Asatru Folk Assembly - 3⧸8⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 35 - Ullr

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00:03:00.000 hey everyone welcome to this week's episode of victory never sleeps i'm filling in for the

00:03:24.560 Yostra Yargothi, Matthew Flavel, as he is on his way to Ostara at Thorshof. I am Witten Brandi

00:03:31.220 Callahan, and with us tonight we have our resident lore master, Witten Svahn Harrell. Svahn, I'm

00:03:37.360 finding myself with you paired up week after week. Hey, schedule works out that way, and I guess

00:03:43.820 we're not getting into too much trouble. Yeah, not yet, not yet. Although I do have a few words

00:03:49.720 with the L.J. Aragode about our snowmen.

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00:04:47.800 How are you doing tonight, Swan?

00:04:49.720 I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm seeing a lot of the comments now. And hi, everybody. I see Ian's here. And thank you, Europa. Every now and then a barber does have to get his hair cut. Otherwise, he's just gonna, it's bad advertising.

00:05:06.300 Who cuts the barber's hair?

00:05:08.060 Yeah, who cuts the barber's hair? I can't reveal that. But it's certainly not me. I can't cut my own hair.

00:05:13.840 you have a really interesting uh winter nights ritual with the hair cutting don't you

00:05:20.600 yeah uh it kind of started organically uh winter nights was one of my first a of afa events and um

00:05:29.520 uh i i had just started barbering and then eventually i brought my stuff up there one year

00:05:36.260 and it was uh like early on in the uh event so before everyone really started showing up

00:05:42.860 And just started cutting hair. And then this last winter night, I mean, I was up, I think I was standing up on that, the wraparound porch cutting hair for almost six hours. Just one haircut after another, after another razor blades, shaving and all that stuff. So it was fun.

00:06:01.720 Getting everybody cleaned up before the big day.

00:06:03.760 yeah i unfortunately i i didn't bring my gear um for uh ostara um but again crazy kind of event

00:06:12.840 and being in in my home uh territory it's kind of hard to just focus on cutting hair got to do a lot

00:06:23.420 of other stuff so yeah yeah but it's a nice tradition at winter nights at winter nights yes

00:06:29.140 Absolutely. Always the first pictures we see of winter nights is of Svan cutting hair and everybody's sitting around getting all cleaned up.

00:06:36.640 So I'm going to have to challenge our women folk because, you know, I haven't seen those women with curlers in their hair and nails and stuff together. 0.79

00:06:44.380 So I'm going to have to give that out to a challenge to our AFA ladies. 0.66

00:06:49.160 If the men can get all spiffed up the night before, we should be able to get our hair up in curlers and not be judged. 1.00

00:06:56.120 much longer process for the ladies though the hair the longer the hair for sure absolutely

00:07:05.240 so we do have uh ostara coming up this weekend right yes yes we do um we've got um ostara coming

00:07:14.700 up at thor's hof um i'll be i'll be there we are um you know we make it a three-day event

00:07:22.740 and uh most folks are you know staying uh in the area and um you know as we hold a big

00:07:31.920 bloat to thor and then uh of course to ostara and her opening up the gates

00:07:39.720 delinger's hall is opened up and then the warmth comes forth and and and our preparation from

00:07:45.600 charming the plow is seen to fruition and that's the starting line it's time to get things going

00:07:50.580 And from then until Freyfaxi, we've got our season and we just had Charming in the Plow.

00:07:56.420 So we're ready to go chomping at the bit.

00:07:59.460 And I mean, of course, to the kids, the kids are a big thing for Austria. 0.99

00:08:02.880 You know, the egg races. Yeah, egg races are going to be fun.

00:08:09.260 You know, decoration of the eggs and storytelling, things like that.

00:08:14.160 So it's going to be a great time. Awesome.

00:08:16.660 Awesome. Can you tell us a little bit about this holiday of Ostara? What can our, you know,

00:08:22.740 if our folk can't make it down to Thor's Hof or to next weekend to, you know, the Hof near them,

00:08:29.140 what can they do at home to help bring that season in and show their devotion to Ostara?

00:08:35.860 Well, I mean, that's the beauty of Ostara's holiday is that she is, or has never really left.

00:08:44.700 um you know the traditions of the eggs traditions of the rabbits and candy and things like that

00:08:51.240 i i have heard uh you know from a secular standpoint a lot of folks you know talk about the

00:08:56.760 the the uh like easter bunny coming and hiding things and i think that's that's perfectly fine

00:09:03.840 uh you know we we do that with the you know uh western culture does that having the um the uh

00:09:11.960 kids being treated by the you know elusive spirit of giving and things like that but

00:09:20.360 as far as uh individual devotion i think it's worth noting that i you know i've always viewed

00:09:27.880 ostara as one of the six heavenly wardens um if we talk about the uh wardens of heaven we're

00:09:33.960 talking about of course the celestial machinations that the gods set into place so we're talking

00:09:39.560 about Sunnah and Mauni and of course Dellinger and day and night and the rotation of the earth and

00:09:45.960 and of course to the distance, the placement. And so Ostara's time is hearkened by the eastern star

00:09:55.800 and the idea that the gate, that gate is being opened in Dellings Hall and the warmth of

00:10:03.160 summer tide is beginning and so the process of all of the preparation of charming of the plow

00:10:11.160 funnels into growth of this moment so i would say really you know ostra is the goddess of the dawn

00:10:19.640 she's been with our people since since the dawn of our uh our our you know reckoning and

00:10:27.400 And she has been with us in many other folk branches, whether it's the Hellenics or the Slavics or, you know, even all the way to the ancient Vedic peoples, you know.

00:10:43.460 So the celebration of the dawn that day in specifics would be a great time to make honor if you, you know, perhaps if you don't have children, if you're young and you're single.

00:10:53.300 um you know gathering before the dawn uh to harken the new time the tiding of the summer

00:11:02.460 uh as it begins um because we have between now and midsummer is the you know is the starting point

00:11:09.720 and then from june 21st to about fray faxie to winter finding that's when things are starting

00:11:16.660 to wind down again so if we don't have a lot of time and so it's really about

00:11:21.880 bringing to fruition our ideals bringing to fruition our goals so oftentimes i you know

00:11:30.320 the traditions of painting an egg painting it with um specific symbols um sometimes even you

00:11:37.920 know popping a hole at the bottom and blowing the yoke out and then keeping that egg as a keepsake

00:11:43.520 some folks will sacrifice their egg and bury it in the ground as a symbol of wanting what they have

00:11:51.580 you know focused on to come true other folks like to keep it and um you know they'll hang it up from

00:11:57.980 from uh strings or sometimes they place them on you know little pins or like almost like

00:12:03.340 skewered sticks um and you can you know put them in wax and have them kind of stacked up almost

00:12:09.340 like an egg tree with each you know year adding on a new egg um some people do like ukrainian style

00:12:16.860 uh pascal eggs where they will you know draw on the egg with beeswax and then dip in subsequent

00:12:24.540 ink and those are very beautiful those can get extremely intricate i think that uh the slavic

00:12:29.340 tradition um or i mean i would even argue you know with the ukrainians there they are a slavic

00:12:35.740 germanic people um especially all the way back to the foundings of kiev by the goths um you know a

00:12:43.020 a lot of their traditions are really, really beautiful, colorful. Um, I think that's a big

00:12:47.980 thing too, color, uh, you know, bringing in color and, and life. I think people get a little bit

00:12:54.160 too much into the, you know, black face paints and shoulder pelts and, um, you know, edgy edginess,

00:13:01.740 uh, and they forget kind of the beauty and the joy and the happiness of, you know,

00:13:08.980 So that this time, the dawn and what it what it truly is to our people and what she means in the process of this starting.

00:13:21.040 So, you know, lots of lots of I would say different things because I've heard so many people do different stuff in different parts of the United States and in Europe and all over that they just it's hard for me to say one thing or another.

00:13:38.820 there's just so much of the traditions, but you could hold a bloat or, um, you know, uh, in the,

00:13:45.200 in the dawn, you could hold it that day again, creating those, the, the wish eggs. Um, you know,

00:13:52.980 there's a lot of stuff. And of course, traditionally, uh, this time too, I know that a lot of folks

00:14:01.300 like eat lamb uh and i think that has christian connotations as well but uh for us uh i think in

00:14:09.060 our true the the big one of course is hassen pfeffer uh different rabbit dishes so if you

00:14:14.900 can't do anything in the morning uh you know you gotta work early dawn um maybe hold a bloat that

00:14:20.740 night and just give thanks for that day um and have a meal uh if you can get rabbit you know

00:14:27.620 have locals farmer markets usually have them and they're in abundance of this around this time of

00:14:32.020 the year and and um you know i i guess keeping ourselves aligned the reason why we're doing this

00:14:40.580 is to keep our weird aligned with the gods so taking that moment that time of thanking whether

00:14:47.060 it's even even at the end of the day it is is understanding and recognizing that things are

00:14:52.180 shifting the tide is turned and we should give thanks to that um ostara is one of the goddesses

00:15:01.220 that isn't you know uh very well known in the sense that there wasn't a lot written down

00:15:08.660 um and there's a lot of speculation a lot of uh people try to christians try to connect her to um

00:15:14.820 ishtar and and things of that nature um and i know that they kind of get that from the

00:15:20.420 perhaps the roman empire soaking up a lot of that um you know they but we can see through

00:15:28.940 linguistics that that is a very very thin connective tissue um i think most likely

00:15:37.720 we can see through germanic traditions that these that she has been with us especially if you follow

00:15:43.640 the etymology of her name uh since long before the roman empire so yeah i you know there's so much i

00:15:52.840 would say as far as building traditions i mean for us national event you know we do a lot of stuff we

00:15:59.320 hold bloat and we you know have lots of games and things but if you're on your own i would say even

00:16:06.360 just a a simple hailing of the dawn and holding a bloat that night and if you really want to go

00:16:11.800 that extra mile and you know get some special foods or things like that or egg decorations

00:16:18.280 you know that that would be great but it's really about understanding that she is

00:16:24.680 opening that door and that warmth is finally coming through dellings hall and

00:16:32.200 the this is the time to to celebrate the focus that's coming you know that we got goals we need

00:16:38.920 things to get done and we have very little time to do it in summer tiding is is when you live

00:16:44.040 also true the summer is the time to do things and so you begin to realize how much though the

00:16:50.040 winter time is about looking in and how the summer time is about looking forward and upwards about

00:16:55.560 everything and austere is the start of that yeah so the uh ladies of the afa have actually all been

00:17:03.640 getting together and doing a special craft specifically for the ostara season and doing

00:17:10.160 it as a group to help with you know a specific task we won't reveal too much here because this

00:17:15.860 is ladies work but right we're doing something special that is egg related and with the ostara

00:17:22.720 season so yeah i love the magic that the ladies uh in the afa really do they whether it's like

00:17:30.380 the patchwork and the quilting or the baby blankets or the, you know, the blessings of

00:17:35.580 the horns, or there's such a nice magic to it, being able to see our ladies placing things

00:17:46.040 in. 1.00

00:17:46.540 Again, we don't get to see or hear a lot of that.

00:17:49.740 There's a level of mysticism that I think our ladies in our community have that's amazing,

00:17:55.260 but it's, it's, it's awe-inspiring and inspirational to watch. And again, like you said,

00:18:02.840 men folk doing stuff spurns the ladies on, ladies doing stuff spurn the men on, so. 0.98

00:18:08.140 They sure do. So if you are a lady within the AFA, make sure you get a hold of one of your 0.71

00:18:14.980 lady folk builders so we can get you involved in all of these fun things that we're trying to work 0.98

00:18:21.240 on month to month and find something that our women can do together to help our folk and to 0.90

00:18:25.840 help our church and to pay tribute to the gods and our ancestors. So if you have not found the ladies

00:18:31.800 group yet and you are one of our lady members, please get a hold of your folk builders so we can

00:18:36.880 get you involved. We've got all kinds of stuff going on. And I do just want to give a shout out

00:18:42.140 to Allie Clausen because it looks like they are planning a glam squad for Hex Knot Nebraska next 1.00

00:18:48.020 month. So way to go, Baldur's Hof District ladies for taking on that challenge and doing that glam 1.00

00:18:54.440 squad. I'm all about that. All right. So it looks like we do have a couple questions here. The first 0.77

00:19:02.780 one that we've got is, are the floats held inside the Hofs or mainly outdoors? So that's going to

00:19:10.700 depend on what half you're at. So Odenshof has a big, huge, beautiful ritual space with a big fire

00:19:19.260 and a huge, beautiful rock that was there when they got the building and they used that often

00:19:25.960 as an altar. And they have just a beautiful outdoor space. So they do, you know, the rituals

00:19:31.460 outside, very powerful, very beautiful place. If you have not been out to Odenshof yet,

00:19:39.660 They are having their midsummer coming up in June, and that would be a perfect time for you to visit Odentav.

00:19:48.480 You would not believe just the beauty and the power of that ritual space out there.

00:19:53.180 It's absolutely amazing.

00:19:54.880 There are all kinds of pictures of the Alshira Ghodi doing bloat out there, and there's just beautiful glow over the fire, and everybody's standing around by the fire itself.

00:20:07.260 It's absolutely amazing.

00:20:08.260 um thorshoff i've noticed when i've been at thorshoff they will do some things inside but

00:20:14.940 they also take it outside so you know their maple of course is outside but they also charm their

00:20:20.580 plow outside and i think at hex and at hex not you guys go outside as well don't you yeah we

00:20:27.340 have the ladies um make the sacred fire and the and the children and the men folk will walk through

00:20:32.580 the fire or the smoke. Yep. And I have not had the chance to be at Njordshof yet, but I do believe 0.85

00:20:40.760 those are inside or outside spawn? They have, well, they have an inside one predominant, but

00:20:48.060 they also, I know, outside as well. The outside at Njordshof is huge and very, very beautiful out

00:20:58.880 there. So I know they're doing both. Yes. And Baldur's Hoff bloats are done inside. All of the

00:21:06.320 bloats themselves are done inside. We do have more restrictions than the other Hoffs do on what we 0.99

00:21:13.140 can do, how we can do it, and when we can do it, you know, to stay in accordance with our conditional 0.90

00:21:19.300 use permit. So we have found ways to make sure that we are bringing elements of bloats that

00:21:26.580 you may be used to seeing outside inside. So for example, we have our beautiful Folk Flame,

00:21:34.060 which is smokeless and sootless and absolutely gorgeous. And that is used during bloat.

00:21:42.280 We also do a lot of, we take all of our offerings outside. We have a really beautiful god pole that

00:21:48.680 Go The Rob Scam came out last year and carved for us from one of the trees that we had to take top

00:21:54.460 off. So all of our offerings do go outside. We also do when we give gifts for, I believe it was

00:22:03.660 winter nights. We took our gifts outside and hung them on the tree that we take our sprigs from.

00:22:11.180 So we do try to go outside and do as much as we can. And of course our maypole is outside and we

00:22:16.440 charm the plow outside because our plow at Baldershof is huge. But most predominantly it is

00:22:24.320 inside of Baldur's Hoff just because of the different restrictions that we have at that

00:22:27.920 Hoff versus the other Hoffs. All right. Yeah, I think it's important that just a side note on

00:22:35.200 this one is, you know, adhering to faith, whether you're in an apartment, or in a home, or if you're

00:22:44.720 on a farmstead, or if you're in the city, you have to adapt. You know, our folk have been,

00:22:51.600 you know migratory at times and could you know build burial sites and mounds and then other i

00:22:57.600 mean um sorry they were migratory and and you know used pyre and and wood and and burned the dead and

00:23:04.400 then other times they were not they were settled and they could build mounds um you know our folk

00:23:09.600 adapted um even like in iceland you know wood was so scarce that they shifted from funerary pyres to

00:23:16.800 to burying under stone because again it's about adaptation it's it's uh you know when when

00:23:23.360 archaeologists and and scholars look at our faith archaeologically you know they see this kind of

00:23:31.200 movement back and forth and i think that people have a tendency to forget that

00:23:35.840 uh faith our faith in particular too is very organic to the folk where they're at what they're

00:23:41.760 doing what's available to them um because we we bring our gods and our faith to the gods

00:23:49.840 with us and so i think it's always been very adaptable so you know when uh people talk about

00:23:56.480 the inside and outside like i remember actually just recently someone was saying you know i've

00:24:00.480 only held ceremony outside you know why would you hold it indoors the gods are outside well

00:24:06.400 the i don't think like you can lock the gods out of your home um the uh the biggest thing i i don't

00:24:15.200 mean to to be snarky on that is what i'm just saying is is that you know we have harrows in

00:24:21.120 our culture in the afa and in you know in relation to the temples and to the kindreds we have the

00:24:28.720 harrow inside uh harrow is what most people would call an altar um and then we have a horg

00:24:37.920 h-o-r-g and that that really is it hjorgar is uh is the old norse and it means like the stacking

00:24:44.800 of stones or one giant stone outside usually sometimes within a grove area so or in a special

00:24:51.040 place so those you know like you said uh odin's half has both but they have a because of the

00:24:57.840 weather they have the allowance to go out and really practice at their horg and their horg has

00:25:03.600 been long standing um at their temple whereas with baldursof everything has always been on harrow

00:25:10.720 you know base and uh at thorsof we have the main harrow to thor but we also have a central harrow

00:25:17.120 that we do everything around and oftentimes transfer the mead that we pour from the horn

00:25:22.960 we we walk it up to the harrow that thor is uh at and we give it to him and then we

00:25:29.760 take a small amount after uh asking for blessing and bring it back down

00:25:34.480 so every you know it's i think um there's different adaptations that become the cultural norm in the

00:25:41.120 area and i think a lot of people from an internet perspective are looking for like kind of a one

00:25:46.000 way or one size fits all um answering we just we're too organic you know it's like uh sometimes

00:25:55.040 with norshoff they i don't think they go outside too much uh you know perhaps in the summer at

00:26:00.160 least maybe you know not at noon and not at sunset because noon is like deathly hot and

00:26:05.680 at sunset you might get carried away by the mosquitoes so so that's one thing that's really

00:26:11.680 interesting and special about all of the Hoffs is while there may be an AFA standard for what

00:26:19.700 we're doing, they each have their own culture, their own traditions, and their own personality.

00:26:25.640 I mean, the Hoffs are known for their personalities and the different things that they come up with.

