Asatru Folk Assembly - 4⧸19⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 41 - Freyja

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00:03:00.000 hello everyone and welcome to another exciting edition of victory never sleeps

00:03:22.400 today we've got witness fawn joining us once again to share his knowledge about our gods

00:03:30.060 and goddesses this time with a fuzzy camera yeah i'm having uh camera difficulties it's

00:03:36.200 okay he's persevering that's that's one of our virtues um yeah it's good to talk to you guys

00:03:42.680 trying to think of what's new since last week um for those of you who are anywhere near the

00:03:49.860 Tennessee area. This weekend, there's going to be a small, I say small, it's going to be however

00:03:55.960 many people show up, moot at Sigurheim. Our first settler now lives there, and we're going to have

00:04:04.260 a moot, I believe a picnic and a camp out moot there. But, you know, folks listening to this

00:04:10.020 broadcast, if you're a member, you're welcome to show up. If you're not a member, reach out to your

00:04:14.420 folk builder. And let's get you signed up to show up if you'd like to. Nick, could you post a link

00:04:23.120 to Russell's email? And for those of you listening on the podcast version of this, I'm sorry.

00:04:34.700 The contact you want to make, our folk builder for Tennessee is Russell Brown,

00:04:38.640 r-b-r-o-w-n at runestone.org and he'd be the guy to vet you if you're not a member but you'd still

00:04:46.920 like to attend and meet some folks other than that the end of the month maybe you could post

00:04:53.740 the ad and the date up there but i believe i think it's the last weekend of the month but

00:04:59.520 we'll have it up here there's lc fest celebrating the folk mother for the third year in a row

00:05:04.160 in Wisconsin coming up at the end of next month. So that'll be great at the end of May,

00:05:11.100 if you can make plans to be there. And if you can, the guy you want to reach out to is James

00:05:16.300 Ault, our folk builder, J-A-U-L-T at runestone.org. And he can help you get vetted for that if you're

00:05:25.900 not a member. As always, you guys are welcome to join us over on Entropy. If you guys would like

00:05:34.440 to give any donations or if you guys would like to participate in our super chat, the Svan episodes

00:05:41.560 often get quite a bit of questions. So if you want to jump that line and contribute to a worthy

00:05:46.860 cause, we'd appreciate that. Yeah, and I think with that, ready to start off this evening.

00:05:59.020 One thing we are going to try to do, and I apologize, I got this member feedback a little

00:06:03.620 bit from last, excuse me, from our last episode with Svan. We're going to try to give a little

00:06:10.760 more background today when we talk about the myths. I think some of us, certainly Svan and

00:06:16.200 myself have been doing this for a really long time. And I think sometimes we forget that there's

00:06:21.880 a lot of people that are very new to this and a lot of listeners and casual watchers of this who

00:06:26.600 this may be their first exposure to our myths and they may be unfamiliar. So we'll try to break down

00:06:32.220 a little bit more of the story in the background this episode. So Svan, if you could, assuming our

00:06:41.420 people have never heard of her before. Can you tell us a little bit about Lady Freyja?

00:06:50.300 Yes. I would say when we talk about the goddesses, there are two major goddesses that are

00:07:01.740 um brought up obviously frig and then there is the enigmatic um freya her name means the lady

00:07:13.580 uh it is a title just like frey means the lord um so it's the the titling itself is

00:07:24.620 starts off with some of the mystery behind her um at the same time she is uh her her dominion her

00:07:33.260 throne of of uh influence within our our world is is again hard to pin down um when we talk about

00:07:41.660 frig we uh mother childbirth but when we talk about freya her her um powers are more around

00:07:54.220 the ideas of possession desire um there's even magic and the the usage of magic or uh the

00:08:04.620 mysteries of magic but most importantly i would say as the pinnacle she is the goddess of beauty

00:08:12.780 and all that that entails and that entails a lot both good and bad um that i think

00:08:19.580 uh gets confused a lot in this day and age so freya being of the vana the vanir being of um

00:08:31.420 the gods of natural law one of i think her major powers is

00:08:38.060 beauty desire and possession and how those all kind of correlate together

00:08:49.580 All right. I suppose to add a little bit to that, Freyja and her brother Freyr are both from the, originally from the Vanek gods and are brought into the Aesir after the Aesir Vanir war.

00:09:15.800 They are the son and daughter of Miur there, who we did an episode on earlier and who we just had last August dedicated a Hoth to.

00:09:27.440 So that's a little bit on that.

00:09:31.140 And I think it's important that we emphasize that, too.

00:09:35.940 We see our gods as one.

00:09:37.860 They're the Aesir, but the stories from the gods that come down to us from the gods and what we have witnessed or our ancestors witnessed was the great conflict between the gods.

00:09:53.360 This is a huge part of our lore. And it's really coming to an understanding that the gods of natural law go head to head with the gods of cosmic order. And this is a very strong tenant in the development of the gods.

00:10:10.000 And it shows that kind of evolution of the gods, if you will, that they were once separate, but united and that the gods live and move and react and do things. We don't see them as just things in a book or things on a page. They are developing and have developed and will continue to develop.

00:10:33.600 And I think that that's one of the big things about the war. As we know with most Aryan religions, there's always usually a war in the beginning. Sometimes there's a war in the middle, and there's also a war at the end. 0.99

00:10:47.600 um this is uh something that unites i think all of the aryan branches there's a couple of other

00:10:52.820 things obviously like an upper world middle world and lower world um and of course the striker

00:10:59.720 fighting the serpent um these uh these elements show but it's unique to ours i think that um

00:11:09.680 show an interesting factor the gods disagreeing meeting into conflict having an issue and then

00:11:16.600 eventually creating a kind of congruence with each other. And after this, it is clearly seen

00:11:26.780 that our ancestors, especially in the stories, in the prosatas, they talk about or drop hints

00:11:34.020 about the Vanir gods being part of the Aesir. They're mentioned as Aesir or Aos. So after this

00:11:43.740 conflict, even though it's not quite mentioned, um, there's a little bit of a, of a hostage

00:11:50.520 program between the two in the stories in which they both give up two, uh, divine heads, um,

00:11:57.360 from either side and they live amongst each other. Um, but after that, there is, uh, some

00:12:04.960 grievances that happen and there's a, the story about, um, uh, the Vanir sending one of the gods

00:12:13.200 from the Aesir back, sending his head back. So it's a truly interesting story. And then that is

00:12:20.360 when Odin places that god's head on the well of time, the well of memory, excuse me. And

00:12:29.960 so it's a very, very interesting story. But after that, it kind of glosses over and it moves on to

00:12:36.600 other things uh and that's where we we later on see there's mentions of frey being the brightest

00:12:43.640 or the best of the house or the icier uh and there's always mention of them there is an

00:12:51.080 interesting thing though even after all of that freya is mentioned as the vana dis she's that's

00:12:57.000 one of the references that they title her vana of course showing her origin and dis meaning a a

00:13:03.720 twister of fate or one who brings about fate or luck or or a a the ability to uh

00:13:13.240 change the hamina or luck of of a people or as in their case with the gods um and so she's referred

00:13:22.120 to as with this might with this power and that again lends towards her her magic um but i think

00:13:29.080 it's really important that if you're new to alsatru and you're not really familiar with the

00:13:33.640 stories um one of the supplemental things of understanding is that freya is uh if you're

00:13:41.560 let's say without the stories freya is certainly the internalized goddess she's her um her

00:13:49.800 Her overall power, I think, is best seen and known in the internalized and structured feminine, whereas Frigg is the external and structured societal feminine.

00:14:07.200 how she is seen as an equivalency to her husband how she is seen as a provider and a giver of

00:14:15.440 wisdom and knowledge and blessings and power within the society of the gods freya is more

00:14:21.760 internalized and i think that she represents kind of the structuring of the feminine

00:14:27.920 before entering into like societal position and oaths like marriage and and wedding and and

00:14:36.700 children? In Aryan religiosity, there's a common theme amongst the goddesses. There is a polarity

00:14:48.220 between the cow goddess archetype and the mayor goddess archetype. The idea of women in the sense

00:14:59.660 of the domestic role the societal role the the queen the lady of the hall the mother the wife 0.57

00:15:07.800 on the one side with with Frigg and then with Freya the uh the lover the the unmarried maiden

00:15:17.500 the woman who's who's um wild the wild female magical nature is personified in that and both

00:15:27.760 of those female types are represented by by our gods and i think that's a really important duality

00:15:38.720 got some questions lining up but uh first i'd like to to thank roland blake once again

00:15:46.800 i think just about every week he comes on here and uh makes a donation to to one of our

00:15:53.760 one of our causes and it's much much appreciated uh he is he's really done his part to to help out

00:16:00.880 and we appreciate it a lot thank you so much um if anybody's interested he went uh i mentioned

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00:17:00.480 there um sarah asks can you tell us about folk thing it's fine can you tell us about folk wanger

00:17:12.480 Yes, Folkvang is, I would say, more akin to or in equivalency to, if you were to think of it, it's like Gladsheim with Odin.

00:17:29.060 So you have Odin and his domain in the heavens in Ithavol is Gladsheim, and inside Gladsheim is Valhall.

00:17:41.400 And then with Freyja, it's seen as this realm is Folkvang, or the field of the folk, or the place, the folk in which the field gather.

00:17:53.980 I mean, with the field in which the folk gather, and the hall is Sesrumnir. Sesrumnir is the hall of residing.

00:18:06.420 So Folkvang is often, I think that's often confused. Folk think of it as a hall.

00:18:15.820 um and it's interesting because this really it comes from uh in especially notoriety is is is

00:18:26.520 the mentioning of uh freya being able to take on the her choice of the dead uh in particular from

00:18:36.560 a story where odin is trying to stir up a war between two brothers in the in the story and

00:18:43.840 And Freyja pulls something that I think the audience is getting the idea that this would not be a passable thing.

00:18:54.480 So the intention of the story is to show that Odin is a lord of war.

00:19:00.620 He is a, he, the crucible of the soul in war is very important to him.

00:19:07.080 And it helps in his choosing of the Einherjar.

00:19:10.980 so the the audience hears this proposal in which freya says i get to choose first from all of the

00:19:19.060 dead that are um brought about in the crucible of war and instead of this being a clear no

00:19:28.020 So he says, yes, because his drive for that war to, to find the Einherjar, I think is so hungry. It's again, it's, it takes place in his, in his hunger for those, those things that he says, yes, do it.

00:19:48.200 and so from then on she is stated to be able to choose from the first uh whether that in the

00:19:56.480 translations is saying every time or that she gets to choose it just simply as a move of like like

00:20:03.740 pulling a card um in that in that regards i think is is an interesting kind of debate on that

00:20:09.680 the biggest thing to understand though is i think that odin played the long game which is either way

00:20:16.160 they get into into heaven they're they're pulled in to the heavenly abode and they will be

00:20:23.280 uh utilized nonetheless against chaos at the end so he doesn't really lose either way

00:20:32.320 and only stands to gain and that's uh one of the interesting stories about odin in in the um

00:20:39.360 the uh in the in the stories it it's kind of a question of um a lot of times they they would

00:20:48.800 really paint their view of the dominions of the gods through opinions like that driving desire

00:20:58.560 for war in order to find souls so whether there was an actual war between two brothers

00:21:05.440 it's unknown there's not really um any definitive uh cases where that this was

00:21:12.800 you know like linked to a specific battle at a specific time but the stories of ovin connected

00:21:19.520 to battles and and and uh who will win them and and what souls he can he can gain from them there

00:21:25.920 are numerous stories like that and this one is just interesting because uh kind of in a um

00:21:32.640 almost like a rivaled sense you see the enigmatic essence of freya but it's worth noting that freya

00:21:42.800 was mentioned as one of the uh valkyria which is a valkyrie the valkyria are again anointers

00:21:52.400 or choosers of of those that that the crucible um that they take partake in the crucible and that

00:21:59.920 Odin points out so in essence this could be viewed as like she's already there and that

00:22:08.320 she gets to choose and still assumed that he would say no and he said no do it make it happen

00:22:16.560 so um I think that's a very interesting story just in that regards um

00:22:21.040 So, yes, Folkvang is often, when they go, they go there, they go to that realm, just like

00:22:30.240 the Einherjar go into Gladsheim and then they cross over the River Thund and enter into

00:22:37.900 Valhall.

00:22:39.960 All right. So first, Ronald, I'm sorry. So for anybody listening, I had an embarrassing

00:22:48.100 dyslexia moment where i decided to to call ronald roland and i'm a little bit embarrassed and i

00:22:55.220 apologize especially somebody who's been so generous to us i'm sorry about that that's that's

00:23:00.420 dumb on my part um timmy asks our next question freya is known as a female war goddess as head

00:23:09.460 of the valkyries and overseas folkwanger on the other hand her brother frayer is not usually seen 0.92

00:23:15.780 in a martial context as keeper of the frith and peace only under threat of extreme violence

00:23:22.020 and at Ragnarok he defeats the physical embodiment of chaos with a stag's horn

00:23:27.780 can we not see him having high martial prowess as well

00:23:34.260 yes I wouldn't say that like Freyr is a lord of pacifism by no means he's even referred to as

00:23:44.660 as, uh, Bailey's killer or Bailey's, um, uh, you know, end, he ended Bailey. It's not really

00:23:54.480 referenced as to who Bailey is, except perhaps in another story. And that's a, that's an interesting

00:23:59.220 point with Freya as well. And a lot of the information we get about Freya. Um, but it said

00:24:05.200 that he, he struck him with his bare hand and killed him. Um, and that's all that's mentioned

00:24:11.260 of that story and it could it could quite possibly have been lost um or never able to be compiled um

00:24:18.940 but yes freyr as a lord of peace most certainly and when you think about some of the things like

00:24:25.740 his his um the the uh avatar of his of his mobility is uh gulen bursty gulen bursty is

00:24:36.140 gold and bristled and so prosperity and and wealth and power whereas it's mentioned that

00:24:44.140 you know in and uh in another story in hood um hindluljoth it's mentioned that freya rides

00:24:52.860 hildaswin which is a another uh again the boar symbology there of their of their vehicles but

00:25:01.260 this one is the battle swine so there's clearly some connections there um to her you know being

00:25:09.340 close to agitation desire i think ultimately to her when i talk about uh wealth and and the

00:25:16.540 possession of goods and wealth uh through war through conquest i think there is there is a lot

00:25:22.780 of that connectivity of freya being the goddess of bounty oftentimes by what you gain through conquest

00:25:31.260 um something else to remember is as well are the tales of our gods and goddesses come down to us

00:25:41.140 from a very specific time period in history and during that time period there was a lot of warfare

00:25:49.600 going on so i think it was taken for granted it was a given if you were an able-bodied man you

00:25:55.720 were by you were a warrior when you needed to be a warrior. But I don't think that's the whole of

00:26:01.440 our ancestors existence. And I think that what gets written about and celebrated so often is

00:26:08.280 great feats of heroism, which are very often seen on the battlefield. But I don't think that that's

00:26:16.680 the life that most of our ancestors desired all the time. That was simply what was required in

00:26:21.300 that time. I think the idea of striving for bountiful fields and, you know, your sons living

00:26:28.620 to adulthood and your people living with prosperity and greatness was also celebrated and also

00:26:35.380 something that our people genuinely look forward to and enjoy it. Um, certainly, uh, Lord Freyre

00:26:43.060 has, you know, martial prowess and we see that and we see him go to battle and participate in battle.

00:26:50.080 But the emphasis on celebrating prosperity and celebrating, you know, the bounty of the land is certainly something that our ancestors deeply wanted, especially when we consider that these stories often emanate from a place that growing seasons were difficult to where wanting a bountiful and prosperous land was was not a given and was very hard to come by.

00:27:15.500 So I think celebrating that is really important. It's really important not to look at our gods as one-dimensional because they're not.

00:27:24.160 We have gods that we associate with royalty very often. We don't typically think of Freyr in that contest, but if we were Swedes, I think we certainly would because that was the, you know, the progenitor of their royal house.

00:27:37.060 So these gods, they are complex because they are individuals and they have personalities, as all of us are complex.

00:27:49.600 And it's important to consider that, that they're not a one dimensional.

00:27:53.260 This is the God of X. This is the God of Y.

00:27:56.280 They're all the gods of many things.

00:27:58.600 And yes, they have areas that they preside over, but it's important to remember the dimensionality of them.

00:28:08.020 anonymous asks what are hymenia or log and weird i have heard uh it said that they are the same

00:28:17.300 thing but past present and future one's ancestral luck present luck and future destiny luck is that

00:28:24.100 accurate no not exactly but this is a very confusing subject and one of the reasons it is

00:28:32.340 is because it's taking words that originate with two of them at least originate with

00:28:39.140 the same basic meaning but from two different branches of our folk and have taken on a different

00:28:47.140 modern context and understanding spawn can you break this down for folks so it's easier

00:28:53.300 for for people to digest and this is a really good question this is something that gets asked a lot

00:28:57.780 Well, Hammingya, first and foremost, affects the overall. Hammingya is kind of seen as, I would say, like collected luck.

00:29:15.940 that collected luck can be gained through um ancestral lines it can be imbued upon

00:29:25.160 um and and generally we we would see that as if the gods are when they meet at the well of earth

00:29:35.500 and they they they measure out the doom of men or they basically they give unto them

00:29:40.680 the the culmination of things as they witness their deeds haminga can be imbued upon a mortal

00:29:47.980 soul as well um and you can also gain it through deed and just like that it could also be removed

00:29:56.740 so it's that's why it's kind of oftentimes seen as luck but it's more or i would say it's more

00:30:05.160 a favorable power that can be gained it can be passed on by the deeds of your ancestors

00:30:11.640 again if we can stop because i'd like to interject on hymenia too because the rest of them the other

00:30:17.880 two are much more closely associated uh hymenia is its own thing and it's not a synonym for the

00:30:24.360 other two aminia is in a lot of ways

00:30:33.720 so it's in the world around us luck isn't always seen as a commodity

00:30:42.840 but to our ancestors luck was seen as very fluid um it was something you could spend or you could

00:30:52.040 bestow so one thing that we're we're careful about in the outdoor folk assembly is wishing

00:30:56.680 someone luck to wish someone luck isn't hey i hope you're lucky it is to bestow a piece of my luck

00:31:04.840 onto you by wishing you luck so i only want to do that with people that i'm willing to spend

00:31:11.480 some of my luck on um and so not that you can't generate more but it's a finite it's a resource

00:31:19.960 that has a quantity to it and with hymenia an item can develop hymenia a sword or a ritual item or a

00:31:30.520 relic a group of people has a group hymenia the afa as a whole has a group hymenia when we gather

00:31:38.360 together ensemble that group that sits in that symbol has a hymenia that's strengthened or

00:31:45.080 weakened depending upon the words spoken in some so something i send with each of the new uh

00:31:53.000 welcome letters when people become a member is that by being a member of the afa you are tying

00:31:57.960 into our hymenia you are hitching yourself to the group luck of the asa true folk assembly

00:32:05.400 and in this case it's a luck it's a hymenia that i think is very mighty because it's built on

00:32:10.200 58 years of the gift cycle between

00:32:14.340 I was here to go through Stephen, our founder

00:32:17.620 and all of us, the relationship that he built with Odin

00:32:22.020 58 years ago is still paying benefits is still

00:32:26.080 an ongoing gift cycle. And you're linking into that when you become a member. That's why membership

00:32:30.140 just the act of being a member is tremendously important because you

00:32:34.120 get to share in that group benefit. And we're strengthened by

00:32:38.060 each of you who join, who add your luck to ours and contribute to that group, Hymenia.

