00:15:14.720We see Frigg having a court of goddesses that attend her and that deal with these really
00:15:21.600specialized relationship matters, and I think that's really important.
00:15:32.980you know i struggle with this list of the of the awesome year in the sense that
00:15:38.980there are two kind of great goddesses of our folk that are of a magnitude that seems to be higher
00:15:46.420than the other the maidens of fence island they very much seem to be a subordinate to frigg and
00:15:53.460members of her court that you know assist her and assist those interacting with her in a
00:16:03.380intercessory manner in a way they have very unique things and you don't see that
00:16:12.980for example you don't see odin having a court of lesser gods that do do his bidding in the
00:16:21.700same way this is a really special circumstance and they're all very concerned with um
00:16:32.180i don't know the right word that encapsulates it perfectly with uh
00:16:38.820it's not just matters of the heart but kind of
00:16:41.620to say feminine things doesn't capture it succinctly but they're not like you pray to them
00:16:53.140for victory in war or for bountiful crops or for like these more outwardly facing traditionally
00:17:01.380masculine presenting needs though men pray to these goddesses therefore comforting kind of
00:17:11.140needs and for a listening ear when there's struggles or there's difficulties or for
00:17:20.180women of our folk when they have to struggle with concerns and with
00:17:27.460with those kind of issues or air where you pray for for healing and for health these are very inward
00:17:34.580feeling-focused concerns that most of these goddesses attend to, and I think that's
00:17:43.300important, and I think it's an aspect of Ausatru that isn't spoken about as much in the lore,
00:17:51.280certainly not the high lore. It's alluded to in sagas when you see the intimate portraits of
00:17:57.640people's individual lives, but in the other grand poems, so much of it is focused on very
00:18:05.160external conflict and external struggle. These focus a lot on, you know, interpersonal or
00:18:14.340internal struggles with heartache, with loneliness, with concern for those who are, you know,
00:18:23.060far away and in harm's way with those kind of things so these are very special and not a great
00:18:29.380deal of material is out there about these goddesses you know you'll notice that it's a sentence here
00:18:36.740a sentence there and in a very brief presentation but i don't mean that in any way to diminish their
00:18:43.380their importance um so i'm switching back between screens or whatever else so if you
00:18:53.060need to or want to chime in or whatever people feel free to just go ahead and speak up when that
00:18:58.880occurs to you yeah i i was gonna well i definitely you know the true law maul
00:19:07.080being here as a foundational uh the wedge that cuts through a lot of the misinformation
00:19:14.400i think is really important that you you know you saying that outright is important
00:19:22.060A lot of people might not know that there is a kind of, not, there's controversy around the holy goddess Lóvan. Lóvan, of course, meaning to take leave or give leave or, in essence, permissions.
00:19:41.040um and i think that people reading the poems if they see sovan and lovan and they oh these words
00:19:54.040are very very similar but in their meanings they're not um the uh biggest thing is is that
00:20:01.860they are deeply connected to language they're deeply connected to uh as you were saying these
00:20:07.300internal matters that bind society um and we've talked about the the gods being vertical and the
00:20:17.600goddesses being the interweaving between the verticals uh kind of like a basket um
00:20:24.140it's the mesh that holds things together and keeps things flowing and i i think it's very
00:20:34.420interesting when we look at the goddess Rauvin, it is contextualized specifically for the Viking
00:20:45.320age. And in that, there have been a lot of people who have taken a run with it in order to push
00:20:54.500their own agendas. And I think that our church has done a very good job of reestablishing,
00:21:04.120re-centering refocusing back to the truth the the core of um this this goddess and her worship
00:21:14.140um and the controversy that i'm talking about is that um somewhere in the 90s uh the internet pagan
00:21:21.660community tried to utilize the idea that um loven is the goddess that gives permission for
00:21:30.260forbidden romance or forbidden love um even though it clearly states between men and women
00:21:37.760um they try to make her into the the goddess that gives permission for um same-sex marriage
00:21:48.260and you can tell it's right around the same time that this was a hotbed issue um in the 90s and
00:21:55.700it's so funny to see some of the uh videos from then uh you know staunch folks like um hillary
00:22:04.500clinton and and um obama speaking about how marriage is between a man and a woman and then
00:22:13.22010 years later they have completely flipped um so the the the problem with that is the blatant
00:22:22.820disregard for the lore and in essence utilizing um the gods we we've talked about how there's
00:22:34.520nothing wrong with being political and concerning ourselves with governance and being religious
00:22:42.180to the gods but it's another thing when you take your politics and
00:22:49.740put the gods kind of or utilize or make them a tool to push your message um and that is
00:23:01.040something that we often get uh accused of but nothing is further from the truth in reality
00:23:09.420and we we've always said that governance and the way of the folk uh structuring themselves our
00:23:18.300ancestors did not have to deal with things we do today and the gods just like in the viking age
00:23:25.420were looking at the folk seeing how they were going to govern themselves and utilize the tools
00:23:31.340and the gifts that they were given um they didn't decree that uh monarchy is going to be the way
00:23:39.580or chieftain hood or tribal kingdoms etc it was part of the evolution of its time and now we are
00:23:49.740in this different time so be very careful and i think that's the other thing is our church
00:23:56.140Church, moving into the realm of bringing our faith to folk to bring them home, is that you will find a lot of people try to discredit us, but they're completely insincere and they're completely, they try to obfuscate what they're doing.
00:24:18.540And the Austro-Folk Assembly doesn't do that. We're trying to be open, honest, and with sincerity, looking at things and following the trail of deduction, creating these questions that lead us towards the truth.
00:24:35.340So ultimately, thriving towards the truth.
00:24:39.200And Loven is giving leave, but in a Viking Age sense, she is the goddess that allows families who have forbidden the relationship between a man and a woman,
00:24:56.840for whatever reason and there could be numerous reasons in the viking age um
00:25:02.580to warming or or giving passage working things out in order for their love to be uh unified
00:25:14.580But what the core of this really is, is consolement, consolidation, and finding mediation between opposing forces.
00:25:30.760So when we looked at Lavin, we looked at her as the binding unit between things that are either pulling apart or who are already apart.
00:25:44.440And the end goal is that with her aid, with her ability as the gods place themselves in the well of Erd to affect things, her dominion is a very, very subtle one.
00:25:58.300But it's one about unification, whether it's returning to or just making it where it isn't.
00:26:07.360So generally, you'll see prayers given to Loven based on keeping marriages together or returning marriages back to the marriage state if there's things that are starting to break apart.