00:26:29.800 So I think that's really interesting. Yeah, that's the beauty of it. It's

00:26:33.520 kind of like our own little, I mean, that's what it is. Our districts, our districts have their own

00:26:38.040 um traditions and you know colors and banners and it's it's beautiful i think it makes for a

00:26:45.540 very large colored palette of of uh festivity and celebration and devotion so yeah

00:26:51.640 all right mandy asks spawn why have you concealed from us all that you are actually wrestling

00:27:02.480 the big show and there's apparently photographic evidence of this oh there it is you guys are

00:27:11.000 guys are ganging up on me look no i can't be the the big show i am i am uh i am you know

00:27:21.520 for most people that don't know i'm uh by internet you know joking or whatever i am

00:27:29.680 i'm five foot eight i'm not even six foot so i guess i'm a man litter as they like to say

00:27:34.980 so i can't be for the big show unless i like wore him like a suit like he was like some sort of like

00:27:41.740 power suit i was inside i don't think that would happen unless of course maybe like i'm related

00:27:47.580 maybe i mean it can be wit and spawn the medium show right the medium show yes yeah exactly

00:27:56.140 condensed package you know he can throw me at people like yeah he's no he's mighty yeah you

00:28:04.960 know it's uh i i i knew i knew somehow this was gonna this is gonna get me mandy sent me a text

00:28:14.500 and uh and now she got me so when the elshir go there re-watches this after he gets off of his

00:28:21.980 plane. It's your choice to leave us unsupervised. Right, right, and he can easily just look over at

00:28:29.580 me. All right, next question we've got. Kiev was founded by the Kievan Rus in 882. Are the Kievan

00:28:41.700 Rus a gothic folk? No, no, the Kievan Rus are not a gothic folk or guttunish people. No, however,

00:28:49.980 they they have found thousands of grave sites um maybe maybe near thousand hundred actually

00:29:00.780 don't quote me on it somewhere within the hundreds to perhaps thousands of graves uh of

00:29:05.980 the ostrogothic people uh around that area from about 300 to 500. so um which you know as far as

00:29:15.980 like archaeologically like buildings and things like that uh most likely their their uh settlements

00:29:22.940 have long since dissolved but they have found graves grave goods and other things of the

00:29:28.140 gutinish people there uh in such a large amount that the the founding of kiev um as kiev is up to

00:29:41.100 to the Kievan Rus, but the actual fact that there was an Ostrogothic or Guthanish settlement there

00:29:47.660 has been pretty much confirmed. What it was called or what it was named doesn't seem to be,

00:29:54.880 most of the information that we do have about it comes from a scholar named Jordanes,

00:30:02.460 or Jordanes, and he doesn't mention if there's a name of it, but he does say that they settle

00:30:08.480 in that area. And this is even before they split and turn into the, you know, the Ostrogothic and

00:30:14.840 the TheraVingian or TheraVingian Goths. So that's what I'm referring to. I think just for ease of

00:30:22.940 the subject, I just said, you know, yeah, they founded the site of Kiev. But yeah, Ian, you are

00:30:29.640 correct. I probably shouldn't say that, but I don't know what else to call it because there

00:30:33.500 isn't an actual official name so but yeah it's an interesting topic um to look up for sure migration

00:30:41.500 period time awesome all right well we're about 30 minutes in i suppose this time get down to

00:30:49.340 business we actually have an uler question the folk are going to keep us on tracks fun yep yep

00:30:57.100 smacking us into the lane come on medium show back

00:31:03.500 All right. Shea asks, have y'all seen the runestone inscription of Ullr on skis that has been correlated to the constellation more well known as Orion?

00:31:14.440 in yes um so for the longest time uh there has been first there's the i don't know exactly where

00:31:26.920 this came from but frigga's distaffer for orion um uh was kind of i guess accepted i i honestly

00:31:36.920 don't know where it came from um but yes the the the connection to both the northern lights and to

00:31:43.960 celestial formations that could possibly be related to or orion or to you know uh ullr is it

00:31:52.120 as you know this the ski god or in the sky if you will um uh is an interesting one i don't know

00:32:04.360 if it's a stretch or not i want i mean obviously we have uh you know uh

00:32:09.640 Um, Arundel's toe is, is mentioned as well as Thiazi's eyes.

00:32:16.140 There are clear, uh, navigational tools that are mentioned or, or I wouldn't say navigational

00:32:22.760 tools, but celestial bodies mentioned throughout, uh, the Adas and throughout our lore.

00:32:29.780 So I wouldn't discount it at all, especially considering, um, seafaring people, uh, even,

00:32:37.080 even before the viking age like with with the um the guttons traveling down the uh the rivers 1.00

00:32:44.400 to the black sea and then even crossing over into the aegean and and attacking greece the 0.92

00:32:51.820 our folk were you know and these germanic folks in in in specifics were seafaring people long

00:32:59.040 before the traditional viking age so the usage of stars um is huge it's it's it's i think it's

00:33:07.020 massively important, but unfortunately is not well documented. All right. And another Ullr

00:33:16.780 question from Sarah. In Grimnismal, when Odin is trapped between two fires, he offers the favors

00:33:24.280 of Ullr and all the gods to whomever rescues him. What would Ullr's favors be?

00:33:30.300 Well, so this is interesting.

00:34:00.280 dichotomy there. And I think in our current state and calendar, we, too, express this relationship

00:34:10.040 between Odin and Ullr. As far as one thing I think it's worth noting is in the poems themselves,

00:34:20.620 when we talk about whether or not they were kind of expressed from the poet or the person that was

00:34:28.620 compiling the poem at the time, coming from a story, may have interjected certain things,

00:34:36.200 especially at that time, the Nordic understanding, that Nordic period's understanding of the

00:34:41.620 significance of Ullr and of Odin and their dichotomy at that time. Would I say Saxo Grammaticus

00:34:50.020 is correct in saying that Odin takes over the kingdom, you know, or I mean, Ullr takes over

00:34:57.840 kingdom while odin is away uh and and snorty kind of even makes reference to this in the ingital

00:35:03.440 where he says you know that you're there uh and and odin you know they switch um in in leadership

00:35:10.080 and then oh then asks to be you know slain with a spear so that he can go to his god again these

00:35:16.560 are clearly cultural references to an understanding of like what uh like the the cult of odin at the

00:35:26.080 time the the the being uh lanced with the spear possibly even being uh evidence of of an interjection

00:35:33.760 of the migrational germanics coming back into ultima thule from the central and southern europe

00:35:41.440 uh and they may have brought traditions with them and i think that's kind of reflecting in those

00:35:45.280 stories so there's this dichotomy between odin and ullr that seems to be established in the nordic

00:35:50.640 period in which they clearly have huge amounts of influence and i think that this part of the poem

00:36:00.080 is either lending itself to that or it's making note of the the shifting of power the the the

00:36:07.920 duality between them two between the two gods um as it is kind of expressed that like in saxos

00:36:16.080 that the power shift shifts to Ullr from Odin and then back. I think that these are all signs of

00:36:26.880 a kind of religious culture of that time, just like the Vanik or the kind of more, I would say,

00:36:36.000 like boar worship and uh wagon worshiping in in sweden switching over or being interjected to by

00:36:45.920 a more odinic cult uh that seems to come from perhaps the you know migration period

00:36:52.880 the fodrati were being let loose in rome and so they were probably coming up and there was these

00:36:59.040 kind of traditions that ended up being melded together in these stories and so when the poems

00:37:05.040 were compiled i've often taken that to show that cultural reference that that odin is is um you

00:37:13.360 know beseeching the gifts of of ullr in the sense that the the the the might and the power of ullr

00:37:22.720 and odin were seen at that time as very you know almost like equal um again it's the same reason

00:37:31.120 is like to why they would they would have images of thor with say a crown on his head and stars is

00:37:37.680 that the the uh the cultures and the and the power and the devotion towards the gods that were in

00:37:44.000 that place and the the uh the place names to ullr um you know show kind of a heavy devotion

00:37:51.920 so i think that this is more of a cultural in injection of that kind of

00:37:58.080 relationship in the Nordic period between the presence of the two gods in that. However,

00:38:07.520 the glory, the glorious one, you know, Snorty kind of in one breath regulates him to be just the,

00:38:14.240 you know, he's the stepson of Thor, he's, you know, he's the ski god, he's the weapon god,

00:38:19.280 he's the shield god, the god of, you know, one-on-one combat and of marksmanship with a bow,

00:38:24.880 um you know and and it just kind of seems placed out very matter-of-factly and then at the same

00:38:33.980 time he he gets his own uh realm ir dollar which means the you the you dales or the you tree y-e-w

00:38:42.220 um and that that ups that significance but when you look at place names when you look at

00:38:48.980 um the uh the influence like for instance with the um the fins the fins seem to be influenced by

00:38:58.120 the nords uh also with you know they have a thunder god that shares a lot of the same

00:39:05.820 uh you know imagery so you know are they connected well yes we can surmise that they

00:39:11.920 are connected just like perun is connected as well but there seems to be this interlacing but

00:39:16.840 there is also some interlacing with the Finns. And Ullr, they have a god named Tupio, I believe,

00:39:25.520 is the hunter god, and shares a lot of the same equilibrium there. And that would make sense in

00:39:32.500 the high, high north. This dichotomy between Odin and Ullr is an interesting one. Because again,

00:39:44.740 And Snorty doesn't place it very much, like, say, in the Gilfaginning, as being a huge amount of gravity there.

00:39:51.900 But yet, here, you know, in Grimnismal, he speaks about Ullr and the gods.

00:39:58.260 And this happens, too, where the gods are, where a singular god is focused on in the poem, and then the rest of the gods are mentioned.

00:40:06.580 Frey, it happens with Frey a lot, too.

00:40:08.780 Again, showing a huge amount of power and worship, I would say, in that time.

00:40:13.760 uh you know where they would say like frey is you know the best of the ouse um or of all the gods

00:40:20.800 um or best or best ranked or best best known amongst the gods whereas so is balder but um

00:40:29.060 in this case like for modern asatru and in particular when we're talking about like

00:40:35.860 winter finding and the wild hunt that this dichotomy takes place when we talk about ullr

00:40:42.580 taking precedence during the winter tidying culturally ular is the god of the hunt and from

00:40:51.060 winter finding which is about the end you know it's at the end of september beginning of october

00:40:57.780 depending on where it lands uh is kind of the starting of a lot of folks hunting season so the

00:41:05.220 the idea of uller taking precedence while olvin goes on the wild hunt is reflected in our culture

00:41:13.940 today in which you know the wild hunt is seen as a a natural force some people see it happening

00:41:20.420 all year around but again this is mythic language of understanding this this cultural importance of

00:41:27.300 the the two olvin goes on the wild hunt uller takes precedence because his time is to bless

00:41:34.980 the folk for hunting and you know othen is seen as a force to be weary of during that time and

00:41:41.460 ullr is the one that we pray to for a good hunt so there's this dichotomy switch between the two

00:41:48.260 that happens that i think still exists today but was much more prevalent in the nordic period as

00:41:54.900 far as those gifts i would say you know the strength of the of again being unfettered which

00:42:02.580 again is oftentimes you know denoted to um oh then himself i don't know maybe it's a who you know who

00:42:12.500 cuts the barber's hair kind of moment i'm sorry that just hit me because of what you had said

00:42:18.500 earlier but but no i mean i think it is an injection of a huge amount of that the importance

00:42:25.540 between those two in the nordic period so much so that saxo you know really really his stories

00:42:34.260 even though they're heavily uh you know the gods are made human um that that's still worth of

00:42:41.700 noting there just like the the the relationship between balder and hodd uh except of course they

00:42:47.140 make it a love he makes it a love rivalry um and again you know these stories that he wrote down

00:42:53.940 uh you know could be heavily influenced from local stories like in denmark not saying that

00:42:59.380 he just completely made it up but most certainly had a you know an incentive to change things

00:43:05.060 because he was uh not a fan of the elder faith um but i think it's a reflection of that as well

00:43:11.460 very well box asks us what is a staller a staller yeah uh s-t-a-l-l-i-r is usually a staller

00:43:26.900 a staller is a stall it's uh it's a it's an altar it's another name for an altar

00:43:31.780 um i think or it's it's another name for a sectioned part of the house with a specific use

00:43:36.740 that's another thing worth noting is i think that people jumped on it because it's an icelandic

00:43:42.240 name word thing that but you know in a in a in an essence it's in the houses they had

00:43:49.880 sectioned off areas for specific things and one that would be set off for devotionals but uh you

00:43:57.920 know there's mentions of to the the pillars of the high seat you know are on the actual are are

00:44:03.240 are actually dedicated to thor or to frey uh um you know so throughout the house there may have

00:44:09.480 been other devotional like items but the staler is just another name for like an altar or a specific

00:44:17.400 area perhaps it's not a flat table maybe it's just a a mantle or a shelf or something like that a

00:44:24.040 staller could could very well be utilized as a word but i think culturally using the word harrow

00:44:34.280 uh like a just a a hollowed table or a hollowed flat space in the house is is more is used more

00:44:42.040 popularly but staller could easily be used as well staller is also somebody who um stalls while

00:44:51.560 we're waiting for questions to come in from the chat well yeah i mean uh so uh also just you know

00:45:02.520 uh to carry on more about ullr ullr's name ullr's name is a is again is very mysterious

00:45:11.480 the relationship between ullr and odin is just one of the many mysteries that ullr has

00:45:16.040 Ullr is, his name means, or, you know, is etymologically considered to be linked towards glory, because there are other Germanic languages that have words very, very similar, and it's been traced back to Wulther, or Wultheraz, which means glorious.

00:45:34.760 Um, the oldest inscription we have is on a scabbard of, um, it says it's, it's Wulther, Wulthera's servant. And so there's two theories behind this. The scabbard is referring to the sword and that the owner of the sword's name was Wultheras, which doesn't demean it less.

00:45:54.460 It could be a derivative of Ullr's name, as if when people would name themselves Thorstein or Thorbjörn or Freydis, they're kind of leaning on the name of the god in their own name, or their parents did, I should say.

00:46:17.600 So if the owner of the scabbard's name was like Wulthris, it could, you know, denote that his name means like, you know, in the glory of or the glorious one, but kind of not saying that that's specifically Ullr or Ullr's name.

00:46:34.360 so that's the one theory is that it's the owner the other theory is is that the sword was dedicated

00:46:41.100 to ullr as a servant uh which would then also have a possibility because uh snorty mentions

00:46:51.460 ullr as being uh one to call upon in single combat and single combat you know in their

00:46:58.280 what they're referring to is is you know like dueling and and you know or or one-on-one

00:47:07.440 fighting because not all fights were done you know in battles and in war and i think that you

00:47:13.480 know the gods that are connected to the to mass battles like like olden and and teed and and such

00:47:20.240 are are important but they're talking about skirmish they're talking about disputes they're

00:47:26.120 talking about one-on-one fighting and uller is is mentioned as to to be well to be prayed to for

00:47:32.440 those things a lot of modern um also true see uller as again like um survival hunting intermixed

00:47:42.620 with self-defense so there's a lot of self-defense aspects that have come in during winter finding a

00:47:48.420 lot of folks bring in their uh rifles and things or bows for hunting for the season and to be

00:47:55.400 blessed uh as the bloat is held towards ullr or and ullr isn't always the the main focus of winter

00:48:01.560 finding winter finding could be dedicated to you know to even could be dedicated to any of the gods

00:48:07.880 really but ullr does have a huge precedence in certain areas especially when that hunting season

00:48:12.600 is kind of right aligned with it and so rifles will be uh you know brought i think that a lot

00:48:20.280 of folks don't take pictures of the rifles because it's not about uh you know like that that and the

00:48:27.080 whole presence of the internet can just be taken in very wrong context so you know the blessings

00:48:33.720 of the rifles the blessings of the bows are done and sometimes personal self-defense weapons are

00:48:39.000 also blessed um for by by the gothar that are present there in reference to uller so i think

00:48:47.720 that's worth noting that especially in a modern sense that uller is connected to both hunting and

00:48:54.120 personal self-defense um and so the sword being named after him might be just as much equally a

00:49:01.960 servant of the glorious one that answers a couple questions that we had you know if they were

00:49:08.600 associated with hunting anything else and you and uh can he be associated with survival or field

00:49:15.160 craft you kind of answered yes yes absolutely now so when we're talking personally for me

00:49:21.400 yes very very much so i i um i often call ruler you know the shade between the trees or the shade

00:49:28.840 between the bows uh he's the you know the ghost treader the the one the silent walker the one who

00:49:35.960 you know whispers between the trees um again the enigmatic sense of him and his placement

00:49:44.200 within hunting and self-defense survival um yes he would be the one to hold up you know honor to

00:49:51.560 um 100 um i think it's also you know uller from a sense of what if you're not into survival what if

00:50:00.680 you're not into hunting uller is also very much i think a a good source to to devote your piety

00:50:11.160 towards if you're trying to focus on the attainment of something the attainment of a goal i'm not

00:50:17.480 saying that by no but actually quite the opposite you will not receive like some sort of gift like

00:50:26.440 a it's not when you when you give devotion to uler it's about focusing the mind and i think finding

00:50:34.680 the pathway putting the effort in and there is a certain level of you have to bring the skill to

00:50:40.680 of the table it's more or less about honing it's about twisting the bowstring it's about preparing

00:50:46.600 you know the the ski it's about um or the snowshoe or you know it's it's a lot about what you bring

00:50:53.480 to the table and i think uller is more about uh singular focus and determination towards a goal

00:51:02.520 sorry if the uh the clock is too loud there it just marks off the hours for us fun oh yeah

00:51:11.680 Allie asks, I am an inside person during the winter.

00:51:15.080 I don't blame you at all.

00:51:17.300 What can I do to honor Uller indoors?

00:51:21.180 We used to do snowflake crafts with kids to honor Uller.

00:51:25.780 We used to make paper snowflakes and put them on the windows.

00:51:29.080 So that's a good craft that you can do with the kids.

00:51:31.580 We always did that.

