Asatru Folk Assembly - 12⧸24⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 181 - Glad Jól

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00:03:00.000 Hello, and glad Yule to everybody watching tonight on this fifth night of Yule.

00:03:13.940 Hope everybody is having a fantastic holiday season with friends and family.

00:03:20.100 Tonight, because on the fifth night of Yule, because of how things work or whatever,

00:03:26.080 people have day off tomorrow a lot of families are doing family stuff as they've got

00:03:33.300 an evening for it with no day of work tomorrow and they've got festivities they're doing so I

00:03:39.900 figured I would let folks have a have a break and not push them to be on here and the folks

00:03:45.800 that want to join me I will do an old school for those of you who may not have been watching this

00:03:52.960 since the beginning. It kind of all came about because I was doing a monthly Facebook live

00:04:02.280 stream and I was enjoying asking everybody, answering everybody's questions and talking

00:04:07.920 to folks. So I figured I would do that more often and bring on some other folks to talk

00:04:14.380 to you. And that's why this program got started. So going back to our roots tonight and just

00:04:20.440 going to be me here. Swan said he may pop on later or whatever. And if he does, he's

00:04:24.480 certainly welcome to. But yeah, it's good to be with you guys this evening. Hope like

00:04:32.160 I said, I hope everybody's doing great. All of our Hoffs had their Yule celebration last

00:04:40.620 Saturday. And that was awesome. It was fantastic to see so many of our folk for the first time

00:04:47.020 Gathered together in five Hoffs, all celebrating Yule on that day.

00:04:51.320 So it was special.

00:04:54.460 Looked like everybody had a good time where they were at.

00:04:58.880 Our celebration at Odens Hoff was fantastic.

00:05:02.940 It always is.

00:05:03.740 There was no real way that it wasn't going to be.

00:05:06.400 But it was a really good time.

00:05:09.280 Always is.

00:05:10.140 We always do something big for having Father Yule come out and give gifts to all the children in attendance, which is always awesome.

00:05:24.620 There's so many kids and kids enjoying themselves and eating sweets and getting presents is always an awesome time.

00:05:36.840 Bloat was really good.

00:05:38.620 I was very impressed with everybody's fortitude.

00:05:41.940 It was, so Odenshoff is in Brownsville, California, and that's in the foothills of the Sierras.

00:05:49.040 And it was very warm, this Yule, and man, it was pouring, pouring down rain.

00:05:57.740 But the way we do things there, at some of our other Hoffs, we do our bloats or some of them inside.

00:06:05.440 Odenshof's not really set up for that but we have a really elaborate ritual circle outside we do most

00:06:11.600 of our bloats and uh where we do all of our bloats there and so we had stuff planned it's got torches

00:06:20.000 we always you know we burn the Yulebach and then we light a sun wheel over especially it worked

00:06:27.200 out very well because it wasn't just around the right night it was the night of of the longest

00:06:33.120 night of the year on uh hawknot so we went out there and everybody was game and we did uh we

00:06:41.840 did bloat in the pouring rain and everybody got soaked but uh not one person complained at least

00:06:49.200 to me about it so i appreciate that i thought it was really a really good bloat it was certainly

00:06:54.640 a good time um if you haven't made it to one of your hops yet and you're anywhere close

00:07:01.360 or even if you're not, make it to one of your Hoffs, go on a road trip, or a bloat fair,

00:07:07.520 a bloat journey to go check out one of the Hoffs and celebrate with your folk. And Yule's always

00:07:14.720 a particularly special time to have done that. As always, GW Farnsworth starts our program off with

00:07:23.920 his tremendous generosity appreciate that um thirty dollars towards panoff phrasehoff and

00:07:32.160 then twenty dollars towards this program thank you very much and i hope to meet you one of these days

00:07:38.480 and i'm very very appreciative of your generosity over every week on this show another another guy

00:07:46.560 who is a paragon of generosity. Gilbert donated $150 to help to beautify Thorshof. Folks at

00:07:56.080 Thorshof are working on scraping and painting. Thorshof is a, oh, got a math, but about a 150

00:08:06.080 year old building. So it, I don't know if it has been painted aside from its initial paint job.

00:08:14.640 it's a really beautiful it's really beautiful building but when you get up close the the paint

00:08:19.360 is in very poor repair so raising money there to scrape it and paint it and get it a new new coat

00:08:24.960 of paint and uh to be looking as shining as uh as it ought to so we're looking forward to

00:08:32.320 seeing that happen and we appreciate everybody who's donating to the cause

00:08:43.840 I appreciate everybody joining us in the chat today, as always, but today in particular, it's going to be heavily question and answer driven.

00:08:56.060 So if you've got stuff you want to talk about or questions you want to ask, please feel free to do so.

00:09:03.260 Beyond that, I guess please feel encouraged to do so.

00:09:06.740 so top of the show things as is my custom i'm giving you an update on phrasehoff payoff and

00:09:18.000 where we're at on that we are now at 33.1 paid off which is awesome you guys have been amazing

00:09:27.580 that's uh i'm still oh eighty three thousand six hundred and forty four uh if you guys would like

00:09:33.180 to donate uh runestone.org slash donate it's got the link there but um that really is tremendous

00:09:40.620 progress seeing as how it's not even been dedicated a month yet you guys are fantastic

00:09:46.140 that comes out to if every member of the afa were to uh donate a hundred and

00:09:51.580 I believe $112 right now, it would pay that off today. So thank you guys for that.

00:10:02.360 We've got a bunch of questions tonight. I'm going to answer questions and I'm going to kind of,

00:10:08.640 I don't know, I may expand on some of those things if the mood strikes me or if the question

00:10:17.220 strikes me. But we'll just kind of get into the get into the flow of stuff here. So

00:10:29.540 the question from Caleb, can something as simple as maintaining a bird feeder

00:10:34.900 be considered an offering to land spirits? Yes, I absolutely think that that is something and I think

00:10:44.420 it's

00:10:51.780 there's a couple of things that play in that i think you can ritualize a lot of things i think

00:10:58.100 a lot of things that might seem seem simple or mundane don't have to be and as we've said so

00:11:05.460 many times on the program so much of it is about the intention the thought behind what you're doing

00:11:12.500 and so much of what adds potency to it is the tradition or the consistent doing it over the

00:11:20.800 course of time so there's a lot of things to be said for people who own property as far as

00:11:29.820 ways to interact with the spirits of that place and if one of the things you do is to maintain

00:11:36.900 your bird feeder you know with that in mind and you know perhaps say a few words when you fill it

00:11:43.620 up i think that's absolutely a really good idea i think the land vetir interact with us a lot

00:11:51.780 through you know through the various critters that occupy the world around us so i think a bird

00:11:58.580 feeder is a really good idea for something like that and uh it absolutely is a is an acceptable

00:12:05.540 and good way to make offerings to the to landfiteer so next question these questions there's

00:12:16.900 not really a theme to them we got questions from all over the place this evening but um

00:12:24.500 what is the afa's stance on prenupturable agreements in a secular sense it makes sense

00:12:31.620 to prepare for statistic likelihood of divorce but the very idea of an agreement seems like

00:12:38.500 it undermines the marriage because it isn't total commitment

00:12:45.380 so first the AFA as a body we do not have a we don't have a stance

00:12:52.740 on prenuptial agreements but there are some thoughts that I would like to give on it

00:13:01.620 So, and I think this extends not just to the marriage oath, but I think it extends to a lot of oaths in general.

00:13:21.320 it's wise to be cautious and it's wise on on certain oaths to take your time

00:13:29.560 and to keep them simple and to keep the verbiage simple but

00:13:34.280 the uh the guy who asked the question makes a good point when he talks about

00:13:41.320 it undermining you know it's not a total commitment it's not all in

00:13:46.960 and I've found when people well I actually have had a conversation with someone very recently

00:13:55.900 about this in terms of our folk builder oath so the folk builder oath and in a similar vein the

00:14:04.300 ordination oath in the AFA

00:14:06.760 is very one-sided and it's one-sided intentionally it is the um the person becoming a folk builder

00:14:18.200 or the person seeking to be ordained as a gothi pledging their loyalty their obedience and their

00:14:27.860 service to the house true folk assembly to the icer and to uh to me specifically as well as the

00:14:37.700 other um the other ranking leaders in the afa and people are like well but what if you know what are

00:14:46.820 you guys obliged to do if this guy's open to do all this folk building work you know what are your

00:14:51.460 reciprocal responsibilities what about this what about that and i think those are all really good

00:14:56.260 questions to think about but i think the nature of the nature of the oath is one of um othing

00:15:05.540 into something that exists and wanting to join a group that's existent it's not us forming a

00:15:12.260 partnership it's that person getting a higher level of leadership within an existent framework

00:15:19.140 that has to have a hierarchical structure so i think it works really well one of the things that

00:15:25.220 and this is related to the question i promise but one of the things that comes up because

00:15:31.220 just like other oaths i specify some implied things

00:15:37.220 so here we are uh taking this folk builder oath to you know bring our folk home to build the afa

00:15:46.900 to you know promote the religion of alsatru to do all of the noble things that we're all here for

00:15:55.220 and it's implied in that oath that myself and the rest of the afa leadership are also on that task

00:16:03.860 that we're united in that mission we're united before the watchful eyes the gods that we invoke

00:16:09.860 to witness the oath so yeah it's incumbent upon us to be good leaders it's incumbent upon us to do

00:16:18.180 the right things to maintain our troth to the iser and to lead responsibly but if the verbiage of the

00:16:26.260 oath is set with um caveats like well i'll be a folk builder unless you do this or unless you guys

00:16:34.260 say something i don't agree with or unless i don't feel like it one day or unless the more you do that

00:16:39.940 every word of but wait cheapens it and lessens it and makes it less open-hearted and so in a

00:16:49.220 similar way i compared it and i said you know when i um when i got married if if mandy were saying

00:16:58.740 her vows and her vows were to you know to be my wife and to love me and and and be with me forever

00:17:04.980 unless i cheated on her unless i abused her unless i you know did this or unless i did that

00:17:14.500 i wouldn't have gone through with it because yeah it it cheapens it i think all of those things are

00:17:20.740 understood i think all of those things are you know baked into the understanding of the marriage

00:17:28.900 agreement and i think that common sense implies those things but when you specify the less you

00:17:37.300 make it about a devotional oath of bonding between two people and the more you make it

00:17:44.180 contractual and about money and with pre-existing caveats and clauses and things like that right it

00:17:51.940 does cheapen it in a lot of ways now i say that if you have you know if you have people with in

00:18:02.820 responsibilities and economic entanglements that are vastly different and you have one of these

00:18:10.500 guys that's you know a ceo of some company and has built a fortune for his existent family and

00:18:18.100 whatever he finds himself single and you know a lot of women vying for his attention and wanting

00:18:26.340 to be in a relationship with him i i'm not saying that the afa would advise him to have

00:18:32.020 a prenuptial agreement but it does in some circumstances where there is an overriding

00:18:39.060 economic benefit to uh that not working out it makes it does make some logical sense to hey

00:18:48.100 Would you still marry me knowing that if you divorce me, you're not going to get all of the fortune that I've made?

00:18:56.400 I can see that in some very rare circumstances, but I think.

00:19:03.540 So does it undermine the marriage and started on a bad foot?

00:19:08.720 Yes, I think it does to a degree.

00:19:11.380 I don't think it ruins and fouls the entire thing, but I do think it makes it less open-hearted than it would be otherwise.

00:19:20.120 So there's a lot of room to make the decisions that are right for you, but it is something very much to think about.

00:19:29.980 AFA doesn't have something where it's forbidden to do that.

00:19:33.220 but every time you have a well unless or you know with an asterisk by it on the oaths that you make

00:19:42.240 the more it does cheapen the the power and the emotional um gesture of the oath so that's

00:19:50.460 something important to keep in mind i think that's a really good question though and this

00:19:53.380 is the first time anyone has asked that that i'm aware of so speaking of one thing this month one

00:20:02.240 of our heroes oh uh king or well olaf triverson tried to set up a uh some prenups with queen

00:20:11.820 sigarthur and she didn't like those no and that's a and so that's the thing i if you are

00:20:18.920 if you are royalty and there are you know the fate of nations at stake and again there's things

00:20:28.440 where it makes sense to get more contractual and honestly some marriages and those kind of

00:20:34.280 head of state circumstances lend themselves to be heavily contractual and less about genuine

00:20:42.440 affection for one another and that'd be one of those circumstances where having that ironed

00:20:46.920 out a bit makes a little bit of sense or certainly can um so one of the other things that you guys

00:20:57.080 may not recall from the good old days when i was just doing this by myself does lead to some awkward

00:21:02.120 pauses because i also have to read the stuff look at the chat room read the questions and kind of

00:21:07.720 sort through it so if there's pauses and stuff please please uh cut me a little bit of slack on

00:21:13.880 that if you will i like to keep up on on just kind of the theme of what's going on in the chat so i

00:21:21.320 know. But yeah, so that the the next thing, kind of general,

00:21:33.200 but something I'm real happy to tell you guys about. Tell us

00:21:36.680 about the phrase Hoff mural. It would be really cool if our

00:21:42.020 producer could show you a picture of the beautiful phrase

00:21:46.160 Hoff mural. And having said that, I'm sure that he will hear

00:21:49.880 shortly when he can. Give me a minute. I didn't expect it to be at your fingertips, but it does

00:21:59.560 help for our audience who is watching this. Doesn't really do much for the later podcast audience,

00:22:07.320 but you guys can always check out the video if you want to see it. Or better yet,

00:22:10.760 you can go to Frazehoff in lovely Austin Town, Ohio and check it out.

00:22:15.240 um so my about 50 of the time co-host on here witness von harold is the artist that paints

00:22:28.120 the beautiful murals of our our gods at each of our hoffs and

00:22:33.880 it's funny because if you look at thor's mural in thor's hoff

00:22:42.040 it's absolutely amazing and it looks like he's been painting murals his whole life

00:22:49.860 he will self-deprecatingly you know well you know I'm not a painter

00:22:54.160 I I would say that he is now um you look at that uh Thor mural and it's spectacular

00:23:05.160 but i tell you he gets better there it is he gets better at his technique and at his composition

00:23:13.480 and at his work in general every single mural he does so if you see it over there you may not

00:23:20.760 get a sense of just how big the mural is but it's huge i think cliff was suggesting

00:23:31.000 it's hard for me to make sense of that figure so I'm just gonna say let's say it's about

00:23:38.620 nine foot tall by I don't know nine by four foot or something now it's got to be bigger

00:23:47.720 than that anyways it is very large it does not look that large there but it is absolutely

00:23:54.540 dominating an extremely big room and when you see it it there's not words and i've struggled with

00:24:03.340 this a couple of times um as i've said before i get kind of a special privilege uh swan consults

00:24:11.580 me about it during the process and you know shows me pictures as it goes up but i'm never quite

00:24:18.380 prepared for the totality of it when i'm there so um i think over the course of three days sfan did

00:24:30.540 this um he he does such an amazing job and it's something truly magical happens with the murals

00:24:44.300 and i don't know the best way to state it that gets the gravity behind it but he

00:24:54.460 he's not just a guy painting a picture he is a priest trying to

00:25:02.380 honor his gods with his depiction of them in a way that they can inhabit that mural and

00:25:14.140 project themselves through it to our folk and it can serve as a um

00:25:22.540 as a portal in your in a way for them to

00:25:28.860 like i said project themselves onto the folk but also for the folk to give and make offerings in

00:25:34.220 front of that mural and direct the focus direct the worship towards that mural it transmits

00:25:43.580 energy and worship to the gods in a really particular really special way

00:25:47.860 and you really feel it when one of those murals is done and Svan has has worked his magic on the

00:25:54.720 mural when you're there there is a presence there is a part of our gods that occupy and that see

00:26:03.020 through those murals on the folk in a really special way so there's Cliff and Cliff's a tall

00:26:08.580 guy and there's him next to the hole um yeah with cliff in there let's say it's a 12 foot by

00:26:20.420 say it's 12 by seven anyway it's a very big spot um this particular one's fun added tons

00:26:29.700 of detail work and you're gonna have to look at it to see but most prominently you see uh

00:26:34.900 lord frayer and his golden boar uh gulen bursty

00:26:42.580 it just looks kind of a little bit shiny yellow in the picture and that if it looked just like

00:26:49.620 this picture in real life it would still be amazing but spawn uh found metallic gold colored

00:26:57.140 leafing in order to intersperse and utilize for the golden bristles of gulen bursty for the uh

00:27:08.180 solar halo around uh frayer's head for different you know metallic bits in a way that it has such

00:27:18.260 a powerful effect depending on how the room is lit when there's you know candles and firelight

00:27:24.260 light coming from different sources it it shines and it is so impressive it is it is literally

00:27:32.900 awesome in the sense that it is awe-inspiring and it takes a moment to drink it all in and

00:27:40.420 really process it um i was brought to tears the first time i saw it uh svan did a absolutely

00:27:47.220 amazing job it is there's so much awesome about it that you just can't tell from the picture

00:27:54.500 so many elements of it really pop in just the perfect way the sunset behind him in the mountains

00:28:03.620 is really striking and it seems like a minor detail from here but in person it's really

00:28:11.540 profound and it's one of the things that stands out about it but there's so much

00:28:15.300 Which, again, I can't say enough good about it, but there, I told you about it.