00:26:25.060and um also if there is a kind of sense where uh the families are not agreeing uh with the
00:26:37.220the marriage and a lot of folks don't realize that how much marriage is not only a binding of
00:26:43.440oaths between the man and the woman but also between two social circles to uh familial circles
00:26:51.580there's so much going on in a wedding about the unification of two people it's almost like a
00:26:58.760send-off in a way because after they leave that place they will never be as they were before they
00:27:05.020came in they're not solitary they're now unified and there's a lot of conditions that are at play
00:27:12.340and it's a it's a delicate balance and so maintaining those is where we find the true
00:27:19.740dominion of of lovin um it's the maintenance of love the maintenance or the struggles of
00:27:29.060relationships and i think the dreamers and the fantasizers will say oh if it's true love you
00:27:35.620don't have to work at it no anything that you have that is truly worth takes work that's what
00:27:43.980makes it sacred and there will be ups and downs and the weatherings of things and and uh lovin
00:27:52.220is that consolidation or consultation of remedy the ninth is vower she hearkens to the oaths and
00:28:04.700compacts made between men and women wherefore such covenants are called vows she also takes
00:28:12.220vengeance on those who perjure themselves from the truant model uh valor's name means pledge
00:28:21.820and she's invoked often in weddings valor witnesses valor remembers valor is the patroness of wedding
00:28:31.180vows um also straightforward but i would say one of the you know one of these goddesses that i think
00:28:42.860second after air is probably the one that people will hear most often because she is spoken about
00:28:48.940a lot in you know at weddings and in reference to marital vows so um
00:28:58.460yeah and you'll notice that some of these names
00:29:03.020sometimes there's relations sometimes there's the spelling or the sound is almost in like a
00:29:12.620couplet there's like a pairing of names which i don't think is important in and of itself but i
00:29:19.500do think it is a very useful mnemonic device for you to remember them as a list or as a group if
00:29:28.840struggling to remember all of them so it's kind of a cool way to help boost your memory on it
00:29:36.440yeah speaking of spelling um one of the the the the goddesses from here on are
00:29:46.920confusing to a lot of people mainly because of linguistics the things that are kind of forgotten
00:29:54.440is that um the a with the dash over the top of it makes a owl sound so it's vower and hence it's
00:30:05.320linking to um to the like the word vow vows um however right after is v o r but there's a double
00:30:17.960dot so that's an aw sound like in caught and because people just see var and vor they often
00:30:26.840get the two uh mixed up so it's really really important understanding even though the little
00:30:34.880things the nuances of of the dash above the a in old norse is a ow sound vaur and once you
00:30:41.940get that it makes total sense why she is um connected to the word vow but uh yeah i think
00:30:52.800uh weddings are such a uh i think well all of the goddesses too are deeply connected
00:30:59.680to societal thresholds whether it's uh pregnancy and birth baby namings um weddings
00:31:11.760and and so many of the living things that society's cultures do and um she's so clearly
00:31:21.540in the point of you have two social groups joining together in oath and she holds that
00:31:32.020now what does that look like when she's punishing those who perjure their their words one of the
00:31:39.500big things is is all of the gods being able to implement their dominion via the well of earth
00:31:47.260the the threshold between the heavenly realm and the material realm um the the source of all fate
00:31:55.700and the source of all time uh as deeds are done uh the divine are interlacing themselves within
00:32:06.700the very creation of everything that we perceive as the world around us, that generally takes
00:32:15.980form in, like many other oaths that are not marriage-related, is the loss of
00:32:25.440the haminya, that when you go against your wedding vows, there is a particular
00:32:33.400set of that oath. And when you go against it, it draws away from your hominia. It can also,
00:32:41.940I think, manifest in different ways as well. But that's the most consistent point in our lore about
00:32:51.240the kind of cost of going against your word is that your luck, your place in fate,
00:32:58.260The things that work out do the opposite now. They're not working out in your favor. They're working against you. You have kind of created a little nick on the record, and that's where there's a constant skip of everything going on.
00:33:16.740so not good to break your your oaths um in marriage and our our marriage we have the three
00:33:26.120oaths the oath of the horn the oath of the the blade or um the blade in the keys and then the
00:33:34.900oath of the rings and uh each of these three oaths are under her dominion so
00:33:40.820the tenth is vore she is wise and of searching spirit so that none can conceal anything from
00:33:50.860her there's a saying that a woman becomes aware of that of which she is informed from the true
00:33:59.040of wrong vore is the careful one she sees what others overlook details matter and small things
00:34:09.480can have great importance lord takes notice lord is the patroness of intuition and foresight
00:34:20.440i really like the searching spirit um the wanting to know the seeking out
00:34:28.520um oftentimes uh if there are practitioners who are also um versed in saith and the idea of
00:34:41.920being able to gain the premonition through intuition so uh var is often depicted as
00:34:50.680kind of wearing or uh donning the same accoutrements that a save corner would have
00:34:57.560a veil, things that obscure a vision, because the idea is that's culturally symbolic, that her
00:35:07.300vision is beyond her eyes. And I think that she manifests heavily in our society with both the
00:35:18.760mystique of the feminine um and also our connectivity to each other a lot of times
00:35:26.780it seems uh at we are receptive men are projecting or projective and uh in that reception women are
00:35:38.000far more in tuned with the connectivity that they have with other people um a perfect example of
00:35:46.720this is um some a story that my wife told me she was um in ukraine and uh she had a friend
00:35:56.480close friend who uh suddenly she received uh insight via a dream um that he was in a very
00:36:05.820dark place that he was taking leave where he was going to end up being troubled in a terrible
00:36:18.740sense. So she immediately called him the next day and he was in a very dark place in his life and
00:36:27.400was considering um suicide and she talked him out of it and uh i wonder too if the the time
00:36:36.360difference made it you know far closer than say here where it's like i you know call you the next
00:36:43.380day but um in doing so that intuitive sense came to her to call him and and reach out to him and
00:36:52.360And now he's married and has children and is living a good life.
00:36:58.200He was just at the brink where he was about to be swallowed by that darkness.
00:37:03.780And that's actually the dream that she saw was that he was being swallowed by darkness.
00:37:12.220So I definitely believe that Var was working at that time through my wife.
00:37:22.360The eleventh is Seen. She keeps the door in the hall and locks it before those who should not go in.
00:37:39.360She is also set at trials as a defense against such suits as she wishes to her few.
00:37:47.360Vince is the expression that scene is set forward when a man denies.
00:37:54.580From the true love poem, scene's name means refusal.
00:38:00.780She exemplifies a woman's responsibility to set boundaries.
00:38:05.940Scene is a source of inspiration and power when women seek to influence events around them and put order to chaos.
00:38:12.720seen as the patroness of thresholds and of personal sovereignty.
00:38:18.680Something that's of note with these goddesses in particular,
00:38:23.340and I think it's true with the gods in general.
00:38:31.760There are, I mean, there's also anything in between,
00:38:37.100But there's in general a, with the gender duality of divinity, there's an exemplification of things that you want to look to, for example, in, you know, for men in the gods.