00:32:45.100 Didn't mean to interrupt, but I did want to cover Hymenia separately and then we can go

00:32:49.020 on to the others. Yeah. And that's why I targeted that term first. And yeah, to work

00:32:56.380 on that clarification. Absolutely. I mean, we look at Hymenia interrelated both with the individual

00:33:03.580 soul or the soul of a people or the or or or um the the wellspring of a group like you had said

00:33:11.500 so it's interesting because it can affect uh our overall uh or law so um when we talk about or law

00:33:24.140 and weird what we're actually using is two words for the same thing weird comes from anglo-saxon

00:33:31.900 and or law comes from the nordic nordic germanic or or norse germanic and um they have kind of

00:33:42.300 developed i think in recent house of truth to represent the same thing but almost in two

00:33:49.820 different aspects to better help understand and again that's kind of why we always uh talk about

00:33:56.700 how um the divine like everything it works in multiplicity as it as it grows it self-reflects

00:34:05.260 it shows in stabilizes it's not it's not simply just uh you know one leg on a table or one root

00:34:13.180 on the tree it's it's many roots so um the orla is like pr it means primal layers or ancient

00:34:22.460 layers uh and this has connotations to actions of the past leading forward like uh layering of say

00:34:34.420 like silt or deeds uh intertwined they're they're they're a layering towards something um so they

00:34:43.560 denote more action towards deed how you do things what you do and as they layer them forward it

00:34:51.000 it creates the semblance of what would be a destiny or a fate.

00:34:55.440 It's not to say that everybody in Asatru is a fatalist,

00:34:58.960 but there are people who are there.

00:35:01.180 It seems to be a philosophical point of view that I don't,

00:35:07.860 I don't think it's necessarily bad. It's just, some people see it as, well,

00:35:11.740 our deeds are, are, are going. And so we must, you know,

00:35:16.480 move forward to meet them and glory is you know already set um the problem with that is again too

00:35:24.900 is that some people could take that to doom uh it doesn't matter if we're doomed and so that's why

00:35:29.460 fatalism kind of has um it's that that caveat whereas in reality orlog kind of represents

00:35:37.760 deed and deed meaning the ability to change or move the layer forward in a different direction

00:35:47.260 so there is uh you know a connotation of both are we determined by the deeds that came before us

00:35:54.220 and can we change them with our deeds now and that is a huge um i think philosophical or

00:36:01.260 theosophical idea that's tossed around um in ausitru but when we talk about weird weird comes

00:36:08.540 from uh the anglo-saxons and it it also too means fate or the interconnectedness of all of our deeds

00:36:18.860 um and so it it the overall again destiny is developed by the culmination of everyone's deeds

00:36:27.180 so as aussitrew has kind of developed weird and orlog kind of take on different meanings one

00:36:34.540 meaning kind of the overall destiny and one meaning kind of correlated more towards the

00:36:41.340 individual so i think one way that i i look at it is that orlog is

00:36:51.820 the starting point orlog is the hand that you are dealt and weird is the matrix that goes into

00:37:01.020 your playing of that hand we all um one of the important things is we pass on an orlog to our

00:37:11.340 children uh as a group we pass on our orlog to those who you know to the next generation

00:37:19.580 orlog means um in a way it means primal layer so it's that which is laid down already that is

00:37:27.500 directing weird all things being equal if you did nothing it is the direction or log is sending you

00:37:35.100 a direction through weird but you can affect your weird and affect the orlog that you pass on

00:37:42.620 by your actions and you by your deeds by your worth you can structure that

00:37:49.180 and the workings of weird are that very complex tapestry that is

00:37:57.500 in and of itself that idea of past present and future leading to an outcome what I think is

00:38:04.220 important is there are directions that you are headed in terms of fate but they're not

00:38:16.700 solidified and decided in that way it's important that when and this comes into the question when

00:38:23.720 ask about past, present, and future. Our norns, their names translate to that which was, which

00:38:34.180 is, and which should be, not which will be for certain, but which ought to be. So where things

00:38:41.400 are headed, and weird is affected by actions, and you can, you know, you can redirect that

00:38:48.620 depending on what you're doing. But it's those two are very closely connected. And it's one of

00:38:54.520 the reasons that within the AFA, especially lately, we've all been trying very hard not to

00:39:00.840 use weird in the mundane modern English sense, because it's a sacred word that meant so much to

00:39:07.400 our ancestors. And it has very magical connotations. So when something is strange or odd,

00:39:14.260 we try very hard not to use that word weird. And that's an initiative that's been pushed

00:39:19.400 very strongly by our law speaker, Alan Turnage. I wanted to expound too on what you just said

00:39:26.060 for folks to kind of understand. Think of it like this. Orlog is the layer in which a tree is growing

00:39:33.500 and the weird is the skin or the outer edge of the tree. It's the interconnectedness. Imagine

00:39:41.880 if we were all standing in line holding a rope weird if i take the rope and jerk it in a direction

00:39:49.000 it can affect people around me but it's it's in the immediacy of the moment that those deeds are

00:39:54.760 pulling orlog is the uh the individual deeds that led up to this moment this is kind of what you're

00:40:02.840 saying like that which is brought to us or imbued upon us from the past whereas weird is the

00:40:08.920 affecting of the immediacy now i the only way i mean i was immediately thinking was like

00:40:14.200 um the difference between the you know the verticals and the horizontals of a web

00:40:18.120 or the ever-growing rings of a tree in which the outside is you know if if you like i i was

00:40:24.760 thinking of when somebody leans something against a tree and it slowly gets absorbed it's um that's

00:40:30.680 weird is the outer skin as it develops and moves forward but orlog is what is bestowed from its

00:40:37.000 origin from when it was simply a sapling well and one of the things that orlog provided and so

00:40:45.720 this goes to some of the bigger existential questions that people have when they wonder why

00:40:53.000 bad things happen to good people or why you know some folks are born with disabilities that other

00:40:59.400 that others aren't and i don't think it all goes down to this but you start with a certain hand

00:41:06.280 that you are dealt which is your orlog and there's a complex amount of things for that

00:41:11.400 from the very esoteric to the very common sense you know something happened in utero that laid

00:41:17.400 you down a bad orlog and that just you know that's science there's also things esoterically

00:41:24.680 through your family that that perhaps are less good than they should be but what orlog does is

00:41:31.560 it provides you with an opportunity for for greatness if you can overcome your orlog if you

00:41:39.640 have a poor orlog and you start life with a with a poor hand and you can manage to win and be

00:41:45.640 successful regardless of it you have literally changed the weird of your family of those that

00:41:53.000 come after you and that's spectacular by overcoming the adversity of a poor orlog

00:41:59.400 that magnifies a hero greatly than somebody who had a powerful or log and just skated by with it

00:42:07.860 and so I think that's a really important opportunity

00:42:10.960 our next question what is known about Freya's husband and children it's fine can you break

00:42:23.860 that down for folks and please give them any relevant background that they might need to

00:42:27.740 understand? Ooh, that's such a short question with such a huge answer of possibilities there.

00:42:37.340 First and foremost, as mentioned, Freya is referred to as Oath's girl, and this goes

00:42:46.840 into correlation with with um uh her her being uh lamenting the loss of her husband older

00:42:56.920 other means ecstasy ecstaticism fury inspiration uh it is uh linguistically it was utilized as

00:43:07.720 a description for that especially involving poetry and magic um and you know it's deeply connected

00:43:15.320 uh to odin so um it has led uh speculation that other is odin however there's some other parts

00:43:26.860 that kind of become a little bit more complicated so there is a story of otter and otter seeks to

00:43:35.740 gain knowledge about his descendancy, and he does so through the help of Freyja. This also

00:43:46.040 happens too in another story with a hero named Svipdai, which means swift day or sudden day,

00:43:53.080 or the breaking light, if you will. And again, there has been speculation that Otar is Otar,

00:44:00.400 and so is Svipte. So this doesn't aid in that mystery. However, it's mentioned in separate

00:44:13.840 senses that Freyja has firstly a daughter named Nos, H-N-O-S-S, but the H is a nasaled silent H,

00:44:26.000 Nos, and then it is later mentioned

00:44:28.900 that she has also a daughter named

00:44:30.760 Ersemi, or

00:44:32.880 Gersemi, but it's most likely Eersemi. 0.76

00:44:35.660 The G

00:44:36.200 is most likely silent or soft. 0.96

00:44:39.480 And both of their names mean

00:44:41.000 shining or precious ones, or

00:44:43.020 precious shining ones.

00:44:45.200 Glinting and kind of

00:44:47.280 again, connected to

00:44:49.140 beauty and the desirous nature

00:44:51.220 of wealth and the

00:44:53.140 facetness of art

00:44:54.980 or um that which is art um and so other again it's mentioned that she laments and

00:45:06.660 reaps tears of gold and that other is wandering the earth never to be

00:45:15.860 uh found by her and this brings up a lot of interesting questions um again the speculation

00:45:23.940 on whether Otter and Svipte are older and older is a physical, uh, human or an avatar of a God

00:45:36.100 or an avatar, uh, you know, placed in, in, in, uh, a sense of like, uh, I guess disillusion,

00:45:45.720 um or or the idea that ultimately because he's lost it's kind of seen as a polarization from

00:45:56.000 Odin. Odin loses himself and returns. Odin seeks but does not return. He does not gain

00:46:05.700 the the the gifts of the travel or the of the expanse and so there's a lot of mystery as to

00:46:14.580 exactly others place other than he is seen as lost and dissipated from freya and she laments it

00:46:23.700 but what is what is gained from from that is the precious or the shining ones of her children

00:46:31.140 i have often taken this to uh the account that i believe freya is the goddess of

00:46:36.500 beauty and the creation of things that are beautiful and so the longing for older uh in his

00:46:45.540 in in his divine state of being dissipated is much akin to like the um the mead of poetry that was

00:46:55.140 placed from from oven or there's dissipation is out into the world and it is the inspiration that

00:47:02.340 that makes people create beauty and create things of beauty and um so i you know the

00:47:11.140 she loses her counterpart but gains uh you know the amplification of beauty in the world especially

00:47:20.740 in the in the hearts of men and in the hearts of their hands that they create things of beauty

00:47:25.380 and i have always taken freya to be a of beauty and the idea of art and beauty or what beauty

00:47:33.060 is uh whether we pick that in a philosophical sense of defining what beauty and art is or

00:47:40.260 what is valuable um and i think it's really important that we do see freya at least in her

00:47:47.620 one of her domains is that that her throne does applicate to that because art and beauty and

00:47:54.260 those things that we fashion and form and mold and um create that are not like tools or weapons but

00:48:04.420 actual pieces of art things that further us on the gilded gold the eagles and the gems and the

00:48:11.060 crowns and the rings um and and the the desire for the craftsman to place his beauty in there

00:48:18.020 i think a lot of that is older in dissipation um

00:48:25.540 do you have any uh extra on that as far as your takes no i think you covered that really well um

00:48:34.500 yeah i think you handled that really well and and i think that it can't be emphasized enough

00:48:41.300 that our people the aryan people in all of our branches have always celebrated and valued 0.94

00:48:47.860 beauty i think in this day and age where modern art is a celebration of the freakish and the hideous 1.00

00:49:00.340 socially we're being fed so often a celebration of

00:49:07.940 mediocrity but not even mediocrity of that which is grotesque and unhealthy with the whole body

00:49:16.340 positive movement and everything else our ancestors celebrated beauty both men and women

00:49:23.780 being at the peak of fitness and looking their best and being their best um the celebration of

00:49:32.500 beauty if nothing else we can worship our gods and specifically lady freya by celebrating beauty

00:49:41.940 in all that we do and all that we are and i think that's a really important take home for people

00:49:49.620 our next question is from garrick brewer do you feel the icier van air war represents the

00:49:57.460 conflict between the migratory indo-aryans and their sky gods versus the already present peoples

00:50:04.660 and their more archaic nature slash fertility deities it's fine i'm curious to see what your

00:50:12.260 how you answer this i've got some thoughts i'd like to share as well

00:50:16.420 uh the perennial truth of the gods persists in all waves of orlog and weird hail so the the idea

00:50:27.620 of uh yes yes because the gods are perennially truthful whatever cycle you consider them on

00:50:38.340 uh normally we as humans see things very linearly and we see things as that that which was and that

00:50:43.220 which is now and the possibilities of what might be but the perennial truth of the gods is always

00:50:50.980 ever present and reoccurring um so yes we could we could say just as easily and we don't denounce

00:50:59.540 it we don't say oh that's this is you know ridiculous uh can can this story show the

00:51:06.420 perennial truth of the uh latter iron age arians coming in to the uh latent bronze age arians that

00:51:14.420 had already came from westward earlier on um and you know they share the same genetics but the

00:51:20.660 the culture is quite you know different um sure yes um i've always taken it that that humanity

00:51:30.020 uh especially our folk have dealt with the vanir gods first because they're referred to as the

00:51:36.660 older gods and it's not necessarily the older gods in comparison to the icier it's in comparison to

00:51:43.140 humanity the ones you've known the longest uh you know correlate to the length of time in which 0.89

00:51:50.900 they've been so when the when the arians that moved westward in the iron age you know did bring

00:51:57.540 in again another influx of their religiosity you could clearly see this kind of inflecting in but

00:52:05.300 that's because the gods are perennial truth they they show themselves repeatedly in these cycles

00:52:10.420 over and over and over again and that's why we try not to go away from that which has we can see 0.99

00:52:16.740 through observation of our ancestors in the in the past we don't want to change the the aryan 1.00

00:52:23.220 religiosity that we have seen by our ancestors and when you do that you bring about ruin um so yes 0.99

00:52:31.700 uh i would say absolutely there's there is a reflection there um the beauty of our the stories

00:52:38.180 that the gods gave to us is one i i believe one one in particular knew quite a bit about the way

00:52:44.980 things are going to go um and i and i don't think he entirely kept that to himself um so our gods

00:52:53.460 have sight of things to come and those perennial truths do play out over and over again like when

00:53:00.980 we say you know lo loki could easily represent the outsider the um the kind of the the the weakness

00:53:09.380 in the chain the the one who comes in he we could say he represents sure yes but that's the perennial

00:53:17.140 truth of him is that that everlasting warning of the the thing that is not quite one thing or

00:53:23.620 another it's a it moves it's it sits on the fence and then it goes one way and it's good and then

00:53:29.060 one way and it's bad and that's clearly a warning about how that how the gods deal with that and

00:53:36.020 carry that on uh those perennial truths can be applied uh sometimes i've even heard people talk

00:53:41.540 about like fenris being an uh analogous to to rome um perhaps there's some sort of truth or

00:53:50.100 some people have said that they're uh the analogous to universalism or christianity coming into europe

00:53:57.060 is this uh also connected to fenris and the binding of him um yes there's a lot of perennial

00:54:04.660 truths that you can abide by and i think as we find more information as we go about finding out

00:54:09.780 about the waves moving westward and how they correlate with each other there there's clearly

00:54:16.100 truth there but the overarching thing i would say is cosmic order and natural law in the

00:54:23.220 metaphysical sense i think is the ultimate source of that conflict and resolution so

00:54:31.940 i want to reiterate a couple of things and this is something that i've said many times on this

00:54:37.700 program and i may sound like a broken record but for folks that this is the first time turning in

00:54:43.220 or tuning in rather um our gods are not a science project they're not a literary device

00:54:53.220 They're not archetypical ways of human expression.

00:54:57.820 They are gods.

00:54:59.040 They are literally gods.

00:55:03.640 But one of the most magical ways that our gods interact with our reality is through those truths that Witten Svahn was talking about.

00:55:14.060 so there's something at play here that you know through western esotericism since the beginning

00:55:23.520 we understand as above so below the relationships and the things that we see amongst our gods are

00:55:31.280 reflected in things that we see in our lives and in the history of human experience but it's

00:55:38.220 important to remember, as above, so below, not as below, so above. The directionality of that is

00:55:46.440 very important. When we see and learn truth, we can apply it to situations that are similar.

00:55:52.760 That's valid and good to do. But the stories of our gods aren't us projecting our life experience

00:56:03.680 on the divine. They're the divine projecting truth through us. And there's an important

00:56:12.600 distinction there that it's really, it's necessary to remember. Our relationship with our gods

00:56:19.500 isn't an academic endeavor. Academics helps us to understand them better, certainly.

00:56:24.580 uh but our gods we can't we are much better served approaching our gods like children

00:56:34.260 and believing that our gods are the real people that they are and building a relationship with

00:56:41.240 them that way then we are scholasticizing our gods to where we see them as as some kind of

00:56:47.260 concepts or some kind of you know archaeological construction ideally we're mature enough to do

00:56:55.180 both and have the the the history the archaeology the lore inform us to better build a relationship

00:57:04.060 with our gods but if we could either have a loving gift exchanging interpersonal relationship with our

00:57:12.140 gods or be experts on migrations of ancient peoples we are much better served having having

00:57:21.180 a a kinship and a relationship with our gods and that's a you know we talk about all those things

00:57:27.900 on here and i i promise you swan and i have devoted ridiculous chunks of our lives to reading about

00:57:35.500 history and all of those things we love that but i love my gods more they are so much more than

00:57:43.980 the corpus of history that we've you know read over the years

00:57:51.500 uh king of cheese good to see you back on i hope you're feeling better uh matt and spawn it's good

00:57:57.260 to see you both on sorry i missed last week how are you both doing tonight i'm doing great tony

00:58:02.540 I'm doing fantastic. I look forward to this every week, sitting around talking to one of my best

00:58:07.980 friends about my gods who I love and talking to the rest of you guys. Life is good, my friend.

00:58:16.380 I hope you are doing well as well. Svon, how are you doing?

