Asatru Folk Assembly - 6⧸26⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 103 - Ásatrú Trúlögmál, Part 1

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00:04:00.000 All right, guys, welcome to another edition of Victory Never Sleeps.

00:04:26.220 As you guys who are watching this live noticed, but folks that are listening may not have,

00:04:34.560 today we honor the passing of one of ours.

00:04:39.060 Farron Lassan passed away while we were doing this broadcast this time last week.

00:04:46.720 So I consider myself very fortunate.

00:04:49.900 I got to meet her and visit her a few times before she passed.

00:04:54.020 and I just want to take it took a moment today to just I don't know remember her and honor her

00:05:03.260 passing um and as has become tradition Ronald Blake starts it out with a $50 donation to

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00:05:18.600 okay if i'm reading this right 50 for victory never sleeps and 45 for the new york's off fund

00:05:29.820 and bought us a coffee too um thank you so much ronald we we appreciate you uh i can't say it

00:05:39.160 enough can i step in for a second i don't mean to slow the roll in the beginning of the intro

00:05:46.760 you're fine we got longest we've done so far is seven and a half hours we can

00:05:52.440 we got time ronald blake if you could or if you were willing to send your address to either me

00:06:00.600 or alzheimer i would love to give you a gift for your uh your generosity from me personally

00:06:10.200 something that i i would like to work on and give you for um just being exceptional and um yeah

00:06:19.480 i i think i have something in mind i want to work on and and and make it personally from me

00:06:24.680 to you. If you leave your address, I will mail it to you. It's just for saying thank, just to say

00:06:32.060 thank you. Yeah. Those of you who've listened, it goes without saying, those of you, this is your

00:06:39.340 first time. Ronald donates significantly and generously every single episode almost. And it is

00:06:50.000 uh so very appreciated so thank you for that um housekeeping stuff before we get in the meat and

00:06:59.760 taters of things uh actually we'll do this first so tonight we're going to be going over

00:07:07.920 um a document that we created recently called the ausitru trulamo and that can be found at the link

00:07:18.080 that nick gave but not really because the link is misspelled but he'll get the right link up

00:07:24.620 here in just a second or the right verbiage up in just a second uh that said if you go to our

00:07:32.480 website if you're listening to this a little later time at runestone.org and you go to the

00:07:41.400 it's got a silent virtually silent g in the middle there just in case you're typing it in

00:07:50.520 it uh it'll take you up and pull you up the document it's probably going to come up as a

00:07:55.000 as a pdf so if you want to yes cue that up while we're talking here so it will be

00:08:04.760 ready when it's uh when we get into the i don't know closer examination of it in the meantime

00:08:14.760 since last time i spoke with you we celebrated midsummer at odin soft it was a absolutely

00:08:21.480 fantastic event um it if it was the reason that producer nick was not on the program

00:08:30.520 last week as he was headed out this way to participate there. And just as he is consistently

00:08:39.660 helpful and useful here, he did not take a break out at Midsummer. He manned the registration booth

00:08:46.460 just about all weekend. We appreciate him. It was his first time out at Odenshoff. And what I'd like

00:08:54.100 to do is to put him on the spot and have him tell you guys a little bit about his weekend and his

00:09:02.020 impressions of Odenshoff and his kind of first time visiting Odenshoff for Midsummer.

00:09:06.980 So Nick, if you'd like to jump in, if not, you can leave me hanging, I suppose.

00:09:10.820 Nick Taylor I am more than okay with that. You guys don't get a camera,

00:09:15.780 though, because Yasser Gauthier is a mini-mini-pupu head and sprung us on me without notice.

00:09:21.780 but that's okay um so aside from the hecticness of the flights in and out we're not gonna worry

00:09:32.320 about that that had nothing to do with the great hall of odin um i had an amazing time i got out

00:09:38.940 there early i was out there on wednesday i got to spend uh spend the night at the hall at the

00:09:44.740 hoff and then thursday uh we had a few members come in we got some work done i did i did a couple

00:09:51.920 loads of dishes and all kinds of stuff to prep for the event no big deal then we had some fun

00:09:57.280 because uh there was some fires just a couple hundred yards some wildfires just a few hundred

00:10:02.140 yards maybe a thousand yards i don't know it wasn't that far from the hoff some wildfires there

00:10:07.480 was evac notices and all that now we didn't take those too seriously but shh don't tell anybody

00:10:14.380 um i might have fell on the couch during the middle of the evacuation order

00:10:19.580 uh no worries so it was a great time uh friday rolls around and we had amazing people this might

00:10:28.640 have been for at least of the events i've been to this is by far probably the busiest friday

00:10:35.120 i've ever seen i reckon there was 65 people at including kids there on just the friday

00:10:44.020 It might even been more than that. It was amazing. Of course, Alciugoti did a fantastic Odensblot on Friday, as well as welcoming the gods before that.

00:10:57.840 um saturday we reached uh even more members we got up to 102 members as of saturday it was amazing

00:11:08.440 and we had a great great meals of course on all three days um see it full builder sierra chapman

00:11:17.880 in the in the kitchen with and she had a lot of help from a lot of the guys from uh

00:11:22.800 the northwest in the caravan crew so to speak on Saturday we also had an awesome

00:11:32.220 balder blocks thanks to which it cliff Erickson who came out with his family

00:11:38.420 from Pennsylvania we were representing the doors off district out there and

00:11:47.300 And then, of course, we had a very generous auction, and they followed that up with Sumble, which I was not able to make it to, but I heard there might have been a few words said about me.

00:12:02.240 So I always wonder just what they were, but I'll never know.

00:12:05.160 I guess that's my fault.

00:12:06.480 uh on on sunday uh of course uh the mcnallan's githya and founder mcnallan both led an awesome

00:12:18.660 uh wayfarer's blow we did it a bit brandy style at the end with not lots of hugs and love

00:12:26.880 and we i was there till about five o'clock in the evening on saturday or on sunday got got a chance

00:12:35.760 to read to some of the kids that were

00:12:37.580 left over that hadn't left yet

00:12:39.980 and

00:12:41.740 it was an awesome time

00:12:43.060 and then I got on the plane and I was

00:12:45.240 stressed for the next 25 hours

00:12:47.360 24 but that's

00:12:49.680 neither here nor there

00:12:51.300 I'm thrilled

00:12:53.800 and I can't wait to go back

00:12:56.020 it's awesome people

00:12:57.860 awesome place

00:12:58.920 and awesome time

00:13:01.740 looking over at the chat

00:13:05.180 Chris, you are mistaken about our numbers.

00:13:08.080 That is about almost a seventh of the AFA.

00:13:14.340 As Olivia said, yeah.

00:13:16.220 We're going to have time as big as you think we are.

00:13:18.540 I said we got up to 102 on Saturday.

00:13:21.240 As Olivia said, we did have some awesome stragglers coming on Sunday

00:13:25.620 and capped us off at 106.

00:13:30.440 That's great.

00:13:31.220 I thought the number was 103.

00:13:32.580 So everybody counts.

00:13:34.260 Appreciate that.

00:13:35.180 um yeah it was great to have you out nick it's it's i'm really glad you got a chance to experience

00:13:41.400 it um that said if you want to see nick and myself and i hope spawn but i haven't heard 0.99

00:13:49.420 confirmation yet we got sigger bloat coming up in just about three and a half weeks i believe

00:13:59.400 in July 19th through the 20th at Sigerheim. 0.98

00:14:03.820 That's in Jackson County, Tennessee.

00:14:06.780 I'm looking forward to seeing everybody there.

00:14:08.480 It's going to be fantastic.

00:14:11.180 Beautiful, wonderful place.

00:14:13.580 So many things are happening and are going to happen there

00:14:17.620 in the coming months, weeks, years, decades at that spot.

00:14:23.300 And we'd love to have you guys join us there and check it out.

00:14:29.400 Other, oh, something else to think about. We have Freyfaxi coming up in August at Baldershoff

00:14:44.600 in Murdoch, Minnesota. Love to see you guys there. I will be there. A lot of special guests

00:14:51.520 from AFA leadership are planning to make it there. At this point, our law speaker, Mr.

00:14:58.300 Alan Turnage plans to be there, Gauthier's Bodie Mayo and Trent East plan to be there, as well

00:15:06.460 as Gauthier Daniel Young and his lovely wife, Folkwilder Heather Young. So a lot of VIPs,

00:15:16.420 as it were. And my wife and daughter will be there too at Baldur's Hoff. This will be their

00:15:22.140 first time visiting Baldershof. So I'm excited. I am excited to show them what an amazing space

00:15:29.340 that is and all the amazing work they've done up there. We've got a couple few things before

00:15:40.340 we get cracking here. As you guys know, we are trying to figure out our store on best practices

00:15:46.860 and whatever that's going to get you guys the best products.

00:15:51.000 I think we're satisfied right now with quality,

00:15:53.380 but we're working on figuring out shipping and stuff.

00:15:56.720 So we've got a lot of items right now.

00:15:58.960 There is no guarantee we are going to keep these items up

00:16:01.980 in the same way that we have them.

00:16:03.860 So if you want them, I would encourage everybody to go out

00:16:06.220 and get a hold of them.

00:16:08.680 This is a selection of them on the screen right now.

00:16:12.080 Please get them while the getting's good.

00:16:13.980 and we as always we appreciate you guys support all right and that is what I think we got for

00:16:29.680 the top of the show as far as preamble goes yeah also so okay another thing that I think I forget

00:16:41.680 if you're interested in donating for any reason we always need donations we appreciate them hugely

00:16:47.360 if you want to donate instructions on that are in the description of this video there's the fun

00:16:54.320 buy us a cup of coffee thing that the kids do these days i hope we also have a donate link

00:17:01.520 in the description to our donate page at runestone.org um i have not checked so that's kind

00:17:08.240 of either we do or hint it would be awesome if we could get that there it's in the description

00:17:13.440 yes sir fantastic it's always on top of stuff so yeah there's that we have a number of different uh

00:17:23.520 stuff we're trying to raise some money for and we appreciate all of y'all's generosity

00:17:28.880 i thank you guys for that and we've got a couple more donations here at the top uh

00:17:36.480 Witt and Brandy Fassett donated $50 to Baldershof for steeple repairs.