00:39:02.060And there's things you want to look to, for example, in the goddesses for the ladies, but there's also things that you want to look for to aid you in things outside of your skill set or outside of your inclination when you go across genders.
00:39:17.860You know, there's it speaks here of these goddesses as, in a way, being examples of things that women should look to become or enact or take note of to initiate in their life.
00:39:37.060But also for men to, you know, call out to when they need comfort, when they have a lack of something, when they need help with something outside of their, you know.
00:39:51.800Men don't reach out to try to be like the goddesses.
00:39:54.640They reach out for their aid in something that's typically a feminine thing.
00:40:00.300Females don't reach out to the gods so that they can be the gods or be more like the gods.
00:40:06.040They reach out for strength and that masculine presence in things in their life they need assistance with.
00:40:13.480So there's kind of a dual utility in the relationship with these goddesses,
00:40:20.560whereas they set very good examples for how women are able to function in society well,
00:40:27.740for things that women specialize in in the hall culture in courtly life in noble association with
00:40:36.620people but also provide you know an intercessor and someone for men to reach out to need help
00:40:43.020with these kind of things or we need perspective in these kind of ways so it's it's nice that way
00:40:49.420it's kind of a unique um an interesting take that i think is exemplified very particularly
00:40:56.860in these short blurbs about these goddesses well and a lot of um a lot of folks that
00:41:07.100kind of give critique of our faith perhaps from a scholarly sense um try to lend that snorty is
00:41:17.580overstepping his bounds and in creating comparisons perhaps with the roman allegoric
00:41:26.140goddesses and i think that the reality is they don't see any connection between say the norse
00:41:33.980and the mediterranean um hellenics um not seeing i mean clearly their language is interconnected
00:41:45.820um but not seeing that these concepts that manifest in each of these different cultures
00:41:51.020can be very very um similar and so instead they just kind of account it for oh it's being uh taken
00:41:59.980by but we find ourselves looking at cross comparison to other aryan branches of the of the
00:42:08.940faiths that come from there and we see this is uh a commonality in every branch and they immediately
00:42:19.820try to say no it's just uh others are kind of mirroring or stealing from um instead of seeing
00:42:25.900that these concepts by like by linguistics um are carried through all the branches and they are
00:42:35.180neatly placed upon the um the the altar of of the divine goddesses gods so when we see
00:42:47.820scene and her relationship as the goddess of thresholds and specifically the marking of the
00:42:57.540idea of a lock um during the nordic uh time frame that that this was again from 8th century to like
00:43:08.84014th century the locks and the idea of keeping things safe um particularly the home uh was
00:43:16.620emphasized but what would that look like before or after in relation and what that really is is
00:43:24.940permissions the permissions of the the spirit of the family the spirit of the clan the idea of the
00:43:35.260border the place in which some may enter but not all may enter and the discretion to do so and that
00:43:43.900also has a very judicial sense to it. So there's the mentioning of the defense of those who try
00:43:55.800to rebuke accusation at court. I would say that there is a lot to learn when we look at
00:44:05.340and comparison the parallels with roman um divinity uh and that scene is most closely i
00:44:15.340think correlated to uh um eustinia i think is justice and we know her as lady justice with the
00:44:26.860blindfold and the sword and the scales, but, or yeah, eustidia or justidia.
00:44:37.400And there's a second point when we see in the Roman sense, as she is depicted, she's often
00:44:44.860depicted with prudence. I don't remember the Roman word, or it's like, it's like prudence
00:44:54.740or prudencia um and if you look at prudencia or prudentia you see also there there she's very
00:45:05.080similar the goddess snotra and the acting correctly and seemliness and uh going forth and
00:45:16.480and kind of good manner within society that we are not animalistic so i find that very very
00:45:23.740interesting um there are these super clean correlations even though completely uh different
00:45:33.660regions different time frames but it's the language that a lot is always associated with
00:45:41.260the goddesses in the poems and it's the very same thing that links us to other branches so to
00:45:49.340To discredit, the only time I ever see this is when there's people who think that Lord Odin is somehow different than the god Wodan of the English.
00:46:01.260They have this disconnect that since the language has changed, therefore they are different and they can't continue on kind of following that logic that I spoke about that our church tries to do is following the logic that brings us to the truth.
00:46:22.480And so oftentimes in studying the goddesses, I find myself looking at the personification goddesses, particularly of ideals, like we were talking about with Gevion and her relation to Columbia.
00:46:39.260And then so, too, we see seen in relation to just justitia and snotra to prudentia.
00:46:49.880And we find, again, a correlative sense that is just really things being important and in the dominion of the divine amongst Aryan families.
00:47:09.900And I think that that's really, really important.
00:47:11.780I think we can learn a lot from that as we have so many gaps because of Christianity or because of the politics of Christianity.
00:47:21.520So we find ourselves looking kind of overlaying other blueprints on top of ours to help fill in the gaps and create a more Pan-Aryan view of the gods.
00:48:08.080when loved ones are far away and there is a need to safeguard them.
00:48:12.720Colleen is the patroness of protection, especially protection of children.
00:48:21.280Again, some of these are very straightforward. I don't want to give anybody, you know,
00:48:27.280less attention than these do, but I think these are...
00:48:30.080i don't think something needs to be complex for it to be powerful and very significant i think
00:48:41.040all of us know the stress and the worry when a loved one is away in a situation that might be
00:48:49.700dangerous or or when it might be a concerning spot and having a goddess particularly who listens to
00:48:57.820those concerns and to address when you're worried about the well-being of someone you care about
00:49:04.140who's you know in a dangerous situation or you know away from home and potentially in
00:49:13.500outside of your your immediate protection i think is a need that
00:49:17.660we all feel very viscerally so i think that's a something very easily relatable to most if not all
00:49:24.140of us yeah the the the association again of the late native period the men folk going out going
00:49:37.740abroad fighting and clearly the the the women of the house or of the tribe giving prayers to the
00:49:47.340goddesses for specific things in this case yeah the the protection of those but i try to look
00:49:54.060at the goddesses and and the mystery of them is how does that manifest say even before and again
00:50:04.340this is one of the oldest things of fate the the battles uh between folk has been going on since
00:50:12.660um we can you know remember it's not even it's even it's it's very much in our nature
00:50:21.480But the idea that protection could be placed upon someone if their fate or if the dominion or the machinations of the gods could allow it, that's another big thing.
00:50:38.720It's not so much about as the gods move forward and they have the ability to place themselves into the web or into the flow of fate and will.
00:50:56.560So it's not so much that they will simply do the bidding of of that prayer, but that the reality is, is they step in if it doesn't override, I think, the total machinations of the gods.
00:51:13.820And unfortunately, for a lot of folks, they don't get the idea that sometimes bad things happen for other things to happen or good things.