00:58:20.300 Other than a faulty camera, I'm doing great. Got a chance to actually talk to you before the call

00:58:29.980 tonight a little bit and just talking about some of the stuff that we like to talk about and then

00:58:35.100 you know going getting set up and coming in and and uh getting a chance to to see everybody in

00:58:42.060 the comments and stuff i'm really i really look forward to this the interactions and uh many of

00:58:47.340 the questions and things that are coming uh it's it's a highlight of the week uh it's a little

00:58:53.180 stressful because going from work to here like boom boom boom but um outside of that it's it's

00:59:00.460 amazing it's fun it's it's uh i just wish i had a little bit more time to fix things

00:59:07.660 but always looking forward to that and always looking forward to the question as well how are

00:59:12.460 we do in a night hold on i gotta visit her so this little girl is three years old as of yesterday

00:59:27.260 happy birthday and so we're not uh we're not scared of her walking up and down the stairs

00:59:32.540 anymore so she's got free reign of the house so she came up to visit me and she's getting swole

00:59:38.540 she brought up these pink weights that she was carrying around with her appreciate that um

00:59:47.100 our next question can you explain a ritual for someone to perform every day

00:59:53.420 i'm up early in the morning around sunrise and i have about 15 to 20 minutes i can

00:59:59.020 be outside and around nature yes we have something that folks do a lot and it's our most

01:00:08.540 i'm sorry aubrey's got stuff to offer on this too um the prayer from our ancestral period that we

01:00:17.940 have access to is a very fitting one for this time and it's from a work called the cedrifa mall

01:00:24.280 and cedrifa gave this prayer hail day hail sons of day hail night and her daughters

01:00:34.140 Look upon us now with loving eyes and waiting.

01:00:39.520 Grant us victory.

01:00:41.380 Hail you goddesses.

01:00:43.380 You goddesses hail.

01:00:45.260 Hail the earth all giving.

01:00:47.660 Grant us wisdom and goodly speech and healing hands all our lives.

01:00:53.300 And that's something that a lot of our people like to do in the morning.

01:00:57.720 Hobbs, you're messing with our camera here.

01:00:59.880 Oh, anyways, that is something that a lot of people do in the mornings.

01:01:05.000 A lot of people call that.

01:01:06.000 I know our founder, Alshair Gauthier, Stephen, he likes to do that.

01:01:11.640 He calls it greeting the day.

01:01:13.380 Sometimes we'll do that at our events.

01:01:15.820 But that's what I would recommend is a good morning thing to do outside looking at the dawning sun.

01:01:23.480 I think that's a special thing to do.

01:01:25.780 Do you have any thoughts, Swan?

01:01:27.040 Yeah, I think a lot of the, whether you stand outside, definitely showing a sense of devotional atonement and alignment is important.

01:01:42.840 So whether you kneel and hold your hands up, whether you stand and you hold your hands up in an algae's position, I definitely think that showing that connection, showing that connection, showing a physical positioning.

01:02:12.840 if you will um it's it's important and a lot of people get hung up on the idea of kneeling and or

01:02:19.800 giving any positioning um without really understanding context um whether you kneel

01:02:27.240 down to meditate uh you know in the morning or in the presence of of the breaking dawn

01:02:33.880 um and then hold your hands up in giving thanks and then standing up and holding your hands up

01:02:39.240 what we're talking about here is physically weaving your your deeds towards devotion and a

01:02:48.200 lot of people again because we have some people that kind of come over from um universalistic

01:02:53.960 religions like like christianity or you can see it with islam too and things like that they they

01:02:58.440 view this uh this posturing as um supplication but it's um it's something that we should

01:03:07.400 consider when we kneel down to meditate are we we're kneeling down to ourselves we're

01:03:12.280 we're sitting down to ourselves um that that it seems kind of strange like if i'll only kneel if

01:03:19.960 i meditate to myself but i won't uh you know contemplate and think about the gods while

01:03:24.760 kneeling down um it becomes kind of ridiculous but the other way the way to look at it is

01:03:32.920 when you think about it you're not in in supplication uh a lot of the movement of prayer

01:03:39.000 whether kneeling on one knee or two knees or standing up and giving a salute these are all

01:03:45.640 measures it's i always think of it kind of like when i was in the military because that's how i

01:03:49.720 equate a lot of things you know when we were sitting around in a room and an officer came in

01:03:54.200 it was announced that he was in the room and we would all immediately stand and stand at attention

01:04:00.600 with our hands at our side, not in the front, you know, just immediately showing that sense

01:04:06.700 of presence. We didn't kneel, but, you know, at the same time out in public, we would salute

01:04:12.760 these officers. And these are important aspects of giving physical denotion of hierarchy.

01:04:24.040 the only difference is is that I wasn't um devoted to my officers like I was to my gods

01:04:30.940 so I would gladly give you know devotion to the gods um you know it you know looking at the

01:04:38.980 equivalency of things I guess culturally or what have you so you know at for instance at Thorshof

01:04:44.740 a lot of times when people come in they place their hands up into an algae's rune which is the

01:04:50.980 rune that's three up on a stem they place their hands up or the mother rune in in the younger

01:04:57.700 futark and they show that they are giving a devotional credence to hierarchy and giving

01:05:05.780 devotion to and and and basically saying i accept any wisdom any strength any even your eyes to

01:05:14.660 witness us and witness our deeds i accept this i desire it i want it to be so i would say my um

01:05:24.580 take on that would be the with while saying the prayer you can hold your hands up in showing

01:05:32.500 physical sense of um devotion and this again when you do something we know this like uh when you

01:05:39.620 smile when you smile you feel happy it's it's a part of our body it's a part of the way we do

01:05:46.180 things so if you stand you raise your arms you accept you bring these things in you start to

01:05:52.740 change your mind and your soul by the physicality of it so i would say do that as well and and and

01:05:59.780 uh you'll find your comfort zone and perhaps it will evolve over time and that's fine too

01:06:05.780 but do something physical with it as well you know i got i got thoughts on this and this is

01:06:11.300 you know certainly going beyond the initial question but spawn brings up okay first and

01:06:18.500 foremost um the typical also true speaking to the gods pose is that algae's pose where you're

01:06:29.060 looking up your arms are outstretched and you're reaching up towards the heavens with arms you know

01:06:34.420 palms wide open the posture is one of receiving it's one of those things in 0.63

01:06:43.860 in bloat when someone comes around the circle the gothy comes around the circle to to a spurge

01:06:53.220 it's one of the things and in our bloats sometimes you'll drink from the horn if it's a smaller

01:06:57.540 number of people but if it's a large number of people someone will a spurge which means they'll

01:07:02.500 take an evergreen sprig usually and dip it into the mead that's been blessed and to distribute

01:07:08.900 the blessings of the gods they'll splash that meat upon the participants to do that whenever

01:07:15.380 they come around instinctively i and you know most everybody else puts our arms out and our hands

01:07:23.140 open to to receive it's a it's a natural opening yourself up rather than closing yourself off and

01:07:31.780 And I think that's a large part of that pose.

01:07:34.680 It's one of the things that most commonly you'll see

01:07:37.020 and certainly, you know, was commonly done

01:07:39.280 since the dawn of the new day of Ausatru in the 1960s.

01:07:47.020 The idea of kneeling, there's a lot of people

01:07:49.580 that have been very resistant.

01:07:51.260 I think most of the people that are super resistant 1.00

01:07:53.460 are from a Christian background. 0.79

01:07:55.660 And in that faith, in the Semitic faiths in general, 1.00

01:08:00.660 people are sinful and unworthy and terrible. 1.00

01:08:07.760 And the only thing that is good is their God to them.

01:08:13.840 And so their approach is one of humiliation and worthlessness before an almighty creator that's so much better than them. 0.58

01:08:22.900 We believe very differently in Austria.

01:08:24.720 We believe that we want our gods to be proud of us.

01:08:27.640 So we have this idea of wanting to stand before them and have them have them proud of who we are.

01:08:35.200 But kneeling doesn't diminish that. One of the things when people take a very bold stance, I won't kneel before my gods.

01:08:49.100 When people say that, I most often question whether they truly believe in their gods.

01:08:54.740 um these same people when they're in a courtroom and someone says all rise the honorable so-and-so

01:09:02.060 presiding they will stand they're people that uh will gladly you know bow their heads when

01:09:11.280 christians pray to their gods um they're the same people that again as fawn mentioned will

01:09:19.640 will gladly stand at attention and salute in a military context.

01:09:25.420 I dare say that these people in a better age would kneel before their king, would kneel before

01:09:36.140 a nobleman of our folk. If you would kneel before a king, why wouldn't you kneel before the king of

01:09:42.940 the gods if one of our gods stood before you if you would not take a kneel a knee and acknowledge

01:09:51.080 their their greatness as our gods it's really unfortunate and i have to question whether that's

01:09:59.000 that's true or not if you were actually presented with that maybe we'll never know maybe we'll find

01:10:04.820 out. The question arises, if you wouldn't, are our gods not worthy of your devotion and of your

01:10:20.340 acknowledging their headship and their superiority? The word worship comes in our tongue

01:10:29.420 from the word worth. To apply worth to something or to someone is worth-ship that evolved to the

01:10:39.020 modern English worship. Showing our gods they are worthy of our devotion is the very essence

01:10:47.820 of what worship means. And our gods celebrate the hero. They don't celebrate the weak slaves.

01:10:59.420 They celebrate the heroes and the kings, but even our heroes and our kings would gladly

01:11:05.140 take a knee before our gods, would gladly stand in Odin's army and follow his commands

01:11:11.520 into battle.

01:11:13.560 And I think that's important in self-reflection that we acknowledge that.

01:11:18.780 Yeah, there seems to be like a cultivated idea that, and I wonder oftentimes if the

01:11:24.920 value of the hubris in the faulty of that logic is cultivated for a reason like maybe it's uh you

01:11:32.440 know like a kind of like an atheistic um ubermensch mindset or if it's like also maybe some

01:11:42.120 like uh i don't know like left leaning in the ideologies of things and religion and stuff like

01:11:47.880 that where it's cultivated to have this kind of idea and it it terrifies i think a lot of folks

01:11:53.880 when they suddenly realized that uh the faith that we have in our gods is beyond just chest

01:12:00.440 beating and screaming it's there's there is a deep devotional um a presence of of devotion towards

01:12:10.760 the um the gods that that starts to supersede into uh levels of a truly deep power and that i think

01:12:19.800 scares uh people a lot as well and so they'll throw jibes and say oh they're just they're

01:12:25.960 it's christianity or they're acting like this or they're doing like that and um i often i

01:12:31.000 i often wonder to what degree that they're supporting this other than perhaps the benefit

01:12:36.280 of others that want to see it where it's never uh taken truly so our folk um again our founder

01:12:45.320 else harry gothe stephen uh has always said that our folk suffer from a soul sickness

01:12:52.440 and like many indigenous faiths the role of our gothar is as healers in a way to heal our folk

01:13:02.280 and to heal the soul and to fix that soul sickness you know these are some of the ways it displays

01:13:08.760 itself um you've got to be able to have both you know spawn talks about screaming and chest beating

01:13:19.240 i'll tell you what if you've been to one of my odin's bloats i lose my voice i can't speak the

01:13:25.720 next day i can do that with the best of them but my worship's not limited to that if you can't

01:13:34.440 worship in quiet and in whispered reverence if you don't have that depth of your worship between

01:13:44.120 all of that then you're not really worshiping our gods with your whole self i think and that's

01:13:49.320 something to to contemplate if you only have one mode and the only thing you can do is go out and

01:13:54.760 yell then maybe that's maybe that means there's something that needs to be worked on i do think

01:14:01.000 that that like i mentioned the opening ourselves to ritual the opening our body posture all of that

01:14:09.080 is symbolic of opening our hearts and opening our minds and maybe if you can't do that maybe that

01:14:17.480 speaks to something within you that makes you resistant to opening yourselves to our gods

01:14:23.000 and if that's the case then you know there's no shame in that we all start from where we start

01:14:28.600 but maybe that's a place that needs that needs work and attention um our next question

01:14:37.720 is freya's chariot drawn by cats or bears i've read somewhere about the cats actually being

01:14:45.000 bears but what do you think by cats but i'm really curious where you read about it being

01:14:51.400 drawn by bears that's fascinating and i've never run into that swan have you ever heard of that

01:14:56.280 not bears but wolverines the speculation on on what i mean we know that our nordic ancestors

01:15:06.600 they cats were given uh you know as gifts to households um they were cultivated they had

01:15:13.400 great use in keeping you know uh vermin down and uh they were you know they were prized as

01:15:20.360 as a pet of beauty in the way they moved, in the way they acted, in the way they showed their love.

01:15:30.580 And I think it's kind of, again, a nodding towards desire and the idea, always desire to pet them,

01:15:37.700 but sometimes they just don't.

01:15:40.160 But I would say I read somewhere in which they were talking about the usage of the word

01:15:47.640 in application to other things so for instance um when the early settlers were coming to america they

01:15:54.620 they they mentioned the skunk as a polecat and so utilizing the word cat in reference to other

01:16:03.380 creatures of the same kind of shape if you will it's kind of similar to how um the word deer in

01:16:11.420 anglo-saxon used to apply deor used to apply to multiple beasts it wasn't just a a heart or a

01:16:19.740 heart um it applied to many and so over time it evolved so someone i i cannot recall who

01:16:28.540 and i it was i don't know if it was even written or if it was on the internet take that for what

01:16:35.460 that is but someone had speculated the usage of the transfer of that word uh in application to

01:16:41.560 something but skunks don't live in europe so the the uh immediacy towards that was towards

01:16:49.440 the wolverine and in the nordic language a wolverine is called the yarvi which means a

01:16:55.740 consumer an eater it survives in the same word that we use for the word scarf to scarf things

01:17:02.180 down or to hold over the mouth uh or flush towards the mouth and so i don't know if it has a lot of

01:17:08.180 that uh referencing i mean we again cats had such an enormous presence uh we know about the wild

01:17:16.100 cats we know about lynx also being um you know in in the nordic lands and uh even too in in the

01:17:24.260 central europe um so i don't know if i i don't know if i take too much stock in it it's good to ponder

01:17:31.780 and wonder about but we don't have a lot of tangibleness on it you know i've always

01:17:39.380 i suppose i've pictured freya's cats being you know much more like you know mountain lions or

01:17:47.780 bobcats or white tigers or something more than uh more than i picture house cats but certainly

01:17:54.580 i've always pictured something feminine and feline like that um but yeah that's that's

01:18:00.580 interesting i've never heard i've never heard the idea about bears if you have a reference for that

01:18:04.580 i'd be really curious to to look that up and read up on that one thing for for newcomers though is

01:18:10.740 the understanding of vehicle in and of itself like that might be throwing them off like why are they

01:18:15.140 talking about cats and bears and and or wolves and goats and things the understanding of vehicle

01:18:21.780 uh i think is important for a lot of newcomers is that we see our gods or like boar like i had

01:18:28.020 mentioned before with hilda and ghoul and bursty is the the vehicle represents a divine again a

01:18:37.300 domain a throne uh they literally sit upon it or they ride upon it and it shows their dominion in

01:18:45.940 oftentimes in the physical sense so again that's why i've always associated her her cats with

01:18:52.500 beauty and hildesveen with the prize of war and guland bursty with the bounty of like wealth and

01:19:01.540 and and cultivation of wealth uh when we talk about um uh odin's wolves at his feet again

01:19:09.940 these vehicles showing and in both of them represent greed and hunger you know the desire

01:19:16.420 to move forward again showing that aspect in that other story where he where he wants to create a

01:19:21.300 war between two brothers that base that earthly dominion is often in our stories represented by

01:19:29.300 their name and the animal and kind of aspect of it and so we see this as a vehicle of their dominion

01:19:36.100 within the realm of the material so i'll throw this out there too and then we'll

01:19:41.220 move on to our next question but um the concept of our gods mastering the primal

01:19:50.900 and directing the primal of them controlling ravenous primal animals that aren't typically

01:19:58.180 domesticated because it's very different than when they ride a horse it's very different than

01:20:03.540 when thor has a goat drawn chariot but to have our high gods of magic and esoterics

01:20:12.980 odin and freya other than having his his his ravenous wolves that he keeps his pets at bay and

01:20:19.540 he feeds he has mastery over that primal nature and freya is so so wild and untamed in so many

01:20:27.780 ways her having mastery over cats if they are you know the the the big cats of the forest that are

01:20:37.060 predators that consume that are wild having the mastery over over wild things is speaks a lot about

01:20:50.260 our mastery over self about the the vitki's mastery over the primal nature and the primal

01:20:59.700 power that we possess but that being under under the guide of something sentient and something

01:21:05.700 higher the idea of mastery of primal by the astral by the higher self is very important to our faith

01:21:16.100 our next question good evening matt and spawn i apologize if this has been asked a bunch before

01:21:22.820 but what are your thoughts on the oralinda book it hasn't been asked a lot before i think we've

01:21:27.700 gotten this maybe only once and it's it's a really interesting thing and i'm curious fun what are

01:21:33.540 are your thoughts on what you know that were a Linda book? I haven't really focused a lot

01:21:41.840 on its study. I don't recall when was it discovered or when was it expected that it was written

01:21:56.000 down. Let me see. I'm going to look because I am on the solo now. So the, let me see,

01:22:10.340 and you're spelled it uh yeah the or or linda

01:22:20.980 ah yes the the phrygian um so when we're looking at this year too we're talking about um

01:22:31.940 the spec is it speculated that it it dates back and subjects are all the way back to 803

01:22:38.420 the year 800 or the 800s see i don't have a uh i don't have a lot on this because of the

01:22:48.720 speculation of its origins um again the phrygians have had a huge amount of connections to the past

01:22:57.920 especially when we talk about the the laws that were set about by when we spoke about uh lord

01:23:04.880 Forseti and the correlation to the Frisians and their dealings with the onslaught of Charlemagne

01:23:11.780 and Christianity and the survivability of their faith. So we have an understanding that the

01:23:18.640 Frisians held on to a great amount of lore and knowledge, but to my knowledge, it hasn't tangibly

01:23:29.260 surfaced in anything without having huge question marks built around it if you will um and perhaps

01:23:39.580 because most of the law like the icelanders they had it memorized so again there's a the

01:23:46.300 transference from the memorization to to written word that again has a ton of question marks around

01:23:52.480 it so all right spawn you you have you know short-circuited my my well-timed bathroom break

01:24:03.120 oral in the book is is controversial and one of the reasons for it is it doesn't

01:24:10.400 the bits that i am familiar with and i'm believe there was an english translation released

01:24:17.360 recently that i would like to read up on and know more about um

01:24:24.320 it is incongruent or i i believe as far as i know of it is incongruent with the other body of um

01:24:33.360 of arian mythos so i don't necessarily claim that it's that it's a forgery i don't i'm not

01:24:41.120 sure i know there's a lot of theories as to the authenticity of it or not is it ancient i don't

01:24:47.840 know is it old certainly it's old um but it it's very relevant in my understanding because

