00:03:00.000hello and sorry i was entranced by the screen there for a second uh hello welcome to another
00:03:22.380exciting edition of victory never sleeps uh it feels strange because i was not on last week
00:03:30.300those of you unfamiliar on the months that have a fifth wednesday to them we have a special treat
00:03:38.760uh brandy comes on with some of our uh to talk about a variety of either ladies issues or things
00:03:49.460from a lady's perspective within AUSA True. And that's really cool. I got to listen to most of
00:03:55.200it last week. And I think they did a great job. I appreciate you guys being a good audience for her.
00:04:02.380Yeah, so another note up front that I'm just going to put out there.
00:04:07.640We have been sick. I am feeling a lot better. But my throat's a little bit rough. So if I am
00:04:14.940I'm coughing and stuff. I apologize ahead of time. I'll try to exhibit A. I will try to, I don't know, keep that to a minimum. But it do. We are on, I believe it's been a while since we did this. So we are on chapter 16. Is that what you have, Swan?
00:04:50.960I was trying to not get you on the intro.
00:04:53.960Yes, I believe that we are on Chapter 16.
00:05:02.260All right, guys, so while I'm taking care of business in front of the show,
00:05:07.380so everybody knows we are on Chapter 16 of the Vulsonga Saga.
00:05:14.940uh the link that we're reading for or the i'm sorry page we're excuse me reading off of
00:05:22.180is velospow.org and under sagas you're welcome to follow along there you're welcome to follow
00:05:30.440along in whatever translation you want and uh encourage you to do so um this is as always a
00:05:39.260question-driven program so please ask any and all questions you want
00:05:46.940if they come up as relevant to what we're talking about at the time we will answer them as we get
00:05:52.460them if they're a little bit further afield we may hold till the end of the material we're covering
00:05:59.980tonight but we will answer any and all questions that come our way and you know we might just
00:06:06.540take a few at random times for palette cleanser or a variety of other reasons
00:06:13.660i should mention um some big progress i have been beating the drum on our payoff njortzhoff
00:06:21.180fundraiser quite a bit uh i am sure that is i don't know obnoxious or whatever it might be
00:06:28.860but it has been effective and it has been working really well so i appreciate every one of you guys
00:06:36.220that has been generous thus far and every one of you that plan to be so in the future
00:06:45.340trying to think of yeah i'm not sure if brandy didn't update on it last time since last time
00:06:50.380we spoke i mean we're almost 5 000 to the good since then so that's quite a bit of progress
00:07:00.140those of you that aren't watching the graphic we are now it's a little bit small looks like
00:07:05.82084.1% paid off, which is amazing. We have $39,025 remaining. That breaks down to about $52 for every
00:07:21.900AFA member would pay this off immediately. So I appreciate everybody's help. If you would like to,
00:07:29.040please do we would love to have your help on that um nick can throw the link up or it has already
00:07:36.540thrown the link up because he's on top of things but at runestone.org slash donate and you can
00:07:44.560donate there if you'd like also something to think about we're a legitimate 501c3 church so
00:07:52.460your donations are tax deductible if that's something that you need documentation on please
00:07:57.460contact us and we can get you what you need for that. Other things, we're going to focus
00:08:10.720on celebrating our 30th anniversary in a big way at Odenshof this midsummer. That's
00:08:20.400at in brownsville california at odenshoff uh midsummer there will very likely be the biggest
00:08:30.240event of the year we would love to see everybody out there um if you can make it this is a fantastic
00:08:37.840one to go to i hope you make all of them but if you can just make one this is a really good one
00:08:43.380to aim for. Odin's Hof is the first Hof that we acquired, and it is a very special place.
00:08:52.080We've put almost 10 years of spiritual might through consistent practice, through interring
00:09:00.480our dead loved ones there, through just imbuing that place, and folks who see it really comment
00:09:08.560on how powerful it feels so uh yeah we'd love to have you guys out we'd love to show it off to y'all
00:09:14.980um if you're a member contact your local folk builder get y'all set up if you're not a member
00:09:21.840we would love to see you out there we'd love to meet you um so yeah see if you can make that
00:09:28.480happen also the following month in july we are celebrating the third annual sigger bloat at
00:09:36.280Sigurheim that is in Jackson County, Tennessee. It is a very special place. It's hard to describe
00:09:46.740until you're there and you're in the midst of it, but it's beautiful. It's special.
00:09:54.000Many of us, myself included, are planning to move to that county to establish that as the AFA
00:10:01.280capital on these grounds that we're hosting the event on we will uh construct the first purpose
00:10:09.280built astrohoff for the astro folk assembly tiershoff we've got exciting plans for that
00:10:16.000eventually we'll also have the afa great hall which will serve as the administrative capital
00:10:21.280of the astro folk assembly and yeah we'd love to see you guys out there again we're proud of
00:10:27.280it we love it and we'd love to share that with you guys also wherever you are watching this
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00:10:48.320And if you are a heterosexual white person and you want to reconnect with your gods, we would highly encourage you to join the AstroFolk Assembly.
00:12:34.360I was going to say, it's so important being at a Hoff and knowing that the lights are on, knowing that we're able to buy things for groundskeeping, to fix things and to do things.
00:12:53.280It's so important. I think folks that are away from the Hoffs and there, I would love for all of us to be in one place or around a Hoff altogether. But every little bit, even if it's just a dollar helps bring, you know, our gods to our people.
00:13:14.480and it keeps these Hoffs running, and it helps so much.
00:13:20.040It's such a direct way of ensuring that the faith of our people continues to grow and spread towards the people,
00:25:28.020Gram. Gram means wrath. Gram means anger. To receive, Gram is like to receive the wrath of the gods or of a people or a kingdom or what have you.
00:25:44.420So Gram means, again, anger and wrath. And that's the name of the sword that is being reforged.
00:25:51.300So chapter 16 is called the prophecy of Gryphir
00:26:01.880And remember, Haith doesn't mean the height
00:26:05.140It means the station in society or the title
00:26:08.900So Haithir is a description of a person or what they do
00:26:16.400a lord, a president, or what have you, but it also can mean kind of secondary names,
00:26:26.260names that title you in a descriptive way.
00:26:31.140So whenever you see the word height, that in essence means name.
00:26:37.120There was a man, height, Griffier, who was Sigurd's mother's brother.
00:26:43.560Another big important thing of this is there is a proto-Indo-European, a Aryan framework that comes from the mother's brother being a factor in a male child's life.
00:27:07.620And we see this with Lord Odin and with Mimir, and that is very reflective of that.
00:27:15.760And it slowly went away, or I think transmorphed into godparents and godfathers, but that immediately the audience would know he is someone of significance.
00:27:31.600And since Sigurd has only his adopted father as a guiding light, and he may be busy running a kingdom, it would then involve the woman's brother as a male figure.
00:28:18.660and he went to him because he was a man who knew things to come so he was a diviner he
00:28:28.220understood in here they use the word orlog mana he's a man understanding of fate
00:28:37.280He knew things to come and was fated to men of him.
00:28:46.840Sigurd asked diligently how his life should go, but Griffir was long, or he spake, yet at the last by reason of Sigurd's exceeding great prayers, he told him all his life and fate thereof.
00:29:06.040So he was a man of long speech. I can relate. And then at the same time, it took him a while to tell Sigurd.
00:29:17.120But the reason why he did was because Sigurd was incessantly asking.
00:29:23.040But yet at last, by reason of Sigurd's exceedingly great prayers, he told him all his life and fate thereof, even as afterward came to pass.
00:29:37.180So when Griffith had told him all, even as he would, he went back home, and a little after, he and Reyn met.
00:29:47.980Now, this is a really kind of forgotten about part of the story, is that he is told of the events to come.
00:29:57.140And as we read them, you'll see, but just bear in mind, everything that is happening, he was told was going to happen.
00:30:07.560And I find that interesting, to say the least.
00:30:12.500And his moving forward is, again, his great will could perhaps change things, or he was resolute simply from the beginning.
00:30:26.100So after that, he and the blacksmith, Rayen, here it's spelled Regan, or Reagan, but it's pronounced Rayen.
00:36:06.840For anyone that may, I don't know, may not know or a little bit of perspective on that, I'm just throwing this out there.
00:36:15.060So if you follow the Ask True Folk Assembly on any of our social media, we post a lot of candid pictures from our events.
00:36:27.080We post, you know, every time there's a moot or every time there's a gathering of AFA members to do things.
00:36:32.680certainly time every time that happens and folks remember to get a picture
00:36:37.060so we post that we share that because we're proud of those and we want to show you guys that there's
00:36:43.160stuff going on in your area and that we're proud of the stuff that our folk are doing but um as
00:36:50.260the internet does there's frequently people that will look at a picture and point out why these
00:36:55.200people look this way how come this person's overweight how come this guy looks like this
00:37:00.660this dude has a funny haircut. There's that. We all know that's something that social media lends
00:37:07.740itself to in a lot of ways. And some of that's just part and parcel. But the other thing that I
00:37:13.040want folks to understand is there is a big difference between trying to build an elite cadre
00:37:23.400of your boys at your house for something. If you're building a small group of 10 guys to do
00:37:31.740an activity, then yeah, you can be very selective and very elite. But this goes to a later question
00:37:39.180that I'll kind of follow this up with if Svan isn't back. That's not the AFA's goal. The AFA's
00:37:47.260goal is to bring all of our folk home and so we have people at all different stages of
00:37:54.620uh well first and foremost all different stages of physical fitness certainly but all different
00:38:03.460stages in their life we get the idea is wherever people find themselves to bring them home to
00:38:08.980loyalty and worship of our gods and unity with our folk and from there to help each other be
00:38:16.820the very best we can be. And we're going to have a whole lot of people starting at a whole lot of
00:38:21.140different spots. What's important to us isn't where the folks start. It's the progress that
00:38:28.600we're able to help them make. It's where they, you know, it's how they progress and helping them to
00:38:34.920finish strong and to, through the course of their life, to better themselves and their family and
00:38:41.160be more successful. So there's a, there's very much, you know, don't fear. There's very much
00:38:47.800an emphasis in the AstroFolk Assembly on trying to help our members to get in better shape,
00:38:54.300to get in better financial shape, to grow wiser and stronger and faster and better and happier
00:39:05.620in all aspects of their life. And we're really committed to helping each other do that. So this
00:39:10.340this walk-a-thon or this, yeah, this walk-a-thon deal was, was a part of that kind of encouraging
00:39:16.700a little healthy competition to get our folks out and moving and in a little bit better condition.