00:51:24.800It's they kind of all base it on their own personal experience.
00:51:28.920So reaching out to the gods and asking to intercede if available, if possible, I think is one of the big things that is a difference between, say, some older Ausatru, I have given gifts so I should get gifts back, that kind of exchange idea where they look at the gods as some sort of divine vending machine.
00:51:56.460And then there's also that the gods don't care about us at all. And I think the truth of it is, is that it's all within the scope of our understanding. And unfortunately, our scope of understanding is very small comparative to the big overview picture.
00:52:13.900So when we pray to Hlyn, I think it foremost comes from a yearning or a desire for the protection of our loved ones.
00:52:26.800And I think that's really, really important.
00:52:29.400I think the closest correlative, if we're looking, say, at the Roman or Etruscan, would be Minerva.
00:52:36.860And it's, I find it interesting that her name has reference to going all the way back into Proto-Indo-European, the word for thought or thinking of someone, or in this case, especially in that, as I'm contexting it, thinking of someone.
00:52:57.020um and the the correlation between the two oftentimes she's read um at minerva's ready
00:53:06.400that thought is just again wisdom or calculation but i think it's deeply about our our mental
00:53:16.600connection that which we are attempting to bring into realization and
00:53:24.640expanding our understanding of, I think, the overarching big picture of how the gods are
00:53:31.960interlaying into the material. I often, again, for my children and for those who are traveling
00:53:40.360abroad, I often pray to Lene in hopes that she can intercede to keep them safe if all is aligned.
00:54:51.600a lot of the example we see here is put in a very
00:54:56.960so much of our lore is put in the hall culture context we talk about our folk being aryan
00:55:11.120and you know all of the just linguistics of that but specifically with the emphasis on nobility
00:55:18.640in these are the things that are aspirational to our people in the hall culture in the courtly
00:55:28.140culture that develops and dignified bearing not embarrassing yourself or the people around you
00:55:38.860or the men that you're with when you are in a social situation these things are really important
00:55:45.160for women a lot of these roles exhibited by these goddesses in particular are very important for
00:55:54.760women when they interact in a noble society with noble men and noble women on how to
00:56:00.200how to conduct yourself how to best utilize your femininity for the purposes of you know
00:56:11.400functioning and accomplishing in that kind of a culture and in that kind of situation
00:56:16.120the idea of having one of these goddesses to look to for keeping a noble bearing and being you know
00:56:24.920thought out and reasonable in your actions and in your not overindulging you know foolishness
00:56:32.280and being aware that people are looking at you you're setting an example is a very important
00:56:36.200function in the noble society of our ancestors and in society of good people today.
00:56:46.360Yeah, I made mention of Snotra and her connection to prudence or prudentia,
00:56:54.360and I think that prudence is, I think most people will be familiar with the word, but it's deeply
00:57:04.120connected to the Germanic word of seemliness, acting correctly. And that hall culture that you
00:57:12.660spoke of about why it was so important in relation to understanding hierarchy, to understanding
00:57:21.140interplay and relationships from royalty to lordship to freemen and to servants and those
00:57:34.100who are a war captured or what have you these balances are important and i think it ultimately
00:57:42.320leads to structure of society not being animalistic for us having these kind of
00:57:51.140natural inclinations to to keep things in order and also peace keeping
00:57:57.600um people together without ill will or or having them overstep their bounds or or where they go
00:58:06.540into um say over drinking and speaking you know foul words and in a moment that they will regret
00:58:14.180tomorrow um clearly showing that it has a heavy effect on the internal well-being of the person
00:58:20.920So the idea is, you know, that Snotra is the governing dominion in keeping the peace and always warning that it's never good to step into the unseemly.
00:58:37.920unseemly. And unfortunately today, I think a lot of folks kind of have this downward spiral sense
00:58:45.080that once they step into that, they just let go and they can't come back from their missteps.
00:58:52.360They can't come back from their mistakes. I see it a lot in our culture that there is that
00:58:57.740one-way direction. There's no, once you mess up, you're, you know, you can't fix it. And I think
00:59:07.540that that's something that needs to be um looked at more because that's kind of coming from more of a
00:59:14.420fantastical roman roman or uh romanticization of of our ancestors in reality that seemliness is
00:59:22.500one of those things to be worked on and that can build you back to re-correcting your actions and
00:59:30.420And stopping the loss of haminya or luck from your soul and rebuilding your ability to come back into society and give and be a contributing member to the folk as you move forward.
00:59:47.660And I think that Snotra is very much connected to all of that in our society.
00:59:55.520yeah i think it's good enough time to uh just make note of women's ability in social settings
01:00:06.140and it's exemplified in the hall culture of our ancestors but
01:00:09.880it's very important um women just by their presence are able to affect the
01:00:18.200the temperature the climate of a room especially when you have men with very
01:00:25.880strong personalities if you have women who are there in attendance that they
01:00:32.320can go such a long way with a gesture with how they carry themselves with a
01:00:36.540soft word here and there to soothe things and to facilitate pleasant
01:00:44.520relationships between the people together and they can do the exact opposite if they're drunk and
01:00:50.760loud and cause problems they can you know with with a word or a look or you know the wrong
01:00:58.840behavior they can easily start or perpetuate fights and feuds and spoil things even between
01:01:05.800friends so it's very it is a power that can be used for for good or for ill and it's um i think
01:01:13.880you know very relevant to talking about her there's uh a last one of the goddesses we're
01:01:19.240going to talk about um and then we will get some of your questions i know we've got a number of
01:01:25.000questions stacking up in the uh in the chat the 14th is now uh her frig sends into diverse lands
01:01:36.600on her errands she has that horse which runs over the sky and sea and is called hoof tosser
01:01:43.880Once, when she was writing, certain of the Vanir sought her course in the air. Then one spoke,
01:01:51.220What flyeth there? What fareth there? Or glideth in the air? She made answer, I fly not, though I fare.
01:02:01.040And in the air glide on Hooftosser, him that Hemskerpher got with Gardropha.
01:02:09.900So, from Gnaw's name, that which soars high is said to Gnaifa, Sol and Bill are reckoned
01:02:22.740among the Ousenier, but their nature has been told before.
01:02:27.960So, from the Trulagma, Gnaw is the divine messenger of Mother Frigg.
01:12:52.420gifting tradition that we have with our ancestors who've passed beyond the veil
01:12:59.940with this new person who has become one of the ancestors
01:13:05.620So it can take the shape, largely it's informed by the loved ones and what they would like and what they think that the one who's passed would like.
01:13:15.880And so that informs a lot of the particulars or the scale of grandiosity or how a lot of that works.