00:51:32.640 And we always had them make snowballs and color them with food coloring and say their

00:51:39.020 prayer to uler and put them in a dish and let them melt on the altar we used to do that as well

00:51:43.960 any ideas fun yeah well i wanted to bring up what you just said uh i don't know if a lot of people

00:51:49.780 are familiar with uler fest and what why uh that why you said snowflakes and snow so um uler fest

00:51:58.480 takes place in colorado i believe it's colorado i'm almost certain it's colorado and it's a it's

00:52:04.620 a uh it's a skiing festival and um i really i think that even though it's secular and you know

00:52:13.780 people dress up they wear you know like goofy helmets or you know and things like that um

00:52:18.160 it's worth noting that the gods do not just exist in the adas the god of the hunt the god of

00:52:27.760 combat self-defense uh the the um he is a god that's been with us even before the nordic period

00:52:36.640 obviously so and the manifestation of the gods um and our understanding of where they are we see the

00:52:44.240 the the the vestiges of our gods in the stories as clear glimpses through the fog

00:52:53.120 uh a place for our culture and our language and our folk to bridge with our ancestors an

00:52:59.440 understanding of that divine being but that divine being has been before the nordic period

00:53:07.280 and the name may be like wolf draws or you know it's it the etymology denotes that there is a past

00:53:14.320 that the the name uller in the nordic sense has contexted from so uller has been with us before

00:53:22.640 the nordic period and still continues to manifest within the folk even past or you know past the

00:53:29.520 nordic period even into the christian age uh elsewhere ago these often said you know even

00:53:34.080 without the aid as the gods would manifest themselves amongst the folk because the gods

00:53:37.760 and the folk are connected so um you know when you and i i don't mean to run off into a tangent

00:53:46.160 about that but the the fact that the manifestation of uller and the uh the festival and its its

00:53:53.920 connection um to skiing and of course when you go and look it up on the website you know they say

00:54:00.800 ular um you know a god of winter um and again even though it would be mistaken to uh say you know

00:54:10.160 like he is like the god of winter he is a god he is the god of winter his time is of winter his time

00:54:20.000 is at that time of the hunt so yeah ice snow skiing hunting all of those imagery and that's

00:54:27.200 why i think uh and i'm speaking to the audience here about this one when you when you talk about

00:54:31.040 the snowflakes when you talk about the the the snowball what you're referring to is his time

00:54:38.320 owen is on the wild hunt and uller is in presidence of this moment and it's a time in

00:54:44.720 which our ancestors would hunt for meat to supplement the the herd that was called and

00:54:49.760 the the smoked meat from the cattle or the pork or the lamb they would go and supplement the last

00:54:56.720 little bit of hunting before they had to settle in for the you know the long month two months

00:55:03.920 three months of winter from you know almost from just after yule till about now or maybe even into

00:55:11.440 april uh where they wouldn't be able to you know really get a lot of nutrients so honoring uller

00:55:18.560 at that time is huge so yes winter time that's why snow skis um the snowshoe are all kind of

00:55:28.560 correlated to uler so yeah uh you know for the children snow snowflakes um i would even say you

00:55:38.080 know snowshoes uh as symbols of of um you know devotion um you know making like little craft uh

00:55:47.600 snowshoes, um, and things like that can be done as kind of gifts and offerings of that time.

00:55:54.740 But if you're indoors, um, you know, one thing that you could do is look around and see if there's

00:56:01.320 any, uh, yew trees in your area. Some people, there is an American yew tree. There is an English

00:56:06.580 yew tree. Um, you know, uh, the, I would not recommend like making any incense or anything

00:56:13.520 out of the out of the the dried um leaves of the yew tree because it is a very kind of it's it's a

00:56:21.120 toxic uh tree but creating a a wreath maybe burning it outside you know afterwards blessing

00:56:29.040 blessing the wreath or blessing a sprig and dedicating it to to uller or are you know and

00:56:34.800 giving gifts of whatever you have like it could be you know whatever you're willing to give uh

00:56:39.200 some people give flowers because let's say you're you're indoors but you're in a fairly

00:56:45.440 cosmic you know cosmopolitan place uh you know meat fruits anything you're willing to to buy

00:56:54.240 make or or give the act of giving and sacrificing with a sprig of you uh out and then you know

00:57:02.080 buried or burned uh after a bloat like that maybe making a protective um

00:57:10.720 amulet or some you know asking uh ullr to protect the the land in the area around you or aid you

00:57:17.120 show you the the best way to attain goals um all of those things in honor to ullr are are equally

00:57:23.760 as viable as somebody maybe going out and living you know off the land or going hunting for you

00:57:30.560 know days on end would have a great need to pray to him as well um but i think ullr can be prayed

00:57:37.280 to by men and women both out in the field and in the home especially around winter time around

00:57:46.320 winter finding and on up into you uh yule itself i actually have a the the uh odin's odin's day is

00:57:56.160 uh day and a half or a day and a half before uller's it's the it's the next day so olden

00:58:02.880 comes back from the wild hunts and uller's night is when he steps down and that's when i clean my

00:58:09.280 hunting rifle and i clean my my weapons and i taught my son how to like hone uh a knife and

00:58:15.120 you know this year coming up i'm gonna teach my daughter how to sharpen a knife and and clean and

00:58:20.320 and be safe gun safety and things like that so um there are a lot of ways you can you can

00:58:26.960 practice your devotion to uh cooler go get a personal uh you know conceal weapons permit

00:58:34.640 go take a class and do it and set yourself with you know at present yourself to uler and say i'm

00:58:41.360 going to go do this i'm going to go do this i'm going to go attain this goal i am going to get a

00:58:46.720 license uh you know legally and learn how to defend myself and then go and do it and then when

00:58:55.120 you're done boast to uller hold another blow to uller and say i did it this is what i did i thank

00:59:01.440 you uh you know whether if you helped me or you didn't either way you were the focus point i

00:59:07.200 needed this is what i did and i give thanks to you and something as simple as that could be a

00:59:12.880 great and powerful devotional act to Hula. Awesome. We do have a few donations. The first

00:59:22.420 couple that we had came from Ronald Blake. Thank you very much, sir. Donated to Go the Odin's

00:59:30.000 fundraiser, if we can get a link for that put up. Also donated $100, $105 to Nurtoth. Thank you

00:59:41.160 very much, sir. I appreciate that. That is from Ronald. Thank you very much. We also got a

00:59:49.020 donation from Don Ricardo. $20. Thank you very much, sir. Very much appreciated. Very, very much.

00:59:57.220 And we also got another donation, $10 Canadian from Lawrence. It says, good evening, Brandy and

01:00:05.340 Svan. No question tonight. Just wanted to say great stream. Much love and appreciation to you

01:00:10.780 and all the folk thank you very much thank you from our brethren of the great white north

01:00:17.420 canadians they should every every episode yeah it's beautiful thank you it is very much

01:00:24.540 appreciated thank you very much for the support all right so we've got another question here from

01:00:32.140 josh hello go with our if it has not been if it has not been yet could i ask about any deeper

01:00:40.540 connection ruler might have to winter sports as we often see him depicted on skier skate

01:00:46.460 you would did go into that a little bit with the winter sports yeah a little bit uh you know and

01:00:51.020 again the winter olympics are are highly influenced by the scandinavian countries when we talk about

01:00:56.300 um you know the the uh cross-country skiing and uh skiing and shooting again that's that's pretty

01:01:05.740 much you know the that is nordic culture in the hunting sense it has uller in manifestation all

01:01:15.180 over the fact that you know you have kind of like i mean these rifles are insanely like high

01:01:21.580 technology now but um you know the the um they're they're crossing huge tracks of land and taking

01:01:29.980 shots at these ranges and then slinging right back up and crossing that that you know the

01:01:35.660 treks of land again and anybody who's ever you know done huge cross-country movements and then

01:01:40.860 had to like suddenly shoot and i know i have it's it's hard to to breath control there's a lot of

01:01:48.140 discipline and focus involved with stamina and i think there there is no other sport that exemplifies

01:01:54.780 uller than that and you know as far as overall winter you know winter sports were so important

01:02:04.060 i think to the nordic teutonic folk when it came to ice skates and um to skiing and things like

01:02:12.140 that i mean there's there's even a mention of uller crossing the ocean on a on a bone

01:02:18.700 and that bone is kind of seen possibly to reference a skate uh because skates were back then made out

01:02:25.500 of bone but um and that he was a powerful wizard but saxo had a tendency to to do that and that

01:02:32.140 was part of that dichotomy is that saxogrammaticus made ullr a super powerful you know wizard and so

01:02:39.980 was odin and they you know they had this polarity and again i think that is an injection of the time

01:02:48.780 showing that that that significance between them um but you know uh winter you know sports or what

01:02:59.900 have you yeah i mean hockey maybe i don't know i'm i'm a hockey fan we got a we got a team here

01:03:07.420 it's one of my you know the admirals uh the norfolk admirals are are huge uh as far as you know

01:03:15.740 lower leagued hockey they're not they're not major but um huge huge factor so perhaps even

01:03:24.620 again highly combative sport lots of personal one-on-one fighting there um one of the last

01:03:31.660 you know sports where that's you know not entirely frowned upon um that's what we paid a ticket for

01:03:40.220 well and i mean these these these guys on the ice are larger than life i mean

01:03:45.660 my first my first admirals game i ever went to just to see the entire bench of the admirals

01:03:52.940 empty out on the jersey uh i think the jersey sharks they um i mean the entire bench the refs

01:04:00.380 were they had to like randomly pick people to throw in the penalty box because everyone was

01:04:05.520 at fault there was spots of blood on the ice within the first 15 minutes of the game it was

01:04:10.840 amazing i suddenly realized like wow i mean these guys are uh just they're larger than life um being

01:04:19.540 a young man and seeing that seeing these tough guys go at it like i was just like wow i would

01:04:25.460 i want to be like these guys like graceful but like just off for the nail was that on skates i

01:04:33.780 mean i can skate but i don't know if i can multitask like yeah keeping keeping upright

01:04:42.820 while getting you know stick while skating not getting hit in the face with a puck and

01:04:48.340 punching somebody in the face that is the opinion multitasking right that's glorious and i think too

01:04:54.580 that you know uller's name means glory that i think if there's anything worth noting is persistence

01:05:00.900 stamina focus determination all of these tenants that uller is clearly connected to lead towards

01:05:09.140 glory uh leads lead towards being and living a glorious existence um i think you know it's it's

01:05:18.260 worth noting that i think there is a connection a manifestation ular has just like as to the the

01:05:25.940 ecstaticism of of odin in the fury of both poetry and war and i think a lot of people outside of

01:05:33.140 our our folk don't get that the idea of a god of poetry and war and death and battle but for us it

01:05:43.060 it's not so alien it's the same with uller uller is you know that that that cross between um just

01:05:51.700 pure tenacity uh and and and you know determination to cross the mountain just because the mountain's

01:06:00.260 there not not because you need to not because there's a specific reason it's because there

01:06:06.660 you know it's it's that um it's that wolverine of the north attitude um again i i've always

01:06:14.660 associated the wolverine animal to um uller i i know a lot of people were talking about like with

01:06:21.620 north's um mural with skadi and the ibexes um it's not that i'm a skewing i would say conventional

01:06:31.700 like people have uh connected skadi to wolves and i'm not askewing that but i um feel i think that

01:06:40.820 or just try to see the the gods in a mythic way that because i think that's the way our ancestors

01:06:46.260 kind of related to the gods um you know to see uh an animal like obviously we connect ravens and

01:06:53.700 things to oven so i saw the ibex the alpen ibex the mountains the wind that the animal that resists

01:07:00.820 against getting blown off the cliff you know it's just such a majestic animal and much to that uh

01:07:07.380 same sense anybody who's familiar with like wolverines uh know that they kind of exemplify

01:07:13.940 the characteristics of uller there um you know there's some great documentaries out there the

01:07:19.940 ghost of the north uh the wolverine there is a couple of books about the wolverines in yellowstone

01:07:25.760 and the are uh in the grand teton mountains in america the return of um if anybody's familiar

01:07:32.680 with banff he's he was a wolverine that was studied for many many years and again that's

01:07:39.000 i got that reference he climbed the mountain because it was there like that is the essence

01:07:47.080 of uller as well sheer tenacity and the drive to survive no matter what and i think that's

01:07:55.480 been with us longer than than just strictly the nordic period i mean if you think about like the

01:08:00.680 otzi man in uh in the alps you know he's carrying a bow and he's trekking up these long you know

01:08:07.240 he's been frozen over um that determination that drive of the of the the huntsman the man out uh

01:08:16.440 the shadow out there you know trying to get food and survive or you know track the the unknown

01:08:23.800 paths that's uller for sure awesome all right we do have a question from gene i have a question

01:08:35.160 is the wild hunt also relevant to other people like the slavic or the celtic groups

01:08:41.320 so most sir i don't know about the sloths but i do know about the the gulls i like to say the

01:08:46.280 gulls instead of the celts because i celtic is i i love the word celtic i just like to bring it up

01:08:52.520 as a point that the word is a greek word which means the people with pants and the kel toy but

01:09:00.840 it's worth noting that pants were extremely hard to make back then so it was considered an

01:09:06.280 achievement and the the mediterraneans that were running into the keltoi other people with pants

01:09:11.640 they didn't have pants they they usually wore like long frock tunic like things um and of course the

01:09:18.760 plaid or the the um the print of threading plaid was associated with them as well um but they speak

01:09:27.080 gaelic so they are the gauls but it's been i i won't put it into the words of the celtic people

01:09:34.120 because they have accepted this term uh to be awesome and so that they run with it but i like

01:09:39.240 to bring it up too they are the goals as far as the goals go yes yes there is connections to the

01:09:45.400 wild hunt um is it physically written down uh as to my knowledge no but there's references in

01:09:54.520 relation to uh imagery of the of like god of the hunts and in particular there's uh references on

01:10:02.040 the mainland and on the isles uh but mainly on them in the mainland in france or in the gaulish

01:10:08.040 lands of uh cerninus or kerninus and he is seen with antlers now what you know i and obviously

01:10:17.240 most people take as perhaps animalism or hunting or whatever but it is worth noting that on the

01:10:24.120 isles um after christianity has firmly placed itself there is the story of hern the hunter

01:10:32.840 in england that's a very interesting cool story and i think we can see that there's this

01:10:40.840 convexing there uh and hern is seen with having antler horns as well um but yes the the hunt

01:10:48.920 uh the wild hunt i think survives anywhere where there is the teutonic people and the gaulish

01:10:55.560 people have kind of intermixed and the idea of the wild hunt has always uh you know whether it's

01:11:01.480 seen as the wild hunt is somehow connected to the sealy court and and and the uh the you know

01:11:09.400 the natural and somewhat chaotic beings in the gaulish faith uh whether they might be considered

01:11:15.640 like fairy or fae or whatever the the title might be uh where the wild hunt is kind of connected to

01:11:21.660 that time this this assurgence of of them coming out and on on the teutonic side the idea of the

01:11:28.360 hunts huntsmen riding out during that time and that manifested in a tradition of hunting the

01:11:34.100 boar around the yule tide so both have kind of carried it and i would say it's just it's too

01:11:42.480 convoluted to figure out if it was from one to the other if they both had it and just they

01:11:48.720 ended up marrying together as they existed together or you know if one influenced the

01:11:56.320 other it's too hard to say but yes there's there's a lot of correlations with uh the huntsman and the

01:12:02.360 wolf pack or the hunting of wolves with hounds uh sorry not the wolf pack but the the hunting of

01:12:07.700 wolves, hound and dog-like references to Othyn and the cults of Othyn and to the hunter gods

01:12:20.240 of the Celtic people in relation to the hounds that hunt. So there's a lot of correlation between

01:12:28.200 those two. They're just not expressly written, I think, amongst the Gallic people. They're referenced,

01:12:33.240 i don't know it's like orbitally around the act of hunting whether it's a hero or um you know a a

01:12:44.120 a post-christian uh myth or legendary figure because like herm the hunter has like a he seems

01:12:52.600 to have both gaulish and germanic traits that have survived past the conversion of christianity so

01:13:03.240 Awesome. Corey's got a couple of questions for us here. Can you please give me the basics? Who is Uller? What is his backstory? What's he best known for? And what is your favorite Uller story? So we've answered a few of that already, Svon, but you want to give us just a little bit of backstory on that?

01:13:22.420 yeah cooler is the glorious one his name means the glorious one or the one of glory he's prayed

01:13:28.900 to for hunting self-determination survival and self-defense um he is listed by snorri as being

01:13:37.140 the son of sif the the wife of thor the goddess that is she's often associated with families

01:13:46.420 clans and uh you know farmsteads uh and also by proxy perhaps groves and wheat or groves and rye

01:13:55.940 and um uh he is he mentions that he is the son of sif and is the stepson of thor which is an

01:14:06.740 interesting thing again we we've had classes about the familial ties between the gods presented by

01:14:13.620 snorty whether you know uh some of them seem to be yes very much built on previous factual

01:14:22.420 understandings of the gods you know coming together and giving forth a new divine entity

01:14:29.860 that has dominion in in the middle world um and then others seem to be again cultural context as

01:14:38.020 well um and that like again that the next class will be bringing that up or the next um uh victory

01:14:47.300 never sleeps we'll be bringing that up with for seti about how he was honored amongst the frisians

01:14:52.100 but is clearly you know familially based amongst the nords by snorty and so you know what is that

01:14:59.380 contextual by culture or is that legitimate um in in regards to divinity so he's mentioned as being

01:15:06.900 the stepson of thor that is just an interesting thing in and of itself there um uh he is given

01:15:14.500 his own realm called ear dollar y r and that y has a dash over it and that that's usually like

01:15:20.900 the double e sound so it's ear which is the word for a u tree in old norse so the u dales

01:15:27.780 er dollar and um that realm is again by its name a coniferous forest is the uh

01:15:39.380 the i guess the overall picture being painted in that name um but given a realm nonetheless is huge

01:15:48.420 and um or or not given a realm but connected to a realm or an understanding of a realm

01:15:56.340 well and and i think again that's talking about dominion uh that our ancestors uh snorty was

01:16:02.340 saying you know he has a realm called the udales but i think that has a deeper meaning that talking

01:16:06.500 about the presidence of dominion and where they where the gods have power in the material world

01:16:13.140 um and my favorite uller story and that's kind of funny because i don't particularly like

01:16:20.740 sacro saxo grammaticus is uh i don't like anything that he's done and alice here please forgive me

01:16:28.580 because he alice and i have talked much about this and about saxo's accounts and how it is useful

01:16:36.660 and i think it is important especially in reference to balder because i think snorty

01:16:40.980 makes balder very christ-like and that and and saxo does not and it's interesting because saxo

01:16:48.660 was a devout christian and i think he took it as a point to make sure that no one kind of interceded

01:16:55.860 on his religion whereas i think snorri on the other hand might not have been super devout as a

01:17:00.820 christian but was utilizing that as a point to make sure that icelandic people kept these stories

01:17:07.700 or perhaps by that point had a reference a correlation of understanding because they were

01:17:13.780 you know thoroughly christian by that time um so i don't really like saxo's uh you know

01:17:23.460 story of of uh uller which leaves us with really no story after that um however uh because of the

01:17:33.300 association with hern the hunter i really like hern the hunter even though there's a lot of

01:17:39.220 of christian stuff in that legend where hearn is a is a cursed hunter he's a cursed man uh he makes

01:17:45.320 a deal with the devil on the crossroads and again this is a gaul that's very much a gaulish

01:17:50.000 tradition of the idea of going to uh you know a sacred spot in between a liminal space and

01:17:55.820 kind of making a deal with a spirit or uh you know an entity or something of ill rebuke to gain power

01:18:02.520 or or to you know harry the forest uh you know in revenge against a king or a lord or somebody

01:18:11.080 you know whether you know that kind of manifests into her and the hunter or into like robin the

01:18:15.560 hood uh or what have you um yeah i i don't know there's again outside of that there isn't much

01:18:23.960 of a story so um but again i i really have taken like i i committed to uh survival in the marine

01:18:33.880 corps i was trained in uh jungle warfare training specifically and so i've been through some very

01:18:40.920 very hard times where it was living like living in a well in an okinawan in a japanese island and in

01:18:49.800 the dense like mountains of the philippines and just eating whatever we could catch so 0.83

01:18:56.920 my devotion towards ular is based more on experience or or at least like especially fear

01:19:04.440 fear of of going hungry and um uh or you know uh just making the wrong step or doing something so

01:19:14.920 maintaining focus for days on end even though your dog tired and you have very little intake

01:19:19.960 of food i have found um that that kind of tenacity that spirit and you know like what would

01:19:28.280 again living for the glory of the gods you live morally to be accepted by your ancestors when you

01:19:34.200 die but you live in the now to be noticed by the gods in glory and a lot of that involves

01:19:40.360 you know what would they think of me if i just gave up now

01:19:44.920 That's a lot of the devotion there. I think I get from Uller is I have a deep love and respect for him in my religious beliefs.