00:17:43.200 Those of you that don't know, since our people acquired Baldershof,

00:17:50.480 we have shown that building so much love and done amazing things. Unfortunately,

00:17:55.520 folks that had it before us, it had become very derelict. One of the problems, the steeple

00:18:01.920 was not maintained very well and there was rot and structural issues with it so the top portion

00:18:10.460 of the steeple had to come down it's going to go back up it's going to go back even more beautiful

00:18:15.600 than it was before we've got you know projects to make these things better and brighter and more

00:18:21.560 amazing but we do need to raise some cash to do that and brandy is starting out seed in the pot

00:18:27.200 We appreciate it. Thank you. Oh, wow. Got three more donations to talk about before we get started

00:18:34.380 here. Lauren Anderson bought us five coffees. That equals $25. Hail the AFA. Hail to you, 1.00

00:18:42.340 Lauren. Thank you. Hail. Chris Lucat donated $20 to VNS. Even though he misestimates our numbers,

00:18:51.820 we still appreciate you thank you very much chris thank you we appreciate it and uh ryan skinner

00:18:57.820 folk builder ryan skinner one of our new newly uh oathed folk builders he took his oath at midsummer

00:19:05.820 along with folk builder kyle reader ryan skinner donated 115 dollars to victory never sleeps

00:19:13.260 appreciate that very much thank you ryan

00:19:15.180 check over here cool all right so with that uh try to think how we want to run this typically

00:19:30.780 typically we got spawn reading these um

00:19:40.460 all right so i have not contemplated beforehand the best way to break this up

00:19:44.540 so we're going to freestyle it just a little bit but the document is called the alsatru trullamal

00:19:53.500 and uh subtitled the fundamental beliefs of the alsatru folk assembly i would like for

00:20:02.700 iceland's own spawn herald to break down the closest

00:20:07.420 what trulamal means and with that i want to give you guys a little bit of background of

00:20:15.880 what the intent of this document was and kind of the genesis of it and then we'll get into

00:20:23.420 the meat of it here well uh true um kind of has a double meaning just like vowel

00:20:34.920 Thal means, you know, generally it's translated as slain, but it also means choose or choosing or to be chosen.

00:20:41.160 Or the the double meaning is there is faith and then there is troth or loyalty.

00:20:50.980 Of course, troth survived in our language, especially when you hear it in weddings with betrothal.

00:20:56.680 Um, and that means again, loyalty, fidelity, um, uh, honorable, uh, connection between two parties.

00:21:09.700 Um, sometimes it doesn't have to be, uh, of an equal sense.

00:21:16.420 A lot of times it's, it's, again, it's, it's a fealty, um, like there would be fealty to a king.

00:21:21.720 The king doesn't owe you, but you are loyal because of the structure that he or the gods are in.

00:21:33.820 But it also means faith in a general sense as well.

00:21:38.100 And it often is used in modern terms for faith.

00:21:42.980 So the word law, the G sound is really soft in there.

00:21:49.100 um i don't know i i'm still kind of like reading about old norse as to whether or not it was

00:21:56.620 hardly like pronounced uh with a hard g but um it survives in our language with the word law

00:22:06.700 um law so it has the same uh pronunciation the o with the two or the umlaut

00:22:14.220 up over up over it is an au sound kind of like in caught so it's the true law mal and mal is edicts

00:22:26.220 or sayings or uh proverbs or uh it can mean numerous things it's the listing the saying of

00:22:36.700 the formalization in order to be recited it's the the the faith laws as they are organized if you

00:22:46.620 will that's a really kind of complex way of looking at it but it's it's the listed law of our faith

00:22:56.460 so anybody that wants to take issue with the linguistics of it

00:23:00.300 it is a word that i cobbled together so the fault is on me understanding being that it is the

00:23:11.900 basically the statement of religious

00:23:19.820 of our religious code i guess or of our religious tenants and so that kind of leads into the

00:23:30.300 um why did this come about what is the purpose a little bit of background on the document you

00:23:37.440 will notice that it is most often very

00:23:43.980 brief and direct to the point

00:23:49.200 and it's intentionally so um

00:23:54.240 for a long time and in the history of of modern house and true

00:23:57.600 everyone over speak a vast majority of us grappled with and still you know up until this point do

00:24:09.760 grapple with basic basic questions about our faith because it is such a holistic worldview

00:24:18.560 and there's so much to it that when people ask like you know you're what what does that mean

00:24:25.520 what do you guys do what what is this house of truth thing we all know what it is but it's so

00:24:34.320 broad that sometimes we don't know where to start it's like there's all these different prerequisites

00:24:41.200 that you need to know before you know this part or you don't want to say this part first without

00:24:45.840 a background and it becomes very complicated and confusing we want to communicate clearly

00:24:51.920 so the idea of this was to cut through the hemming and hawing about where to start to

00:24:57.840 pick a place to start there and to try to structure it in a way that it can be it can

00:25:04.880 clarify for our own people what the positions of the astro folk assembly are but it can also

00:25:11.680 explain to interested people or people maybe new to things what exactly it is that we believe.

00:25:24.280 It's never meant to be the entirety of what we believe.

00:25:30.040 We have 103 After Today episodes scratching the surface of what we believe, so there's

00:25:39.660 obviously much more than this but this is the basics these things are the fundamentals to the

00:25:45.500 practice of our faith and these are the fundamental teachings of the astro focusing any of these

00:25:52.140 points swan and i can expound upon and will likely do that in the future but wanted to go through the

00:26:00.060 document and kind of go through it piece by piece break it down for you guys and answer any questions

00:26:08.940 along the way and i'll be looking for questions so we can get them as they come up

00:26:22.140 oh okay so again on the background of it my hemming and hawing here at the beginning should

00:26:27.820 be evidence enough of why this document was necessary so that said a little bit of the

00:26:33.100 background we all kind of know that this is necessary to a degree and important um

00:26:43.980 but been hesitant to know exactly what to put where and as i've said on this program

00:26:48.940 so many times i decided to take my own advice don't make perfect the enemy a good let's start

00:26:54.860 somewhere and roll with it so this is a document that is fully intended to evolve over time perhaps

00:27:02.220 to incorporate other things that maybe were omitted or to you know tweak things here and there as

00:27:09.660 becomes available um in any of these things we'd like to write additional position pieces on as

00:27:17.420 time goes on we plan to do so um just check i want to be checking consistently to see if we have

00:27:27.340 uh any other any questions i'll be looking to see as they come up so i got eyes on as well

00:27:36.460 oh and so just to to cap off the joking with chris about the member number we got

00:27:43.660 777 as of this moment and that doesn't include children that attend events that's adult paying

00:27:51.340 members. Just to be transparent and put it out there. So, first, okay, Ausatru means loyal to

00:28:04.660 the Isir. Now, Svan broke that down a little bit. It has come to mean religion or belief,

00:28:14.400 and that's not wrong per se but it's the basis of fidelity and trust it's troth it's being in

00:28:25.480 a loyal relationship or a loyal devotion to a uh we are allied with we are in the service of

00:28:35.040 we are loyal to and we stand with in the face of the enemies, the Aesir. That steadfast trough is

00:28:46.800 the basis of the Nordic people's understanding of religiosity, which I think is fundamental and

00:28:55.920 very important so when we say also true we mean loyal to the isir it's not just believing or

00:29:05.200 accepting a general cosmology but it's recognizing that and then choosing to devote ourselves

00:29:14.080 to being loyally in you know on the team of the isir

00:29:19.360 the first section that's preamble before we even start

00:29:24.160 norse nomenclature the astro folk assembly is proudly pan-aryan we recognize the wide

00:29:33.160 variations of geography and chronology that exist in the history of our folk and our relationship

00:29:39.600 with the isere where available and to the best of our ability we refer to the isere by their

00:29:46.680 norse names and we use the norse expression of our sacred lore we use the norse nomenclature to build

00:29:55.000 clarity and unity in the practice of our religion we see the norse sources as the most complete and

00:30:01.800 accessible material for our modern folk we use a norse lens as it was in these terms and upon

00:30:09.880 this understanding that all father odin gave stephen mcnallan his mandate to awaken the folk

00:30:16.760 and to reforge ousadru

00:30:18.840 there's a couple ronald just ronald continues to outshine uh fifty dollars to the baldershoff

00:30:41.160 steeple thank you rama um we would love to make sure you leave your address in the email yes

00:30:50.680 please do that and uh thank you so svan is there anything you'd like to say about that first chunk

00:30:57.560 or you think that folks need to know to expound on it a little bit um yeah one of the big things is

00:31:04.360 uh the usage of the word arian um and i know we've covered this in other vns episodes but you know

00:31:12.120 just on the off chance say someone's coming in on this this is their first episode um

00:31:19.400 i i've even gotten into a little bit of a debate online with some uh people who are and a person

00:31:29.720 who particularly likes to use the word indo-european um and why we use arian instead of indo-european

00:31:39.560 um because arian has kind of been brushed into kind of specifically only talking about

00:31:48.520 the iranians or um excuse me the predecessing uh settlers of of of the persian or um

00:31:59.000 farsi kind of people um it and it's worth remembering that the word itself has power

00:32:06.920 because of the languages in which those people our ancestors the arians carried value in their

00:32:16.120 language and so when you're looking at sanskrit when you're looking at the um the and i i actually

00:32:23.800 can't think of at the top of my head like examples and say the hittite or louian uh people of the

00:32:30.600 middle east um but there is you know certainly greek roman um gaulish or celtic um uh and and

00:32:43.080 nordic germanic where that word nobility honor uh is expressed in that word whether it's ire

00:32:50.600 or era um you know or orias um aristos and there it's it's really prevalent in europe but we do

00:33:02.760 consider you know um moving eastward and the idea of who these these people were and you'll hear

00:33:09.000 people say that the words don't have any meaning that the you know the people were multi you know

00:33:14.600 cultural and um that there you know it wasn't based on their on the genetics even though

00:33:20.040 everyone that spoke about them could clearly state that they used iron they had light skin

00:33:25.800 or light eyes or light hair they were a people we are a people and that's the the biggest um

00:33:36.680 point real history is not the uh the netflix version right exactly or the swedish documentary

00:33:45.080 that just came out and said the early swedes were uh looked more like somalis in their little

00:33:49.640 interpretation of it clearly yeah it's it's kind of ridiculous but again it's not it's not we're 0.57

00:33:57.240 not harping on that i think those that stuff's ridiculous in a separate but it's really important

00:34:03.800 for everybody listening to know that that word is about the identification of a broad scope of

00:34:11.960 people and it doesn't just include the europeans it doesn't just include the germans if the people

00:34:18.520 want to get into like politics and things like that this is a broad and we see this as branches

00:34:25.640 there are branches there's teutonic area and there's nordic which is again an offshoot of the

00:34:30.920 of the teutonic or germanic um and it's because when you look at the languages

00:34:37.800 that that word has value and i think a lot of people try to tuck it away and disclose it and

00:34:47.320 whether you're coming at it from again i said politics or scholarliness or

00:34:52.920 genetics or the the fact that the iranians actually have their their uh the title of

00:34:58.520 their names kind of linking to it that doesn't immediately shut down all the linkings of it

00:35:05.240 elsewhere it's just that you know uh those words were not used as titling for those

00:35:11.160 for those folk they saw other things to title themselves that or oftentimes they were named by

00:35:16.520 their you know observant observers or enemies so you know when we get a lot of that um i think

00:35:24.920 people get confused or they get scared or they get a little nervous and i think it's worth noting

00:35:30.520 uh and the spelling in and of itself i've also heard people say we should go back

00:35:34.600 to the proto indo-european reconstructed word but that's the thing it's reconstructed

00:35:42.040 and you know people i think are ultimately doing that because they want to shy away from things

00:35:47.720 that make other people uncomfortable or make themselves uncomfortable and they want to do

00:35:52.600 you know uh herios instead of arian um i find that all interesting but i also find it kind of

00:36:01.320 redundant or at least giving segway back just simply because somebody might be upset

00:36:10.840 being able to call our people this is just like many other groups who are individually

00:36:17.560 very very detailed whether it's the native americans or um you know uh sub-saharan bantu

00:36:24.040 tribal people of africa they're very very like divide divided and and uh organized in their own

00:36:31.640 little groups but to call them all bantu or um you know to call the native like as the native

00:36:39.560 americans often call themselves you know the first people or um the first nation they're suddenly

00:36:46.680 taking these in these very very distinct groups and bringing them together and they have the right

00:36:52.760 to do that that's okay if they want to identify themselves as that that's what they call each

00:36:58.360 other we are doing the same thing and i really i really wanted to to bring that up to the forefront

00:37:06.680 and we will get to that a little bit more as we go about this document um

00:37:16.680 It unifies, so we try as close as we can.