01:13:22.200What is a standout, I would say, is giving time and place for people to come up and eulogize and tell stories and celebrate the person who's passed, instead of relying on the officiant to, or in this case, the go-fi to, you know, tell you about the Aesir and tell you about Balder and tell you about whatever.
01:13:47.400it's the opportunity to have the people who knew the person who passed come up and celebrate their
01:13:54.200life speak of their deeds and raise toasts in their honor um that's a big part of it traditionally
01:14:03.420a big emphasis was put on the funeral of feast and on sharing a meal with the mourners who are
01:14:11.500gathered to honor you know to have a fitting send-off to a person they want to honor and that's
01:14:19.980that's a big part of it um as far as the uh you know what to do with the remains
01:14:30.460that has been it's extremely important it's been something that was very important
01:14:36.300since the very beginning of our existence, it's one of the first things that comes into play
01:14:43.420when understanding people and culture and stuff is ceremonial burial. It is a fundamentally human
01:14:52.540condition. And that's taken, you know, any number of different forms and it's gone back and forth
01:14:58.860between burial between cremation and so forth in modern house true we prefer uh cremation as that
01:15:07.340is very associated with the cult of the icer specifically of the all father it is
01:15:16.460i think the most exemplary type of depositing of of uh of dealing with the dead person's remains
01:15:27.340in our in our lore there's the thought that in burning them the their the pieces of their soul
01:15:37.660make their journey quickly and go straight up as opposed to on a slow you know rotting decomposition
01:15:44.780process um but that's not a have to you don't have to there's no uh you don't make it to the
01:15:52.220afterlife unless you you know if you get mummified and you don't decompose then you never get to make
01:15:57.580it beyond the veil it there's no there's no rules like that um one of the things that i think is a
01:16:07.020misnomer is that that viking funeral thing is like setting a boat on fire out in the water
01:16:14.300it's cool and it's pretty and i can't say that's never happened very often that would be done on
01:16:19.180the shore and the mound would be raised over the burnt remains of the person in the ship
01:16:29.900i've been to ladby in denmark where you know it's actually a really really cool site but it's of a
01:16:36.940ship burial where the ship was intact with you know sacrificed horses and such in the ship with
01:16:44.220the bodies you know intact was buried in a mound um it was done really neat though because they did
01:16:51.180the excavation but they kept all of the ship and the stuff intact and under glass and then they
01:17:00.060rebuilt a mound over top of it so you can go into a burial mound and you can walk around but it has
01:17:07.180a solemn atmosphere it's done very respectfully i think i think it's the best compromise i've seen
01:17:14.220between messing with ancient people's graves which bothers me but i understand that's how
01:17:20.780we get a lot of our archaeology but still treating it as a as a place of reverence as a grave keeping
01:17:28.300them buried and interred in the place that they wanted to be buried and interred in the way that
01:17:33.580they wanted to it's the best compromise i've seen that it was really very impressive um but yeah so
01:17:41.020in a modern house true funeral i think it looks as as buried as other modern funerals in the
01:17:47.660united states but the emphasis is always on the individual of the past and on their family and
01:17:53.020on those who knew them celebrating them and not a sermon about house of true or about
01:17:57.980someone other than the personal past um i did want to bring up one point that i just kind of
01:18:07.520hit me while you were talking about the difference um and i think a lot of people should know this
01:18:13.100i say it all the time christianity is a subsect of judaism and so the burying process is uniquely
01:18:25.240tied to a concept that Christians don't really believe in anymore. The idea, and it comes from
01:18:35.000Saul of Tarsus, who Christians know him as Paul. He kind of stating that he's taking the Judaic
01:18:46.400belief and then extending it to non-Jews. He talks about how the dead will rise for judgment.
01:18:57.480And this kind of shows that, especially in the Levant and amongst the Judeans, that their idea
01:19:04.620is that once you die, you're placed in the ground and you are in stasis waiting for judgment. And
01:19:11.380then this wasn't really applied to anyone outside of their tribe. And then Saul of Tarsus goes
01:19:19.320further to say that even though there are non-Jews that don't know the covenant with Yahweh,
01:19:25.200they too can gain access or citizenship at the throne of Yahweh. And he even speaks about
01:19:34.180the benevolent Jew, and he means this in the sense that he's not saying that he's not a Jew,
01:19:42.100is that the ancient practice from the Pharisees, there will be one admitted into, or a few admitted
01:19:50.120into heaven. And then he even speaks about the pagans who will be admitted. But a lot of people
01:19:57.020lose sight that the burial is so connected to Christianity predominantly through its origins,
01:20:05.600which is that the dead stay there. And that when the rabbi Yeshua comes down from the sky with a
01:20:18.580word, they will rise to stand for judgment. And a lot of people really gloss over this.
01:20:24.080And I find it super, super interesting that, you know, you follow that trail back and it goes all the way back to ancient Judaic practices and why for us cremation and burial have totally different meanings and why over time European Christians just did away with a lot of the Judaic concepts of burial and the waitment for judgment and so on and so forth.
01:20:52.560But it was very real for them in the early parts of Christianity because it was one step outside of the door of Judaism.
01:35:33.460and there's elements of a person there, absolutely.
01:35:36.440I think any of us have experienced that and know that.
01:35:40.780But it's not a full or a whole, complete person
01:35:44.540until the end of that process so i and our lore doesn't really address exactly what happens
01:35:52.540um but i think like like uh likely the the elements that were coming to play to make
01:36:01.040that baby into a full person can be you know reutilized in a situation that does come to
01:36:10.340fruition and that does come to uh the fullness of term and the fullness of making it to the
01:36:16.900completion of personhood um but yeah it's a that is a tragedy to everybody involved and i'm very
01:36:26.140sad that you guys went through that swan do you have anything to add on that well when we talk
01:36:32.080about the soul and we speak about the essence of Yggdrasil, the dew dripping into the well
01:36:42.500of earth, a lot of that connectivity is a soul essence being placed in to the well of
01:36:51.780fate and will and all the things that we spoke about and that the gods are at the top of
01:36:56.100that that ordering point um and oftentimes with that there's also the essence of the ancestors
01:37:03.940uh being passed up soul pieces um parts that are given to the new formed soul for benefit
01:37:15.080um and that these culminations that come from the root and ultimately are uh coming out of
01:37:23.900out of Yggdrasil and into the well dripping there um there is deed that must be performed in order
01:37:33.960for the child to be fully interlaced into the will and the fate of the folk around and
01:37:44.440And when that doesn't happen, it seems the general point is that the attributes given by the ancestors, there's that returning and that there is not the kind of full completion or starting of as I was here ago that was talking about.
01:38:06.680But that like the part of this, all of these components of the soul are laid out and that since there is not the full completion, there is not some destination like in, say, with, you know, certain forms of Christianity, say that, you know, certain souls, that it was some sort of a punishment for you to have something like this happen.