00:39:23.260And I'm really happy so many people wanted to take part in that and, you know, make progress
00:39:29.840and take the steps necessary to move forward in their life. So good on you guys, everyone
00:39:35.760who participated in that. A question I wanted to get to, and I'll see where it is in our
00:39:43.320little lineup here. Apple of Omen asked, what is the end goal of the AFA? And I don't,
00:39:55.520I'm going to get to what I believe the point of the question was. There's not an end goal of the
00:40:03.140afa ideally um our mission continues you know for eternity but the i guess the
00:40:15.620the ultimate goal or the you know victory plateau of that where that's where we want to be
00:40:22.420is to bring and in the most fundamental way again we can all right so i overthink questions so
00:40:29.780So somebody will ask a simple question, and I might, you know, add more to it than was originally wanted.
00:40:36.340End goal and the way it was asked, I would say, is to bring all of our folk back to where Ausatru is the default religion for white people worldwide.
00:40:50.420To where in the time of our ancestors, there wasn't question as to what religion someone was.
00:40:57.600was you were the religion of your people and that was a worldwide thing for most of human existence
00:41:08.400the end goal of us also true would be to bring that to where if you were a white man or woman
00:41:14.240that is your faith by default um so we have a long way to go to get there and that's a
00:41:22.160that's a pretty pretty big goal in its eventuality i would say that once we reach there and every
00:41:28.560step along the way the other goal following with it is to get those of us who are also true
00:41:36.320to be increasingly closer to perfection in our wisdom in our fitness in our success in our
00:41:48.240you know in our prosperity in all ways of our life
00:41:52.640including and with a heavy emphasis on joy on helping our people live happy lives that they're
00:41:59.200fulfilled by that they have joy in and a big part of that joy is the community that the afa
00:42:07.840is you know building and fostering and growing that community is vital and we live in a time
00:42:15.600where i think people are and i think it's probably true around the world but certainly
00:42:22.800you know in the west people are more isolated and more alone than they've ever been even though they
00:42:29.200may be in you know urban settings to where they're surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people
00:42:38.320there's not the same connection people aren't bound by the same things you don't have the
00:42:43.120same commonality with your neighbors and your community that was once such an integral part of
00:42:51.040any of our nations so to increase that sense of community and belonging and being with family
00:42:59.120that's why when when i welcome new people into the austral folk assembly so welcome to our afa family
00:43:04.320because that's what we want that's the idea that's what we're building that's what we have
00:43:09.760we use the expression a lot like welcome home and that's what everybody that's what we want
00:43:18.460everyone to feel when they come to Ausitru in general and the AFA in specific and fortunately
00:43:25.600many people that's exactly their response that was certainly the case with me when I joined was
00:43:30.500I felt never had I felt something was so natural and so right and so just like just like coming
00:43:38.180home so that's what we really strive for and almost right on cue there uh svan has returned
00:43:44.980to us so hopefully everything's good on his end and he can get back to where he cut out at svan
00:43:52.340everything good yeah i was having um issues with the internet and my wife actually called a
00:43:58.900technician and he comes in checks everything of course everything's working good but it's been
00:44:06.660going on for about a week now and we were trying to avoid exactly what just happened
00:44:13.220um my apologies to everyone and um it's just a matter of more or less crossing fingers because
00:44:21.140it has it just crawls down to a uh you know a crawl and then uh sometimes becomes very
00:44:31.220intermittent and then it is back on again so we'll get right back in sorry guys we'll get right back
00:44:41.080into it i wanted to make note uh sierra mentioned in the chat that someone during the course of the
00:44:47.460walk-a-thon we were just talking about lost 15 pounds that is tremendous so whoever that is
00:44:54.900well done and congratulations and sierra thank you for putting that together we appreciate you
00:45:01.200So that said, Svan, take us back into the life and times of the Volsons.
00:45:07.880All right. So Sigurd gets and amasses his army and he asks of the kings in his area to financially back him so that he can garner a large army and a fleet of ships.
00:45:22.820And they do so very willingly. And as he's sailing, they run into a storm.
00:45:31.200So they sail and have wind at will, but when a few days were overpassed, there arose a great storm on the sea, and the waves were to behold, even as the foam of men's blood.
00:45:48.020So there are red waves, red foaming waves.
00:45:52.880But Sigurd bade take in no sail, whosoever they might be riven, but rather to lay on higher than here thereof.
00:46:08.280But as they sailed past the rocks of a nest, a certain man hailed the ships and asked who was captain over the navy.
00:46:18.020When was it told to them that the chief and the Lord was Sigurd, the son of Sigmund, or excuse me, not take no sale as in to drop no sale, but to drop sale and seek refuge.
00:46:32.540And that's when there is somebody that they meet that asks them, who are you? What army is this?
00:46:38.800Then was it told to him that the chief and the Lord was Sigurd, son of Sigmund, the most famed of all young men, who now are.
00:46:51.000Then said the man, not but one thing, Sertus, do all day of him that none among the sons of kings may be likened unto him.
00:47:03.880Now fain, where I, that ye, would shorten sail on some of the ships and take me abroad
00:49:41.780Good are many tokens, if thereof men wotted when the swords are sweeping.
00:49:49.420Fair fellow deem I, the dark-winged raven in war to weapon wielder.
00:49:56.480The second good thing, when abroad thou goest, for the long road well arrayed, good if thou seest two men standing, fane of fane, within the forecourt.
00:50:12.620So if you see two warriors in the front of high fane.
00:50:19.900a third good thing is a wolf howling abroad under ash bows good hap shalt thou have
00:50:31.440dealing with the helms with helm staves if thou seest these fair before thee no man in fight
00:50:40.960his face shall turn against the moon's sister low late shining for he winneth battle
00:50:51.300who best beholdeth through the midmost sword play and the sloping ranks best shapeth
00:50:59.600so what omens are going to lead to an understanding of victory hearing wolves howl
00:51:07.740Seeing ravens follow, or well-famed men in the front of the ranks.
00:51:19.000And then through the midmost of swordplay and the sloping ranks that shapeth them.
00:51:23.800So the idea of the formations of both sides, much like a chevron as a good form for battle.
00:51:40.480If you see these things, these are all good signs of victory.
00:51:47.040So some of these are mystical and extraordinary, and others are more or less like lending to what one should do in order to gain victory.
00:52:04.440Great is the trouble of the foot, ill-tripping, when arrayed for the fight thou farest for on both sides about.
00:52:12.640Are the desir by thee? Again, the maidens of fate, our ancestral, or possibly referring to the nornir, or all of them, you know,
00:52:30.440So he kind of lists a myriad of things, the usage of different formations, making sure
00:52:57.680you're on level ground making sure that the ds here are you know not ill-fated against you
00:53:04.400make sure that every warrior is cleaned and combed um we can see a lot of this paralleling perhaps
00:53:12.660in the japanese um samurai book the hage kure he even says it is very important for every warrior
00:53:22.340to take care of their countenance, even at the eve of battle. And I find that poetic.
00:53:33.200You can see warrior cultures really do recognize this and eating well of meat, though, again,
00:53:42.520we've spoken about how meat as a word was meant meal. It didn't specifically mean meat. So that's
00:53:51.360not something that you would want to go in and say, yeah, this is a religious confirmation that
00:53:58.560we should all be carnivore or take on the carnivore diet. That's not exactly the case.
00:54:04.900Meat meaning meal. No doubt having a large amount of meat and cream.
00:54:11.060Also, not just eat something, but eat good. Like you'll notice they are preparing
00:54:19.160they're preparing for one of two outcomes they're preparing for victory or they're preparing for
00:54:26.460death and they're celebrating they're going to battle well-fed on a good celebratory meal a lot
00:54:33.900of folks didn't have meat all of the time sometimes you had bread and some kind of
00:54:39.740porridge or whatever you had you're like no have yourself a good meal splurge go out get yourself
00:54:45.200steak or whatever get your hair combed right wear your best war gear go out there you know shining
00:54:53.900and your best self because this is your moment this is your time to shine you're you know you
00:55:02.340are going out to become a hero you will either be celebrated in the halls with your with your
00:55:07.560brothers in life or with your brothers in death but now's the time well and there's another
00:55:13.820interesting thing about all of this so the well actually let me just read to that part and then
00:55:20.140i'll i will state it because it's only a couple of sentences it says that after he speaks of this
00:55:29.420then the storm abated and on they fared till they came a land in the realm of hunting sun
00:55:36.220And then Fjolnir, who is Hnikar, vanishes away. So the connection that Fjolnir and Hnikar is Lord Odin, and he's doing kind of a preparation check, a kind of shoring up, seeing where this young man is in his headspace.
00:55:59.760Um, ultimately though, it's worth noting the storm that was raised to slow them down, causing them to seek refuge was probably raised by Lord Odin in disguise.
00:56:16.760I think a lot of people get into a thought process that, especially if they're coming from Christianity, and Christianity says, oh, you know, these people had a God of this, a God of rain, a God of rocks, a God of, they try to oversimplify.
00:56:38.440No, our holy divine beings are divine beings, and there are primordial forces at play here in the middle in the in the material. And the gods have the ability to affect them, perhaps some better than others. But the idea that there is Lord Odin creating a storm for the sake of this moment.
00:57:08.440would not be there would be nobody in the audience going i thought that thor was the god of storms
00:57:15.480um no that'd be like you know you see spawn out mowing his lawn like wait you're only allowed to
00:57:22.440talk about lore on vns how are you talking about you know um real people do lots of things
00:57:30.600real entities real beings can do a great many things there may be things that they are most
00:57:39.480noted for or that they are particularly powerful at or they choose to display their power through
00:57:48.340there may be symbols that are associated with them but our gods are it's going to say three
00:57:58.000dimensional but our gods are four dimensional our gods are well-rounded and multi-dimensional
00:58:05.320they're not two-dimensional things they're not Thor equals strong Odin equals wise
00:58:15.680Tyr equals justice like no those associations are fine and if if you're brand new and that helps you
00:58:25.120start down paths to understand them. That's, that's wonderful. If you're a young child and
00:58:32.320that's how you get your first, you know, something to hold on to about who these gods are. Amazing.
