00:33:58.840 I'm looking at the chats. I'm a little bit behind. Sorry, guys.

00:34:05.740 No, no worries. So I think that that is all of our questions that, oh no, we've got one more.

00:34:14.060 The next question is thoughts on Julius Evola?

00:34:18.580 Um, that is a, that is a big question. There are many thoughts. I don't know if there's a specific

00:34:27.900 idea of his you want us to discuss or just in general as a general thing. I,

00:34:39.140 I enjoy him quite a bit. I enjoy his works. I have read everything that I can get my hands on

00:34:49.760 that's been translated into English by Julius Evola. I find tremendous value in lots of it.

00:35:01.000 But I don't, you know, 100% agree with all of it, and certainly with some of the, I don't know, I think extremes that some things are taken to.

00:35:15.400 But I like it in general, and I would say that as far as people who would fancy themselves philosophers, he's probably my favorite and one I've enjoyed reading the most.

00:35:31.000 Mystery of the Grail is my favorite book by Evola.

00:35:36.660 I like Revolt Against the Modern World,

00:35:39.260 which I think most people, it's probably the most common one.

00:35:45.100 But I think it's one of his best works

00:35:49.660 and the best one-shot look at his philosophy and his worldview.

00:35:56.280 you. But one book that gets kind of maligned that I think is very good by him is The Yoga of Power.

00:36:06.920 I just think it's unfortunately named because I think people go into it with an expectation of

00:36:11.680 a different book than they get. I think one of the things about Evola that sometimes can do him a

00:36:18.380 disservice is the translation process. Or at least that's what I like to think. If something sounds

00:36:24.160 odd or a little bit off. I like to pretend that it is the translation situation. I know some of

00:36:30.280 his works went through a number of things. Some of them were Italian translated into French and

00:36:38.800 then translated into English. So I think there's some of that to be accounted for. One thing I will

00:36:45.580 say, I, and I forget where it came from, but going around a number of years back, there was a

00:36:54.460 really useful chart of the order in which one should read Evola's books to really get into it

00:37:05.780 and build the foundation and find it accessible. That helped me a lot. I made a mistake early on

00:37:15.540 And I tried to dive right into the deep end and it was over my head. I lacked context and, you know, as Evelyn would say, I lacked a positive reference point to understand how he was presenting things.

00:37:36.580 So I didn't get a lot out of it. The first one I tried to read was Ride the Tiger. And it, again, I just jumped in way too deep to start with. And I couldn't get anything out of it. It was dull and I put it down. And then years later, when I read it again, when I had those, when I had those points of reference, it was, it was amazing. So there's, there's a smart way to do it. And yeah, I'm a big fan.

00:38:06.580 So Svahn, what are your thoughts on the Baron?

00:38:10.980 Absolutely. My favorite is Metaphysics of War. I've always kind of been fascinated

00:38:18.160 with the concepts of a forced military conscription versus a voluntary, and then to take it one

00:38:29.380 step further to the idea of the holy warrior or the the uh divine inclined as as perhaps you know

00:38:38.340 to to be given a mission to mission however you you either way wish to see that um has always

00:38:46.900 truly fascinating i guess the layers in which the commitment to um to achievement of victory

00:38:53.780 is uh is truly fascinating to me um i kind of been in it and i was you know obviously part of

00:39:01.260 the voluntary sense was definitely not of the um early on in my war fighting career i wouldn't say

00:39:11.560 career because it wasn't entirely my life but or my my my time um it it really intrigued me to

00:39:21.480 look into those things and understanding what battle and war is what the purpose behind it

00:39:29.160 when you don't have a good purpose or if you if you have a misaligned purpose it it gnaws at you

00:39:35.940 and so um i wanted to find the source of that kind of gnawing at me uh the questions of why

00:39:44.380 and where i was and what i was doing and in that pursuit i found the answers in the the correctness

00:39:53.020 of action that a warrior should take um whether it's you know the the holy or divine war or whether

00:39:59.360 it's the holy and divine mantle of the warrior and his willingness to fight um all of that i found

00:40:07.020 deeply moving. And it really kind of emphasized, I think, that the knighthood of Europe is not

00:40:16.720 something that I think is intrinsic to Christendom. I don't think that the knightliness of

00:40:25.980 Christian crusaders or something was like some sort of culmination of Christianity,

00:40:31.700 It was merely just a kind of a blip in the arc of the overall sense of the aristocratic warrior knight.

00:40:40.980 And I think that there's evidence of that amongst the early Britannians and amongst the Norse, you know, whether we're talking about the Jomsvikkingor or perhaps maybe early Varangian guard and things like that.

00:40:59.740 There's a lot of that showing before the Crusades and Christendom itself.

00:41:05.580 So I've always wanted to elevate a certain sense of the warrior ethos within Ausatru to a level of knightliness or aristocraticism.

00:41:21.560 And the idea of the, I would suppose, the responsibilities that are laid upon your shoulders and clarifying that.

00:41:31.400 So that's why that book really sticks out to me a lot.

00:41:34.400 I really, really like that one.

00:41:36.120 So I want to reemphasize that for you guys.

00:41:38.140 If you've never read Evela and you want to know what it's all about and you're looking for an accessible entry point that are pretty straightforward and that are really good books,

00:41:56.920 Metaphysics of War and the Mystery of the Grail are very easy to digest, but I think really good and really important.

00:42:06.360 And I think that's a really good starting place.

00:42:09.860 So I think those two are both would serve you guys well as a place to start if you haven't dove in yet.

00:42:19.040 Or if in your diving into Ebola, you happen to miss those two.

00:42:23.460 I think they're less known than certainly Revolt Against the Modern World or Ride the Tiger or Men Amongst the Ruins.

00:42:34.640 I think those are probably his big three. So these ones may have slipped your view at first, and I think they're very good ones, both of them.

00:42:47.560 Yeah, I learned a lot of cool little tidbits in Metaphysics of War that I hadn't heard of before or hadn't made note of before.

00:42:58.740 So I think that was really useful.

00:42:59.940 Our next question is, I heard Halloween comes from Ireland. Is there some Norse Scandinavian

00:43:15.140 Germanic celebration in October? Yes. It's the same deal as so many of these things are.

00:43:24.980 It's the same basic principle.

00:43:29.420 And we call that winter nights.

00:43:31.920 That's what we are celebrating at Sykerheim that I advertise for here.

00:43:39.900 About a week and a half from today, we will be out there celebrating.

00:43:46.520 It's the same deal.

00:43:47.900 It is, all of our ancestors understood that in the fall of the year, we are in a special time where the veil between the worlds is very, very thin.

00:44:01.920 And our opportunity to meaningfully interact with our deceased ancestors is special at that time.

00:44:13.880 And there is an ease of passing messages between the two worlds in a special way in that time of year.

00:44:24.400 And I think it carries on throughout the winter in a way.

00:44:27.440 But this is a special time to reach out to our dead ancestors.

00:44:33.020 I've seen over in the chat folks talking about alpha bloat and desa bloat.

00:44:37.520 Those are our bloats respectively to our male ancestors and our female ancestors.

00:44:43.880 um there's a point about feasts of the iron her yard i think that again that's capitalizing on

00:44:51.080 the fall of the year to send energy send messages um interact with fallen warriors

00:45:00.920 um a feast the iron here you are is a is a modern celebration that's built around veterans day

00:45:07.880 um but it's something very special and i'm excited to celebrate that and again it's

00:45:14.840 taking this time of the year to do that um so it's fortuitous that it that it lands on the 11th of

00:45:22.280 november um but yeah the end at the end of this month is a special time you are better able to

00:45:29.400 interact with your ancestors if you can make it to any of the afa's many winter night celebrations

00:45:35.240 that are going on around the country and around the world please do you absolutely should it's a

00:45:40.840 great time to reach out to your uh your family's past um but even if you can't spend that time

00:45:51.320 at your altar at home spend that time if you've got nothing else with a with a picture of your

00:45:56.600 ancestor and a candle and uh just reaching out this is a special time it's a really good time

00:46:03.320 to remember them and to send your love their way and uh don't just go through the motions when you

00:46:11.720 do it reach out with an open heart and be be ready and i think some really special things can happen

00:46:18.840 because i think that you know our ancestors don't just forget about us when when they pass

00:46:26.840 all of the collected knowledge of our folk tell us that's not the case

00:46:33.320 And just as you care about them, they care about you, and this is a time to interact.

00:46:42.120 And in the way that we perceive the world, it is most effective, in my experience, if you're the one initiating that reaching out.

00:46:53.320 It's much more easy, and it puts you in a better place to receive if they want to reach out to you as well.

00:47:00.600 you have something to add on that's fun yeah absolutely uh i think that uh i've heard

00:47:08.340 some some people inquisitively poking around some people actually doing the whole like well

00:47:14.140 actually thing it's kind of been in between all of that but i think it's worth noting and i would

00:47:18.660 love to do uh you know a podcast just on all of our 12 sacred holy tides um i think for the most

00:47:26.200 part there's a lot of confusion because winter nights is kind of a window and we have uh you

00:47:33.400 know sources of deser bloat being practiced around this time and alfar bloat was practiced

00:47:40.240 in iceland around what would be like february january time frame and what we have kind of done

00:47:48.160 is is incorporated the dsir and and the alvar uh together in this time because of the sacredness

00:47:57.200 of our ancestors and i think that you know being coupled right next to feast of the aynhyar which

00:48:03.680 is absolutely a modern uh you know uh take of the time frame around veterans day it's worth noting

00:48:11.120 that you know these our holidays have evolved and to incorporate them both and build them up

00:48:17.360 Especially when, you know, people will think perhaps maybe in February, you know, Alvar is dedicated to the Alvar, but there are various Alvar, including our, you know, dead mortal ancestors that have been ascended and allowed to, you know, broach over either the bloodline or the land.

00:48:37.100 um and then the well actually crowd i remember this was a conversation too that i thought was

00:48:42.640 very kind of funny and it made me think of something there's a lot of people that uh you

00:48:46.800 know winter nights uh or you know i've i've even heard some people say sowain or samhain uh is how

00:48:54.700 it's um generally kind of spoken of i always kind of that's gaulish in its origin but uh i've heard

00:49:04.000 people say well you know remember winter nights is the old new year of our ancestors and absolutely

00:49:10.320 correct because our ancestors you know denoted time based on this was the sunset of the year

00:49:17.680 the new day started at sunset because everybody was awake everybody was you know able to witness

00:49:23.280 it happen so it would only make sense that culturally the new year would begin at the same

00:49:28.640 time but what i think a lot of people fail to realize now is our knowledge of understanding

00:49:36.080 of time and and has has advanced and now we you know we think of midnight as the turning of the

00:49:41.600 tide and in a way yule has kind of also shifted with that and yule has become the new uh marking

00:49:50.480 of of the year as it as a turnover so you might get people that are like oh well you know yule

00:49:55.440 isn't really actually the new year and and yule is is not the right time to do it and that it's

00:50:01.440 based on the full moon of the anglo-saxon calendar that's going to be in january and

00:50:06.640 there's just a lot of rigmarole that i think a lot of people pull out uh i guess trying to one

00:50:12.400 up or or create some sort of um established authority when it's worth noting that as long

00:50:19.040 as you understand yes our ancestors definitely had that as the new year but they also saw the

00:50:24.000 new day at sunset and now things have kind of changed culturally and they do and if we

00:50:30.720 fail to admit that our traditions change morph and also kind of fit uh you know early

00:50:39.120 also true back in the 90s when i when i was just uh coming into the faith there was really only

00:50:45.360 eight holidays now there are 12. there were no temples then either so and now there are

00:50:51.840 so a lot of things are moving forward and they're starting to fill out and form out i did want to

00:50:57.680 bring that up is that um the significance of the holiday is very important but there might be some

00:51:04.080 people out there stating these things for whatever the reasons are and i think it's just it's good

00:51:10.320 to know this is a great time for us to honor our our loved ones the roots of our being um whether

00:51:17.360 it's the the men folk that protect the land or the the women folk who are elevated to protect

00:51:22.400 the bloodlines or even the land spirits too let's not let's not dismiss that as well

00:51:29.600 so uh in the meantime balbo biggins donated ten dollars says p50 thumb here's a tenor

00:51:38.640 what kind of note can you hit it's an interesting question i'm assuming you want me to make some

00:51:45.840 kind of a musical utterance um i don't know do you want me to try to go high or try to go low

00:51:52.640 not sure where you're trying to get me to head with it give me a little bit more detail and i

00:51:56.640 can i can perhaps embarrass myself and make that happen um also for another ten dollar matching

00:52:03.840 from zach phelps zach we appreciate you shout out to balbo biggins here's your match how's the

00:52:10.560 weather in the shire hey guys they're fun but we really do appreciate the donations um thank you

00:52:19.120 interesting call on the fifa phone from the uh possible connection of galder to um that story

00:52:29.040 that's what i mean about a lens there's not a direct thing there but once you start thinking

00:52:33.520 in terms of the runes, you find correlations that happen. And yeah, absolutely making the

00:52:41.540 fee-fi-fo-foam sounds is very similar to the work that Edred has you do in the Nine Doors.

00:52:50.520 Where are we on the next one here? Okay. I think we got time for one more question here before

00:52:56.740 we're going to hit our next rune. As always, we will definitely hit all of your questions.