00:28:28.960 Look back over and see what we got going on in our chat.

00:28:33.380 Whole bunch of donations coming in.

00:28:35.540 You better be ready.

00:28:37.460 Awesome.

00:28:38.040 I'll go check those.

00:28:45.300 there's a bunch of stuff um nick bring stuff to my attention if cool stuff happens in the chat

00:28:51.760 i am glad that we have an awesome and uh vibrant chat if i miss anything uh don't hold it against

00:29:01.000 me you guys are doing good over there chat and we got some good afa folks in there that can get

00:29:05.500 you answers you need and i'm sure a bunch of it will make my way on here um wow you guys are

00:29:13.520 Awesome. So thank you for pointing that out, Nick. And thank you, Kevin, who donated $200

00:29:22.900 to Frazehoff. Yeah, thank you so much for that, Kevin. We appreciate that very, very

00:29:33.980 much. Jared donated $120 to phrase off and 20 towards beautifying

00:29:44.120 Thor's off. Thank you, Jared. Much appreciated. Yeah, you

00:29:49.880 guys are you guys are amazing. Steve bought us a coffee and

00:29:53.380 says Happy Yule. We're happy to you as well, Steve. If you want

00:29:58.160 to do the coffee thing, the links for that are in the

00:30:01.040 description. Thank you. We appreciate it. Ron bought us

00:30:04.800 three coffees. Oh, and it is monetized. So I think I got

00:30:10.860 something I'm supposed to address in that. If you could go

00:30:14.480 back in time to the arch Ausitru days, what is the one right

00:30:22.100 you would like to participate in and videotape bloat,

00:30:27.280 Sambal or Aosavatni. For anybody who doesn't know, Aosavatni means literally the sprinkling of water. It's our naming ceremony that we do for AFA babies, welcoming them, affixing their name to them, but introducing them and welcoming them into our AFA family in front of the folk, in front of the gods.

00:30:57.280 So, Ron, this is a monetized question, so I can't do the cop-out.

00:31:09.260 I want to see all of them because, of course, I do.

00:31:11.680 So if I could only do one and videotape it and participate in the, you know, the Viking

00:31:36.920 era, Ausatru days or prior. I think, you know, it's festive. It's time of year. It's on my mind.

00:31:46.140 And I think it's likely one of the biggest ones of the year. I'd like to participate in a Yule

00:31:50.100 bloat. I think that would be amazing. I think it is a particularly spiritual time of the year to

00:31:56.900 do that. And I would love to see, feel, smell, sense, participate in that kind of a ritual

00:32:08.040 with our ancestors in their way at that time. I think that would be, I think that would be

00:32:14.740 very powerful. And I'd love to be there and be part of that. And Gabriel donated $100 to

00:32:23.740 phrase off. Thank you so much. We appreciate that. Tremendously.

00:32:35.040 So

00:32:41.040 questions lined up so I gotta find my way back here. Alright, next

00:32:44.040 one is, who designed the Hoff flags?

00:32:50.040 Oh, um, there's a number of ways to tackle that.

00:33:03.480 Our Hoff flags as they are now, certainly our first five are similar in general composition.

00:33:11.560 There is a solid field, a heraldic animal on it, that's the kinfilia of the Hoff, and

00:33:25.620 there's a scroll at the bottom with a motto on it, and then there is the number of the

00:33:33.340 Hoff in the corner.

00:33:35.820 Now, a lot of that is we just go with kind of a tradition on it.

00:33:39.160 They don't have to be that way, and I make no guarantee that additional ones will always look that way or need to.

00:33:47.560 But I think I'm the guy that kind of came up with that.

00:33:54.620 I know it was really important.

00:33:55.660 I wanted to have that number in the corner to indicate the Hoffs.

00:34:02.220 we're going to get to a point one day where people think the number in the corner is kind of silly

00:34:09.480 but early on when we're in a day where we have now five hoffs but specifically when we were

00:34:16.960 doing them I'm trying to think of when that first flag happened um I believe it may have happened

00:34:26.980 when we just had odinsoff so it was anticipating these numbers to come i know in my head it was

00:34:33.300 just kind of a man when it's not just eyes and there's a v that'll be really cool um now we've

00:34:40.420 got you know two of them so far that incorporate a v in the numbering and it'd be really awesome

00:34:46.340 when we get to where there's an x in them so that i think is is was kind of my idea on that um

00:34:53.220 um as far as the content goes like the colors what the animal is going to be what that image

00:35:02.580 looks like what the motto's going to be um so uh Odinsoff flag

00:35:14.580 the horse. So we ended up having cross.

00:35:30.300 Hmm. Brandy, Brandy says they happened in 2020. And I don't know if they happened in 2020 before 0.93

00:35:37.040 we got our two Hoffs that we got that year, or if they happened afterwards. But yeah,

00:35:44.580 so the horses and the red and white color scheme was kind of established before my time

00:35:54.960 why I say before my time as I was here to do these certainly the idea of doing crossed

00:36:00.160 horse heads on the gabling was a uh anglo-saxon inspired thing by our uh um

00:36:10.640 chief of staff at the time uh gofie brad taylor hicks he had wanted to do that he was a big part

00:36:18.960 of kind of the the theme and the decorating of the hoff when we first got what would become

00:36:25.520 Odin's Hoff and so having the cross horse horse heads on the gables was an Anglo-Saxon inspired

00:36:32.000 thing the building itself was red with white trim and we just ran with that and that ended up

00:36:40.720 becoming the colors for that Hoff and because of horses and because once we um rededicated it as

00:36:49.920 odin's off to honor the all father with a horse specific to him i made the the white horse of the

00:36:56.880 logo be uh slepner and that was you know it seemed self-evident i know i worked with madison on the

00:37:08.240 design um the motto i don't know when the motto was formalized or who it's another one that was

00:37:16.720 self-evident because it was um a rallying cry that our founder steve mcnallan used a lot a lot

00:37:26.720 of the time he was very fond of reminding us you know to do right and fear no one that was was

00:37:34.560 something that he admonished us frequently and that was a guiding i don't know a guiding principle

00:37:42.320 of his and we wanted to incorporate that on that first half of ours um thor's half flag

00:37:52.320 so another idea you notice we have these very colorful flags um one of the things about the

00:37:58.800 hafs symbolically is that we are rebuilding and reforging our link to the gods we're re-establishing

00:38:10.880 that and we're rebuilding it and literally the the embodiment of the the idea of the

00:38:18.240 bridge between Midgard and the Ausgard there is is uh is befrost and so

00:38:27.520 the rainbow of colors with the brightly colored heraldry of the of the Hoffs was intentional

00:38:34.160 that way I think Svan was trying to go with okay well if Matt's doing red for

00:38:38.800 red for Odinsof we'll go with the next color in the you know in the rainbow we'll go with orange

00:38:44.960 I think that he also kind of wanted the challenge because it was one that was a little bit different

00:38:49.200 the idea of that is more of a burnt and a fall orange and then for the kinfilgia there's an

00:38:55.520 association between uh Thor and bears not so much in the lore but in traditional names a lot

00:39:03.440 um Thorbjorn uh the bear of Thor is a very common uh name across Scandinavia in our ancestors day

00:39:10.820 and to this day to to a degree and the black bear is regionally you know an important animal in that

00:39:19.580 part of the woods or in that in that neck of the woods in that part of the world um and I think he

00:39:26.120 wanted to incorporate that on there and that one has a little it's less monochromatic than uh

00:39:31.580 Then Odenshof, it's got, you know, a red tongue and it's got white claws and, you know, the white of his eye and the white of his teeth.

00:39:39.120 So that was Svahn's design on the bear, and the motto, Words are Wind, Deeds are Iron, is from the Iron Guard kindred, which was a kindred that Svahn led, that kind of merged into becoming the folks that were taking care of the Hoff when we first got it.

00:40:02.340 And so that, their traditions and their culture really were a root culture for that Hoff.

00:40:13.360 And so that's why that was chosen for that.

00:40:19.100 Baldur's Hoff flag.

00:40:21.000 We had some different folks at the time, and so we went with color schemes.

00:40:24.820 So and one of the sad truths about some of our Hoffs is we'll have people who are very, very into it and say they're all about it. 0.72

00:40:35.560 But when the reality of having a Hoff and being responsible comes into play and where this isn't a theory, this isn't a game.

00:40:42.720 this is a very real thing with real responsibilities and real world visible visibilities a lot of people

00:40:51.120 discover that they are not made of the stuff that they would have you believe they're made of

00:40:55.840 so they decided their kindred had a um a blue background and it was blue and white was part

00:41:02.160 of their color scheme and i asked the folks there if they wanted to change it and they kind of took

00:41:06.240 on the challenge like no we're going to keep it the same we're going to keep that blue we're going

00:41:09.600 to keep the wolf the wolf is a noble animal and we're going to celebrate it so they went with

00:41:16.080 they went with that um the wolf imagery i'm not sure who chose that exact design i think brandy

00:41:24.480 did if not brandy was very helpful in the figurine of it and i know brandy was responsible for the

00:41:31.760 motto guided by true north and there's also um the uh the north star polaris above the wolf's head

00:41:40.240 on that flag um your top

00:41:51.520 it's hard for me to remember all these things so any of any of our people if i misremember who did

00:41:57.840 what or whose idea what was please forgive me i promise you it's not on purpose um

00:42:07.040 i honestly couldn't tell you who came up with color scheme

00:42:12.000 that color choice could have been gothe lane ashby but i'm not sure i think most of that all is him

00:42:22.240 so it's funny because when we have an idea that multiple people like and we go with it's hard to

00:42:27.200 know so um the harshest winds make the strongest wood i believe is from lane which is the motto on

00:42:33.680 that flag and then i've been a big proponent of the marlin for a long time i think i don't know

00:42:45.520 if that's my marlin image working with um madison or something that lane drew up i know that i

00:42:52.400 I worked with her on the Marlin for the Cross Gables.

00:42:57.560 I know I've been a proponent of the Marlin for a long time,

00:43:00.880 but I don't know if that's my idea or Lane's or perhaps someone else's,

00:43:04.880 but I know it's something I was very big on.

00:43:10.680 And then our newest Hoff, Freys Hoff.

00:43:13.980 It is on the most unique, like lightest possible blue you can imagine field.

00:43:26.780 Green is the secondary color, like a hunter green is the secondary color for a lot of things, and it outlines the stag on it.

00:43:34.580 But the white stag is certainly Cliff's idea.

00:43:38.080 that particular image is one cliff wanted and we talked with um madison about that i was on the

00:43:48.760 phone call we looked at a couple of different images i believe i don't know if cliff found it

00:43:54.140 he certainly approved of it um and then did some of the tweaks on the color of the the antlers and

00:44:00.520 the beard and the, and the hooves. So it's Cliff's composition by our good names is a evolution of

00:44:09.260 the Lansdale true folk kindred, which is the Erickson's kindred and a practice they had of

00:44:17.800 swearing by their good name when they made oaths and things on that kindred. And so that kind of

00:44:23.680 took prominence in the, in the naming and what they want for the motto. And I think it's fantastic.

00:44:28.140 It's a very unique looking flag with a very unique looking color scheme.

00:44:34.100 So that's, that's that.

00:44:36.460 And then, you know, we always have Madison, Madison East,

00:44:39.920 Goethe Trendy, or Witten Trendy's wife.

00:44:42.840 She does a lot of our digital artwork.

00:44:47.480 She's very talented at that.

00:44:49.040 And she helps us in a lot of ways that way.

00:44:54.880 Yeah, and every time I'm done with the thing,

00:44:56.640 I'm going to kind of look over to the side for a second, take a swig of the wine here.

00:45:11.520 All right, what is the significance of the Kinfilia in regards to each hof?

00:45:17.340 okay so I I touched on I talked about Odin's Hoff and uh Thor's Hoff but then I kind of trailed off

00:45:29.000 on what that was about and I didn't really give that the time on the next Hoffs so I will do that

00:45:36.880 now um the wolf was a popular thing as I mentioned in that uh that kindred that uh ended up dissolving

00:45:46.560 and disappearing and abandoning uh Baldur's Hoff but in that part of the world world the wolf is

00:45:54.000 still relevant um it's a noble it's a noble animal and that's why it ended up being there

00:46:04.800 but I think why it stayed was the challenge of you know redeeming it and empowering it and imbuing it

00:46:12.880 with the noble position that it ought to have. But yeah, that one was kind of one that was

00:46:23.120 thrust upon us a little bit and we decided to keep and take up the banner of the Marlin

00:46:30.060 on the New York's Hoff flag. New York's Hoff was the first of our Hoffs that had to go 0.73

00:46:37.040 go somewhere specific.

00:46:43.860 So force off could have gone anywhere and it would have been fine.

00:46:52.400 But your top really needed to be near near the coastline really needed to be near the

00:47:03.140 coastline.

00:47:04.140 around and had a I think the most prominent like ideas as we're leading up

00:47:14.580 to it we could have had it in Florida or we could have had it in like coastal

00:47:22.900 Washington if we would have had it in Washington State it probably would have

00:47:27.900 have been maybe a salmon. Also gave some thought into it being up in New England. I think there's

00:47:38.400 a lot of different sea animals it could have been up in New England. Maybe it would have

00:47:45.280 been a whale. It would have been cool if it had like sperm whale or something. There's

00:47:50.700 a couple ideas. At one point we were looking at a property perhaps, well not perhaps, we

00:47:56.780 we're looking at a property, but we weren't overly serious or committed to it. We found a really nice

00:48:01.660 option in coastal, like Gulf Coast, Texas. And that would have been cool too. But when it was

00:48:11.640 Florida, it was apparent that the Marlin would be a perfect symbol. And that's what we wanted

00:48:19.380 to use there. But that all depended on what state it was going to end up being in. It would

00:48:23.840 to look different in different places. I see that folk builder Ron Boardman of New Hampshire

00:48:37.600 advocates that in New England it should have been or should be the codfish. Perhaps one

00:48:43.780 of these days when we get a Hoff up there that may come to pass we will see. And then

00:48:49.820 praise off the stag being you know i think there was a number of animals that were kind of self

00:48:56.060 evident as options and so that's the thing it doesn't need to be an animal that is in the lore

00:49:01.580 related to that particular god it's welcome to be that's a cool idea and it's certainly

00:49:06.300 okay but it can also be something that's relevant to the place or embodies an idea or a spirit of

00:49:13.500 the folk there um you know our tradition is a living tradition but um yeah the the stag is a

00:49:20.540 prominent animal to uh frayer uh after he he had to sacrifice his sword to win uh girther he

00:49:32.780 ends up taking up as his weapon the antler of a stag and so that symbology that noble

00:49:39.660 You know, the stag has always been a noble beast amongst our ancestors and embodying that on the on the flag. That's why that happened.