00:58:40.200Great. But that's, that's where we start to understand the Aesir. It's not where the end
00:58:46.860of that understanding is. Yeah. I remember with, when, uh, Thorshoff opened up and
00:58:54.100we were utilizing the orange the burnt orange or autumnal orange as a color and no red goats
00:59:03.420right there needs to be bears and they're freaking out
00:59:09.000these connections are cultural um some of them are uniquely cross cultures the i think the the
00:59:22.580you know the araya that went into um what is now india and the fact that uh their lord of thunder
00:59:31.460who is indra is red in skin and our uh lord thor has a red beard i think there is some
00:59:42.820uh relevance and consideration towards um those cultural kind of connected connections and they're
00:59:50.180good sometimes to re-establish or to reiterate but so i'd like to say this too um
00:59:59.620nobody until modern times with extreme hair dye or less they were covered in the gore of their foes
01:00:06.740has red hair or a red beard that's orange um but yeah that's just a
01:00:16.260please don't must we have a tendency towards
01:00:24.420this or that we like to uh be dualistic in everything we do because it simplifies everything
01:00:33.000and it's easy and in a way it's intellectually lazy
01:00:35.780we're not criticizing that if you were to make an altar to thor in your house and you wanted it to
01:00:44.260be read and you wanted to have goats that's awesome that's a really good place to start
01:00:48.560if you had that i would think it was amazing and i'd tell you so but if your little girl
01:00:55.120wants an altar to thor and it's pink and it has chickadees that's not wrong that's not
01:01:03.280bad we have no reason to think that uh also thor dislikes the chirping of the chickadee
01:01:09.180I mean, there's a lot of different, there's a lot of different things.
01:01:51.640while i'm while we're just talking and we'll finish this uh this chapter here in just a sec
01:01:59.060But Githia McNallan besought that I speak to you guys about the amazing work that folks did at Odenshoff.
01:02:09.540We had a massive overhaul of the septic system that had not been had any maintenance or anything done to it since 1938, I believe.
01:02:24.480so it is uh it certainly do uh it was janky it is no longer janky it's awesome now uh because
01:02:33.180a handful of guys with a lot of hard work and the very generous donation of a particular odens
01:02:40.560hoff donor were able to get that done our hoff steward uh dan odem put in a lot of time a lot
01:02:48.100of effort and achieved amazing results to get this all done and taken care of for our summer
01:02:54.960mall celebration later this month. So we are very appreciative. If you went there, there was,
01:03:01.840you know, I don't want to, I want to say the trenches were like six foot deep. And then there
01:03:09.900was a you know 10 foot square six foot deep hole or so to put the tank in and a lot of work to get
01:03:19.580done we also had um due to a storm there we had a tree fall that took out a big chunk of fencing
01:03:25.200that was replaced these guys really worked very very hard and did something amazing there and
01:03:32.540It's not a one-time thing. These guys have taken amazing care of Odin's Hoff over the past, it's funny, years start flowing together for me, but over the time they've been doing it, the progress they've made in the last couple of years on it has been tremendous.
01:03:55.120it's always been a very special place it has never been better taken care of or more beautiful than
01:04:02.480it is currently due to these guys efforts so thank you guys we appreciate you very much
01:04:08.880that's it it's fine take us back all right so we are now on the on the cusp of a great battle
01:04:16.560in the hundings land um as lord othen himself has visited sigurd and just spoke
01:04:25.200to him in the poetics to ensure his head is in the right place and um
01:04:35.680the storm abates and they fare on when they get there their traveler vanishes
01:04:42.800then they let loose fire and sword and slew men and burnt their abodes and did waste all before
01:04:54.340them so in essence they start making their way into the land through marauding i i do find it
01:05:02.820interesting though they they do just state that they're they're slaying men in their abodes
01:05:07.360There isn't a heavy emphasis that they're slaying women and children.
01:05:12.660You could say, oh, it's probably implied, but certainly by the story itself, it's not a heavy emphasis.
01:05:23.140The idea, again, is fighting other warriors.
01:15:07.860So, he ended up donating $700 that night, which was awesome and very much appreciated.
01:15:14.980That is the biggest single donation I recall.
01:15:19.680And I think the episode, I want to say about a month back was the biggest single gaining episode where we generated the most money per episode.
01:15:40.680But I'd have to critically think about what week that was.
01:15:44.080I want to say it might have even been the last time Svon and I were on.
01:15:49.160If not, it could have been the one right before that.
01:16:19.120Your donation isn't just a donation to the Astro Folk Assembly and our stuff we're trying to accomplish.
01:16:26.420It is also a donation and an offering to our gods and a form of worshiping them and glorifying them by establishing these Hoffs and by furthering their cause here in Midgard.
01:23:51.600with Ausatru cosmology and imagery and not Christian imagery, you're certainly not the
01:23:57.040main motif of the design. So many of us, cutting to the chase, many of us very much believe,
01:24:03.560and I think it's the case, that the Stavekirka is the transitional stage or the missing link
01:24:13.980between an ausitru hoff and a christian church they probably represent the highest development
01:24:22.780of hoff building and then repurposed slightly image wise to to match you know christian
01:24:30.540sensibilities with you know you have a crucifix here or a saint reliquary here or there but
01:24:37.260But and then from there, the development of more in line with the continent, Scandinavian cathedrals and other things.
01:24:47.340So the Stavekirka is, to my mind, the highest development of where our ancestors left off in the building of Hoffs before the blade of Alcetru was was broken at that time.
01:25:04.460so yeah whatever your thoughts they are undisputedly really really cool there's not a
01:25:12.980there's not a case to be made that they're not really cool i think a lot of people just reject
01:25:17.260it simply when they're in the mindset of ah christianity must must reject but they don't
01:25:23.800take into consideration all of the connective tissue to our ancestors who were ousted through
01:25:32.760you know going there being a part of building um these churches uh despite
01:25:39.980just lived in the woods and rubbed ash on themselves and wore roadkill on their shoulders
01:25:47.960and chicken bones around their neck and you know somehow tied some antlers to their head to run
01:25:54.120around and do their uh their religious ceremony because well kai long told me so
01:25:59.680Yeah, and at the same time, you know, a lot of these people who were traitors against their people by taking the foreign faith, most of them were not, they didn't go to Rome or they didn't go to Israel or Palestine or whatever it was called at the time to learn their faith.
01:26:27.560No, they were doing a lot of this. And so every time they did, they were adding their own, that which was brought up with them. So certainly after conversion, the first century after conversion was wrought with much of the Ausatru or the old faith mindset.
01:26:54.720That's when you see a lot of Christians harken back to, you know, these Christians were warriors.
01:27:00.600And it's like, yeah, most of them were newly converted and were still holding on to the ethos of the generations before them, not the ethos of Christianity proper.
01:27:15.960It was the lingering and slowly ebbing heroism of their forefathers, who were not Christian.
01:27:26.440Yursala Borg is what they called Jerusalem.
01:31:30.500chambers for lack of a better term when i say big they got big rocks but they're you know
01:31:38.840maybe I don't know maybe 10 foot by five foot interior that stands maybe you know four and a
01:31:52.280half five foot tall so not not like massive things but these uh these chambers and people
01:32:00.500would talk about them as if they're they're burial chambers in their tombs but bodies aren't found
01:32:07.700them um there's not that's not typically what's you know found in them so there's thoughts about
01:32:17.620that uh when i went over there the kind of local consensus was the idea that they were a place of
01:32:28.020of transition where the dead were placed for a time period
01:32:34.660there was a process that occurred and then they were removed and whatever was done with them was
01:32:41.300done now for a lot of the time period of our ancestors cremation was a thing one of the things
01:32:51.140we know early is you know creation and cremation remains in urns was a definitive factor in some
01:32:58.820of the early migrations of our people but there could have been ashes you know scattered in these
01:33:04.100places over time that could be a real thing but we're certainly not finding you know uh
01:33:13.860dead bodies in these places or tombs so they're really interesting anyways you go and the vast
01:33:19.860majority of these things are just these big you know these hills in the middle of people's fields
01:33:26.180that folks kind of don't mess with um but we were so we're driving around you know we'd see these
01:33:36.820casually all over the place and one day a couple days into our trip we pulled out we're in the
01:33:44.420middle of somebody's farm on this roadway and they stop and i'm like oh okay we need to i guess
01:33:49.380re-figure out directions or figure out a plan or whatever and a couple of our hosts disappear off
01:33:56.500into this field and uh you know they go off and do whatever they're doing and we're talking and
01:34:05.780we're talking and figuring it out whatever and they come back and uh
01:34:11.700you know they they point out that there's a dolmen over there in this field and they're like
01:34:20.340so do you guys do you guys want to go inside and we're huh like
01:34:28.100i mean there's only one answer to that question like yes we want to go inside but i mean amazed
01:34:34.500that that was a thing and apparently um while this gentleman who was ever farmland this was was uh
01:34:42.100doing something a number of years back or whatever a piece of equipment had like nicked the the
01:34:49.380whatever the closing, you know, entranceway, the portal stone or whatever was, knocked it off.
01:34:55.480And so it was open. And so this next part isn't going to make a lot of sense, but it's how it
01:35:05.400happened. So I mean, I'm giving you the honest recollection as I recall it. They went up there
01:35:13.880and they um set up like because there's all of these and again my geography or my geology fails
01:35:24.980me on what this is i don't know if you call it slate or what you call it but there's a lot of
01:35:30.360like flat stones there so this is built up over these flat stones and it's irregular because it's
01:35:37.440you know an ancient stone thing so there's all these little ledges so they put these little um
01:35:42.860like tea light candles throughout this place and and had them lit and prepared it for us
01:35:49.700and they were very respectful they hung back and let us kind of enter first and
01:35:58.800uh sheila was the first one to enter this this thing and this one was set up to where there was
01:36:09.600I'd say, you know, maybe a five or six foot channel to get in it, like a little five or six foot tunnel before you got in the main body of it.
01:36:18.840mentioned before it's you know maybe maybe 10 foot maybe 12 foot long by five or six foot deep
01:36:31.560and i don't know about five foot tall maybe to where you could like squat walk around in there
01:36:39.800but you couldn't stand up um anyways so sheila goes to to go in there and she had to move this
01:36:47.800um these cobwebs or this overgrown moss or stuff aside to get in it now i know people had already
01:36:54.200been in there and lit stuff so i don't know if it fell back down over the top of it and she had to
01:36:58.040move it out of the way i think that's probably what the case was but she moved this aside and
01:37:03.560these black moths flew out which was really interesting to me so anyways we went in there
01:37:10.840and it was amazing and it was beautiful with these you know tea lights lit in there and went in
01:42:41.100assertive woman in a lot of ways it was so nice because this gothi was her mentor
01:42:49.660and all of a sudden she was like a little girl she was just quiet and so respectful
01:42:55.980of this man because she had to help like do the ritual and translate for us because he only spoke
01:43:01.900uh dansk and he she'd like help hold him up as he went around the circle because like
01:43:09.820he's in his sweats and his hospital armband and stuff like he
01:43:13.820literally got out of the hospital bed to be there for us and he did this beautiful ritual and it was
01:43:20.480really special but that was around one of the more all the dirt had been moved away and it was
01:43:26.360just stone stacked upon one another and it was a little bit smaller one but yeah my afa's view
01:43:33.200which I guess you know I will position as as my view is that they're a chamber of transformation
01:43:42.500before the final um disposition of of the remains where the the soul can you know travel to beyond
01:43:55.040the veil in in a sacred fashion and then the remains can be uh dealt with so that's what I
01:44:04.580think Svon I don't know if you have any thoughts or anything to add on that
01:44:09.680Yeah, I think that these are, I'm a believer that the migrations of megalith builders in Europe were actually of the same stock that would eventually become the Aryan folk of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
01:44:34.100and um that's kind of lent to when we we can't differentiate any sort of um genetic difference
01:44:43.680and so it's usually stocked up the megalith builders were just completely wiped out and
01:44:49.500um i think that there was more blending and they were so close to each other that there wasn't a
01:44:56.580lot of differentiation but we see these whether we're talking about the european ones or worldwide
01:45:03.140Not all of them are tombs. A lot of them have artwork, which again would be viewed, seen with purpose. So that makes me lend to the idea of their ritual purpose.