00:53:01.620 I'm trying to do you know like a room per hour and then we'll go as much as we need to to ask

00:53:08.420 to answer your questions so the next question would you support having mandatory military

00:53:13.620 service or a draft in case there is a war do you think men and now people are arguing women too

00:53:20.500 have a duty to serve um swan being a veteran uh how about you hit this first I am not a fan of

00:53:31.360 mandatory draft. I think that there's lessons to be learned from that. I think that the

00:53:38.900 volunteerism is kind of coalescing with national pride. And, you know, you have elements,

00:53:49.700 I think, within our nation that are deteriorating that at a rapid rate. And they're starting to

00:53:54.240 realize that all they got is basically carrots to dangle in front of people. So we're kind of

00:54:00.980 caught in that. It's the monetary carrot versus the draft. And there's no in-between for us. And

00:54:10.180 I think that's kind of a product of their own making in a lot of ways. And so I'm not a big

00:54:15.500 fan of mandatory military service unless the nation itself was more cohesive and was more built

00:54:23.620 towards the um tenants of protecting the nation and um you know of course uh elevating their

00:54:31.580 their um you know the the children that are coming in and i would say children because you know we

00:54:38.700 were young um you know these 18 year old 17 year old 18 year old kids with the with the idea of

00:54:45.920 of training them up giving them discipline giving them skills or or um inherently improving these

00:54:53.140 uh, you know, mandatory, um, um, members that I think would have some value, but we don't live

00:55:02.800 in that. That's, that's like holding water in a colander kind of thing. I want the bowl,

00:55:07.420 but we got the colander. So I'm, I'm, I'm not for, um, mandatory stuff.

00:55:13.040 so uh balbo biggins threw us a uh uh an additional donation of twenty dollars it's going well chappy

00:55:24.140 brisk and cool and maddie it was a tenor so show some tenor chops i figured that's where you wanted

00:55:31.600 me to go but i didn't want to uh assume i had to look it up because i don't really speak uh i don't

00:55:38.300 really speak choir, so I had to check it out. It says it's trying to go as high as the male voice

00:55:44.660 can go. I thought that was falsetto, but I don't, again, not an expert, so we'll see what I can,

00:55:51.440 we'll see what I can do. I think that's about the best I got for you, but I appreciate your 20.

00:56:01.900 it'll go to a good cause. That said, as a little palate cleanser, context is everything

00:56:17.280 with so many things. And I'm really torn on that question. I also don't want to come out

00:56:27.960 overly hawkish on it as someone who hasn't served um you know i could have joined the

00:56:34.520 military and i and i chose not to and didn't um so i think it would be you know a little bit

00:56:42.840 hypocritical and preachy for me to talk about the virtues of you know why that may should be a

00:56:50.200 mandatory case and i think some of that has to do with

00:56:59.640 country of residence versus nation and i everybody's got a lot of really strong feelings

00:57:07.160 on this and i don't mean to offend anyone or hurt anybody's feelings i appreciate every

00:57:17.400 i appreciate every man who has stepped up to serve the country that they're in and

00:57:22.760 who has put their life in the balance um the root of nation is the same as as as natal as as

00:57:39.240 as birth and your people and your folk.

00:57:47.160 And I think when the nation is a clear representation

00:57:53.340 of common values, common heritage,

00:57:57.700 common religion, common folk,

00:58:03.420 in that scenario, I very much support a mandatory service 0.98

00:58:08.420 or, you know, drafting or whatever you need

00:58:12.140 to be there to stand for your folk.

00:58:16.360 When the country that you live in

00:58:19.160 is not unified in value,

00:58:23.800 in folk, in language, in people,

00:58:27.760 in the things that you value

00:58:29.380 and the things that you might be fighting for

00:58:32.960 or against,

00:58:34.980 I'm much less enthusiastic about

00:58:37.620 mandatory service. As Svahn mentioned, there's a value in voluntary service,

00:58:46.640 and it's kind of an informal poll on people who are willing to put their lives on the line for

00:58:53.220 the agendas and administrations that they find themselves in. And I think that is a useful tool

00:59:01.980 if our leaders would listen to it and, and heed that in a certain way. But I think, like I said,

00:59:11.020 context is everything. There are many times through history, if I were in a spot where my

00:59:17.100 ancestors were in, that I would be all for a mandatory service. In the spot that I'm in today,

00:59:23.980 I'm very glad that there's not one. But again, I hope that doesn't offend anybody. And it certainly

00:59:32.500 isn't meant to. I respect any man that's gone out there and put their life in the balance for the

00:59:38.180 man next to them. Yeah. I think because I saw some of the comments about discipline for young men.

00:59:50.280 um it's worth noting too of course we have uh jrotc we have um you know military schools with

00:59:58.160 long-standing traditions whether we're talking about citadel or um vmi and we have other things

01:00:05.820 too like um the civil air patrol is an interesting one too there's a there's there's organizations

01:00:12.120 and groups out there kind of satelliting, uh, military and can, and allow your children

01:00:18.560 to gain that, that discipline, have young men go in and learn how structures are, but yet not

01:00:26.280 quite have the full commitments to, you know, signing on and perhaps, you know, being sent

01:00:32.500 off somewhere, um, with an immediacy towards whatever machinations that, uh, DC has at the

01:00:39.680 moment. So I, you know, definitely explore those. I mean, as we find ourselves losing

01:00:45.500 the Boy Scouts, which I guess is no longer the Boy Scouts, I think it's just the Scouts now,

01:00:51.820 we find our young men losing a lot of these things. I would also say, you know, learning

01:00:57.940 a martial art that's regimented, even if it is from the Orient, you know, the idea of learning

01:01:06.900 a structured system of maintaining a uniform and giving respect and dignity to a teacher

01:01:12.340 and to your fellow students there's a lot to be learned from that as well but it's kind of

01:01:18.420 i don't think it's an offense to either way with what you're what you're saying i was here as a

01:01:23.060 as a military member sometimes i think a lot of us look back and go you know when somebody says

01:01:27.540 i could have joined but i didn't and i think there's a great value in the possibility that that

01:01:34.660 you know retrospectively looking at things perhaps there is a value in not having to experience some

01:01:40.500 of the deep faults of being in that situation especially if you go in with the wrong ideas

01:01:48.100 i think a lot of young folk men um that i encountered in the marine corps were in under

01:01:55.700 premise of you know uh oath and country and patriotism and there were a lot of non-folk

01:02:02.900 men there that i think were trying to get an education or trying to get money and a paycheck

01:02:08.260 um and so i think the higher ideal the greater the fall in a lot of ways too

01:02:22.980 um what i've heard from a lot of guys who have served and what seems to be a truth in my

01:02:29.060 understanding of things you know paying attention to the way things are going i think there's the i

01:02:34.180 there's an idea of the military or certainly idea of what the military once was and i think

01:02:40.820 that some of the things folks in the chat are thinking might be a benefit like the masculinity

01:02:46.500 being reinforced in in young men i think that's probably much less today than it would have been

01:02:52.900 than at any other time in any of our ancestors' military

01:02:57.820 since the dawn of our ancestors.

01:02:59.760 I think there's a lot of time spent

01:03:02.780 in sexual harassment training

01:03:07.040 and gender sensitivity training

01:03:11.160 and things that are not martial in nature.

01:03:15.760 So again, I think context is the key to everything.

01:03:20.760 But we are at 7 o'clock hour. Let's get into Svan. Could you tell folks about the rune Mannaes?

01:03:35.780 monos yes uh this is a we were speaking about this just briefly before um going live this is

01:03:46.020 one of my favorite runes um it's worth noting again there might be some uh people out there

01:03:54.480 well actually but in a far worse sense they oh it's the man rune it's the rune of man and they

01:04:02.180 might throw some sort of wrinkled nose up to that. It's worth noting, of course, that

01:04:06.340 man, man, all, it means people, all the people, um, the, the, the folk as an entirety and

01:04:15.080 their union together. The, uh, the two specific, the symbol itself, uh, of course, being that

01:04:21.840 the, the two genders, uh, unified together, the masculine and the feminine conjoining

01:04:27.560 together in the center and creating stability um this uh rune is super important in that it's the

01:04:36.280 man rune uh the rune of folk the rune of the of folk kind of our community because man and woman

01:04:44.040 are also more or less focused or or placed into frame when we talk about the inner guard versus

01:04:51.880 the outer guard and so this rune once you look at it that way is the balance between masculine

01:04:57.960 and feminine man and woman um within the framework of a stable community a stable society a stable um

01:05:08.520 uh tribe uh to use kind of i guess more hip or um modern used words um

01:05:17.320 Um, the, um, the, the rune manas is, uh, symbolically often referred to as it's a man and a woman,

01:05:26.800 um, holding their, uh, each other at the hips.

01:05:31.320 Sometimes it could be seen as, uh, in a, in a brotherly sense, especially when we talk

01:05:36.220 about the Icelandic rune poem, it's, it's, uh, you know, the community members with their

01:05:41.320 arms held at you know wrapped entwined standing together uh this is the the rune of frith um

01:05:50.040 this is the rune of um amicable peace and union through oaths so it doesn't always have to apply

01:05:57.560 simply to a man or a woman but it has a lot of those meanings um the uh the ultimate point of

01:06:05.400 of it is is that you're not an island and i think this rune really exemplifies that so when we're

01:06:11.740 talking about this rune specifically coming up in divination you'll often see it correlating

01:06:17.740 directly to either a spouse or a a mentor or a person of equal or high renown to you um and it

01:06:27.040 is always about that relationship um whether it's you know read positively or light staff or merc

01:06:34.720 staff uh in merc staff of course there's a breakdown of communication a breakdown of the

01:06:40.000 friendship or a breakdown of of the uh lateral uh between the two um it and it can harken to the

01:06:48.640 idea that you you need to improve or that you need to um you know make sure that you you uh

01:06:55.040 uh pass through the threshold whatever it is and and re reattain that equilibrium um

01:07:01.680 um it is also a rune again of of when you're using it in rune magic or in staves or tines

01:07:11.000 carving them it's a rune that definitely brings about um a a settling of discord amongst folk

01:07:20.480 it is a rune that definitely is brought about when there is a need for resolve when there is a need

01:07:27.900 for law and not conflict or uh physical um venom to be tossed around it is one of those runes that

01:07:37.580 can definitely bring things to a a surface level where ideas and thoughts can be hashed out without

01:07:45.340 a lot of um turbulence or friction so it is that's why i i equate it often to uh friv um friv is

01:07:55.180 is you know the maintenance of peace um just as much as a product of of the of discord when

01:08:05.540 discord is broken amongst folk um there is a a perhaps a dharmic need for vengeance but frith

01:08:14.880 is not vengeance it is the maintenance of um union and you know coexistence and movement together

01:08:26.480 um and this this rune exemplifies that as the kin fence you know every vertical is a representation

01:08:33.360 of each of us with our arms interlocked and if we fall out of that kin fence it leaves a gap

01:08:40.480 open for our our folk or the or the folk behind us that we're trying to to protect so this this

01:08:47.120 room really does speak about um inner guard outer guard and the unification between masculine

01:08:54.480 feminine and between just folk as a community

01:09:00.800 you know what let's go ahead and put up the room poems first and then i've got some things i'd like

01:09:12.900 to add on it and i've got them pulled up on my phone so my old man eyes i'll be able to read

01:09:18.680 these uh better than than i did last time uh nick if you oh go ahead it's fun

01:09:24.540 the uh the futhark it's worth putting that this one because it is in the younger is not in this

01:09:36.280 symbol in actuality uh um am i still breaking up can you hear me no good no okay uh the algae's

01:09:51.860 rune, um, the, uh, or the Elhas rune, the three up, this rune, uh, the meaning was placed and that

01:10:01.440 rune was brought over during the transference of the, um, younger Futhar. So I think it's worth

01:10:08.680 noting, um, in that relationship. So I don't know if I, I seem to have, uh, frozen up a little bit

01:10:19.240 this side here i don't know if you guys caught that so your camera's froze but your your words

01:10:25.320 are not the uh hmm yeah that's interesting because i'm still wearing a cab up i can't

01:10:40.680 okay all right cool he's got the icelandic uh man is the joy of man

01:10:47.720 and augmentation of the soil and adorner of ships

01:10:57.720 nick can you put the norwegian up next

01:11:01.800 all right man is an augmentation of the soil great is the claw of the hawk

01:11:20.680 making reference to that symbol again

01:11:24.920 and then finally could you put the anglo-saxon for us please

01:11:31.800 All right.

01:11:39.300 The joyous man is dear to his kinsmen, yet every man is doomed to fail his fellow, since the Lord by his decree will commit the vile carrion to the earth.

01:11:49.820 um one of the things in all three that well okay i guess one of the things in the icelandic and

01:12:01.320 anglo-saxon speaks about joy um one of the biggest standouts to me about this room is that man is

01:12:13.360 the joy of man. I've mentioned before one of the big, you know, one of the things that I most

01:12:22.620 use the runes for is Galdor. And I always like to Galdor runes before ritual, because it

01:12:30.600 figuratively and literally harmonizes us. Despite my tenor display a few minutes ago,

01:12:37.240 it's cool when you harmonize. Something really special happens. And I think it aligns us in a

01:12:44.500 really special way. But this is one of those runes that I like to use. There is something

01:12:51.540 inherently special about

01:12:57.000 celebration with someone else and that's with another person not um not just two dudes um

01:13:10.820 everything is enhanced when in the context of community especially community of the folk

01:13:22.860 It's one of the things you can, you can practice Ausatru as a solitary practitioner, but you miss so much of the meat of it, doing that outside of a community.

01:13:35.600 like so much of our our ritual there's a synergy when multiple people are standing together

01:13:45.140 before the gods united in purpose united in in faith united by by blood united by things

01:13:54.260 you become worth more than the sum of your parts

01:13:58.300 and you take joy and strength from one another

01:14:02.800 people are social creatures we are not meant to be solitary matter of fact outlawry or breaking

01:14:14.820 you off from community and dooming you to be by yourself was one of the worst things imaginable

01:14:22.880 to our ancestors, because your entire context for existence is your relationship with other

01:14:33.320 people, specifically with your people.

01:14:37.160 And separating you and alienating you from that was the worst punishment that they could

01:14:43.420 think of.

01:14:46.420 It wasn't to die.

01:14:48.020 It was to be cut off from, it was to live being cut off from your folk.

01:14:58.020 Focusing on that joy is a fundamental in the AFA when we are together as well.

01:15:05.720 Well, the idea that when we come together, we can transcend the frustrations of life and of, you know, all of the stuff going on in the world we may not like, because for a moment, we are with our folk, we're with our people, and we can take joy from one another.