01:19:56.960 And they don't come from that, from any of the stories, though, because, again, the one story that we have, I don't like.

01:20:06.160 Fair enough. That's an honest answer. Honest. Honesty is a virtue, right?

01:20:14.920 All right. The Wolf Throne asks, will there be Hoffs dedicated to our goddesses after the Hoffs with the 12 Aesir are finished?

01:20:22.920 of course i know i uh i i would think yes but again logistics is a thing not i mean if the

01:20:34.360 glory of the gods both the house and the our senior are given to us in our drive forward to

01:20:42.200 attain the temples then yes but i'm not going to speak for the gods and it can only be based off

01:20:48.420 whether or not we show glory to them and attain but as far as like from the church's perspective

01:20:54.500 i don't see there's absolutely no reason why we wouldn't it's just about organizing and how we

01:21:00.580 would go about doing that there's there's debate on that with inside the house about how we would

01:21:06.100 do that if there's would there be a temple to frigga alone would it be a temple to every one

01:21:13.540 of the aus senior would it be a temple to frigga and the maidens of fence all or would it be you

01:21:19.140 know there's there's some logistics that need to be worked out but i from my end and i i'm not

01:21:24.420 speaking for you witten brandy but from my end i would see no reason why we wouldn't be driving for

01:21:30.020 that once we attained the 12 um house we would then move to the au senior um but that's yeah

01:21:40.340 there's a lot in play to that question. I have a big hope for the future up in the Baldur's Hoff

01:21:47.040 area. A hope, mind you, a hope is that we have a Baldur's Hoff. And people have to travel a long

01:21:55.720 ways to get to Baldur's Hoff sometimes. It's not unusual for a membership to drive anywhere from

01:22:01.600 one to nine hours to worship in the Temple of Baldur. And, you know, a lot of the folk around

01:22:08.800 here have been talking about, wouldn't it be great if we had our own big house, right? So I would

01:22:15.160 love to have a Baldur's Hoff and a Nana's house. I would love to see that at Baldur's Hoff. 0.99

01:22:22.840 Now that's a long time down the road. I mean, we still got to get the floor finished and

01:22:27.620 the steeple resealed and our awesome windows that we want to put in. This is a long ways

01:22:33.320 down the road but wouldn't that be nice to see i just we just got uh confirmation there else here

01:22:39.240 ago these alisari has entered the chat no we are yes we will we will have hoffs to to freak and to

01:22:48.680 freya certainly yes so there is at least that uh 100 confirmation there uh that we are driving for

01:22:57.800 for that first and foremost but after that and what that could be like again a home uh you know

01:23:04.720 would that i guess what what do the christians call it when um there's a house near near or

01:23:09.480 connected to the church a parsonage parsonage yeah yeah but like but like not i'm not saying

01:23:15.040 that we would have a parsonage but a home or uh you know i'd even suggested possibly considering

01:23:20.420 some groves or groves maybe uh to some of the al-senior who are more on the uh connected to

01:23:29.460 uh nature you know maybe temples to frig and and freya and to the maidens of fensaler but perhaps

01:23:37.860 groves to idon or to sif or you know to uh gather or grither or render or you know any of the other

01:23:48.340 our senior that perhaps you know are connected more to the earth and to uh elemental primordial

01:23:58.180 stewardship if you will right but you know how we get there's fun yes by paying off new york's

01:24:04.980 half right exactly and it blows my mind because a lot of people think like uh yes and we are

01:24:14.900 we are a mighty mighty force we are condensed but we are you know again it's it's the dedication of

01:24:22.740 those folks including ourselves on hoftoller i'm on hoftoller you know it's like a lot of people

01:24:27.220 don't realize that that even the clergy you know uh are putting in time money and paying hoftoller

01:24:34.500 or you know paying percentage uh either yearly monthly or or what have you i'm annual um

01:24:40.500 um are are paying in as well towards the glory of getting to phrase off getting to tears off

01:24:49.620 and then moving you know forward and we've done so much and yet you know we're just we're like this

01:24:56.100 powerhouse of of just condensed folk and we need to bring people home that's another big thing I'm

01:25:03.300 I know a lot of folks talk about like proselytizing, if you will, about faith and religion and how that can leave a bad taste in people's mouth when it comes to certain things. 0.98

01:25:18.660 But we are talking about coming home.

01:25:21.780 We are talking about bringing people together.

01:25:24.020 Now more than ever do we need to build communities underneath the glory of the gods.

01:25:30.600 They need to shelter and provide over us a guiding forward vision of our folk.

01:25:38.260 We bring it to them, and they then in turn show us the way.

01:25:42.580 And I think that that's important.

01:25:45.160 I think that that's a crucial thing that we need to do.

01:25:47.480 And we've had so much luck and success and blessings from the gods on all of our people that have come together.

01:25:55.560 and i'm just and we're working class folks that are getting together and really trying hard

01:26:00.120 to build forward and upwards and and and make a good name for ourselves despite all the vitriol

01:26:06.680 you can see on the internet you know tangibly seeing the children playing you know with the

01:26:12.280 eggs and seeing that the hoffs and seeing them getting fixed and changing before our eyes and

01:26:19.160 it's beautiful but it we have to call people home we have to bring our folk back and we have to

01:26:26.200 we're not going to get there unless we start you know living our lives and telling folks like

01:26:33.160 i'm out of truth this is why i act this way this is why i talk this way this is why i i hold these

01:26:38.200 virtues to guide me through my life and um if you're interested you should you know look here

01:26:45.240 and then and come down and see us at the temple see us at the hof you know tell them what a hof

01:26:50.040 is you know that we we say church but we also say hof and you know because it makes it easier for

01:26:56.680 people to understand when they hear church tell them what a hof is you know tell them about how

01:27:01.080 like it's existing in our language it's you know most people would especially up in like in the

01:27:07.560 north too you say like hofmeister and suddenly like yeah i know what that means oh wait a minute

01:27:12.280 yeah you guys go to a hoff wow that's amazing and you know they understand that it's

01:27:18.920 we're not we haven't been separated we've just been

01:27:23.560 obfuscated from it thank you so nick's got all of the websites down here on the bottom if you

01:27:32.360 visit those websites you're going to notice that there's been a lot of updates and upgrades and

01:27:38.120 all kinds of interesting things going on so visit all of those hoff websites especially on the

01:27:43.720 calendar section or the event section find out what is going on near and around you in that area

01:27:50.840 there's all there's something going on every single weekend in the afa every weekend so click

01:27:56.760 on those websites find out what's going on around you i love see i love seeing those i love seeing

01:28:03.560 the colors i love seeing the banners of of our and the and the uh the kinfilkia animals of our

01:28:10.200 of our folk um up there i think a lot of people that might not know you know yeah we uh we celebrate

01:28:19.240 house true as a living religion to today so like the the shields that we have here these the badge

01:28:24.760 marks are uh you know they're steeped in tradition both in heraldry and even in american tradition

01:28:31.080 that you know this symbol of the of the badge um and these animals represent so much and the colors

01:28:37.800 represent so much of the folks connected to these temples this is our organic culture before your

01:28:43.320 eyes we're not mimicking anything we're we are we are placing honor in in the tradition by the

01:28:51.080 shapes of the badges but they're uniquely our own uh from slepnir at odenshof the very beginning to

01:28:58.840 the bear and the wolf and the marlin and it's gonna and hopefully soon the stag

01:29:06.440 that's awesome i love this it's on its way it's only it is it is 102 dollars per member away

01:29:13.800 that is how quickly we can make that happen yeah it's so crazy too when you hear it in those small

01:29:19.560 that small incremental number is it is it's it's that's attainable shows you how real it can be

01:29:28.200 yes yes the elshir goli has a question uh-oh medium show can you please talk to talk about

01:29:38.200 uhler's magic bone i did already kind of made reference to that about about the skate about

01:29:44.520 the bone in which the spells were cast upon to go across the sea um yes uh again the the bone the

01:29:54.920 the way uh the the bone itself is it's not quite referenced as a ski or a skate but i i have always

01:30:01.080 taken it to be in reference to or poetically referenced to as you know a skate because they

01:30:07.480 made their skates out of bones they did not make skis out of bones they made them out of uh out of

01:30:13.240 well you would actually um and was it was a prized for its flexibility um as well as for bows but um

01:30:21.880 Again, I think the cultural context to that is the ski, but Saxo again making Ullr some super wizard who, you know, kind of silver surfers across the ocean.

01:30:41.200 Yes, the bone.

01:30:43.860 See, now I'm going to hear this all weekend at Osterum.

01:30:48.240 The medium show.

01:30:49.980 you are welcome sir

01:30:52.700 I'm gonna have to like suplex someone

01:30:59.160 you're gonna have to find the biggest guy there this week 0.99

01:31:04.340 and put him in a headlock and take your whooping

01:31:08.180 just to get this medium show out of your system 0.90

01:31:13.360 you know I'm short round and low to ground

01:31:17.760 I don't know

01:31:18.360 fix or it didn't happen right all right we got a question from he asked what was religion like

01:31:33.120 in the nordic bronze age so uh john this is a this is a great question i don't know if

01:31:41.120 If it could be answered quickly, I mean, the Bronze Age, think about how much archaeological evidence of religious practice in Sweden, Denmark, which by Bronze Age, the Danes wouldn't even have established in Denmark.

01:32:00.940 and that it was the peninsula itself was you know again by other people um you know but bronze age

01:32:11.180 worship i think really really sticks out in the nordic period from a couple of different things

01:32:17.900 one we talk about sweden sweden's a huge one because so much of it had survived the stone

01:32:23.180 carvings, a lot of the iconography of the union between a man and a woman or a man-like figure

01:32:31.700 and a woman-like figure, because they could be divine. I'm not saying one way or the other,

01:32:36.840 but clearly, yes, the polaric sexes are important to our bronzes ancestors because of the endowment

01:32:43.020 of both the male and female of their genders and their anatomy are clearly marked on these stones

01:32:51.340 and how important it is when the power of the masculine and the feminine come together,

01:32:57.280 what they can create, that imagery seems to be very heavy and prevalent.

01:33:04.520 Also, too, boat and wagon iconography is heavily seen there from the burial shapes of the ships.

01:33:16.240 So they're burying the dead, but they're burying them in mounds shaped like ships.

01:33:20.580 also to again uh barrows themselves the a lot of people um seem to forget like they think of

01:33:28.340 a viking funeral or you know the viking funeral the nordic age viking funeral of the burning in

01:33:35.320 the pyre but it was the bronze age where we had a lot of the barrow uh like building and burials

01:33:44.560 of kings sacral kings uh or even sacral lines uh buried in so there's a lot of evidence there um

01:33:53.760 and you know again stone placement is a huge one uh so there's but there's speculation as

01:34:02.000 to far as far as to what they might have done astronomical events stone placement water

01:34:08.640 obviously we we can kind of surmise um you know bog and swamp um whether it was uh sacrifices of

01:34:17.440 those who were caught in battle um i think that uh the the killing of of unwanted or criminals

01:34:26.660 and things like that may have been left for other areas perhaps there was some designation as to

01:34:31.940 uh you know one area being sacral and the other being kind of more or less places to play put

01:34:37.680 things that no longer need to be seen by the folk um so you know you have these these uh

01:34:44.960 senses of sacrifice the romans talked a lot about how the amber trade was already well

01:34:51.440 established in the baltic area by their time so it you know it's assuming that going even further

01:34:57.600 back that during the bronze age there was a lot of uh trade and and movement there about uh amber

01:35:03.920 So Amber may have had some prevalence. Obviously, we do see it with connections to Freya by the Nordic period. Amber is deeply connected to her.

01:35:14.800 um so you know as far as the faith and and the practice of of the gods in the bronze age it's

01:35:27.160 it's a lot of evidence but most of it's archaeological it's not really written down

01:35:32.900 but there's a ton of evidence and i would say definitely focusing on sweden and gotland and

01:35:39.000 And even across the way in Zeeland, which is the island chains in between Denmark and Norway and Sweden, there's a lot of evidence in those areas of Bronze Age stone effigies and works that may be people showing people worshiping the gods in that time frame.

01:36:03.040 And of course, too, there's also evidence about the bronze disc skirts that the priestesses, or at least perhaps maidens of some renown within culture, were wearing at the time, these kind of braided skirts.

01:36:18.020 So they have, you know, clothing and archaeological references to those times, but apparently extremely active and far more than the Nordic period.

01:36:29.560 i think i remember uh i was here ago he was talking about it when he went to sweden how much

01:36:34.600 he was blown away by the uh the worship of the gods before even the viking era or what people

01:36:42.600 would consider the viking area era or or you know from like five five hundred to ten you know

01:36:49.480 ten hundred they just that's that's a highly focused area but there's so much more from before

01:36:55.560 and it's right there i mean the the swedes and the nords can like go to these places

01:37:02.120 um and just walk amongst those stones so

01:37:08.360 i see monk over here he's semper fi monk um i i see that as well yep i was in 03 11. uh i was in

01:37:17.480 uh 33 um but yeah no marine is ever medium by any means no there's only two types of marines there's

01:37:24.600 rottweilers and and dobermans um that's i know he'll catch that reference or anybody that's

01:37:32.360 been in the marine corps will catch those references but yeah um no i'm an old man now so

01:37:39.400 uh i can i can joke it myself i think it's fun um you know i think if anybody can't take

01:37:47.800 a joke about themselves i think that's a big thing too in the internet days a lot of people can't

01:37:52.360 can't they take themselves way too seriously and they they they can't laugh at themselves and i

01:37:58.060 think if it's one thing in the marine corps and i'm sure you can attest to this is uh you grow

01:38:03.120 a thick skin because there is nothing more savage than a group of bored marines and and you just

01:38:09.600 mess up in front of them and they're gonna eat you alive i mean you got you got to be able to

01:38:14.740 take your lickings and not you know no breaking can't break them i get it swan you might be the 0.96

01:38:21.720 medium show but at least you're not the chihuahua with the pink collar frothing at the mouth 0.95

01:38:26.140 no no no by no means no no you might be a medium show but i'm an ankle biter so

01:38:32.760 i didn't know you were referencing to yourself if i if i post in a chat of a chihuahua with a pink

01:38:42.480 collar growling oh that's you coming that's me somebody's about to get it what am i gonna do

01:38:48.920 i'm like five foot three and 100 pounds soaking wet i'm gonna yeah i had no idea i had no idea

01:38:56.580 i had some like facial resemblance to the big show like maybe he's a long lost brother or

01:39:01.940 something i don't know you should see if he wants to donate to what yeah well and that picture of

01:39:09.420 him with the long hair he doesn't he like shaved his head and all that stuff but yeah i mean i

01:39:15.260 wonder if he has a good barber's phone you should find oh yeah maybe i could yeah

01:39:19.280 do i have a story to tell you

01:39:23.040 michael michael sent us 25 on entropy thank you michael he says no question just saying i love

01:39:33.760 listening to these on my patrols while at work well i'm glad that you enjoy listening to them

01:39:38.900 we appreciate the donation very much thank you sir thank you and and and uller bless you on your

01:39:45.100 patrols. Whatever that in reference, I'll leave that to you. OPSEC is a thing, but wherever your

01:39:52.060 patrols may lead you, I hope head is on a swivel and you're always ready to climb that mountain.

01:39:58.480 Because it's there. Because it's there. Come out on top is what I'm getting at on that one.

01:40:04.000 Always come out on top. Absolutely. Europa asks us, Witten Svan,

01:40:09.340 Witten Brandy, share some old star recipes and some special food treats that you recommend for

01:40:14.400 a proper celebration. Congrats to the AFA 1000 member strong hail victory. So my Ostara, I

01:40:22.820 typically will do honey cakes on Ostara. I like to do those. I will also, I also recommend for

01:40:30.140 those of you who like to garden, make your honey cakes and muffin tins and plant them in your

01:40:35.580 garden. It's a great way to, to do that. And to lay down your offering, instead of planting a big

01:40:42.180 old cake, plant a few little muffin tin cakes. They'll be a lot easier. Same kind of meaning,

01:40:50.420 much easier to bury a little cake than a big cake. What about you, Svan? You got some special

01:40:54.820 treats for Ostara? Yeah, I think it's kind of funny. The question was asked. A lot of people

01:41:00.180 don't know this, but I went to culinary school as well. Oh, the cooking bar. Yeah. Barber is just

01:41:07.140 the last on a long list of trades i've been all over the world and worked in a lot of different

01:41:12.740 things before and after the marine corps um because again i am an old man uh 50 is on the horizon um

01:41:22.900 a couple more years you know like i got like six more years i think the big show is 50.

01:41:29.060 need something oh yeah well he's the big brother the big show no um the uh yeah so one of my

01:41:38.040 favorite things again i mentioned is hassen pfeffer but you can do it a lot of different ways

01:41:42.960 um so like here we have a local uh farmer's market that sells uh rabbit um and one of my

01:41:51.020 favorite things to do is to like to fry it because i live in the south and

01:41:56.420 the gods want me to fry everything i eat no i i want to i i like to um fry in a in a iron

01:42:06.220 skillet so uh and i use again this is super southern so i like my favorite thing to do

01:42:13.300 is to make a bread and cornflake uh like breading and to section the rabbit up into pieces

01:42:21.320 dip them in egg roll them in flour then dip them in heavy cream and then roll them again in corn

01:42:30.460 flakes and then put them in a cast iron skillet and fry them up and it doesn't take long uh because

01:42:36.780 by the time you section out the rabbit it's in very small pieces um so it would be utilized more

01:42:42.980 as an accent you would you could do it on like rice pilaf you could do it on um like you know

01:42:48.640 like a risotto with uh mushrooms um if you wanted to incorporate eggs you could you could even do

01:42:55.840 like a a pickle cabbage and egg uh and then like on the side of a starch of some sort maybe you

01:43:02.920 know sugar glazed potatoes and then put like maybe two or three um pieces of leg or the back of the

01:43:11.560 rabbit, um, fried and you got a great meal right there. 0.64

01:43:16.780 I really hope, uh, apprentice folk builders,

01:43:19.480 Stian Penner is listening tonight so he can get that down.