01:45:18.460And much like a bridge as a reference of crossing over, I think the migratory people settling down in an area and making a huge concerted job to construct something out of stone like this is a sign of people settling in and utilizing them.
01:45:44.680there's grave goods but there's also goods like weapons and and other things so having them was
01:45:51.520also kind of a cross between a uh proto burial mound or uh proto uh barrow and a proto hoth
01:46:04.260I think that they had a cross affiliation because, again, the divine is deeply connected to death and ancestral worship.
01:46:17.460And no doubt take a lot of manpower to build a lot of these, especially if you added the dirt on top of it,
01:46:27.700or perhaps the dirt was added later to facilitate them looking more like barrows.
01:46:34.260But we can see, even in the story that we're reading, a barrow is constructed for imprisonment, so I think that these buildings may have had numerous purposes.
01:46:49.240I think, too, possibly as religious sites for specifically religious people or, say, people practicing of a higher level, you know, the men or women of magic, perhaps people could refer to them as shamans of sort, going there and perhaps even residing.
01:47:19.240or um being placed within and then perhaps coming out later as a rebirth i think that there's more
01:47:27.480of a symbolic meaning behind these these uh structures but i think they eventually turned
01:47:33.060more into barrow mounts and were kind of more classified strictly to the dead um as the bronze
01:47:40.200age and eventually the iron age settled in um but yes that's truly interesting i i couldn't
01:47:48.780remember when you said it right off the bat I was immediately thinking like a stone monument
01:47:53.700and then I just had to take a quick glance and I was like oh oh no no no so yeah I think there
01:47:59.980was just they were multifunctional nobody does that much work just for it to be forgotten
01:48:05.640nobody decorates a lot of things simply for it to never be looked upon um and that lends to me
01:48:13.040thinking that multiple reasons they might have been utilized. And again, what you were saying,
01:48:20.420if it's a transitional place where they place the dead and then move them somewhere else would
01:48:25.520explain why there's not a lot of, you know, grave bones and things of that nature. Or the other
01:48:38.680thing that we have to consider too is even after um changings of religions or ideals that it was
01:48:47.640known these were special places and people could have probably placed their dead in there long
01:48:53.780after their full intended use was understood so we will definitely cover more material tonight
01:49:03.220and we will make sure we cover some but i it's worth doing this here because the best time to do it
01:49:17.780anthropologists or scholars or whatever because it's their discipline study time periods
01:49:25.860or if they're studying a culture it is the viking age or it is the vendal period or it is
01:49:32.260is the Celtic period in Denmark, or perhaps it is the funnel beaker culture, or it's,
01:49:40.260so they break things up into an artificial distinction that isn't necessarily there.
01:49:49.740It's an academic distinction and not a fundamental distinction.
01:52:35.000So, again, Sigurd is speaking to Rey and he says, now Sigurd and Rey ride up to the heath, a large expanse, a moor and grassy rolling area with hills and rocks.
01:52:55.760They ride up to the heath along the same path where Fafnir was wont to creep when he fared for water
01:53:05.800So he travels out of the moors or out of the heath and out of the countryside to come down to an area to drink water
01:53:15.300And folks say that 30 fathoms was the height of that cliff along which he lay when he drank
01:53:25.260of the water below. So this again is explaining the length of his neck alone. And you'll notice
01:53:35.900that there is a huge serpentine connection. Whenever the word drake or dragon, and again
01:53:45.340more properly worm, is spoken, there is this deep connection of the dragons of the north being seen
01:53:53.760as wingless and of a large serpent. That's a particularly unflattering
01:54:07.680image for him to get stuck on. Those of you who are listening by podcast, you guys missing out
01:54:18.940on a tree. I will take us into this chapter. So chapter 18. Now Sigurd and Reyn ride up
01:54:30.700the heath along the same way wherein Fafmir was wont to creep. And when he fared to the
01:54:38.640water, and folks say that 30 fathoms was the height of that cliff along which he lay when
01:54:45.020he drank of the water below. Then Sigurd spoke, How sayest thou, Rayim, that this drake
01:54:56.900was no greater than other lingworms? Methinks the track of him is marvelously great. Then
01:55:05.820Then said Rehom, make thee a hole and sit down therein.
01:55:14.500And when as the worm comes to the water, smite him into the heart.
01:55:21.000And so do him to his death and win thee great fame thereby.
01:55:26.320But Sigur said, what will betide me if I be before the...
01:55:32.660What will it betide me if I be before the blood of the worm?
01:55:39.480Says Rayan, of what avail to counsel thee if thou art still afraid of everything?
01:55:46.300Little art thou like thy kin in the stoutness of heart.
01:55:50.000Then Sigurd rides right over the heath.
02:02:30.680do after them. Nay, I will ride now to thy lair
02:02:34.480and take to me that great treasure of thy kin.
02:02:39.160Ride there then, said Fafner, and thou shalt find gold
02:02:42.760anow to suffice thee for all thy life days.
02:02:47.360Yet shall thou gold be thy bane, and the bane of everyone soever who owns it.
02:02:54.320Then up stood Sigur, and said, Home would I ride, and lose all that wealth, if I deemst that by losing thereof I should never die.
02:03:05.160But every brave and true man will fain have his hand on wealth till that last day that thou, Fafner, wallow in the death pain till death and hell have thee.
02:07:29.880that's why the naming ceremony is such an important ritual.
02:07:34.860The Asuvatmi is such an important ritual in Ausatru
02:07:38.340Because taking this crying, pooping, screaming thing and giving it a name is such a fundamental part of making that baby into a person and bestowing all of the dignity that being a person has with it.
02:09:53.000wadding not if it were heaven or earth.
02:09:55.700ray and retorted long bite this worm have lain in his lair if the sharp sword i forged with my hand
02:10:08.300had not been good at need of thee had that not been neither thou nor any man would have prevailed
02:10:16.440against him at this time so now they're kind of laying accusations upon each other you hide in
02:10:23.100bushes while i took care of the deed and it's no my skill was in making the sword that if you
02:10:28.860didn't have it you would not have been able to defeat him sigurd answers when as men meet foes
02:10:36.540in a fight better is a stout heart than a sharp sword then said rayon exceedingly heavy thou
02:10:45.980Thou hast slain my brother, and scarce may I be sackless of the deed.
02:10:53.520Therewith Sigurd cut out the heart of the worm with the sword called Rydil.
02:11:00.040So Riddil is most likely a short sword, a smaller Sayax kind of sword, better suited for the fabrication of an animal rather than Gram, the large sword.
02:11:19.220But Reyn drank of Fafnir's blood and spoke
02:11:26.780Grant me a boon and do a thing little for thee to do
02:11:32.100Bear the heart to the fire and roast it and give me thereof to eat
02:11:37.320Then Sigurd went his ways and roasted it on a rod
02:11:43.160And when the blood bubbled out he laid his finger thereon to essay it
02:11:49.180or to discern its temperature and wellness of cook
02:12:17.320And since his brother has taken the form of this dragon, the blood of the dragon has extraordinary powers, and he's telling Sigurd to prepare this for him, and in this just slight twist of fate, he tastes the blood, and suddenly he understands the chirping of birds.
02:23:47.620Yeah, that's one of the really special
02:23:49.640things about this saga is we see the entering in and out of it at the pivotal moments uh
02:23:56.600oh then so many times in this it's really i don't know i just love it and i'm glad we're going
02:24:02.600through it i'm glad i'm getting shared with all you guys this is a really uh a really important
02:24:09.160one that is just seminal to so many things culturally in the lore and the storytelling
02:24:23.400of northern europe up to including today
02:24:31.080well chapter 20 of sigurd's meeting of brinhild on the mountain
02:24:36.360My long roads, Sigurd rides, till he comes at last up onto Hindfell and wends, wending means to kind of go in a way that is winding, his way south to the land of the Franks in France.
02:24:57.340and he sees before him on the fell a great light so upon this mountain plateau a great light
02:25:05.340as a fire burning and flaming up even unto heaven and when he came thereto low a shield hung castle
02:25:16.800before him and a banner on the topmost thereof into the castle went sigurd and he saw one
02:25:24.880there lying asleep and all armed. Therewith he takes the helm off of the head of him and sees
02:25:34.340that it is no man but a woman. And she was clad in a barney as closely set on her as though it had
02:25:42.940grown out of her flesh. So he rent it from the collar downwards and then the sleeves thereof
02:25:50.740and ever the sword bit on it as if it were cloth.
02:25:55.220Then said Sigurd that overlong had she lain asleep, but she asked.
02:26:02.900So by removing the bernie and her sword and sword bit or frog
02:26:10.180that holds the sword, she comes to life.
02:26:15.380And I think about this a lot because there's even the reference
02:26:19.120in the original snow white story in which she is um seized up by a tight clothing tight um corset
02:26:30.660and that she you know semi falls asleep because of that uh before the apple is used um and i i
02:26:40.080i find that interesting like kind of this confinement and then the the masculine comes in
02:26:46.160and removes the confinement and thus releasing and giving her um autonomy and clarity of mind
02:26:56.800um so she asks what thing of great might is it that has prevailed to rend my birnie
02:27:06.640and draw me from my sleep even as it is sung in the song
02:27:12.160what bit on the bernie why breaks my sleep away who has turned from me my wane tormenting so who
02:27:23.160has and again the usage of wane who has taken my tormenting and reduced it or uh let cycled it down
02:27:31.720ah it is so that here is come sigurd sigmund's son bearing fafner's helm on his head and fafner's
02:27:43.100bane in his hand then answered sigurd so she knew of him before he speaks then he speaks
02:27:52.060sigmund's son with sigurd's sword ian now rent down the raven's wall
02:27:58.880Of the Volsung's kin is he who hath done the deed, but now I have heard that thou art daughter of a mighty king, and folk have told us that thou wert lovely and full of lore, and now I will try the same.