01:15:26.640 It's been pointed out several times over in the chat, I believe, that, you know, ideographically, this is two Wunyo runes facing each other.

01:15:36.860 And I think that's valid.

01:15:40.360 It's also Dagaz with legs. 1.00

01:15:42.960 I think that's also valid. 1.00

01:15:45.460 Right.

01:15:47.200 I've noticed people keying in on those, the two Wunyo runes, or the Lagaz rune and Issa rune.

01:15:54.720 now they're starting to see some combinations in there so that um

01:16:05.040 that joy that celebration that strength to carry on

01:16:11.600 when two people come together is extremely extremely important um

01:16:18.320 and i i don't think that can be overstated and i think

01:16:24.720 Yeah, I don't think it has to be any more complex than that, but it is profound in and of itself.

01:16:36.060 And the idea of our human connection bringing both people involved joy and then spreading that out to our family, our tribe, our clan, our nation, our folk.

01:16:54.720 And so as a side note to that, one of, I would say the biggest thing that we engage in as GOFAR is counseling.

01:17:08.800 Biggest, by biggest, I think I mean probably most frequent thing we engage in is counseling.

01:17:15.440 One of the, and we, people have toxic tendencies often.

01:17:24.020 one of the biggest ones that we have is a tendency to isolate when going through hard times.

01:17:32.020 When someone is suffering or they go through a hardship in their life, they have a tendency to

01:17:40.580 hole up in their house and lock the world out, lock other people out, and wallow in their sorrow.

01:17:47.300 and you know there's plenty of occasions where stepping back and centering yourself

01:17:54.320 is a reasonable thing to do but man when you're having a hard time when anyone is going through

01:18:01.060 a hard time the worst thing they can do is try to sit by themselves and be haunted by their demons

01:18:07.660 haunted by their regrets and wallow in their misery the best advice that i always give every

01:18:16.800 single person, myself included, when you are feeling low for whatever reason, go do stuff

01:18:27.340 with other people, even if it's just being around them and hanging out. But come together

01:18:34.140 with other people is such a source of strength and joy that I think we lose sight of in the

01:18:46.000 modern world that we have around us because with so much electronic things we can simulate that

01:18:51.040 we can have noise we can hear other voices you know have the tv on in the background it's not

01:18:56.260 you don't feel as alone as if it's all quiet but the real interaction with another human being

01:19:04.280 makes all of the difference and i i just don't think that can be said enough

01:19:09.820 Um, a very wise member of, of our community, um, suffered a great loss and I was absolutely

01:19:21.680 moved by his need and his desire and his wisdom of coming to Thorshav for an event. Um, and he

01:19:32.860 spoke of this loss. And I had never prayed so hard during a bloat to give him strength, to give him

01:19:42.840 light, to give him a focus towards the dawn and a focus towards overcoming that adversity of loss.

01:19:54.220 And it floored me that he did the opposite that I think we often always encounter with people kind

01:20:00.900 of closing up and I, and I understand why some people do it, but he did the opposite.

01:20:08.400 And that, that absolutely struck me to the core of the importance of what community is

01:20:16.720 of what our folk are, what our church is.

01:20:19.580 And it inspired me to really kind of follow that, follow suit in that, that bravery.

01:20:30.900 um we got a uh two cups of coffee um from cole van gilder i have never felt such love and support

01:20:43.380 as i have when i came to the afa i'm only sorry i can't afford more thank you githya callahan

01:20:50.980 and gothe stam for taking time and helping me through such difficult time in my life

01:20:57.300 uh i am really really glad that you reached out and that they were able to uh to help you um

01:21:08.060 that's absolutely what our gothar are here for every single one of us and i'm very happy that

01:21:16.940 when you were struggling with something you were able to reach out and uh that our gothar

01:21:21.260 we're able to be there for you. So we have got some few questions lined up here where we left

01:21:37.140 off from Barry. As I miss the Ohio winter nights and can't make it to Sigerheim, is there a certain

01:21:44.660 way I should celebrate it at home with family beyond just a personal bloat with my VCR?

01:21:51.260 Svon, how would you advise Barry and his family celebrate winter nights if they're just having to, if they're just able to do it as a family this year?

01:22:02.300 yeah i think right out of the gate setting your harrow up and and placing out your ancestral

01:22:14.260 steads um not not so much the gods steads or or statues or or uh symbols of the gods that you

01:22:23.960 invite the gods to be in your home and uh invite them to uh sit and and bear witness

01:22:31.440 uh in this case you know pulling out your if you have pictures um in my family in in particular we

01:22:39.120 use wedding photos because it has again that that polarity of the masculine feminine as they're

01:22:46.380 joined together um so our our photos generally are from weddings um throughout the ages some of

01:22:54.240 them are very old photos um sometimes singular photos things of that nature bringing down

01:22:59.600 photographs of strong uh patriarchal and matriarchal members of your family

01:23:06.720 and giving them homage and space on the harrow at this time i think is the first move um towards

01:23:15.140 that and you know cleaning your harrow and setting it up in relation to that and then when you are

01:23:22.240 ready i would say combine it with a meal so holding bloat uh and giving gift in a bowl to your to

01:23:30.960 your ancestors to to the dc and to the alvar uh the protectors of of your home and your land

01:23:37.600 the protectors of your bloodline and the end of the of your children and your future and

01:23:44.320 um you know giving bloat to them and then holding a meal saying a prayer over the food in thanks to

01:23:51.200 them and all the sacrifices that they made in order for you to sit with your family and eat

01:23:56.720 and enjoy this time um perhaps you know telling stories of them if you know uh stories from your

01:24:03.120 your your past your ancestors and i would also say too it'd be a great time to perhaps

01:24:09.840 prepare your outdoor harrow or a horg uh the stones or the altar outside as well and leaving

01:24:17.920 gifts to the land spirits as well. I think that those three, um, points of concentration towards

01:24:25.880 your devotion are at the height of this moment in this holiday. And, um, that may play out

01:24:31.560 different for everyone. You may have a strong patriarchal, um, figure in your family that you

01:24:37.780 have a lot of stories about or, or, or a matriarch that you do, and you could focus on that, but also 0.67

01:24:43.600 just as the D-Seer and the Alvar at large, the Dark Alvar are the mortals that have been elevated

01:24:53.320 and ascended to a position to protect the lines. And, you know, giving thanks to them in those

01:25:03.140 respects. However you do it, there are little local things that people do. So if you have

01:25:09.500 just your family i mean i would say at the bare minimum just do that there are some people that

01:25:13.960 kind of combine that with perhaps um folk rituals that they may do with uh close kinsmen um uh but

01:25:23.320 you know that's hard to tell and that's more nuanced for every person um in their local area

01:25:29.300 but you know holding bloat and having your harrow near and in the same place or processing to

01:25:35.840 the table after bloke with your family and then holding another remembrance over the meal and

01:25:43.780 giving thanks, I think is a really good start to practicing this holy tide if you're unable to make

01:25:53.340 it out to your kinfolk. Absolutely. I don't have a whole lot to add.

01:26:02.260 um talk about your ancestors tell your kids about your ancestors tell stories if you have

01:26:13.860 artifacts i say artifacts if you have stuff that used to be your grandparents and they're not with

01:26:20.780 us anymore you know if you have those things there's something that your kids can reach out

01:26:28.780 and touch and connect them

01:26:30.040 with somebody who's gone before them.

01:26:33.380 Pictures, we are so blessed to live in a time

01:26:36.620 where we can see what so many of our ancestors look like.

01:26:43.220 We can visually see what they looked like

01:26:51.400 when they were alive.

01:26:52.340 And that's something that, you know,

01:26:56.660 about six generations or so ago they couldn't do that so that's a really special thing that

01:27:03.540 we have access to today um yeah speak their names tell their stories it doesn't have to be

01:27:12.980 some overly elaborate sing-songy prose viking ballad to them you can just talk about grandma

01:27:25.280 You know, but talking about your family, talking about your ancestors, sharing those with younger members of your family that didn't meet those people or haven't heard those stories.

01:27:37.780 That's a really special thing. And that's it's special, but it's pretty easy to access.

01:27:44.180 And it's it's really important. And I think so many of us don't do that.

01:27:50.260 Another thing, and I think this is a reminder, and I'm talking to myself as much as anybody else here.

01:27:58.680 One thing that is shameful that we all do, myself included, if you are not, we have family that over time, perhaps we are not close to, for whatever reason.

01:28:13.860 Um, but it's really unfortunate, but very common amongst our folk to completely ignore, uh, grandparents that we have no relation to or no, or we have no relationship that we've built with them in life.

01:28:36.040 yet once they pass we'll go worship our ancestors and honor them at an altar and do all this and

01:28:43.680 that but while they're here with you in this day and age do you reach out and give them a call

01:28:50.040 do you call and say hi and check in and ask how they're doing

01:28:54.020 it's awkward if you're not close or it can be or if you have some other family issues i don't know

01:29:00.020 about. But it's lame and you're not living up to your responsibilities if you don't show love and

01:29:10.040 interaction with those people in life, but then get all, you know, all righteous and excited about

01:29:19.080 it after death. You have that opportunity now to interact with those people. You know, we talk

01:29:24.980 about how at winter nights, it's so much easier to interact with our ancestors. You know what?

01:29:30.020 Our ancestors that are still with us, it's real easy right now to pick up your phone and give them a call.

01:29:39.100 And I think that is equally, if not more important to stress to everybody.

01:29:47.240 You know, I say that like, you know, my grandmother, I am fortunate enough to have a grandmother that is still with us.

01:29:54.240 She's 93 this year.

01:30:00.020 But we've never been super close. We didn't spend a lot of time together when I was growing up. I have a lot of cousins that she has spent more time with and for whatever reason was a little bit closer to and it just wasn't a thing.

01:30:17.220 um but i really should do a better job of reaching out and talking to her and it was

01:30:24.520 really special uh earlier this year when she came down with my father to visit uh me and my family

01:30:30.740 and it was it was neat to have four generations there you know at one time my grandmother my

01:30:36.040 father myself and my daughter so do that that's important too i'm sorry i kind of went on a ramp

01:30:45.680 there um no no what yeah call your grandparents yeah call your parents these are important things

01:30:58.640 i saw over in the chat uh there was a question about what what should i give some things to

01:31:03.440 think about again this is different for everyone um you know it sometimes it do you know certain

01:31:09.760 things whether um you know i know for instance that my grandparents um were very fond of they

01:31:17.440 they smoked and they were you know that the product of their generation and they enjoyed coffee

01:31:24.240 and um so giving a gift of coffee i think also it's worth noting culturally the the the usage

01:31:31.440 of the of the color red in semblance to mortality um and you know it's up to you whether you can

01:31:38.880 do things oftentimes i think i find people when they give gifts to the ancestors they often

01:31:43.760 place them within a hole or in the ground after a certain period of time during the bloat they may

01:31:51.280 take a you know a sacred like mead or uh any of the gifts and you know place them in a hole pour

01:31:59.520 them out uh place sacred gifts and then cover them with soil you can also burn them as well if you

01:32:06.960 you have the ability to whether it's uh through a fireplace or a place outside that is kind of

01:32:11.760 a sacred place not some uh place where you just like burn mundane things or mundane refuse if

01:32:19.440 you're doing like a leaf pile or or what have you but the way in which you give generally can reflect

01:32:24.820 in relation to the the middle world with the earth or the ascendancy of the gods through fire

01:32:33.440 or upon high. And some, some people I hadn't, you know, spoken to talk about how they believe

01:32:40.600 that the Alfar and the Deeser are elevated or ascendant souls of their family line. So again,

01:32:47.980 fire could be applicable there. But yes, giving those gifts oftentimes, you know, wrapped in red

01:32:55.300 and placed within the earth, I think is a, is a decent way to start. If you're talking about

01:33:00.000 components of ceremony if you're talking about components of the bloat uh you know you're giving

01:33:05.600 libation there at your harrow then you eat a meal um some people even place a plate and cups and

01:33:13.600 things in a spot at the table in remembrance for those who could not sit there and dine and then

01:33:20.880 they place certain items or gifts or things letters and they place them within a um a sacred

01:33:28.160 spot and they bury them in the ground and perhaps use that spot annually. But that's just some ideas

01:33:36.400 in gift giving there. Yeah. Again, context is everything.

01:33:45.260 and I've used this line of thinking when talking about gifting to gods often

01:33:57.180 it should be much more accessible to wrap our heads around though when we talk about gifting

01:34:03.920 to our ancestors. Now, most of us, or I don't know in today's world, a great many of us

01:34:16.100 knew our grandparents. What would they like? Don't ask me in spawn. I don't know your grandpa,

01:34:24.420 but you do, or your mom does, or your dad does. What would they have liked?

01:34:31.380 that's what matters um i don't you know swan and i as gothar

01:34:38.520 can help facilitate the bridge between the gods and the folk

01:34:48.360 asking us what the gods might like because of our professional status with this and our long time

01:34:57.280 doing it I think we can shed some light perhaps on what our gods would like most but your ancestors

01:35:04.420 that's one of the most special things about this they're your ancestors you are connected to them

01:35:10.200 directly through blood through you know one or two generations your family knows these people

01:35:18.380 to the best of their ability what would they like and you know that answer more than we could ever

01:35:24.920 hope to know. And if you don't, because there wasn't that closeness there, perhaps you were

01:35:29.360 adopted, any number of things, then some suggestions, I saw this in the chat, what do you

01:35:35.840 think they might have liked? You know, what do you like that you wish you could share with them?

01:35:42.220 These are all ideas, especially, you know, especially kids. And I say that, honestly,

01:35:48.800 just thinking in my head, if I wanted to make an offering to my grandfather, what I might do.

01:35:54.920 I might go buy him a Whopper.

01:35:59.320 Me and my grandpa, when I was a kid,

01:36:03.360 he would, I used to love to just go for rides.

01:36:07.020 It actually, I inherited the car

01:36:08.580 that became my first car,

01:36:10.000 was this Eddie Bauer Edition Ford Bronco II.