01:24:58.400 it's very um matriarchal and that isn't what we see with other aryan mythos so i'm not sure if

01:25:08.720 it preserves local tradition or if it's a later um a later attempt at at putting voice to to

01:25:19.520 the pagan spirituality of a people's ancestors um but i do look at it with a degree of skepticism

01:25:28.240 i know that that earlier in the last century it was you know a very inspirational book to

01:25:33.680 a generation of people that were trying to recapture our native spirituality but in my

01:25:41.680 understanding it doesn't mesh well with what we know of of the other corpus of arian lore

01:25:48.480 but i would like to look into it more because i i don't want to condemn something that i'm not

01:25:53.920 much more familiar with so i do look forward to to reading familiarizing myself with that better

01:26:00.080 it's it's much like the stavar um traditions in which utilizing runic for positions whether it's

01:26:08.580 um martial arts or you know there's proclamations that these these things have been kept over time

01:26:14.260 and you know then recently found and i still meet that with speculation to a degree so that's why

01:26:21.100 like i understand the phrygians and they're capable like they've there there are there

01:26:27.420 notoriety towards their keeping of lore and keeping of things um of elder traditions but i

01:26:34.860 think they were so i'm gonna throw a random phrysian factoid out there sauerkraut and bananas are

01:26:43.260 delicious now i say this because that's uh the first ever i don't think i did this at the first

01:26:55.420 one the first ever ousatru thing that i celebrated was king radbod's day of remembrance and he was

01:27:03.580 a king of the phrygians so one of the things i did with our day of remembrance when i was first

01:27:09.820 starting out and i do sometimes now depending is trying to make an ethnic food from the area that

01:27:18.060 that that hero was from um so i was looking up you know recipes from frisia and something that

01:27:26.540 i came up with and i don't think they had bananas in in the archaic period but in the modern day

01:27:33.100 uh or you know sometime in last century or something apparently bananas are popular there

01:27:39.100 there is a basically a cottage pie you you make a cottage pie but you have a layer of sauerkraut

01:27:46.860 and a layer of bananas sounds strange i promise you it is delicious and if you've ever tried it

01:27:53.500 you will know that it's awesome uh it is no seriously the sweet and the sour balance each

01:28:01.180 other it is delicious i encourage everybody it's got a dutch name that means sauerkraut and bananas

01:28:09.580 look it up it's good you should try it you are welcome um next question hail from wisconsin

01:28:18.460 a three-parter here is there a god most closely associated with hymenia is hymenia the same

01:28:27.180 as folk soul and lastly how can we see freya in association with hymenia go ahead and take a

01:28:37.820 take a swing at this one all right so first and foremost humming again the component as we

01:28:46.060 explained earlier has it can applicate to yourself as in your soul it can applicate to your family

01:28:51.980 your lineage uh it can be um given in application to your folk your people uh however that those

01:29:00.460 those those those groupings are made uh and i think when you step outside of yourself it's

01:29:06.540 about unity of hamina and those correlative things your luck grows your your might grows

01:29:12.860 and i'll use the word luck and might uh you know in correlation with each other it's it's kind of

01:29:20.380 like imagine if you it it could be a culmination of uh like in a karmic sense um where right action

01:29:32.700 builds up might builds up power and and over time it can you know bestow upon you these these um

01:29:40.860 this you know elevated sense um as you kind of become more aware and it can come from the gods

01:29:47.580 as well um so when we talk about humming really one of the things that i i think kind of correlates

01:29:57.180 to some of the previous questions is about the gods when we when we show them devotional uh

01:30:04.860 movement when we when we give to posture and showing that you know we accept them and give

01:30:11.020 worth to them and our they are worth to us and we see ourselves as you know uh ready to

01:30:19.580 deem like they are worthy in our lives and we deem them worthy in our lives

01:30:23.180 and we're willing to give ourselves to that um one of the things that i think a lot of people

01:30:30.940 don't realize is that the gods are unlike the gods are watching if you will the gods do watch

01:30:38.300 us through the well of earth the base the tree in heaven as it is stated they go and they they

01:30:45.420 travel out of either wall out of the realm of ausgard into the heaven and they look down into

01:30:52.700 the well of earth and they meet out to that doom so they do watch us they we want to be seen by our

01:30:59.740 deeds we want to be measured by our deeds we want to be witnessed we see that again with ovin the

01:31:05.260 crucible of the soul in war and in great feats of danger and moments of of uh high you know extremely

01:31:13.500 high um stress or you know again just when when all things are culminating into a vicious storm

01:31:21.660 um that is when you know ovin witnesses us sees us and and acts upon that so

01:31:30.060 hamina is kind of correlated to many gods it's um we see this with again clearly with

01:31:39.260 odin but if you were talking about freya if you read in the stories of otter or sweep day

01:31:46.860 sweep dog as it's spelled um we see freya is going to great lengths to show their descendancy

01:31:58.860 to show that where they come from and they learn as they become more powerful as they

01:32:04.140 learn their lineage. And so, in this case, she's kind of, again, raising the haminya of Otar and

01:32:11.740 of Svipte. As they learn these things, they become more powerful, they become more fitting of their

01:32:17.720 destiny. And so, again, yes, there is correlation, I would say, to her, but I would say this applies

01:32:26.160 to many of of of our eyes here as they do witness us and bestow upon us um perhaps benefit or

01:32:34.800 worthiness of of our deeds um and you know that we are rewarded or we are declined by our acts

01:32:44.240 of of cravenness or um you know things that are not noble um and so a direct god specifically

01:32:55.120 i would say no but all the gods yes

01:33:02.240 okay is hymenia the same as folk soul ah yes um yes it can apply to that i i think again when we

01:33:12.480 talk about the group the the collective uh soul of but it's a component of it it's not the entirety

01:33:21.040 of it the humming yah is a it is a a might that can be built up as for instance our cyclic uh

01:33:34.640 devotions to the gods our devotionals over many many years have built humming yah that we gain

01:33:41.920 insight or understanding or boon benefit as we continue to lead ourselves in for noble action

01:33:53.420 towards the correct path that we believe the gods are watching us and then imbuing upon us

01:33:58.280 humming and does this affect the folk soul i would say yes but is it the entirety of it no

01:34:05.560 uh it is certainly one of the things that connects the individual sal of the soul and we'll we'll

01:34:13.860 actually probably be talking we are going to have a uh victory never sleeps on the soul correct

01:34:18.220 in the in the uh future yeah that's our next episode right right my next episode together

01:34:28.260 right so the individual soul the soul um as a as a component with many pieces is seen as well as

01:34:39.900 being a component of many pieces that would make the folk soul and what unites them and kind of

01:34:45.340 holds them together one huge component of that is humming um and so the actions of your your kin

01:34:52.280 the actions of, you know, if someone detracts from the hominia of your folk soul or the folk

01:35:01.260 in the living sense, even the folk soul and the might that's present in the living now

01:35:07.260 also has power and effect. So that's why we desire as, you know, we have individual prayer,

01:35:15.560 we have individual devotion and individual action, and we should live our lives wanting

01:35:19.960 the gods to witness our deeds we also want the gods to witness our deeds as a whole as a group

01:35:26.120 as a tribe as a collective as a nation or as a people we want the gods to witness that and we

01:35:31.720 don't want to detract from that so it's it's a desire not in the sense that we are broken from

01:35:39.160 birth or that we are uh villainous or that we are tainted but that we have the capability of

01:35:46.440 being noble or being ignoble and so we we want to be noble not simply just for our own soul

01:35:53.240 but the overall soul of our people and and when we go against that we are we bring detriment

01:35:59.880 on our folk and so we see a lot of our our our elevation forward and upward is not just

01:36:06.840 individually based it's not based on some uh you know set of rules that you have with a specific

01:36:12.840 god or goddess or the gods themselves no there there's there's multiple layers to this you are

01:36:20.840 you want your ancestors to witness you and you not to bring foul uh name to them bring honor to them

01:36:27.960 you want your folk to see you and have the frith and the honor and the might and the homing of

01:36:32.840 your folk in the living middle to be elevated and you want the gods to witness both all right

01:36:42.440 So Svan, how is Freya specifically related to Hymenia?

01:36:49.400 Again, I made reference to the lore and about her anointment of power upon Svipde or Otar,

01:37:00.440 but let's look outside of the lore in and of itself. The, I guess, personal faith that I have

01:37:09.160 in contemplating these things is that freya is a ds a ds is a is a divine titling power um that

01:37:22.520 bestows upon or has the ability to funnel or give luck give homing give might in that sense and so

01:37:32.040 she i think as if we preside by guidance we seek to be witnessed then it can be bestowed upon us

01:37:44.040 benefit boon might bounty these these elements that are within her throne are kind of again

01:37:52.920 testaments to your humming of being elevated and changed likewise if you go and detract away

01:38:00.360 and do ignoble things or things in in opposition to uh to yourself to your family to your folk to

01:38:07.320 your people then you are then also detracted away so that's how i would directly correlate it and

01:38:15.000 and again we have lots of evidence of this um and it's it's very tangible amongst the gods whether

01:38:22.680 we were talking about thor or odin but also too with freya um otter you know having a a pile of

01:38:30.760 stones dedicated to her where he he um goes there and and prays to her and gains hamina and benefit

01:38:39.880 boom um from her but this again is is i think more about the nature of the gods themselves

01:38:46.120 and their ability to affect your harmony um overall all right so first over in the side

01:38:54.600 nick posted the recipe for the sauerkraut and bananas

01:38:59.960 that is the og original recipe that i used like i don't know

01:39:09.400 almost 20 years ago i think at this point that is the origination please feel free to get

01:39:15.880 you know get funky with it and uh make it work but that's the one i started from it's delicious

01:39:23.960 the nutmeg adds to it it's awesome you should try it also sterling are you going to join us

01:39:30.440 at lc fest i see you're in wisconsin i would love to have you join us there be cool if you figured

01:39:36.680 that out um is there a god most closely associated with hymenia

01:39:48.120 i would say that our nornir are the most closely related godly beings um

01:39:58.600 but no i don't think there's like the god of hymenia but i think that the nornir

01:40:04.440 are the most closely related with to it um is hymenia the same as the folk soul no

01:40:12.440 hymenia is specific to a group our race has a hymenia but the folk soul is

01:40:20.600 much much more than that is the folks hymenia part of the folk soul certainly just as your

01:40:27.000 hymenia is part of your soul but the folk soul is a much bigger collective of the experiences

01:40:35.800 and emotions and history of our people that's inherent in our blood it's much more than

01:40:42.520 just a hymenia it's a it's an ancestral memory it's a inherited genetic traits it's so much more

01:40:51.720 than just hominia and uh lastly how how can we see freya in association with hominia

01:41:02.360 i would say this and uh so one of the things my daughter got for her birthday was a little

01:41:08.360 lawnmower thing that when she pushes it around it makes loud noises

01:41:14.040 hey aubrey can i see that for a second yes thank you so as we pause from uh

01:41:21.080 the bubble mower for a second um so and this please bear with me on this this is going to sound

01:41:32.840 kind of odd um you have people that claim to see to see auras and so when they see you they don't

01:41:45.800 just see you they see an aura that surrounds you well our gods can see hymenia when freya sees you

01:41:59.320 she doesn't just see the man or woman standing before her she sees them coupled with the hymenia

01:42:08.120 that surrounds and imbues them with with spiritual might we want our hymenia to shine bright

01:42:15.320 before our gods we want them to we want our reputation to precede us we want the gods to

01:42:25.000 be impressed by the hymenia that we carry with us when we approach them when we approach them

01:42:31.560 in prayer when we approach them um at ritual when we approach them when we cross the veil

01:42:39.560 we want our hymenia to shine brightly because they see in terms of hymenia we try to as people some

01:42:48.280 of the gifted among us see that and feel a presence even those that aren't gifted among us

01:42:55.960 you feel a presence when you're in proximity to a great person you feel some of that greatness

01:43:04.680 that's amplified all of that all of that that you bring with you that hymenia that you have built

01:43:13.320 in your spiritual might you radiate that those with second sight see that and our gods see that

01:43:22.280 we want freya to see that and to appreciate that and as one who bestows and as one who chooses

01:43:29.880 we want her to be impressed by our presence we want you know just because we want to impress

01:43:35.960 the ladies we want to impress the lady and we want her to smile upon us and be impressed by

01:43:43.480 the hymenia that we bring before her and i think that's the closest i've got to answering that

01:43:49.240 question next one or log could be likened to germanic form of karma somewhat right yes um

01:44:05.480 especially when you talk about a karmic debt that a person is born with due to caste or due to

01:44:12.840 something like that swan do you have any more to offer on the relation between the concept of

01:44:18.760 karma and orlog yeah i i would say that definitely when we talk about some of the um

01:44:28.200 more easter easterly ideals of that that is definitely the first correlation that i i would

01:44:33.400 i would kind of point out um the build up of or again you said debt debt is often seen or is is

01:44:44.200 referred to as doom uh doom of course nowadays we take that to mean strictly the

01:44:49.320 demise of something but doom is kind of uh in elder usage was kind of again that that price

01:44:57.240 which is paid that the actions are cumulative actions that were taken come forth and we see

01:45:03.640 this again and again in our stories especially when we talk about like grimness mall and um

01:45:09.960 um the uh the inevitable folly of a king who has trapped uh one of the or actually

01:45:19.240 when reality one of the gods has allowed him um to to trap him in order to further emphasize his

01:45:27.220 folly and then slowly reveal the truth and then ultimately building up into a rapid descent into

01:45:34.620 his demise. And so we see these kind of like hyper time related in a human sense. We see this again

01:45:46.560 too when it comes to the Holy God Vaoli, as he is an actor of the immediacy or the switch or the

01:45:53.280 threshold that opens up and that flows forward is the consequence of action.

01:46:01.460 Um, yeah, it's, it's built up over time and Haminga is again, correlated with that and can be lost because of inaction or wrong action. And that's very important to understand those two, um, as both being the ability to affect those things.

01:46:23.660 so when we think of karma i i know that a lot of people modern times think of it as like whether

01:46:32.220 i don't know they think of it as as uh um you know they refer to like instant karma and things

01:46:39.100 of that nature i i would i would say that yes it has a more longer standing and pervading

01:46:44.940 arch of understanding in the in the way that all of our deeds and movement and the movement

01:46:49.820 of the of the world the movement of the gods the ancestors and and the alvar and all of these things

01:46:55.660 moving together um overarching have a connection that can create folly or glory um but usually

01:47:03.980 it's it's meant by immediacy of corrective action by ourselves and so in that way i think it

01:47:11.340 definitely has connections to to karma all right question for both of you this is from king of

01:47:18.140 cheese i may have asked this in the past do you think there there's worth in learning about the

01:47:25.660 vettas and seeing how eastern arian spirituality may work for us today

01:47:33.580 yes i will say this as a thing as a principle knowing stuff is good and that may sound really

01:47:42.380 simple but yeah learn things read things it's especially good when you read things about arian

01:47:51.980 spirituality um because the vetas are old i think there is a tendency to look at them as like a

01:48:05.500 linear they came first thing and i don't think it works that way they are also a shared remembrance

01:48:16.220 of our ancestral faith and our ancestral gods also they are the unique relationship between

01:48:27.740 those of our ancestors that conquered in asia and in the subcontinent of india

01:48:35.500 And that differs slightly from our ancestors who moved into nations in Europe.

01:48:43.600 There's certainly value in it.

01:48:46.420 One of the things that's very valuable, I would say, is that that faith has, in a form, been continuous since the time of the Venice.

01:49:00.980 Now, it's taken a lot of reshaping and evolution in that time.

01:49:08.440 A lot of that is through Dravidian influence and influence outside of our folk.

01:49:14.720 But it is interesting that it's a current living faith that didn't have the, you know, 1,000 to 1,500 or more years gap between our ancestors and us.

01:49:28.100 And so I think that is interesting to see some of their ways of worship, some of their ideas about worship and the language of prayer and mantra work and things that way.

01:49:43.000 I think those are very interesting and useful.

01:49:45.760 But what I don't think is that in any way it should supersede the lore that comes to us through our Germanic sources.

01:49:55.080 I think that it's great to add to, to add dimension, to add ideas in how to approach our gods or to do forms of worship.

01:50:07.820 Because, again, we have that huge gap, but it should never supersede our Germanic lore.

01:50:16.400 That's my thoughts on it.

01:50:17.620 Svon, what are your thoughts?

01:50:19.520 yeah i i first and foremost don't claim to be uh uh you know a scholar of the eastern

01:50:27.040 developments that that came about um certainly looking at it from

01:50:32.640 uh a branch and try to understand uh things especially when we consider the uh in the west

01:50:39.760 what fragments and or the fragmentation itself and how we can see the development of the idea

01:50:51.600 of the expression of religion amongst our people and we can kind of understand

01:50:58.080 like the point a to point c by looking at the b in other kind of um you know uh

01:51:06.800 comparatives um and i i find the inside of it uh deep and profound i there are people that i you

01:51:14.240 know follow and and and read and and think about and ponder about what they say who are much more

01:51:21.120 you know into the practice of eastern um vedic style uh faith and i don't think it's bad i don't

01:51:29.760 i don't particularly um look at it in a negative sense in any way shape or form and there's a lot

01:51:34.640 of correlative things again to even with uh the discussions of of like even buddhism and it's

01:51:40.880 it's connections to these um i i find that equally as fascinating as i do say comparatively with the

01:51:49.920 hellenics or the slavics um and their their view of the gods um when we talk about this though the

01:51:59.280 one thing that and i think else really kind of leaned on it was that when we're looking at the

01:52:04.720 way that these these branches encounter faith in the gods we see the gods as gods first and that

01:52:16.240 that which correlates their relationship with those people is what we see as kind of different

01:52:22.640 amongst each of those branches and that we have to recognize that we are a different branch and i

01:52:28.320 and i don't think that that makes it less on them or more on us other than the fact that i am on

01:52:35.760 said branch of my people um i think that a lot of times when people engage uh the teutonic

01:52:45.520 aryan branch they feel a lot of the fragmentation that that did happen in your with europe and the

01:52:52.960 incoming of um christianity and universalism or or even just the ideas of uh how christianity did

01:52:59.760 carry a lot of philosophic ideas from from greece and uh at the time when they were

01:53:07.520 dealing and and pondering about the nature of divinity um and so this kind of wash that comes

01:53:15.840 in uh leaves people with a with a sense that there's there's too many fragments and so they

01:53:21.920 desire a continuacy that ends up taking them into um almost the the the participation in

01:53:30.400 the other branches form of faith that ends up being almost alien and yet

01:53:40.000 they they they continue on in this in this path i think that if people can find and see the clarity

01:53:46.800 and the connectivity then it is good we just it should be as with any sort of um engagement if

01:53:53.920 you are a teutonic arian when you engage with like the slavic faith or the hellenic faith we see them

01:54:02.080 as branches of the tree and they we give respect but we don't also proclaim to understand the 0.96

01:54:09.840 the entirety of that that generations of cultures and how they perceive things but in two we find

01:54:17.000 comparativeness and understanding in our own way that helps with it and so i don't i don't announce

01:54:23.020 it at all um and i i again i find it extremely fascinating enlightening to to read and to think

01:54:30.260 upon it but at the same time i don't devote my entirety to it because i see my gods in my

01:54:38.540 language i see my gods in uh my people i see my gods in in the deeds and the land in which we

01:54:46.060 preside so that too i think has significance and so again with our emphasis on action and with

01:54:53.100 devotion towards the gods um you know if we we can ponder and think of of the connections between

01:55:00.860 four and indra or um you know many of of those connective tissues or uh you know of vishnu or

01:55:10.540 and and uh vidaran we can go back and forth on that but at the end of the day i am still of my

01:55:19.740 my branch my folk and i think it's important for us to build that continuity the continuousness

01:55:25.740 of faith in this day and age. And a lot of people don't feel that that can be done unless we

01:55:32.780 correlate to other branches because of that fragmentation. And I don't believe in that.