01:43:24.100 He is, he's a resident chef at Baldershoff.

01:43:27.460 So, oh yeah, really?

01:43:29.420 Oh, oh.

01:43:31.120 Me and see that that's more than, more than the big show.

01:43:34.840 Me and, me and him have a lot in common.

01:43:38.400 It's use of the word.

01:43:41.560 yeah that's that's that is weird um they uh yeah i mean that's it's easy yeah fried corn flaked

01:43:51.520 uh crusted and and then too like my favorite thing of course is you use like a white gravy

01:43:56.640 on on the rabbit so some sort of a white whether it's a bachamel or um even a southern white

01:44:04.100 gravy you know because it makes contrast with that when you when you uh fry a rabbit in uh

01:44:11.100 in the cast iron it gets real dark so you have this like golden reddish uh little you know meat

01:44:16.980 on a bone on top of the starch and then it's just drizzled with like a like a white cream sauce or

01:44:22.860 gravy it's really good nice steen i hope you're taking notes we need to talk talk to spawn yeah

01:44:33.380 no yeah i need to talk to him he's he i'm finding out stuff about you we need to talk

01:44:40.540 Oh, he makes us these wonderful Julia Child modified recipes. Amazing.

01:44:52.100 Yeah, she's an amazing chef. Definitely. 1.00

01:44:55.800 Yes. All right. Allie's got a question. Talk about food and I fall down a rabbit hole.

01:45:01.360 I know. A rabbit hole.

01:45:02.740 allie asked scotty and uller are both connected to winter and our substance during the during

01:45:16.740 that time can you speak on the separation and differences between the more primal giantess

01:45:22.020 and the god yeah uh one uh unless you want you want to go sorry no i meant to i jumped in and

01:45:31.940 was i was like wait a minute no go ahead i yeah i was gonna say because we brought up scotty before

01:45:38.260 with the new york notice mural um you know there's meryl mural um has also something about really

01:45:44.580 that's really important when you look off beyond scotty there's a glacier there and uh i have

01:45:52.900 i think that the key difference is when we're talking about um i mean there's really no reference

01:46:00.900 to scotty in relation to hunting there is reference to her seeking revenge and she does

01:46:07.620 wear a barney and a sword when she comes to you know enact vengeance upon the gods for the slaying

01:46:15.380 of her father because that is the accordance of of the right way to do things um but the gods in

01:46:21.780 you know see it at that point that there's no need for that and so they begin the the trials and of

01:46:28.340 course that that story is amazing um and so at at njortzhov you see she is wearing a bernie

01:46:36.260 she is wearing a a a battle shirt and she has a shield and a sword that are laying on the ground

01:46:43.460 because she's by the beach now um but it as far as i think there's a lot of folks that have taken

01:46:52.420 a connection to uh ullr and skadi and hunting and and even so far as to say that perhaps they are

01:46:58.340 somewhat together um i think that uller is uh again more about hunting and the the forest

01:47:10.420 whereas scotty is definitely her dominion resides about the origin of the lake the origin of the

01:47:18.500 waterway that travels from the mountain to the sea and i think that the the secret in that story the

01:47:25.540 key in that story is about glaciers and so i've often referred to her as the the asinia and again

01:47:31.940 when we talk about the asinia a lot of people are like well she's a jotain and we were talking about

01:47:36.100 giants and and uh people try to they or they conceptualize the jotains as being like a separate

01:47:42.020 race from the gods and they are not uh again primordial forces and um you know forces align

01:47:50.260 more towards order and once they bridge that gap in making a union that union being either you know

01:47:58.420 again symbolically in our myths as marriage or having you know offspring or creating another

01:48:06.340 divine dominion um to interlay into the material world um or if if uh they are you know oaked in

01:48:16.100 some way then you know oftentimes i would consider them to be our senior uh or you know part of the

01:48:23.540 gods and so scadi i've always associated with the bleakness of the mountains certainly would be one

01:48:30.660 if you were trekking the mountains um unfortunately i know a little bit too much about trekking in the

01:48:36.500 mountains and some of the terrible stuff that you know mountain trekking i i climbed mount fuji

01:48:42.340 once um and so uh and i've always wanted to climb other mountains i don't i'm you know

01:48:49.300 i don't think i'll ever get that chance at least you know not because i've got young kids now and

01:48:53.700 stuff but um did climb mount fuji but there are you know like things about like everest and

01:48:59.940 a lot about the trash and and the waste and a lot of the stuff it's unfortunate that the sacral

01:49:07.220 climb of mountains and the lessons that are to be learned about the finicky nature up there

01:49:13.060 uh when you read about people going and climbing like everest and talking about how

01:49:18.100 there there seems to be this uh fickle and entity-like feeling of whether or not they're

01:49:25.060 going to get blessed with a clear passage or they're going to die because it's just they're

01:49:29.220 going to get blown over frozen you know late their camp will be laid to waste there just seems to be

01:49:35.220 this, this, uh, very harsh reality of, of, of, of an, of the dominion of something over the

01:49:41.300 mountains. And I think that is certainly Skavi. So there's, there is a slight difference. I would 0.99

01:49:46.820 say like, you know, if you were looking at the, the, uh, coniferous forest or just the forest in

01:49:51.680 general and the idea of hunting, I would associate more with ruler and again, skiing and stuff in

01:49:57.900 the winter time, most certainly because of the hunting season. But Skavi is, is much more higher

01:50:04.320 on that line beyond the tree into that that wind torn area and um you know if you find yourself

01:50:13.640 in her domain and you're asking to be spared it would be a much better like framework of that

01:50:23.240 i think if anybody was praying to scotty it would be please spare me um you know uh or or keep me

01:50:31.380 out of avalanche way uh you know that i think that that dominion really presides uh over in scotty's

01:50:38.660 realm but there is a deeper meaning there about glaciers and the the rivers to the sea and what

01:50:44.340 those estuaries are and how we've you know our ancestors have seen those dominions have seen

01:50:50.500 chunks of the mountain slowly and pervadingly go down into the ocean and i think there's a point

01:50:58.660 there that a lot of people are ca that should catch with skadi and north um but her dominion

01:51:04.660 yeah is above that boreal line if you're praying to skadi it's yeah it could be a life or death

01:51:12.340 matter in that in that regards and again she is not known for her mercy no yeah it's like 0.99

01:51:22.980 the internet term always jumps into my head like damn nature you're scary like 0.97

01:51:28.660 which one are we talking about now that that's we can bring that up later but yes scary scary 0.92

01:51:37.900 jb has another question for us um is there a god related to music and arts swan yeah we covered

01:51:48.940 that with uh with uh bragi yep um yes and so the uh again bragi is is often you know correlated to

01:52:01.460 poetry and to music he's called the scald of the gods or the you know the shop if you're using the

01:52:08.280 anglo-saxon um and uh he you know again when we talk about music i i would even go so far as to

01:52:17.420 say with our understanding of music now because if we're talking about bragi does bragi need to

01:52:22.840 be worshipped in all like can we only get like a tail harpa and only honor bragi in the format of

01:52:31.540 like you know uh an alamonic harp or you know uh a yom viking like um pan flute that's they had

01:52:41.560 they found one for the uh during the the joms vikingur uh site they had a block it was a pan

01:52:48.440 flute with the holes drilled into a block of wood so like we can't just worship the gods in a

01:52:54.840 historical context because in a way that is kind of like larping the gods it's it's one thing when

01:53:02.040 people say you guys are larping as vikings like first off no we're not but but the other is is

01:53:08.360 larping the gods is is seeing the gods only in a context to a into a time and that discounts

01:53:18.360 so much of the inspiration of music that has happened in our folk i mean classical music

01:53:26.360 you know everything that is a huge corpus of the beauty of of and the magic of music um and you

01:53:34.360 know the hellenics have a huge stake in the construction of sound um you know when we talk 0.98

01:53:41.240 about the mathematics of music and things like that but it is you know a fool to say like the 0.90

01:53:47.000 germanic spirit had no influence over music whatsoever the germanic you know tendency to 0.79

01:53:54.600 towards music and what it has become christianity has influenced a lot of that but it did not

01:53:59.160 entirely i mean the romantic period much of the idealization of the ancestral folk faith whether

01:54:07.320 it was done in a romantic sense kind of intermixed with science and and you know perhaps catholic

01:54:13.400 mysticism or whatever you might want to look into it as there was clearly some manifestation of the

01:54:18.920 in the blood coming back and it was a huge influence on the music so you know to me like

01:54:25.720 bragi is just as much in beethoven as as he would be in say like medieval instruments or or even

01:54:34.620 dark age instrument instrumentation you know like um but yes 100 that he is in in dominion and

01:54:45.000 for us to also say oh is he the god of music yes he's the god of music uh well you know and for us

01:54:51.660 to say that's so trite like to have a god of music uh especially i think you know people that

01:54:59.140 are monotheistic uh people that are you know or the philosophical minded or the you know the

01:55:06.100 hellenics that were philosophes that kind of started to destruct divinity into into bigger

01:55:11.560 things and concepts and and all of that stuff you know oh it's so trite just to have a god of music

01:55:16.460 but it's more than that obviously we we spoke we spoke of bragi being too prime uh not primordial

01:55:23.180 but um the symphonic sound of order amongst heaven that bragi is the mouthpiece of the gods he's the

01:55:32.300 the sound wave of or the the frequency if you will of the cosmos he is the focused

01:55:39.020 sound wave of the gods and so we could take it into a much bigger context and debate and argue

01:55:47.180 or or conceptualize and dream about how bragi or meditate and pray on and perhaps even receive

01:55:54.780 insight as to what bragi might be uh more than just the god of music but to say he is the god

01:56:01.500 of music incorporates both music and all its levels amongst our people and the metaphysical

01:56:08.140 He is the frequency of the gods

01:56:10.500 Just as much as Heimdall is

01:56:12.680 The separation of light

01:56:15.500 That light of order

01:56:17.660 From the aus

01:56:18.540 He is the nexus point

01:56:21.020 In which the light is focused

01:56:22.400 From the gods

01:56:23.040 Bragi is too like that with sound

01:56:25.020 Beautiful

01:56:28.400 Sorry, I'm soapboxing again

01:56:31.900 I don't need tangents

01:56:34.360 obsidian has a question for us are you aware the recently discovered

01:56:41.820 brec brecty it yeah brec brecty it yeah or brecty it day yeah it was published yesterday today and

01:56:50.740 as the oldest mention of odin so i've seen that shared around our groups in our group chats our

01:56:57.760 spiritual excellence chats and things like that i have not read it yet swan have you looked at it

01:57:01.640 yet uh no so uh this is actually i saw this in the in the side here um and like again honesty

01:57:09.160 is a thing uh no i hadn't i saw a thumbnail i think earlier today but i was at work um and so

01:57:18.900 i didn't get a chance to look at it um and i was kind of over here i actually have it in the search

01:57:23.460 but i haven't clicked to go on it yet um and i would you know i'd very much like to know more

01:57:29.120 Now, I know there's reference, of course, the Vatstana Brekte or Brektiet has the full Futhark on it and has an image of a man or a man like being on a horse with a raven over his shoulder or a bird.

01:57:45.180 And most people connect that to Ovin.

01:57:49.580 But no, I did not get a chance to look into this yet.

01:57:53.700 So, yeah, I'm interested now.

01:57:56.280 I just put it on my phone.

01:57:57.580 so we both have rating to do when we get off here yeah i know it's like

01:58:01.440 we're talking to each other about this and we're on here after being at work and you guys get all

01:58:08.360 the good dirt before we do i know i know and then i end up putting in my notes on my phone i'm like

01:58:13.580 go look at this yes all right tony king of cheese hi tony he asked brandy's fun great to see you

01:58:23.840 both on. How are we doing tonight? I'm doing awesome. I am talking to you all with one of

01:58:29.340 my best friends, the medium show, even though I'm totally bummed out that I'm not going to see him

01:58:34.860 and my other friends at Thor's hop this weekend. I wish them all the best and I'm with you guys

01:58:40.140 in spirit. Spawn, how are you guys doing? Oh, I'm doing good. I'm actually, a lot of people don't

01:58:46.220 this as well sometimes my my chat is not uh sometimes it freezes or you know doesn't pick up

01:58:54.220 uh or it'll stop at a certain point and um but you know i'm seeing all these great questions tonight

01:58:59.580 um you know and i yeah i'm doing great but again i'm writing down notes half the time

01:59:06.540 half the time this these uh these episodes are me going down rabbit holes if you will yeah uh even

01:59:14.380 even from here it's like it's not about so much as giving out knowledges is like i'm starting to

01:59:21.020 receive that's why i'm here there you go yeah i was seeing over here like uh the greek idea of

01:59:29.580 of the uh the cacodemon uh the negative divine force that you offer something to keep away

01:59:35.020 disaster at bay in regarding jaskavi yes i was going to mention that actually too because there's

01:59:40.220 also reference of uh like a year a year is uh in in our faith is the god of the or excuse me the

01:59:49.740 jotain because he is aligned with the gods but not through marriage or through really through aid

01:59:56.860 he is it's it's um he is a jotain uh but is primordial primordial ocean so very much like

02:00:05.500 the titan oceanus um and he was honored or prayed to to avert disaster oftentimes i think between

02:00:15.740 like what would probably be the voyages between the faro islands and iceland would be a great time

02:00:21.260 to stave off the deep oceans vengeance if you will i also see that uh steen popped in in the

02:00:31.080 chat and he says, Roger, ma'am. And then again, Roger. I love that man. Love that man.

02:00:42.940 All right. Oh, it looks like, so when we had our entropy

02:00:46.200 donation, it's not Michael, it's Matthew. Sorry about that.

02:00:52.680 Thank you, Matthew, not Michael for that donation tonight. All right.

02:00:58.200 let's see was it the wolf throne i know that was oh yeah wolf thrones next thoughts on europe our

02:01:08.400 ancestral homeland becoming increasingly non-white was what does that mean for our future as

02:01:14.620 europeans so what that means for our future as europeans is that we need to take the preservation 0.97

02:01:21.440 of our music, our food, our culture, our people, and our religion into our own hands and make sure

02:01:28.720 that we never let it be forgotten. Because it is up to you and it is up to me and it is up to the

02:01:34.340 rest of our folk to make sure that what we hold sacred and what we hold true is never erased.

02:01:41.200 So we need to call more of our folk home to the religion of our people. We need to remember to

02:01:46.880 sing the old songs and make the old food. We need to remember to teach our children the dances in

02:01:53.140 our lore and that they know the names of their ancestors and that they understand the importance

02:01:58.060 of a traditional family so that our people and our traditions, the things that make us beautiful

02:02:03.440 are never erased. So rather than see the doom and gloom in that, which there very well may be

02:02:12.740 for a lot of people who are living that i understand that take that as a challenge to be

02:02:18.900 stronger to do better and to teach the children so that we will not lose the things that make us

02:02:29.780 beautiful special and that we won't be erased from history what do you think swan yeah i think that

02:02:36.740 it starts with our faith and it starts this is a spiritual battle and a spiritual battle isn't um

02:02:44.820 contextualized in like political jargon it's it is it is exactly what brandy just said it starts

02:02:53.300 off with you you know realizing you are a people i think a lot of people in modern context in europe

02:03:01.540 have been thoroughly modernized and secularized i think that we need you know coming back to our

02:03:07.380 faith one is the is the return away to turn away from modernity and the return back to an

02:03:14.820 understanding that we are a people we have cultures that our cultures are deeply connected i think

02:03:19.780 that's another big um problem with uh excuse me with um uh european folk and and i would even say

02:03:28.260 people within the anglo sphere whether we're talking about the canadians the americans the

02:03:32.740 australians the africaner as they're not anglo sphere i know they're dutch but or dutch anglo

02:03:41.220 but all of these folk you know it comes back down to starting at home starting in the soul

02:03:49.940 starting in the self starting and building with community building back to the gods and then

02:03:55.940 we understand the placement of what we are by our very existence allowed and should be allowed to

02:04:05.220 do, which is to define our place and to reclaim and stop the global movements of peoples that are

02:04:14.340 being brought in, clearly for political reasons. We know that people have the migrants and the 0.90

02:04:22.900 usage of political migrants on countries in europe and uh via the eu and all of that stuff we can see

02:04:29.860 that all happening and you can't you you know you might not be able to politically or even

02:04:39.380 you know physically stop uh you know the machinations of a twisted government but what

02:04:44.900 you can do is change yourself change your family teach your children build your community and

02:04:52.900 That is the tiny force that moves forward, that grows bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.

02:05:01.920 And, you know, again, conducting ourselves, because we're not going to do this, we're not alone, we're not simply by ourselves.

02:05:08.420 There are lots of people that may not agree with us religiously, but they will find the grain of our wood will lend them to help or to join us to see that we're worth.

02:05:24.080 Because, again, if you go out there and you're not a good person, you're not a noble person, and you're screaming at the top of your lungs about a very important subject, but you yourself are just not a great representative of anything spiritually, morally, intellectually, anything, you're not going to garner any sense of community or movement.

02:05:50.280 A lot of people that are just edgy or they want to be the bad guys in some ridiculous narrative that's placed out in the world, those people, it's laughable and it's sad at the same time.

02:06:11.940 Because, again, you're not going to win that way.

02:06:16.220 You're already kind of relegating yourself to failure.

02:06:20.180 Instead, you should look at the positive.

02:06:21.960 And that positive only comes about not by just looking at it, but being it, making it continuously so in your actions.

02:06:32.020 And a lot of that comes from this as a spiritual battle.

02:06:36.040 You have to see the Asas. 1.00

02:06:39.340 You have to come home to the Asas. 1.00

02:06:40.860 If you are Gaulish, Teutonic, Slavic, Hellenic, our people have been all over Europe. Or if you're in the Anglo sphere, the Dutch Afrikaner sphere, the gods are with our people. 1.00

02:07:00.680 And it starts firstly with us coming and seeing that we must align ourselves to order.

02:07:06.700 We must align ourselves to nobility.

02:07:08.680 We must align ourselves to the morally right and correct and upright and shining.