00:49:49.660 So yeah, that's, that's that.

00:49:54.660 Ah. All right. What is the significance of the Sonnenrad and what does it mean? So a lot of people, we get questions about that.

00:50:14.000 and so you will notice that around the uh as a halo around the heads of our um our heroes and

00:50:26.820 our gods we have a 12-spoke solar disc and the solar solar disc especially with

00:50:39.720 all right so I'll pause on that for a sec the solar disk in general has always been a sacred

00:50:49.580 symbol to our folk from the the earliest times of our ancestors some of the very earliest

00:50:55.580 depictions I perhaps the earliest that I'm aware of for sure is the Trondheim solar chariot

00:51:05.080 that's in the museum at Copenhagen or at least it was when I got to visit it there

00:51:09.900 and it's really striking and many of you may be familiar with it it's

00:51:13.360 um I believe a singular horse pulling a chariot with a a so with a disc that's

00:51:23.060 um leafed in gold on the outside and some of the leaf is worn away over the millennia but it's

00:51:29.600 very ancient and very striking and that was always really important you early carvings

00:51:35.960 sometimes will have like the equilateral cross in the middle of a of a circle for a solar cross or

00:51:42.740 the solar disk in the migration era maybe even earlier I'm not certain the Alamanni tribe in

00:51:54.920 Germany and other tribes, I assume, but it kind of became synonymous with them. In German, it's

00:52:00.940 called a Zerscheibe, and it's just a decorative disc, and they would have this motif on so many

00:52:08.000 different things, and if you Google them or you look them up, they're very, very similar to that

00:52:15.600 12-spoked solar symbol, sun and rod, or I'm not trying to fool anybody, black sun, and if you

00:52:24.820 look at it the reason that we get a lot of oh that's edgy or whatever is it is displayed

00:52:32.400 prominently in uh Schloss Webelsberg in Germany that ended up that was the uh the Schutstaffel's

00:52:41.460 headquarters but the thing that comes into play often with Third Reich imagery and Ausitru is

00:52:50.680 we're both hearkening back to an Ur tradition of symbols and spiritual power

00:53:00.540 from our pre-Christian Germanic ancestors.

00:53:07.040 And so there's certainly going to be things that both groups use.

00:53:12.920 This 12-spoke version, this is the most clean modern version of it,

00:53:18.420 But you can find 12-spoke variants of, again, these very ancient Zirschweibes.

00:53:27.640 Zirschweibes, sorry, for any of our German-speaking audience.

00:53:31.420 I apologize.

00:53:34.420 But, yeah, it's a very powerful symbol, and it's solar.

00:53:37.540 It's got the 12 for the 12 months.

00:53:39.620 the completion the number 12 is very important in our lore and in um our practice of alsatru

00:53:48.960 uh in material that's fond and i will be going over with you guys shortly in the gilf beginning

00:53:56.440 when asked to you know who are these isir the isir are 12 the isir that it's beneficial for

00:54:04.080 man to worship or that it's good to call upon or 12 that number of 12 is really important

00:54:10.000 to us so the 12 spokes just like the 12 you know 12 hours on a clock face are essential

00:54:18.680 to that the uh the squiggle yes it's the sig rune the victory rune but it's also it implies

00:54:24.720 that movement and it's particularly that solar movement um so does i mean when we're

00:54:30.920 on the topic of these particular kind of symbols so does the swastika it's a solar symbol that

00:54:36.840 implies that rotational movement and that constant movement is essential to concepts in our faith

00:54:45.800 that are really important um it's reinforced in our lore a lot but the basic

00:54:53.160 idea is to keep moving forward the idea that forward motion

00:54:57.960 elevates us moves us forward leads to victory leads to ascension but status uh or stasis rather

00:55:09.360 being um being still the lack of movement for a prolonged period leads to entropy if you stop

00:55:18.200 moving then you are draw you are pulled into chaos and into disintegration destruction and

00:55:26.660 and chaos so it's very important to always be moving forward we see this when the in the myths

00:55:34.440 of uh of soul and mani having to stay one step ahead of of um of uh skull and and haiti the uh

00:55:45.740 wolf of of um of mockery and of hatred we have to stay one step ahead of it because when that wolf

00:55:54.460 If you don't, even for a second, the jaws of the wolf begin to close around you.

00:55:59.340 And we see, you know, that was kind of the story told by the eclipse is, you know, uh-oh, the wolf's got him.

00:56:06.260 Let's, you know, let's yell really loud and try to scare it so it can break free.

00:56:09.800 The idea of always staying one step ahead of that destruction, one step ahead, keep moving forward.

00:56:17.760 That constant movement, the constant progress, the constant upward spiral, spiral of ascension is important.

00:56:27.760 In a way, it inspires the name of this program, Victory Never Sleeps.

00:56:33.020 When you win something and then you get lazy and you sit there, that's when entropy and chaos sets in.

00:56:38.960 So you can't ever just rest on your laurels.

00:56:41.220 You have to always be moving forward.

00:56:43.020 and that's why the movement implied in that um uh son and rat motif that we choose to use

00:56:52.900 is so very important to us but it signifies holiness it signifies solar might when it's

00:57:01.200 around the heads of our gods it's in gold um because they're divine beings they're gods

00:57:07.540 when it's around our heroes, it's red because these were mortals that exhibited that kind of

00:57:14.640 holiness. So that, that solar might, that holiness around the heads. And a lot of people might

00:57:22.240 associate haloing with, with Christianity, but it predates that. And it exists in other cultures

00:57:27.920 that are very not Christian. You see it in, you see it in Indian art a lot. It's a motif that's

00:57:36.380 not confined to that but it is one that christianity also glommed on to for their holy

00:57:41.740 figures but to differentiate us that very unique that very germanic um solar symbol that's not

00:57:50.700 just solar but it's solar in movement and in uh that 12 spoke movement

00:58:06.380 during bloat under what circumstances under what circumstances would it be acceptable to pour the

00:58:22.280 libation down the drain as a form of disposal um so there's a couple things that during bloat

00:58:32.780 never that would be a horribly unceremonious way to dispose of the liquid. So spoiler alert.

00:58:48.920 When we do bloat, I have yet to be to perform a bloat that is awesome enough that the gods

00:58:55.060 literally appear before us and drink the mead. We get that. The mead transfers our energy

00:59:03.260 to them in a different way. There's a lot of symbolism in that, in the way that we offer

00:59:11.520 it, but it creates the practical situation of, yeah, but you have this mead here and

00:59:17.960 need needs to go somewhere what do you do with it i get so here is is the circumstance and i'll kind

00:59:27.640 of backpedal um the only circumstance that i think is appropriate to okay two circumstances

00:59:39.160 i think it is appropriate to pour the libation offering down a drain if you are

00:59:48.760 incarcerated and that is your only option for you doing your ritual is in

00:59:55.240 a cell or in a spot where there's no

00:59:58.360 no option to pour it somewhere else that's okay i mean as opposed to like on the floor

01:00:07.780 I think that makes sense in that very, very specific circumstance. And then the other one

01:00:15.500 is, and this is one that I guess technically happens is when it no longer is liquid and

01:00:21.220 it becomes a solid in whatever container that you were using, then yeah, you have to wash

01:00:26.820 your dishes. So I will sometimes make libation offering I say sometimes every time I offer

01:00:37.740 a libation in my home, I leave it there, and it evaporates over time, and eventually there's,

01:00:45.580 you know, depending upon what liquid it is and how much color and how much sugar's in it or

01:00:49.860 whatever, it leaves a crust on the glass or on the bowl or whatever, and then I'll eventually

01:00:56.200 wash that implement. But way better options are finding something that is a special place

01:01:07.720 to offer it if you are stuck inside of buildings and you can't go outside and whatever the

01:01:13.740 reason is and if you have a plant if you have like a potted plant I think that's an acceptable

01:01:20.180 way if you you know speak words over it and you make the offering there in bloat when

01:01:28.760 we're outside or if we're inside and it's a contained it's like a real fire pit it's

01:01:36.320 great to offer it into the fire be careful that unless you intend to you don't douse the fire 0.94

01:01:42.320 with the liquid i say that it sounds stupid and painfully obvious but other people have done that 0.81

01:01:50.000 before when they first started it and were like oh better not do that again don't spike the horn 0.71

01:01:56.800 either unless you intend well that was so it was really cool people thought i did it on purpose i

01:02:01.600 I spiked the horn because it slipped at the wrong time, but I just ran with it.

01:02:07.300 But yeah, so that's an option when it's in the middle of bloat.

01:02:12.600 But something else, so it depends.

01:02:17.520 When you're doing bloat, most often there's two horns of mead that go around.

01:02:24.580 And when I say mead, read, you know, beer, wine, whatever liquid you're using for that ceremony.

01:02:29.440 the one that you are offering to the gods I think it is best to pour it into the fire

01:02:35.880 or at our hafs sometimes we'll pour it into a bowl and place that on the altar giving it to

01:02:43.740 the gods so that's a good way to do that but then you get the mead at the end that is used to bless

01:02:52.500 the folk the mead that's blessed by the gods and distributed amongst the folk sometimes to drink

01:02:58.760 sometimes to be a spurge with so what to do with that mead if i don't have a different option or

01:03:08.140 a different something to do sometimes i'll pour that back into the fire as well um but what i

01:03:13.600 like to do at our hoffs to where we have our uh our loved ones interred i take that mead the mead

01:03:21.320 that is a gift to us from the gods and one of the reasons that we want to have our loved ones

01:03:27.520 interred at the Hoffs is so in a way they're participating with us in our religious practice

01:03:34.420 eternally so I will take that gift to us from the gods and I will pour that upon you know those

01:03:42.340 people's graves and I think that's a good way to share what we're doing with them um if we have

01:03:52.380 you know, again, I mentioned at the Hoff, we'll pour this meat into a bowl and we'll put it on

01:03:57.740 the altar. Well, what happens then? Later that evening or next day or however the logistics

01:04:05.780 work out, one of the Gothar will take that and they very often will have the base of a tree

01:04:12.600 that's special to them where they make their offerings and pour it out at the base of that

01:04:17.340 tree. So there's never really a reason for you to pour it down the drain, like I said, unless you're

01:04:25.600 incarcerated. There's a lot of really nice ways to do it. If you're at your home, find, you know,

01:04:31.120 a tree or a rock on your property that's special. Use it for that purpose. Again, if you have to

01:04:39.600 when you're indoors, if you have a potted plant, that that's where you make your offerings. That's

01:04:43.300 good thing to do there too do you believe there are any sumptuary laws in house of truth is there

01:04:54.740 anything that we should consume we should not consume as a rule i suppose for that matter is

01:04:59.700 there anything we should could we should consume as a rule um no short answer i mean

01:05:11.140 I mean, yeah, no, not really. I know some people get very very creative in the significances

01:05:28.580 they might place with food. I know some people will have sometimes for a period of time,

01:05:35.580 maybe it's because of an oath, maybe it's because of something for their own health,

01:05:39.640 or maybe it's because they feel that some kind of a ritual purification

01:05:43.820 will forego eating meat for a certain amount of time,

01:05:47.560 or they may fast altogether for a certain amount of time.

01:05:51.640 That's not bad, that's not heresy,

01:05:55.180 but it's also certainly not something that's prescribed

01:05:57.740 by the Astro Folk Assembly as necessary.

01:06:04.660 There's a number of people that like the idea

01:06:09.240 of only eating stuff that their ancestors would have eaten.

01:06:16.120 If it brings those people closer to the gods

01:06:23.020 or it helps those people feel more connected with their faith

01:06:26.220 or if they just like that food, then by all means.

01:06:29.480 But again, it's not something you have to do.

01:06:31.100 You're not sinning against our gods

01:06:34.800 by eating Mexican food or Chinese food

01:06:37.860 or, you know, eating exotic foods.

01:06:41.740 But again, like I said, some people prefer to try to eat

01:06:45.920 particularly like their ancestors.

01:06:49.100 And again, if they want to do that

01:06:50.980 and they feel it connects them in some special way

01:06:53.920 and, you know, helps make their faith more tangible to them,

01:06:58.980 then by all means, but no, that's not a rule.

01:07:01.640 But what I will say is this, is customary.

01:07:03.760 and I suppose this is a you don't have to but it is highly recommended and encouraged

01:07:11.160 when it comes to consumption of things there is so there was a time in the modern resurgence of

01:07:20.520 Alcitru there's a very heavy drinking culture people we used to have a lot of mead makers we

01:07:28.360 still have quite a few people that make their own mead to use for ritual use and also to use

01:07:33.620 for enjoying a drink use. But used to be there was a lot of drinking, it was a lot of single

01:07:40.940 guys, it was less families. And a lot of folks used it as an excuse to drink and often that

01:07:49.000 drinking was to excess. That's not the AFA culture anymore. But I am not opposed to a

01:07:58.120 drink, or several. But what I do think is important. So we go

01:08:08.720 through a phase where a lot of people were drinking too much. And

01:08:14.620 it was too big of a part of the stuff that we do. But then it's

01:08:17.520 very easy for a reaction to that to be people discouraging

01:08:21.420 drinking. And then we have people that have a problem with

01:08:27.620 alcohol, they struggle with addiction, or they've made certain

01:08:31.460 choices in their life where they feel it's important and best

01:08:35.060 for them to live nobly that they not consume alcohol. I get that

01:08:43.300 and there are times where that is a, you know, where you know,

01:08:47.660 you know how you are when you drink. And if you can't have a

01:08:51.620 drop, because that's what you're going to do, or it's part of a

01:08:54.780 very important thing in your life, we certainly respect that. Sometimes we'll even have a non

01:09:01.560 alcoholic horn to go with the alcoholic horn so they can feel part of things. But

01:09:07.560 drinking is part of the ritual, specifically ensemble. There is something holy and special

01:09:17.000 when you drink to the point where you have a little bit of an altered state.

01:09:23.660 and it makes you more receptive to sharing of yourself to receiving kindness from others to

01:09:34.240 displaying kindness to others that you might not otherwise so all things being equal a part of the

01:09:41.840 rite of sambal is drinking a little bit and again that's not like hey everybody come on down and get

01:09:48.320 wasted but there is something very important to our ancestors about the social lubrication aspect

01:09:54.880 of having a little bit to drink um in in ritual and that you know you see it expressed probably

01:10:02.680 most profoundly in uh in tacitus when he writes about uh the german tribes uh tribes across the

01:10:09.780 rhine he um talks about how they will often make you know it's very important in their in their

01:10:17.460 culture to discuss important matters while while drinking because it like i said it lowers those

01:10:25.060 inhibitions it lowers those walls and lets people open up and share in a special way

01:10:30.020 but then the idea is to like confirm it in the morning when everybody's sober just to make sure

01:10:35.220 it was a good idea but there's something that's special with that and the fact that um

01:10:40.500 ale mead wine was so important in our religious rites is you know is found throughout our lore

01:10:50.820 and it comes into one of our you know the most well-known magical runic formula and the formula

01:10:58.140 that kind of exemplifies our worship is alu or literally ale um so the ansus lagus urus

01:11:08.600 runic progression symbolizing you know ale or alcohol is that it's the idea of the divine

01:11:18.240 connected through a medium of liquid to the primal and the primal connected by a medium of liquid to

01:11:24.600 the divine we have that i don't think there's any way to really see it no it just gets blurry when

01:11:33.060 get that close anyways all around the edge of our gothar rings is a never-ending sequence of ansus

01:11:41.060 lagus urus lagus ansus lagus urus in perpetuity never ending because that represents the gift

01:11:49.060 cycle from the gods uh to the earth to us from us to the earth to the gods

01:11:53.460 Okay. Frivolous question, but we're in a fun mood. Worst possible condiment to use as a salad dressing?