01:38:34.080Or that the souls, I know like during the Victorian age, a lot of the times they would talk about, and in Slavic areas, that children that had passed away in this way were somehow lost or kind of in purgatory or cursed or things like that.
01:38:53.680Instead, ours is that it's a component collection, and if that component collection does not meet the zenith or apex or the threshold of full integration, then those components then break apart and the process can start over at a different time in a different sense.
01:39:20.160So it's not like some long damnation. The process is interrupted. And I think that really that can be best understood by our ancestors and the way that they lived in a pastoral tribal sense.
01:39:39.000anybody who owns animals knows that sometimes things don't work out there are there are
01:39:47.800components being put together and it's it has to stand the test of time it has to pass through the
01:39:54.280the full threshold in order to maintain and sometimes that doesn't happen one of the most
01:40:01.400interesting things is that there is a remarkable lack of archaeological burials of children of of
01:40:09.720little children or of um um babies or infants and things um now the variations of certain societal
01:40:22.200norms of our ancestors has been sometimes very harsh in comparison to our views of today our
01:40:29.880our ancestors have helped us build a very secure society. And that was not always the case. But
01:40:36.000what we do end up finding is that a lot of people try to take that in the negative sense.
01:40:42.600But the late Nordic period, there was a huge population boom. So that time, there was,
01:40:51.860I think a lot of birth rates but the tradition of the nine days is clearly a vestige of child
01:41:00.660mortality and that the necessity of creating the completion of the threshold and once that happened
01:41:09.700that was that the child was fully integrated all the components were there or log was set everyone
01:41:17.060was involved the ancestors the gods all of the folk in the living in the middle world everything
01:41:24.100is culminated together at that point if it's not if it if the soul pieces do not complete that
01:41:33.300fullness then they are again kind of in the ebb and flow of much energy in this and components in
01:41:43.300our in our world and they they dissipate and i think that that's uh
01:41:51.380kind of explained in much of the undertones of our of our belief about the passing of haminya
01:41:59.780the passing of might from ancestors the uh allocation of bloodline and how the gods and
01:42:10.260And the Norns interweave souls into fate.
01:45:56.920doyourownwill.com is free and is easy and you can do it in 10 minutes and it's something that's so
01:46:03.080much better than nothing. If you want to do a better one later or change it half a dozen times
01:46:08.560as your life changes, do that, but do your own will today for free and send it to Alan.
01:46:15.220So we've got something in our hand to help, to help advocate for you. Because the other thing is,
01:46:22.140And you hate to think this about your loved ones and your family, but sometimes their religious beliefs make them think they are doing the right thing by violating your will and what you want done with your remains.
01:46:42.440Sometimes it's not out of maliciousness or out of greed of somehow not distributing your assets the way that you want.
01:46:52.140And sometimes it's them trying to do what they think is best for you.
01:47:00.200We had a young man a number of years ago who passed without a will.
01:47:05.340And he is now in a Jewish cemetery after having a Jewish service with a Jewish memorial
01:47:13.220because his parents decided to convert to Judaism
01:47:16.780and they did what they thought was spiritually appropriate
01:50:28.800in case they're not and i might wager that they might not be gentlemen who are on this program
01:50:43.360with me should also get their wills done and sent to alan so he has a copy that would be cool
01:50:48.720um also everybody you can see you can tell by spawn space and uh everybody in the chat room
01:50:56.880do it it's a good thing seriously it's free in it i've done it it's important um
01:51:07.760oh this question is just for you spawn question for spawn are you familiar with theurgy
01:51:16.160yes okay it was practiced by hellenists thoughts on it and is that a legitimate expression of
01:51:28.040arian spirituality uh depends on uh i guess time and ultimately execution i mean the ergy is really
01:51:39.780a classification by the Hellenics of a processes that can be observed in every group of Aryan
01:51:48.780spirituality. Ritual, the commitment to ritual, the purposing of how you enter a space, how you
01:51:59.760leave a space, how you move within the space. All of that is part of that. And it's very clearly
01:52:08.240laid out throughout many traditions. But what it's ultimately doing is the synthesization
01:52:17.320between the material perception, the middle world and the other side unifying or kind of
01:52:27.020building that bridge between the two. And the only problem I have with that classification
01:52:34.780is that later on in the medieval ages, the practice was still carried on,
01:52:44.440but they had created this sense of the church and Yahweh or Jehovah or just God.
01:52:54.140That's off limits, only interceding perhaps through the malak is the Hebrew word or the angelos.
01:53:04.780but that you could do other things and talk to other beings who were lesser than.
01:53:13.120So in a way, I think that's the time where Christianity was kind of making Yahweh or Jehovah
01:53:19.960into more of the Neoplatonic, the one, or, you know, just like the monism of interactions.
01:53:31.500they also you know that i think too is the same time where the the soul transcends the earth and
01:53:38.480goes into the heavenly realm as opposed to just waiting in stasis until judgment day um from the
01:53:46.120judaic sense that it would be descending down into the the earthly realm there was only a
01:53:52.780biphetic relationship there wasn't an upper middle and a lower but that there's the upper realm the
01:54:00.480middle realm. And if you're judged and seen as bad, you're thrown into the fiery incinerator
01:54:07.020that's in heaven. Um, a lot of, you know, Aryan, um, concepts of the upper middle and lower world
01:54:15.140are brought into Christianity. And when you find out, you kind of dissect those out, you see the
01:54:20.560strangeness of, of that belief, the foreignness of it. But, um, the idea of being able to do
01:54:30.380certain things to simply bring about divine beings or semi-divine beings for usage in a contractual
01:54:43.560sense or in a sense where you have some sort of command. I think that's uniquely something that
01:54:49.860was developed and hyper-focused in medieval the medieval ages from looking at the stuff that they
01:55:01.100had all the all the knowledge that they had collected they're looking at some of the greek
01:55:04.920fraternal orders they're looking at the egyptian priesthoods that had secret cabals that were built
01:55:12.740around magic traditions and so you get that mixed with neoplatonism and the evolving christianity
01:55:23.860at the time and you get this idea that okay you can't do that with god but you could do
01:55:30.500with angels and you could do it or with malaks or whatever they choose to call them whether
01:55:36.100you're using a hebrew word or a um or european word but you could do that with them you could
01:55:42.660do that with nefarious and chaotic spirits and you know you have to follow kind of diagram
01:55:48.780and uh intention i don't necessarily have a huge kind of inclination towards that and its value
01:55:58.600But I do see the roots and why people focus on the medieval age time definition, but the reality is it's rooted in something that is Pan-Aryan and deeply connected.
01:56:13.880And that is these ideas of being able to break through the mundane through proper practice, proper speech, and proper indication of action in order to blend between the divine and the material.