00:37:23.780 You may notice throughout this that I go to Old Norse spellings of certain terms.

00:37:37.740 Whatever your, word escapes me.

00:37:44.580 the word will come to me after I don't need it

00:37:47.280 whatever the common language is

00:37:48.800 wherever you're consuming it is fine

00:37:50.960 but if we are defaulting

00:37:53.120 to a different language

00:37:54.920 to unify

00:37:56.560 our

00:37:57.560 religious content and our

00:38:00.760 speaking for our

00:38:03.120 faith we default back to

00:38:04.840 the old Norse 0.89

00:38:05.860 you were going to say

00:38:08.260 the mother tongue

00:38:11.080 is that what you were going to say

00:38:12.780 it's not but that's what i that's what i should have said in keeping with the content of what i'm

00:38:17.520 saying right uh whatever they are um yeah so it's it's kind of the uh where these languages flow from

00:38:27.240 in our understanding under that norse nomenclature so it's very easy and you will notice it's not

00:38:35.280 perfect because this has come together over time, oftentimes we'll have an old English term or

00:38:45.920 even Arian itself is a Sanskrit term. Ariskr is the Old Norse version of that word. And at

00:38:56.680 some time we may end up using that. But right now Arian has a very specific meaning and we don't

00:39:02.140 want to abdicate that because the meaning is beautiful and important it means noble and uh

00:39:09.260 it is a self descriptor it's not letting other people define who we are much like the term

00:39:14.140 ausitrum i suppose that's worth mentioning um for a long time in the early days people had um

00:39:22.220 i call it odinism i call it wotanism i call it evenry you know i call it form say there i call

00:39:29.740 it norse paganism the more we call it a million different things the more it has no meaning

00:39:36.940 to people on the outside trying to understand what we do all of those other terms are

00:39:44.860 them describing us also true is us describing us it isn't those other guys or those guys up north

00:39:55.980 that do that thing or the people on the heath doing their strange ooga booga heath stuff

00:40:02.780 or the paganus the um you know the country bumpkins out there doing whatever they're doing

00:40:10.460 no this is us describing ourselves as the noble people and our relationship to our gods as being

00:40:20.060 loyal to our gods, the Aesir. And so that's really important. It's an important way to frame all

00:40:26.220 these other things. And before I continue, and I'll get on to part one, Alsie Coleman Miller IV

00:40:34.460 bought us three coffees. Thank you, Alsie. We appreciate it. He says, hail victory. Indeed.

00:40:40.460 With that, part one, the Aesir, the name Aesir means the pillars or columns that structure our

00:40:55.440 existence. The Aesir is the collective name for the gods of our folk that are right to worship.

00:41:05.460 The Aesir include gods that were originally known as Vanir.

00:41:09.600 After the First War, these gods and goddesses were assimilated into the tribe of, and are forever known as, the Aesir.

00:41:17.100 The Aesir are the gods of cosmic order and noble action.

00:41:21.020 There are other divine beings that we interact with not named here, such as the Himenberðir, heavenly wardens, and the Ausðvinir, the beloved ones.

00:41:31.960 The sons of Bor slew Ymir the giant.

00:41:36.960 Lo, where he fell, there gushed forth so much blood out of his wounds that with it they drowned all the race of the Hrym giants, save that one whom giants call Bergomir. 0.95

00:41:51.960 Of Ymir's flesh was earth created, of his blood, sea, of his bones, the hills, and of his hair, trees and plants, of his skull, the heavens, and of his brow, the gentle powers formed Midgard for the sons of men. 0.80

00:42:14.100 But of his brain, the heavy clouds are all created. 0.82

00:42:18.820 Grim Nismal 40 through 41. 0.94

00:42:20.740 Oðinn and his brothers slew and dismembered the primal embodiment of chaos, Ymir. 0.98

00:42:29.680 From the corpse of Ymir, the Æsir built our ordered existence. 0.98

00:42:34.320 The Æsir and our Aryan folk shape order and beauty from the ugly and the chaotic. 1.00

00:42:43.500 is there anything you think needs to be added on that spot or uh explained

00:42:52.340 um i think people need to understand that when we we anchor from um

00:43:05.040 from the old norse and work our way out because i've uh ever since this came out i've gotten some

00:43:12.660 really good questions and concerns and ideas about things. And I think that it's worth kind

00:43:20.020 of looking at, we work from the core based on what we have. And, you know, when we, when we see

00:43:31.700 in the Gilfoginning, when we see King Gilfie is talking to the tripartite, I had to say it.

00:43:39.740 And so, you know, he's talking to the tripartite and he asks, who are the gods that men should pray to?

00:43:48.880 And the list is given.

00:43:51.680 We know of these gods is to be listed as in the trough is clearly built with them.

00:43:57.860 But what we also need to remember is that in that list, there are even members of the Isir that, or excuse me, members of the gods that are not listed there because it's not that they aren't held in honor or people do have relationships.

00:44:20.720 It was, it's again, the structuring of hierarchy is more about what is being established. And I don't think that people see it that way. And I think that they should look at the hierarchy of it.

00:44:34.620 We also see it culturally. So, you know, when we, when we speak about the gods and we start working from the Aus and then the Ausinir, and then when we look at the Ausinir, the Ausinir are in the list in the Guildfaginning, for instance, Sif, the, the, the wife of Thor, as she is often referred to.

00:45:00.880 the golden haired maiden of families,

00:45:06.760 of the plots of land and of the groves and the fields

00:45:11.140 that are built upon the homestead.

00:45:14.880 She is the goddess of the homesteads.

00:45:20.420 She's not mentioned in that list,

00:45:23.240 but clearly throughout all the stories referred to,

00:45:26.220 she's mentioned.

00:45:27.320 So the oust veneer, our beloved,

00:45:30.640 and there are many who are linked to them and for some folks when they get they really start to

00:45:37.840 look into the minute details they have problems say for instance that the holy austra is not

00:45:45.840 mentioned in the norse texts but that's again we're starting from the center and working our way

00:45:53.360 out so our faith and we know of the holy goddess ostara but then at the same time or iostra and

00:46:04.080 then we have other goddesses who we believe may have had more linguistic connections perfect

00:46:10.720 example of this is in tacitus with nerthis and with yarth in the norse and some people might be

00:46:18.640 thinking well svan is she's not a goddess amongst the norse yes she was called of jotun descent

00:46:25.680 um but we do see that the oust veneer the beloved ones come from that side and align

00:46:33.840 with the gods as a side note odin is of jotun descent often forgotten

00:46:42.480 don't be too don't be too literal and and this is something that i've run

00:46:49.280 into a lot lately to throw in here and it's not directly on this per se but

00:46:59.600 if you are to take your religion seriously when you go to read lore and things

00:47:05.120 do not turn off logic and do not turn off all of the lessons you've learned in your life

00:47:12.740 up until this point any truth needs to match with and interface with your experience and

00:47:23.580 the things that you know to be true apply those things when you read some of this very often we

00:47:30.360 encounter people attempting to evaluate the lore as if it exists in a bubble by itself it doesn't

00:47:40.600 it exists in a universe that is real that we all experience

00:47:48.040 so apply those those steps of logic and a lot of things all of a sudden make a lot more sense

00:47:54.200 don't get don't let obsessive literality in what's clearly meant to be descriptive

00:48:04.600 throw a wrench in being able to understand truths that are very beautifully explained in our lore

00:48:12.920 um so to get to what uh spawn was saying and spawn on this um there is a better way to do

00:48:20.040 this if you are a techno wizard i am not so if i am if i what i'm saying is if i am reading it

00:48:29.800 i'm also not looking at the camera so please feel free to just interrupt me and i will you know know

00:48:37.080 that you've got something to say and let you go i'll try to check back in case there's no real

00:48:41.880 way for me to know that you've got something you want to say i know i raise my hand more often than

00:48:47.160 say something yeah while i'm looking at the text well you and i've got a good system when we're

00:48:51.160 looking at each other on the on the deal but when i'm reading it's i don't see that so just keep

00:48:56.040 that in mind so all right and i say that because this next is going to be a listing of 12 gods

00:49:01.400 with a lot of content and i'm not really going to stop unless there are points that i think are

00:49:06.120 really important to cover or unless i see questions or spawn uh decides to interject well and i want

00:49:14.040 wanted to say in that in the um after mentioning the hymn and verder the the heavenly wardens

00:49:21.400 um and the celestial uh you know lords that have been given um dominion over the

00:49:28.920 the the the holy gods of order have given the hymn and verder positioning the sun the moon

00:49:38.600 um the atmosphere day and night and the rotation of the earth um but right here i just saw you know

00:49:46.840 and it says um the sons of boar slew emir the giant low where he fell and gushed forth much

00:49:53.100 blood and of his wounds that with it they drowned all the race of the rhyme giants

00:49:59.600 firstly it's worth noting that the word race is probably not the direct translation

00:50:06.560 in the way that it would be perceived,

00:50:10.200 but that it's actually interpreted that way.

00:50:12.860 The other thing that's worth noting is, again,

00:50:14.840 exactly what Al-Sharagothi said.

00:50:18.220 Lord Odin is descendant from the Jotuns. 0.93

00:50:25.860 The word means ancient ones,

00:50:28.120 and it is also worth noting that much of the confusion

00:50:31.760 comes from the descendancy of Ymir

00:50:34.820 versus the descendancy from the land of primordial beginnings,

00:50:39.780 which is Mospel and Nifhel.

00:50:42.880 Those two places exist before the middle.

00:50:48.000 And the primordial beings that exist there have existed there.

00:50:53.300 And our holy gods are, in essence, descended by one line to them. 0.79

00:51:00.840 Whereas, of course, the other side being from Abdubla.

00:51:04.820 and her creation and her her power so um it's it's just yeah i think that people don't realize how much

00:51:15.620 uh the the gothar you and the gothar try to desperately interpret with the intention of being

00:51:24.900 sincere and being logical and not trying to cram the gods and the holy beings into

00:51:34.820 little boxes. We, we try to look at things with, I mean, anybody from the outside needs to look

00:51:42.560 at the Assetry Folk Assembly and say like, these guys believe in the gods, the gods are real to

00:51:48.440 them. And this is how they structure things. And this is what they utilize to create that structure.

00:51:55.020 Because again, that's what our folk do, but we're not trying to fit the gods into boxes. We are

00:52:02.980 observing a lot of how

00:52:05.980 it is placed.

00:52:08.580 We see the guilt beginning 0.54

00:52:09.660 and the tripartite

00:52:11.920 says that there are

00:52:14.020 these gods.

00:52:16.500 So keep this in mind.

00:52:19.620 This

00:52:20.100 work in front of you

00:52:25.880 is a work of piety and of

00:52:27.800 devotion.