01:12:23.460 okay i have never considered that before so it takes me a second here i will not

01:12:31.140 torture you with uh having me silently think for over long off the top of my head without abusing

01:12:38.420 the audience barbecue sauce that's what came to my mind yeah i think that would be a and i don't

01:12:48.340 know if it'd be horrible but it would certainly not be uh not be my go-to

01:12:55.300 wasabi

01:12:59.620 i think for something that's in a sauce kind of form but they didn't specify so it counts i mean

01:13:07.700 i've got a bottle of uh like horseradish for uh whatchamacallit horseradish sauce

01:13:15.060 uh yeah like creamed horseradish a horseradish might be an interesting choice

01:13:22.740 a little goes along what uh depends on the person i guess um

01:13:33.180 what are some yuletide traditions to do with a daughter

01:13:41.100 i don't know and if spawn was on here i'm sure he would have some ideas for you

01:13:53.320 i can't think of anything that i do with my daughter or anything you know you're related or

01:14:02.040 anything that i've heard of that folks do you're related that's

01:14:05.860 kind of daughter specific. And again, there may be something that's like mother daughter,

01:14:12.620 but I don't think of any like specific father daughter mule traditions on that. Put a pin

01:14:19.620 in that because I'm going to ask Svon and see if he gives me a better answer. And I'll

01:14:23.380 try to present that to you when I find it out. He is really good at having at developing

01:14:30.240 his own like family um yule traditions he's really cool at that

01:14:37.520 next question also on the frivolous side but fun speaking of daughters hello

01:14:47.520 so um coffee tea or hot chocolate and why

01:14:52.800 okay so uh without context

01:15:05.720 without context coffee um

01:15:12.640 other things i've got to be in a mood for or they're situational i mean if i said tea

01:15:20.880 you've got infinite variety of tea so that's cheating so it's like

01:15:24.620 yeah you got a lot of varieties there tea's a strong contender for that but there's coffee

01:15:31.560 there's like I can't really think of much at any time I wouldn't enjoy a cup of coffee like hey

01:15:38.220 can I get you a cup of coffee I don't imagine a time that I would say no especially because I am

01:15:43.840 caffeine immune or caffeine resistant, certainly mentally to where it's not like those things

01:15:50.700 keep you up. It's kind of a nice, um, it's kind of a nice thing to drink before bed for me is to

01:15:59.100 drink coffee. So I'm going to say coffee for, I'm gonna say coffee for those reasons. Uh,

01:16:06.180 Nick, what say you on that one? Caffeine and ADHD are my superpowers. So yes, I will literally

01:16:13.220 drink coffee from the time i wake up to the time i go to bed i'll probably have at least two more

01:16:17.140 cups before this yeah coffee um so i was gonna say you know you got reasons in there whatever

01:16:31.140 all of those are intended to be consumed warm i say that there's no no slam at iced tea or iced

01:16:37.460 coffee for that matter but in general those are all warm drinks so warm doesn't specify but

01:16:43.220 So at AFA events, I'll start drinking coffee and because it's something to do and it's there, I'll just kind of drink it all day. I don't ever feel mentally the effects of coffee. Like I don't feel the effects of caffeine. I will drink, you know, four energy drinks in the course of, you know, a road trip or whatever and not notice an energy boost at all.

01:17:09.540 The thing is, when I start getting north of 10 cups of coffee, I will notice at some point my hand will start to shake.

01:17:16.460 So it's doing something to me, but nothing that, you know, I feel like it's making me jittery or I feel like I'm, you know, have increased alertness or anything.

01:17:28.200 But that's just that's just me. Or maybe it's just me and Nick.

01:17:33.860 This is an interesting question, and I saw it when I got, oh, so I should have said this.

01:17:38.000 always good time to plug this. So many of the questions you'll see tonight are emailed to us

01:17:44.520 beforehand. If you have a question you want us to answer on the show, whenever that might strike you,

01:17:51.580 email vns at runestone.org. And we'd be happy to answer your question very next opportunity.

01:18:00.080 We get a lot of questions that way. A number of you guys, we have some pretty regulars that way,

01:18:04.440 and we get some one-offs that way.

01:18:06.100 So please feel free to do that literally at any time,

01:18:09.880 including during this broadcast.

01:18:11.820 And it assures you get to the front of the line

01:18:13.980 because we're still not through email questions yet.

01:18:17.000 So there you go.

01:18:17.940 I appreciate you guys coming hard with questions today.

01:18:21.700 Me just sitting here looking pretty.

01:18:24.620 There's time for that, but I think that time runs out pretty quick.

01:18:27.580 What is something that you've had to lay aside

01:18:31.660 in order to maintain your AFA affiliation?

01:18:34.440 so i i think this is a profound question i would love to hear what some other people's answers are

01:18:47.480 um personally it's hard because i am in a unique position and i have been able to

01:18:58.760 structure my life for the last

01:19:01.680 for the last 15 years

01:19:06.580 towards making this an increasing part of my life

01:19:11.440 there's very little of my life

01:19:15.880 that isn't defined by my AFA membership

01:19:19.080 and my relationship with the gods and with our folk

01:19:22.880 so I it's hard because something I've had to lay aside

01:19:32.380 and I'll give kind of a bonus answer that's not really the answer because I don't want to cheat

01:19:44.740 the Angela who asked the question, but I don't feel like I

01:19:53.140 have had to lay aside anything, because this is my dream. And

01:19:58.020 it's absolutely I was gonna say it's what I want to do with my

01:20:02.860 life. But it's more than that it is. It is beyond my wildest

01:20:08.780 dreams of what I would be able to do with my life. So I don't

01:20:11.620 feel like there's something i've had to lay aside for it um but i've always been very open with my

01:20:18.100 family about my faith and i've always been very open with employers and with you know

01:20:27.460 i have been able to be very very open about my faith and my affiliation with the afa so that's

01:20:33.140 never been a thing but I have had to suffer a lot a lot of personal betrayals and lost friendships

01:20:48.020 when people are when AFA members choose to choose to turn on us for whatever reason they turn on us

01:21:02.020 when i say the turn on us very often um because of of who i am and my responsibilities and position

01:21:08.900 i'm in it's very specifically and very pointedly turning on me so i've dealt with a lot of that

01:21:15.460 from people that i dearly loved and cared about and that's a lot and it's a double tap because

01:21:22.260 it's not just that i deal with the personal betrayal but when i see the way it affects my

01:21:29.460 wife, that's the hardest part of that. And so that is very much a penalty because of my AFA

01:21:38.320 affiliation. And I'd pay it a million times over and I don't begrudge it for it. I mean, I begrudge

01:21:44.740 it with those people, but in the course of my fortunes in life, I could have a hundred times

01:21:52.180 of that, and I'm still a very, very lucky man. The follow-up question to it, though,

01:22:00.200 what have you had to do to defend the AFA to others? Thank you. So,

01:22:08.780 again, I've been fortunate. I think these are really good questions, and I would love to hear

01:22:18.160 a number of our leaders answer these questions. My answers are lame, and I don't mean them to be.

01:22:25.480 But again, I'm in that unique spot where, like,

01:22:28.960 I am wired into the AFA, and the AFA is hardwired into me, so I don't feel that kind of separation.

01:22:38.140 All of my friends, I say, I mean, I have friends from high school or whatever that aren't AFA

01:22:45.720 members, but all of my friends that I've made as an adult that are like close to me or that

01:22:51.500 their opinion matters to me in an important way to my family are members of the AFA. I've just

01:22:58.500 been able to build my life that way. So I don't have the same personal fights to defend. My family

01:23:06.920 has been ambivalent to religion. So I broke with Jehovah's Witnessism as a separate matter 0.96

01:23:19.760 from my AFA affiliation. So their severing ties with me wasn't because I am Ausitru or because

01:23:30.440 i became the the high high priest or the alzharrier gothi of a pagan organization their

01:23:39.640 their break with me was because i stopped being a jehovah's witness um so i've never had the

01:23:45.080 conversation with them about how so true or the afa um my dad my mom my mom was you know generic

01:23:52.840 belief in god and christianity because you're supposed to but she wasn't that wasn't a big

01:23:58.600 issue that she raised with me or that we had any kind of um yeah i don't think we ever had

01:24:05.080 a conversation on it i mean she was aware of all of the steps and i suppose it you know developed

01:24:10.840 my affiliation with the afa grew naturally so i never really had to defend the afa to her

01:24:15.880 i haven't had to defend it with my my dad or with my stepmom again they're both not religious and

01:24:23.160 And I think what has served me well is those people know me.

01:24:27.540 And so they are aware of who I am and they assume that I'm not whatever monster that other people would say I am because they've known me for a long time.

01:24:38.840 um I end up defending the AFA to I don't know to reporters or to people who ask questions on

01:24:47.240 social media or whatever else you know often because of my position as also here you go through

01:24:53.840 but none of that really stands out a lot because it's just my job all the time so it doesn't like

01:24:59.840 stand out as a time I've had to be on super defense about the AFA um but yeah in any of the

01:25:06.740 interviews I've done. I think that's when I've had to defend the AFA most. And you can see most

01:25:13.100 of those on this channel. There's a couple that were in newspapers that I did. But yeah.

01:25:22.260 Good evening and happy Yule. I'll tell you to go through Matt and Folk Builder Nick.

01:25:26.560 I'm planning on going to Catholic Christmas Mass tomorrow to make my mom happy. Should I? No,

01:25:33.060 absolutely not um i'm going to participate i'm not going to participate in any rituals

01:25:38.020 thanks for all that you do well you're welcome um no you shouldn't do that and i say that um

01:25:53.460 i get it and my answer would be different if you were like hey my brother's getting married

01:25:58.580 in a catholic service you know can i attend his wedding i think that's different because it's not

01:26:04.420 an inherent worship service it's showing up for celebrating his wedding uh you know similar with

01:26:13.060 a funeral but i think showing up for a religious service showing up for mass um

01:26:22.260 i think that would be inappropriate as an aussitruer and i would advise that you don't do that

01:26:27.460 um i understand the logic of you're just not you're not participating you're just observing

01:26:33.620 i could see if you were i don't know a reporter or an investigative you know something or you

01:26:41.140 were doing research for some kind of a school project or something but as far as attending

01:26:46.980 as one of the parishioners i think you know at midnight mass tonight or whatever there's probably

01:26:54.100 a lot of people that are not devoutly Catholic that are going there. They're still parishioners

01:26:58.640 at a religious service. And, uh, you know, I, I don't think it's the end of the world. I don't

01:27:05.280 think that you will be cast immediately to the strand if you do, but I, uh, I would advise

01:27:11.160 against doing that. Good Yule question for the show tonight. Is donating to the AFA a form of

01:27:24.560 participation, or can it be one, in the gift cycle with the gods as a type of financial sacrifice,

01:27:32.320 particularly if it's to a half of one of the gods? Or is that purely a donation to the AFA

01:27:37.640 and other forms of bloat are the correct sacred ones to the Iser. Thanks. So I was talking to

01:27:44.780 Nick before the show on this one. Almost the exact same question came in last week,

01:27:52.400 but it came in from a completely different person. So maybe there's something in the air

01:27:56.740 or people are wondering, and I'm happy to answer it. So

01:27:59.600 yes all of the above

01:28:10.740 and I don't

01:28:13.380 it's not an either or proposition

01:28:18.860 or at least I don't feel

01:28:21.380 that it is or it should be

01:28:22.640 donating to the AFA

01:28:25.100 is absolutely part of the gifting cycle

01:28:27.160 i think donating to the afa generally is a act of participation in that cycle with the gods

01:28:34.600 as the icer generally um i think if you are doing it as a gift or an offering to a particular one

01:28:45.180 of our gods i think you can make that statement in front of your altar with that commitment

01:28:52.380 And I think that counts as part of that.

01:28:57.520 I also, you know, as you mentioned, if you donated, like today, I was asking people to donate to Frasehoff.

01:29:04.620 If you donated towards paying off Frasehoff, yes, I think that's absolutely a gift and an offering to Frayer.

01:29:11.880 And I think that's completely appropriate.

01:29:13.600 it. Yeah, I don't. It's never purely a donation to the AFA as

01:29:25.180 if that were unconnected from the gift cycle with our gods,

01:29:27.880 it's not. And the same goes beyond just monetary

01:29:32.260 contribution. Every time you volunteer to help at one of the

01:29:37.060 Hoffs or to folk build for the AFA or to, you know, spread the

01:29:42.820 word and bring people to the afa help with any of the repairs at the hof help participate in

01:29:51.060 building this that we're doing i think that's absolutely a gift to our gods and is part of

01:29:57.880 that gift cycle in a really important way i wouldn't you know i wouldn't let that

01:30:04.120 it would be wrong-headed to be like i don't need to do bloat i i you know i gave it to office i

01:30:11.120 need to do bloat i would encourage you absolutely to do bloat and do that in a you know in connection 0.86

01:30:18.240 with other house of truer who are doing it standing in ritual with your fellow afa brothers 0.87

01:30:24.080 and sisters is a very important part of our ritual process so i wouldn't do the one and not the other

01:30:31.520 but absolutely donations count those are absolutely an offering and a part of that

01:30:37.840 gift cycle and i believe that the icer appreciate them very much

01:30:43.760 ah glad yule was yule at odin oh how was yule at odin's off this year i started off the show

01:30:51.680 by telling you that it was awesome it's great every year you know every year it feels like it's

01:30:56.880 even more awesome than it was the last year i think that's just because it's fresh in

01:31:01.920 in our minds but it was fantastic and i was very excited to be able to be there and

01:31:08.000 i mentioned i felt like we had a really powerful bloat and it was just a great time

01:31:13.600 um all right question is the indo-european sky father lord odin or lord tier

01:31:22.000 so i want to i want to attack the question

01:31:35.760 um if you are referring to the proto-indo-european supposed

01:31:52.140 deus potter named deity then i think it's fine question if you're referring to the sky father

01:32:03.260 function that uh george dumazil and i'm he's it's the french pronunciation but i don't know

01:32:11.240 how to make the french noises but if you are proposing that you know who fills that function

01:32:17.780 it's not the god's jobs to fill functions it is our understanding of the functions that

01:32:27.080 are common themes in Arian mythology, it helps us to make connections and to understand.

01:32:37.620 But our gods aren't beholden to the theories of academics.

01:32:44.280 Academics' job is to better understand the gods or the culture that the gods inspire.

01:32:49.760 So, both serve Skyfather-like functions.

01:33:02.560 I think the understanding of the most ancient Aryan deities is all very speculative.

01:33:12.440 You'll see even the language has like, it's kind of retro grade, you know, it's assumed by its descendants of what must have been the case, but we don't have a lot of primary material.

01:33:29.340 So it's hard to say exactly the cognate with that term is certainly tear.