01:56:32.400And this goes all the way back to our ancient Aryan ancestors as in source, you know, they, based off of what perhaps little we know about them, we would think that simply the divine is the sky and the sun and the moon and that.
01:56:52.560But there's clearly the action of the gift cycle of giving and all of the kind of unwritten evidence of passing over thresholds, bridges that go over waterways, making sure to only move sun-wise within areas.
01:57:13.320These kind of deeply ingrained traditions that we know create the sacred and helps us surpass the profane, that is absolutely, I think, across the board.
01:57:31.900It's just not so formalized as the medieval sense of being able to draw some geometric or a seal, talismanic seal from supposedly from King Solomon, and that you're able to create thresholds and bring forth divine beings that are or semi-divine beings that are not God to do your bidding.
01:57:59.780That, I think, is more or less a product of the fact that the divine became so untouchable and became kind of the first stepping stone that Christianity had done towards making their God very unattainable and unrelatable.
01:58:20.200Kind of like George Washington even said, the clockmaker, the watchmaker, the divine providence, that interaction was separated so humanity, the folk, they looked for other ways to feel integrated with a system that previous to Christianity's injection, they were already kind of a part of.
01:58:48.620it just wasn't so much uh written down laid out in a framework so um yes i think it existed long
01:58:58.960before and so the medieval magic practices i kind of look at them less uh with as much lofty weight
01:59:09.920of theurgy as say all the religious practices of europeans and or arians in every group um
01:59:18.100they all start with theurgy, making that connection to the divine through word and
01:59:25.860participation and kind of traditions. And they change a little bit, mainly based off of culture
01:59:33.560and the way that the entirety of that group viewed the world around them. But outside of it,
01:59:39.500they're all a lot of them are very very similar so next question and I
01:59:48.560even when I don't have favorable answers I appreciate the questions I appreciate the
01:59:58.560tone that they're asking I appreciate the things that people wonder sometimes my answer is not one
02:00:06.460that is helpful but it will always be one that's honest are there any outstrew groups that are less
02:00:17.980folkish but also traditionalists that the afa has amiable uh recommendations with
02:00:25.420or might recommend to follow it where it was not eligible for afa membership
02:00:30.060no um and the last part so here's the thing if it were just because somebody is
02:00:43.340confused about their ideas and want something that is
02:00:48.540not folkish because they are i don't know misguided no i wouldn't recommend that but
02:00:58.380last part is the part that i take really seriously for a follower who is not eligible for afa
02:01:04.620membership there are a lot of people who are mixed race um and these are the two two things so
02:01:13.420if the person who is asking the question or who hears this is
02:01:20.540not white and but wants to be also true
02:01:24.060don't do that instead seek out your ancestral religion that is of your people don't buy into
02:01:36.700the the false belief that it has to be christianity and islam your people your ancestors had gods
02:01:44.700return to those gods and be proud of who you are
02:01:48.720the uncomfortable x factor is there's a lot of mixed race people
02:01:53.960and if you're mixed race and you don't fit in here and you don't fit in there
02:01:59.140i truly don't have a good path for you or great advice for you other than to
02:02:04.740you know live your life as best you can and find you know find truth and meaning where you can
02:02:11.220and your situation is very unfortunate um but no we don't have any
02:02:17.880you can't be less folkish but also be traditionalist in the practice of house true it doesn't
02:02:26.520work that way they go hand in hand there's a lot of people and again this you know whoever
02:02:32.480asked the initial question please don't think this is all aimed at you it's not it's to everybody
02:02:37.200else listening to the answer i've run into a lot of people over my time in house to true that you
02:02:44.100Now, they really like certain aspects of the AFA's house of true practice, but then other
02:13:54.840There have been circumstances where I believe the gods absolutely help heal things, help cure things that are miraculous, that absolutely happens.
02:18:52.980I don't think that the goddess heir just simply heals for the sake of healing, though she can.
02:19:01.100I think a bigger point of the gods being the gods of order is governance and dominion.
02:19:06.740We speak about it often, and that involves teaching people how to do things for themselves and how to proceed doing things for themselves in order to be better.
02:19:19.560I think we should look at medicine morally. That's, I think, perhaps a difference than someone who's just simply looking for things for longevity. Oh, yeah, we're going to put our brains in computers and freeze our bodies in giant ice coffins.
02:19:35.880i would have moral questions i would want to think about this and discuss them and not move
02:19:43.700so blazantly forward into things that are on like near you know it was man-made horrors beyond our
02:19:50.320comprehension um but at the same time if there is something that helps aids uh fixes things
02:20:00.580I don't think there's any wrongdoing and we see it culturally. Our ancestors did it quite often
02:20:08.560with antibiotics that were created from ammonias and herbs and all of those things.
02:20:17.440We see the gods giving us inclination to learn and pursue and then seeing us do it on our own
02:20:26.980and then rewarding us for that. So if we start to pick and choose and just simply drop or push
02:20:33.720away or reject and we do it more or less in like a political sense, then we start losing some of
02:20:42.360that integrity. It's a sovereignty issue and your sovereignty is important. It is sacred
02:20:50.140and you must make those decisions to ensure that your sovereignty is being maintained.
02:20:56.980I had many a friend who quit their jobs during all of the 2020 stuff.
02:21:05.100And I've had some friends who stayed and got the vaccine in order to remain employed.
02:21:14.140And I think that's a terrible situation to be in.
02:21:17.160And I think it's unfair and I totally get it.
02:38:02.440an understanding i think that and i'm using this in parallel because i think a lot of people
02:38:10.440kind of get this when it's placed this way imagine like the molochs in christianity
02:38:19.320slash Judaism, the angels, as you know them in the Greek and Roman word, the messengers,
02:38:27.620the servants of the divine, the beings that are carrying function, mostly through movement
02:38:40.580and transference of energy between the material and the heavenly, bisecting all other cyclical
02:38:48.540points, which is, again, another great example of the dominion of Lord Odin. But unlike the
02:38:56.260mallocs in, say, Judaic Christianity, where they were created to give worship and to reverence
02:39:09.440of of this one singular godhead they are in essence the the dominion manifest of the will
02:39:20.820of a great and powerful divine with specific purpose and then they are culturally inundated
02:39:28.460with points that are very very important for the time that the story is being told
02:39:35.520the service of the ale horns we clearly see this connection between the hall culture and the
02:39:43.040feminine and the gaining of the of the mead and the sacredness into the horn there is so much
02:39:50.400going on there outside of literalism that i like to lay that out for folks but there's also again
02:39:58.560their names and their connections to fate the connections to um the deciding of victory the
02:40:07.940deciding of death who comes and who remains these moments the crucible of war and battle which of
02:40:15.800course is one of the huge dominions of lord odin and the valkyrie vowel meaning chosen
02:40:21.680Kirir meaning carrier, carrier of the chosen ones of his will, and they are his will manifest
02:40:28.960in movement. You know, I don't think that I can say anything about the gods not being able to do
02:40:37.880anything they want to do. But what I can see is an observation that to a certain point,
02:40:44.180there is movement that the gods do within our world, within Orla, within the well of Orla,
02:40:50.420that is often placed upon manifests of their will, creations of themselves into manifest
02:41:04.280and willful movement. And I find that very, very interesting. And that's one of the
02:41:12.200There are disconnects between, say, Judaic, Semitic demigods or what have you, and the way that we look at the divine shards of will and creation from a god being utilized to enter and return repeatedly in the well, if you will.