01:55:38.740 I do believe that we can and have attained through mysteries, through initiation,

01:55:44.720 through correlation with the gods, we have attained and continue to move forward

01:55:50.300 building our branch and and rehealing from the wounds of a lot of things that have happened in

01:55:57.780 the past so that's my take on on that yeah it's um it's interesting i thinking on it when we had

01:56:07.900 our afa moot in denmark back in 2014 there was a speaker there that talked about this he had gone

01:56:17.140 to India and studied Hinduism and things, and he thought it was very interesting, and he

01:56:24.280 speculated on if our faith had not been disrupted by Christianization, what would it have looked

01:56:32.620 like in this day and age? And I think that's one of the things early on, there was so much 1.00

01:56:38.100 speculation about how Alistair True would develop. We're seeing that now. We're seeing how it is

01:56:44.500 developing so it makes um it makes that a little bit uh of a moot point to a degree because we do

01:56:54.820 have a living tradition now that's been going as i've said earlier for 58 years specifically with

01:57:00.980 yas true folk assembly we're we're 28 years in and we're in our 29th year so we do get to see

01:57:09.380 how it is in the here and now how it is in the modern world um but yeah i think that's

01:57:16.820 that's really interesting and one of the

01:57:23.620 my uh a mentor of mine once said that the highways are paved with squirrels that couldn't make a

01:57:32.340 a decision. So we can ponder endlessly whether we should practice Hellenism or Rodnovery or some

01:57:43.420 form of Druidry or whatever. We can do that. But the fact is, Ausatru is what has emerged as

01:57:55.140 being favored by the gods and moving us forward. This is what we have that is moving us forward.

01:58:01.940 this is what has shown it's been successful and this is what has been favored with victories

01:58:08.180 and with successes and we should utilize that instead of pondering what if or what could be

01:58:16.740 this is what is so our Aryan brothers and sisters from you know from all over Europa should be part

01:58:27.840 of this that we're doing. Those other things can add flavor. They can add elements. They can add

01:58:34.140 a lot of things. But this is what is working. This is what is connecting Aryan man with our

01:58:41.900 Aryan gods. This is what we should be doing. We should be doing it together in the Austro-Folka 0.98

01:58:47.260 symbol. Allie asks, what connection is there between Freya, her magic, and divination? And

01:58:56.740 how can we connect to that as individuals um something

01:59:04.900 something i want to say and you know i reserve the right to throw in a comment after spawn speaks on

01:59:10.660 this but not to address the whole thing certainly freya is magical part of feminine magic has

01:59:20.580 always been to tap into divination in a way but we say how can we connect to that as individuals

01:59:30.580 we do that by connecting to freya let me ask you ali how can i connect to you

01:59:37.620 i can do that many ways i can reach out to you i can try to talk to you

01:59:41.860 i can try to get to know you better i can try to interact with you in the ways that i have

01:59:48.260 I can exchange energy with you in the AFA. And those who don't know, Ali is one of our

01:59:54.680 apprentice folk builders. So I can exchange energy with you by calling you or by talking

02:00:02.160 to you over, you know, social media, by interacting and getting to know you and

02:00:06.860 building a friendship with you. That's how I can tap into that. I could tap into that by us

02:00:12.800 exchanging gifts. Any of the ways that you would tap into a friendship or tap into any relationship

02:00:20.580 is the key to how you would start to tap in to a relationship with one of our gods or goddesses.

02:00:28.820 I don't mean in any way to pull them down to our level. There's so much more than that,

02:00:35.340 but at the minimum, they're at least that. So the core of what you would know to how to tap

02:00:42.480 into that would be to build that relationship as you would build a relationship with anyone

02:00:49.380 you seek to love, to know, to care about, and in the case of a god or a goddess, to worship.

02:00:56.660 There's more, but I think that's the foundation that I would suggest starting with.

02:01:02.060 Svon, what are your thoughts on this?

02:01:04.900 Yeah, when we talk about the gods and correlations to magic, there's, you know,

02:01:11.860 clarity for some and pondering about others when we think about the runes in connection

02:01:17.540 to Odin, when we think about the runes in connection to Heimdall, when we think about

02:01:23.540 whether leechcraft, I know that some folks on the reading from the comments, they're connected to

02:01:30.180 like, they understand some of the like Eastern Germanic people like the Gutens and some of

02:01:36.740 linguistics that affected much of the anglo-saxon german and nordic uh language so when we talk

02:01:43.460 about these subjects through the language the the leak craft or the leech craft healing magic or

02:01:49.780 healing craft um sometimes you know is connected to the our senior air um or when we talk about

02:01:58.180 um insights through dream dreams and and psychic kind of vision sometimes we we speak of the the um

02:02:06.740 The Alsenior, her name is Dhar, and so we correlate kind of specific interactions with certain gods and goddesses.

02:02:19.140 The one that's heavily connected with Freyja is Seder, and Seder is really a form of communication through opening and through – it's somewhat devotional in the sense that there is accounts where Seder is brought about by song or by trance.

02:02:44.560 really that i think the song translates to trance but the trance is about opening oneself

02:02:50.960 to understanding about the things around us um and and to be community communicative with the

02:02:58.480 the powers around us seeing those and oftentimes they're they're referred to in the stories by

02:03:03.760 visions sometimes when people see um the like two uh vitki two wizards if you will or two magic

02:03:12.980 people and they're they you know before there's some sort of grievance between them but the people

02:03:19.060 see two great animals fighting each other realizing that they're something more than just

02:03:24.160 regular animals perhaps they're two bulls and they're fighting each other this again is is that

02:03:29.780 that magic that ability to be open to and see things oftentimes in symbolic sense and that's

02:03:36.960 really what i think when we talk about freya we see things in the symbolic sense of messaging

02:03:44.740 oftentimes through image and through the creation of image like art like like the creation of beauty

02:03:52.600 we see that being open to the powers around us and then formulating that into physical and tangible

02:03:59.700 things things of beauty something that surpasses even you know even our own correlative sense and

02:04:06.980 people create on different levels they train for it they go to school for it they they learn from

02:04:13.620 the masters before them and then they reach this moment of mastery within themselves and it

02:04:18.340 correlates into them kind of giving a symbol of seeing that sight seeing that thing the things

02:04:26.100 around them and and then exuding that into the world manifesting it um as far as you know divination

02:04:33.620 goes the the reading of the powers around you i think are heavily correlated with with freya

02:04:41.780 as opposed to say like i know many people are um you know they utilize uh runic studies and runes

02:04:48.980 in and of themselves if you're new to australia is it's kind of like a subject within the faith

02:04:53.860 not everybody is into runes most people have an understanding of them as a writing system

02:04:59.700 or a way to correlate again correcting the mind opening the mind up uh uniting with your people

02:05:07.380 when you speak of a rune in its symbol symbolic meaning um but i think she extends even beyond

02:05:14.820 that and those things are kind of more associated with galder and with with oven or with heimdall

02:05:20.820 but again the it's mentioned that olden and freya in the lore exchange these understandings and i

02:05:29.060 think that again is about that relationship like what you're asking that connection um

02:05:36.420 freya's power i think exudes more in our ability to be receptive of things through

02:05:44.740 sight and emotional feeling of the way that we we interact with the world around us the energies

02:05:50.260 around us and how we correlate that in symbols um and then ultimately how we manufacture and present

02:05:58.340 those those findings in our creations um i think that ultimately formulating things of beauty

02:06:08.900 is one of the the greatest ways in which we can kind of show the after effect of

02:06:14.260 insight through connection with her so a couple of things about freya and her magic um

02:06:23.460 Um, first, to break it down for some folks, gender is a real thing.

02:06:35.060 Male and female, masculine and feminine are very real things.

02:06:40.220 Not only are they real, but they're sacred and they're beautiful and special.

02:06:48.020 Now, Freya's magic, and there's other ways to utilize this, but specifically in terms of, say, their practice, it gets into some male and female things that are very important.

02:07:04.520 the in magical practice and i don't claim to be a mighty wizard i do you know there's things that

02:07:18.660 i do and things that i've done um and i trust in the efficacy of those

02:07:25.140 but masculinity wise in our faith the magic practice amongst men is inflicting will upon

02:07:38.300 something is taking the chaotic realm of the magical and inflicting that on a situation

02:07:48.680 and manifesting that in reality what female magic especially say their magic 0.90

02:08:00.120 often does is it serves as a receptacle the women receive and are taken over by

02:08:11.380 the spirits in for example something that you all are familiar with like the idea of a seance

02:08:18.680 A female magician, a saithkona, would be overcome by the spirit of one who's passed, and they would speak through her.

02:08:29.300 They would become an oracle for the divine or an oracle for anyone or anything that might be beyond the veil. 0.93

02:08:39.060 The concept of that, of being taken over by someone else's will, is a very feminine thing. 0.78

02:08:46.380 And that's beautiful when it's done by a woman, but when it's done by a man, it has other connotations. Our ancestors viewed the idea of a man being overtaken by others' will and others' control to be gay. For lack of a better term, they called that ergi, for you to be the, you know, the catcher in the pitcher-catcher relationship between gay individuals. 0.70

02:09:13.040 um so much of our um our spirituality and certainly our magic practice but also our

02:09:23.000 ritual practice and it's it's worthwhile that we bring it up this month so in April we celebrate

02:09:30.020 hexanot which is the female magic which is women charming the world around us charming the ether

02:09:37.460 with their female magic where in may we celebrate mayday it's literally dancing around a phallic 0.94

02:09:44.980 image of the pole a a image of the penis and charming that so that the the male magic can 0.87

02:09:54.980 be inflicted upon the world that we live in and it's important to realize that duality when we 0.95

02:10:01.700 deal with magical practice so much of it relates to our inherent strengths and weaknesses as both

02:10:09.620 men and women and i hope that makes sense for folks uh specifically was asked towards divination

02:10:18.180 and i think in that way certainly tacitus talks about our ancestors trusting

02:10:24.180 our ladies to be more in tune with divinatory practice than our men men typically use divination

02:10:33.460 through the runes ladies see that in other ways and receive that in other ways and i don't think

02:10:40.340 that's a complete answer by any means but hopefully that's the start of an answer

02:10:45.220 and one other thing too just as you had mentioned one i think it's important that

02:10:50.180 the feminine side of magic one of the biggest things is about the structure of of protection

02:10:57.620 or the structure of integrity i would say because the idea of going forth and being to to receive

02:11:06.020 means that there has to be a formulative way it can't just be reception and so like when we talk

02:11:14.340 about like in uh eric the red saga when he when the seeth kona shows up she's singing these songs

02:11:20.660 there is traditional placement off the earth that the seeth kona is placed in so she's taking these

02:11:27.620 the traditions that were passed down and showing them in a formulative way so that it is a controlled

02:11:36.020 uh again not to be overwhelmed but to be focused and to be purposeful and that comes through

02:11:42.900 establishing parameters those parameters must be set up before the reception can be

02:11:50.580 be uh brought upon the sithkona so she takes the the time to formulate her worth in the situation

02:12:00.900 she places herself on elevation above the ground she places the four posts she sings the correct

02:12:06.740 songs and she places herself within a controlled trance because it's not just wanton it's it's

02:12:13.700 formulated to protection because that protection allows to focus um that that which is being

02:12:21.620 received so that it can manifest into useful uh information or divination or insight or looking

02:12:28.820 forward it can't just be uh unfettered or unregulated it's it's she takes it upon herself

02:12:38.900 to see kind of to set things up like again like you used the reference of the seance the idea of

02:12:44.420 the table of of the um correlation of the environment it seems to be very very important

02:12:51.300 even as those seances are kind of you know uh something in latter day like a kind of occultism

02:12:57.540 that's grown in in europe the the formulation of those magics within us are come from our blood

02:13:02.580 and we understand that even if the the theater has changed as far as like perhaps christianity

02:13:09.220 or you know in society is prevalent we see these things again there is a sense of making oneself

02:13:16.740 pure or purified there's a sense of placing oneself within the worth of the the environment

02:13:23.220 and creating boundaries correct boundaries in order to receive the proper information it's not

02:13:28.580 just laid out there because nothing formulative comes from that so i saw this in the chat and i

02:13:34.420 thought it was really cool a gentleman named john horn says i think this is my favorite victory

02:13:40.580 never sleeps so far i love seeing things like that thank you so much um we love doing these

02:13:50.260 uh that we are learning as we go trying to perfect them hopefully you know we are asking

02:13:57.620 i know that i am and i assume that we are asking the gods to help bless us and direct what we're

02:14:04.180 doing here in a good way and it means a lot to get feedback like that so thank you very much

02:14:09.620 john and i'm glad you're enjoying it um next question gentlemen any updates on our pioneers

02:14:19.140 uh remember our our remind our folk about the midsummer event too great stream as usual thanks

02:14:26.100 you are very welcome so a couple of things our first pioneer she is out there she's doing stuff

02:14:33.940 there's a wait list on laying down some gravel for the foundation of the temporary residence

02:14:40.420 that she's getting set up in the immediacy but meeting with folks for providing hookups for

02:14:47.380 electricity and internet service getting a gravel path and a gravel pad built in right now as we

02:14:57.460 speak one of the really cool things that we found out recently um on our land is a very old burial

02:15:09.940 ground and i believe there's 11 people that are buried there and it's an old family burial ground

02:15:20.820 also amongst those 11 people is a revolutionary war veteran so that's very exciting we're looking

02:15:27.140 forward to cleaning that up taking care of that restoring what uh what graves that we can and

02:15:36.900 building off of that but that's an exciting thing that we just found out for folks that may not know

02:15:43.060 and i mentioned this at the top of the hour we're having a a gathering i say we unfortunately i'm

02:15:49.380 not going to be able to make it i am having a dinner at my house for people out here in the

02:15:54.020 northern nevada northern california area you guys are welcome to show up honestly anybody here in

02:16:00.180 this podcast if you get in your car now you're welcome to show up if you're not a member please

02:16:05.780 reach out to me privately so i can vet you but if anybody wants to come to my dinner it's going to

02:16:10.180 be good i think we're going to have some seafood lasagna and some blueberry mojitos and maybe some

02:16:18.340 some other stuff but uh yeah you guys are welcome to do that anyways though folks that are close to

02:16:23.940 sigerheim close to central tennessee um they are having a get together there this saturday

02:16:31.860 so we're doing stuff we're moving right along many of us are looking at plans and stuff to

02:16:37.700 develop houses on the land and certain things so it's it's absolutely moving forward i'm very

02:16:43.540 excited about it i want you guys also to remember the idea is not just the folks that can live on

02:16:48.980 the property there's a good deal of folks that can but that's a that's a drop in the bucket

02:16:54.260 the idea is to get people to live close by if you live 10 15 minutes a half an hour from the

02:17:00.020 property you're as good as living on the property you have lots of mobility but you can experience

02:17:06.500 the community that we're trying to build so please do keep that in mind

02:17:12.900 uh question do you think the story of freya helping otar to know who his ancestors were

02:17:22.100 in order to claim the odal slash ancestral farm is a myth form of possibly a claiming

02:17:31.700 of our own ancestral tradition swan what are your thoughts on that yeah we kind of made mention of

02:17:37.540 this earlier um again the individual uh gaining might and power through an understanding of

02:17:46.740 origin um especially in the components of of our our stories of old is that um this is always kind

02:17:56.820 of correlated the more you know of the the connective origins of your of your people

02:18:02.980 uh this was a a huge boon upon the soul of of uh the hero and so yes again i think it's kind of

02:18:11.620 correlated both a perennial truth if you will uh of the idea that uh gaining that understanding is

02:18:19.300 again gaining our might and our and our our luck i did want to bring up a point though they're in

02:18:25.140 the story there too there's another significant thing that happens in which freya uh travels

02:18:33.060 on a a swine or a swing uh a boar and there is a prophetess or a volva and she she travels on a

02:18:44.820 wolf and i wanted to bring up another point we were talking about the feminine in our culture

02:18:50.740 there is a chthonic feminine force that is seen as part of the the chaotic elements if you will the

02:19:00.180 that the the natural law and the cosmic order of the gods is and often clashes with this form of

02:19:09.940 what would be almost like a kind of a venomous um or a um stagnant slash uh dissipative force

02:19:21.620 that they saw in the the the feminine uh kind of a a creation of chaos that comes from what they

02:19:28.660 often refer to as troll wives or uh troll witches that ride on wolves and that symbology again of

02:19:36.660 their of their vehicle the consumptive nature of them riding upon the wolf um is always kind of

02:19:43.620 correlative to that is that there's there's a mystery in in the the feminine nature within

02:19:49.780 the middle world here in the physical and that we see the feminine power when it is

02:19:58.500 focused and and set and placed within its its proper standings of protection and worth and

02:20:06.660 able to bring about and correlate that information forward it is good but if it's not then it's left

02:20:13.380 to chaotic pulling and and uh oftentimes you know emotional or mental or spiritual kind of uh um

02:20:25.540 dissipation and and destabilization and we see this uh it's it lasts within um obviously when

02:20:34.100 we talk about like the the hag or when we talk about the knocked mara or the nightmare or the uh

02:20:40.820 the kind of the the uh the it takes the form of this kind of feminine dissipation and consumption 0.69

02:20:49.060 um a kind of a a mockery of natural law in which it it seeks to grasp and take and dissipate and

02:20:57.940 and and really really does attack the emotional stance of people that interact with these powers

02:21:05.780 and are in the stories our gods are often referred to as fighting them um standing against them uh

02:21:12.660 even an accusation is thrown where it says oh you didn't fight them you actually lived amongst them

02:21:19.060 and that of course is the understanding of the nature of the insult is that these forces are

02:21:23.940 not seen as good forces they are seen as um malicious forces and these forces again are

02:21:30.340 the things that are out on the edges that are kind of unseen and unknown and one of the big things

02:21:35.780 that are prevalent about that is hexanoch is using the feminine of our folk the way that our the

02:21:44.100 inner guard is set up brings bounty and it's being this this feminine power that brings bounty to

02:21:52.420 society is being used to stave off the the the feminine powers of uh emotional like uh tearing

02:22:02.180 and intangibleness and and and um the sense of like incongruity or fear or doubt and things of 0.78

02:22:09.780 those natures are being combated by the women of the folk who are using their their knowledge and 0.60

02:22:16.500 power by blessing the folk with smoke so that they can be warded away from these dissipative

02:22:24.660 factors so i think there's a lot of confusion because people uh especially like modern

02:22:30.340 i would say um people that try to correlate uh if you have a bad image of a female in in mythos

02:22:38.340 then it applies to all female and that's so ridiculous and and it it's it's sad and i can

02:22:44.900 see that in a lot of ways they're trying to it's almost like the the i guess some bastions of of 0.93

02:22:51.700 of uh you know middle eastern religion kind of the the throws or the the venoms against that

02:22:58.900 um and but then it spreads and gets even stranger as it goes um and i think that that's important

02:23:05.940 that we understand that our our ancestors saw the the feminine of the mother the feminine of

02:23:12.660 the wife the feminine of the maiden um just like they saw the the feminine of the the leader i

02:23:18.580 mean uh saw the masculine of the of the leader the the the formulative power of the warrior and the

02:23:24.180 the um potential of the upright hero the young man about to step forward these things are

02:23:29.940 correlated to both of those very special and divine genders within our culture and so

02:23:36.340 So them fighting the wolf riding troll witches, as they're often referred to, is that, you know, again, representing those powers of kind of malice and determination to tear apart, especially from the mind and of the emotional soul, the way that we interact with things.