01:36:15.520 And we would drive around and look at stuff.

01:36:18.700 And we lived in Anchorage, Alaska at the time.

01:36:20.700 and we would go pick up some whoppers at burger king because he loved a whopper what so as far

01:36:29.320 as a fast food burger goes it's hard to beat the whopper it's flame broiled it's delicious

01:36:33.660 um but so we would go up to a place called arctic valley and it was you know this high spot in the

01:36:43.720 Chugach Mountains, where you had this amazing view of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

01:36:50.380 It was Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base at the time.

01:36:53.760 And Anchorage.

01:36:55.060 And it was just this really cool view.

01:36:56.560 It's an awesome spot to go to.

01:36:58.460 And there were some pullouts there.

01:36:59.840 And we'd sit there and we'd look out over the city and talk about stuff and eat our whoppers.

01:37:05.460 So as simple as that.

01:37:08.840 Stuff with kids.

01:37:09.880 You know, what do you like that you want to share with grandma and grandpa?

01:37:12.680 It can be a very simple thing, but it can be very meaningful.

01:37:17.360 So I think this is a really special opportunity that's very, very accessible to all of us.

01:37:25.500 And I think if you could only do one Ausatru related ritual a year, just one to start with,

01:37:33.860 this would be the best one to start with and the most easily accessible one to start with.

01:37:39.580 So I would really encourage that.

01:37:42.680 looking over on the side trying to keep up with the chats we've got a really good chat room

01:37:54.800 tonight tonight a really nice chat room I appreciate it um yeah thank you guys for

01:38:02.120 I don't know thank you guys for participating and we appreciate all the really good questions

01:38:06.740 our next one up would you agree that our natural habitat as hyperboreans is in the north and that

01:38:18.160 more of our people should try to migrate to more northern climates if we have the option

01:38:24.500 and do you think it is possible our Aryan genetics can warp over time

01:38:30.640 if we're in the southern hemisphere for too long

01:38:34.540 no i would not agree with that um or okay pause yes i would agree that i think our natural habitat

01:38:46.940 good night aubrey

01:38:49.500 i love you too sleep good um yeah i think that we are from hyperborea absolutely i think that's our

01:39:00.140 natural habitat, and I think historically, northern climates, certainly the northern

01:39:07.040 hemisphere, are obviously historic homelands. But no, one of the amazing and special

01:39:18.340 characteristics of our folk is our ability to explore and to conquer new lands and to

01:39:26.580 spread our folk as far as we can find. I think it's our destiny to take that to

01:39:35.260 other planets and other solar systems one day. That's certainly in keeping with what our founder

01:39:41.340 has always wished for our folk. Our people have always ridden out into the unknown,

01:39:49.640 and ridden out into the sunset to conquer, to explore,

01:39:53.560 to colonize, to tame new lands.

01:39:58.520 And I wouldn't ever want us to stop doing that

01:40:03.560 or to look down on doing that.

01:40:08.460 I think there's something cool and something,

01:40:11.000 and for any of our audience watching this,

01:40:13.060 there's something cool about our kinfolk

01:40:16.040 that are still in Europe.

01:40:17.640 We idealize that a lot.

01:40:19.640 see their sacred spaces. And, and I think we have a romanticism about that, but

01:40:26.900 in a lot of ways, our best, our brightest, our boldest were those that went out to conquer,

01:40:34.140 that went out to colonize new lands, that set out on adventure and built, you know, built

01:40:42.520 North America and lots of South America that built new lands, that built Australia, that made

01:40:50.100 these things happen. And I celebrate that. I certainly don't see any reason that our ancestry,

01:40:57.080 our blood, our kin, or our gods are less accessible if we happen to be in the Southern

01:41:02.540 Hemisphere. And so in that, in the first part that we are from Hyperborea, I would agree,

01:41:09.480 but that we should, you know, go back to, you know,

01:41:14.620 we should somehow be compelled to go back there instead of spreading our wings

01:41:19.160 and taking flight. I don't agree with that.

01:41:21.520 Swan, what are your thoughts on it?

01:41:24.220 I mean, I definitely would think that, I mean, I've noticed it even with my family,

01:41:30.400 you know, having some neighbors or people on the street that are, you know,

01:41:36.560 from Southern climes, but yet I find myself getting out or, uh, during the colder, you know,

01:41:43.520 time of the year and almost in a, in a natural, uh, inclination to do so, or, you know, uh,

01:41:50.220 finding it with, uh, when there's a good time to go out when it's overcast to work around the house

01:41:55.440 and, and in the yard and things like that. And I always kind of joke and say, it's, it's just,

01:42:00.280 it's in the most advantageous sense of my being to come out during these times and work

01:42:07.460 when other people are hunkering down in this kind of cold weather but i mean i'm also very

01:42:12.460 acclimated to and have been throughout the world in in very very hot places whether it's southeast

01:42:18.960 asia or the middle east and so on and so forth and i think ultimately yeah it is our it is our

01:42:23.480 spirit. I think that we can hearken back. I often lead every bloat that I do with turning towards

01:42:32.000 the North as a hearkening to understanding origins and where we come from and where we will go

01:42:40.940 in our death. But the ultimate, I guess, like if it was to physically say we should migrate,

01:42:51.980 That is, I think, too much of a call.

01:42:58.500 I think it's better served that our people are carrying the northern spirit with them wherever they go is a better way to look at it, perhaps.

01:43:09.120 You know, I'll mention something else.

01:43:11.200 This is kind of a, I don't know, a note on directionality in AFA ritual practice.

01:43:17.800 the default

01:43:20.600 the default setting in bloat

01:43:28.160 since the dawn of modern house

01:43:31.540 has been to face north

01:43:32.740 it's one of those things

01:43:35.520 you know I find myself

01:43:36.560 I was in

01:43:37.160 I mentioned a number of weeks ago

01:43:39.960 I did a

01:43:40.680 service for some incarcerated

01:43:43.760 folk

01:43:45.200 at the high desert

01:43:47.520 prison in Susanville, California. And you're in there and it's disorienting and you're in this

01:43:54.240 like, I guess, library, multipurpose room space. And so I was asking the guys like, hey, which

01:44:00.880 way's north? Because that's where you typically set up the altar and you typically

01:44:05.460 direct generic things to unless there's a purpose not to

01:44:11.300 um that said there's instances where that's not the case often when we bloat to ostara we face

01:44:22.240 east um for the rising sun she's the dawn goddess but importantly and what got me thinking about

01:44:30.120 this was in uh our funeral rites and in our uh our graveyards we face west we face west because

01:44:42.680 west is the future west is where you know where the sun goes and where we chase it

01:44:49.560 it's we follow after that sunset we push west we conquer west as

01:44:55.000 As all of the dark spots on the earth are revealed and we know more, it's a little bit less poignant.

01:45:05.380 But that moving towards the west into the future is still very symbolically important to our folks.

01:45:12.160 So we orient all Alcetru graves in the AFA to where when you're reading the headstone, you are facing west.

01:45:22.540 You're facing that setting sun.

01:45:25.000 And as a point, in case anybody didn't know, we have facility to accept the interred ashes of our folk in regular grave plots at Odenshof, at Thorshof, at Njordshof, and at Sickerheim.

01:45:48.640 And we have set up and have the plans as soon as we have someone's ashes to honor to set up a columbarium, again, where we are facing to the west at Baldershof when that time comes.

01:46:04.480 So that's a real thing.

01:46:07.720 That's not a theoretical thing.

01:46:09.280 We have people at these locations.

01:46:11.660 We have folks interred already at Odenshof, Thorshof, Njortzhof, and at Sigerheim.

01:46:24.700 What else do we got here?

01:46:31.400 All right.

01:46:33.000 Our next question, should we use the term Hyperborean to describe ourselves?

01:46:38.060 i don't think it's wrong to use that term um i think that

01:46:49.820 you know again i think the audience matters i think a lot of people might be confused

01:46:53.980 by that and not really understand it i don't think it's incorrect i think our people do

01:47:00.700 flare out from the north due to the ice age and things that way i think that we come from a northern

01:47:08.780 polar place i don't say that's a hundred percent hard afa doctrine that's just certainly my leaning

01:47:17.100 on it um again i saw in the chat when this question first came up i think arian is the best

01:47:27.660 use because it's not tied to a place it is tied to a set of values to an ideal

01:47:35.180 i think that works the best obviously to the uninitiated it has negative connotations

01:47:41.340 um so honestly i think white people works a lot especially here in the united states and

01:47:46.300 i don't think we should be proud we should be ashamed of that in any way um but i think

01:47:51.340 hyperborean is a completely appropriate thing to use if you if you want to do that it's fun

01:47:59.020 what do you think about it uh i mean it's an interesting title uh of course you know borealis

01:48:07.980 and hyper borealis or hyperborean um has to uh geographical understanding especially from um you

01:48:18.940 know rome and from greece but um i don't know i i i feel that a lot of people that would miss

01:48:28.140 the mark perhaps it could be in certain groups or understanding and and it would be simply understood

01:48:34.300 but other groups of people might not understand that in reference again like you had mentioned to

01:48:40.700 arian for a lot of the folk um you know they they absolutely understand it with the idea of of honor

01:48:49.020 and the idea of nobility um and what that might mean in attaining that mantle or or having that

01:48:55.740 responsibility on one's shoulders um and you know connotations to aristos and and uh arist uh

01:49:02.940 aristocratic um ideals but i also like to use white but i also like to use folk i think that's

01:49:12.380 the name for us uh as a people when when you speak of like the inuits and how they

01:49:19.820 there that means they are the the real people um i think a lot of folks or a lot of different

01:49:29.580 peoples all over the world utilize this understanding and and the word folk itself

01:49:34.860 is very much a relatable way of understanding who we're talking about um so i oftentimes use that

01:49:43.100 and i i think of it um i remember having a conversation where someone was saying you know

01:49:47.580 like folk and non-folk as some sort of uh um perhaps an insult but i i likened it to the

01:49:54.780 idea that if if i was in a room with two people from china i would be the non-chinese guy that

01:50:01.500 would be very clear to them it could be spoken in some way shape or form in their language like that

01:50:06.860 and it would be completely understood um without any sort of laying of some sort of grievance or

01:50:12.700 or whatever uh nomenclature people use to identify themselves as the in group and somebody as the

01:50:19.100 out group is obviously the round guide spawn right the guilo um and and again that brings up a great

01:50:28.220 point that you brought up about using the word white a lot of people have a tendency to not like

01:50:33.260 that but it's worth noting that it's it that is easy for us to understand uh it's uh it is a

01:50:41.900 checked box that we can clearly identify as and um it holds um i mean our i would say the people that

01:50:53.740 may be not particularly conducive to us as a people are very very quick to place us in that

01:50:59.820 nomenclature so i it's like uh if you don't want to identify as white there are plenty of people

01:51:04.940 in this planet that are willing and absolutely able to identify you as a white person so whether

01:51:11.180 you like it or not, but it's, it's, I think the usage of it is about digging your heels in and

01:51:19.700 not allowing the verbiage that a lot of people are trying to weaponize against us, turning that

01:51:26.560 into some sort of a bad word. And I think that utilizing it and saying, no, yes, I am white.

01:51:31.400 I'm, I'm unabashedly so, or I'm, I'm proud of being white is completely, I think something worth

01:51:41.960 stating and and uh keeping in the realm of of speech um especially when words are being twisted

01:51:49.880 and convoluted or changed it's important that we maintain the heading of a lot of things and and

01:51:56.600 that's one of them in particular so i saw some clarification in the chat and i thought it was

01:52:02.920 worth addressing too yes absolutely our people are adapted over many many many generations to thrive

01:52:16.360 in a more normal northern climate and it is more challenging for our people to be in a tropical

01:52:23.640 climate or in a desert climate our people have always embraced challenges and conquered challenges

01:52:31.080 and overcome them but certainly the point that we are more naturally suited to the place where

01:52:38.600 our people where our genetics have developed over thousands of years obviously that's that's science

01:52:45.080 i do i don't think our the aryaness of our genes decays in the south i do think that we become you

01:52:53.320 know over many many many many many generations in tropical climates or desert climates we become more

01:53:03.800 suited for that environment uh genetically um but that's from within our folk soul not from without

01:53:12.760 that's not you know we're not losing aryaness through you know intermixture no we're evolving

01:53:20.680 our Aryan-ness in a geographically specific way and I don't think there's anything you know wrong

01:53:27.560 or sacrilegious or unacceptable about that but certainly I mean we've as I myself can attest I

01:53:34.360 was born and raised in Alaska and I don't do well with the heat you should you should see me at

01:53:39.720 anything at any of our southern hoffs like the most simple ritual that I do I come out and you

01:53:45.160 You know, I look like I just jumped in a pool.

01:53:48.600 I lift up my tie and there's this massive wet spot. 0.81

01:53:52.380 It's really kind of ridiculous.

01:53:54.500 Swan's laughing because he knows. 0.90

01:53:55.980 He knows it's true.

01:53:57.820 So, I mean, I feel that within one generation.

01:54:02.200 But, yeah, our people have always overcome those challenges.

01:54:05.740 And we'll overcome the new challenges in the future.

01:54:09.060 We have one more question I think we're going to hit before we get to our last room tonight.

01:54:13.060 And this is actually a throwback to our first rune of the night.

01:54:21.220 I'm late for the Ehwas section, but what is your idea about that rune and its relationship with death?

01:54:31.840 And I saw this over in the chat and I thought this is fascinating because people in the chat, you know, mentioned that it is that the horse in a mythological sense can take people or can take people or gods or heroes between the worlds.