01:33:38.820 um i think both of them serve a sky father function in terms of regality and order in terms of

01:33:50.580 you know supremacy of things i think that whereas tear certainly is a more obvious

01:34:02.240 like um association with the bright day sky i think the all-father odin is associated more with

01:34:12.800 the dark night sky but i think both of them have elements of that to them the direct direct lineal

01:34:21.760 descendant of that term sky father or deus father is would be tier um but the functionality

01:34:30.800 again our gods aren't theories so these gods were with us at that time what they were known by or

01:34:37.840 how you know ancient steppe caucasians understood their relationship with odin and tear um i'd be

01:34:50.000 very curious to know that and i think that's something that maybe further archaeology will

01:34:55.040 help us understand it'd be awesome if it did but that might remain a mystery as well

01:35:05.920 all right

01:35:12.960 would you say that acetrue can also be viewed in an animistic way in certain aspects no

01:35:19.840 i would not say that i understand why some people however might say that but no i would not say that

01:35:33.280 so

01:35:36.000 and i think that when i explain the differences

01:35:42.080 they may seem small but i think they make all the difference in the world

01:35:49.840 So, for example, a sacred tree or a sacred rock isn't sacred because the tree is alive

01:36:07.140 or because, and with the asterisks, yes, it's a tree, I understand plants are alive,

01:36:11.700 but that the tree is some kind of a spiritual being and that the rock is some kind of a

01:36:17.260 a spiritual being a tree or a rock can be sacred but they are sacred because they um house

01:36:30.020 a spiritual being one of the land vetir or because they are particularly sacred to

01:36:38.720 a spiritual being in I guess in the smallest maybe most accessible sense that a lot of people could

01:36:48.720 relate to my mom's tombstone is sacred it's not because the tombstone is alive it's because it is

01:37:00.400 a marker marking the remains of my mom and in a particular way the spirit of my mom

01:37:10.040 is accessible through interaction with the tombstone and it is sacred to my mom

01:37:19.340 but none of us would think the tombstone itself is alive

01:37:25.000 and i think that you know this goes to

01:37:29.720 when we talk about animism in terms of inanimate objects

01:37:37.180 not in terms of animals that you know do have a personality and do have a personality and a self

01:37:44.220 but when we're talking about trees or rocks or anything else the logic doesn't bear out

01:37:50.800 so every rock has a soul and is a being

01:37:56.620 well all of those rocks were eventually bigger rocks so does a new soul spawn every time i break

01:38:07.800 a rock into a smaller piece and if so if we're on the beach does every single grain of sand

01:38:15.560 have a spirit and a personality and are they a being and i think that very quickly we run into

01:38:23.980 like no that doesn't make any sense some people will get that way with trees like every tree

01:38:29.040 has a character so you're just slaughtering all these trees to make a house or to make whatever

01:38:33.740 you're doing that doesn't seem right if that's the sense like literally you're just burning them

01:38:40.780 for firewood. But logically, though, so okay, does every

01:38:46.120 grass does every like blade of grass, does every flower or

01:38:50.620 every weed, or every, you know, we don't feel that that's the

01:38:57.280 case. And I think fundamentally, we don't feel that's the case.

01:39:00.040 We just think the really big cool looking ones do. And my

01:39:04.520 argument is, yeah, the really big cool looking ones are sacred

01:39:07.560 to a land spirit. And so you can commune with the land spirits at that spot in a special way,

01:39:14.520 just like I talked about earlier on where to pour out your offerings. You can pour out offerings

01:39:18.820 at a special tree or a special rock. And those are special sacred places. But it doesn't mean

01:39:24.920 that that rock is a person or that tree is a person. They are sacred to spiritual persons

01:39:31.860 and can serve as a medium of interacting with the spirit world.

01:39:37.200 And I hope that made sense.

01:39:38.300 If it doesn't, please follow up with question.

01:39:41.480 But hopefully that got the point out.

01:39:43.980 So, Githya Sarah Alt wants me to tell you guys about the Astru Academy and about how

01:40:05.820 awesome it is.

01:40:10.260 So an important kind of thing to note.

01:40:13.080 We've been trying to build it up over, I think the last four years now.

01:40:20.900 We have known that there was a need for AFA homeschooling for as long as I've been involved

01:40:30.440 in the AFA.

01:40:34.500 we've watched situations in our part of the west get more and more degenerate in recent years

01:40:42.980 the dire need for that has increased tremendously um but figuring out how to do that right has

01:40:52.260 always been the challenge so a number of years ago we found some of the right people and uh

01:41:00.180 githya sarah go through rob stam githya hof githya sheila mcnalen and a number of volunteers and

01:41:10.840 others are helping with our austro academy program but it is so exciting and special to be in a time

01:41:17.360 where we have that for our children now we are working off of the waldorf program of education

01:41:25.180 which I really like some parents you know may or may not but I really like the focus on

01:41:34.940 experiential learning and you know less sitting around and doing doing you know worksheets and

01:41:43.540 stuff that's just not the way that I typically learn or the way that I like to learn it's also

01:41:49.020 not the way I think is most effective but everybody learns a little bit different

01:41:52.060 Um, but it's been great. And I say that I was very excited about that

01:41:58.900 and wanting that very much as, uh, as a gothy and as a leader and also true,

01:42:06.880 but all the more so personally, I'm excited about it as a father. Um, Aubrey is, you know,

01:42:13.340 now halfway or whatever through the, uh, um, kindergarten one, which is kind of like a

01:42:19.680 preschool level curriculum. So we've been doing that. It is really cool. It's a really cool

01:42:28.940 program. The idea is, and I believe now it is, and we have the necessary supplemental material

01:42:35.960 for the very difficult states, but it is legitimate for all 50 states now.

01:42:41.500 and there's certain there's certain provident or provinces in Canada that it works in there's

01:42:53.320 others that it doesn't so if you're a Canadian member you might need to find out for sure

01:42:56.900 but the real strength of it is having having our leaders and our volunteers in that program who

01:43:05.500 will hold your hand and help you through understanding how to do it. One of the big

01:43:11.220 fears of parents is that, you know, oh, but what if this doesn't count? What if this isn't good

01:43:17.160 enough? What if the state doesn't accept this? What if, what if, what if? No, it's very reassuring

01:43:26.780 to have people that will help you and make sure it's legit and help walk you through it. And

01:43:32.020 yeah, that confidence, that peace of mind is a huge part of it. It's very exciting. Sarah can

01:43:40.160 fill us in here. She's got numbers, but a very healthy number of kids taking part in that this

01:43:46.680 year, which is awesome. The more kids that we have, as that grows, the kids interact more and

01:43:53.600 more. The parents are able to interact more and support one another. And we learn every state that

01:43:59.160 We get children in, we learn different intricacies of how it works in their state.

01:44:04.440 Every different, you know, time a child goes through this, we have a different skill set of being able to learn from things and help, you know, what worked really good and what are some great ideas.

01:44:14.640 So it's, it's awesome. It's run by amazing people. I'm very excited to have my daughter as part of it.

01:44:20.840 um and yeah it's a great thing so i am we should have a full k through 12 curriculum very very

01:44:28.820 soon we're working on getting those high school years taken care of here in the next in the next

01:44:33.820 few months so stay tuned and uh yeah we're very proud of our people running that program and our

01:44:39.500 students who are being educated in that program and we even the the the years and the courses and

01:44:47.140 classes that we've passed and done, and we have enough to satisfy, we're always adding on to them

01:44:53.260 as well. Just yesterday, I dropped a introduction to needle felting. I'd never even heard of needle

01:45:01.100 felting, but now we're going to learn about needle felting. There you go. There you have it.

01:45:08.020 Needle felting. I'm not even sure what that is.

01:45:12.200 Well, we're going to learn. There you go. Hopefully, I'll see some finished products,

01:45:15.980 projects by some of these kids. So can I leave a monetary offering to say Odin or Thor and then

01:45:26.180 give the money to the AFA? Or do I need to leave a physical offering, such as a drink or food?

01:45:35.120 Yeah, we just kind of answered that a little bit earlier. But you can do both. Certainly

01:45:41.900 monetary offerings are

01:45:45.580 they're very legitimate

01:45:49.460 and

01:45:50.120 this doesn't take away

01:45:55.040 like I offer food and drink all the time

01:45:57.840 it's very important

01:45:58.820 we should never stop doing that

01:46:00.540 money makes some things happen

01:46:05.840 and I don't know

01:46:07.040 maybe you guys heard about this

01:46:09.820 when I was talking about it

01:46:10.780 you might have seen it uh in the video there was a little video out there about the dedication of

01:46:16.380 phrase hoff but when we dedicate a hoff it's not just that we like give it a name and like hey

01:46:26.540 it's a thing now it is very particularly we present it as a gift to that god um that is what

01:46:36.860 the point of that ritual is that we do and it is a it is a big profound offering that i'm able to

01:46:48.200 make on behalf of the also true folk assembly to that god that counts doing real things counts

01:46:58.500 uh it making and when i say real things like making real strides in the world building the

01:47:08.180 true folk assembly building the infrastructure to have hoffs to have institutions to educate

01:47:16.120 our children in a way that will raise them to be good aussitruar and to keep strong their

01:47:23.980 troth to the iser all those things are offerings to the gods in a way that is

01:47:31.180 particularly useful and special making a monetary donation absolutely counts and uh

01:47:39.340 is very much appreciated and accomplishes the things we've been able to accomplish i was

01:47:46.060 it was yesterday i was posting about oh thank you baby how uh

01:47:54.460 hey you so i was talking about what we've been able to accomplish in this last year thank you

01:47:58.940 sweetheart in uh because of people's monetary generosity we've been able to

01:48:08.700 we donate every quarter to help our folk in South Africa who are targeted because they are in the

01:48:19.160 same race as us. We help those people in different ways by giving monetary payouts

01:48:26.660 to local organizations that are providing food and security for them. We're able to help them.

01:48:34.980 we've been able to you know every month help do food pantries for people who are struggling in

01:48:41.940 our communities uh every month the afa is able to feed somewhere between 150 and maybe 100

01:48:51.380 somewhere between 150 and maybe 190 families um we were able to pay off a very substantial

01:49:01.220 remaining balance on your top and raise enough to purchase or to certainly put down the down payment

01:49:10.740 for phrase off and get it 33% of the way paid off. So money does that. And y'all's generosity

01:49:20.320 is where that money comes from. And it's a gift to the gods. And it's something that is it

01:49:25.040 absolutely counts and it makes these real things happen. So thank you for those who give and we

01:49:30.660 appreciate it. Do you guys celebrate Christmas? No, we don't celebrate Christmas. We do celebrate

01:49:38.000 the sixth day of Yule though. And we often celebrate the sixth day of Yule with the Yule

01:49:44.080 tree and with the Yule spirit, the Yule Alf, Father Yule. We give gifts. We do all the

01:49:53.620 fun things about Christmas, but without without the manger, or, you know, the the the undead 1.00

01:50:03.980 Jewish fella. So Christmas happens to fall within Yuletide. And most of the fun things 1.00

01:50:12.080 that you like about Christmas are outstreet things. But no, we don't celebrate Christmas.

01:50:22.020 for the House Heriogothi, and this is a long one, so I apologize.

01:50:27.760 No need to apologize. We like long questions.

01:50:33.140 The Romans had Saturnalia, their Yule, which honored the god Saturn.

01:50:38.760 The Greeks had Cronia, which was similar.

01:50:43.440 So was Yule in honor of a particular god or Aesir.

01:50:47.500 I know that the Anglo-Saxons referred to their mothers and female ancestors during Yule, or revered, rather, I'm sorry.

01:50:57.020 So maybe it operated differently.

01:51:05.140 Okay, yeah, that's the question.

01:51:06.900 So. Sure, I imagine in different places, different people put an emphasis on different gods around Yuletime.

01:51:20.300 One of the differences is it's a long it's like a period of time and not just a one day thing.

01:51:27.100 So specifically, when you mentioned the mothers, that was something done at Mother's Night.

01:51:31.980 um but i think it's a time for celebration of the gods altogether we don't have a lot

01:51:39.900 of source material on exactly how it was practiced by you know by viking age people

01:51:47.340 other than that it was you mentioned the mother's night tradition

01:51:52.380 but i think something that is telling is that um one of the by names for odin was yulnir or like

01:52:01.340 the yule man or the yule male person you'll near um but also a kenning for the icier as a group

01:52:12.700 was yolnar which is the collected you know the the yule beings so there are i think when people

01:52:25.740 at least in a modern context want to pick a particular god to associate with yule it's very

01:52:32.300 often odin but i think very it's proper to worship all of our gods in celebration at yule time and

01:52:38.780 usually when i do a yule bloat it's a bloat to all of the icier um that's that's what i do but

01:52:48.220 what exactly our ancestors did i think that probably depends on place and what cult of

01:52:54.140 of which God was particularly prominent in a particular area.

01:53:12.260 Speaking of coffee, we just got a couple more.

01:53:16.660 Excellent.

01:53:18.780 Yay, Steve just bought us two more coffees.

01:53:21.140 Thank you very much, Steve.

01:53:22.060 We appreciate it.

01:53:24.140 Where did the idea of a Papa Yule or Opa Yule as we have at Odenshof come about?

01:53:44.760 Is this something practiced at all Hoffs or just a few?

01:53:47.640 i think it's just something practiced at odinzhoff

01:53:54.720 it is a fun way to have a

01:53:59.600 a personification of the spirit of yule giving gifts it is like a

01:54:12.360 rolling back of the idea of santa claus before it was associated with a turkish saint

01:54:20.640 so the idea of a of a figure coming and bearing gifts um often in scandinavian tradition on the

01:54:29.580 you know on the back of a goat um you have that idea of the spirit of yule that gives these gifts

01:54:36.000 sometime it was thought of as like uh tomta or uh some kind of a small elf creature that delivers the

01:54:45.200 the stuff but it's something part and parcel with european tradition that's kind of the roots

01:54:50.560 of santa claus before it got overlaid on a on a turkish um christian saint so it's kind of a

01:54:58.480 throwback to that it's more of a fun thing for the kids than it is like a important point of theology

01:55:04.880 but it is something that they've always done at Odenshoff.

01:55:10.420 Originally, that role was played by Gauthier Thorgren Oden,

01:55:15.260 who passed away recently, and so now it is done by member Jim Erickson.

01:55:22.700 Well, shout him out.

01:55:24.140 Nick McCloskey actually does it at Njordshoff as well,

01:55:30.220 and folk builder Mike Malillo, instead of Buell,

01:55:33.260 he does his old Krampus thing up at Phrase Hall.

01:55:36.680 Well, there you have it.

01:55:42.580 Hail victory.

01:55:43.740 I'm new to this.

01:55:44.800 Is drinking meat a sacred action on Yule?

01:55:48.220 If so, I offer this meat to the All-Father.

01:55:51.380 May the gods bear steel with all of you.

01:55:54.660 So, drinking meat isn't sacred.

01:56:00.120 It depends what you're doing with it.

01:56:03.260 So there's long traditions that making toasts over alcoholic beverage is a sacred thing.

01:56:11.120 And that can be done in sumble.

01:56:12.660 That can be done as a private, you know, reverential thing.

01:56:15.860 That can be done in the course of normal drinking is take a moment like, hey, everybody pipe down.

01:56:20.500 Hey, this one's for the Allfather.

01:56:22.000 Hello.

01:56:23.720 It can be as simple as that or it can be as elaborate as our high sumble.