02:24:00.120 um that's often how they they attack so standing up against that both the feminine and the masculine

02:24:07.000 both do it within our inner guard to the chthonic kind of dissipative feminine in there just like

02:24:15.880 they do against the the thirst or the troll or the the jotain that's trying to crush and and 0.90

02:24:21.640 fight against or bang against the walls our gods are also fighting them as well so just something

02:24:28.120 you know i wanted to bring up in relation to um a question earlier right so the next question and

02:24:37.400 it's very simply asked but it's one of the i would say it's one of the big existential

02:24:44.040 questions of life how can you know that you've done well um so

02:24:54.440 So there are a number of ways. First, I'm trying to think of where to go with this,

02:25:08.180 because like I said, this is a big question. It seems very simple, but it's something that

02:25:14.020 I think all of us, I think all of us ponder and all of us spend our lives

02:25:21.180 contemplating going back to over and over again.

02:25:30.100 Some of this goes back to what I said earlier about the idea of worth-ship, the word that our

02:25:36.980 our modern worship comes from when you read back in medieval romances and medieval poetry

02:25:48.900 knights would go and they would travel to win worship and we're used to hearing worship in in

02:25:55.620 the relationship between man and the divine but our ancestors worship was something that they saw

02:26:04.180 also between but amongst men whether you were celebrated whether a hero was honored

02:26:12.980 and it goes back to the idea of honor so now that we've in this modern age we've built the

02:26:19.220 idea of honor as if it is a personal code of right or wrong but to our ancestors it meant

02:26:25.700 much more than that you would receive an honor from your community you would be honored by your

02:26:33.300 folk. So, and again, this is complicated because the world that we live in is very degenerate in

02:26:41.780 so many ways. One way that you can know if you've done well is do your folk celebrate you?

02:26:50.020 Do your folk appreciate you? Now there's your folk in general. There's your Alcitru

02:26:58.260 AFA brothers and sisters. There's your friends and your family. But those concentric circles,

02:27:05.040 do they celebrate you? Do they appreciate and show that you have done them honor?

02:27:11.800 That is a good way to know that you've done well.

02:27:16.240 As you cultivate your relationship with our gods and our goddesses,

02:27:21.240 when you cultivate your relationship with your ancestors through altar work and other things

02:27:28.440 do you perceive that they are proud of you because it's a feeling and it's it's very hard

02:27:35.560 to describe but you can feel internally a lot of the times if you've done well if you've made them

02:27:44.060 proud the idea is to make your folk and your community proud to make your ancestors proud

02:27:52.060 and to make your gods proud and ultimately one of the tests that is

02:28:02.300 always meaningful to our ancestors and meaningful to us today is are you victorious

02:28:09.100 have the gods and the ancestors blessed you with victory in what you're achieving

02:28:14.060 It's one of those things. You could be throwing yourself up against much mightier forces than you can marshal, and you're not going to win all the time. But all things being equal, the ancestors, the Norns, the gods grant and bestow victory on people who are making them proud and doing the right things.

02:28:40.440 Now, again, there's a lot to interplay with that.

02:28:43.640 But if you're seeing consistent victories, that tells you a lot about how you're doing.

02:28:54.480 But I think we all wonder, you know, are we doing the right things?

02:29:00.260 Are we making folks proud?

02:29:03.440 As you grow in your faith, that will grow inside of you.

02:29:07.720 and you will have a good indication of whether you're doing right or you're not.

02:29:12.640 But that's something that's trained over time.

02:29:15.340 Look to your folk, look to your family, look to your gods.

02:29:19.460 Are they showing you honor for the things that you're doing or not?

02:29:24.640 And I don't think that is a final answer on the question,

02:29:28.640 but I do think that's the beginning of an answer on the question.

02:29:32.000 What are your thoughts, Fawn?

02:29:33.020 Yeah, that is a simple question with a not simple answer. The wellness of your deeds, how are they measured?

02:29:46.080 Are they measured, you know, when we talk about the gods and how they witness us, how we seek to be witnessed by them in our deeds to hold upon ourselves an essence of desire to achieve nobleness, nobleness in action, nobleness in deed, nobleness in speech.

02:30:07.180 Um, these, these mantles that we place upon ourselves, the duties that we place upon

02:30:13.740 ourselves, it's, uh, the, the continuation at, at a certain point, I think it becomes,

02:30:20.980 um, as we place these mantles, we wonder if, if the attainment of worth from placing these mantles

02:30:30.760 is expressed in notoriety or in uh desire to you know of your worth and when people see you they

02:30:38.200 want to talk to you they want advice they they need help or things like that and you want to

02:30:43.320 help them it it's that reservation of of never fully um you you see yourself as saying i i feel

02:30:54.280 like i'm doing well but i must continue to do more or i must continue to place more or do the mantle

02:30:59.480 more i'm not saying that you need to bury yourself but the idea is to focus and harness

02:31:04.200 your desire towards doing wellness and then as you begin to see the wellness

02:31:12.920 come back to you be gracious and and and be appreciative and be um you know uh feel blessed

02:31:23.080 in those things that that you have but to continue don't stop so i i would say the the

02:31:29.800 the beauty of wellness is is that you never quite actually get the completion of it but

02:31:36.840 are honed in the continuation of it if that makes any sense so continue and then the wellness will

02:31:45.320 be like awake so i'm noticing over in the chat another uh europa the last battle.net says

02:31:56.040 best victory never sleep stream was with mr and mrs flavel hands down i'm glad you guys liked that

02:32:03.160 one um i've gotten that feedback before it's funny because i just told my wife about that you know

02:32:11.880 i bothered her about that last night i received an email saying that someone really liked that

02:32:16.040 episode mandy is so humble she you know she's worried that she wouldn't add anything to the

02:32:23.320 program or you know what's she gonna say or whatever she adds so much and i don't think

02:32:29.080 she realizes that but i was so proud to have her and aubrey on here it was such a fun fun episode

02:32:37.560 did do and i'm glad that you guys liked that one um it gave me an opportunity to show off my family

02:32:43.080 and i'm proud of them and i love them so that's great my cousin's gonna she's gonna i got you

02:32:54.520 uh so next question along and this is kind of related along with or related to a previous

02:33:02.280 question that is, along with living by the nine noble virtues, what else can a young man who is

02:33:08.220 new to the faith do to be a better spiritual provider to my daughter? So I would suggest a few

02:33:17.920 things. I don't know whether you are or you aren't. Join the AFA. Be part of a spiritual community

02:33:29.580 serving our gods and raise your daughter with that i don't know how old your daughter is

02:33:36.540 by your question i'm assuming that she's young

02:33:39.740 you are living in a time where we and i'm living in this time too i've got a three-year-old

02:33:48.000 i waited until later in life to to have my daughter

02:33:51.540 but we get to raise them with this we get to raise them in our faith we get to raise them

02:34:02.520 in the AFA and they'll never know a world that doesn't have temples have Hoffs to our gods

02:34:09.720 so join the AFA have your daughter make friends within the AFA I'd also say this

02:34:20.000 This isn't available to everybody. We all have different things going on in our lives. I understand that. If at all possible, get your daughter involved in the Ausatru Academy homeschool program.

02:34:34.100 that can save her from a lot of the really bad things that are going on in the public school

02:34:43.800 system. It can also bond her together, learning about our faith early on in life with other

02:34:51.580 children who are learning about our faith who are in the AFA. Those are things that you can do.

02:34:57.500 I don't know if you're settled. If you're not settled, you may want to move to where one of

02:35:04.100 our Hoffs is or move towards Sigurhan. We have the unique opportunity now to raise our children

02:35:12.140 in this faith and in this community.

02:35:16.820 Grant her that.

02:35:24.140 From early on,

02:35:28.120 show her the example of you

02:35:32.100 interacting with our gods and our goddesses

02:35:37.280 and with you and your daughter's ancestors.

02:35:39.560 let her see you role model that don't tell her what to do I mean yes tell her what to do

02:35:49.400 but don't just tell her what to do show her what to do through your example

02:35:54.980 as a father

02:35:58.460 your daughter is going to look at you as the example of what men should or shouldn't be

02:36:09.560 Every male relationship she has in her life is to one degree or another going to reflect on you and whether she wants a man that is similar to you and to the example you've shown, or she wants the exact opposite.

02:36:28.200 So do what you can to be the man that you want your daughter to eventually marry.

02:36:33.800 um these are all things you can do and it's not the beginning of it's not the end of them it's

02:36:40.020 the beginning there's so much you can do but you live in a time that is so i say you you and i you

02:36:48.480 know shoot your daughter may even be older than mine we live in a time where we are so blessed

02:36:55.140 with ways that we have to raise our daughters in this faith and to build our family within

02:37:04.580 Ausitre, within the AFA, around our temples. Do that. And don't just poke around at it.

02:37:15.360 Throw yourself at it wholeheartedly. Do it with your whole self and your whole heart.

02:37:20.320 And hopefully you're already a member. If you're not a member, I look forward to seeing your

02:37:24.680 application, but be part of what we're doing because we're raising our kids together and

02:37:30.760 it'd be great to raise our daughters together. What do you have to say on this, Swan?

02:37:39.460 Kind of, you hit, especially the latter part of what you were saying was really what I was

02:37:44.700 thinking about, is that the gods, the fruit of your devotion to be witnessed by the gods

02:37:53.280 and your deeds will often bear the most in the way the eyes of your children witness you.

02:38:01.400 And much of the benefit of your devotion is equal to the benefit that your children will

02:38:10.980 witness through you. Like you said, bringing up the nine noble virtues, I think that that

02:38:16.040 is a wonderful way we i'm a big believer in the usage of the code that is the nine noble virtues

02:38:25.220 um and always have been um and it's but really those virtues are about the application of the

02:38:32.120 deeds connected to those virtues and to be witnessed by the gods is the same as seeking

02:38:38.000 to be witnessed by your children so that they too can formulate their lives in in correct action

02:38:44.480 and you have to uh contend with uh the willfulness of your children and their desire to

02:38:54.160 um test you and to test the world around them and there will be times when

02:39:02.320 they go forth you want to be there to help them they know and if they look at you as a bastion of

02:39:08.800 of correct deed and correct devotional belief and spiritual power that when they find those times

02:39:15.680 when you they're they're fraught with with indecision when they're fraught with um fear

02:39:21.120 or apprehension that they can come to you because they see you as that that foundation and even if

02:39:28.800 you don't feel that way all the time and that's okay the idea is to continuously project it

02:39:37.040 and to hold fast to it and live by it place those that mantle upon yourself and then fulfill that

02:39:43.440 mantle um as you go as a parent but not just as a parent as a a cornerstone in their life and the

02:39:51.520 way they perceive the world around them don't hide them don't shelter them but show them and then

02:39:57.520 tell them what you see how you feel um you don't have to lambast them with uh your own fears and

02:40:05.760 apprehensions instead what you should do is give them clarity and understanding and then allow

02:40:11.440 them to come to decisions and then make it to the point where they want to come back and ask you

02:40:18.480 what you think about those decisions and then you can guide them as they go forward and always i

02:40:24.880 think too is the um if your child's young maybe hold this off but if they start to get older is

02:40:33.760 to you know to remind them that it is so important in this day and age in our modern times that we

02:40:39.920 don't have people to connect to from the generations past there's been like a great severing

02:40:45.520 in modernity and we are not we reject that we want to go back to gaining the knowledge and it

02:40:52.080 starts with you and it but by no means does it end with you she too will be a bastion of knowledge

02:40:58.160 and understanding for her children so this obligation becomes something that you share

02:41:02.960 and that you're you're giving her what you can while you can so that when you're not there she

02:41:08.800 can do the same and that her children will do the same and that continuation goes on so give them

02:41:13.920 perspective is i guess what i'm saying maybe when they're little they don't get that but when they

02:41:19.040 grow older especially when they start wondering about these things around like 10 or 11 they're

02:41:24.480 moving forward right before they the threshold of stepping into the world um and the world is chaotic

02:41:30.880 and be order be um stability uh be wisdom and apply those those virtues in accordance

02:41:41.040 so i think this follows well on the end of that our next question what does the afa think of

02:41:48.240 things like shield maidens that these feminists and other people with political ideas argue were

02:41:53.760 real do you think they were real or not so you run into a numbers game when there's

02:42:04.560 we see this a lot now this may seem like a roundabout way to answer this

02:42:11.360 in this country if you with 300 million people if you want to find a thing you can find most

02:42:20.000 anything you want if you want to join a special club for

02:42:26.960 transgender amputees who are fans of spongebob you can find a big club because honestly with 0.97

02:42:37.920 exponential numbers you're going to find numerous anomalies

02:42:41.520 Were there shield maidens? Certainly. Was it a thing? No. Was it something that we find

02:42:52.320 to be true historically? Of course not. Were there examples of some women that happened to go

02:43:04.120 into battle and be successful at it? Of course. You know, if we are in completely desperate times,

02:43:11.520 and women need to take up arms for their folk, that's great. And we celebrate them if they need

02:43:17.820 to do that. But if we have allowed it to get to that point, we are in a desperate, desperate

02:43:26.400 scenario. And we want something better than that for our women. What I think is so detrimental

02:43:35.520 about that idea being pushed, it's dangerous in a lot of ways. First, the idea of women 1.00

02:43:46.420 competing with men martially is terrifying. When women get their head filled with 1.00

02:43:57.780 Xena, Warrior Princess, I'm dating myself, ideas about women being able to beat up men. 0.79

02:44:06.880 What happens in real life is women put themselves in very dangerous situations

02:44:12.740 and then face very dire consequences when reality is not like the movies.

02:44:19.880 And I don't ever want our women to see that or experience that.

02:44:23.200 um and what else what i think is more insidious is the idea that our women need to find worth

02:44:33.440 by pretending they are men

02:44:35.680 if a woman tries to pretend that she is a man 0.99

02:44:41.880 even the worst man in existence can snatch that from her they will always win because they are 0.96

02:44:51.080 biologically men. Same if a man tries to be the best woman ever, the worst woman ever will always 0.97

02:45:00.000 be more woman than that man will be. What a self-defeating way to gauge your worth. 0.95

02:45:07.860 I've seen a meme back in the Facebook days that I absolutely despise that says,

02:45:14.820 why raise a lady when you can raise a warrior if you are raising a warrior instead of a lady

02:45:22.100 you are doing it wrong we want our daughters to be ladies and this connects back beautifully

02:45:29.380 with the theme of this show freya is the example of a lady and we want our young we want our girls

02:45:37.460 to grow to be ladies we want them to be noble to be dignified to be beautiful and to be feminine

02:45:46.660 if we try to make them into little men we are doing them a disservice we're doing them wrong

02:45:55.140 if their self-worth is by how close they can parody a man

02:46:01.780 they are losing all the inherent beauty that exists in them as women that our gods have

02:46:08.900 bestowed upon them and i think that is a slap in the face to our gods and our ancestors 0.99

02:46:15.540 and a often insurmountable disservice to our daughters so the afa doesn't support

02:46:25.060 things like shield maidens and honestly what i have seen is that the shield maiden idea

02:46:34.340 is upheld by the most damaged and fragile women who have not had success in their life

02:46:41.300 who have great self-esteem issues and honestly who are the least fit to be shield maidens 0.98

02:46:48.340 that I've seen. Most often the quote-unquote shield maidens are morbidly obese and mentally

02:46:58.260 very, very broken people. We want our ladies to be healthy, healthy of body, healthy of mind,

02:47:06.320 and healthy of spirit. And pretending to be a shield maiden is not the path to that.

02:47:12.060 what are your thoughts swan yeah i think kind of king and what you said about the exception versus

02:47:19.320 the rule i think that there are accounts of exceptions and those exceptions are noted because

02:47:25.060 of how exceptional or extraordinary they are in comparison to the ordinary and i think that that

02:47:32.680 gets hyper focus and then that that hyper focus towards the uh extraordinary becomes almost like

02:47:40.120 a uh a point of the the complete push of everything it's all it's all in on on the

02:47:47.720 exception um it's it's much to say like if there is uh you know the the the battles of two armies

02:47:56.860 of ancient origin and and they're fighting and there's thousands of men dying and fighting on

02:48:01.700 the field um but there's one exception uh of a woman who joins the varangian guard because she

02:48:07.660 happened to you know strike uh the hit on one of them and they they brought her into her into their

02:48:14.580 ranks um the the ordinary of all those men that have lost their lives in the battle are are lost

02:48:22.760 uh in perception because we just assume in the in the entirety of it these battles these fighters

02:48:29.180 these you know perhaps led by great warriors or kings um we kind of toss that aside for

02:48:37.560 you know the unique exception and when we also talk about lore um you know it's funny people

02:48:44.040 talk about european society and how they have this this all or nothing ideal so all of it is just one

02:48:52.920 way except in these cases and then it's the opposite way but those ways are the good ways

02:48:58.840 and everything else is bad but you know when we look at um the folklore behind uh the occasional

02:49:06.920 situations like that like lagatha lagartha or um or joan of arc if you will if you want to

02:49:14.040 you know we're just going through the there's two fold in that the ex the exception of that

02:49:22.440 the exceptionalism of that moment is in a time when things are not like when the always usually

02:49:28.760 seen in the most dire straits um and again when you find these exceptions happening like you said

02:49:34.440 If they're taking up arms, it's because the chemistry of that situation is vastly outbalanced and it's gone into detriment or things of that.