02:07:14.260 It's the only way we're going to really truly make a difference.

02:07:21.580 People want stuff way down the line now.

02:07:26.380 It doesn't work that way.

02:07:27.880 It starts from the seed.

02:07:29.680 you don't get the tree right away so the seed is this the seed is us now absolutely

02:07:38.960 all right ally asks brandy can you please explain the full come hem chance it's one of

02:07:45.680 my favorite things that we do so the uh full come hem chant was actually something that we

02:07:52.000 adapted out of my personal practice and it was about a year ago that we really started focusing

02:08:01.200 on bringing full comb and starting to get excited about the numbers that we were seeing

02:08:06.640 um in applicants and and active members and so many things going on so

02:08:15.760 we started like i said this is part of my personal practice that we did but we had it

02:08:20.400 translated into swedish by one of our awesome folk builders in sweden eric and basically what

02:08:29.840 it says in english is we call to our children we call to our men we call to our sisters folk

02:08:36.960 come home folk come home and we had it translated into uh swedish and we've been using it at the

02:08:43.600 half at wayfarers bloke and all of the women will gather around the folk flame and place their hands

02:08:51.520 on each other on you know one hand on each shoulder of their sister and we start out very very slowly

02:08:58.480 and we build so at first we start whispering to our children to the men folk to our sisters

02:09:05.600 come home, come home. While we're doing that, the men are in a circle around us and they are

02:09:15.340 concentrating on that journey and they call their rhido while we're doing that. And that is the safe

02:09:22.220 journey to answer the call of the women who are calling out to their folk, asking them to come

02:09:27.580 home. So we start out very, very quietly like a whisper. And by the time we're done, we are shaking

02:09:34.980 the rafters of bouldershoff hoping as many people as possible will hear us and that's actually

02:09:41.140 started to spread throughout the afa i know that they're doing it in a few other areas as well

02:09:47.460 but it's really powerful and if you ever get the chance to stand with your sisters

02:09:53.460 please don't be afraid of it it takes just a few minutes to practice you'll you'll get it by the

02:10:00.340 time we start shaking the rafters you'll be so caught up in that energy with your sisters that

02:10:05.780 you'll have it i promise so don't ever be intimidated by it

02:10:10.420 it's something extraordinarily powerful that we do and it really connects the women together

02:10:18.100 so that's where that came from and the women love to do it they just love it

02:10:22.580 yeah i'm waiting for it to to hit down here again you know or or at least i think winter nights by 0.90

02:10:31.060 this coming winter nights you know i think that when the ladies get together especially around

02:10:36.060 the night of the dcr there's a lot of transference there and i'm hoping some of that comes down to

02:10:41.380 yeah it's it's really strong i mean you can just feel the energy from you know woman to woman

02:10:49.520 transferred out and it just radiates out but it starts out soft like a lullaby and by the time

02:10:55.120 we're done there's a lot of us that can't speak afterwards so it's it's pretty powerful yeah and i

02:11:02.080 i it's i it's interesting for me again because a lot of people think they don't understand that

02:11:06.880 some of the um nuances of also true folk like culture and with the ladies you know how that

02:11:15.040 these mysteries amongst like it's i want to see it come down to thor's off i'm not a lady like

02:11:20.720 i'm not a woman that this is within your circles and it's it's spreading organically on its own

02:11:26.800 i'm just anticipating for it to come down just wait until it makes it down there right exactly

02:11:32.560 but i am anticipating it like much i want it to i want to see it because it's beautiful yes

02:11:37.840 yeah tony has tony has another question for us here brandy and spawn prepare for at least one

02:11:46.480 celtic question what are your thoughts on synchronizing as a true with the celtic form

02:11:51.760 of arian faith such as for those of celtic descent you want to tackle this one because

02:11:59.480 i know too i mean we both i know we both have a good amount of of uh dog in the fight if you will 0.92

02:12:05.580 on this one but well first as far as synchronizing as true with the celtic faith or the celtic form

02:12:16.340 of the arian faith they all share ago they explains this i think the best you have a set

02:12:22.900 of chairs and a table right they might look a little bit different they might seem a little

02:12:29.400 bit different but they're all made out of the same tree so as far as synchronizing a lot of

02:12:34.980 people miss a really big point about the faith of about being pan-arian a lot of the things that

02:12:42.980 you're focusing on as far as music clothing folklore and things of that nature those are

02:12:49.560 local traditions right there's no reason why you can't use those local traditions and what you're

02:12:55.500 doing and honor those ancestors it doesn't mean that you're being part of a different religion

02:13:01.300 It just means that you have an additional tradition. Does that make sense? So a lot of the folklore and a lot of the dances and a lot of the songs, those are things that are traditional. But as far as synchronizing them, they're already synchronized as far as I'm concerned.

02:13:21.160 You can see the similarities. You can see the influences between the stories and between the gods. That's pretty prevalent. A lot of people take the difference of tradition and mistake it for difference of religion.

02:13:36.600 so i just wanted to add that that's usually where i go with that because

02:13:41.480 traditions and religion can be separate you can already see the similarities you can already see

02:13:47.640 the influence you can already see the natural synchronicity between the two but people focus

02:13:54.100 more on the differences of tradition of the local area and don't realize that they're

02:13:59.940 really doing the same thing just in a different traditional way

02:14:04.180 i mean i think it's worth noting uh it would be lying to anybody if we said we weren't too tonic

02:14:16.280 focused i mean uh first and foremost any person who who is of gallic descent i'm i have you know

02:14:24.100 gallish blood as well as nordic blood and some anglo blood or or you know central germanic blood

02:14:30.740 um the uh you know we we speak english we speak uh oftentimes we talk about the gods in an

02:14:39.020 anglicized version uh we do use the nordic a lot because of course those are the last written

02:14:44.480 sources of a time the last bastion of our faith um so teutonic focused it would be it'd be alive

02:14:54.080 if it, you know, if we said it wasn't, but it clearly is. But, you know, everywhere that the

02:15:00.880 Teutonic people have ever gone, they have gone with the Gallic people kind of in, there's been 0.84

02:15:05.920 collision or even sometimes connectivity. But, you know, again, it's worth noting wherever the 0.78

02:15:13.620 Gauls were amongst the Hellenics or the empirical, like Roman, they were pretty much completely

02:15:23.740 absorbed amongst the teutons the a lot of the traditions of the gaulish people survived um

02:15:30.620 the welsh language is is struggling it's but it you know it's hanging in there uh again same with uh

02:15:38.060 you know scotch gaelic uh and you know this is important i think i think a lot of teutonic folk

02:15:43.420 now realize that this is important that the welsh keep their language that the the scotch gaelic 0.97

02:15:48.700 remains pharaohes you know these are dying languages that we want to keep around so i

02:15:55.260 think that there is a do an equal amount of respect and understanding of course our founder 0.90

02:16:02.140 you know is is heavily heavily irish gaelic descent um you can't deny that and i and i i

02:16:11.980 don't think we should i think america is beautiful in that way that we had this unification of the

02:16:17.900 of the nords the germans the anglos and the celto or gallic people kind of all together in the south

02:16:26.380 in the north uh in waves in america and it's and it's made an interesting um stock of folk um but

02:16:35.980 um you know when we talk about the gallic gods one of the things that's worth noting or not

02:16:41.500 even the gallic gods just all the gods in general of europe the tripartites like i i just saw you

02:16:47.020 know like here too two of two the the greek roman gods seem to have zero connection to our gods

02:16:54.300 let's talk about that a little bit first and foremost if there's a tripartite the arians

02:17:00.380 have touched it a lot of people try to do the i guess like the singular sky daddy earth mommy

02:17:06.460 thing because the the reference of going back towards the indo-european like they're doing the

02:17:12.860 going back going back uh that there you know but the reality of the observation is is that there's

02:17:19.740 always a tripartite or a trinity so much so that it in that christianity came into europe without

02:17:26.060 one and it wasn't long before it had a trinity because it was immersed amongst the arians for

02:17:32.460 so long that its tradition changed um you know and again there was wars fought about christians

02:17:39.420 kill each other wholesale in a war about whether there's a trinity or not um but the trinity isn't

02:17:45.820 is is an arian folk point so you know whether you're talking about uh i i think especially

02:17:52.940 from the teutonic and nordic branches we view the trinity as as thrones that the gods can

02:17:59.340 kind of sit in whether thor is in the center and but olden and frey or if it's olden and you know

02:18:06.620 tier and thor or whether you know we i think the the the northern folk of the teutonic especially

02:18:15.660 by the later periods showed this kind of organic movement but i mean if you talk about

02:18:22.300 the the gauls in in france like you had twisto and terra tatis and essus and that was their

02:18:31.100 tripartite and esus in and of himself was a triplicate he was a tripartite a a god of

02:18:36.780 dynamicism of death and magic and and and poetry so again these it's just that where they were

02:18:45.340 placed within significance is really really i think the thing that people get really confused

02:18:50.460 on they try to unilaterally cram the gods into different societies saying like oh well you know

02:18:57.500 this god of this society is this is in the same throne as this god no those thrones could be also

02:19:05.100 parts that move there's you know the stasis throne the dynamic throne and the catalyst throne

02:19:09.740 and amongst different arian folks those thrones had different significances

02:19:14.940 for the teutonic people the highest is the dynamic um but you know again whether it's stasis or

02:19:22.700 catalyst or or or dynamic is it remains to be seen and we don't know too much but like again

02:19:27.900 the tripartite amongst the gauls at least amongst the french the frankish area of where of the

02:19:35.420 gaulish lands we had you know tuisto teratatus and asus uh amongst the etruscans they called their

02:19:44.300 gods, the AISAR, A-I-S-A-R. That's quite interesting considering their position from

02:19:53.680 the Nordic folk. And they had a tripartite. Now, it was interesting for them as the head 0.92

02:20:03.280 of their stasis started with a T as well, like Teratatis. Let me see real quick. I might

02:20:10.000 able to look it up but they had uh the um they had the uh also like i think it's unar is i the earth

02:20:21.120 or the the mother and then which would uh of course the romans equated her to juno um and

02:20:28.240 there was another uh that was also connected but they had it was interesting that they had a male

02:20:34.720 and a female in the tripartite that was interesting amongst themselves um the hellenics

02:20:40.880 they had it but of course because they're hellenics and they're in the math they numbered theirs you

02:20:47.440 know it's like zeus or deus potter he has the singular scepter or the singular lightning bolt

02:20:53.600 and then the second the stasis throne of death is haddis or plutonius and he has abidant and then

02:21:02.880 the third is the lord of storms and waters neptune and he has a trident they named they've numbered

02:21:08.480 their tripartite with one two and three i mean it's like you can't even make this up um and then

02:21:15.920 the slavs too you know they had an interesting their tripartite is very interesting because

02:21:20.640 their dichotomy is is heavily between perun and velez and svaurag or davis is is uh kind of above

02:21:30.640 he's a stasis throne um and is seen as like kind of above the the the polarity between the two

02:21:39.200 of perun and velas um and again when we talk about the familial connections between those gods

02:21:45.840 uh amongst the slavs velas and perun are the sons of svarog or i i'm probably even saying that wrong

02:21:53.760 so please excuse me if i'm if i'm butchering that but again um the familial ties are again

02:22:00.880 are talking about the interconnectivity of the gods culturally mythically the way that they

02:22:08.080 express themselves to our folk and teach our folk is unique amongst all of these different branches

02:22:14.720 but there are deep connectivities even all the way back i mean there was somebody uh

02:22:19.040 We weren't arguing. I was actually intently listening, but he had made a point that he thought that the original tripartite of the Vedic Hindu or Aryan Vedic faith was Indra, Varuna, and Agni.

02:22:37.540 So, you know, lightning, water, and fire, I think, is what he was kind of pointing. And I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that's what he was saying, and I was listening intently to that.

02:22:47.220 again the tripartite shows up again so there are some some very deep connections that we can see

02:22:55.380 there's a lot of cultural context that does divide us doesn't necessarily make us um so far removed

02:23:03.060 from each other that i don't think that we can't have a common respect for each other i know that

02:23:07.540 if a slav um is honoring perun amongst my folk i would say that's that's thor or thunor or thoneras

02:23:18.180 you know it's it whatever whatever we linguistically say we understand that that

02:23:24.740 unilateral connection so there's a lot of deep connections but if anybody's interested in looking

02:23:30.100 at all the branches and how the arian like connectivity is there it's the tripartite

02:23:35.940 that you should be looking into and i i you know check out the etruscans that'll that's a good one

02:23:42.820 to start on but it's not by any means the only one the elshiro gody left us a comment and it

02:23:49.380 says people of the pants come home to the afa yes yes well he's been here this whole time yes

02:23:58.260 we are unsupervised we're not yes people of the pants no uh again

02:24:06.900 um yes no i i think it's it's splitting hairs and purity spiraling when we get too far into the

02:24:13.700 ideas like well i'm i'm i'm irish and scottish and english and and i you know it's we're purity

02:24:22.020 spiraling too far i think that to understand that the gods are above or not above as in a way of like

02:24:32.100 casting off but they are the divines they the divines have been with all of the branches of

02:24:40.620 the folk and are expressed in our souls in those different branches uniquely but their powers are

02:24:50.300 still there and so if you think that because you've got too much irish blood you have to

02:24:56.060 you have to uh you know give prayers to um you know

02:25:04.780 the tuatha de danaan and you can't to the icer then you're you know

02:25:11.980 you're taking this in a in a different way and and i don't think that's that's necessarily the

02:25:17.100 best way to take it or if if you if it needs to be said you can go home you have traditions like

02:25:24.460 winton brandy said you have traditions at your home when we come to a national event you just

02:25:28.220 understand that we're using teutonic focus that's the language we're using the gods that we're

02:25:34.860 talking about you could go home and you you can call thor perun all you want you just understand

02:25:42.540 that when you come to an afa gathering you're using teutonic you're using the teutonic name

02:25:49.580 of thor or thunor so you know don't split hairs come home just come home right no navel gazing

02:26:01.340 wear whatever pants you want just right yeah don't don't stare at your toes and try to count them out

02:26:07.340 walk forward. There we go. So you kind of went into this already, explaining a few things,

02:26:15.340 but the Wolf Throne asks, this is going to be long, it's fun. I'd like to hear your thoughts

02:26:20.280 on this. It's very clear that the Celtic and Slavic gods have a lot in common with our gods.

02:26:24.860 Some of them may even be the same gods under different names, but the Greek Roman gods

02:26:29.260 seem to have zero connection to our gods. Is Southern European divinity separate from Northern

02:26:34.280 european divinity if they are related how so where's the common roots and i know you already

02:26:39.880 yeah we just kind of yeah i mean i love tomato europe i'm from potato europe no no

02:26:50.440 and i think that we need to join hands no um tomato sauce would be great on potatoes yeah it

02:26:57.320 was it's just it exactly well and the ironic part of that is that tomatoes and potatoes

02:27:02.280 aren't native i'm from turnip europe and they're from all of europe gotcha see um no uh yeah again

02:27:13.560 i just kind of touched on that the tripartite is a huge thing to focus in on i think it's worth

02:27:18.440 noting now i have pondered and i'm not saying this is the case i've wondered about the influence of

02:27:23.480 the phoenicians amongst the hellenic people because there was a lot of that and we do know

02:27:29.240 that there was transference between the the greco hellenic area and the phoenicians and the minoans

02:27:36.280 and even all the way down into the egyptians we know that there was that bridge there and how much

02:27:42.120 that influenced so would we consider the hellenics to be an arian branch that was influenced by

02:27:49.560 outside people i'm the argument could be made uh just as much as say for instance like where the

02:27:55.960 uh the arian people that became the iranians were clearly interacting with people of the southlands

02:28:03.240 below them the the semitic or the people that spoke of the tongue of shem the shemetic uh folks

02:28:10.680 whether they were uh or you know what eventually would be descended into like the arabs or the you

02:28:16.520 know the hebrews or uh you know that i guess they would sometimes they're referred to as like

02:28:21.320 indo-syrian or you know like they're they're they're not you know they're not iranian they're

02:28:29.240 kind of just south of that uh south of where the hittites and the louians were

02:28:34.920 and of course you know you look at the at like text from that area in the semitic faiths they

02:28:41.000 even talk about their northern neighbors the what riding the chariots and so on and so forth

02:28:45.320 and those people were you know probably an arian branch and again that that speaks of influence

02:28:50.200 was there an arian branch that invaded india and clearly had influence from an outside

02:28:54.760 peoples there yes absolutely um so the celts the slavs and the teutonic people are unique

02:29:04.600 in their uh their correlation because they seem to uh more or less fracture into different branches

02:29:15.160 but then in turn influenced themselves and fight themselves and kind of back and forth. And then

02:29:20.360 there was the injection of, um, both the Romans and their, their religion pre-Christian. Um, 0.95

02:29:30.720 and then eventually, you know, the, the Christian, uh, uh, you know, from Charlemagne and that,

02:29:37.740 and all of that started to interject into europe and so the the uh the influences over

02:29:43.980 aryan branches in europe seem to be more internalized and a lot more uh cross fighting

02:29:52.080 amongst each other as opposed to simply kind of intermingling with with um other groups and when

02:29:58.760 you start to look at those patterns and see them they become a clear again the tripartite was the

02:30:03.420 the the real big one the the ordering of the sky if you will there always seems to be a progenitor

02:30:09.660 that progenitor may have another progenitor and then that progenitor usually marries with a with

02:30:17.740 the feminine whether it's the earth or or or the waters or something and then from there the sky

02:30:23.500 is ordered into threes stasis dynamicism and catalyst and dynamicism has the ability to move

02:30:32.700 all over and is oftentimes triplicated stasis is very singular and oftentimes vertical axis

02:30:40.060 and catalyst is oftentimes lateral axis sometimes vertical as well but they never the catalyst

02:30:45.980 never seems to descend into the underworld for us that would of course be thor like thor is the

02:30:50.620 catalyst uh the striker the one that moves on the edges between the material and the primordial but

02:30:56.940 can also ascend into the heavenly realms so there's a lot of connectivities if you read a lot of the

02:31:02.780 stories of all the european folk you begin to see more likenesses than i mean yeah the differences

02:31:10.460 are glaring and it's worth noting that it's the differences that count i'm not saying that we're

02:31:15.980 all we need to blend it all together into one big mash i'm just saying it's it builds a healthy

02:31:20.700 respect i can i have respect for the for the uh the the slavic folk uh the latvian or the baltic

02:31:27.500 folk and their beliefs i have you know and the hellenics and things like that but we're teutonic

02:31:32.940 and i think that especially people of the pants are you know with you guys we speak germanic

02:31:41.100 anglish you know of some sort and i think splitting hairs is ridiculous and we should unite

02:31:48.140 and i know that means burying a lot of the past um but i'm not saying that we should forget or

02:31:55.740 try to destroy our individuality but it's time to yeah come home obsidian skull asks us fawn

02:32:07.420 should focus heathens help and support more the sami community i i will put out there i think that

02:32:15.580 that folkish people should support other people who want to preserve their own thing.