00:52:29.460 It's not intended to be

00:52:32.040 a literary work or a work of sociological scholarship we certainly use the wisdom

00:52:42.840 gained from our lore we also use the wisdom gained from our living tradition and from our

00:52:48.600 continued relationship with the isir and we present it in the most honest way that we can and

00:53:02.040 There's not a way to necessarily convey this, but during this whole process, there was a great deal of prayer and of offerings and of, for however you may conceive it, of running it by the Iser and hoping for it and asking for their blessing with it.

00:53:28.200 So please, please take that as it was meant and know that that's the place this is coming from.

00:53:36.160 So section one, the Iser.

00:53:37.560 Who are the Iser? 0.83

00:53:38.900 They in whom it behooves men to believe. 1.00

00:53:41.600 How are answered?

00:53:43.300 The divine Iser are twelve. 1.00

00:53:46.040 Gilfoginning, twenty.

00:53:47.420 The etic poem, Gilfoginning, gives us a comprehensive listing of the Iser to whom we ought to give worship.

00:53:54.960 Odin

00:53:57.480 Odin is the highest and eldest of the Aesir

00:54:03.040 He rules all things

00:54:05.260 And mighty as are the other gods

00:54:07.800 They all serve him as children obey a father

00:54:10.320 Gilfagin 20

00:54:12.000 Lord Odin is the master of ecstatic frenzy

00:54:16.080 Odin is the dynamic god

00:54:19.080 First inspired our founder Stephen McNally

00:54:22.200 odin is a god of kings and heroes inspires and rewards ascension and greatness

00:54:29.120 odin is a god of wisdom with inspiration of victory of countless masteries known and unknowable

00:54:40.480 as you will notice looking at this there we have done an entire show on odin and our show is nowhere

00:54:51.840 and near complete to express his glory and all of the all of the different facets of

00:55:01.460 his character and his being there's infinite amounts that could be written in each of these

00:55:06.960 sections this is the most fundamental that the rest is based on four four is foremost

00:55:16.480 of him. He that is called Thor of the Aesir, or Oku-Thor. He is strongest of all gods and men.

00:55:24.980 Gilthoginning 21. Oku-Thor means the driving Thor. He drives his chariot of two goats. Thor is a god

00:55:33.920 of immense might, and he is the friend of mankind. Aus-Thor is the divine thunderer. Aus-Thor means

00:55:42.500 of Thor of the Aesir. Among the blessings of Thor are the strength to face our struggles and the

00:55:48.420 courage to break through barriers that would hold us back. We call upon Thor for protection and we

00:55:54.300 invoke his name to sanctify. Baldr. The second son of Odin is Baldr and good things are to be said

00:56:05.780 of him. He is best, and all praise him. He is so fair a feature and so bright that light shines

00:56:15.380 from him. Gil beginning 22. Balder is the brave prince. Balder's light shines in the souls of his

00:56:30.480 folk lord balder inspires us to shine with nobility we look to balder that we might live boldly

00:56:39.440 and that our deeds be courageous balder reflects the best of the iser and inspires the best in us

00:56:48.000 The third among the Aesir is he that is called Njörðr.

00:56:56.000 He dwells in heaven in the abode called Njörðr.

00:57:00.000 He rules the course of the wind, instills sea and fire.

00:57:05.000 On him shall men call for voyages and for hunting.

00:57:09.000 He is so prosperous and abounding in wealth that he may give them great plenty of lands for up gear.

00:57:17.000 And him shall men invoke for such things.

00:57:21.760 Gilforgiving, 23.

00:57:24.480 Nyother's name means Lord of Vitality.

00:57:30.480 Lord Nyother radiates with health, wealth, and abundance.

00:57:36.180 Nyother gives blessings, including success and prosperity.

00:57:45.200 Frayer.

00:57:47.000 Freyr is the most renowned B.I.C.

00:57:49.760 He rules over the rain and the shining of the sun,

00:57:54.780 and therewithal the fruit of the earth.

00:57:57.040 It is good to call on him for fruitful seasons of peace.

00:58:01.940 He governs also the prosperity of men.

00:58:05.460 Gilfoginning, 24.

00:58:07.840 Freyr's name means Lord.

00:58:10.480 Lord Freyr blesses his folk with bountiful harvests,

00:58:13.460 with swelling herds

00:58:15.680 and with thriving families

00:58:17.840 forever is a god

00:58:19.700 of manly virility

00:58:20.960 and potency

00:58:22.540 Tyr 0.76

00:58:25.820 yet remains that one of the Aesir 1.00

00:58:29.320 who is called Tyr 1.00

00:58:30.480 he is the most daring

00:58:32.660 and best in stoutness of heart

00:58:35.120 and he has much authority

00:58:37.180 over victory in battle

00:58:38.380 it is good for men of valor

00:58:40.920 to invoke him

00:58:41.820 It is a proverb that he is tear valiant, who surpasses other men, and does not waver.

00:58:50.640 He is wise, so that it is also said that he that is wisest is tear prudent, guilt beginning 25.

00:59:01.360 Tear's name means God.

00:59:03.780 Lord, tear is a God of cosmic order, a God of justice, and a pillar that holds up the structure of our existence.

00:59:11.820 Tear is also a god of duty, even at great cost.

00:59:18.300 Braggie.

00:59:20.060 One is called Braggie.

00:59:22.340 He is renowned for wisdom, and most of all, for fluency of speech and skill with words.

00:59:30.000 He knows most of scholarship, and after him, scholarship is called Braggar.

00:59:36.380 and from his name that one is called braggerman or woman who possesses eloquence surpassing others

00:59:44.480 of women or of men gil beginning 26 bragi is the best of poets bragi is a patron of poetry

00:59:53.860 and storytelling with sacred note and tone lord bragi's music conjures beauty in the souls of his

01:00:01.580 folk upon bragi's tongue are carved sacred rooms wit and elephants

01:00:13.900 every now and again when there's a long dramatic pause it's because i'm checking to see if

01:00:17.180 questions are coming up bear with me with that please heim dollar heim dollar is the name of one

01:00:24.860 he is called the white god he is great and whole nine maids all sisters bore him for a son he is

01:00:33.820 also called hollandskivi and gulantani his teeth were of gold his horse is called gold's top he

01:00:44.620 dwells in the place called himenbjord hard by by by frost he is the water of the gods and sits there

01:00:54.540 by heaven's end to guard the bridge from the hill giants he needs less sleep than a bird

01:01:01.580 he sees equally well night and day a hundred leagues from him and hears how grass grows

01:01:08.620 on the earth or wool on sheep and everything that has a louder sound he has that trumpet which is

01:01:16.460 called galler horn and its blast is heard throughout all worlds heim dollar sword is called

01:01:23.980 head guilt beginning 27. heim dollar's name means home bright he is also known as rig heim dollar

01:01:34.700 is ever vigilant and guards ausgarther from the forces of chaos warms of coming threats lord

01:01:42.380 Heimdallar hears our words, he sees our deeds, he knows and he remembers. We often

01:01:50.720 look to Heimdallar for protection and awareness. Heimdallar inspires us to be

01:01:56.060 ever vigilant in our duties. Vidar. Vidar is the name of one, the silent God. He has

01:02:07.160 thick shoe. He is nearly as strong as Thor. In him the gods have great trust in all

01:02:13.700 struggles. Gil beginning 29. Vidar is the wide ruler. Lord Vidar is silent. He speaks

01:02:23.300 through deed alone. Vidar is a god of right order, of duty, and of purpose.

01:02:30.920 Vidar is an avenger. He sets things right. He ensures the existence of order

01:02:37.400 and of good in both space and time. We are inspired by Lord Vidar when there

01:02:44.840 are injustices to be rectified or wrongs that must be righted. The wolf shall fell

01:02:51.560 the father of men and this shall Vidar avenge. With terrible jaws shall he tear 0.66

01:02:58.240 apart and so the wolf shall he slay. Lathruth Nismawel, 53.

01:03:08.280 Vowli. One is called Auli or Vowli, son of Othin in Rinder. He is daring in fights

01:03:17.200 and in most fortunate marksmen. Guilforgetting, 30. Vowli is born for a singular purpose,

01:03:25.900 vengeance. Swift and terrible is the wrath of the Aesir. That wrath is Lord Vowli. Vowli 1.00

01:03:34.800 maintains cosmic order with shocking consequence and terrible immediacy. Near or far, none

01:03:42.940 can hide when Vowli's aim is vengeance. We look to Lord Vowli when wrongs must be righted

01:03:48.680 at once, and waiting is not an option.

01:03:53.280 Rind bears Valdi in Vestseller,

01:03:58.020 and one night old fights Odin's son.

01:04:01.560 His hands he shall not wash,

01:04:03.960 his hair he shall comb not, 1.00

01:04:07.140 till the slayer of Balder he brings to the flames.

01:04:11.460 Balder's Drummer, 11.

01:04:13.520 Ullr. One is called Ullr, son of Sif, stepson of Thor. He is so excellent a bowman, and

01:04:26.440 so swift on snowshoes, that none may contend with him. He is also fair of aspect, and has

01:04:33.860 the accomplishments of a warrior. It is well to call on him in single combats. Gilfoginning

01:04:40.280 1931. Ullr's name means glorious. Ullr is a god of winter and of the hunt. We ask Ullr for luck

01:04:49.800 and bounty during hunting season. Lord Ullr is a patron of hunting, of winter sports, of dueling,

01:04:56.780 and of marksmanship. Ullr's glory shines when life is won from death and warm blood adorns

01:05:05.200 the ice and snow

01:05:06.600 Forseti

01:05:10.340 Forseti is the name

01:05:13.800 of the son of Balder and Nana 0.99

01:05:15.500 daughter of Nep

01:05:16.520 he has that hall in heaven

01:05:19.320 which is called the Glitnir

01:05:20.940 all that come to him

01:05:23.420 with such quarrels as arise

01:05:25.120 out of lawsuits

01:05:25.920 all these return thence reconcile

01:05:29.120 Gilfoginning 32

01:05:30.980 Forseti is the

01:05:33.420 presiding one

01:05:35.200 Born from the nobility of Balder and the devotion of Nana, Lord Forseti is the best of judges and greatest arbiter of reconciling among our folk.

01:05:47.380 Lord Forseti would have us rise above the mud and the beasts.

01:05:52.560 He would have us be more.

01:05:55.180 Through cooperation, further, structure, and leadership, Forseti would have us live and build together with dignity.

01:06:05.200 We look to Forseti for blessings and legal struggles and for conflict resolution between our folk.

01:06:15.920 Let's break there.

01:06:17.860 Does anybody have any, Svon, do you have anything that needs to be said about that?

01:06:29.480 So Svon is muted.

01:06:30.960 if swan has been muted this whole time he was not able to interrupt me as i asked that he do

01:06:37.260 so i hope that i hope that you have not had a bunch of stuff you needed to say and we're not

01:06:43.540 able to no no no i was just listening and uh there was some uh background noise going on i

01:06:48.940 didn't want to disturb so uh i mean that is a lot of information i think for people to process but

01:06:57.600 But in the broad scale of it, it is worth remembering that our holy aus, the gods of our folk, as opposed to the ausenior, are 12 in number.

01:07:16.000 A sacred number, along with many other sacred numbers in our faith, including the number 9.

01:07:24.600 12 is a symbol of completion.