02:28:17.720So he speaks and says he's of the Volsung kin. And this is, again, the same thing that happens in Hundingsbana, where Helgi Hundingsbana speaks of a Valkyrie also being a princess or being the daughter of a great king.
02:28:36.360And there's no emphasis as to whether she passes and becomes a Valkyrie or that the Valkyrie stewardship is bestowed upon her while she is also still the daughter of a king.
02:32:47.580He was an old man and the greatest of warriors.
02:32:50.920And Lord Odin had promised that the victory of the battle would be unto him, but his foe was Agnar of Aldi's brother, and so I smote down Helm Gunnar in the fight.
02:33:05.700So this is an interesting point. She smites him. And remember, Valkyrie are seen as Dees or Nornirs of battle. They can allocate the death of a warrior, his time coming to an end.
02:33:22.800And she says that she specifically goes against the will of Lord Odin, who promised him victory, but instead carries him to death.
02:33:35.020lord odin in his vengeance for that deed stuck the sleep thorn into me and said that i should
02:33:46.160never again have the victory but should be given away in marriage but there against i vowed a vow
02:33:54.480that never would i wed one who knew the name of fear so ultimately from a epic poetic standpoint
02:34:04.040there's two things to be understood is that she becomes the material. She, she steps out of the
02:34:11.500realm of, um, the heavenly. She goes against the decree of the divine and she makes an action that
02:34:20.420was not indicated, uh, the Valkyria being the, the will of, of the choosing father. They are the
02:34:29.160carriers, he is the chooser. And then she becomes mortal and clearly states that she will never
02:34:38.060wed anyone if they have a shred of fear within their heart. So she becomes the kind of semi-divine
02:34:46.660prize of the mortal. And this could all be allegoric for the mortal man, the soul of a warrior
02:34:55.920achieving um that connection to the divine in in many ways she is like uh perhaps a grail unto
02:35:06.340itself or um a gateway or the horn of to receive um and sigrid says to her teach us the lore of
02:35:18.680mighty matters. And she said, Belike thou canest more skill in all than I, yet will I teach thee?
02:35:27.940I, and with thanks, if there be aught of my cunning, that will in any wise pleasure thee,
02:35:35.560either of the runes or of other matters that are root of things. But now, first, let us drink
02:35:42.560together and may the gods give us twain a good day that thou mayest win hope and fame from my wisdom
02:35:51.680and that thou mayest hereafter mind thee of that which we twain speak together so he receives the
02:35:59.760the horn i mean it's this specifically says to our hornet scowl um so she passes a horn to him
02:36:11.040so that they may drink and cheers between each other again a common point in our erin mythos
02:36:21.160even when the lord odin goes uh to gunloth he is given the the mead of poetry he's given the drink
02:36:28.820This is a huge factor of will being replenished by chthonic power, power that's buried, power that's laid to sleep or laid upon the ground.
02:36:45.360Once it's awakened, it's given over to the will and the one who sought to break that catatonic sense.
02:36:58.820So then Grenhild filled a beaker and bore it to Sigurd and gave him the drink of love and spoke.
02:37:07.520Beer bring I to thee, fair fruit of the Byrnie's clash.
02:37:14.060Mixed is it mightily, mingled with fame, brimming with bright songs.
02:37:20.080They say lays, but the word is songs or poems.
02:37:25.580and pitiful runes, wise words and sweet words, speech of great gain.
02:37:35.720Runes of war know thou, if great thou will be.
02:37:41.220Cut them upon the hilt of a hardened sword,
02:37:45.020some on the brand's back, some on the shining side,
02:40:49.320In the runatal, which, or not runatal, rigstula, that's the word that wouldn't come to me when I was sitting there slack, John, a few minutes ago, talking about a lay of rig.
02:41:03.720That's part of that ascension to regality is Kahn learns these kind of runes.
02:41:16.580He learns the runes to do a lot of these things.
02:41:22.620Among them understand the chirping of birds, but battle runes and ale runes and other runes,
02:41:29.600this is a part of that story of ascension and actualization to your,
02:42:54.780But there's threads that are too obvious to miss that share commonality and are worth making note of in the development of this particular hero's journey.
02:43:13.780and then poetically this becomes a huge lore drop for for a poet or a skull um as it
02:43:27.000as we go it's we'll we'll see here um let me see uh of alien wisdom if thou wilt
02:43:39.780Oh, sorry. Yes. And carve an end upon thy nail. Ale hath thou heed to sign from all harm. So a rune of ale to bolster against harm. Leak lay thou in the liquor.
02:44:01.280so a leak and you'll see this usage of the word and leak again because of its connection to healing
02:44:10.140leak lay thou in the liquor then i know for sure never cometh to be
02:44:16.440mead with hurtful matters mingled so kind of a laying of the leak within the mead
02:44:53.940Again, the usage of bark, the hollow hands of a tree, carving the runes there in and wrapping them about.
02:45:05.460I've heard this being translated in many different ways.
02:45:09.000The possibility of a wrist or ankle of bark carved with the runes of birth.
02:45:19.680And then, because it's wrapped the joints around and about, and then to call upon the land spirits, the good folk, the hoodoo folk, for gain some helping.
02:45:33.640Learn the bough runes wisdom, if leech lore thou lovest.
02:45:40.600Again, leech and leek and everything in it connected to healing.
02:45:48.800The only reason why the worm itself is called a leech is because it was used in medicinal practices, but leechcraft is not the craft of understanding blood-sucking worms.
02:47:59.180On the bloody wings and the bridge's end
02:48:02.080On the loosing palms and pity's path, on glass and on gold and on goodly silver, in wine and in wort, in herbs, and the seat of the witch wife, on Gungnir's point, on the spear of Lord Odin, on the Norn's nail and on the neb of the night owl.
02:48:26.940A couple of things there. The Norn's nail may be the guiding point that takes weft and weave through the strands and not actually the nail of the finger.
02:48:41.760And this is also one of the most interesting points I like to bring up every now and then is, this is one of the, I think this might be the only mention in the sagas of an owl.
02:48:54.160we know our ancestors knew of this animal but it was not mentioned um anywhere except here
02:49:02.980and i i bring that up to point is that uh we have to be careful we get into the mode of thinking
02:49:10.520that obviously if it's not mentioned doesn't mean that our ancestors didn't know about it and that
02:49:15.760didn't exist for them again the funneling of lore into poems helped preserve our faith but it also
02:49:27.120left much out that would perhaps be of a common knowledge you know we we know that owls existed
02:49:35.040in scandinavia that our ancestors knew of them but again they were not mentioned maybe they were
02:49:40.880mentioned in the other i don't know hundreds of poems that we don't have passed down to us true
02:49:48.640yeah the ones lost to time and i've just i've often looked to see and again the um the
02:49:56.960postulization that our ancestors didn't see an owl because it was never mentioned is kind of again a
02:50:05.120ridiculous thing that we should get away from um it's just the same as you know that our ancestors
02:50:11.360didn't use drums or that the runes were not so prevalent considering they're made of wood they
02:50:18.320probably rotted away but they're not actually mentioned often the usage of of a drum um so we
02:50:26.240have to bear that in mind i think a lot of it is coming down to poetic meter and the usage um and
02:50:33.680And in this case, the night owl, the bridge's end, these are either, the bridge's end could be the reference to attaining Ausgarder or entering into heaven through Lord Heimdall.
02:50:50.100Or again, it's like the roots of the mountain or the breath of a fish.
02:50:57.540There are these, it's kind of beyond the known.
02:51:00.700and the night owl's beak or nib or, you know, kind of the unknown and unseen thing.
02:51:11.020And she says, all these so cut were shaven and sheared and mingled with holy mead and set upon wide ways anow.
02:51:20.680So they're blessed with mead after they're cut.
02:51:24.500They're blooded by either blood or in this case, she says mead.
02:51:28.860Some abide with the elves, the land in between the material and the heavens.
02:51:36.180Some abide with the Aesir, other with the wise Vanir in the west.
02:51:42.600Some still hold to the sons of mankind.
02:51:46.560These be the book runes and the runes of good help, and all the ale runes and the runes of much might, to whom so they may avail, unbewildered, unspoiled.
02:51:58.860They are wholesome to have. Thrive thou with these then, when thou hast learned their lore, till the gods take thy life days.
02:52:11.260Now shalt thou choose thee, even as choice is bidden.
02:52:16.960Sharp steals root and stem, choose song or silence, see to each in thy heart, all hurt has been heeded.
02:52:26.360Then answered Sigurd, never shall I flee. Though thou wottest me fey, never was I born for blenching. Thy loved reed will I hold a right in my heart, even so long as I may live.
02:53:13.880but they're no longer in the kind of again in the poetic insert inserts but there kind of becomes
02:53:20.180more of a weaving between the two so svan if you will let's do chapter 21 and call it a night on
02:53:29.460that and then we'll go to questions or yeah we'll go to questions and comments okay um yeah and i'll
02:53:36.620i'm gonna have to use the restroom after chapter 21 so more wise words of brain is in chapter 21
02:53:43.760Sigurd spake now, sure no wiser woman that thou art one may be found in this wide world. I teach me more yet of thy wisdom. And she answers, seemly it is that I do according to thy will and show thee forth more reeds of great avail.
02:54:07.440So she says it is honorable and goodly that she do his bidding and give more counsel to him.
02:54:15.260For thy prayers sake and thy wisdom, and she spoke withal, be kindly to friend and to kin and reward not their trespasses against thee.
02:54:27.860Bear and forbear and win for thee thereby, long enduring the praise of men.
02:54:34.420So be kind for kindness to kin and those who give kindness, but never take or give kindness to those who trespass against you.
03:00:54.440But being in Ausatruar means internalizing the truth that we know in our faith.
03:01:11.940So, this isn't theoretical or LARPing, so we don't confine Nausitru to the Viking Age or the age of our written lore.
03:01:29.340We know that if our gods exist, which they do, then certainly they are gods, they are real, therefore they have personality and thought.