02:32:22.620 You know, I'm in support of everybody's preserving their own culture and their own

02:32:29.140 traditions and their own religion. I support anybody who wants to do that. Swan, what about

02:32:33.560 you? Yeah, 100%. Whether they're folk, whether they're not folk, yeah, preserving your folk

02:32:41.820 faith is priority number one. I think, yeah, again, people purity spiral. Do you support

02:32:48.360 the Finns? I was making a joke a couple of episodes back where I was like, I'm just the

02:32:56.020 damn Welsh, making this argument about the Welsh. No, yeah, I think we should. We should 1.00

02:33:03.940 absolutely. I think that it's interesting that we see the global media trying to turn

02:33:10.220 the semi into victims. You can see them kind of doing that. They do that. That's one of their

02:33:17.180 tactics is to help disseminate a foundational sense is to hyper-focus victimization on one

02:33:26.400 specific group in that. They don't care about the preservation of the semi. They want to weaponize

02:33:33.080 their victimization that's what they're doing so you know oh they you know the the sami people 0.88

02:33:39.480 don't call them laplanders and then the you know oh the the they've been oppressed by the swedes

02:33:45.720 and the nords for generally like well perhaps yes that is the case are they now no they're 0.94

02:33:53.420 should they be preserved yes should the teutonic people you know have the teutonic people completely

02:33:59.500 eradicated them no they were not like the the romantic folk of like that went in and completely

02:34:06.780 decimated the gauls um and so yeah i think that again we should can be concerned and have their 0.91

02:34:14.300 their tribal way of life and i think that we can learn a lot from them i think we have learned a

02:34:18.940 lot from them about how our religion has interplayed in their culture and their culture has again

02:34:24.620 interplayed in ours even down to like america and santa claus you know and um some of the

02:34:32.080 spiritual practices there uh yeah i think that's it's it's worth us supporting their folk faith

02:34:37.360 oh right shiro asks any thoughts on the theory that homer's epics references the

02:34:46.240 baltic countries as felice vinci claims in the baltic origins of homer's epic tales

02:34:52.400 hmm uh i don't i don't have too much on this because

02:35:02.000 uh referencing into baltic like

02:35:08.440 the baltic countries i don't know i mean are you are you saying that the the theory is that

02:35:16.660 the uh like the epic itself is based in the baltics if you could kind of clarify that a

02:35:25.780 little bit but i'm not super familiar with this theory neither am i yeah can you can you elaborate

02:35:33.980 just a little bit more on that yeah sure elaborate a little bit and we'll come back to that

02:35:39.620 ali asks i've been rattling this around in my brain for a while now witness fawn can you speak

02:35:46.080 a bit on the connection between the slumbering king stories arthur barbarossa and balder between

02:35:52.740 life and death merlin seems quite a lot like odin is this possibly a christianization of a lost

02:35:59.360 story or something else entirely well we talk about the gods manifesting in our in our a lot

02:36:07.380 in our stories uh through various ways um that's why like i think people when they scoff about the

02:36:14.200 connection of um uh like even to like tolkien you know i know tolkien everyone's very quick

02:36:23.840 well he was a catholic you know especially catholics they he was a catholic they jump

02:36:28.520 on that like whoa um yes yes yes but the manifestation of the gods continues to bubble

02:36:35.800 up through the folk despite their catholicism worth noting um no uh again the influence of of

02:36:44.840 these stories uh man if the gods and the powers of them and what they are it's i think it's more

02:36:50.760 a question of whether or how we identify them and i don't think that we should ever be 100 sure of

02:36:56.600 ourselves because the gods have a tendency to kick that hubris right in the crotch but it's worth

02:37:04.040 noting perhaps uh through piety and devotion a semblance of understanding that the gods are

02:37:11.000 manifesting themselves in in many different stories whether and we talk about the sacral king

02:37:16.200 how the king is connected to the land to the slumbering or dead and the rising again of the

02:37:21.240 sun and the light or the the crown or or the attainment of of the the grail or the goblet

02:37:29.320 and what that that perennial truth means um and the gods are behind that like again you know

02:37:37.000 the gods are you know are based on archetypes no the archetypes are based on the gods same way the

02:37:41.960 archetypes of these stories are the gods bubbling up and manifesting in the material realm even if

02:37:50.280 it doesn't mean that we're calling them odin you know he is manifesting in our stories again

02:37:59.880 to show the connectivity and wisdom and what that what that means so and we're even in like that's

02:38:06.200 again merlin seems a lot like odin yes especially if you take it that way then odin now is talking

02:38:14.280 to you through merlin yes and that's okay again that's okay because that's how he works that

02:38:22.840 that's a thing again about purity spiraling too far into you know a time a stasis of time

02:38:30.920 a very specific era the gods are real they're not conceptualized things in a book written by

02:38:40.520 an icelander or a dane in the 12th century that is a huge part of it and it does give us an anchor

02:38:48.680 into cultural like manifestation of our bridging that gap that's been divided for so long

02:38:57.400 and christians try to hit us on that hit us in that one all the time you guys don't have

02:39:02.600 an established tradition or you know you guys don't have a mystical connection

02:39:05.560 anyways that does help us in that bridge but they scoff at the notion that our gods are

02:39:17.440 manifesting in music our gods are manifesting in certain ways and it's more so not necessarily

02:39:22.780 that that like merlin or the story of merlin is ovin but that if you perceive the wisdom that's

02:39:30.220 being spoken in that moment then that connectivity is made you have to be careful though there are

02:39:36.060 lots of people that try to bastardize the stories but sometimes it's not like entirely there i mean

02:39:44.380 sometimes when it comes from a point of devotion it's not a bastardization it's not a degeneration

02:39:49.900 um you know it's somebody again we talked about that before in victory and everything's like the

02:39:54.840 marvel comics and stuff like that that's not coming from a point of devotion there's there's

02:39:59.800 other things there but if it is and you perceive it that way then suddenly that wisdom does kind

02:40:07.080 of start to play true when you see oven in merlin whatever kind of story that he might you might be

02:40:13.960 reading that in um or whether you see it in in uh gandalf or um whether you see it in like again in

02:40:22.600 the finished stories maybe you're not even finished but all of a sudden you know you see it in in uh

02:40:27.560 vanamonen in the uh in the cavella and you suddenly wow wait a minute that i see olden there

02:40:37.640 then you know i would not say um you know out of respect i wouldn't say don't blanket everything

02:40:46.520 into one god but i am saying that seeing the connectivity uh within peirun and thor or you

02:40:54.040 know seeing um i think it's tupio the god of the hunt and ular and seeing those connectivities and

02:41:02.280 that perhaps ular is speaking to the to the fins through tupio as he does through the glory

02:41:09.880 that we call him the glorious one so uh you know that's that's an interesting thing to

02:41:15.960 think about that connectivity it's kind of a balance between not purely purity spiraling

02:41:21.880 but also respecting uh the individual sections of europe that's a tough one yes so shiro has

02:41:31.640 reiterated a little bit here about his theory and it is that the theory is that odysus visits the

02:41:38.500 baltics those are the places he visits on his 20-year voyage voyage so goes the claim

02:41:44.220 so okay familiar with that yeah no i did hear a little bit about this because they're talking

02:41:50.240 about how in in the voyage um because the mediterranean was so well known by by the

02:41:58.000 travels especially northern africa and on the on the southern peninsulas of the mediterranean

02:42:03.280 that the voyage itself seems extraordinarily long and filled with islands and places and destinations

02:42:11.280 that the med like the mediterranean the people there would probably know them

02:42:16.880 already so like how so yeah i do kind of i recall a little bit of this um

02:42:23.520 and again too when the question comes up it's very brief so i'm like trying to read it but i i don't

02:42:28.320 know uh yeah i mean i've heard people have even talked about possibly too that his voyage was on

02:42:33.360 the western side of africa too that he left outside of the the um i guess past the peninsula

02:42:41.200 of spain and and um morocco or northern africa and that it led him out there but as equally

02:42:48.640 fascinating as it would be to go to the western africa western africa i mean again coming up

02:42:53.920 through the isles and into the baltics uh perhaps even in like again the island chains between

02:42:59.920 norway and sweden but i wonder again if that theory is standing um you know weather and

02:43:09.680 things like that i don't know like the the north sea and its its prevalence towards such cold

02:43:16.320 weather uh would it be remarked or noted by mediterranean sailors or was it changed to fit

02:43:23.920 you know to give more of a connectivity to the audience they're speaking to they can't talk

02:43:28.560 about like you know ice sheets and things like that to people in the mediterranean because

02:43:32.160 you might not know what that is so yeah i know that's an interesting question i i heard more

02:43:38.960 about western africa than i did about the baltic and i'm gonna write that down in my notes so

02:43:45.920 that's task number three that you have yeah

02:43:52.080 oh yes your goal he says great show guys plane has taken off i will see many of you

02:43:57.120 fine folk at thor's huff journey sir i wish i was gonna see you guys again it is not too late to

02:44:05.600 get registered for ostara i bet they would still let you in if you showed up on friday what do you

02:44:13.120 think one yes yes it's not too late to get your ticket go register over at the ball just show up

02:44:22.480 and and yeah just like at winter nights sometimes people they they don't know until the last minute

02:44:28.880 and then they show up and everything gets sorted out right there so yeah i'm sure they would

02:44:33.280 take cash at the door as long as you're a member and you're coming in good faith right spawn yep

02:44:37.440 absolutely if you're if you're if you're or if you're vouched for definitely too um but yeah you

02:44:43.440 if you come there and um you know you you uh you can pay at the door it's perfectly fine uh it's

02:44:52.400 just that remember when we when we do stuff um notifying us in advance helps us prepare food

02:45:00.080 and it helps us logistically that's a big thing and a lot of people i understand schedule wise

02:45:04.640 they can't always do that but the sooner you do it the better it is for for all of us to facilitate

02:45:11.440 uh you know maybe even help out with hotels it just logistically it helps us out if you

02:45:17.740 hit us up much earlier spawn really needs to know how many eggs he has to buy in order to throw them

02:45:26.400 at you and your children this weekend yes i'm already i'm already i'm already buying like

02:45:32.640 it's not all sara unless a child is full of egg right covered in

02:45:38.200 uh yeah i'm already i'm already projected to buy like three or four cases so yes yeah but yeah it

02:45:48.000 helps us out logistically so much yes so if you're coming let's fawn know uh or any of the folk

02:45:54.460 builders down there at thorsoff so we know whether or not we need an extra dozen eggs

02:45:58.460 yes yeah all right bucket clinger here has a question for us fawn

02:46:06.280 what types of achievement achievements would enable one to go to uller's home so one thing

02:46:14.000 about going to the home of the gods is it takes a lot a lot it's got to be something that would be

02:46:22.900 transcendental right it's fun it would need to be something worthy of the gods themselves you

02:46:29.040 want to elaborate on that yeah i think that uh you just hit the nail on the head without it's

02:46:34.240 It's got to be a lot because the way we see our deaths, our souls to be reconnected beyond the veil to our ancestors is a part of the cycle of it all.

02:46:45.220 To be denied by our ancestors to pass through the realm of death and to join them, to be cast aside is detrimental and terrible.

02:46:59.060 But that's the cycle, and that's why we try to live a life that both honors and elevates the renown of our folk, the renown of our families, the renown of our ancestors.

02:47:12.680 the gods on the other hand are watching us now from uh from above and they're watching us through

02:47:21.560 and as they look we're what what we are trying to be witnessed for is glory indeed and action

02:47:28.040 um and that takes a lot noble forthrightness um and really to understanding that the gods are

02:47:36.700 seeing us now as we do things now uh bad and good i i'll be the first to say it for myself

02:47:46.060 you know i i think a lot of uh also true folk don't think about or conceptualize

02:47:51.820 the gods as um you know interacting with the material from above or in in the in the cosmic

02:48:00.620 or ordeal or order plane plane of order and of of axio and uh our our actions now are being noted

02:48:13.340 but what more so is to be noted is action that leads to great renown and that renown is takes

02:48:20.940 its place within its time and context to be someone who is you know leading someone who is

02:48:29.820 teaching someone who is aiding people helping people healing people these actions that are

02:48:37.900 that you can take as an individual are to be witnessed or what should you should want them

02:48:42.380 to be witnessed by the gods that you're doing these things at the same time understanding too

02:48:47.980 that the that the negative things the inglorious the ignoble things that you're doing are also

02:48:53.180 being witnessed so remove those accentuate the glory and the and the nobility and strive to

02:49:04.380 impress the gods and even if they don't take you surely your ancestors will so you you know you're

02:49:13.260 you're aiming beyond the acceptance of your ancestors and if you achieve any semblance of

02:49:19.980 notice from the gods in that regards there's no way you you'll be denied by your ancestors

02:49:26.300 so that's the way we kind of see this is you know that that's the this is the purpose of it

02:49:31.740 the gods are watching now um so yeah do do glorious things to be chosen uh now again

02:49:41.660 we know that with with olvin uh it's very very specifically mentioned that he is connected to

02:49:47.660 that movement that he has the ability to make that movement uh there are references again to thor

02:49:52.940 and they're um even in uh ale saga when they're there there's a mention of um going to be amongst

02:50:01.340 thor and the gods but it does it does take a lot we do know culturally and contextually back then

02:50:09.740 it's been mentioned that our ancestors spoke again of coming back from the ancestors uh most people

02:50:17.420 just title that reincarnation but it's not like a one for one thing or or like perhaps

02:50:22.460 in an eastern sense of what most people would think of um and also that there is mention of

02:50:29.740 being amongst the gods uh for various reasons some of even you know like uh to be amongst

02:50:36.220 gavion or to be amongst the maidens of fensaler if you are uh you know uh a woman who's never

02:50:42.700 uh had or you know bore a child and was is a virgin and and passes away that you have some

02:50:50.700 special place amongst the maidens or something of that nature there's been lots of references

02:50:55.340 and speculations and personal you know devotion towards certain ideas to be accepted into those

02:51:02.140 halls though is to be taken into those into the gods those halls are the gods they're valhal

02:51:10.540 is oven to be taken that soul might in for a reason same thing so to be amongst or within ullars

02:51:21.500 um really i don't know but i mean i i wonder or speculate or dream maybe even perhaps there is a

02:51:32.460 just somebody who doesn't like again that lives on that edge that

02:51:36.860 tests themselves that exemplifies and is witnessed in the gloriousness of that and

02:51:43.020 does it in praise of it's another thing is i'm doing this i'm doing this for uller why

02:51:50.700 no other reason than to be witnessed it's not to garner any favors i because because the mountain

02:51:56.860 is there and i want him to see it and that that can apply to any of the gods or the goddesses or

02:52:03.980 or any of the aus and ausenior, I should say.

02:52:07.260 I'm trying to get away from gods and goddesses.

02:52:09.040 I think that has some crystal fluffy bunny kind of connotations to it.

02:52:14.500 The aus and the ausenior seeking glory to be even amongst them

02:52:19.740 or within them after death shouldn't be the main concern.

02:52:26.380 The main concern is to exemplify and aim to be witnessed by the gods.

02:52:35.980 Everything that's on them is on them.

02:52:38.540 And if you do not, you are not a failure.

02:52:41.900 You will go amongst your folk.

02:52:43.340 And even then, too, your renown after your death, even if your soul does go through and into, beyond the veil to your folk soul,

02:52:54.540 your renown can still carry weight and that could also lead to you coming back up because there is

02:53:01.320 a well there is also a root and all roots pull up that's part of the cycle of it it's very important

02:53:08.980 why those roots are placed in the upper why the tree is in the upper and that the roots are that

02:53:15.800 reach one in the upper one in the middle and one in the lower it's very important why that's there

02:53:20.020 It's a circulatory system. A lot of people are trying to kind of drive it into this concept that it's an axis, you know, or a pillar. But, you know, the idea of a central point is very Aryan, but the idea of having to have a physical connection where the roots are all down in the underworld, that's not the way this was going.

02:53:44.020 I mean, again, if you look at a lot of Aryan traditions where there's the mountain, the mountain is in the physical realm, the gods are in the top, or the mountain is in heaven and the gods are on top, the mountain is symbolic of a central place, Yggdrasil is just as much the same thing.

02:53:58.780 So there is a root in the lower world, and it will draw up, seek renown, seek renown amongst the gods, and bring honor to your ancestors.

02:54:08.760 obsidian asks do you think that heathen communities should teach ancient languages

02:54:16.900 as a first or second language like old norse similar to the pennsylvania dutch

02:54:22.760 so that's going to depend that's going to depend on you and your family and what you want to teach

02:54:29.540 them. So, for example, my family is very majority Germanic, but my children are half Slavic.