01:54:54.680 can take them to the land of the dead can take them to all nine of the worlds if you're talking

01:55:00.300 about um slepner with his his eight legs um there is absolutely something to that and i'm

01:55:10.260 really really glad somebody brought that up um the horse as a method of transcendence or a method of

01:55:20.260 um traveling between the worlds i think that's extremely relevant and i think

01:55:31.080 yeah it's i mean thank you for bringing it up because it's not an aspect of this room that

01:55:39.500 i'd ever thought of before not in that way i mean i thought of it in other circumstances

01:55:44.640 but not as relates to this rune and i think that's really really interesting and i think it's

01:55:52.060 perhaps a rune that um is very useful in in sending things beyond um our world to the

01:56:05.600 different worlds to the different forms of existence and beyond the veil but i think

01:56:09.640 that's fascinating and I'm really, really glad it was brought up. Svan, what are your thoughts on

01:56:14.880 that? Yeah, I was kind of hinting towards that when I was mentioning the usage of that rune

01:56:20.860 in relation to Wunyo and to Thurzaz and ecstaticism and the ability for the consciousness

01:56:28.260 to be transferred or moved through barriers, through thresholds and into higher attainment.

01:56:35.800 That really is what I was kind of alluding to is the rune as a vehicle of non-corporeal movement, the ability to attain that understanding.

01:56:50.800 And that, I think, does clearly play out in our mythic language when we were talking about the horse of the sun and the horse of day and horse of night and horse of the moon.

01:57:05.800 And, but also speaking of, you know, of Slepner, the slip, the slipping one, the one that slips between all and the dynamicism there.

01:57:14.140 And even, you know, with the, the recent kind of initiation towards understanding about like Brod and Hovi of Freyr and of Lord Frey and, or the, the, the passage of the horse into the underworld.

01:57:32.980 um it does have a lot of uh points but i would say yeah this rune in relation to transferring

01:57:40.360 the non-corporeal consciousness or soul or the mind or which is all in one really uh

01:57:48.480 yes absolutely can be used in that in that way

01:57:52.480 all right um with that

01:57:59.840 swan can you tell the folk about lagos

01:58:04.680 absolutely so lagos is also in the younger futhark and the elder futhark and it remains

01:58:13.500 in the same so it's a again a little confusing when we talk about manas or mother uh

01:58:21.040 Lagos or

01:58:22.880 Loger

01:58:23.980 is

01:58:25.380 the rune of water

01:58:28.820 it could be

01:58:31.340 interpreted to as the leek

01:58:32.660 because those two words

01:58:34.620 have an origin especially

01:58:36.960 in relation to the water

01:58:39.020 reed or the

01:58:40.880 sprouting of a reedy

01:58:43.380 kind of garlic

01:58:45.320 or leek

01:58:46.220 as it's seen as a

01:58:48.880 grass of healing

01:58:50.740 and a grass of, of, um, uh, life and, uh, especially life, even though, you know, you cut

01:58:58.500 it down, it comes right back out and it's close association with water. But the first, um, and

01:59:05.400 primary I would say is that this rune associates with water. It could be a body of water, the lake,

01:59:13.800 if you will, Laguz and the lake, or it could be, um, some people do account it to the motion of

01:59:19.860 water, whether it's the currents or the rivers or even the ocean in a sense. But it has a deep

01:59:28.620 connection to fluidity. And in that, there's a connection between the mental state of dreams and

01:59:39.640 of consciousness, the ability for our consciousness to become still and to look deep words and inwards,

01:59:47.240 perhaps even below the water surface, or that our consciousness can flow into the world and

01:59:54.440 break through cracks, break through barriers. But it's a slow and more organic flowing of our

02:00:00.700 intent and our will. Obviously, there's clear connotations to water in relation to the wells,

02:00:07.340 being that there is a wellspring in heaven, there is a wellspring in the middle,

02:00:11.680 and there is a wellspring in the lower, and how all of those are interconnected through the roots.

02:00:17.240 And so this, again, speaks of cycles and the idea of that which goes ultimately below being drawn up and descended again down from Yggdrasil and into Earth's well and then down into the middle and through Mimir and back down again.

02:00:35.680 there's this constant state of flowing of the sacred rivers in all of the the levels uh the

02:00:42.720 level above time the level within time and the level below or away from time so this this rune

02:00:49.760 has it's again like its name is um you know kind of associated with it's hard to pin it down uh

02:00:59.360 with good reason i think is that this rune is deeply associated with uh fluid concepts

02:01:07.440 some people associate it to dreams uh to emotional well-being others to health um leaks craft the

02:01:16.400 the leech craft healing um oftentimes i've i've talked to people about how they associate this

02:01:22.880 rune with the art of healing in specifics to the to the ausenior air and her healing abilities

02:01:31.040 through um tonic or through um uh uh soup or or a potion if you will the idea of the of the garlic

02:01:42.880 and the leak in relation to healing goes all the way back even the uh the goths are are mentioned

02:01:50.960 of it in a lot of their usage of words, even when they rewrote the book of Matthew, there

02:01:57.080 was references to health and medicine in relation to the usage of water, broth, herbs, and

02:02:07.420 of the sacred way of infusing those healthy components through the medium of water. And

02:02:14.600 can see that again uh the sacredness of boiling um meat from bloat uh the perhaps the uh animal

02:02:22.840 that was uh uh given up sacral butchering whether it was a horse or a bull um oftentimes was was

02:02:31.560 boiled in a cauldron so this rune has deep uh kind of anchoring in those uh concepts but when we

02:02:41.800 talk about it in say divination this rune often symbolizes um perhaps secrets or um

02:02:53.480 uh levels of understanding that are not quite fully understood yet and are coming into being

02:02:59.800 that there is a a level of the water coming out of the ground and bubbling up like a well spring

02:03:06.360 or the the sprig of the of the leak you know breaking out of the ground and spearing up into

02:03:13.000 the sky with virility and life um you know there's uh kind of transit translational debates about one

02:03:20.520 of the sacred rivers in ausgarth or in in heaven um you know in relation to whether it's the it is

02:03:27.720 the spear river or it's the leak river the garlic river in the sense of of all those connotations

02:03:34.040 to healing and health and virility in life so this rune is is hard for a lot of people

02:03:41.240 to just say it you know it means community it means man it means the folk it means this this

02:03:49.040 rune has a lot more to do with the title rise and fall of consciousness emotion and spiritual levels

02:03:56.780 within the individual or within the folk or all around the way that we kind of heal ourselves spiritually.

02:04:11.800 So again, I got stuff I'd like to add, but let's go through the rune poems first.

02:04:19.820 Nick, if you could put those up, starting, I guess, starting with the Icelandic, please.

02:04:26.780 water is eddying strain and broad geyser and land of the fish

02:04:43.580 Norwegian, please.

02:05:01.400 A waterfall is a river which falls from a mountainside, but ornaments are of gold.

02:05:12.540 at the Anglo-Saxon, please.

02:05:28.420 The ocean seems interminable to men

02:05:33.220 if they venture on the rolling bark

02:05:36.180 and the waves of the sea terrify them

02:05:39.180 and the stallion of the deep heed not its bridle.

02:05:42.540 Um, so Laguz has always been liquid to me.

02:05:57.060 Um, I understand it's phonetic links to the leak.

02:06:06.060 I get that.

02:06:06.940 But the value of it has very traditionally to me been the flow of liquid and the use of liquid in many forms.

02:06:21.700 um water is

02:06:26.580 liquid is essential and special in most of our rituals for a variety of reasons

02:06:36.880 water itself is sacred to our people in a lot of different contexts

02:06:43.540 um one of the the interesting land land vetir cults of our folk has always been the cell of

02:06:55.620 the veneration and celebration of river goddesses um the idea of

02:07:04.660 lakes and bodies of water being sources of magic and

02:07:14.340 perhaps benediction perhaps you know scary spookiness depending on the context

02:07:23.500 but you know the idea of excalibur emerging from being handed by the lady of the lake

02:07:29.260 out of out of the waters the idea of so many sacrifices being made into bogs into lakes into

02:07:37.900 waters um the sacredness of there were sacred springs thought to be again used for healing um

02:07:50.860 but one of the most i don't know a couple of the most poignant examples of lagu's to me

02:07:57.900 and our ritual practice are the idea of blood the fluid that animates life itself

02:08:08.700 that connects the river that connects us to our ancestors

02:08:15.820 literally the the river flowing from the the dawn of our folk down through us to our children

02:08:22.780 that blood that liquid that lagus that connects us to all that have come before us and back to

02:08:31.660 the gods themselves and that you know the blood and the goodly hue that they gave us um

02:08:37.900 but very specifically

02:08:41.660 in the alu formula the idea of a liquid being a medium

02:08:50.520 um to transmit energy from person to person from us to the gods from the gods to us

02:09:04.840 liquid has always been that and that's the commonality through ritual i've talked before

02:09:12.280 about how a modern afa bloat is probably very different than a viking bloat it's probably very

02:09:19.020 different than a you know a neolithic blow but the point of commonality between all of that

02:09:26.620 is that liquid transmitting blessings from us to the gods from the gods to us

02:09:37.420 in its most primal sense with the blood of the sacrifice that liquid literally when the animal

02:09:45.180 was alive and hands were laid on it and you imbued it with your messages for the beyond

02:09:52.300 and then in a moment when it was killed it literally went beyond the veil to carry that

02:10:00.920 message and the blood that was bled from it was used to spread the blessings of the gods amongst

02:10:09.080 the folk by splattering it, by splattering the walls of a hoth, by anointing a weapon with it.

02:10:20.120 That distributing of blessing through liquid was fundamental. We do that now most often with mead

02:10:29.160 or with, you know, another alcoholic beverage. But the idea of sharing that with the gods,

02:10:36.100 of putting our might into a horn and then pouring that out for them or filling that horn and then

02:10:43.540 literally consuming those blessings from the gods or being asperged and splattered like in a like

02:10:50.240 of old with that liquid containing their blessings um we see that in the rite of of baby naming we

02:10:59.060 see that with the splashing of water to secure a name to a child. It's fundamental. And amongst

02:11:10.420 our folk, the sharing of a drink, the idea of sharing a horn in toasting, in celebration,

02:11:19.900 In communal ritual

02:11:21.680 Passing drink from person to person

02:11:23.880 And then sharing in that liquid

02:11:25.500 That is 0.84

02:11:28.700 The Laugu's element

02:11:30.340 Is so essential to any of our communion

02:11:32.980 With our brothers and sisters

02:11:34.380 With our gods, with our ancestors

02:11:36.480 One of the most common ways

02:11:38.880 To offer a blessing

02:11:40.900 Or a

02:11:41.660 Good feelings

02:11:47.180 To your ancestors

02:11:48.280 is to, you know, is to pour out a libation to them,

02:11:55.700 is to, you know, to take a drink and to offer them one,

02:11:59.600 to leave out a shot.

02:12:08.020 I don't, yeah, no, it's,

02:12:13.080 the phrase that kept coming to mind that had me chuckle 1.00

02:12:16.840 is pouring a beer on the curb for your dead homies. 1.00

02:12:19.920 But realistically, the idea of pouring out an offering 0.90

02:12:24.140 to those who have passed is a thing.

02:12:27.340 And it always has been to our people.

02:12:29.600 And it is that so many of these,

02:12:34.600 and we mentioned just a few minutes ago

02:12:39.600 mentioned just a few minutes ago about Ehwaz being a rune of transmitting something, of

02:12:49.920 transmitting and traveling and taking something between worlds. Laguz is another rune for

02:12:56.980 that. It is a rune of transmission of something through ancestry, through genetics, through

02:13:04.360 through the need of ritual through that,

02:13:13.960 having that liquid medium to transport things

02:13:18.160 from one place to another to facilitate that

02:13:22.240 or to animate that interaction is extremely important

02:13:26.860 to all of our ritual interactions.

02:13:29.600 um so yeah that's that's what i've got on on lagu's

02:13:36.640 swan do you have any thoughts on lagu's yeah i was going to say there's there's a

02:13:44.000 a great internalization of this rune in relation to uh the attainment of the meat of poetry as well

02:13:53.240 the drinking of the three cauldrons in which Gunnloth gives passage and ascendancy through

02:14:03.560 the liquid, through the mead horn, through the bearing of the horn. And then the horn is used

02:14:10.280 to, you know, empty out the three cauldrons, you know, of ordrior of consciousness and

02:14:17.680 uh bottom of the of the soul and son of the of the body or the the lower self so it's kind of

02:14:24.640 the idea is that this traveling upwards of and the attainment of every level and then the outpouring

02:14:31.920 of wisdom and um uh awareness consciousness or even super consciousness into uh manifestation

02:14:42.160 this rune can get deeply esoteric if you um you know really internalize it

02:14:49.520 through galder and meditation as well

02:14:58.400 all right well we have uh

02:15:03.680 some questions lined up here

02:15:12.160 um sorry there was a nick sent me a note about a about a question and i made a chuckle

02:15:24.080 all right the next one that i see and forgive me if i've missed any do you think places near

02:15:32.080 the arctic circle like alaska canada greenland scandinavia and russia were once hyperborea

02:15:38.560 and then broke apart into separate lands uh we know that we know them as um

02:15:50.000 i am not that up on the continental drift idea that relates to that and exactly where they were

02:15:58.560 but because of the ice sheet at the time functionally they were during the ice age

02:16:04.160 age because solid you know solidity under feet united all of those places at that time

02:16:14.880 during the ice age um so in one sense certainly that was all one place during the ice age and

02:16:24.340 as the glaciers receded the waters that separate those places separated it's interesting how

02:16:32.840 truly close those places are when you get up over the pole I've only flown over over the pole one

02:16:43.160 time when I went from strangely enough Oakland Airport to Oslo and then back from Stockholm to

02:16:56.420 oakland we so okay i guess twice so we flew a polar route up and over and it's really interesting

02:17:04.100 how close how close things are when you get very close to the pole um and i thought that was really

02:17:12.580 really interesting but i i i'm not familiar with whether those continents were were connected at

02:17:20.580 that point and separate it off in that way it's just not something i'm really up on spawn do you

02:17:26.340 have any any thoughts on that that's a tough one when we talk about uh you know content projected

02:17:35.940 continental shifts of of plates and and land masses and how they you know it it would in an

02:17:44.100 essence lend to the idea that things were kind of pushed northward and have been slowly uh spreading