02:49:44.100 And oftentimes it's seen as a desire to return, to go back to the equilibrium, to cease to have that be the case.

02:49:53.560 And oftentimes it's seen, I think, in folklore as the form of a maiden as that call sign for the men to inspire them to return back to that equilibrium, despite setbacks or loss or all those things.

02:50:10.020 So I want to I want to make a point about that. We see in our lore, we see that when women are forced to take up arms, we have accounts in our lore of women ripping open their shirts and burying their breasts when they go to battle of, you know, look, I am a woman and I have to go out here and fight.

02:50:33.040 it's uh um it's an aspect of shaming cowardly men that won't go fight they're like hey somebody's

02:50:43.600 got to do it and if i've got to here i will go fight if our women are having to fight

02:50:51.760 it's because we have failed and we don't ever want to fail our women or our folk

02:50:57.960 um our next question can we say which county as in Sigerheim we can and I will Jackson County

02:51:09.520 Tennessee move there let's make it happen uh Sierra asks why is it that many seem to call

02:51:18.840 on Freya for motherly wisdom or guidance i.e helpful helping to conceive when Frigga and

02:51:27.060 Nana would be more suited for those types of calls.

02:51:32.340 So again, I talked earlier about this.

02:51:37.080 Our gods are multifaceted. 0.82

02:51:40.640 Whereas Frigga is much more overtly a god of motherhood,

02:51:45.880 it's not wrong to call upon Freya to help with motherhood.

02:51:50.860 That's not wrong or bad.

02:51:52.820 And specifically, when we talk about help conceiving, Frig has a lot to do with being a mother.

02:52:08.540 But lust and the sex act itself are much more typically the domain of Freya.

02:52:17.740 The idea of wanting Freya to inspire a child to be born of that lust, of that passion and that love between a man and a woman, I don't think is inappropriate at all.

02:52:33.400 Again, just because one god or goddess is good at one thing doesn't mean the other gods and goddesses are not good at that thing.

02:52:43.960 But it's kind of a nuanced thing.

02:52:45.760 why do more women call on freya for that i'm not sure i think some of it is the sexuality

02:52:51.360 and the romance aspect of freya i think some women um especially younger women have feel like

02:53:01.440 they've built a stronger connection with freya perhaps and i think their connection with frig

02:53:07.760 may come at a later point in their life um but i think a lot of things may go into play i think some

02:53:15.440 women may just be confused but i think reaching out to any of our goddesses to help

02:53:21.600 to conceive and to bear children is is a good endeavor to do and i don't think any of that's

02:53:27.440 wrongheaded what do you think swan yeah i don't i don't yeah uh

02:53:34.160 pigeonholing is it's been it's based on relationships i think too is is what you

02:53:39.520 were basically saying as well that the relationships that the individual has with

02:53:44.640 uh the gods whoever they you know they they may be there's there's uh whether it's thor or whether

02:53:51.760 it's it's it's uh olden or frig or freya there's there's uh an ability to reach out in that time

02:54:01.840 of great need and seek guidance um i mean most people i think would lore drop and say oh well

02:54:07.840 you know uh freya in the lore has children and so she's not just seen as you know uh only in one

02:54:18.320 one aspect but i think it's worth noting that when we talk about other and her the formulation of

02:54:25.600 that ecstasy and the desire in the formulation of the shining in the precious children the jewels

02:54:31.920 of her of her desire and her inspiration and her statusism um you know we can take that

02:54:39.440 in a in a lot of ways but when you honor the the gods i would say in giving gift

02:54:49.680 based off of relationship so if you have a relationship uh or see more value in relationship

02:54:56.240 or maybe just uh the the emotional mental and spiritual chemistry of your of your yourself in

02:55:03.200 that time in your life allows you to gravitate towards that's when uh like we we talk about um

02:55:11.600 we talk about the gods are the inspirations for archetypes the archetypes are not i think the

02:55:17.520 gods are not archetypes they are the inspiration of archetypes that we define based on the way that

02:55:22.960 we want to uh align ourselves in the chemistry of our our emotions and our mental state and our

02:55:29.760 spiritual state even our physical state um and so those can change and that's okay i don't think

02:55:36.720 that the the the god's slight um folk who uh appreciate the beauty of like say a forest it's

02:55:47.520 the the entirety of the trees if you appreciate the beauty the the shade the shelter the the giving of

02:55:53.840 this tree now and then you move to understand the giving of a tree elsewhere in the forest you are

02:56:00.560 still in the forest that's how the gods provide their bounty is through multiplicity and their

02:56:07.200 interactions with you um and and that is absolutely okay those inclinations don't uh need to be

02:56:15.920 defined in that way i think our gods are very um able to move within our lives and you'll

02:56:26.160 it it will do best for you to always come and go into those interactions with the gods with

02:56:33.280 piety and devotion but understanding things sometimes is about understanding the individual

02:56:40.320 trees within the forest as you move along you begin to learn from the mysteries and

02:56:44.560 the perennial truths of the gods through whether it's through lore or through your own personal

02:56:49.760 guidance and your your own prayer your own um evolution of relationship with the gods um

02:56:56.640 to where you know you you're not defined singularly by any particular house or

02:57:05.040 but by all of them but have had good relation with one in particular so you perhaps want to give

02:57:13.600 troth or give uh dedication or thanks to one in particular um it's it's very it's interesting it's

02:57:21.680 like the images of odin uh having you know an uh in statuary is having like an erect

02:57:30.720 uh phallus and then of course the connection to frey having the erect phallus and what that means

02:57:35.920 as far as fruitfulness and about will and about projection and all of those things it doesn't

02:57:41.600 mean that one is and one cannot be the other is is that the the the power and symbology of all of

02:57:48.480 that freya is of the feminine as freak is of the feminine it's just the wisdom and the understanding 0.85

02:57:56.500 of the individual powers that they bring in your place in your life at that time uh if you are a 0.98

02:58:05.540 young woman and you are internalizing your worth and building your passions and doing things of

02:58:10.560 nature that you you might find more inspiration in freya but then when you take oaths when you set

02:58:17.120 up your that worth and then the desire that you have with your a future husband you know that 0.67

02:58:24.400 desire that attraction and all of that magic that happens that fire that comes from the brzinga men

02:58:30.880 around her exudes to you and then with that comes responsibilities and suddenly now you have oaths 0.93

02:58:38.160 that you take in union with your husband to to work together to be together to give each other

02:58:44.880 the trough and then you in turn give that to your people and you are now a mother of the people as

02:58:51.040 well and then suddenly you realize okay well maybe now too it's the externalization of my feminine

02:58:57.920 in the world that i need to come to understand and so you might pray to to frig pray to freya and to

02:59:05.120 freak um these evolutions that happen are okay and it's it's it's imagine like being in a larger

02:59:13.680 community except that now you're you're of course communing with divinity powers that are are great

02:59:21.920 and they understand your your actions and your deeds uh especially if you're moving towards

02:59:28.000 noble actions and noble deeds and always moving towards again these mantles upon yourself and

02:59:34.560 and the mantles you place upon yourself for your community,

02:59:39.220 your relationship with them will grow.

02:59:42.500 So it's like it's just not the best idea to go, 1.00

02:59:48.380 I'm a man so I can't worship any of the Al-Señor 1.00

02:59:51.780 or I can't give faith or devotion to any of the Al-Señor

02:59:56.920 because I'm a man.

02:59:58.440 That's kind of lost, I think, on people

03:00:03.040 or vice versa if a woman says i can't honor the gods because you know i'm a woman and i will only

03:00:07.840 honor the the uh or i will only honor the vanir and become like some you know like i remember a

03:00:14.880 while back people say bana true and all that that is so childlike in that progression of

03:00:21.280 understanding your place within the community of your your peers uh in your relationship with your

03:00:28.320 children and in your relationship with the gods and you want to be able to be open and evolve and

03:00:34.720 move it makes you well-rounded it makes you it helps nourish your soul from multiple different

03:00:40.960 angles so finding finding the inspiration and wisdom from the gods um in multiple uh origin

03:00:50.160 points of them where they where they exude their dominion into your life is all the more of a

03:00:55.920 benefit if you feel apprehensive or you don't have a good relationship sometimes i think it's good to

03:01:02.080 to step into those those bounds um gearing your mind towards things and then taking the devotional

03:01:10.080 acts to uh create that energy that connection with them is part of the process um learning uh

03:01:20.480 you know composing prayer composing song and and doing deed in devotion to the gods or to

03:01:28.320 the goddesses or to all of them um and finding yourself richer uh because you don't limit your

03:01:36.480 your the scope of which you um you know address the holy powers so i i i think it's perfectly fine

03:01:46.640 yeah if you're you know you find that in your life or if you see other women doing that you

03:01:51.920 said like a lot of women give you know to to freya it's because you do not perceive freya as

03:01:59.200 the aspect that nourishes you as for motherhood but perhaps others do and there is lower

03:02:05.840 substantiative points that can be brought up to that understanding but it's really about the

03:02:11.200 relationship that you have with that our senior or with that house and if you don't have a

03:02:18.160 relationship with them then build that try that and expand a little bit more in understanding

03:02:26.640 so all right next question and i'm glad this came up because hopefully nick got the link

03:02:35.840 that i just sent him because this is i absolutely a thousand times should have used this for the uh

03:02:44.000 promo picture for today's um episode but this has always been beautiful to me and i hope he can pull

03:02:51.920 it up so ali says i've read that freya's tears that fall on land turn into sunstone which is golden

03:02:59.840 colored and tear shaped found near salt and those that fall in the sea turn to amber what do you

03:03:08.960 know of this spawn well uh yes uh i i love this painting it too especially considering uh the

03:03:20.400 placement uh this is absolutely a um a culmination of what we we talk about the gods manifesting

03:03:28.880 themselves in our consciousness through our blood and and through our culture and through our people

03:03:34.880 and the way that we perceive beauty and the power of these things and the lament of of loss or

03:03:40.600 sadness uh from beauty if beauty was if if the goddess of beauty was sad what would she shed

03:03:49.660 tears of and that would be certainly of gold um i i've always heard you know of gold in and of

03:03:57.340 itself not necessarily sunstone but that's interesting in and of itself i've always again

03:04:03.180 the origin of freya is that she comes from the earth she is of the the gods of natural law

03:04:10.780 the origination point in the cosmology is of vanaheim the land of of the the elemental

03:04:19.180 formulation of of the material whether it's life or the evolution of life or whether it's

03:04:26.780 truly the formulation connected to the earth and the material again uh freya galvanizes that

03:04:35.020 into the form of gold or into the form of the inspiration of beauty and the necklace of gold

03:04:41.180 and of amber i know that uh i you know the the tears of gold that fall to the earth and the

03:04:49.500 tears that fall into the sea and make amber is mentioned and i i think that one of the things

03:04:55.660 that it really correlates to is the the baltic amber trade that was we're starting to find out

03:05:01.740 is extremely established during like the roman periods the the people in the mediterranean knew

03:05:07.580 that uh the influx of these precious stones coming from the baltic sea came from up in that area and

03:05:14.620 i think this is definitely a a hint or a confirmation in the in the story about the

03:05:20.460 connection to beauty the the the jewelry that you know was bringing people wealth there was trade

03:05:27.100 routes there was a culture built around it there was pathways that people from uh you know rome and

03:05:34.860 the alps and uh the central or southern europe they were coming up northward to trade and to

03:05:41.180 gain these these precious items um when we talk about um the beauty of it and the lament of the

03:05:51.100 goddess of beauty weeping gold in loss of of that where has that inspiration gone how is it influxed

03:05:59.340 into the world this is definitely um an expression that i i've keyed in on with this but again the

03:06:08.220 sunstone one is interesting i i'm i actually just wrote it down um i'm going to look up more into

03:06:13.980 the specifics of the sunstone and i think it is interesting that both are in correlation one with

03:06:18.460 the earth and two with the water and salt um which are you know key you know elements of the earth

03:06:26.300 the the uh the vanic life system the the bounty of the earth and the preciousness of the things

03:06:32.380 that we pull whether it's the iron or whether it's the the gold or the silver you know there's

03:06:37.740 many things that are formulative but uh truly poetic and beautiful when we talk about um

03:06:46.300 gold and amber yeah the artist that did this piece uh is gustav klemt

03:06:53.820 folks that can't see this that are on uh listening on the podcast if you just google

03:07:02.880 tears of gold painting you'll find images of this but it is it is beautiful and it really

03:07:11.600 I find it really moving um also from Ali is the story of uh Brisingamon and the dwarves

03:07:23.480 that she wed connected to the fact that everyone who comes into asgard demands her as a bride

03:07:30.440 is this a reputation issue or due to her objective beauty what do you say sivan well i i definitely

03:07:39.480 think that the the connection to the material the dwarves are the element of the material

03:07:47.880 the energy and the actual tangibleness of the material and she connects with them i know a lot

03:07:56.920 of people take things to mean uh flat senses of like uh oh carnal nature but we're talking about

03:08:04.600 the gods and the way they interact when you know when heimdall is is brought into uh the home of

03:08:12.600 grandmother and grandfather uh that's the divine being invited in there's an exchange of energy

03:08:20.120 to a generation of people and so when people take it to mean just such a tangible

03:08:26.120 correlative thing like oh you know she slept with these the four dwarves um

03:08:33.640 i i think they're they're really missing the point is that the brisingaman is a

03:08:37.960 a circular emanation it's a it's a power that binds it's a coring thing it would be much

03:08:44.640 similar to the way the correlation between the belt the girdle of thor is in is again that that

03:08:52.160 power being brought in um from the earthly element but the four dwarves that she pulls that from

03:09:00.060 give her this symbol of her focused divine power which is the power of of desire the power of

03:09:10.700 possession the and those can have dark connotations to it too but they can also have

03:09:15.020 beautiful connotations the idea of the desire of someone to reach something to culminate something

03:09:22.200 to create something to bring forth out of their hands or out of their heart something is just as

03:09:27.880 beautiful as it is say someone who desires or covets something um that is as that's equal to

03:09:35.960 but in its maliciousness kind of dangerous and and dark and i think that's why she has those two uh

03:09:43.480 sides a kind of a shadowed side and a and a um a projected side of of power there's it's it's much

03:09:51.000 like a hamer versus say like um you know the the dark side of the soul um that you know is reflected 0.68

03:10:01.560 in in her her throne in in the dominion of the middle world but yes connected to i think the 0.94

03:10:07.720 brisingaman and the story of the dwarves is about formulation of power from the earth the way to

03:10:14.600 inflect dominion on the middle world often go through these avenues it's like attaining

03:10:22.120 sections and pieces of the material to formulate and then transfer that uh in projection and power

03:10:31.960 so trigger warning guys um i'm about to say something toxically masculine um

03:10:44.600 Because the world around us has become so degenerate, as a counteraction, we become almost puritanical in our attitude towards sexuality, or at least in the attitude towards sexuality that we express openly.

03:11:05.860 But I think we do, Lady Freya, a disservice if we don't acknowledge some of the primal in this.

03:11:14.600 no i think it's absolutely about man's desire to possess and

03:11:23.120 insert and inflict himself upon the ultimate object of of lust and of sexuality i think that

03:11:35.700 those primal primal urges aren't you know they don't have to be bad and icky

03:11:44.040 I think that the idea of wanting to possess and own the most beautiful woman imaginable sexually is, you know, a primal longing that I think all men feel.

03:12:03.840 I think that if men didn't feel that, we probably wouldn't be here today and wouldn't have the reproductive drive that we have.

03:12:14.040 the connection between feminine sexuality and beauty and gold is a very visceral one

03:12:28.140 because you can see the idea of men lusting after gold. You see these pioneers in the American West

03:12:36.620 sacrificing everything to go and dig in a in a mine that may never produce anything with the

03:12:45.860 idea that they're lusting after gold and maybe maybe they can find this gold and this just

03:12:52.480 ravenous lust for this gold and you see it with the conquistador going into the amazon looking

03:12:59.080 for el dorado and every man feels that when they see a just overwhelmingly attractive woman and

03:13:13.160 that in its proper place is beautiful and special that when it's

03:13:19.320 metastasized when it's not in control of uh when men don't don't use their their wisdom to control

03:13:31.080 it is uh is malignant but this is something that i alluded to earlier when i talked about

03:13:40.520 odin being master over these wolves or freya being master over these these wild cats

03:13:49.320 But the astral, the higher self, being able to master the primal urges and direct those in ways that are appropriate or in ways that are beneficial, that's the key to our faith.

03:14:03.040 the primal urges and the primal bestial nature of man left unrestrained and ungoverned

03:14:13.380 that's what we fight against that's the chaos that our gods of order battle but when order

03:14:22.780 dominates chaos and directs chaos towards fruitful ends that's something worthy of of uh

03:14:31.360 of thinking and of appreciating. But, you know, as we've seen with so many other

03:14:38.640 quote unquote pagan movements, they immediately go to the sexual, they immediately go to the most 0.95

03:14:45.460 base, and then they give it excessive license and make their entire focus the orgy. And, 0.98

03:14:54.020 you know, we certainly don't want to be that. But we would do a disservice if we didn't

03:15:00.180 acknowledge that so much of just the mesmerizing power that Lady Freya possesses is that power of

03:15:08.560 lust after feminine beauty. And that's inspired our men since the beginning and inspires our men

03:15:16.920 right down till today. And as long as we keep making, you know, white babies, it inspires our 1.00

03:15:23.940 folk in the future and i it would be wrong not to acknowledge that that is true 0.99

03:15:33.620 um last question of the night

03:15:39.540 i see the comment mansplain it

03:15:44.660 so last question of the night should we be looking back before christendom when finding

03:15:51.940 names for our children if so where to start um i like that question i think that's a good question

03:16:02.660 it's tricky um one of the really important traditions of our folk

03:16:10.100 is to name your child after someone very often someone in your family

03:16:16.580 but at other times, a great hero or somebody who you want some of their luck and some of their

03:16:25.700 hymenia to manifest through. And that's hard. It presents us a very strange dilemma

03:16:34.620 because most of our, or quite a bit of our recent ancestors had Christian names or biblical names

03:16:44.760 rather now it's important to remember a lot of quote unquote christian names are greek names

03:16:50.840 and that's okay but hebrew names are different i say that as a as a matthew my name means

03:17:00.520 gift from jehovah uh it's absolutely a hebrew name wish it wasn't but it do um

03:17:10.040 Um, but that's, so it's really relevant. I think that choosing a name from a Aryan tongue to name

03:17:23.700 your child is really important. It's one of the reasons, and I was really fortunate when I look

03:17:29.640 at a lot of my ancestors have had, um, Germanic or at least European names and not Hebrew names.