02:41:39.480So their names are all, of course, associated deeply with battle, from spear shaker to strength.
02:41:48.780And I think also, too, there's some interesting points like Hildur battle is her name.
02:41:55.740Thrudur is also the name that is given for the child of Thor, the offspring of his.
02:42:06.460and there's no clarification in the poetics as as this is placed matter of fact they take a cut
02:42:16.860from the grimness mouth and place it in here again because they're wanting the lexicon of
02:42:24.200poetry to be read into but this that poem section is lord odin specifically telling
02:42:30.580King Gerod, that my Valkyrie bring me, they bear the horn to me. So he is saying I am the leader
02:42:42.740of them. They are the servants that tend to my will. They are the ones that help me, aid me,
02:42:54.080and manifest within all levels of the creations that we are in.
02:43:01.720So he's really telling King Gerard that you just messed with Lord Odin.
02:43:06.500But on top of that, we have to look at what does that mean
02:43:10.160when we have the beings described presiding over the fates of men.
02:43:16.880Again, all fate, all Nornir, all witchery.
02:43:23.620and i mean witchery in the sense of like the traditional where the word comes from to twist
02:43:28.020thread to twist fate is always feminine and so we clearly see that's the the valkyrie are that
02:43:38.580that manifest of of his will into fate and they are in the feminine sense placed out and remember
02:43:48.500a long time ago someone was just postulating and this isn't by any means some sort of a kind of
02:43:55.300like hard canon but the idea that when lord othen placed his eye um the right eye being the masculine
02:44:04.580versus perhaps the or the uh the feminine sorry the feminine or the masculine that the right eye
02:44:10.660I was sacrificed in order to release the feminine into Orla, into the well, via the Valkyries.
02:44:21.400I'm not saying that that's something I believe in, but it's something that I think definitely many strong heads in the priesthood have talked about, or at least inclined in discussions about.
02:44:36.860And I find that very interesting. The reason why the Valkyrie are the feminine manifestation of the dominion and will of Lord Odin within the well of Erd is clearly our connection to fate and divinity of fate resting in the Nornir, in the skull,
02:45:25.320there is a the position of honor that it is to be able to
02:45:39.400serve ale serve me in the hall of the all father is special i think that um one thing that's really
02:45:50.440important we talked about soul sickness about wholeness one thing that has been a part of the
02:45:57.960soul sickness is the separation of our women from the dignity of womanhood
02:46:08.680a problem with the modern world and a problem that has been
02:46:13.160exacerbated by the like Plagan, LARPer, fake Ausiturer out there is this like shield maiden
02:46:30.200women all being these like barbaric warrior whatever. One of the things that is lost is
02:46:40.200the dignity and the femininity that comes with one's place in society in the hall in the noble
02:46:47.160culture of our people the idea of these you know dignified uh demigoddesses
02:46:57.480serving you know the champions that that feast in the hall of the all-fathers pouring you know
02:47:05.160filling their horns providing that it's really important and it's it's a mark of distinction
02:47:11.960and dignity for the lady of the hall or for her her female attendants to be able to do these things
02:47:19.960the idea of of being the horn bearer and it's something we try to extend to our our ladies
02:47:26.520during whenever we find an occasion to really in our practice at the hoffs very markedly so
02:47:32.520ensemble but the idea of the women carrying the horn and presenting the horn that there is a
02:47:40.680dignity and an honor in having that role of service that i think is lost in the i don't know
02:47:49.000chest-thumping shield maiden crowd that wants to make things about something tremendous is lost
02:47:58.520when women try to seek value in trying to see how masculine they can be if they feel the only way
02:48:06.780that they have value is by trying to do masculine things they're always going to be coming from a
02:48:16.040place of weakness and struggling to catch up you know the the weakest man is more masculine than
02:48:24.620the strongest woman because at the end of the day he's a man that's just a losing proposition
02:48:31.820but taking away the dignity of our women achieving greatness through femininity
02:48:39.100that is a deep loss that our people have felt and it's nice that we live in a in a time where
02:48:45.260the idea of traditional womanhood and traditional masculinity are becoming cool again in a section
02:48:54.860in a segment of society that's nice to see that back happening i think the ultimate evolution of
02:49:01.260that is you know the 2015 is like the 10 year 2015 to 2025 gender confusion crisis that the
02:49:12.940west went through where all of a sudden we don't know the difference between men and women anymore
02:49:18.140that's a strange twist of biology that just defines any it defies any logic or any understanding but
02:49:24.940i think it comes from a continued erosion of trying to pretend that things that are clearly
02:49:32.380polar different aspects of things are one and the same so a key point of traditional culture
02:49:40.300something very relevant to our ancestors something extremely relevant to the mental health and the
02:49:45.260well-being of our young men and women is understanding the dignity and masculine men
02:49:52.300and feminine ladies and that's always been a core of um things we celebrate in the astropholk assembly
02:50:03.260so this is a good place for us to stop tonight there's
02:50:08.780again plenty more for us to cover but the things that are in this particular piece of our
02:50:15.340lore are very important and we're going to take our time on them but also we had some
02:50:20.300great questions tonight that i think were were really valuable to to go through and kind of
02:50:26.460piece out so thank you to everybody who uh who was here to ask the questions
02:50:30.540I think you're absolutely right. This is a great place to stop and to give context for ongoing into this is after the sections of the gods, the sections become interesting as they are kind of almost the Valkyrie, Frey and Gerder.
02:50:55.360And then back to the Einherjar, these sections are kind of can be dissected in chunks of their own.
02:51:04.400And there are concepts coming up that I think no longer have complete consistency as they were written to be kind of these chunks.
02:51:13.560Whereas before, as we were going through, there was consistency between every prose before it.
02:51:21.140So for folks getting for the next, you know, we're it'll be digestible pieces.
02:51:27.260And then we move into another section of another spiritual point of of the strata of the religion.
02:51:35.280But it's not that they're always interconnected.
02:51:37.940So, but there's really great things coming about concepts about the middle world and natural law and how the material to the divine versus the material to the chthonic.
02:51:53.860A lot, there's a lot of cool stuff coming up.