03:01:37.640if they exist clearly they don't just come into existence when old norse becomes the
03:01:45.620language of our folk they exist prior to that they exist at the beginning of our folk if they created
03:01:51.740us then they exist as long as our race exists at least so you have to carry logic to things
03:02:04.940we also believe firmly in life after death we believe that one goes beyond the veil and
03:02:10.300there's more to your existence we also believe that those beyond the veil have
03:02:16.300power to affect things on this side of the veil
03:02:23.420excuse me they have the familiarity not only of the world that we inhabit
03:02:28.780but of the other world the world beyond uh the undiscovered country
03:02:34.140so that makes them very powerful they knew know the rules here but they also know the rules there
03:02:48.480so speaking ill of the dead can get you negative consequences from the other side
03:02:58.320that you may not be prepared to uh mitigate so when i say that i don't mean you know
03:03:07.660we are often flippant and don't fully consider what we do a big part of also true that i believe
03:03:17.720firmly is the concept of arian choosing as noble people we choose our actions
03:03:26.980we choose our words and by doing so we accept the consequences for those things
03:03:35.860i've said this in a number of other concepts or uh
03:03:41.300i've mentioned this here in my bouncing career i would tell the new guys like hey if you want
03:03:47.700to go pick a fight cool i'm i'm down but don't ever get me in a fight because you stumbled into
03:03:55.220it being you know not paying attention to the consequence of what you're doing
03:04:00.740if you know your surroundings you know what you're up against you know the consequence
03:04:05.060and you choose to take an action okay so be it
03:04:13.140but often with the living or with the dead we'll say some flip response where we don't think they
03:04:21.300hear us and then we get all shook when they decide to respond to it um
03:04:35.060you know i i forget the phrase but like
03:04:41.780anyways a lot of the time when we are not conscious of the things we do or the things we say
03:04:48.900day there are unforeseen consequences if you want to speak ill of the dead do so knowing that in
03:05:06.420hellheim or wherever they find themselves
03:05:11.700they might not take kindly to your speech and bad luck might uh attach itself to you
03:05:18.260due to your you know choice that you made this is one of the the truths of our folk but it cuts both
03:05:28.980ways so your enemies hate you after death and if they're bitter they
03:05:42.420want to carry over that bitterness towards you after they're passing
03:05:48.260But you also have allies on the other side as well.
03:05:52.200You have those that you speak well of after they've passed and those that you've built reputation with that carry that and carry that love for you beyond the veil and look out for your interests.
03:06:07.500They are able to also know the rules of this world and the next and to act in your favor if they choose.
03:06:16.680so keep that in mind we very quickly forget when things pass out of sight or out of our kin
03:06:26.200uh will you know say flippant things as if there's not consequence
03:06:32.780it's just like being in a room full of people and you know you get on start talking bad-mouthing
03:06:41.180somebody and it's you know the thing where they they walk up behind you while you're running
03:06:46.000in your mouth as if, you know, you don't know they're there and you turn around and like,
03:06:49.600uh-oh, what I meant was there's an element of that to play when dealing with the dead,
03:06:59.820when dealing with divinity, when dealing with many things. You don't open doors and pick fights
03:07:11.240with entities that you're not prepared to engage with.
03:07:17.100And if you do, do so knowing the consequence
03:07:19.980and doing so heroically and not foolishly
03:08:08.500don't stumble into it through you know a loose tongue or or uh you know being flippant or arrogant
03:08:19.140um so she says to treat the dead and speak not ill of the of the dead and to treat the
03:08:27.540the corpses and those who are cared after with not reverence but respect um trust never in him
03:08:37.140who how who thou hast slain his father or his brother or whatsoever kin i though young he be
03:08:46.420often waxes the wolf inside a youngling i think that's pretty straightforward um
03:08:55.700look thou with good heed to the wild because i think it's worth saying
03:09:01.380Yes, it makes sense, but it doesn't necessarily mean to be the most pragmatic in what that conclusion would be.
03:09:20.640It does mean keep your head on a swivel and keep an eye on those people.
03:09:26.760because well and i say this and this may sound silly on this broadcast or whatever and certainly
03:09:35.780it doesn't necessarily have a a modern a lot of modern context certainly in the west and other
03:09:43.840parts of the world it very much does um the smart play oftentimes is if you have an enemy and you
03:09:53.580kill him, kill his whole family or anybody who cared about him. So you don't look over your
03:09:59.920shoulder for people looking after vengeance later down the road. This doesn't mean you have to do
03:10:06.860that but it does mean you have to be cautious was john leguizamo's character name in scarface
03:10:31.340somebody's gonna remember this and know exactly what i'm talking about
03:10:34.140about sometimes we are very casual in deeply insulting people that are small that we don't
03:10:45.600make note of and then we take our eyes off those people we go throughout our lives and
03:10:54.240they catch us slipping later down the line and bad things happen to us we should be wise
03:11:02.760in all things and wise when we make enemies that we know who those enemies are connected to
03:11:12.280and that we keep eyes on them in the future or else it's very easy to get comfortable thinking
03:11:18.840that we've i don't know thinking that we have eliminated our foes and we're in a spot where
03:11:27.880we're safe and we don't remember that there's kinfolk to those people those people have friends
03:11:34.520those people have families and if we if we are casual with our doling out of insult
03:11:46.440and then we are not cautious down the line people who have been injured in some way have a very long
03:11:56.040memory and i think it's very valuable for us to keep that in mind
03:12:08.760i was looking over the chat because a couple of comments came up
03:12:14.200all right cool so carry on i just i think this wisdom here is really important
03:12:20.520And and I know we're kind of I am kind of overly jumping on some of it, but I think it's really interesting and it's it's really valuable to me, at least.
03:12:33.780Well, this next one, I find interesting as well.
03:12:37.340She says, look now with good heed to the wiles of thy friends.
03:12:41.600Pay attention to the actions of your friends.
03:12:44.360But little skill is given to me that I should foresee the ways of thy life.
03:12:48.260so she says pay attention to your friends and then there's this ominous i don't see forward in
03:12:56.180but that's all she will say about it so this this verse here is kind of giving wisdom to the
03:13:05.300listener but also foreshadowing what's to come and it's also worth noting that sigurd already knows
03:13:13.620what's to come and continues on anyways but she says you know look look with good heed to the
03:13:20.700wiles of thy friends whoever you take friendship with take note of their deal good and take note
03:13:26.880of the bad in which that which they do then but then she kind of backs off and says i mean not
03:13:32.120that i can see anything coming because i don't know that which again is that foreshadow and then
03:13:37.820she lays down again, yet good it were that, yet good it were that hate fell not upon thee from
03:13:46.460thy wife's house. So it is good too for you not to gain ire and to stir up hatred from your in-laws
03:13:59.760is what she's saying. And the best way I can really view that too is that it's, sometimes
03:14:05.480people will hate you, but it is best that you do not create a reason for people to hate you.
03:14:13.060It's different if they hate you for unjust or wrong reasons, but if you are causing things.
03:14:21.480And Sigurd speaks now, but remember that last part is foreshadowing. Sigurd spoke,
03:14:27.780None among the sons of men can be found wiser than thou
03:14:32.220And thereby swear I that thee will I have as my own
03:18:07.420I hope it's a body armor because those are delicious and full of good vitamins.
03:18:11.500Yeah. All right. Well done. Good choice.
03:18:17.680So Tyler from an email, sent an email. All right. Good enough time. If any of you have questions
03:18:24.460that you'd like us to answer at any time they strike you, vns at runestone.org. Those questions
03:18:34.100get to us nick compiles them and i will make sure they get answered the very next show
03:18:43.460and tyler took me up on that and emailed this question hey there question for you
03:18:49.460as a parent who has values that align with those of the afa what are some practical ways to protect
03:18:56.900your children from the craziness of the outside world while still not becoming totally insular
03:19:03.380and uh retreating from what is the best way to raise children who will not only be able to
03:19:09.780maintain sanity in the world but also be conquerors of it much love to the afa and thanks for all you
03:19:16.740do so swan as a father of three what would you say to tyler i think the biggest thing is to not
03:19:27.380shelter your children at all i'm not saying thrust them in and inundate them constantly
03:19:33.700with things that they can't emotionally um withstand but um you know discussing things
03:19:43.860that are going on discussing events speaking to them about it and telling them that this is your
03:19:50.020opinion and uh you know because that's a big one is a lot of times i think parents just
03:19:57.140state things and then later on children go against that simply because um and it's unfortunate in a
03:20:05.060lot of the nature of children today um whereas when you have an opportunity to excuse me to
03:20:14.420discuss with them a situation or an idea um i think over time they they come to understand
03:20:23.460and a lot of things these these ideals these concepts when we're talking about protecting
03:20:27.940them from the world um is that they can very easily see and now i mean of course we have to
03:20:35.460be careful and teach them about you know fake things going on um people trying to like i was
03:20:42.740just talking to my son earlier today about fake uh police body cams going off where there there's
03:20:52.420some group that's making completely fake body cam videos of a police officer interacting with a
03:21:02.100lawyer or what have you and it's it's very bunk so there is that but on top of that understanding
03:21:08.500that people have agendas to, to speak about things. And, um, so, you know, being very open
03:21:15.320and just light, don't want to hit them so heavy that they can't, there's a sense of desperation
03:21:22.460in it. Um, I generally find it when I'm perhaps just looking through and one of my children is
03:21:31.440over my shoulder, trying to see what dad's looking at. And I'll take that time. What do
03:21:37.280you think about this or look what this is what these people are saying um you know i and and
03:21:43.900then also filling in with i believe they might be trying to gain or push some narrative or something
03:21:50.660like that and that repetition that tempo that you set um will inundate onto your children to allow
03:21:59.660them to think and see through things it's not this is the way i think and this is the way you should
03:22:05.940think immediately all the time, but no, make it more of a conversation that inundates them to
03:22:10.260the truth. And the way you think about seeking the truth, it will help them. It will guide them
03:22:19.800in a much more natural and organic pathway, as opposed to simply just enforcing and not letting
03:22:28.720them understand why or what is going on around them and again that has so much of a drastic
03:22:35.940effect later on when they come to reality and they see it um but i mean now in the day of video
03:22:42.960you can see so much that will just again inundate knowledge upon the child you have to be careful
03:22:52.600to to not let the child because children are very very quick to see things very black and white and
03:23:02.200they will immediately uh harbor into uh entrench themselves into an opinion and also they will
03:23:09.580often do it to please you and you have to encourage them to see things on their own standing
03:23:16.900not to do it just simply to please you, but to become aware with you or for them to grow an
03:23:24.840awareness with you and why you see things the way they are. I think that's the best way to go. And
03:23:31.400I don't know what age really I would recommend that. I mean, I'm certain when making man making
03:23:37.800those, those are very important things. And, um, you know, when they're younger, again,
03:23:43.760they have a tendency to entrench themselves in an opinion to please you. And they will say things
03:23:49.600off the cuff that have very little thought. And I think that we should avoid that. I think that
03:23:56.280we should try to teach them about how to learn and how to question and how to see the revelations
03:24:04.020that we as parents have, and that they join us and that we unify that together. Another huge
03:24:12.200part is and this is not a plug but it is a plug um i would recommend that everyone look at i bought
03:24:20.600these children books um called uh from cubs to bears and this gentleman is uh he writes children's
03:24:30.020books but his big um call is to history and the awareness of propaganda the awareness of greed
03:24:38.780And how it, you know, the dangers of both capitalism and communism as a concept for children to understand.