03:17:40.040 uh it was kind of a fluke that i was named you know a hebrew name instead of something else

03:17:47.320 my father was a gerald and his father was a gerald means spear warrior and he's very germanic

03:17:55.660 but my father didn't like his name he always went by his middle name

03:18:00.540 and uh he and my mother chose to name me matthew after the the biblical apostle

03:18:07.040 um one thing and i and i learned this early on so the first um

03:18:17.120 the first gothi to die in office as an afa gothi

03:18:24.880 uh was a man named david james and he was involved in australia since the very early days

03:18:32.720 he was at all thing number one which i believe was in 1981 just so happens to be the year of my birth

03:18:40.960 uh david james i think passed in 2014

03:18:46.240 and he gave a talk and the first talk that i saw by him was at a midsummer i think midsummer 2010

03:18:54.080 and he talked about germanic naming traditions and he said what's best to do if you want to name

03:19:03.020 your child after one of your ancestors that happens to have a hebrew name is to try to

03:19:12.880 translate the meaning of that name into one of our ancestral languages so i mentioned that

03:19:21.380 um my name matthew means gift from jehovah i think that if we looked linguistically into

03:19:29.220 germanic names that perhaps meant you know gift from odin or gift from the gods

03:19:35.860 i think that would be the closest we'd get at approximating my name if you know maybe aubrey

03:19:44.580 wants to name one of her children after me or maybe one of her children do or maybe somebody

03:19:49.700 down the line and which would be a huge honor um but yeah we should certainly look to our

03:19:57.540 ancestral names but those don't have to be strange and these don't have to be archaic

03:20:03.460 i named my daughter aubry um that name has had transferred genders sometimes it's a male name

03:20:10.820 sometimes it's a female name in the history of our folk but it's a name that means uh ruler of

03:20:16.980 the elves elf lord or elf lady and it's you know it's a common name it's a very

03:20:24.820 so when i take her to the playground it's a super common name and i feel like

03:20:29.220 you know people think i was trying to be trendy i wasn't i actually named her after my grandfather

03:20:34.500 um but you know it doesn't have to be an odd sounding name very many of uh modern names

03:20:43.700 are arian in their nature but i do think that we should do our best to avoid

03:20:49.780 hebrew names when naming our children and that would go for you know african names or

03:20:57.300 oriental names or you know any non-arian names but we're very fortunate in the arian tongue we have

03:21:04.500 you know bajillions of amazing names that are wonderful to name your children and if you look

03:21:11.140 in your own ancestry i think you don't have to look very far before you find some of those names

03:21:16.660 but like i said if you want to name them specifically after someone who has a hebrew name

03:21:22.020 finding that equivalent of what that name's meaning is in one of our native tongues is what

03:21:28.420 gothi david james suggested and what i think is still good advice today what are your thoughts

03:21:33.700 fun i i'm a fan i i want i want the reclamation of anglo-saxon names i think a lot of people think

03:21:41.300 anglo-saxon names uh they've been taught that anglo-saxon names are goofy you're an icelander

03:21:49.380 oh i was actually going to address this um so one like for instance um common name in iceland would

03:21:57.220 would be like Ausgir. Ausgir is, it means spear of the gods. And that correlates in English to

03:22:06.140 Oscar. That's the same meaning. But again, you notice that I think there's been a lot of anti

03:22:13.900 Anglo-Saxon, a lot of anti-white Anglo-Saxon-ness in the West here in America, I think through media

03:22:21.340 and all of that stuff and they they have this tendency to paint these these names based on

03:22:28.380 tropes or ideas that you can't you like if you're a smart guy you can't be strong if you're a strong

03:22:33.020 guy you can't be smart and so they play these games of these names but names like herman uh

03:22:39.740 you know edward you know the wise wise leader uh wilhelm or richard all of these names are

03:22:47.020 extremely powerful herman you know warrior man or warrior of the germans if you if you really kind

03:22:52.780 of pick it apart with the the army of the alemanni um you know walter uh all of these names are are

03:23:01.820 really beautiful when you look at their meanings one of the best websites i've ever found to check

03:23:07.580 the meanings of names is a website called behind the names and it has a ton of um it goes ancient

03:23:16.300 germanic icelandic uh or old norse it goes on and on all over the world every type so you can even

03:23:25.020 find out if there's certain names that might have derivatives all the way back to to greece i just

03:23:29.900 found out like the name agatha comes from uh greek agathos which means the good one or that which is

03:23:37.180 good um and i thought that was a beautiful that's a beautiful name um you know uh names that we

03:23:44.540 associate as being old-timey or kind of uh anything from astrid which means strength of the gods or

03:23:51.340 mildred which is a strong uh council alfred which is council of the elves uh eldred council by your

03:24:00.220 elders there's all these these beautiful anglo-saxon names and they're again like you

03:24:05.900 said there's a bajillion of them there's tons of them and and a lot of times uh people get

03:24:11.820 caught up and i think it's because our our modern society has turned a lot of them like one of the

03:24:16.300 ones that comes to mind right off the bat is egbert like most people oh egbert ah but it means

03:24:22.380 edge bright like the edge of a sword the edge bright one or the one who carries a bright sword

03:24:28.220 i think that's so it's it's it's very very cool and i i see some people kind of uh if they have

03:24:36.060 golic heritage um they'll go with names from ireland and scotland and and um things like that

03:24:43.980 and and even though they might be spelled strange or pronounced strange they go with it because it's

03:24:50.220 okay but yet when it comes to like anglo-saxon names there's still this kind of about it and

03:24:55.980 i think that we should get rid of that we should wash it out and make bring it all back like um

03:25:01.580 find find the the origins of those names and you know you could go you could stay william

03:25:07.180 or you could say wilhelm or you know or reichhardt you know um what however you want to express it

03:25:14.940 but there is a lot of overlap as you said icelandic don't name your kids stuff that's

03:25:20.140 gonna get them beat up i'd like to uh i'd like to throw out don't follow the the advice of the boy

03:25:28.220 named sue um if you name your kids something that sounds ridiculous and they get beat up by their 0.56

03:25:36.300 peers growing up may make them tough and it may not um yeah but there's but like i said earlier

03:25:45.020 in swan acknowledge there's tons of names out there there's tons of names that come from our

03:25:51.180 tongue that are really cool names some of those names are latin some of those names are germanic

03:25:58.220 Some of them are Gaelic, some of them are Gothic.

03:26:02.100 There's many, many really cool names.

03:26:05.200 So please feel free to do that.

03:26:07.060 But, and I mean this, if you look in your own ancestry,

03:26:12.060 you can find really cool non-Hebrew names.

03:26:15.660 You may have to dig a little bit. 0.75

03:26:16.960 It may not be after your grandpa

03:26:18.400 or even your great-grandfather,

03:26:20.620 but I bet you'll find some really cool names

03:26:22.940 if you do some digging.

03:26:25.060 Chad, Chad is an Anglo-Saxon name.

03:26:28.020 he's warrior. That's, that's a better option than, than Egbert. Um, oh, come on.

03:26:38.100 You name your kid Egbert. I might beat them up. We'll see. Um, 0.92

03:26:44.540 so Ali brings up another good point that I think it's worth mentioning.

03:26:49.980 And this is also part of a Goethe David James's talk that he gave that I mentioned earlier.

03:26:55.140 I know we don't do God names for our kids as general etiquette, but what's the etiquette about naming children after modern house true heroes?

03:27:04.080 So I should throw this out here. I know that there are people listening to this podcast right now that have named their children directly the names of our gods.

03:27:15.680 I'm not trying to shame anybody. I'm not trying to criticize anybody. I'm not trying to hurt any feelings.

03:27:20.860 ideally that's not what we do and it's not what our ancestors did they would conjugate the name

03:27:29.820 of one of our gods with something else like uh thorbjorn the bear of thor or thorstein the the

03:27:41.040 this the rock of four thorbert thorbert um and they used thor a lot but you can use any of our gods to

03:27:54.720 conjugate with another word that means you know x of this god that still honors that god without

03:28:06.160 substituting the god's name for our children's names but again i'm not i know that my intention

03:28:14.240 is not to hurt any feelings with that what i do what i what i'm willing to hurt feelings on i want

03:28:18.960 you guys to stop doing is please don't name your pets after our gods please that's what i was gonna

03:28:23.280 say people do that it's really common i understand it's a thing sometimes it's probably not done with

03:28:31.120 you know what most all the time it's not done with bad intentions

03:28:36.560 but please don't do that let's let's stop naming our pets after our gods

03:28:44.320 um but yeah the idea of naming our children after modern alsa true heroes i think is a beautiful

03:28:52.560 thing to do um you know certainly naming them after our ancient heroes is great

03:29:00.880 but i think you know naming a child after after lc christiansen or after alexander rudd mills or

03:29:12.800 you know i'm i'm thinking of our modern heroes after guido von list

03:29:18.240 if you wanted to name them after either hoskold or stubba after john gibbs bailey or john ewell

03:29:25.520 i think john is a name that you'd want to avoid and try to find the germanic equivalent

03:29:30.880 to John. But naming them after our modern heroes, I think is a beautiful thing to do.

03:29:37.240 And I hope people do that. I hope people start doing that. I think that's a really cool thing

03:29:42.360 to do. Do you have any thoughts on this, Fawn? Yeah, I think that's great. Some people I know,

03:29:49.260 with Alexander, sometimes I know the Nordic equivalent that came about was Axel. That's

03:29:57.920 actually a just a you know a lot of names morph over time um like uh rodolf in uh rodolf is is

03:30:09.220 has turned into rudolph or rodolfo amongst even the the it's spread all the way through

03:30:15.560 the latin speaking uh countries they they they have a lot of germanic names that you can see

03:30:22.040 um in their in their language uh even down to like rolo and and things so there's there's lots

03:30:28.420 of evolutions of those names that you could easily equate to if you didn't want to go with

03:30:34.420 full spellings or um things of that nature you there's a lot of stuff you could do behind the

03:30:39.900 name is a great great website but you know again you had mentioned too like philip philip is a

03:30:46.360 Greek name, phileopos, that the friendly horse is what it means, is that the horse that is a joy

03:30:54.980 to ride. It was seen as such a culturally good thing to have a horse and to be able to ride to

03:31:05.660 the horizon on a horse, the freedom of it. And so there's a lot of correlation and names

03:31:12.060 uh with your with the history of it and you know knowing it and teaching your kids you know i i

03:31:17.740 grew up i'm named after my grandfather and you know swan is one apparently very hard for people

03:31:24.000 to say they i i there's a lady that still calls me seven i don't know why

03:31:29.640 she calls me seven every time i walk into the store um but uh you know or i you know the the

03:31:41.940 the Filipino and Spanish, or Spanish direct, like, they can't say S and V, they have to say S and B.

03:31:52.240 So I've, you know, I've been called Saban in some of my jobs and, and things of that nature. So,

03:31:58.140 you know, when you have a name like that, that, you know, gets confused or again, Swan, Swanee,

03:32:05.640 I've heard it all. And it, but all the while having pride in my, having my grandfather's name is

03:32:11.940 has you know it's it's a character building i believe for every uh child growing up because

03:32:21.240 children are you know children they're going to be that way but never relenting that's my that

03:32:27.020 was my grandfather's name and i held on to that despite the jokes and all of that um but speaking

03:32:33.060 of like you had said with like uh thor thor bjorn you know my middle name is odorf and it's other

03:32:39.640 is frenzy or statusism, but it's also kind of Odin's Wolf or Odr is just ecstatic. But

03:32:48.760 yeah, you can, so many names, so many cool things that you can do. But look at the Anglo-Saxon

03:32:56.900 names. There's a lot of them that correlate as well. Yes, Fawn started mentioning Alexander.

03:33:02.780 If I were a Spaniard, I would absolutely want to be named or name my male child Alejandro.

03:33:09.960 Alejandro, I always thought it's a really cool Spanish version of a neat name.

03:33:18.340 So because we're flapping our gums longer, we have one more question.

03:33:23.600 Sierra asks, what's the saga behind Njorther and his wife met and how Frey and Freyer came to be?

03:33:31.880 spawn direct people to lore lore uh primary evidence for these things well it's mentioned

03:33:40.040 in the uh gilfagining and that correlates um to well let me actually let me make sure i don't

03:33:47.840 mess this up but it is it's see that's the thing is they're referenced a lot of the lore that we

03:33:52.400 get even from freya uh freya's lore comes from like uh hindle hindle load and that is actually

03:34:00.520 mentioned, uh, it's, it's mentioned in the prosetas, but there's no entirety of it. It's

03:34:07.440 actually in, uh, the flat, flatier bulk, I think is, um, I'd have to look it up to make sure I'm

03:34:14.720 pronouncing it correctly, but it's, it's actually spoken there in its entirety. So there's references

03:34:21.020 kind of all throughout, um, you know, when we talk about the exact ones, let's see, we're,

03:34:28.880 we're looking at, um, uh, uh, uh, and Scottie in, um, you know, direct reference. Let me see here

03:34:44.560 because the Guild for Beginning clearly mentions it.

03:34:48.500 and

03:34:53.940 now everything's working slowly

03:34:57.540 yeah they um i mean he's because again he is attested in in uh

03:35:11.420 in the poetic edas and in the pros it is obviously but

03:35:17.180 uh let me see also mentioned as the early king in in hand screen glove but not

03:35:21.340 that's not in reference to uh the marriage it is

03:35:30.220 he's mentioned in uh let me see

03:35:40.540 yeah like uh okay so i mean yes it's every grimness mall and the flighting of loki of

03:35:46.220 course is mentioned there as well uh exact yeah the gulf beginning and in the skull drop us uh

03:35:54.460 this uh skull scarper mall he's referenced as well in the in the wedding so those two

03:36:01.580 uh in particular mention him with his uh marriage to scotty after the death of thiazzy um 0.83

03:36:10.220 um so i think the best reference to all of the things you just asked is the guilt the gilfaggeny

03:36:20.620 yeah uh 23. the third among the iser is he that is called nyorder he dwells in heaven

03:36:32.140 In the abode called Noaten, he rules the course of the wind and stills sea and fire.

03:36:42.240 On him shall men call for voyages and for hunting.

03:36:46.360 He is so prosperous and abounding in wealth that he may give them great plenty of lands or of gear.

03:36:53.880 And him shall men invoke for such things. 1.00

03:36:57.260 Nyurther is not of the race of the Iser. 0.92

03:36:59.660 He was reared in the land of the Vanir, but the Vanir delivered him as a hostage to the gods and took for hostage in exchange to him that men called Honir. 0.96

03:37:12.140 He became an atonement between the gods and the Vanir. 0.82

03:37:16.140 And Jorther has to wife a woman called Skadi, daughter of the Jasti, the giant. 0.84

03:37:23.020 Skavi would feign dwell in the abode with her father, which her father had,

03:37:28.820 which is on certain mountains in the place called Thrymheimr.

03:37:33.860 But Nyordher would be near the sea.

03:37:38.160 They made a compact on these terms.

03:37:40.620 They should be nine nights in Thrymheimr, but on the second nine in Nwatin.

03:37:47.120 But when Njordr came down from the mountain back to Nauten, he sang this lay.

03:37:54.080 Loathe were the hills to me. I was not long in them.

03:37:57.740 Nights only nine. To me the wailing of wolves seemed ill after the songs of swans.

03:38:05.860 Then Skadi sang this. Sleep could I never on the seabeds.

03:38:10.780 For the wailing of waterfowl. He wakens me who comes from the deep.

03:38:15.380 the sea mew every morn.

03:38:18.580 Then Skadi went up onto the mountains

03:38:20.620 and dwelt in Thrymheimer.

03:38:23.320 And she goes for the more part on snowshoes

03:38:27.640 and with a bow and arrow and shoots beasts.

03:38:30.700 She is called the snowshoe goddess

03:38:32.280 or lady of the snowshoes, so it is said.

03:38:35.120 Thrymheimer it is called where Theosti dwelt. 0.74

03:38:39.200 He the hideous giant. 0.97

03:38:40.560 But now Skadi abides, pure bride of the gods 0.97

03:38:44.980 in her father's ancient freehold. 0.92

03:38:47.960 Njordr in Nuaten begot after two children.

03:38:51.740 The son was called Freyr and the daughter Freya.

03:38:55.260 They were fair of face and mighty.

03:38:58.260 Freyr is the most renowned of the Aesir.

03:39:00.820 He rules over the rain and the shining of sun

03:39:03.120 and therewithal the fruit of the earth.

03:39:06.060 And it is good to call on him for fruitful seasons and peace.

03:39:10.760 He governs also the prosperity of men.

03:39:12.680 But Freyja is the most renowned of the goddesses.

03:39:15.680 She has in heaven the dwelling called Folkvanger.

03:39:18.680 And whosoever she rides to the strife, she has one half of the kill, an Odin half. 0.90

03:39:27.680 As is here said, Folkvanger tis called where Freyja rules. 0.62

03:39:32.680 Degrees of seats in the hall, half of the kill she keepeth each day, and half Odin half.

03:39:40.460 Her hall, Sessromir, is great and fair.

03:39:44.360 When she goes forth, she drives her cats and sits in a chariot.

03:39:48.820 She is most comfortable to man's prayers.

03:39:52.320 And from her name comes the name of honor, Afro, by which noble women are called.

03:40:00.360 Songs of love are well-pleasing to her.

03:40:02.300 It is good to call on her for furtherance in love.

03:40:06.820 And I think that's the most concise Freyr and Freya and any other section that we have that talks about that.

03:40:21.480 Yeah, the mentions in Grimnism all kind of allude as well to what's said in the Guildforkenning.

03:40:27.800 But yes, they're pieced as they go through.

03:40:31.880 um and with that i think that's going to conclude our talk for this evening

03:40:39.000 uh thank you guys so much for all of the all of the wonderful questions and the participation

03:40:44.360 it's really encouraging to see so much talk in the chat i love seeing that it's been a great

03:40:51.000 evening with you guys it's fun thank you so much for once again showing sharing your knowledge with

03:40:55.800 us and uh being here we look forward to it and i look forward to talking to you here in two weeks

03:41:03.080 as we discuss the soul awesome thank you for having me it's been a great time this chat is on fire

03:41:14.680 all right guys hope you have a good evening and i look forward to talking to you next

03:41:18.840 week when we have another episode on our heroes. Yeah. Hail the gods, hail the folk,

03:41:27.960 Hail the AFA, and remember that victory never sleeps.

03:41:57.960 We'll be right back.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - April 20, 2023

4⧸19⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 41 - Freyja

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