01:07:26.600 12 is a symbol of stability and of order.

01:07:30.920 And that is one of the reasons why folks will see around the holy gods, around their heads, you'll see a sun and rod, a sun wheel with 12 spokes.

01:07:44.140 And that's one of the reasons to show that they are of the the the God consciousness of the of the of the ice here.

01:07:57.140 I don't know. There's a lot more in there, but I guess I saw some questions kind of popping in.

01:08:04.140 um made it over to the questions section so i'm not sure if there's there's water if stuff's

01:08:12.380 getting kind of taken care of over in the chat or just where we're at well i see wrong check private

01:08:20.300 chat that's what i did i just posted one that's relevant yeah you did it like seconds ago that's

01:08:27.820 not fair yeah okay so let's hit nick's uh the question yeah

01:08:38.700 okay so this is nick's very own question that he made up just to contradict me a second ago

01:08:43.820 nice going nick no i'm playing with you uh but it's it's a good question so from the text two

01:08:51.260 names for heimdallar what are the translation of halen skeedy and ghoulin tiny um

01:09:07.820 never mind what i would like to uh to use to refer to you swan is not appropriate for the broadcast

01:09:13.180 but i don't don't read into that nevermind it's an inside joke what do you what do you have for

01:09:18.300 that linguistically do you know something we can look right off the top of my head we can add that

01:09:24.300 in there if you'd like uh right on top of my and and and i see in the question to the like for

01:09:29.900 holland skivy i'm sure it's the th but it's spelled with just a regular d um uh that might

01:09:38.940 but ghoulin tani means golden tooth or golden teeth um there's a couple of of theories on that

01:09:48.540 one is um more the symbolic meaning behind ghoulin tani meaning um uh that in during the late nordic

01:10:01.980 period the uh they have found um skulls with uh dental implants but i think too the the more

01:10:12.380 importantly is that it is it is much like with with lord brye um where he is referred to as being

01:10:19.580 golden tongued or um he has wise and valuable speech that's one of the big things there

01:10:27.340 so having of the golden tooth means that the words that come out of his mouth

01:10:31.740 are of high value there are some theories about it with uh lord heimdall also being connected to

01:10:41.420 goats and rams and the idea that a golden tooth ram means it's a ram that's been living a long

01:10:48.620 time because the upper uh or sorry the lower carapace of the tooth or the lower crown of the

01:10:55.420 the tooth becomes golden, um, as they grow older. Um, but I have definitely always just taken that

01:11:02.820 as it is worth to note the value of his word. Um, I, you know, again, don't, if I was to be blessed

01:11:15.580 to go up into the heavenly realms and speak with the warden of Ausgarther, um,

01:11:23.840 Um, you know, I don't think he would have like a golden grill, if you will.

01:11:29.760 I think that, uh, I think that that's, um, it could have possibility with the dental

01:11:36.100 implants and things like that, seeing that as a, as a, um, uh, sign of prosperity in

01:11:42.380 the age, but it's not confirmed enough to say that it is.

01:11:46.780 And I also, you know, the, the, the rams and their gold teeth, um, you know, that's an, another theory into of itself, uh, uh, I mean, immediately it makes me think of it's, is it the reference to the white skin?

01:12:09.520 um and i would have to go

01:12:14.400 um and look up the exact translation just to make sure because i see

01:12:22.280 again he's saying it's from it's not with the ad

01:12:27.240 which doesn't um and again the translations that we we uh pulled for the true log mal

01:12:37.660 um are direct they're they're not edited um even despite so if it is spelled without with a without

01:12:49.020 the ed um that might be on them because i know we direct no i'm glad i'm here's the bigger thing i'm

01:12:58.620 glad somebody noticed and is paying attention it's one of those we don't want unnecessary

01:13:04.700 questions just for random sake but we want all actual questions and sometimes if there's silence

01:13:11.740 you never know whether people are listening or and like really focused or whether they're tuned

01:13:17.260 out so the fact that people are asking questions that's cool i appreciate that it's kind of a good

01:13:22.460 check-in on that and most of this stuff this isn't meant to be um revolutionary this is all stuff that

01:13:34.700 should should not be surprising in and of itself it's trying to be presented

01:13:42.620 clearly in one spot so I don't expect this will be you know stuff folks

01:13:45.740 haven't heard before also keep in mind as we do notice these kind of things we

01:13:50.580 can go in this a living document and add translations to the obscure words when

01:13:57.500 when you notice them.

01:13:58.980 So that's good to point out as well.

01:14:01.680 So, back in action, section two.

01:14:06.780 Ah, senor.

01:14:09.700 Go ahead.

01:14:10.920 There was a question I saw that came in

01:14:14.600 from Jilly Storm.

01:14:18.740 I didn't make it over to the side.

01:14:22.220 What do you got, Swan?

01:14:23.520 So, let me see if I can find it

01:14:25.080 because it's moved again.

01:14:27.500 about Sif yes about Sif um and I wanted to kind of address some of that as well go for it I think

01:14:40.640 uh I really wish I could find it so I could just repeat it for everyone else

01:14:47.060 um question is her daughter noticed that uh Sif is very much overshadowed by Thor in the lore and

01:14:53.600 wanted to know a little bit more about that okay yeah yeah that was it um first and foremost he

01:15:00.960 literally overshadows her um in the sense that the dine the dynamic between uh lord thor and um

01:15:12.080 lady sif is that she is the homestead she is the grove she is the orchard she is the family house

01:15:21.040 And it is, you know, again, seen as late harvest was best if it was blessed with a thunderstorm.

01:15:30.220 And so the dynamic relationship between them is that one receives and the other begets that power.

01:15:38.140 This is a considerably common point in our faith.

01:15:46.440 I think that a lot of people, and you see it nowadays, and they're kind of doing it, it kind of reminds me of Wiccans, what they'll do is they'll try to lump all of the gods into one sky father.

01:16:04.060 So they need their Lord. And it's got to be one Sky Father. And if they even address the goddesses, they refer and kind of lump them into one Earth Mommy. So it's Sky Daddy, Earth Mommy. It's very simple. It's kind of frustrating to deal with.

01:16:25.780 But instead of looking at the reality of our ancestors, that our ancestors saw the multiplicity of the gods and saw that there are, there is, Lord Oven is the leader, he's the king of the gods.

01:16:45.940 but there are other lords of the sky and of fire and of law and just as so much as there is

01:16:53.880 many maidens that are the facets of the earth and so you see them just kind of oh well they're all

01:17:01.200 just aspects of the earth mommy or they're all just aspects of the sky daddy and eventually i

01:17:06.560 think the end goal is to make all odin and all frig i think in the long run and i i see this again

01:17:15.560 as a very Wiccan kind of lord and lady thing,

01:17:21.760 but we see the holy gods as multiplicity.

01:17:25.480 And Sif is one of the oust veneer of the holy gods,

01:17:31.320 and she is certainly connected to the earth.

01:17:35.280 And Lord Thor blesses her with the reins.

01:17:42.160 So the overshadowing.

01:17:43.900 Now, from a literary standpoint, I mean, again, there's not much on the cults of the gods.

01:17:52.540 Of the cults of Lord Odin, for sure.

01:17:57.180 But beyond Lord Odin, the cults are very, very undefined.

01:18:05.940 There are still people speculating on the cults of Thor and his relation, or the cults of the Holy Frey, even in Iceland and in Norway.

01:18:16.100 They're not hugely defined.

01:18:19.560 And so it's by place names we can see the popularity of the oust that were especially in the late ages.

01:18:30.220 And we see Lord Odin, we see the Holy Frey, we see Thor, we see Balder.

01:18:35.940 We see Freyja and we see Frigg, but we don't see, for instance, Sif or maybe Vidar, unless I mean, there is speculation with some words that it might not just simply mean a wide place or a wide expanse that it's actually referring to Lord Vidar.

01:18:56.800 but we don't know so when it comes to these things it's worth remembering that the the gods

01:19:05.600 are being spoken of by skulls and the skulls are men in the halls talking to uh other men folk

01:19:13.040 about the gods in the way that as a form of entertainment it was a way to pass down the lore

01:19:22.080 for sure there was much interwoven but there was also the stories and the way the storytellers

01:19:29.600 you know brought them into the poetics is they focused heavily on the on the

01:19:37.280 stories that would cultivate excitement in the audience so you know if if your daughter sees um

01:19:46.160 see as being overshadowed by lord thor one it's worth like a storm over a field he is quite

01:19:53.500 literally overshadowing um he is one of the lords of the sky he is the storm father and

01:20:00.780 it is their dynamic relationship that truly brings them into focus and

01:20:07.760 well on this i wasn't trying to interrupt i'm sorry please finish

01:20:13.020 i was going to say that oftentimes too many of the the holy gods when they're described in the

01:20:21.820 stories their focal sense comes about with their union with the feminine our our holy gods are

01:20:31.100 gendered and um when lord ovin links with yarder and thor is born forth that focus is is clear it's

01:20:44.860 poignant and it's it's brought about um you know yes there is a story about lord ovin

01:20:52.220 and him you know traveling with hyonur and with loki and they you know uh kill an otter that

01:21:00.540 turns out to be a wizard's son and they have to get a dwarf and get his gold and cup so there's

01:21:07.340 lots of stuff going on there and it's like you know why didn't the goddesses have all this stuff

01:21:13.180 that kind of thinking i think is well one it's it's incomplete in the sense that we don't have

01:21:20.860 those stories and those considerations that we you know should have with the gods in the audience

01:21:27.540 But the cults of the goddesses and the worship of the Asenir is strong.

01:21:36.640 It should be stronger, in my opinion.

01:21:38.260 And I think we are working greatly with the Gideas to kind of make sure that we build those cults.