01:56:26.900 but yeah meat is a very traditional drink for our folk to use as an offering to the gods

01:56:34.660 something the root of the word god um is a uh it's an arian word and it goes to the like

01:56:48.740 the tribe of the the goths is named after that and it roots back to the concept of

01:56:56.020 the ones that libation is poured out to. So offering sacred libation, sacred alcoholic drink

01:57:05.180 or other liquid offering to the gods is the most ancient and most sacred where those words came

01:57:12.960 from. The word bloat, a lot of people linked it with blood. And I can't say there's not like a

01:57:20.520 pairing or a late or a link because they're both you know blood is a liquid but very specifically

01:57:26.920 the word um blood in old norse is a different word the word blood uh and bloat look different

01:57:36.600 and the difference is in the uh the little dash over the over the o it meant to you know to make

01:57:47.400 to pour out offering to so the idea of pouring out a libation as that primary way of making

01:57:55.480 offerings to the gods is the most ancient way and linguistically the one that stuck with us

01:58:01.720 so yeah absolutely you know drinking alcohol making a toast pouring out a toast to one of

01:58:07.320 the gods is a very important and sacred right within house of truth

01:58:12.280 can someone with only irish ancestry practiced house a true with the afa there's no real celtic

01:58:21.980 folk association and so it's hard to find good association absolutely come on home

01:58:27.780 um the afa is pan-aryan and when people want to take different branches of aryan divinity

01:58:39.060 or different pantheons that are Aryan pantheons,

01:58:47.000 I think that the logic doesn't play out.

01:58:50.560 The Aryan gods are our gods back to the beginning.

01:58:56.400 They were known by different stories and different names,

01:58:59.700 by different segments of our ancestors

01:59:02.480 due to time and place and linguistic development

01:59:06.560 development and particular relationships developed between a specific group of people and the gods

01:59:13.600 but if we follow the logic these are the gods of our race when you know when arian people landed

01:59:23.200 in ireland new gods didn't just spring forth for them their gods are the same gods that their

01:59:29.680 forefathers in gaul had that their forefathers on the step had that all of our people had at

01:59:36.560 the very beginning of our race those are the gods that shaped us and they've been with us and are

01:59:42.880 with us still ever since the beginning just as they'll be with our descendants so long as those

01:59:48.560 descendants are us um but yeah we would encourage all of our irish brothers and sisters to join the

01:59:57.120 astro folk assembly and come home to our shared gods the gods of our folk the isere and yes the

02:00:04.720 afa worships them and conceives of them in the uh the norse nomenclature and the norse understanding

02:00:12.880 because that's congruent it fits together it is a um it is an orderly process and that's the uh

02:00:23.280 uh that is the context that they were that the relationship with them was excuse me rebuilt and

02:00:33.360 re-established in the last century that's the understanding that awoke the folk soul and that

02:00:41.280 brought our folk home and it's worth noting that you know the one that the all father spoke to to

02:00:48.960 this into motion to bring the house true folk assembly into existence is an irishman and he's

02:00:55.280 you know he's half irish half german but uh steve mcnallen of uh

02:01:02.640 the clan mackinallan of the county tyrone uh an irishman who's very proud of his irish heritage

02:01:11.200 is the founder of of our church of the austral folk assembly so yeah come on home we would love

02:01:16.800 to have you. Does the AFA have any plans to pursue political positions maybe in a small

02:01:25.420 town somewhere? Like the AFA specifically running candidates? That is one thing that

02:01:31.980 we are prohibited in our current function. I believe that we could open up a subcategory

02:01:40.180 to our 501c3 under that umbrella that would be handled separately if we wanted to do that but

02:01:47.620 no the afa as a as a body does not have any plans in running specific candidates but i absolutely

02:01:55.860 encourage our members individually to run for office any and every place they find themselves

02:02:02.020 your idea of of taking political offices in small towns or small counties i am a hundred percent on

02:02:09.380 board with and i would love for our folks as individuals to do that that's something for

02:02:14.340 individual people to pursue though and the afa can't be part of that in a way that where we're

02:02:19.300 pushing it or like the afa is running the candidate but any and all afa members i would encourage you

02:02:25.460 to be you know as politically involved as as you would like to be and you feel called to be

02:02:30.740 and i think that taking positions again at in local government is a very very good start to

02:02:36.900 get our people represented in that way

02:02:44.340 favorite holiday cookie nick what's favorite holiday cookie

02:02:50.660 oh i don't know about cookie but i just had some lemon cranberry bars that were amazing

02:03:00.980 oh that sounds awesome um

02:03:06.900 man it's hard because there's a lot of so like my daughter literally just brought me up a cookie

02:03:13.400 that she and uh and her mother were making downstairs it was delicious um

02:03:18.260 I don't know what you call them but like and again this is a little bit of field from cookie

02:03:30.920 but I think it's in spirit of cookie um man I'm not sure what you call them but like little

02:03:36.220 brownie cup things with cherries in them with like what is it cherry pie filling i don't

02:03:50.260 know but anyways those kind of gooey red significantly altered cherries in the in the like brownie

02:03:59.120 thing are awesome you can have them i don't do chocolate and cherries

02:04:04.300 what what is wrong with you i'll do chocolate orange either that's another holiday thing what

02:04:11.080 no stop okay cool you can go back to the monster chair we've heard enough from you

02:04:16.680 i was gonna say no i it's it's a very simple cookie i just thought of but i remember my mom

02:04:22.460 making it all the time it's just a little sugar cookie with uh with the uh with the

02:04:27.000 the Hershey's kiss on it yes I ate some of those last night my friend's wife sent me those

02:04:32.700 yeah those are awesome you are woefully mistaken chocolate and orange is the best chocolate and

02:04:40.400 cherry is probably the second best they're both amazing um any of those items you would like to

02:04:46.300 send towards Nick please divert them my way and I will consume all of them um but yeah that's

02:04:54.620 probably my favorites on that. The thing with the Hershey's Kiss is awesome, but the kiss never

02:04:59.240 stays in there. They always break apart, and it's like they're two separate things,

02:05:02.280 but I will still gladly eat all of them. You can do the thumbprint cookies with the jam

02:05:07.380 on. They're great, too. Yeah. I mean, you got to do something wrong to mess up cookies. They're

02:05:16.160 all pretty good ah are there also true hermits or is this mainly a family-oriented religion

02:05:25.700 um it's a it's an interesting question and I'm kind of curious the the background of the person

02:05:35.340 asking or whatever it's one of the yes this is a community religion it is always in our ancestors

02:05:44.220 time. It is best done in community. Community is so important. This is something you do with your

02:05:50.600 folk and your family. But for a long time in modern Ausatru, there are a lot of people still

02:05:56.840 who aren't around other Ausatru are. Maybe they're geographically in a spot where they don't have

02:06:03.060 access. Yes, you can practice Ausatru by yourself and you can be someone who is reclusive and that's

02:06:11.420 what you do and that's how you interact with your gods that's absolutely appropriate you can

02:06:17.040 absolutely do that it is better if you do it with a group it is you know the best way or the

02:06:26.780 the most traditional or most appropriate way is to do it with the community and to come together

02:06:33.820 at hoffs or in a group of people if you don't have a hoff near you in practice but you can

02:06:39.860 absolutely do it you know practice on your own and that's not wrong it's you know it's not as

02:06:45.940 good as doing it with the rest of us but um it's that's not wrong and there are people that do that

02:06:52.540 individually and there's also you know there's people that are just kind of loners that don't

02:06:57.800 like groups and maybe only interact with a group a couple of times a year and do things um on their

02:07:03.820 own at other times, I wouldn't let that be a, you know, something that would prevent you from

02:07:10.100 practicing Alsa True, or even for joining the AFA for that matter. But yeah, the best,

02:07:17.360 the best version of it is being able to do this with the community. But yeah, don't let that stop

02:07:25.920 you, though. Happy Yule, Alshary Goofy. If you had to pick one of the ICER above all the others

02:07:33.220 to honor for this holy tide, who would it be? I reject the premise. I would not do that.

02:07:48.880 So here's my thing, and I get strange about it. I get the question you're asking,

02:07:53.180 and I think it depends who and where. So I celebrated at Odenshof. If I could only pick

02:08:00.080 one and by whatever magic i was only allowed to pick one then i would pick odin i was at odin's

02:08:05.120 off but if i was celebrating it uh down at jord's off then i would celebrate in the other

02:08:11.440 um so i don't think it's a question of that i think it's more of what the circumstances that

02:08:15.520 compelled me to make such a choice what i do say that i feel personally and i don't think everyone

02:08:21.920 has to do this or has to feel this way um personally though

02:08:26.720 I'm always I try to be very conscious that I don't especially for something like you

02:08:35.360 that I don't leave anyone out that you know I want to make sure that I'm pious and I want to

02:08:44.820 make sure I remember all of our gods and our goddesses and so I kind of go through a certain

02:08:50.820 amount of mental making sure that I don't accidentally leave someone out when I'm doing a

02:08:57.540 a right to all of the gods that's really important to me I don't ever want somebody

02:09:03.780 left out by omission it's fine to focus on one of the gods for a ritual but it's I would never want

02:09:13.220 to accidentally leave someone out and that's something maybe I think on more than I ought to

02:09:17.960 Ah, what is your favorite Yule beverage? And why is it the

02:09:25.160 plurge mulled cider? I've never had the plurge mulled cider. So

02:09:30.460 it's not my favorite beverage, but it does sound delicious.

02:09:33.760 some version of that usually a mulled wine would be my choice glue line

02:09:54.400 I've had a lot of different recipes I can't say I have you know some recipe that's better than all

02:10:02.300 the other recipes, but I would say mold, you know, a good mold wine. I absolutely love during

02:10:08.340 holidays. I suppose I'd love it during any other time, but specifically during Yule. It's a, it's

02:10:13.700 a special treat. We had some, um, when I had folks over for my, uh, my monthly dinner a little bit

02:10:20.800 earlier this month, Nick in Ohio donated $10 to VNS. Thank you, Nick. We appreciate it.

02:10:32.300 I see pictures and it seems y'all got so much going on, but how do I find out when and where

02:10:41.360 stuff's happening? So that is easy. The best resource for that. Okay. So a couple of things.

02:10:49.680 Get in touch with your local folk builder and they can get you dialed in and they can

02:10:53.280 clue you in on where stuff is and who to contact and they can do all that stuff.

02:10:58.000 If you are just looking because you're curious and you want to look first, we have a comprehensive calendar of all of our stuff at runestone.org slash calendar.

02:11:12.100 And at each of our Hoff websites, we have calendars on each of those sites with the events going on in that particular district.

02:11:21.760 Now, our Hoff districts are very large because we have only five Hoffs to service the entire world.

02:11:27.420 So everything is broken up into one of our five Hoff Districts. 0.64

02:11:31.420 Nick, if you would show people a map of those districts,

02:11:37.420 behold the Hoff Districts as they sit now.

02:11:42.420 If you're looking at this map, basically, you know,

02:11:50.420 Alaska and Hawaii are not included in this map,

02:11:53.420 they're in the odenshoff district as are australia and new zealand and if you draw a line straight

02:12:05.020 you know if you follow these colors and you draw lines straight up that is the portion of canada

02:12:09.260 that's in each of uh odenshoff baldershoff and phrasehoff district if you are in south america

02:12:18.540 or the caribbean you are in nordshoff district also you're in nordshoff district if you're in

02:12:25.420 south africa if you are in southern europe you are in the thorshoff district and if you were in

02:12:33.660 northern europe you are in the phrasehoff district other than that these are the districts on the map

02:12:39.340 so like i said each of these websites has a calendar on it with things that are going on

02:12:44.940 in the districts but default to runestone.org that calendar is always updated and it's always

02:12:52.620 all of the things going on throughout the afa and also for anything additional if you

02:12:59.740 ask your local folk builder they'll get you dialed in and help you get that sorted out

02:13:14.940 could you share a memory of gothi david james so for folks that might not know gothi david james

02:13:24.340 was the first of our gothar who passed beyond the veil while still a gothi of the astro folk assembly

02:13:35.360 and i'd have to stop and look but i want to say he passed in

02:13:40.580 2015, maybe? Could be wrong. 2014? Nick? Nick, you made a noise.

02:13:59.420 Yes, 14. Yes.

02:14:00.680 2014. That's a year off. My fault. 2014.

02:14:03.300 How dare you be wrong?

02:14:04.140 I know. It's rare, but it happens. So, I did not get to know him tremendously well, but I did meet him on a couple of occasions.

02:14:19.860 Um, he came out to, uh, so he was involved in Ausitru very early on. He was at the first

02:14:33.420 AFA, um, Ausitru Free Assembly, all thing back in 1980. Um, yeah, he'd been around for a very

02:14:47.180 long time involved in modern house and true he was the one who created the uh or initiated the

02:14:56.280 tradition we have before we do uh ritual in the afa our ladies go and they bless the mead off by

02:15:04.040 themselves in a special ceremony that was originally gothi david james's idea

02:15:09.200 and it's something the afa still does to this day um

02:15:14.280 yeah, he'd been around for a very long time. When I met him, he was at,

02:15:21.900 uh, so the, way back when there was one event a year and it was, um, at the time that I, that I

02:15:32.540 met him, it was midsummer in the Sierras and it was, we were doing it at a camp Norga, which was,

02:15:38.380 a Sons of Norway camp in Alta, California, and that's where we hosted this event, and

02:15:46.100 he was there, a very old man at the time, he did a,

02:15:52.980 did a class on naming traditions, and he talked about, that's the picture Nick's shown right now

02:16:03.780 him from that first all thing but he did class on naming and like ideas on naming what our ancestors

02:16:13.860 used to do in terms of naming and he talked you know one point he made was like don't name your

02:16:22.740 children the names of the gods if you want to name them in honor of the gods in some way

02:16:30.420 then you hyphenate you like a few hyphenates not the right word you can join two things like

02:16:37.860 i mentioned earlier in the broadcast thorbjorn or thorstein or um

02:16:45.940 thorbert or things that way which are all names that incorporate the name of one of the gods but

02:16:51.780 it's you know thor's bear or the rock of thor or you know those kind of things um he talked about

02:17:00.100 how if you had a uh ancestor and you wanted to pass you want if you wanted to name one of your

02:17:06.340 children after either an ancestor or hero or someone who has a a christian name or a hebrew

02:17:13.540 name because they have a biblical name trying to kind of retroactively figure out what does that

02:17:20.260 name translate into and what would the closest um arian name be to that so

02:17:30.500 you know i and now off the top of my head i'm trying to think of the meanings of a bunch of

02:17:34.260 different hebrew names that i just don't know but you know if like whatever whatever the the hebrew

02:17:43.140 version of spear warrior is oh okay then you would name them gerald because that's what what that

02:17:50.420 means in you know a germanic name so basically the idea of taking foreign names if your ancestor

02:17:59.300 happened to be given one and then um finding an equivalency in a in an appropriate area name to

02:18:06.980 pass down your line so he's talking about naming and poetics he was a poet he wrote poetry

02:18:13.140 And he would give classes on those things. And it was good. I was very honored that I got to meet him there. I also got to meet him again another time at a couple of years later, we started hosting winter nights in the Poconos at a camp called Camp Natimus in Pennsylvania. And I met him there, spent time with him there as well.

02:18:36.720 so yeah there's him and and thorgan uh the only two of our gothar who so far passed while still

02:18:46.320 right with their ordination um they he thorn just happened to be giving him a ride

02:18:51.560 ah i believe that's at camp norga but yeah there's those two together um that's the most

02:19:01.680 i really got on him because again i only met him those those couple of times but he uh you know he

02:19:08.880 was a he was one of the original guys that was doing this in the in the early the early 80s i

02:19:15.120 mean there there were folks doing it in the 70s and i don't know how how involved he was in the

02:19:19.280 70s but i know he was at that first all thing and was was very involved in his life and made

02:19:25.040 to true a big part of his life uh throughout um can women in south africa marry american men

02:19:38.720 and evacuate to america it is hard to watch our people being hunted uh legitimate marriages of

02:19:45.920 course um yes as far as i know um as far as i understand it yeah um

02:19:55.440 i believe marriage to an american citizen you know gets you set up to become an american

02:20:02.320 citizen yourself as a fast track to that citizenship i don't know you would want to

02:20:07.200 ask a lawyer and ask people who know this very specifically i've never had to deal with that

02:20:10.960 but that is my understanding of how that works

02:20:17.920 and i appreciate that you specified legitimate marriages um we take marriage really seriously

02:20:26.240 in the astro folk assembly time to time people ask you know if we'll do their marriage for them

02:20:34.160 and then they want to do one that's not legally recognized or legally binding so it's important to

02:20:39.280 point out i know this isn't the question that you asked but it is a point i want to make

02:20:42.960 um yes true folk assembly our gothar only perform weddings that are legally binding

02:20:47.760 that you know are state recognized weddings where that's a thing in the country that you're in some

02:20:52.640 countries may or may not have those kind of requirements or have that kind of situation

02:20:58.320 with clergymen but here in the united states every one of our gothar only provides um legally you

02:21:05.280 know legally binding real real weddings ah i have brain damage from a tumor i'm recovering from

02:21:16.000 neurosurgery now i may have deficits for the rest of my life what advice can you offer spiritually

02:21:24.400 What gods should I call on?