03:24:50.840He broaches these things in his books.
03:24:54.120And I find his, especially, I think he's predominantly on Instagram, very enlightening.
03:25:00.140And he is, again, trudging up old sediment from the rivers of history in order to teach people about things. He was talking about Hindenburg and his critique of the crony capitalists selling out their working forces and stuff like that.
03:25:25.500And actually, the government removed the plates that he had, that the printing press had.
03:25:32.700They went that far so that it could never be printed again.
03:25:35.560And that kind of stuff I find infinitely fascinating.
03:25:38.500And I think our children should learn a lot from history in that way.
03:25:44.080I think it's a great way for them to apply things to the now.
03:26:47.320So getting your family involved with other families that share our values and our worldview is very buttressing for your children.
03:27:00.180If they, you know, when inevitably they feel an instinct to rebel against their parents, because whatever, this isn't just some strange idiosyncrasy of their father.
03:27:15.360this is something that families that they grew up with share this is a worldview that other adults
03:27:24.880that aren't their parents that they are raised with and around
03:27:28.320share this is something that they have friends that share
03:29:32.720And one of the things in our favor is we're right.
03:29:38.120And I know everybody probably says that,
03:29:42.940but we have the benefit of being accurate when we say it.
03:29:48.780The expression that life has a way of red-pilling people does.
03:29:53.880If you shelter your children over much,
03:29:59.140They will conceive of the world in a theoretical construct that is primed for the altruistic nature of our folk to take root in a unhealthy way.
03:30:18.480when children live and have a home base that is removed from the bad things of the world that's
03:30:31.120great but they need to go out on safari every now and again into the wilds of the world in a
03:30:37.820protected way where they see things as they are they see reality they see how the world works
03:30:45.960And when they observe these things and have questions or concerns, you're able to provide clarity and provide commentary on why things might be the way they are.
03:30:58.800It is really important that you don't become the villainous stereotype that the other team would have us believe that people who share our values are.
03:34:46.220I think that's very important we provide that.
03:34:51.240The other thing that I'll say that is, I guess,
03:34:55.300a counterpoint to some of my hey be nice and be happy raise your kids i have heard with disgust
03:35:09.140this attitude of well let my kids make their own decision when they grow up and they can think for
03:35:14.020themselves no that's your job as a parent to raise your children yes when they are adults
03:35:23.780they can make those decisions for themselves up to and until they are it is your job to teach them
03:35:34.660right from wrong and to guide them in developing their core values that is your job more morally
03:35:45.380biologically spiritually do not abdicate your responsibility as a parent because it's just
03:35:53.540easier to let it slide. You owe your children better than that. We owe our children better
03:36:03.580than that. Take an active role in spiritually leading your family. Unless there is some
03:36:11.480other unqualifying thing. And here's the deal. Gay people, you are welcome to listen to this
03:36:18.560program, and I hope it provides some value to you. Folks that are not white people, you're welcome
03:36:26.560to listen to this program. I hope that you enjoy it. I'd be glad to answer any of your questions.
03:36:32.080So, Tyler, if there is some reason that you're not an AFA member, okay. But if there's not,
03:36:38.880get on the team and let's raise our kids together that's what's the community
03:36:48.720that your children are able to develop is i believe and i more than believe i am investing
03:36:56.320my daughter's future in that factor is going to be a huge help for her to have a place to come home to
03:37:06.240and a moral compass and a behavioral compass
03:37:13.220as she grows and learns the depth and breadth of the world that she lives in.
03:37:23.580And I think that's the best we can hope for.
03:37:25.360But community and faith in the gods goes a long way towards establishing permanence in the values that you want to impart to your children, in my belief.
03:37:40.340Again, talked a long time for a guy who has a five-year-old daughter.
03:37:45.660So I am aware, many of you may have different thoughts that have adult children or maybe you guys have grandchildren.
03:37:55.360So please, I'm not trying to preach to you guys like I know better.
03:38:00.160I'm just telling you things that I've thought about and my wife and I have discussed a lot when the reality sets in that we have a daughter that we're raising and she's going to be in the world.
03:38:10.780And what do we want to, you know, what's our best course to do our best job as parents?
03:48:45.320lane cycle. Svahn, what are your thoughts? Well, remember the divine inspire the archetype.
03:48:54.000The archetype does not define the divine. Or another way you could look at it too is that
03:49:01.400the archetype is our perception of something that is often unperceivable or fully comprehensible.
03:49:09.780But if you are looking at the divine beings of our people as simply archetypes, I would implore you to try to look away or around this conception.
03:49:30.060um however unfortunately the abilities of of certain writers and certain folk have have
03:49:42.860not extensively written a lot on their relation or their the relations or founding lore on the
03:49:51.780goddesses very scant um you'll find more on frig and freya than you will on any of the other
03:50:02.380um and again just because it wasn't written largely about does not mean that there wasn't
03:50:10.120a corpus or body connected to it just like the owl's nib um but the unfortunate thing is is that
03:50:20.340a lot of this comes from personal interaction along with or parallel to observation through
03:50:29.220lore. So when you go out there on the internet, you might find people who charade in Ausatru
03:50:39.300to push their political ideologies, and you'll find them writing a lot of things
03:50:47.620based on the goddesses, and you can pretty much weed them out pretty swiftly
03:50:53.960when you see them introducing ideas that were not conceptual
03:50:56.800or even antithetical to the goddesses.
03:51:01.300One in particular is if you go to a website,
03:51:03.920and I'm not saying a specific website, but any website,
03:51:06.600in which it lists the Ausenir, and one specifically is the Ausenir Lofn,
03:51:13.460l-o-f-n and uh somewhere along the way in the in the 90s um some embittered left-wing cat lady
03:51:24.120decided that um associated with homosexual marriage and it clearly states that she's
03:51:33.640talking about making amends between a man and a woman and um especially between their families
03:51:42.060families that are egregious against each other and we generally even though it's not stated in
03:51:48.900the lore have looked at her as the the goddess of amendments between a husband and a wife if
03:51:56.700they're attempting to re-salvage their marriage or if the family's turmoil is tearing things apart
03:52:04.300so there's a lot of that that um is is again written about from personal experience and
03:52:14.580observation and it is a very very road and unfortunately the truth of it is there isn't a lot
03:52:21.720um and again because they're so scant in the lore that if you were to read a say if i wrote a way
03:52:30.020and I can do it because just because I can stretch a word out if I if I wrote a weighty volume about
03:52:38.000the maidens a lot of that would be coming from my personal faith and interaction and practice
03:52:46.580with these divine beings and it would only have you know spread out substantive things from the
03:52:57.880lore um and you go even further back and it gets even more scant when we talk about other goddesses
03:53:06.040or oust veneer who are uh local uh divine beings um prayed to or deified beings we we might not
03:53:17.560even know christianity was quite thorough in destroying that so the astro folk assembly
03:53:23.080took it upon itself to create order with a lot of the chaos going on and the hierarchy that we uh
03:53:31.960place our gods in is not the way the gods are it's the way we've observed them to be or at least
03:53:39.480we are delicately and humbly saying this is how we kind of see this from the tripartite down to
03:53:46.120the to the gods to the senior to the house for near to the heavenly wardens who are locked into
03:53:51.720their celestial duties. So a lot of these things outside of that are, again, to give our folks
03:53:58.820structure and to give them an understanding of like a roadmap, but it certainly does not explain
03:54:05.540the scenery along the way of them. It's the roadmap. The experience of reaching out and
03:54:14.360asking for the divine to come forth to you uh is the the scenery is the learning of the nuances
03:54:21.640of the road and that i think first and foremost will come to you if you alleviate yourself of
03:54:27.080considering the guts to simply be archetypes but that's a personal journey that you have to go on
03:54:33.560um and then you know the the validation and understanding that the validation is
03:54:39.960is to you you can share it with others um and certainly uh if it is divinely you know imbued
03:54:50.680upon you um i i would hope you would share it with others but you still have to understand that
03:54:56.120it's so scant that our um our relationship is a new with the goddesses um their cults are extremely
03:55:05.080bear of written lore but again if you look at say for instance the holy house in your air
03:55:16.740the goddess of healing and we can see we've been talking about leaks craft and leech craft and
03:55:23.720um the usage of of holistic medicines and dietary things we can look at the
03:55:29.900the medicinal practices of the goths and the medicinal practices of the anglo-sex
03:55:34.720And from that, even though there's absolutely no mention about her, we can see her influence upon our people and then work our way back from there.
03:55:45.240So a lot of that is kind of that growth that we're going on.
03:55:52.900You know, that's one of the biggest problems is that our faith was completely kind of socially severed.
03:56:03.080not i wouldn't say spiritually i think the gods have always been with us it's just that socially
03:56:09.400our generations have lost a kind of the the worth of of lore but as we get to know them again and
03:56:19.080again they can't be archetypes if we're literally getting to know them or you could say like we are
03:56:24.200exploring our archetypes but um if they have the divine will to be perceived by us with the intent
03:56:33.240of teaching us then we will learn from them and i think that's what we're doing right now
03:56:41.800um so yes to everything spawn said it's and we we use language and and some of our answers
03:56:58.680I've said this before and I'll continue to say it for folks listening for the first time
03:57:04.600a lot of the time we answer these questions not for the person asking certainly for them
03:57:10.040but also for the broader audience so we're not jumping on you because you use the term archetypes
03:57:16.840that's fine there are role models or blueprints for appropriate femininity that we find
03:57:28.220explained and exemplified by our goddesses in the lore and spawn talked about that
03:57:36.020What I would also say, not for the goddesses, but for good female archetypal understanding and behavior, is to read The Lady with the Mead Cup.
03:57:57.560Now, this is a slog, The Lady with the Mead Cup.