01:21:44.980 but if our children are reading the stories they do need to understand that we are we are reading

01:21:53.860 of a natural primogen of the of society we have these warrior class men who are speaking about

01:22:02.660 the gods and wanting to know all the warrior class stuff so that's what we are we are going to hear

01:22:10.180 um and i i would caution folks from trying to deviate too hard from that i knew someone who

01:22:16.900 tried to write um a story strictly like from the woman's perspective that's because they're

01:22:23.780 looking at the gods as literal men and literal women instead of looking at the gods like gods

01:22:30.820 and understanding that when the masculine and the feminine come together and what they produce and

01:22:36.660 the powers that are within the universe and things like that so spawn spawn is very nice um

01:22:48.820 i hear that i'm gonna i'm gonna drop some truth bombs so

01:22:59.780 one thing that's true is first in the society these are made for

01:23:03.780 there is a heavy focus on the warrior aristocracy which is 100 men and how they relate to the world

01:23:15.960 if you are

01:23:19.680 stories are exciting that involve men doing masculine things

01:23:33.780 feminine things often lend themselves to a really different audience and a really different

01:23:40.580 portrayal so that affects how some of the lords made it down to us secondly no part of me would

01:23:48.100 ever want to be disrespectful to any of our gods or goddesses in any way or be impious so i have

01:23:55.400 no desire whatsoever to do that and please don't take this as that but i think this illustrates

01:24:01.980 some points that are also very fundamental to be asked to focus on there is no such thing as equality

01:24:10.060 so why shouldn't thor overshadow sif

01:24:16.860 if what we know is the lore that we have there's no reason to think that any coupling of two things

01:24:25.980 or any two gods or goddesses should have some kind of parity or equality or that if one is celebrated

01:24:35.100 the others should be artificially raised to that point and celebrated

01:24:39.980 equally that's not a thing that's not something we believe in

01:24:45.660 secondly and again we have incomplete lore on on lady sif and i don't want to

01:24:51.980 project onto her that would be wrong but up until very recently it was very much celebrated for a

01:25:02.860 good wife to intentionally try to make their husband outshine them and to make their husband

01:25:11.980 shine to the maximum the idea of the wife being in a supportive role to 0.58

01:25:17.500 enhance her husband and her house behind the scenes was something to be celebrated and something to be

01:25:28.620 honored and it wasn't an attempt to belittle or to take away from the wife at all it was a point of

01:25:34.380 pride that she was able to support her husband and help him you know be the best that he could be

01:25:41.340 um it's funny because it's kind of metastasized but the concept that behind you know every great

01:25:48.080 man is a is a is a good woman is that idea a man's greatness and ability to be amazing is

01:25:56.980 very often supported by a less sung wife at home that takes care of those things and makes that

01:26:05.080 happen. And that's not a disrespect. That's the entire story of my grandmother. And she built her

01:26:16.800 life that way intentionally and cherished the ability to do that. And I will always celebrate

01:26:24.160 her for that. She did everything in her life to make her husband have the most fame and best

01:26:33.160 like projection of himself possible and to take care of her children and her home that is something

01:26:40.020 that will always be overshadowed by the figurehead of the family that is out there winning the fame

01:26:45.560 for the family doesn't make that role less important or disgraced at all and so i don't

01:26:51.600 think i think that it's hard when we are in a modern society and we try to look back on the

01:26:59.160 world of our ancestors, some things are very foreign to us in this generation. You mentioned

01:27:04.320 this is your daughter. That puts her several generations removed from when that was a celebrated

01:27:11.080 aspect of femininity was that devotion and that service. And so I think that aspect matters a lot

01:27:22.040 as well. We celebrate her as one of the beloved of the Isir. Her relationship with Lord Thor is

01:27:31.640 what brings her into that very special category. So I don't think that there should be an expectation

01:27:39.360 that she shouldn't be outshone by Thor. Thor outshines everybody except for Odin. That's

01:27:51.640 why he's listed second. There's not the concern that he outshines Forseti, which he does,

01:27:58.760 or any of the other gods that are gods that we celebrate. And, you know, a similar way,

01:28:05.700 Lady Freya or Mother Frigg, they outshine a great many of the gods. So there's not a need for there

01:28:16.200 to be a forced equality in leveling of the playing field.

01:28:20.740 And there shouldn't be.

01:28:22.860 And I think the fact that we feel that compulsion for that

01:28:27.780 is a symptom of the modernity that we find ourselves in.

01:28:33.900 I wanted to comment just on one,

01:28:36.940 I don't think it's a question, but yeah,

01:28:40.880 the poem in which,

01:28:44.800 so ron bordman was talking about the the story of heimdall and loki fighting over uh the holy freya's

01:28:53.600 necklace while in seal shape one the sounding horn um that we have at thor's hof has a depiction of

01:29:03.280 that and it's from the um the only the husdraupa 0.95

01:29:10.080 so if you're looking if you want to look more into that h-u-s-d-r-a-p-a the hustraupa

01:29:21.980 that is the story in which they they fight and and this gives context because in ragnarok

01:29:28.640 heimdall faces off against loki and it's very very important um in his standing that he does

01:29:36.900 But it's built from previous, you know, this story setting that tone, letting that rivalry build up.

01:29:49.180 It wasn't just random.

01:29:53.440 All right. 0.99

01:29:54.460 Well, let's get into our goddesses.

01:29:57.400 So not less holy are the Asenor, the goddesses.

01:30:01.780 And they are of no less authority.

01:30:03.660 Guilty getting company.

01:30:05.900 Go ahead.

01:30:06.260 oh wait i was gonna i'm just gonna step away for one second and then i will be back just

01:30:10.880 let me know all right the guilt beginning also reveals to us the listing of our holy

01:30:16.020 frig frig is the foremost she has the estate which is called fin salad and it is the most

01:30:27.960 glorious gilford getting 35 frigg's name means beloved mother frig is the wife of odin and the

01:30:38.300 queen of oscar or queen of the icier frigg's divine femininity is exemplified within social

01:30:45.880 order as the noble lady of the hall as dutiful wife and as loving mother wives mothers and ladies

01:30:54.560 of station look to frigg's example men often look to frig for comfort and warmth

01:31:05.760 the fate of all does frig know well though herself she says it not locasena 29

01:31:17.920 one second i'm making a note to self

01:31:24.560 All right. 0.81

01:31:38.080 Freya. Freya is most gently born, together with Frigg, in Guild Beginning 35.

01:31:45.500 Freya's name means lady. Freya displays her divine femininity in a wild and passionate way.

01:31:51.820 As a goddess of sensuality, desire, fertility, and magic, women often look to Lady Freya to unlock and enhance their spiritual might.

01:32:02.760 Men often look to Freya for help in romance.

01:32:06.820 Her hall, Cess from there, is great and fair.

01:32:11.260 When she goes forth, she drives her cats and sits in a chariot.

01:32:15.620 She is most comfortable to men's prayer. 0.97

01:32:19.440 uh can

01:32:22.720 i'm sorry conformable need to take a look all right and from her i'm glad that i'm going

01:32:31.460 through this because i'm catching some edits i need to make i apologize for those and from her

01:32:35.760 name comes the name of honor throat uh by which noble women are called songs of love are well

01:32:43.560 pleasing to her it was good to call on her for furtherance and love guilt beginning 24.

01:32:53.240 maidens of fin solid so go ahead i was gonna say did you want to um i think it's worth explaining

01:33:03.880 this is something uh that's i think is unique to our church that is worth uh for those that

01:33:10.440 might have been in ousted through for a while um this hierarchy and understanding the the kind of

01:33:21.080 the relationship as there is as we're going into the maidens of fensaler but clearly

01:33:27.560 uh based on lore and based on cult of practice uh freak and freya clearly shine um and it's and

01:33:38.760 it's unique to know we don't we don't just say like all the holy goddesses or you know we clearly

01:33:44.760 show the that correlation i think that's something that um is worth noting that hierarchy is even

01:33:52.840 established by observation um of the folk and their interactions with these two holy goddesses

01:34:02.040 in particular. Nobody would be able to doubt that Frigg and Freyja are held in high esteem.

01:34:11.560 And it's also worth noting we don't lump them together. I don't know who, I'm just referring

01:34:19.900 just in blanket terms, but a lot of internet heathens lump her together. Or again, I think 0.71

01:34:31.000 ultimately even though they're not saying it out loud it's just about they got the the earth mommy

01:34:36.440 and the sky daddy and i think that's kind of what they're all boiling it down to and um we don't see

01:34:42.520 that we see freak the bride of the earth and we see freya as she is you know the the daughter of

01:34:50.120 nyorda where she's the the the fruit of the sea and the land well we don't see it because it's

01:34:56.520 It's just not true.

01:34:58.980 And that's one of the things, again, I really like doing this show with Spawn

01:35:07.500 because it's important to get both these things out there.

01:35:12.520 It's important to me that sometimes we just say it when other people are just wrong,

01:35:17.240 and a lot of times they are.

01:35:19.000 People approach it with linguistics, and, yeah, when you get into some of the archaic languages,

01:35:23.700 is the names start to get real, real similar. But the roots are different. And the fundamental

01:35:32.720 concept is very different. In Aryan religion, there's something that's likened to, and this

01:35:40.580 is no disrespect, even though I don't think we would refer to our ladies today as cows

01:35:46.440 or horses there's something called a cow goddess and a horse goddess and the idea 0.74

01:35:52.840 of domestication versus wild there is divine femininity within the social order in the social

01:36:03.560 structure displayed one very specific way and then there is untamed femininity out in the wild

01:36:11.800 outside of that context that's yet to be brought in in a unification with a husband and with a

01:36:19.580 family. And so those are very distinct aspects of a woman's life and role. And they're personified

01:36:30.260 by very different goddesses. And we see the two greatest goddesses in our pantheon

01:36:37.500 um displaying each of these polarities in very very clear and very pronounced ways

01:36:45.620 and that's very important there uh to piggyback on what you're saying too one of the things that

01:36:53.460 i know that there might be people right now who's like well i'm a valkyrie and i'm gonna be a wild

01:36:59.420 woman or what have you but it's worth noting that freak is the bride she's the precious one

01:37:06.180 she comes into and has the establishment of oaths or, or she has the measure and the power 1.00

01:37:16.840 of her station within the strata of the community. And that is often why the Holy Freya is kind of

01:37:27.060 in the stories is she's constantly a prize. That's kind of, she has the foundations of her

01:37:35.560 are not stable and that that's because she is wild it is it is um of that but if you're seeking

01:37:44.840 stability if you're seeking seeking understanding and station and and realizing you know the power

01:37:50.920 of why freak is the queen of the gods is because she has that network and and um stability and

01:38:04.040 And then there is the wildness. But with that comes, again, a kind of feeling of not quite being able to be defined and that there are those edges that the Holy Freya.

01:38:18.260 mean that's that's a lot of the worship that i have both from myself and seen in others that

01:38:25.540 they're experiencing kind of an understanding of wanting to maybe delve deeper into the mysteries of

01:38:33.220 of of the woman if you will um but at the end of the day um you know that i think people need to

01:38:42.740 again they'll apply that you know modernity to it and say that somehow and they're you know

01:38:49.540 because they've been conditioned so to think of the holy frig as being somehow maybe less because

01:38:55.940 she is bound by oath she has station but our ancestors not only is she not less she is quote

01:39:05.620 unquote foremost yes and it's it's just worth noting that and it was it's predominantly because

01:39:15.460 her name linguistically means the precious one and that is referring to the fact that she is

01:39:21.060 the bride of the earth she is the daughter of the earth and she is given up to and joins with

01:39:29.500 the holy ice here just another again another instance of natural law and cosmic order

01:39:38.180 being completely um synchronized together and so i think a lot of um people take the literalism and

01:39:48.700 then they want to kind of apply these things but i mean if you're looking at it literally that

01:39:53.680 those concepts um uh you know is it there's like a recent video of a woman talking about how you

01:40:02.280 know men don't want to take her as a bride because she's wild and all of the brides or the the wives

01:40:09.420 that he she does see are you know um they're they're traditional they're quaint they're but

01:40:17.800 what she's really talking about is not their demeanor. It's that their station is unified

01:40:23.680 with a man and they are together in their strata. And that doesn't mean that they are brought up

01:40:34.200 simply because of the man. They are unified. That's oftentimes the heart and soul of a man.

01:40:41.200 And so the feminine there is locked into society just like a man is.

01:40:49.740 And that's another thing I wanted to bring up is remember to the menfolk or the concept of the warrior or the man amongst the stories of the gods also bear in mind the obligation, the oath thing, the tying to of the masculine in our society is defense upon death. 0.92

01:41:08.560 It is conviction and loyalty to the Lord and to the, you know, to the land at the highest expense, even to your life. So being oath bound, both as a man and as a woman was very, very powerful in our ancestor society.