02:21:28.320 I think for a second.

02:21:34.680 I feel like that drink is you're tossing it off to spawn to start.

02:21:40.660 A little bit, yeah.

02:21:42.020 That's the thing.

02:21:42.940 I've got a lot of wine left over because I'm busy talking and not drinking,

02:21:47.840 and I don't have spawn to play off of.

02:21:49.700 um so

02:21:53.540 the details of what it looks like depends on your particular brain injury and just kind of what

02:22:02.380 uh what capabilities you have or what capabilities you don't you'd have to kind of shape it to your

02:22:08.680 circumstance um I think any of the gods would be very appropriate to call on for your situation

02:22:15.520 I think in terms of healing and, yeah, healing through injury, I would call on Eir, E-I-R.

02:22:26.220 She is the greatest of healers.

02:22:29.220 She is one of the handmaidens of Frigg.

02:22:32.360 And she, you know, helps those who are calling on her for healing.

02:22:40.700 But I think any of the gods are appropriate.

02:22:43.320 it. You don't cease being you because you have a brain injury. And that's what I would

02:22:47.640 also venture as my spiritual advice. Don't be the, you know, don't make your identity

02:22:54.400 the brain damage cripple. If that's the situation you find yourself in, you're still you. And

02:23:02.160 that's what should guide your choice of what God to interact with or which gods to call

02:23:08.060 on, I think, more than your circumstance. Don't let that define you. There's a lot of ways that

02:23:14.940 you can contribute and do things. And again, those are going to depend on, you know, what you what

02:23:19.460 you can and can't do. But I would say to anybody in general, but particular to people who are

02:23:25.000 working through something or have some kind of a limitation or some kind of, you know, something

02:23:29.740 they're recovering from, but you should absolutely seek out your folk. If you're not a member, you

02:23:36.380 should join the AFA. Yes, I know I'm plugging the AFA, but it's literally my job and I wouldn't be

02:23:42.080 doing it if I didn't very strongly believe in it. But you should get with other people and be part

02:23:47.860 of a community. Community has a way of harnessing everyone's strengths and covering over each

02:23:54.380 other's weaknesses. So that is the perfect, you know, setup for you to maximize your ability to

02:24:02.180 contribute and be part of something while minimizing, you know, any of the limitations

02:24:07.800 or the isolation that comes with having a disability. But yeah, don't be the brain damage

02:24:13.460 guy. Be you who happens to also have a brain damage that they're working with. But don't

02:24:19.980 let that, don't let that define you and don't let that limit you. And that would be my best

02:24:25.900 suggestion. What is the term for people aligned with the AFA but not in it? Pagan and heathen

02:24:35.840 sound like bad words. What did our ancestors call themselves? All right. I'm trying not to

02:24:51.720 be jerk. Those aligned with the AFA but not in it. Why not join 0.98

02:24:57.000 the AFA if you're aligned with the AFA get on the team. So that

02:25:03.060 is why we call ourselves Ausitru. What did our ancestors

02:25:07.500 call them? They didn't at all, because it didn't make sense.

02:25:13.380 Our ancestors didn't live in a time where there was a

02:25:16.020 religious, you know, cafeteria line where you pick what you

02:25:19.740 want if you were one of our folk then you were the religion of your tribe of your people

02:25:28.300 if somebody said you know met a germanic tribesman back in the day and say

02:25:32.780 ah what religion are you you know scratch his head and say i'm german what are you talking about

02:25:40.380 it wasn't a choice it wasn't a thing so the only words that come to us

02:25:47.260 are words of comparison with other people and not words of

02:25:53.980 self-identification as being loyal to the gods so our ancestors just wouldn't

02:26:00.460 it wouldn't have made sense everyone that they knew everyone that they met everyone in their

02:26:04.940 world was also true so they didn't need to have a name for it um when christianity came about

02:26:13.340 there's a variety of things christians would call us pagans uh roman christians would call us pagans 0.69

02:26:21.340 uh as people you know the like common people off in the provinces doing their backward stuff

02:26:28.860 um the medieval church as it developed would call us heathens people out on the heath doing their 0.99

02:26:34.700 backward hillbilly ooga booga religion it was a derogatory and a defined by them towards the other

02:26:44.140 not by us for us some people argue for the use of the term foreign satyr foreign satyr means the old

02:26:54.860 way that's silly and you would never say you do things the old way unless you are contrasting it

02:27:03.180 with a new way or the way that everyone else does it so again it's like oh no we don't do what

02:27:09.660 everybody else does we do this old-fashioned thing you know if we wanted to go watch a vhs

02:27:15.740 tape we're practicing foreign sailor if we want to go ride around in a horse and buggy

02:27:21.180 we're practicing foreign sailor it just means the old way of doing things

02:27:24.780 so that's why i prefer ausitru is it is a word that means loyal to the isere and it is a self

02:27:34.980 designation of us about who we are and it has a positive meaning it just it doesn't just mean oh

02:27:42.220 we're hillbillies off doing stuff on the heath or oh we're you know simple pagans or oh we're doing

02:27:49.340 old-fashioned things it's no what are we doing we are showing our trough our loyalty to the

02:27:55.260 icer and that's why we use that um i think that if you are aligned with the afa but not in it

02:28:03.420 and you worship the icer you should call yourself out so true but if you call yourself out so true

02:28:08.860 i think you should go ahead and make the leap and become part of the austral folk assembly

02:28:13.340 but again you could be asking about somebody else that's not you and if that's the case i apologize

02:28:19.340 Jeffrey in Texas donated $20 towards the Baldershof steeple and $20 to Panoff-Preshoff.

02:28:31.000 Thank you for that, Jeffrey.

02:28:32.120 We appreciate it very much.

02:28:38.200 Is there anything specific you would offer when seeking spiritual healing?

02:28:49.340 So no unless there was something symbolic

02:29:15.020 of whatever was holding you back spiritually so as an offering to uler that i made an uler bloat

02:29:29.020 in I think 2009. I made an offering of the like, monogram, I

02:29:46.020 don't know when you get your name on some, the Jehovah's

02:29:49.620 Witnesses like my aunt made a special Bible that had like my

02:29:53.420 name on it. That was a gift to me when I was baptized as a

02:29:57.220 job's witness i offered that as an offering because it was symbolic of me letting go of

02:30:04.820 you know the the thing that i made an error in the erroneous spiritual path that i had been on

02:30:11.060 earlier in my life it was a symbolic of casting that off or offering that up as some kind of

02:30:17.940 you know trophy of something i'd overcome um if you have something in your life that is holding

02:30:26.420 you back spiritually offering that up as a symbol that you are done with that or you've overcome

02:30:33.540 that i think that's a significant thing um for spiritual healing and again it depends on what

02:30:40.420 the spiritual healing looks like healing from being part of a false religion looks different

02:30:45.780 than spiritual healing because you've had an addiction or because you've lived a lifestyle

02:30:51.220 that wasn't you know wasn't noble those things might look real different but again i think

02:30:57.760 they're a reasonable thing and i don't say this trite or silly but i'm saying like you know

02:31:02.760 offering up your crack pipe or your whatever your deal is if the thing is you are ritually

02:31:08.660 destroying that thing as a symbol that you have overcome that or you've conquered that

02:31:13.660 i think that's a meaningful offering because i think it's the gesture and not the item

02:31:21.520 um but i think in general with if you don't have something specific that's symbolic of

02:31:28.540 the struggle that you're going through an offering that you think is good for whatever

02:31:37.020 god you are approaching um you know like i mentioned uh earlier healing generally and

02:31:45.980 this can be spiritual as well as physical or mental air is a good a good one of the awesome

02:31:52.460 year to reach out to but it's also good to reach out to any of our gods that you feel special

02:31:59.260 closeness to or that you feel compelled to call upon to help um and i think the case there is

02:32:06.460 either and this this just goes with the general offering to that god you can either go i said

02:32:13.100 this you can go whatever way you want but to my mind there's two kind of thought processes

02:32:19.020 what do you think this god prefers or what do you like that you want to share with them

02:32:27.180 so for example at the phrase Hoff dedication there's a there's a boy there

02:32:36.480 and I don't know how old he is 10 maybe anyway it's not germane to the story there's a little

02:32:43.520 boy there and he wanted to he went and he made some hot chocolate for Freire that he wanted to

02:32:52.680 offer. And the point of that wasn't that, you know, it, oh, this is made from chocolate and

02:33:01.820 the cocoa bean is sacred to Freire. No, it was, I really like hot chocolate. Hot chocolate is

02:33:07.560 delicious. I think Freire would like hot chocolate too, because it's good. And it's a very simple

02:33:14.400 offering, but I think that's a perfectly reasonable way to go about it. Like, hey, do you really like

02:33:19.760 whatever your favorite beer is maybe that's what you offer because that's something that's special

02:33:24.680 to you or you go the route of oh what do i think is special of this god or what conforms to an

02:33:30.840 element of lore that we have about this god or uh upg folks have about them so there's a number

02:33:36.900 of right ways to do that but i think that any kind of offering to the gods to ask for that

02:33:42.700 healing is appropriate be it incense be it you know an offering of food or offering of drink or

02:33:48.440 or anything else unless you have a specific token of the thing that you're trying to overcome

02:33:55.080 or something related to your particular struggle that's symbolic to you

02:34:01.560 um does the afa offer a deep baptism ceremony so i was talking to somebody about that

02:34:11.640 just the other day like within the last week

02:34:13.480 week no but some people want that and when I say no yes any of our go-thar could help come up with

02:34:26.200 a ceremony for you to help cast that off and sever that in a way that you feel is appropriate

02:34:34.840 absolutely we'd be happy to do that as far as a regular right no and the reason is

02:34:41.560 you're not converting to Ausatru. It's not a conversion process. It is a reversion.

02:34:51.200 You are resetting to the factory settings. Ausatru is the natural state that you were born.

02:34:59.060 It is the natural state of your blood, bone, and soul. So returning to your natural condition 0.98

02:35:08.140 isn't a conversion process it is a coming home and that's why in the afa we talk about

02:35:15.540 coming home to alsatru because it is a spiritual homecoming

02:35:20.140 but yeah any any of our go-throw would be happy to help you

02:35:24.940 ceremonialize a severing of ties with a baptism that you've had we'd be happy to work

02:35:32.160 through that with you in a way that's meaningful to you

02:35:35.420 me and my best friend of six years got into a fight over a girl and I fear we'll never be

02:35:46.440 friends again we used to talk every day but he hasn't spoken to me in months what who should I

02:35:53.820 pray to. So, and this is a, this is a theme that I feel like

02:36:16.120 we're coming back to a lot of a lot lately on the show tonight is like which God it's appropriate

02:36:31.040 to pray to. And I think that, you know, as I've said a bunch, any of them are appropriate for

02:36:36.880 you to pray to about any of the things. I think we get stuck in modern times to think that like

02:36:43.660 that they're highly highly specialized and that there's no overlap all of our gods are gods

02:36:51.620 they have divine might in whatever realm they want to do there's certainly things that they're

02:36:58.880 more commonly associated with but it is completely appropriate to pray to any of our gods and any of

02:37:05.380 our goddesses about anything that you would like that's respectful but on this particularly if I

02:37:14.640 were you again there's a lot of choices probably just fine I would pray to Freya

02:37:28.100 I would pray to Freya I don't know

02:37:33.600 which one of you got the girl which one you lost the girl if you both lost the girl what that is

02:37:42.660 but it revolves around

02:37:45.360 the passion and the lust involved in relationships romantic relationships and the damage that caused

02:37:55.680 your friendship i would pray to freya for her help in her healing in that and that's something

02:38:04.380 that's where i would look towards that i think there's a lot of people that that wouldn't be

02:38:09.180 their go-to or a lot of people would go different ways and as i said i think that as long as you

02:38:14.880 have a good reason or you know a thought process that's reverent behind it any any of our gods and

02:38:20.100 goddesses are a good choice for that but I would specifically pray to Freya on that I think that

02:38:26.240 our goddesses are particularly well equipped to mend relationships between men and I think that

02:38:35.860 in life women are very well equipped to help soothe relationships between men just as easily

02:38:45.680 as they can tear those apart just as quickly but they're also very well suited towards 0.81

02:38:52.720 bringing people together and sewing that social fabric back of weaving that frith

02:38:59.200 and i think that the vanadies freya would be who i would pray to for it

02:39:03.680 i know pagans are polytheists that worship many gods but do you believe in one main god

02:39:19.400 no i am polytheist and i believe in many gods

02:39:24.580 so there are there are people within also true that

02:39:32.260 it depends if your question is a question about like cosmology or personal preference

02:39:43.240 um no our doctrine is that we have many gods that odin is the the king of the gods that he

02:39:51.720 the all father and yeah that he is the all father um but and the reason that he is called the all

02:40:02.200 father the guild forgetting says is because he's the father of all the gods and they um

02:40:10.920 they serve him in the way that children would would serve a father so odin has a paternal

02:40:17.000 nature to the other divinities the other isir and a senior um but there was a there's a thing that

02:40:26.680 that some people have called a full trui or a god that they put you know put kind of all their eggs

02:40:33.080 in one basket or there's a god they have a particularly tight um relationship with or bond

02:40:39.160 with and for different people that can be you know any one of of our gods that they have built that

02:40:47.080 particular relationship with but no as a whole doctrinally we're polytheists we're hard polytheists

02:40:54.420 and we worship all of our gods um it's not like they they emanate from just one it's not like

02:41:01.980 they're all really one gods and different versions of that and i know a lot of people

02:41:06.620 are used to that or as a concept monotheism is something they're more used to so they try to

02:41:12.380 force polytheism to fit that mold but it's really not that way

02:41:23.900 okay

02:41:29.180 did you put the runes on your horn or did you get it from somewhere

02:41:32.700 uh my friend goethe rob stam um carved this for me and he did a really cool job

02:41:44.460 um

02:41:54.700 yeah he it says all's harrier goethe around the rim and he carved it for me a number of years ago

02:42:02.700 if Alcetruar worship the Aesir who worships the Vanir uh Njord and Freyr did not seem to be bad

02:42:14.080 so that's a um that's common misunderstanding so

02:42:18.140 no um Njordir and Freyr are not bad um at all but

02:42:25.680 But when the first war happened between the Aesir and the Vanir, when the Aesir won, the Vanir that we have named, all of them became absorbed into the tribe of the Aesir. 0.98

02:42:42.520 So all of the Vanir are Aesir now. 0.97

02:42:46.020 And they have been since the dawn of humanity. 1.00

02:42:48.440 That war took place before the dawn of the folk.