02:17:53.320 out if you will um and again you brought up the great point that i didn't even initially think

02:17:57.500 of is that even if they weren't physically connected they could be connected by water

02:18:02.980 turned to ice um and those those movements that could be done um you know and there's a lot of

02:18:08.480 speculation in relation to like say a landmass that may have existed between um Denmark and

02:18:15.500 Scotland and there's so much out there that we are learning that are being revealed quite literally

02:18:22.340 out of the water the mysteries of the water holding uh some of these answers um

02:18:27.520 I I don't know it's it's hard to say but equally interestingly enough and perhaps this holds

02:18:34.780 credence is that you know the migrations of us coming out of the north uh and there are of

02:18:41.500 course references to this um you know there is also the references of other folk kind of moving

02:18:49.020 northward when we talk about like the phenoergic people or if we talk about the uh the northern uh

02:18:56.140 you know eastern or or oriental asiatic folks that had moved up through there in eastern russia

02:19:03.340 and uh even down to you know as so far as even northern japan with the uh ainu people and some

02:19:08.780 of their adaptations to the cold and stuff so if if it's possible for the for that migrational

02:19:15.020 movement northward it's just as much the possible southward and so that's what i mean by it could

02:19:22.780 lend credence to the idea of it um you know certainly there are a lot of people that place

02:19:29.500 and uh uh the development of us as a people um being separate from other people as they have

02:19:36.700 places in the world and uh if that was the case then you know us migrating from north into what

02:19:44.140 i guess most people like to refer to now is the the caucus mountains or central uh russia or uh

02:19:52.700 you know western asia or whatever uh is defined now um i mean perhaps a possibility but i i

02:19:59.260 wouldn't be able to say i find more wonder and uh never quite defining because there's always

02:20:07.420 something new to learn i also understand that we have to sift through ideas a lot of people

02:20:12.460 have their own inclinations to painting uh the development of our people in their own way

02:20:17.740 oftentimes for wholly even just political reasons um it's so it's it's worth just

02:20:25.260 just keeping an open mind about it. And as we start to understand things genetically

02:20:31.620 and geologically, I'm interested in that, the expanse of that unknown frontier, which

02:20:39.780 is in essence our past. There is a certain point where it just becomes greatly mysterious.

02:20:46.820 And I just want to be kind of open to it all.

02:20:53.060 All right.

02:20:55.880 Just looking over at the chat.

02:21:01.420 Adam, we're very, very glad that you're here.

02:21:06.980 Our next question, do you think people with mental or physical disabilities slash deficiencies

02:21:14.180 should avoid procreating?

02:21:16.300 This is something our ancestors believed, which is understandable, considering the harsh conditions

02:21:21.880 they lived in required excellent genes.

02:21:25.180 But do you think it's something that should be applied to today, or do you think this

02:21:30.920 is barbaric and outdated?

02:21:34.240 So as with most things, context is everything.

02:21:44.940 You say our ancestors practiced it.

02:21:48.340 I'm certain in the great flow of time, some of our ancestors did that, some didn't.

02:21:55.920 The overriding drive of all mammals is to procreate and to further their line.

02:22:07.520 That's how life on earth works.

02:22:13.800 That's very powerful and I don't think it's to be discounted.

02:22:20.020 There's degrees with everything and there's lots of disabilities and physical, both physical

02:22:29.480 and mental that are not genetically related, that are environmental.

02:22:36.700 There's some that are genetically related.

02:22:39.900 And then the more we learn about that, the more our science advances, the more we understand

02:22:45.240 things, the more we look to what the odds are of that happening.

02:22:54.860 And there's no one right answer to this question.

02:22:59.480 It's not that only the elite of our folks should procreate.

02:23:05.460 at a time where our race our people are declining in number um in a lot of places so i think that

02:23:16.180 there's you know even more reason now for our folk to you know be be fruitful and fecund and have

02:23:25.140 have children but i think this is a really personal thing i don't necessarily think that

02:23:34.260 we need rules on it as much as families need to make this decision men and women need to

02:23:41.060 make the decision of whether they carry jeans where the likelihood of something really bad

02:23:48.180 is high enough that this is what you know they feel that they need to do um

02:24:00.020 i mean

02:24:04.260 Yeah, it's very nuanced. And I see the logic in a lot of these things. And if there's a significantly high chance that your offspring will suffer greatly because of the situation, then maybe you don't.

02:24:22.380 there is a overriding impulse from your ancestors and from all of biology for you to procreate if

02:24:33.140 you can and to transfer your genes to the next generation that's that's fundamental and as i

02:24:42.840 said in mammalian existence that's just how we do um but we do have will and we have the ability to

02:24:49.620 to cut that link from going forward if it is so awful or so debilitating that that's something

02:24:59.840 that you want to do. But I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all answer. And there's so much

02:25:04.660 gray area. There's very small things on how you process certain vitamins being a deficiency to

02:25:12.020 major deformities or or crippling mental illness and you know the devil's in the details there's

02:25:22.960 so much in between there that makes all the difference it's fine do you have any thoughts

02:25:27.560 on this yeah i think you hit it really well i mean biologically we always seek to i mean nature

02:25:35.300 works in its way of filtration, the primogen of the body that is a higher functioning mind

02:25:45.180 and a higher functioning body and seeking a good partner, whether a husband or a wife,

02:25:54.160 you want these features to be well and good in order for the benefits of achieving

02:26:05.260 nature's drive, our drive to continue that natural law. But it is nuanced. I mean,

02:26:14.860 there are things that we, you know, whether we know ahead of time and science is allowing us

02:26:20.020 to see certain things and head certain things off, but we're also becoming aware of problems

02:26:24.700 and are currently fixing them. I immediately come to mind the genetic disease of cystic fibrosis,

02:26:33.520 in which two perfectly healthy, normal people could get together. And for some reason,

02:26:41.400 the way it works out is that their child has a high likelihood of having debilitating

02:26:48.540 lung disease that could very well cut their life extremely short. But with also that being

02:26:56.580 understood and becoming something that, that people, um, have, have to, have to encounter

02:27:02.600 and work towards, um, there are advancements in, in, in the, um, care of those things.

02:27:08.640 And so like, again, bringing up health and, um, the need for medicine, you know, there's,

02:27:15.060 there is, uh, I think an over romanticized view of, of the idea that our ancestors perhaps,

02:27:21.360 You know, if it wasn't of the paragon of time, they were simply cut away or discarded. And I'm certainly, there are times of that. I mean, Procopius even spoke of during the migration periods that some Germanic tribes committed senocide because they had to cut loose some of the older folks that could no longer care for themselves or move with the group.

02:27:46.220 And, you know, those things are, again, they're environmentally dictating, they're genetically dictating. And I think that our advancement towards medicine and understanding should work towards healing people that can be healed.

02:28:03.120 um but again it is it is very nuanced and again the function of people within that society if

02:28:11.760 they're so dilapidated either mentally or physically oftentimes they will not be able to

02:28:17.700 find a mate and and uh you know procreate and have children um simply because it doesn't

02:28:25.500 facilitate with the conditions that they're in so sometimes nature does just work within that realm

02:28:31.840 of of ruling but we do know that you know our ancestors did see use in in people within our

02:28:39.040 society uh you know deaf blind uh mute or or um you know injured uh in some way that they're not

02:28:48.960 their body was not whole anymore um they still had use they still had an ability to give so i think

02:28:56.080 And I think that is often a thing that's either overlooked sometimes internally by people who have this kind of very black and white view of it. And then there's also people outside of our folk who think that, you know, that perhaps, you know, the Vikings of yesteryear would dash a child against the rocks if he had a birthmark or something.

02:29:20.280 And I think that's a little, you know, overly dramatized barbarianism kind of thoughts or what have you, these kind of ideas that they come up with.

02:29:29.680 So, yeah, it is extremely nuanced and we have to take into consideration what is capable of happening, what we can stop by having knowledge, whether it's genetic or medicinal knowledge, and what we can heal and help and allow our folks to grow and attain.

02:29:50.360 again the overarching paragon of our people is to have healthy whole children who can grow up and

02:29:58.040 meet other healthy whole children and have more so i think ultimately

02:30:02.200 it equalizes itself out whether we intend to plan it or not in the long run

02:30:08.200 so i was waiting on side resources to covertly feed me the have them all versus spawn do you

02:30:24.440 know where those are off the top of your head uh you're useful here yes i no i i do not have them

02:30:33.000 i i know i was making uh mention of them but the exact number off the top of my head right now

02:30:38.200 no i do not but yeah a deaf man can be a great warrior and um the vault can ride a horse right 0.79

02:30:49.160 some kind of cripple can tend to fire yes there's anyways point being the have them all makes 0.88

02:30:56.040 mention of many different disabilities those people could still do stuff and it's juxtaposed 0.99

02:31:02.200 to but you know who can't do anything is somebody who's dead so the idea that

02:31:11.960 there is still worth in people who don't necessarily have the best of abilities

02:31:19.320 but you you'll sacrifice all of that if you know you end that life like you know is mentioned so

02:31:27.480 again there's a balance there and there's never i think early 20th century eugenics movements are

02:31:39.960 much more related to this than any kind of viking age practice of of discarding children that were

02:31:48.200 too much of a burden i think that became an issue of starvation and a lot of other circumstances

02:31:54.360 so yeah there's no per as with so many of these questions and any of our listeners that are new

02:32:01.320 to the program one of the challenges about aussitrew is you have to face willful decision

02:32:10.920 making so few of these answers are you know clear-cut black and white on all of them

02:32:20.680 so many things and there's there are absolutely black and whites in this world

02:32:26.680 there's good there is evil but there's a whole lot in between that depends upon the circumstance

02:32:36.200 um no eric you didn't ruin the vibe at all i think it's completely valid question

02:32:42.600 you know honestly and truth is one of the you know our core values

02:32:47.080 it's something that you know a lot of parents have to decide especially when we have screening

02:32:54.600 procedures now that can forecast some of these things in utero it makes some really really

02:33:02.200 tough choices for parents and i think it's a it's a perfectly valid question for you to ask

02:33:08.360 yeah i think it even relates runically and overall with the the holy tide we talk about

02:33:13.880 our ancestors and the caring for the bloodlines or projecting into the future and even with

02:33:19.320 lagus and leechcraft and uh the tides of the body is the blood you know so there it does pertain i

02:33:28.040 think it was i didn't see it as being abnormal or obtrusive to the flow of what we were actually

02:33:34.840 talking about it kind of synced in there in a way uh-huh all right next question

02:33:42.600 is, and you did touch on this already, but maybe you could go a little bit more into the etymology

02:33:49.140 and linguistics of it. So this goes, takes us all the way back to Ehwas. Ali says, Ali Claussen says,

02:33:59.460 it might have been mentioned. I'm coming in late. Can you talk about the etymological link

02:34:05.420 between the name Eguaz and Equus. I assume it's proto-Aryan, but I'd like to know what you have

02:34:15.380 to say. Swan, what do you have to say on that subject? Yeah, I kind of hinted towards that

02:34:21.840 absolutely earlier on. It is an interesting jump and it shows our connectivity and language,

02:34:29.560 but it's worth noting that the reconstructed names of the runes are kind of pulled like a table

02:34:38.200 mainly from four legs that are germanic entirely whether it's gothic old english uh germanic

02:34:47.000 and and nordic so there are uh you know connections first and foremost through there

02:34:55.800 And the big one, I would say, is Iwas amongst the Goths, I think, is the first one that really holds true to that.

02:35:03.300 And that word being connected to the stallion.

02:35:07.360 But when we talk about just like our languages, whether it's from India to the Mediterranean to the Gauls and the Germanic people,

02:35:19.320 you know father and mother and those interconnections um and the words like fire and so

02:35:25.120 much so forth this one has it as well and that is again in relation to the word equos in relation

02:35:32.600 to horses um and through movement again too transparent because i think that's another

02:35:39.640 great point to bring up is is those correlations between the equine or the uh equestrian and like

02:35:46.960 the equinox or the idea of the transference of movement through passage from starting point to

02:35:54.340 ending point, a phase, if you will. Those all have those kind of proto-Indo-European, which I know is

02:36:03.060 one of those classifications we didn't really talk about. I think in the sanitized history world,

02:36:10.400 Um, we can say that those connections, uh, but yes, horse, um, because when we think of like

02:36:17.600 in old Norse Hester or, um, you know, in, in Anglo-Saxon with the horse or Higgins or Higgins

02:36:26.160 I always get that one wrong. Um, the, the, of the stallion, these, these don't immediately equate,

02:36:32.560 um to that there was also the possibility that this rune had an h but the h was dropped

02:36:41.300 because the h has a tendency to drop in our language or throughout aryan languages as they

02:36:48.840 have evolved they've come back in and they they were they uh stay for a while and they drop off

02:36:54.180 again but like algae's the focus of the sound of this rune is the z and algae's of course it's at

02:37:02.740 the end and that has uh prominence in proto-germanic quite a lot all the the endings of

02:37:10.360 words ending in a s or a z um it would then be worth mentioning that this of course is focusing

02:37:17.280 on the eh sound and i would also like to you know to point out that it's in the elder futhark there

02:37:24.560 are in essence three e sounds there's a short e or a short i there is a long e and then this is like

02:37:32.220 the the diphthong e the the eh it's a kind of an in-between uh sound and you know they all reside

02:37:40.260 um throughout the futhark and i think it's one of the things that a lot of people don't really

02:37:46.900 encounter on is that out of the vowel scale there is a lot of emphasis on that the usage of that

02:37:53.820 sound uh you know i think that's why our language has like double e's and ea or um the ai outside

02:38:02.300 of german you know especially with gothic and things of older languages is a double e sound

02:38:07.960 um so i just thought linguistically it was kind of interesting how the the the futhark in essence

02:38:14.540 has three different E sounds, if you will,

02:38:19.800 much like how the modern Icelandic has, you know,

02:38:23.880 two or three different O sounds, if you will.

02:38:31.660 Yeah, I was looking into it on the side a little bit about the etymology.