01:41:29.040 and i think it still holds uh some fairly large vestige in our lives today um there are benefits

01:41:37.120 perhaps to being you know able to explore your nature and and have that freedom but at the same

01:41:44.080 time being intrinsically interwoven into the strata of society had great power as well so um

01:41:53.040 So keep in mind, please, everybody who's asking questions, we will get to your questions,

01:42:02.300 but we're asking the ones that are relevant to the text first.

01:42:06.120 And when we get done with that, then we'll go back to the other question.

01:42:09.120 We'll definitely get answered.

01:42:11.440 We have a question.

01:42:12.720 Isn't Freya's Hall called Folkbanger? 1.00

01:42:15.940 So that's a good thing to bring up.

01:42:18.160 So this is an issue of location.

01:42:20.500 uh sets from near is the hall folk banger is the the area is the land is what where the hall's

01:42:29.400 located um like uh gladsheim to val hall exactly except for you know that's typically

01:42:37.960 yeah the two are switched places and a lot of people's just common

01:42:42.860 common understanding of what's become popular but yeah um val hall is located in gladzheimer

01:42:51.800 and uh says from there is or the the room with many seats is in folkbanger or uh translates to

01:43:03.840 like the folk fin doesn't it or something close uh the field of the folk the um yeah the field

01:43:16.320 or the expanse um it could also be kind of seen as the uh like the place in between two mountains

01:43:23.520 it's a flat and and yes yeah receiving if you will there we go

01:43:44.640 all right let me get back to it here sorry guys a little bit clunky

01:43:49.040 all right so the maidens of fensauer uh sauga sauga she dwells at sokvebeker and that is a

01:43:58.400 great abode gilf beginning 35. sauga's name means the seeress she drinks daily with lord odin

01:44:06.720 there they share stories of heroes and drinking gladness sauga is the keeper of lore and history 0.55

01:44:12.960 She is the teller of tales and the recaller of deeds.

01:44:17.120 Saga takes notice.

01:44:18.500 She remembers.

01:44:19.720 She is the patroness of history and genealogy.

01:44:25.020 Heir.

01:44:26.220 Heir. 1.00

01:44:27.220 She is the best physician.

01:44:29.120 Gilfeginning 35.

01:44:31.060 Heir's name means mercy.

01:44:33.600 She helps and heals.

01:44:35.520 We pray to her for healing of the mind, body, and soul.

01:44:40.680 Heir is the patroness of doctors and medicine.

01:44:46.740 Geffion, she is a virgin. 0.95

01:44:50.140 Geffion, she is a virgin, and they that die maidens attend her. 0.83

01:44:54.540 Gylphagin, 35. 0.99

01:44:56.940 Geffion is the giver.

01:44:58.720 She watches over young girls and maidens of her folk.

01:45:02.020 Geffion is a comfort to those who feel alone. 0.96

01:45:05.460 Gephon is the patroness of virgins and of land taking. 0.94

01:45:11.900 Fula. 0.96

01:45:13.760 Fula. 1.00

01:45:15.020 She also is a maid and goes with loose tresses and a golden band about her head. 0.98

01:45:21.980 She bears the ashen coffer of Frigg and has charge over her foot ear and knows her secret counsel. 0.83

01:45:29.500 Gilt beginning thirty five.

01:45:32.440 Fula's name means bountiful.

01:45:35.480 She listens to those of our folk who need to share their thoughts.

01:45:40.300 Fula is the patroness of the well-managed home.

01:45:45.860 Sjobin.

01:45:47.920 Sjobin, she is most diligent in turning the thoughts of me to love,

01:45:52.280 both women and men, and from her name, love longing, is called Sjobin, Gilfaginning, 35.

01:46:02.960 Syovine is the goddess of love. All our folk may look to Syovine when we yearn for love

01:46:12.280 and companionship. It is wise to seek her blessings when looking for a spouse. Syovine

01:46:18.220 is the patroness of lovers.

01:46:24.180 Make another editorial note to self here.

01:46:27.360 thanks for sticking with me uh clarification there um it is clearly mentioned too that you

01:46:37.040 know that um men who are attempting to woo the heart of a woman often pray to the holy freya

01:46:46.720 and uh i think it's a misnomer for people to simply say the holy freya or freya is the goddess

01:46:53.040 of love um but here we see uh that siovan is and what i think people need to focus on is um

01:47:05.520 the the source of the brisingaman uh the the source of the holy freya's power is desire

01:47:14.160 it's desire that is the true power in there and that's why you know the association with gold

01:47:22.800 the association with attaining her is that there is there is desire whereas salvin really does

01:47:30.400 speak about the amicability between hearts between uh those who love each other so just a little note

01:47:41.200 there so we've got we're getting a a number of different um freya questions coming up that i

01:47:51.200 think are good for us to address so it's rightly pointed out that Freya is both a wife and mother

01:48:05.840 in the lore and that's true but we don't see that as the point of emphasis other than perhaps her

01:48:16.720 longing for the absent odor um these two dualities in a woman's nature 0.99

01:48:29.360 exist simultaneously to different degrees and different circumstance 0.71

01:48:34.320 and whatnot and as i've said before a bunch of times our gods aren't two-dimensional so we're

01:48:41.280 not making cardboard constructs of what these things are or what these these deities represent

01:48:49.120 we're defining the complex personality matrix of each of these of each of these uh

01:48:58.160 spiritual persons these gods and goddesses

01:49:00.960 frig is also a lover she has sexuality she makes children these aspects exist within her as well 0.51

01:49:12.640 but they're not her emphasis she's also has powerful magic but that's not her emphasis

01:49:19.860 so we see the lore point out these high points if you read earlier um nyorder is called upon

01:49:27.340 for hunting but we're like ullr is the god of the hunt both can be true um so it's good that you

01:49:35.500 point that out and i appreciate that you bring that out about the lore because that that is

01:49:39.020 absolutely a good point to make um and then also a question on the same note of is says from near

01:49:47.740 where freya takes the dead and i would have to believe so and it's one of the things that's kind

01:49:54.460 of a yes and it's interesting that that hall is you know named after the fact that it does have

01:50:05.580 a great many seats for them to occupy it's fun do you have anything on those yeah um

01:50:14.300 one i i would say that the correlation between older and nos and uh gersemi the the daughters of

01:50:23.660 in the lore naus and gersame both mean glittering shining uh scintillating precious um and clearly

01:50:32.220 this is correlating to the um you know gold and to uh a gem or gems stones of the earth

01:50:41.180 and it's also emphasized in the brisingaman but other is passion other is the word itself

01:50:50.860 means passion it means the um vibrancy of the soul and

01:51:00.140 they i don't want people to think to themselves that uh well you know freya's husband went away

01:51:11.020 so she's the goddess of single moms i saw that kind of going on in the side chat about you know 0.89

01:51:16.300 know who would be the of the single moms it's that's like asking how much protein intake lord

01:51:22.860 thor has to have in order to get his gains it that's not that's not where it's it's really at if

01:51:34.220 um or or or if like if the holy gods if one of them picks up a pencil that doesn't make them

01:51:42.060 the god of pencils um or or what have you and that's another thing is like again that the

01:51:47.980 the dominion of the sky or the dominion of the earth these facets these uh dominions that the

01:51:55.020 gods have uh lord odin is the sky father lord thor is of the sky he's the storm father and one

01:52:06.940 doesn't tear away from the other there is clearly hierarchy but the declination of the sky is not

01:52:12.940 solely on one there isn't and i think a lot of people try to do that with like

01:52:17.820 they try to yahweh the gods um and they do that with the uh the goddesses as well

01:52:24.780 and they shouldn't um but they should look at it as

01:52:28.940 she lost her inspiration she lost the vitality of her heart the vitality of her mind um other

01:52:36.500 isn't expounded in the set house here ago the um it's not a major emphasis um on her being

01:52:45.080 um but if you are a woman and you want to seek or you have built a relationship

01:52:52.460 Holy Freya. Oh, sorry. I don't know if that's mine. I don't think that's my

01:52:58.760 computer doing that. No, I'll take credit. It's absolutely mine.

01:53:03.320 Oh, okay. I don't know why that's the case, but it do.

01:53:11.080 Yes. If you are a single mother and it's not like you have to pray to the Holy Freya because

01:53:21.060 she is too in the lore

01:53:24.220 no you could easily pray

01:53:28.360 to all of the

01:53:30.580 and that a lot of times you'll find

01:53:34.300 people who pray to lord

01:53:35.780 for fishing and hunting or they

01:53:38.180 pray to lord

01:53:40.040 it's not one

01:53:42.340 for one there is no just simple

01:53:44.340 they are

01:53:46.380 the divine and they

01:53:47.760 cover

01:53:50.220 each other in a in in a mundane sense is the way i'm saying it and it's worth people to note that

01:53:58.820 um and again the lore is phenomenal at hiding truly big cosmic truths but sometimes they go

01:54:08.480 into the nitty-gritty because you can't quite figure out where snorty is you hemorrhizing that

01:54:13.740 them, uh, or it, it was something passed down. Perfect example of that, of course, is Ullr being

01:54:20.640 the stepson of Thor. That right there is a detail let in, um, but not emphasized. It's just stated.

01:54:31.360 So, uh, I mean, it's like, that's like saying Ullr is the god of stepsons. If you're a stepson,

01:54:37.700 you got to pray to ruler um that's not how you know it works or when lord thor gets the hammer

01:54:46.320 in his lap during the wedding um the uh that is a clear reflection to a cultural tradition

01:54:54.600 why why would that be done well it would be done because it would be understood by the audience

01:55:01.340 as that's what's done at weddings so um you know taking all of the lore that we have

01:55:08.780 and like you said i was here ago they just kind of applying common sense to the stories

01:55:15.500 and that common sense and those explorations are fun to do and they're great and they get your

01:55:21.820 mind going and they kind of help build their relationship with the gods but it's the the

01:55:28.700 real gods the gods themselves and how we build our relationship with them that's what matters

01:55:36.140 well i

01:55:39.580 with common sense i want to also make the point and this is kind of um

01:55:48.860 preempting frequently used arguments

01:55:53.260 those who take issue with that there is a one of our responsibilities as noble or Aryan people

01:56:10.540 is to have agency one of the frequently trotted out responses to things every time somebody takes

01:56:21.940 a position on anything well who's to say

01:56:27.860 who has the courage to step up as i guess who's to say we like to abdicate using our brain and

01:56:35.460 making connections and that's not aimed at anybody in specific it's a very common thing in today's

01:56:40.900 world nobody wants to step up and get outside of their comfort zone and use their brain and risk

01:56:53.780 not being perfect or risk something being incomplete in some way that's the only way

01:56:59.140 we ever move forward with anything um applying common common sense is incredibly important

01:57:04.660 And yes, common sense is not perfect, but it's better than just not using sense because you don't have perfect sense.

01:57:12.180 That also is a flex of common sense, I suppose.

01:57:17.540 Kind of a point while we're still on it.

01:57:22.460 Sorry if my questions were already answered, but in section two, the Asenir, are there really only two female goddesses, Frigg and Freya?

01:57:31.720 I imagine there were more.

01:57:33.320 First, certainly there are much, much more. As far as goddesses of the Aesir, it's not just a list of two. If you look, we're not changing section. The Maidens of Fensel are also goddesses, but they are under the auspices of Mother Frigg.