02:42:51.780 um the isere the all of the vanir are referred to as isere when the list of the isere again in

02:43:01.580 the poem that i refer to a lot the gilfaginning is there um you know they're listed intermingled

02:43:09.360 with the isere when when asked who are the isere the list of 12 includes you know two

02:43:17.040 to uh the ones you mentioned you're there in freya um and the asenior the the female is here

02:43:25.300 uh frig or uh freya is listed as along with frig the most well-born i think it says

02:43:33.280 so the the vanir are incorporated into the ice here and they are now ice here as well

02:43:39.140 it's not wrong to refer to them as vanir that's that's the roots but they're they are also

02:43:45.900 legitimately icier now and that's part of being also true recognizes that

02:43:54.540 can you explain how the astral concept of gods and worship is different from the christians

02:44:00.780 do you consider the gods to be perfect and how do you define gods and how do you define worship

02:44:12.060 okay just to say

02:44:15.900 All right, so last part first, I guess.

02:44:38.100 Well, I guess the whole last sentence first.

02:44:42.540 Do you consider the gods to be perfect?

02:44:45.900 No, because perfection as a concept is so skew to our understanding of existence.

02:45:01.540 our gods participate in eternal cosmic struggle and so they're not you know all present or all

02:45:12.600 knowing or all any of the all things any of the omni things but that said they are vastly powerful

02:45:23.520 They are vastly mobile. They are vastly wise. They are, you know, of unfathomable godly ability in all those areas.

02:45:38.140 But as our understanding of existence works, I touched on this earlier in the broadcast with the idea of the sun and rod with its moving, the indication of movement.

02:45:50.120 our gods are always trying to grow and become more they're trying to gain and might they're

02:45:55.300 trying to battle back the forces of chaos they're trying uh odin is trying to search for wisdom to

02:46:01.140 learn more to know more to master more more magic and more more power so no our gods are vastly

02:46:10.460 vastly greater than we can comprehend but no they're not perfect but they're much more perfect

02:46:19.460 than we can comprehend or we can grasp.

02:46:24.540 So in some way, it might be a distinction without a difference,

02:46:28.640 but not so much.

02:46:32.780 How do you define gods?

02:46:38.560 I don't think we try to.

02:46:40.600 I think we understand that there are divine beings

02:46:43.300 and we understand that different groups of people

02:46:48.620 worship different things and that our people worship the iser we don't try to define gods we

02:46:55.620 do try to recognize the iser who are our gods and we worship them and those are outlined for us in

02:47:05.940 our lore and attested to by our ancestors to where we can know them in a way or we can have a glimpse

02:47:13.140 or an image of what how to understand them and how to how to comprehend them but those are are

02:47:21.540 laid out for us in our lore and have been with us since the beginning of our folk as far as um how

02:47:28.580 do you define worship that is easier because it is a literal definition is what worship means

02:47:36.500 it's assigning worth to or recognizing worth in um worship is more than that hey good night

02:47:47.700 sleep good we'll see you in the morning we the rest of the cookies okay all right

02:47:55.780 but the rest of the cookies is for you and but we give some cookies okay thank you baby i will

02:48:03.220 come and say goodnight in a minute so um yeah i so worship is certainly recognizing them as being

02:48:15.060 worthy of worship which is redundant phonetically but recognizing that they are our gods and we are

02:48:25.220 their people and then um ritualizing that recognition by making offerings to them and by

02:48:38.100 expressing our loyalty or our trough to them which is what also true means trough to the icer

02:48:45.300 so can you explain how the austral concept of gods and worship is different from christianity

02:48:51.300 I mean I could go on forever and do that on all of the little differences because there's tons

02:49:00.840 but as far as um as far as like some of the big differences or something that I think is

02:49:12.200 is kind of a defining difference

02:49:13.960 and I'm trying to do this fairly

02:49:26.480 and not insultingly

02:49:27.840 Jehovah is described

02:49:32.180 as a jealous God

02:49:34.040 and

02:49:35.900 frequently he is very

02:49:40.120 demanding of

02:49:41.960 he's demanding of a lot of stuff

02:49:49.240 and

02:49:49.960 it's taught that

02:49:53.000 mankind is bad

02:50:00.780 and has original sin from their birth 1.00

02:50:05.600 and they're all bad

02:50:06.880 but they're offered

02:50:08.440 redemption through

02:50:11.080 jehovah's son jesus and they're told to that the only way to the father is through jesus

02:50:25.060 and that you are saved by faith alone not by works that none should boast

02:50:32.240 The idea of individual personal glory or personal accomplishment, personal success is frowned upon in Christian worship because everything is about the glory of Jehovah and how great he is.

02:50:55.120 And everything is about submission to Jesus to redeem you from your your horrible sins because you are horrible.

02:51:07.340 And it's talked about even those that make it to heaven, what they do when they get there is they they they get crowns and they take their crowns and they lay their crowns at the feet of their God.

02:51:18.940 So it is very much a diminishment of self only to like the only thing that is good is God.

02:51:26.860 The only thing that is good. None are good. Only God is good.

02:51:31.100 That's very antithetical to Oustertru.

02:51:34.240 We believe that our gods want us to be awesome.

02:51:40.680 Our gods want to. They are the gods of heroes.

02:51:43.620 they celebrate success and heroism and greatness and we one of the ways that we worship our gods

02:51:52.560 okay so let me finish this thought and then i want to go to a way that we differ so

02:51:58.840 our gods like us to be successful and want we want our gods to be proud of us and we want to

02:52:09.000 gain their attention by living nobly and doing good deeds it is literally not about faith it is

02:52:19.380 about works and accomplishment and deeds and also true we are our deeds and we want to build a

02:52:25.500 reputation to where our gods are proud of us so that is a fundamental difference the other thing

02:52:32.240 is the idea of the gift cycle the idea of worship in ausitru is very closely tied with the idea of

02:52:41.600 continuously exchanging gifts and i think we see it personified in the late you know in the

02:52:48.800 late um late dark dark ages early medieval period with the idea of reciprocal gifts between lord

02:52:56.800 and retainer. Like the idea is, you know, a king doesn't give the same gifts to a knight that a

02:53:05.160 knight owes a king. There's a complete difference in power and in scope and in resources. In the

02:53:11.780 same way, our gods and us are perpetually in a gift giving cycle. The gifts they give us are

02:53:20.240 much better and more important than the gifts we give them. They don't need me. They don't need,

02:53:25.440 you know offerings of food but the the energy and the devotion that's put into the offering is what

02:53:31.520 they get out of it but they give us tremendous blessings and they've started and initiated that

02:53:38.380 gift cycle with all of the blessings of life of the breath of life of our inherent inheritance

02:53:44.260 of who we are of our very you know existence as living beings they they gave us so they start that

02:53:51.800 gift cycle but we're in a perpetual cycle of of exchanging gifts and that's very different than

02:53:58.440 the way that uh christians approach worship and communion with their god

02:54:08.280 what is the also true view on sin forgiveness and redemption it's a very good question

02:54:15.640 um that's a very good question so

02:54:21.560 sin is not a hebrew word it is a um it is a germanic word and it goes back to uh

02:54:32.700 proto-indo-european in terms of like fault in a judgment like a legal you you are are the the

02:54:43.740 party who is the wrong one in a legal sense. So the idea of sin is acting in a way that is

02:54:55.240 ignoble. There are standards of nobility and acceptable social behavior and behaving in a

02:55:03.500 way that is shameful and dishonorable is sinful. A lot of the time that is exhibited by betrayal

02:55:11.800 of oaths and bonds of loyalty or acting against kin but what I think are more

02:55:23.540 instructive are the ideas of forgiveness and redemption so in Christianity for

02:55:29.620 example or Judaism or whatever you were if you do bad things it's not the victim

02:55:40.060 isn't the one you owe stuff to their god is the one you owe stuff to so

02:55:46.620 when you sin in your treatment of another person the one you make it right with is god

02:55:55.080 and the other people and you yourself are like it's incumbent upon you you're you're told

02:56:02.180 commanded to forgive people who transgress against you it's not the case in alstra in

02:56:09.180 house are true if you do something sacrilegious then yes you may need to make that right with the

02:56:15.380 god that you have have offended sacrilegiously but if you do something dishonorably in an oath

02:56:21.500 or in a relationship in a marriage towards a brother towards a boss towards a co-worker

02:56:27.180 towards another person

02:56:28.460 your job to get that right or to be redeemed is to do the best that you can to repay what's been

02:56:40.180 taken we talk um in modern times about a debt to society but those are just words like society

02:56:46.460 doesn't get something by you going to jail so that paying your debt to the person you wronged

02:56:55.260 our concept of justice is very much that if you take from somebody else you need to rebalance

02:57:01.580 the scales if i you know there is some kind and and sometimes it's not in the exact same way like

02:57:11.660 sometimes it's in an equivalency if i damage your reputation by lying about you or spreading

02:57:18.780 some kind of false rumor about you. There is a real cost. I have hurt your reputation.

02:57:25.620 So, you know, one idea on how to fix that is to go before the same people that heard me,

02:57:31.800 you know, unfairly malign your character and me go before those people and admit that I lied or

02:57:38.660 I was wrong, that you are an honorable, good person, that the things I accused you of were

02:57:43.860 false and not true that's the first step um you know if i broke something of yours

02:57:53.140 can i replace it if it's irreplaceable can i substitute an equivalent value of something else

02:58:01.700 but it's to repay you what i've taken from you by the thing i did if i did something horrible to you

02:58:08.660 and i really hurt your feelings that is a value i caused you a damage what can i do to repair the

02:58:15.540 damage that i caused that concept is in is in the first step to our understanding of forgiveness

02:58:23.940 and redemption i guess it is redemption in the sense that i have fixed the thing that i broke

02:58:31.460 but then there's the additional step of forgiveness in also true none of us are obliged to forgive

02:58:37.700 anyone ever for any reason. But don't mishear me. That doesn't mean we shouldn't forgive people.

02:58:46.040 It certainly doesn't mean we can't forgive people. What it does mean is that we use the term Aryan,

02:58:53.360 not because it's edgy, but because it means noble. Personal nobility is a big deal in Ausitru.

02:59:01.320 As noble men and women, it is up to me whether I choose to forgive you or not.

02:59:08.260 I can choose to extend you that courtesy of forgiveness or I cannot.

02:59:13.760 Just because you rebalance the scales, I don't have to forgive you at all.

02:59:19.840 You know, you wouldn't need to rebalance stuff if you didn't break into my house, if you didn't steal my stuff, if you didn't, you know, kill my dog.

02:59:28.140 I don't owe you forgiveness for anything.

02:59:30.120 if you repay it then cool maybe i don't have a legal case against you or maybe you fix the thing

02:59:37.800 you broke but i don't have to like you i don't have to forgive you i don't have to do that that's

02:59:42.520 not incumbent upon me but if you've made those efforts and you didn't that's the thing an apology

02:59:49.640 without an attempt to fix the thing you broke means very little if you fixed the things you

02:59:55.480 broke or you made a good faith effort to and on top of that you apologize then certainly i can

03:00:02.680 choose to forgive you and i think that it's noble for us to choose to forgive often but it's not out

03:00:11.480 of obligation it's out of our nobility of character that we grant you a favor of giving you forgiveness

03:00:17.880 if you've done wrong. And that's a big difference. On redemption, you don't erase bad deeds.

03:00:28.700 You can try to restore the balance. And the best shot at redemption is by overwhelming the bad

03:00:39.220 with the good. If you have a bad reputation and are of low character, it's not as though you can

03:00:46.860 you know pray to your god and then all of that disappears it doesn't that occurred that exists

03:00:55.360 that's in the history books but you can redeem yourself in many cases by outperforming that

03:01:04.120 by overwhelming it with the good deeds that you've done with the accomplishments that you've made

03:01:10.880 it doesn't take away the bad but it waters it down and it overpowers it and overwhelms it with

03:01:17.440 the good and the the measure of those things when judged by your gods and your ancestors

03:01:23.180 is your path towards redemption in that sense i hope that gets to what you're asking

03:01:28.100 are there any books that you recommend to learn more yes there's lots of books i recommend to

03:01:36.740 learn more. The culture of the Teutons is one that I always recommend. It talks about the justice

03:01:43.580 part that I just talked about very specifically. We are going to release it very soon in a little

03:01:54.180 booklet, pamphlet format. But if you go to our website, and Nick will throw a link up here in

03:02:00.600 second but the also true true log mall is the fundamentals of also true belief as practiced by

03:02:09.080 the astro folk assembly so if you go there and it's in our library if you're not in a spot to

03:02:14.680 go there right now but the also true true log mall is the most fundamental and it's written in a way

03:02:21.640 that somebody that i with the purpose of and i wrote i wrote it i wrote the vast majority of it so

03:02:30.600 my what i was trying to do was have a document to where if you had never heard of this before

03:02:37.400 and you read that you would learn what this is what the fundamentals of our practice are

03:02:43.400 and what you know the core those things are what it means to practice house true and the

03:02:49.080 astro focusing so i think that's a really good thing for everybody to read i think it um

03:03:00.600 Yeah, I think that's really important. And it just gives you a good primer on it. But also, if you've got that, and if you would like to read the lore, the prose and poetic eddies are always a really good thing to read. They're, you know, the main meat and potatoes of the lore.

03:03:19.480 But yeah, those are the things I always recommend off the top of my head, because I think they get to the meat of what we're doing really well. 0.98

03:03:25.440 uh did any icr ever instruct people in how to behave similar to the ten commandments

03:03:38.320 no not in a commandments format but in an advice format uh absolutely the have them all

03:03:44.880 uh or the sayings of har or the sayings of the high one which is oh then um

03:03:50.640 um the have them all has a lot of advice to it's advice that you can reverse engineer for women

03:04:00.480 it's to people generally but it's a lot of advice towards young men who are venturing from home who

03:04:06.480 are on the road who are at different points in their life it's a very very accessible piece of

03:04:12.480 our lore and it's one that you know people really like because it presents itself in that format

03:04:19.920 where it has stanzas with advice on a lot of different situations and it's very applicable to

03:04:26.640 modern situations as well as ancient ones so absolutely they have them all uh that's in the uh

03:04:36.880 the prosetta but it's also um

03:04:38.880 the it's very easy to find online velospow.org has a really good um bellows translation of

03:04:51.360 it that you can reference whenever you want so i'd suggest going there um

03:05:00.000 yeah so that's that's where we're at tonight um i think that takes us through the questions

03:05:06.080 that we've got. I appreciate, appreciate you guys. I appreciate everybody being here and

03:05:15.260 sharing the evening with me. It is again, the fifth, fifth night of Yule. So we've got

03:05:22.720 seven more days to come. I wish you guys the very best of Yules for the remainder of the days.

03:05:29.540 I will not see you guys next week on Twelfth Night. That will be the fifth Wednesday of the month. So that's Brandy's show, and she's going to have a fun Twelfth Night New Year's show for you guys. So look forward to that. And I will see you again in 2026.

03:05:47.540 So we are closing out the 31st year of the As-True Folk Assembly.

03:05:55.160 We'll be starting the 32nd year of the As-True Folk Assembly as January starts.

03:06:03.140 And it is going to be amazing.

03:06:05.500 I'm very excited to share that with each and every one of you.

03:06:09.200 If you are out here and you hear this show and you agree with what we're saying,

03:06:15.860 If you are a heterosexual white person that would like to come home to your gods, then you should join the Astro Folk Assembly.

03:06:23.880 We'd love to have you. We're going to do great things together in 2026 and you should be there for it. 0.76

03:06:30.160 So. Best time to join was 30 years ago.

03:06:34.500 The second best time is right now.

03:06:38.080 But until until 2026, hail the Aesir, hail the folk, hail the AFA.

03:06:45.120 And remember, victory never sleeps.

03:07:15.120 Thank you.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - December 25, 2025

12⧸24⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 181 - Glad Jól

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