02:54:41.380 So what do I teach them, Russian or German, or both, right? So it's really up to you,

02:54:47.660 have that conversation with your family. I think it's very important to keep all of the languages

02:54:52.920 is alive. Language is a very, very important part of identity and culture. So keep as many

02:55:00.680 of them alive as you can. Should it be a requirement? I don't think it should be a requirement,

02:55:06.320 but I do very much believe that there's a lot of things that create a culture. And one of the

02:55:13.520 biggest things that form a culture and a people is language. So I don't necessarily say that it

02:55:21.720 should be required, but I think it should be highly encouraged to keep as many of our languages alive

02:55:25.820 as possible. What do you think, Spahn? Yeah, I agree. If you were to view the dead languages,

02:55:34.260 like, because I think you mentioned about dead languages, whether it's like Guttis-Garazda

02:55:38.780 or Anglo-Saxon or Middle or High German, Old Norse, Frisian, you know, pre-Dutch,

02:55:51.720 uh or netherlands like language you know all of these things very important i would say it's worth

02:55:59.400 noting those are our mother tongues our father tongue is now it's english now i'm a big fan of

02:56:07.140 like the english movement where they try to kind of speak english without roman or latinish words

02:56:12.860 but that's just a hobby it is now the our language now our language is a culmination of of latinish 0.92

02:56:21.500 and and uh germanic and all of that stuff and you know damn normans um but yeah it's cow not beef um 0.94

02:56:33.180 yeah it's um the uh sorry angela angela language supremacy all the way you know uh you can keep 0.97

02:56:45.020 your um i'll take my fish any day no um no the biggest thing is it's like mother tongues are

02:56:53.180 really i think nerd they nurture so if you if you taught your children a language and what i mean

02:57:00.140 is a i guess secondary language is the secondary language is the mother language and the mother

02:57:06.060 language is a nurturing language it's one because it teaches you certain things in a sense like the

02:57:12.300 father language is the one you project out into the world it's the one that you might have to

02:57:16.460 speak in order for business and contract and the physical now the mother language is just as

02:57:23.340 important but it does it in a different way it nurtures the understanding of linguistics

02:57:29.660 it nurtures the understanding of the father language if you learn anglo-saxon as your mother

02:57:35.500 tongue, it then nourishes your understanding of modern English, if you're a modern English

02:57:42.940 speaker. If you're a German and your father language right now is modern German, to learn

02:57:50.380 like old German, middle German, or like guttiskarasdas language, which is, you know, the

02:57:58.460 source of Eastern Germanic is the source of most all Western Germanic languages in a way,

02:58:05.500 um so to learn like gothic or guttanish would help you understand your own father language

02:58:13.260 father language is is then imbued with the power of the mother tongue so again the feminine

02:58:20.300 imbues the masculine to work itself out into the world the mead cup is given to the warrior so

02:58:28.460 that he may drink and then the sword may be projected out into the will and the manifestation

02:58:33.420 this is a perennial truth amongst our folk it can be applied in the same way whether we're talking

02:58:38.700 about languages or anything there's a lot of hidden meanings and everything i'm just saying here

02:58:44.540 whether you how you apply it but when we're talking about language yeah i think it's important

02:58:49.020 so if if your father language is speaking english but you want to teach your children slavic or

02:58:55.180 german even though that is the father language of someone else somewhere in the world that becomes

02:59:01.740 the mother tongue in the house, it can help accentuate the points and give the child huge

02:59:11.560 amounts of benefit. Again, for me, when I came to America, I was just about to start school and

02:59:21.720 my mother told my brothers, nobody speak Icelandic to him. He has to learn English now. I didn't speak

02:59:27.880 any english whatsoever my father who is an anglo spoke icelandic perfectly so he didn't speak it

02:59:36.040 either he's he just saw no need to teach me english while we were living in iceland

02:59:41.800 but then unforeseen we had to come back or he had to come back and we had to come with him so

02:59:47.640 i had to learn english crash course very very quickly that's why i don't have a huge southern

02:59:52.120 accent even though i was raised in the south it's because i was taught from from teachers

02:59:57.080 and my first teachers were from military like towns and schooling and those people were not

03:00:03.800 from the south either they were from all over or they taught this kind of educational american

03:00:08.920 english um so yeah learn it it helps because even though like i i'm i don't have conversational

03:00:19.640 icelandic with anyone ever and i you know i really can't i can read it though and pronounce it and

03:00:26.200 then i can also look it up and suddenly i start to see oh okay i see how they they they put these

03:00:32.440 words together join them together it helps a lot old norse is a good one anglo-saxon is a great one

03:00:39.080 to understand where our language comes from or latin even latin's a beautiful language i mean

03:00:45.480 we can say all this stuff about the past and the germanics and the the romans the romans 0.95

03:00:51.160 Yeah, I mean, if you think about it, like I think some men with no pants. Yes. 0.95

03:00:58.780 All of Europe and they're no pants. They're well oiled knees like

03:01:06.380 to put out there for all events of the AFA. Sorry not to go down a rabbit hole.

03:01:17.860 however if you come to an afa event and you are a man i do prefer that you wear pants or

03:01:26.540 kilts with something underneath pants are required for all events and yeah and that's another

03:01:32.580 interesting thing about the people of pants because eventually the people that speak gaelic

03:01:37.320 are often associated with not wearing pants they wear kilts so i always thought that was kind of

03:01:43.120 like super funny how that flipped on it but again still uh sorry it just totally derailed this whole

03:01:55.500 conversation yes lack of pants lack of pants no uh the uh again language is important i think

03:02:02.900 language is good i think we should teach our children it whether latin is is is wonderful

03:02:09.660 phenomenal. If you're talking about Ausatru, most people would say yes, Old Norse. I would say yes,

03:02:16.960 Old Norse, but I would also say German because so much of the study of Teutonic faith has been

03:02:25.000 written down by Germans. Yeah, German theologians, German religious philosophers who are trying to

03:02:33.640 figure out their the ancestral faith of their people and had speculated so much about it wrote

03:02:40.840 it initially in german so huge benefits yes all right looks like we've got one last question for

03:02:51.460 the knights this is would as a true reincarnation be more akin to the folk idea of an old soul

03:02:58.660 a fresh entirely new person with the deep knowledge or understanding of things before

03:03:04.360 yeah um so when we talk about reincarnation there's a lot of this is a big subject and

03:03:14.360 there's been a quite a few books written about it in outs of true circles uh even back in the

03:03:19.580 from folks that were really prevalent in the 80s and 90s or have written about it um and and mainly

03:03:26.200 uh written from the sources that the references that they are talking about especially like uh

03:03:34.280 with one of the swan maidens and the return of a soul and again uh the naming tradition i know a

03:03:40.200 lot of people mark that but i think it's worth noting that there's a couple of ways we could go

03:03:45.560 about looking at this is one all souls are new and they are somehow watered with the knowledge or the

03:03:53.160 the hummingya of the old souls so some people announced a true belief that when when you die

03:03:59.800 you go beyond the veil and you connect if you're accepted by your ancestors because there's you

03:04:04.840 could be not accepted and then you go to not a good place that's but you gotta really do some

03:04:11.880 needling stuff to get there some really nethering stuff but um you know the uh

03:04:20.440 if you get accepted the idea is that perhaps parts of you are then drawn up into the root

03:04:27.880 into the tree within heaven and the new souls are the dripping or in the stories is the dew

03:04:33.720 that drips from the and falls into the well there and that well of course is the access point of the

03:04:40.920 heavenly and life and cosmos and ordered powers coming into the middle world um that

03:04:47.240 dew that drops in the well those new souls could be imbued with power from the old souls that were

03:04:54.200 drawn up in that root so there are some folks that see that and think that and believe that and that's

03:04:59.640 i think valid in its point there seems to be maybe perhaps a condensing of it the understanding that

03:05:06.920 sometimes children come back and they they know things that there's a line or a connection

03:05:14.120 somehow between their where they were and now and even though that might seem very very far

03:05:20.580 removed because anybody that knows about genetics knows it's not like father mother father mother

03:05:27.020 all the way you know like it's it could be great uncles and you know marriages or somebody has a

03:05:34.080 child and then dies and then they marry into another there's connectivities that are huge

03:05:39.040 expansive across the line genetically for our folk so you could you you have these cases where these

03:05:45.840 these people come back through the bloodlines and they remember a lot about something

03:05:53.200 and i think it's worth noting that there have been several cases of this

03:05:58.160 and from an outsider perspective i would say that perhaps there's if if there is only fragments that

03:06:04.400 come up there must be some condensate condensing of this because there are cases in which these

03:06:11.600 people have whole full memories trauma even mental trauma of an event that happened thousands and

03:06:20.480 thousands of years ago uh some people i i don't know if you guys know what i'm referring to but

03:06:25.760 there's a specific case one of the best cases that we have of a uh a woman in england who said that

03:06:32.800 she was born in another land when she was a child. After she fell down the stairs, the doctor pronounced

03:06:40.460 her dead. And then she wakes up and she remembers a garden in a place far away. And then this whole

03:06:48.360 thing turns into a giant connection to her and Egypt. And we know that folk were in Egypt. We

03:06:55.400 know this, especially through the priestly class and the ruling class. They had genetics and things

03:07:02.580 that we know that now looking at the these the mummies and things we see this so there is a

03:07:09.140 connectivity but apparently you know she or she is in england and she's having these visions of a

03:07:14.100 garden someplace in a land far away and then as she grows older she has more and more of these

03:07:20.980 visions she marries uh an egyptian man just to get into egypt and then she knows about like

03:07:30.020 these ancient tunnels that nobody knew about they hadn't even found them and then they were kind of

03:07:34.980 following her hunch and then they look and sure enough they're there that's an again we're drifting

03:07:40.660 off into some that's a rabbit hole that's a rabbit hole that's a rabbit hole and that's a cool one

03:07:48.100 to to look into but i what i'm trying to do is observe the overall mysteries of the gods in the

03:07:54.820 universe in the cosmos and try to see and and observe how it works and it seems to me that

03:08:05.060 it's not just like a sprinkling of the folk uh the humming but that there are holes

03:08:11.860 there are whole essences that come back so there's some sort of mixture between new soul

03:08:16.900 old soul or also old souls that come back but don't ever actually physically manifest but

03:08:22.660 are somehow deemed to be alfar or dsir and they preside over the physical manifestation of the

03:08:28.580 soul in the material in an individual like in the family and so there's uh even a there's a stopping

03:08:34.900 point before the material in the in the dsir and alfar uh classification of of the spirits so

03:08:45.940 So, but yes, reincarnation.

03:08:51.400 He did have a follow-up question.

03:08:54.960 You went into this a little bit, but if our knowledge and souls are dripped into the well, does that mean that Odin drinks from the knowledge of all folk?

03:09:06.000 So the gods deem out the doom of men, and what this is is they're observing through Earth's well.

03:09:14.100 Earth's well is the one above that observes below, which is here.

03:09:18.260 But it's worth noting that Odin does not drink from that well.

03:09:22.600 He drinks from Mimir's well, which is in the middle.

03:09:27.640 And in essence, that's the place where the material goes.

03:09:33.620 And then it descends down into the primordial, the place where there is no time,

03:09:38.440 where all of the flow of primordial matter, proto-matter, flows down into Nivelheim, into the misty home, into the realm of stasis.

03:09:54.940 And he drank from the middle well.

03:09:58.260 Mimir's well is memory's well. 0.92

03:10:00.440 And what is memory?

03:10:01.480 What is Mimir's well in the middle? 0.53

03:10:03.160 What does that mean?

03:10:04.840 And why it's important that the well is in the middle.

03:10:07.320 that has reason that that it is there uh the reason our ancestors saw it this way is because

03:10:15.040 the memory well is all movement when olden hung from the tree that's earth's well when he drank

03:10:23.660 he drank from memories well mimir the godhead of time where all time and movement is flowing and

03:10:31.180 condensing down into proto matter and falling down into the lower realm so he is at the nexus

03:10:37.560 point of all movement in the material world all things that have happened flow there to know the

03:10:45.020 future you must see the past that is where all things flow anything that moves every movement

03:10:52.300 every every echo of movement every echo of light all things in the material flow to the well of

03:10:58.400 memory and it causes confusion because earth's well earth as well as oftentimes they mimers will

03:11:05.440 and earth's well and when we think about earth or we think about the past but what we're talking

03:11:10.560 about there earth is is is the ancient the primordial the place in which things originate

03:11:17.920 that is at the base of the tree that tree is the place that the cosmos originates from

03:11:25.120 outside of nivelheim and muspelheim the tree itself then connects its roots down it grows and

03:11:33.760 then connects the cosmos together it places one root in the ground of heaven one root in the

03:11:40.560 material and one root in the land beyond nivelheim it roots itself there so the uh when the when the

03:11:49.440 gods place themselves in heaven they ascend from nivelheim uh bor and uh best law they they ascend

03:12:00.960 up to the tree from the root and there they take place they take presidence over the cosmos

03:12:08.080 that's where the tree is the root is connected to nivelheim and then it's connected to the middle

03:12:12.800 world and then it spreads out in the heavenly realm so it's very very important that we understand

03:12:19.280 why they're placed the way they are so when odin drinks from the well of memory

03:12:23.680 he is drinking from all that has happened because again to to project the future you know

03:12:32.000 all of the past that's why like in our language we don't have a future tense like we have run and we

03:12:41.760 have ran but we have will run for the future because again all things manifest from from

03:12:50.000 action of the previous it's all emanating out from action from movement from time or more importantly

03:12:57.520 i think the understanding is that odin learned from sound from frequency and he learned that

03:13:02.880 once he died in heaven on the on the tree the nexus the heart of the circulatory system of the cosmos

03:13:11.760 All right. So the actual last question for tonight. So I said that and then three questions later. So the last question we have tonight. Svan, I've been studying Norwegian. Bakmal, do you know any Norwegian? How similar is it to Icelandic?

03:13:28.000 uh so uh norwegian was latin in it uh like if we were to say like uh you know like i guess like

03:13:40.300 ala mother versus public things like that there you know ambulance is in norwegian um it's not

03:13:48.720 in icelandic so like icelandic is very very germanically centered whereas norwegian has

03:13:55.120 picked up a ton obviously mainly this is because of education and science and mathematics and

03:13:59.200 things like that coming from germany germany's already got latin in it goes goes up and it

03:14:04.080 goes up and so that's why it's it's transformed uh but norwegian is closer to icelandic than both

03:14:12.720 i think swedish and most certainly danish danish to me

03:14:16.640 i love please let me context this correctly i love the danes y'all are great people

03:14:26.340 but your language though but your language 0.88

03:14:30.200 is and and and and and a lot of people might be like you know screw you swan but

03:14:37.740 but my my niece she moved to denmark she's a she's a citizen of denmark now and she lives 0.81

03:14:45.760 in greenland now um mainly because the um it got bad in denmark let's just it got bad for a nurse

03:14:53.840 in denmark female nurse so now she's in or she at least she might be back i don't know but she was

03:15:00.160 for a time living in greenland anyways um the language everyone knows it i think even danes

03:15:07.440 know it's very hard for them it's very hard to it's it's very very mush mushy all together um

03:15:15.760 don't know why that is uh but you know and and swedish or uh uh you know video the the swedes

03:15:24.880 um their language is very melodic and swing songy norwegian is is very blunt and straightforward i

03:15:33.440 think it's still sing-songy but it's it definitely cuts around a lot of the corners of things um

03:15:39.920 um and so it seems like i would consider icelandic to be like shakespearean like the equivalency of

03:15:49.040 shakespearean english in relation to norwegian and faroese is like icelandic except grammatically

03:15:55.280 it's different they they mix things up differently than the icelanders do for context so that adds

03:16:01.040 more confusion but but norwegian uh i think yeah i mean uh again great i i would say it's a great

03:16:10.480 language especially because you could still get closer to if you can speak norwegian then when

03:16:17.680 you read the old norse it's not it's by no means like word for word but it certainly will get you

03:16:23.440 better into the ballpark of understanding certain words and certain meanings of words because they

03:16:29.680 still have remnants that exist in norwegian that don't even exist in english so yeah but no i'm

03:16:36.880 not i i don't speak norwegian at all um i i would like to but i've been studying like dead languages

03:16:44.640 more than anything like gothic and anglo-saxon are my favorite and i think the biggest hobby that i

03:16:50.240 spend my time on is learning english trying to remove latin from from english to try to

03:16:56.560 to, not because of, I hate Latin, I actually really enjoy it. It's just, I want to learn

03:17:03.160 some of the words that were lost in English that are no longer around, so.

03:17:10.280 All right. Well, I think that wraps it up for tonight's fun. It's been a good time talking

03:17:17.900 to you, Medium Show. Yeah, by all means. I'm in those mountains just because they're there, sir.

03:17:25.900 Just because they're there, I bring the medium power, the meh power.

03:17:34.020 Well, you know what's fun?

03:17:35.400 You might be medium, but your knowledge on Asitru is big.

03:17:41.920 It's the big show.

03:17:46.960 So I think, yeah, no, I enjoy this stuff.

03:17:51.860 I hope that we hit some really interesting things because we did get to talk a lot of,

03:17:55.500 uh you know about uller but there's a lot of stuff that people were hitting over here

03:17:59.580 um and and remember too i think that it's worth noting um

03:18:07.980 that the questions that are asked i know some people get scared about questions and things

03:18:13.980 nobody's hiding we're not hiding anything so we will talk this is this is open um i think that

03:18:19.340 I was here, go the, and I, and, and you all have the ability to answer questions. We're,

03:18:24.280 we're professionals. We come at this from a professional mindset, but we have a very

03:18:29.720 devotional heart. I think that anybody that has the patience or the humor, or at least

03:18:37.560 to come and listen with an open mind could hear us as, as we are, these are, you know,

03:18:44.200 this is us as as we are as people um this is what it likes when we're in the same building together

03:18:50.440 right this is fun when we and connor in the same room so yeah clear that up this is what we act

03:18:58.740 like right and there's no there's no uh there's again i even emphasize this without here there's

03:19:05.160 no preparation for this stuff it's just us and it go but um yeah i mean i think that a lot of people

03:19:12.940 ask um perhaps edgy questions or questions that are kind of like ooh i mean if you're if anybody's

03:19:21.520 coming here with malice or or um miscontent um generally you know i i know nick removes people

03:19:29.220 that might have malice in their intent a latin word actually no latinish again no if they're if

03:19:36.020 they're coming i'll use germanic if they're coming with an evil mind evil is germanic um

03:19:42.360 If they're coming with evil in their mind, yeah, Nick is really good about kind of just chucking them off.

03:19:48.320 But, yeah, I mean, it's always been an open door policy.

03:19:51.600 I think Al-Sheri Agoti has made it very, very clear that, you know, you have a question, you'll get it answered, whether you like the answer or not, especially with Al-Sheri Agoti.

03:20:02.640 You may not like the answer.

03:20:04.100 You may not like the answer, but you get the truth.

03:20:06.360 You get the truth.

03:20:07.480 Right.

03:20:07.900 You traverse you.

03:20:09.100 You're right.

03:20:09.500 And so, you know, hey, at the same time, like, you know, you come in, you know, people like get scared about certain things or certain questions or it may seem suspicious in certain ways that they might have some evil intent or whatever.

03:20:30.380 Don't worry.

03:20:31.280 Nobility doesn't worry about that.

03:20:32.740 We answer truthfully. 0.99

03:20:33.660 Honestly, we leave from the light and they can go bugger off.

03:20:38.480 So or or they'll at least hopefully learn that we're just this is us.

03:20:44.280 This is who we are. We're not here.

03:20:46.180 We're here to to bring folks home and to teach about the gods and show devotion and glory to our gods, to the gods of our people.

03:20:53.700 So. All right. Well, thank you, Swan, for being here.

03:20:57.620 Thank you for everyone who donated tonight.

03:21:00.720 Thank you for everyone who threw us some funds over in the donation buttons for the various things that we got going on.

03:21:07.840 We want to wish everybody down in Thorishof a happy Ostara, safe travels to everyone to and from that event.

03:21:16.160 We will be back on next week, Wednesday, same time, same place.

03:21:21.820 And until then, victory never sleeps.

03:21:25.700 Hail the gods.

03:21:26.900 Hail the folk.

03:21:28.060 Hail the AFA.

03:21:29.280 Thanks, everybody.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - March 09, 2023

3⧸8⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 35 - Ullr

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