02:38:35.220 And what I think is interesting is a descendant of it is also the Sanskrit akva.

02:38:42.540 I may be butchering that to any of our viewers in India, but there are examples of this descending

02:38:52.660 into Sanskrit, Avestan in Iran, and then the obvious European ones that we've explored.

02:39:06.780 So yeah, there's that.

02:39:14.280 Next up.

02:39:19.340 Is there an argument to be made about tying Laguz to Danu, the goddess after whom many

02:39:25.700 rivers are named?

02:39:27.620 Svan?

02:39:28.840 So that is an interesting point.

02:39:36.080 The connection of Danube seems to be predominantly through the the Gaulish people.

02:39:43.840 We have the name Danube.

02:39:45.360 And again, I think our intermittance with the during the with the Gauls and the Germanics.

02:39:51.200 But it is worth noting that also with the the Dnepr or the Dnepr River and also the

02:39:59.400 gothic name for the lord of rivers uh also is uh don don was uh and is it is mentioned when the

02:40:10.840 uh i forgot the gothic king's name right off the top of my head right now but he seeks to create a

02:40:18.680 uh peace with the another germanic tribe and what he does is he he uh decides that he will

02:40:26.920 the the lord of peace the the god of the rivers danwas is going to preside over the oath and so

02:40:35.960 they meet on a boat in the center of the what is theorized the danube river um so the the the that

02:40:48.520 uh gendering of the river amongst the celts and i would argue like certainly amongst the goths

02:40:55.960 danwas was seen as masculine he was the lord of the rivers he was uh the lord of peace he was the

02:41:02.600 lord of of riches and um you know it was believed that his daughters were the the udinus uh the the

02:41:09.720 water spirits and that there may be correlations to the um daughters of uh nyorder as well as

02:41:18.280 like again another reference of nine waves with iron and ron uh around um but that you know

02:41:27.800 bringing back to the understanding of the of the the lord of rivers that neither seeing him as

02:41:35.080 also a lord of not just estuaries and lagoons and the and the shore but also of the rivers themselves

02:41:42.120 as our ancestors that was their their first real um introduction with traveling or passage through

02:41:49.960 water was through sacred rivers or through great rivers that's why uh the the 14 rivers that are in

02:41:55.480 the middle world are mentioned in the grimness mall are all correlated to netting and fishing

02:42:01.800 and traversing and battle and and uh of of the of nations of people you utilizing them um

02:42:09.240 So I don't know. I would suggest, too, that if you have any true interest in that, look up Donwas. I believe it's D-O-N-W-S or W-A-S in relation to the Gutens or the Goths and the god of the river.

02:42:27.340 and I did a pretty extensive study on that before going down to Njordeshof and the reason why we

02:42:35.040 incorporated the Bronze Age trident in the mural at Njordeshof I know a lot of people were like

02:42:43.860 wait a minute that's Roman or that's Greek but the actual trident that I pulled a picture from

02:42:51.360 was a Bronze Age trident from the Black Sea north and westward near what is now Ukraine.

02:42:59.200 So there is a, I think, a lot lost in between the migration periods and the finalizing times of the Northmen,

02:43:10.160 or the Viking Age, if you will.

02:43:12.220 And I would, I can't speak too much about Danu as from a Gaulish standpoint, but I can speak in relation to Njordr, Lord of Waters.

02:43:25.240 And I do see that there is a connection there in particular with health and vitality, but this rune also has a lot of connections to the wellsprings and to the cauldrons and to the horns and to liquid as a transference of speech.

02:43:45.980 When we speak over the horn to the gods or to our ancestors and then give that horn over, pouring it into the lout bowl, that I think this rune has a great connection to, as well as the sprinkling of the aspergement of sacred fluid.

02:44:05.320 so it's all in there and it's it's very very broad because again this is one of those runes

02:44:10.820 that doesn't have finite meaning and it is like trying to nail down a puddle um in a kind of

02:44:19.440 tongue-in-cheek way of looking at it but it is true it's the it's the rune of water and it's

02:44:22.700 hard to define um but yes there are many sacred rivers and i would say this rune is about water

02:44:31.380 rivers vitality and uh both travel and what you can gain how much how important the rivers were

02:44:40.120 to our people absolutely and um yeah i think it's perfectly a perfectly valid association with uh

02:44:53.200 with loggers. Oh, I also wanted to bring up the association. Some people have theorized that

02:45:10.240 Donbass and Danu might have been Central European or Eastern European names for Njorth and Nerthus

02:45:18.360 before, like, say, Tacitus was in his remarks in Germania,

02:45:23.580 that perhaps they were the names of the twinning of the kind of water

02:45:30.100 and land by the water associations with these divine beings.

02:45:42.320 Next question.

02:45:43.640 And I'm going to spend a lot of time on this question because this is something that I think much to our detriment, a lot of our people spend a lot of time purity spiraling. 0.63

02:45:56.100 So the question, what are some ways to tell if someone is Semitic? 0.67

02:46:00.220 It's still very hard for me to tell sometimes. 0.54

02:46:02.620 I recently found out some actors I grew up watching, like Jonah Hill, is Jewish, but he looks white. 0.90

02:46:08.940 Is it possible the Semites have some European DNA mixed with the Middle Eastern DNA that could explain why they look like us? 0.99

02:46:17.440 So first, yeah, that's absolutely why. 0.99

02:46:26.760 There are some.

02:46:28.060 So here's the thing, and there's a wide spectrum.

02:46:30.340 and you're going to find a lot of purists out there

02:46:32.960 that have a very hard stance on this

02:46:38.780 for a number of embedded reasons.

02:46:43.840 But yeah, ancient Hebrew tribesmen

02:46:47.360 look like ancient Hebrew tribesmen.

02:46:51.580 They probably look very, very similar

02:46:53.940 to other Semitic peoples,

02:46:56.980 like Arabs and other people in that region

02:47:02.480 that share a common ancestry. 0.97

02:47:04.980 The reason that a lot of Jewish actors

02:47:08.980 and folks in Hollywood and in the Western world 0.98

02:47:12.000 look like white people

02:47:15.320 is because the vast majority of their ancestors 0.93

02:47:18.120 probably are because they

02:47:20.260 came from relatively small core populations

02:47:25.060 of Jewish people that migrated to Europe

02:47:28.120 and then mated with successive generations of white people

02:47:32.100 for a very long time in Eastern Europe.

02:47:35.100 But you have a wide array of people. 0.99

02:47:37.520 You have completely non-Jewish white people today

02:47:41.880 that convert to Judaism 0.63

02:47:43.740 and become first-generation Jews for that matter.

02:47:48.480 So there's a lot of reasons for that and reasons to consider. 0.50

02:47:53.520 I don't think you should spend a lot of your time trying to, you know, bust out skull calipers and determine who you think might or might not have some degree of Jewishness. 0.50

02:48:06.660 One of the things is I think that you very commonly are able to recognize your own, at least to a very significant degree.

02:48:14.400 I think you drive yourself crazy trying to thresh out very small nuances that don't necessarily have a great deal of relevance.

02:48:23.520 Again, there's a lot of people probably listening to this program that have very, very strong views on percentages and a lot of things.

02:48:33.660 There's a whole lot of cultural baggage there that different people deal with to different degrees of the other or have strong opinions on.

02:48:45.100 um and that that's whatever but that's one of the reasons that you don't see a difference with some

02:48:53.480 people that um are jewish their ancestry is not readily apparent to them because

02:49:00.260 that population of jewish people was likely intermixed in europe for a very very long time

02:49:07.380 um and i like i said i really don't want us to spend a lot of time on that because that's

02:49:14.220 something that our people spend a whole lot of time spiraling about that's very seldom

02:49:18.860 productive. But I do want to treat all these questions as being good intended and I want

02:49:26.280 to answer them. But it's not something I want to obsess over. That's another question. I don't

02:49:33.760 know, we're going to take this as, I'm just going to take it as it is. Svahn, we have

02:49:43.820 a question from Bob Johnson. Who is Odin? If you had to, you know, without the, you

02:49:51.020 know, we could do, we could do and have done an entire episode on this, but in the most

02:49:58.860 accessible way that you could, if you had to tell somebody who had no familiarity with our faith

02:50:04.600 or with anything about our lore or whatever, if you were to tell a Martian who is Odin,

02:50:14.380 what would you say? Oh, wow. That's good. I like that one. I would say that,

02:50:25.500 um again the benefit of speaking to a martian versus say perhaps a christian is because of the

02:50:31.520 complete different outlook of divinity so we don't have to i don't have to premise first of all we

02:50:38.540 look at the divine and multiplicity as opposed to seeing i can forego all that and say simply thus

02:50:44.220 we believe that the divine powers of the gods uh exist in a place above and descending into the

02:50:54.080 material and of them the highest and the leading power is a god named that we call odin uh he has

02:51:04.780 known by many names whether it is wotan or votan or or um votanaz or votanaz uh the linguistics of

02:51:13.620 his name uh has been carried with our people for a very long time um and he has even more title names

02:51:21.180 or haiti um that we uh speak often of in relation to components within his dynamicism he is a lord

02:51:33.340 of dynamic movement and consciousness throughout all of the worlds he is um and has the ability

02:51:42.860 to interact without boundary um by almost seemingly uh riding the currents or laws

02:51:53.980 and structures of divine cosmos he has the ability to interact with all forces that moves

02:52:00.860 in and out but with intended purpose of maintaining order inside dissipative chaos

02:52:10.380 so he is the lord of consciousness and mysteries and is a dynamic um

02:52:20.380 emblem of i would say three moving parts of what we would call a tripartite he is a tripartite

02:52:28.300 within himself as this again lends in symbolic language of our faith and in our in our stories

02:52:35.740 his ability to move within and throughout and interacting both with humanity and with the

02:52:45.700 spirits of other again multiple sources whether it's the Jotun or the Vanir or even those that

02:52:53.320 are lost beyond time in and beyond the veil in what we would say like in the dead land or in

02:52:59.500 in the land lower the shrouded land of hell guard he is the chooser of the souls of might that are

02:53:12.220 to be brought into the heavenly abode in order to help the gods of order fight against the forces

02:53:20.300 of dissipation and chaos. And he's the holder of mysteries, the inner workings and the knowledge

02:53:30.160 of those forces that he is able to ride or able to flow with, whether it be like on a boat or on

02:53:40.680 a horse uh taking those pathways he has that ability and so he is a very important um god

02:53:49.360 and uh he is so uh pivotal in the movement forward of our spiritual growth as a people

02:53:59.580 that he is and has been initiating us into a greater consciousness that is drawing us back

02:54:07.320 together reuniting our people uh as we have been separated over time um and now we are like

02:54:14.520 cordage making a rope again through his his divine will and manifestation

02:54:25.640 i that's that's a tough one i could go on and on and on and on and on but no we could we could

02:54:30.200 talk for for literally we couldn't have talked for hours about who odin is uh odin is the chief

02:54:38.120 god of our pantheon he is the father of the gods he is a god of magic of kings of warriors

02:54:47.480 he travels between the worlds and his name means the the master of ecstatic frenzy the master of

02:55:00.920 inspiration he is the god that inspires and empowers and he is the god that spoke to our

02:55:07.400 founder Stephen McNall and way back in 1968 and has seen us through with his

02:55:17.720 blessings up to and including today so that is who the All-Father Odin is to

02:55:26.540 us in the most short possible way our next question is there something akin

02:55:35.720 to karma that's a question we got from odyssey thank you to everyone who's listening to us live

02:55:43.020 on odyssey we appreciate you guys and it's good to have a question um swan what what would you say

02:55:50.320 is is our closest you know cognate to uh karma well and i think we covered that in a victory

02:56:00.140 never sleeps before in relation to the uh explaining of what weird w y r d weird and or law

02:56:10.860 and the idea of the layers of deeds that are committed versus the uh perhaps the repercussions

02:56:19.500 of action or the interaction of all actions if you will if everyone is committed to movement

02:56:25.740 and acting, then these actions will eventually intertwine or collide or coalesce or even

02:56:33.100 juxtapose to each other and create movement and conflict. And from those ripples and from those

02:56:40.280 effects, there is a kind of a set vibrational movement through that could be interpreted as

02:56:50.100 fate or as perhaps destiny or maybe the willful manifestation of karma as it slowly

02:57:00.800 comes about. And we talk a lot about action in relation to our weird and our orlogs. So

02:57:10.660 that would be in essence kind of our equivalency of dharma, whether we're talking about from an

02:57:16.880 individual standpoint, or from even the actions of the gods in

02:57:20.760 relation to the effects of all of those actions coming and

02:57:25.880 bearing fruit through that resonance, in essence, movement

02:57:29.660 and our deeds create more of those actions and deeds. It's I

02:57:37.520 think one of the interesting ways that somebody talked about it

02:57:40.560 was, if you find yourself on a horse, you may injure yourself

02:57:44.720 by falling off. Or if you find yourself on a

02:57:46.880 boat most often you might find yourself wet the idea is that uh you know we we build our life

02:57:54.880 towards living and doing certain things and in essence we then um find ourselves inundated by

02:58:02.720 others and their actions and that leads us into uh pathways that reflect our our choices our deeds

02:58:10.480 and our and our movements we do believe that you can change through drastic action through um

02:58:19.680 great deed heroicism that you can move yourself uh through i guess correct or righteous action

02:58:29.840 and pull yourself in another direction so i i wouldn't necessarily say that it's entirely uh

02:58:36.240 uh seen as you are you are doomed and so therefore you shouldn't try i don't think that that that has

02:58:43.080 a place but that if you continue down a path you will then find yourself surrounded by the

02:58:50.700 the path itself eventually so um you know it's it's it is greatly placed upon the deeds you

02:58:58.460 commit now and where you will find yourself and how you will find yourself surrounded by others

02:59:02.580 in that direction so if you commit to noble action and find yourself around noble people

02:59:09.320 and you elevate yourself and others they will elevate you and you will move forward

02:59:13.560 if you enter a life of degeneracy and destitution you will end up finding yourself in those places

02:59:19.560 and it takes a greater amount of effort to pull yourself away from that pathway if you will and

02:59:27.100 you're talking about say karma in the sense of reincarnation um our our understanding of death

02:59:35.740 is that it's not a one for one you don't pass away and simply come back out uh in in as someone

02:59:42.540 else or something else but that there is connectivity in your bloodline to your ancestors

02:59:47.900 and to your descendants and that you have the ability to aid them from beyond the veil or that

02:59:54.540 you can be elevated as uh guardianship over those uh those folk who may even extend beyond just your

03:00:03.100 immediate family but to your uh your great grand siblings of your grandparents and their descendants

03:00:12.540 and how they have you know spread from there so that's an interesting segue into the possibilities

03:00:19.980 of karma in an afterlife or reincarnation i think that's another thing that we've kind of touched on

03:00:24.940 in another vns but if we're talking about life now here it is about your layered deeds and where you

03:00:34.060 might end up so you know i would i would condense a lot of that into just saying um in your current

03:00:46.300 life karmic things would relate best and also true to the idea of the tapestry of weird that

03:00:56.380 is woven um by the norns and by your actions and your actions so often dictate the eventualities

03:01:08.220 and the things that happen through their implications there's a lot of cause and effect

03:01:16.620 that is there that have a that tend to have a karmic effect even if it if it seems like just

03:01:29.020 a common sense you know cause and effect relationship it exists on a metaphysical

03:01:35.420 plane in the web of weird as far as your actions affecting a future generation that's orlog and

03:01:41.980 that's kind of the hand that you're dealt at birth and that's something that affects um your children

03:01:49.260 or your grandchildren they carry a certain amount of

03:01:54.140 their delta hand based on the line of people they come from and that's their starting point they can

03:02:01.260 start, you know, very blessed and squander it all. They can start very impoverished by that sort of

03:02:07.140 an Orlog debt and make themselves into a hero and a sin. But it is a starting point and a starting

03:02:16.020 hand. And I think that's the closest, the closest relationship in exactly what you're talking about.