03:58:03.200prophecy and lordship in europe in the european war base from latane to the viking age by michael
03:58:12.240j enright it is not a fun or exciting read it is dry it is repetitive it's probably three times
03:58:23.880longer than it ought to be but it's valuable and it talks about women of status in alsatru and
03:58:37.880what that looked like and i think that is the best source for what you are asking for
03:58:46.040so i would encourage you to give that a read and
03:58:53.880would encourage you not only to give it a read but to do the wikipedia click links thing go down that
03:59:02.920rabbit hole that book talks about a few select examples that it weaves through the narrative
03:59:11.880over and over again find those examples and look up more about them use that as your platform to
03:59:20.520go down rabbit holes about the women mentioned in that book i think that will go a long way
03:59:28.280towards what you're trying to achieve um piggybacks on another question about
03:59:36.680uh women in general in the in the viking age
03:59:41.880i thought i saw it but every time um my internet dropped out i would come back in and all the
03:59:52.980queue would only be from the time i joined back in all right so i don't necessarily see
04:00:00.140what you're looking for what i do see is this question if someone made then donated a four
04:08:39.100moana's awesome if you're a polynesian it's sad that we aren't allowed to also have white moana
04:08:48.860and I don't mean like a literally whitewashing Moana but a similar tale of white people
04:08:57.680because I don't begrudge Moana I think it's awesome and if I was a Polynesian I would
04:09:04.160really like that and want my child to watch that um we've seen that a number of times with Disney
04:09:11.840disney non-white cultures in modern disney are able to have really cool things that are empowering
04:09:20.720to them and disney i think messed up or whatever when they made frozen because the original
04:09:28.320frozen is very empowering to to white people and and my daughter loves it and it's really good
04:09:35.600in a lot of ways um then part disney is currently at war with our folk
04:09:44.000and with traditional values and all their forms i wish it wasn't so and the founder of disney would
04:09:52.720not approve uh stuff back in waltz day i think was good i think was good for our folk i think stuff
04:10:02.560pre-world war ii was definitely good things for our folk though you know that more dated things
04:10:09.600are the less engaging they are for a modern audience um in their production quality and
04:10:15.440everything else i think snow white the original snow white not new diverse snow white was very good
04:10:26.160for our people in a lot of ways i think sleeping beauty was good in a lot of ways
04:10:30.400i think a lot of those were very good and i think that many of those up until disney
04:10:36.960declared war on heterosexual white people were if not good lower representations were
04:10:46.720nice and good things for our children um unfortunately in the 1990s that very much
04:10:53.040started to take a turn in a in a really bad way
04:10:56.240but yeah i think a lot of the early stuff absolutely was
04:11:02.960and i think the stuff that's not now isn't accidentally so it's very intentional um
04:11:11.200there was something that happened with disney in the 90s to where
04:11:16.560they were like proto woke they were woke before woke became a thing
04:11:24.480and they started just very actively like there was a whole thing about strange sexual things
04:11:32.180they would put into cartoons back when they were still cartoons before it was all like digitalized
04:11:38.960that was just gross and unnecessary and it was like kind of a scandal
04:11:44.600in the 90s in the late 90s I'm hearing about it the three in Lion King and
04:11:51.380it was the third one it was I can't believe yeah those three had like it was a little mermaid
04:12:02.760little mermaid that's right all three of those conversive well and the thing is gross things
04:12:11.340there's no accident when you are doing frame by frame animation yeah
04:12:17.900frame by frame animation takes every individual millisecond is an individual frame being made
04:12:26.060so you know nothing accidentally happens but disney is unfortunately and i say that i'm
04:12:33.180sure there's probably some very wonderful people that work at disney but as a corporation they've
04:12:38.780um really chosen to actively be the enemy of the things that we stand for and that's really sad
04:12:48.560and it's um very opposite of what their founder and intended for them to be
04:12:56.360uh so uh next one from eavesdropping horror not spelled like the horror movies but spelled like
04:13:10.140ladies of the night uh what what are some of your favorite writings by carl jung and have you ever
04:13:20.060read his writings on botan if so what are your thoughts on it swan what are your thoughts um
04:13:28.380yeah i mean i definitely read the um essay uh of wotan and the consciousness of the germans
04:13:37.660and i think it ruffled a lot of feathers because some people were saying it was
04:13:41.020supporting national socialism some people were saying it was denouncing it or what have you but
04:13:45.260But I think more importantly, it was showing the divine's emergence amongst the folk.
04:13:50.920And it's, again, the resurrection of the true gods amongst our people as an idea that it not only is coming back, but could come back again and also receive.
04:14:06.960There is this kind of connection point.
04:33:57.800There is a nobility to being above certain things.
04:34:07.640And I say this in a, this might be a different way to approach this, and I want to explore this a little bit further.
04:34:20.720So I think we have all different age groups of people who listen to this program.
04:34:29.140We have Mary, who's in her 80s, that listens to this program, and I know a lot of people in their 20s.
04:34:37.640And I have noticed, as I have grown older, that something happens at some point in your life between you and your parents where there is a...
04:34:57.640i'll say this you get to a certain age where you see your parents in a way that you can relate to
04:35:15.820as children your parents are larger than life for good or for ill they're either
04:35:26.420you know these demigods or they are devils if they're evil it depends but they're big
04:35:36.500and immensely powerful and beyond your reckoning then you get a certain point in your life we look
04:35:43.620back and like hold on i remember my dad when he was my age i remember talking to my dad when he
04:35:52.580was my age and i remember stuff he said to me like all right hold up oh for example in the afa
04:36:02.260i am blessed with the fact that within the same 24-hour period i can talk to someone i consider
04:36:11.700a close friend of mine who's in his early 20s and also a close friend of mine who is in their mid
04:36:20.50070s they are both my friends and in a way my peers but there is a 50 year gap and it's
04:36:33.860a unique blessing that i have that i didn't have at earlier points in my life
04:36:40.180i remember there was a friend of mine this has happened a couple of times there were friends of
04:36:46.740mine whose parents who i wanted to relate to their parents in some way um you know one of them was
04:36:56.500talking to me about their parents treating them poorly the other you know one of their parents
04:37:02.420decided to get into some stupid squabble with me on facebook and i'm behaving one way because i'm
04:37:10.020like oh my friend's parent i'm assuming they're my parents age and in both these instances i'm like
04:37:17.700hold on no my friend's parent is my age right man i should punch that guy in the mouth
04:37:26.420like it became real different because i have a deference to elders something happens when you
04:37:34.740surpass your parents age when they have you and when you started being aware of things
04:37:41.860so when i interact with my dad now that you know gotta stop in math here he's what 70 76 this year
04:37:54.500i remember when my dad was 43 i'm gonna turn 44 this year i'm i knew my dad at 44.
04:38:00.580I knew him, and I was old enough to remember conversations we had and lessons he taught me.
04:38:09.000So you start seeing your parents as people.
04:38:15.720And in some situations, as your parents age, and if, unfortunately, there's a cognitive decline,
04:38:27.080or sometimes I was talking to a friend of mine just yesterday I believe where he was talking
04:38:35.740to me about his father-in-law and he's kind of become the de facto man of the family that has
04:38:41.160to take care of his father-in-law which is an interesting thing sometimes you can surpass your
04:38:47.920parents the best that they were able to achieve. Maybe you've surpassed that in whatever way that
04:38:57.960might be, in wisdom, in nobility, in success, in a variety of things. And then you find yourself
04:39:07.740in a different spot. Some of us have found ourselves in spots to where we start being
04:39:16.220the adult in the situation as relates to our parents sometimes that's total sometimes that's
04:39:23.180just situational but it's very interesting because you never would have thought that was the case
04:39:28.380when you're a child one thing when you are an adult and you're dealing with a parent that's
04:39:36.140passed and and is deceased there is a value in treating them with a certain amount of
04:39:48.540because you're no longer in a spot where you have to treat them nicely
04:39:54.220you don't have to do what they what they tell you
04:39:58.540they're not the boss of you it's you're in a different spot in your life
04:40:02.620life but you can choose to be respectful and you can choose to what degree to be respectful
04:40:11.500sometimes if your parents are not best or there's many a ways that they fall short
04:40:18.220you can extend a certain amount of grace to them and how you remember them and how you treat their
04:40:22.960memory you can say hey you know I know you struggle with a lot of things no you didn't
04:40:30.340everything right but I love you and I miss you and and I and I respect you you can do that
04:40:38.800you can choose to do that as an Aryan man or woman you can make those choices
04:40:44.140you can choose to let go of baggage and of um
04:40:50.440small things you can choose to let go of some big things
04:40:54.520now I want to also say in counterbalance you mentioned if your parents were abusive
04:41:01.500there's levels of abuse there's ways to where your parents lose their temper
04:41:08.980you know maybe they slapped you around a couple of times they shouldn't maybe they were unkind
04:41:15.400to you when they should have been kind maybe they were intolerant when they should have been
04:41:20.160thoughtful, you can let some things slide. But there's other parents that are evil and sadistic
04:41:27.960that savagely abuse their children, that sexually predate on their children and do any of those
04:41:37.180things. I am not, even for a second, telling you to extend any courtesy or any respect to those
04:41:43.860but as arian men and women you get to make that choice of what things you are capable of letting
04:41:54.660slide because you choose to as a noble grace you are extending to them and you can choose what lines
04:42:05.300to draw on to say no i will hate you for eternity and spit on your grave that is a choice you can
04:42:15.700make too and anything in between but having the nobility of mind to be able to transcend
04:42:25.540human weakness and human silliness we get to it's really interesting as I've gotten into my 40s I've
04:42:37.240thought about this a lot you're able to see and understand your parents failings and their
04:42:46.360weakness in a different way once you've lived through the stage of life that they've lived
04:42:52.720through that you judge them for if you live long enough you get to see these things you're like
04:42:59.200wow I remember when my dad was 44 and he did this thing man I'm 44 now and I understand what he was
04:43:07.720feeling maybe you're better than it maybe you're worse maybe you make the same choices but you
04:43:15.580a perspective to where you can extend a kindness if you choose to exercise your power as noble men
04:43:25.260and women to make those choices according to your true self and not because of the hurt
04:43:36.780and the passions of youth or of uh lesser you know of lesser people
04:43:46.380so make make noble choices i guess is my theme on that question
04:43:52.380so it has been awesome to go through this with you guys i know it seems like we're inching through it
04:43:58.940but uh i am enjoying every bit of it and i'm enjoying enjoying this time going through it
04:44:04.940with my friend spawn and with all of you who are such an amazing audience i look forward to part
04:44:13.180five two weeks from today and next week we will be joined by uh newly ordained githya lauren
04:44:23.180anderson she will join me and we will talk to you about a variety of things and answer your questions
04:44:29.820until then hail the isir hail the folk hail the afa remember victory never sleeps