03:02:25.000 Do either of you have any favorite comedians? And do you like dark comedy?

03:02:31.260 I don't, I don't like comedy. I say that when comedy sneaks up on me, I can absolutely find

03:02:39.800 it hilarious, but I would never seek out a comedy. When I look at, you know, on Amazon Prime or

03:02:46.100 whatever else, when I'm going through, I immediately delete all of the comedies off of my

03:02:51.000 movies i might like i would never choose to watch comedy um i am anti comedies in concept

03:03:01.800 but again when i find myself exposed to one uh through circumstance they can often be hilarious

03:03:08.680 but i would certainly never seek one out um nor do i have any particular favorite comedians

03:03:15.240 Svahn, do you have a favorite comedian and do you like dark comedies?

03:03:21.520 Yes. I think during the 90s, I remember having a tape cassette. I'm dating myself really bad

03:03:35.820 here i had a tape cassette i think it was three tapes of dennis leary um and in that time frame

03:03:44.940 he was a much more brash i think age and and general kind of he's grown soft over the years

03:03:52.460 and in a lot of ways uh he was much more uh harsh and dark back then um and i remember listening to

03:04:00.380 that when i was in my teenage years and um i i could pretty much memorize that entire uh

03:04:09.180 show that he did that uh you know uh made him famous about like nyquil and all the

03:04:14.940 for people who know if i'm mentioning nyquil or um uh jim henson and elvis um you'll get what

03:04:23.580 i'm talking about for those who don't know it's worth giving a listen to he was in his prime back

03:04:28.140 then um but over time i i i haven't uh really paid attention to a lot of comics um occasionally i see

03:04:38.460 uh you know a glimmer from uh whether it's like bill burr or dave chapelle but then it kind of

03:04:46.380 turns back towards kind of placating the mob in a lot of ways um especially like i i remember

03:04:52.860 dave chapelle kind of really hitting some hard things because he was getting mobbed by um the uh

03:05:00.300 the transvestite community uh um for some of his jokes and i don't know the whole details of it but

03:05:06.620 i was really um surprised at the level of which he was um you know hitting some of these jokes

03:05:12.780 on the ultra sensitive um crowd but uh outside of that i mean dark comedies um

03:05:21.340 yeah i i i've taken some enjoyment in uh watching movies that have a dark comedic humor to them

03:05:29.980 um i think the latest one that i watched was um the wolf of snow hollow and it it's kind of an

03:05:37.980 odd i don't i wouldn't even say it's super comedic but it is kind of filled with a certain sense of

03:05:43.340 dark humor um but i really haven't especially having kids it's hard to um allocate that time

03:05:52.540 to to to watch movies that have more of a adult uh themes to them when you have you know a a

03:06:00.380 three-year-old four-year-old um so you end up you know every only occasionally they're like islands

03:06:07.500 in long spans of uh baby shark and uh and all you know whatever manner of entertainment that the

03:06:17.420 kids are into time that you've heard you know a billion times um so i end up you know spending

03:06:25.500 a lot more time focusing on perhaps uh you know reading or um trying to do projects or or or

03:06:32.540 working and fixing up the house and things like that but i did when i was you know in my 20s and

03:06:38.220 30s and in teenage years i i had i find comedy funny i like spontaneous comedy i'm not anti-humor

03:06:56.060 it just when i go into the whole like they plan this like all right take one nope not funny enough

03:07:01.500 say it with a funny accent this time take two okay let's really go plan the planned element

03:07:09.340 and the staged element of it take away a lot of the humor to me and that's not really what i watch

03:07:17.980 movies for i can't immerse myself in it i guess is what i would say if again the comedies that i

03:07:26.300 find funny are when i just happen to stumble into them and funny things assail me like i will laugh

03:07:35.820 when they're funny but i wouldn't seek them out because the idea of like the scripted comedy is

03:07:41.820 is absurd to me um it's like i worked at you know i worked in the bar industry for a time

03:07:47.660 and you have these comics and when i first time i'd hear their set it was hilarious

03:07:51.820 but then when they were playing for multiple nights i'm like i've heard this joke your comp

03:07:59.440 your audience interaction is all planned and staged it became much much less funny to me

03:08:06.260 um we have some people doing the little trihorn spinny thing uh i'm not sure exactly what that

03:08:14.060 means nick's feeding them to me i think that's a one dollar donation uh the dollar train choo-choo

03:08:20.660 all aboard and uh then from balbo biggins with another one dollar where's this ride going um

03:08:29.380 so it's a wild ride this ride kind of goes wherever this crazy audience takes us

03:08:34.640 uh and uh this is where it is taking us next i would i would like to say one sketch comedy 0.96

03:08:42.240 group that i really do enjoy is yk uk the whitest kids you know um unfortunately they're 0.61

03:08:49.900 the head of the the sketch comedy group had recently passed away um i believe last year 0.97

03:08:55.780 but that comedy uh sketch group and i find sketch comedy to be again kind of improvised as they're

03:09:02.380 going along i know they can edit it and do all that kind of things but they do seem to

03:09:06.640 take it in one take and that uh that sketch comedy group was definitely known for not caring about

03:09:14.020 perhaps people's feelings or whatever would be correct by the political party, if you will.

03:09:21.440 And they really just rode some of the more taboo topics in a way, in a very funny way.

03:09:29.460 So I would mention that.

03:09:31.300 That's one group I've been able to watch even all the way back, YKUK.

03:09:39.680 So our next question, could Jonah Hill join the Ask True Focus?

03:09:43.480 assembly? No. And for a couple of reasons. First, no insult to the guy who asked the

03:09:55.620 previous question, but I don't think he's even borderline close. I think he's a very

03:10:01.520 obvious example of a a hebrew gentleman and secondly he's proudly so um if you are

03:10:13.120 a practitioner of another faith you can't join the afa but get into the meat of your question

03:10:17.520 no i think he's an obvious example that we all recognize as the typical

03:10:23.520 the stereotypically featured American Jewish man. And I think we all understand that.

03:10:32.920 And as such, he has his own ethnic faith that he is certainly very aware of. I don't know

03:10:40.420 if he practices or he does not, but that's obviously his situation. And that one is the

03:10:45.820 very obvious one. The other thing, it's not, yes, when it's obvious, certainly we make that call.

03:10:57.860 If people somehow trick us and try to slip in, it's not our job to try to root out,

03:11:06.480 to root that out. That's not what our entire focus is. I know we have a lot of circles that

03:11:14.380 run into that are more concerned with that than others but yeah we take people on good faith when

03:11:22.620 they approach us we don't ask for dna reports or things that way that's not what we're in the in

03:11:28.540 the business of do um we gotta we gotta um beer bottles clanking thing so let me look over here

03:11:39.740 and see what nick tells me that is baby shark five dollars do do do do also okay funny note

03:11:49.820 my daughter not getting the humor in this because she's three and she probably started doing this

03:11:54.140 when she was two we and my wife and i couldn't figure this out for a while but she kept calling

03:12:01.020 stuff doo-doo that was not doo-doo so no it's the doo-doo-doo-doo-doo so she would call anything

03:12:09.500 that is a fish or a shark or a whale or any aquatic animal with fins is a doo-doo and uh

03:12:18.940 that that's hilarious and i still chuckle every time i'm chuckling saying it so uh

03:12:24.140 There you go.

03:12:27.360 She always, and now it's every day she needs to watch,

03:12:30.900 she wants to watch Halloween doo-doo

03:12:32.860 because there's some kind of cartoon baby shark version

03:12:36.540 where they're wearing Halloween costumes.

03:12:38.240 And so she's in a festive mood.

03:12:44.860 What else we got here?

03:12:48.660 Who is your favorite wrestler, Matt?

03:12:50.760 or favorite match?

03:12:58.400 So this is a loaded question.

03:13:00.140 It's one of those things that I don't think.

03:13:03.040 Okay, so again, I'm 42.

03:13:08.860 My favorite wrestler is Hulk Hogan.

03:13:11.240 It always was.

03:13:12.780 I was right in the midst of Hulkamania when I was a kid.

03:13:16.060 I got to see him wrestle.

03:13:17.360 he was wrestling

03:13:19.400 Earthquake when I saw him in person

03:13:21.640 in Anchorage in 1990

03:13:23.260 and that was

03:13:25.720 really cool

03:13:26.600 you know as I've grown older

03:13:29.580 there are many other wrestlers that I'm

03:13:31.760 super big you know fan of

03:13:33.960 or that were extremely entertaining

03:13:35.580 and I like quite a great deal

03:13:37.760 one of them is

03:13:39.900 Vader the latest one that I watched

03:13:42.120 was Leon White

03:13:43.400 known as Vader

03:13:44.480 super cool when he had his big like

03:13:47.240 mastodon smoking helmet that's super cool he was a giant 400 pound dude but he could get up on the

03:13:54.520 top rope and do a moonsault and he was just a tough dude so i'm i'm i'm certainly a vader fan

03:14:00.380 trying to think of favorite matches um one match that i always really really liked and i think

03:14:08.360 stands the test of time was fun to watch was what i think it was wrestlemania 7 with uh

03:14:16.740 the Macho Man versus the Ultimate Warrior.

03:14:19.540 I really liked that match.

03:14:20.940 I think it was really cool.

03:14:22.040 Stood the test of time.

03:14:24.880 Yeah, because I watched it fairly recently

03:14:27.700 and I thought it was pretty cool.

03:14:31.140 I like how I was glazed over on that question.

03:14:33.920 Like they just went straight to you.

03:14:37.160 Do you have a favorite wrestler or a favorite match?

03:14:39.860 Let's include you.

03:14:41.160 Yeah, yes, I do actually.

03:14:44.140 Let's include you.

03:14:45.200 uh i i grew up at like around the same time obviously we were about the same age and uh

03:14:51.360 yeah but you were there eating their rotten shark no no i was i was here uh during hulkamania i

03:14:57.340 remember um but yeah rowdy roddy piper was my my uh my favorite wrestler and then also

03:15:06.780 um the british bulldogs uh when we were talking about tag team like and and the road warriors

03:15:15.120 those were like two two of my favorite i always liked that of course the four horsemen um

03:15:22.800 uh arn anderson and uh but my favorite match i would have to say um is anything with um

03:15:31.440 mankind in it that guy was insane the level of damage he put his body through uh was just scary

03:15:40.000 like to a point where i i didn't even i was blown away watching the the matches and i just remember

03:15:46.700 thinking to myself like oh this guy's gonna die he's gonna absolutely attacks and tables and all

03:15:54.400 of that stuff just blew me away when i was growing up you know i i have to agree with that those

03:16:00.280 matches are pretty amazing just to see what that dude would go through and live through um yeah

03:16:06.420 the road warriors legion of doom are they're the best tag team ever but there's not even an argument

03:16:12.100 best tag team of all time they looked awesome they were just two legitimate

03:16:18.900 tough dudes and they're uh the spike shoulder pads i want i was so upset i could not my dad

03:16:26.420 would not get me a pair of those very overpriced the little like foam ones i wanted one so bad

03:16:34.020 because they're amazing um really cool matches to watch were in japan when vader would be in a

03:16:43.300 six-man tag with the road warriors versus three japanese dudes and it's it's just three giant

03:16:53.220 brutal americans laying waste to these three japanese guys and uh that's that's always pretty

03:17:02.180 cool but you know with that question we're gonna call it a night and it's been three hours but you

03:17:08.740 know that's a that's a that's a nice a nice amount of time for swan and i and i appreciate you guys

03:17:15.300 allowing us to uh get a little bit of sleep this evening um so hail the gods hail the folk

03:17:24.660 kelly afa and i know one thing that doesn't sleep victory never sleeps until next time guys good night

03:17:54.660 We'll be right back.

03:18:24.660 Thank you.

03:18:54.660 Thank you.

03:19:24.660 Thank you.

03:19:54.660 We'll be right back.

03:20:24.660 We'll be right back.

Asatru Folk Assembly - October 19, 2023

10⧸18⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 67 - ᛖᛗᛚ

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