01:57:53.560 So, whereas we have 12 gods listed, we actually have 14 goddesses listed there.

01:58:02.500 And we don't claim this is a thousand percent all of them that exist.

01:58:08.820 We would endlessly drive ourselves crazy trying to parse that out.

01:58:13.800 But these are the ones that are passed down to us that we know received the worship of our ancestors.

01:58:21.000 and this is certainly our starting point for where to go on that and go ahead there's a part

01:58:28.160 where uh so ryan orion wotenson said there are you know the 12 hand maidens of fric and a few

01:58:33.780 others and sources if you want to know more about those goddesses look them up uh you know we're

01:58:38.420 speaking of like nahelania zisa and many of the the um perhaps localized divinities um one of the

01:58:49.760 things that is worth noting. That was a question that was brought up. Those are part of the

01:58:54.700 Austvenir. That's why the Austvenir means the beloved ones of the gods. They are joined

01:58:59.960 with them. Sif is part of this. Iduna. But there are folks who brought up the idea that

01:59:06.200 they're the divine. And as Auserigo, they just said, we are not encapsulating them all.

01:59:11.080 We're starting with the core. We're starting with the, in the millstrom, this is the tethering

01:59:19.340 stone and as you grow in knowledge and you you seek more um you might come across these

01:59:29.020 relationships with the oust veneer who are part of the icier no go ahead please i'm sorry i just

01:59:36.220 thought you know ahead and i was uh but you know like and looking into like say the matroni

01:59:42.300 and understanding the the relationship between the nornir and the edices or desir and the matroni

01:59:50.140 you might see some commonalities with language um nerfess to yard uh being the earth whereas

01:59:56.780 with the anglo-saxons her being airtha or airsa um and that might be a linguistic connection

02:00:04.940 not necessarily that we see them as separate we don't see lord othen as separate from uh

02:00:11.180 woe done amongst the anglo-saxons so we do have to choose these uh is this a linguistic connection

02:00:20.140 or is this you know a unique um goddess um and where where would she fall and that answer will 0.87

02:00:28.300 be like the oust veneer the the beloved ones and the the the oust veneer as far as the guild forgetting

02:00:34.220 goes is is really simple it is those who have aligned and been allowed to align with the gods

02:00:40.620 Um, yeah, uh, in the stories, you know, it's, it's marriage and children, um, and their origin is not explained often, you know, very few people know, but many speculate about, say, for instance, the origins of even, um, so we have that.

02:01:00.080 and they may come from uh yachtins they may come from wherever but they are beloved and they join

02:01:06.720 with the gods now just like we do in a way so something that i think may be hard to

02:01:16.480 i hope it's expressed well and makes sense um

02:01:23.440 the entire point of this document is to be positively praised

02:01:30.080 These are the essentials that one must adhere to, to practice Ausatru within the confines of the Ausatru Folk Assembly.

02:01:41.300 It's not a list of must not, or you can't do more than this, or something expanded, or other, you can't have any additional things that you do as it relates to this.

02:01:56.100 But this is a minimum and expressed positively.

02:02:00.080 Certainly, there are other goddesses and other spiritual forces that will make themselves known to us and that do fit in those other categories.

02:02:10.880 But these are the ones that are essential, that our relationship is built upon the worship of and the gift cycle.

02:02:17.620 with um but as fawn mentioned before there are the uh him and brother the heavenly wardens and

02:02:26.560 the ausponir which is a wide category encompassing a lot of different female deities but we have no

02:02:34.600 shortage of goddesses um involved in a lot of different aspects and we're kind of in the middle

02:02:41.040 of that list here okay so for folks that might have missed i do see another question that

02:02:49.520 just came in also about freya so i thought freya was one of the veneer what we mentioned at the

02:02:56.640 very beginning of this document and i'll go read it again i'll go back over it i'm glad we're taking

02:03:01.760 our time with this we're we're in no rush swan in case i forget we are on uh about to start uh

02:03:08.880 Loven. So back up to the top. The Aesir include gods that were originally known as Vanir. After

02:03:22.340 the first war, these gods and goddesses were assimilated into the tribe of and are forever

02:03:28.520 known as the Aesir. And that's really important. People make that distinction and it's

02:03:38.540 mentioned for a very limited time in our lore. And one of the big themes of that first war and

02:03:46.200 that conflict is the gods of cosmic order and the natural gods of natural forces and natural law

02:03:53.540 became one at the resolution of that war. And the exchange, we hear about it very one-sided,

02:04:02.320 the exchanges, the Vanir coming to live with and be among the Aesir. And from that point on in our 1.00

02:04:10.080 lore, they're referred to in a list of the Aesir. As a matter of fact, both of these lists, as I

02:04:15.360 mentioned, are, you know, there are 12 Aesir and the Aesir is, I don't know what the

02:04:24.400 female Vanir linguistically is, but the Aesir literally means the female Aesir.

02:04:30.320 um yeah you i there was another part there too where eric the red light said if you were to add

02:04:39.420 more gods and goddesses to the list those that were good to worship like soul money there those

02:04:45.500 are literally the heavenly wardens that you yeah those in that section the hymn and verder are the

02:04:51.540 heavenly wardens and they're unique because they're given dominion over primordial forces

02:04:57.220 and they have to keep cosmic rotations going. And Deir and Nott turning the earth. Delingur,

02:05:06.820 a lot of people forget about Delingur in his hall, which is the sky, which is the gates in the east,

02:05:12.900 and Ostara, they're all part of the heavenly wardens as well.

02:05:17.700 Exactly. And we have another question for somebody who came late in the program. What is the Trulagmo?

02:05:24.660 he's you know taking a stab at it and we've got a couple of people in the room taking a stab at it

02:05:30.740 it's a combination of three words true which means which has come in a modern sense to me

02:05:36.980 belief but it's based on trough and like loyalty so it's things that are you know

02:05:44.420 true to something being true to yourself being it's it's about loyalty but also belief so it has

02:05:52.820 Does modern come to us as meaning like religion?

02:05:58.760 So basically religious, then law, and the G is almost silent, but that word means law,

02:06:08.500 and maul is speech or statement.

02:06:12.740 So this is a statement of religious precepts or religious principles.

02:06:22.820 And back to Loven.

02:06:26.820 Loven, she is so gracious and kindly to those that call upon her, that she wins all father's

02:06:34.580 or Frigg's permission for the coming together of mankind in marriage, of women and men,

02:06:42.180 though it were forbidden before or seemed flatly denied.

02:06:45.980 her name such permission is called leave and thus also she is much loved of men gil beginning 35

02:06:56.860 lovin is the comforter lovin is a special comfort to those struggling in love

02:07:03.820 lovin is the patroness of those struggling in love

02:07:09.260 bower bower she hearkens to the oaths and compacts made between men and women

02:07:15.980 we're aware of such covenants are called vows she also takes vengeance on those who perjure

02:07:25.240 themselves guilt beginning 35 vower's name means pledge and she is invoked often in weddings

02:07:35.020 vower witnesses vower remembers vower is the patroness of wedding vows

02:07:42.020 um this answer is a question that we had over in the queue um i think there was some confusion

02:07:49.820 between boar and bauer and they sound very very similar but this is uh bauer is absolutely

02:07:57.940 the ultimate you know it is specifically her her job to

02:08:05.320 pay attention to the pledges made in weddings as is said here um though that said we often invoke

02:08:18.680 other gods and goddesses dependent upon any special relationship the bride or groom may

02:08:24.960 have with a particular deity or if it's done in one of our hafs we do call upon that god to

02:08:31.980 witness what we're doing so i think that applies as well vor she is wise in a searching spirit

02:08:40.940 so that none can conceal anything from her it is a saying that a woman becomes aware

02:08:48.700 of that which she is informed you're forgetting 35. yeah please sorry i keep muting myself and

02:08:57.900 then like i'll go to speak and i'm like oh no i literally told you to interrupt because i can't

02:09:03.260 see you while i'm reading this thing so you're you're great i mean a couple of things one and

02:09:08.060 i kind of wanted to address something because i i doubt it's going to come up in our chat because

02:09:13.580 our folk are pretty squared away um but they may go looking about in the uh dark cockles of the

02:09:21.420 internet and um they'll they might find um that there are a lot of the internet heathens and i

02:09:29.100 would say the um the modernists that are uh using the gods to kind of facilitate their

02:09:36.860 uh political ideologies and so so forth the holy goddess lovin um lovin uh they try to associate

02:09:48.300 with uh immoral sexual orientations and they do this kind of they i think they think it's an own

02:09:57.020 but it's not an own because she presides over uh the love that is forbidden love that is

02:10:05.500 that is seen as wrong so in a way they're admitting that it's wrong but i this is a

02:10:13.340 a stretch unto itself. Lavin is again, the, the soother of disputes, the soother of between

02:10:19.720 families, between, um, husband and wife, or, you know, there's many, many, uh, things that can come

02:10:25.420 about from, from, um, marriages and some, or the proposals of marriages. And sometimes they're not

02:10:32.040 always smooth. Um, and especially in the, in our ancestors times, it could, you know, be because

02:10:38.560 of blood feuds and because of land disputes and because of many many things um so that was one

02:10:45.440 thing that i wanted to to speak on and the other was uh with uh var and vour um for people i know

02:10:56.080 it causes a lot of confusion but remember too the o with the umlao is an au so so vour if she sees

02:11:03.840 far that's kind of one of the ways that i try to teach people to remember whereas valor the a with

02:11:11.200 the dash over it is an owl sound and it literally means vows but i do not make a vow if i pledge my

02:11:22.160 allegiance to if i pledge my allegiance to al saragothi if i pledge my allegiance to my church

02:11:29.600 if i pledge allegiance to my gods i am not making a vow that exchanges i am professing my faith

02:11:40.000 that as it stands a standard that i must hold for myself one of the interesting things about her is

02:11:46.640 that it's not just it's not a regular oath it it is an exchange of devotion between two

02:11:57.200 that is measured on both ends and she's the one that's that's that's binding that holding that

02:12:02.160 down um so there are different types of oaths um that are worth you know taking note of and

02:12:09.680 that's why i think uh she's not simply the goddess of all loads no hers is very specific

02:12:17.600 and it's because of the nature of of where it comes from and just like we talk about the icer

02:12:24.400 the icer meaning the pillars and the vanner meaning the the waning the waning gods there's

02:12:30.400 there they rise and they fall but the asenior are unique especially the maidens they weave themselves

02:12:37.920 between the pillars kind of cohesively holding everything together um and they are present even

02:12:44.880 if perhaps you don't you know build a cult around the the asenior they are ever present in most

02:12:52.880 everything we do especially when we talk about family life we talk about home life

02:12:58.080 or we talk about interactions with each other this is a note i'd like to add as kind of

02:13:03.680 an addendum to my point about women kind of being 0.81

02:13:12.800 celebrated by their supporting role in things so many of our goddesses are not always 0.62

02:13:21.120 especially the maidens of finso we see them in terms of service they weave these things together

02:13:28.000 in society your job in a lot of cases is very much not necessarily to be the front showy

02:13:39.600 focus a lot of the time it's to weave together the unity of our gods to weave together community

02:13:50.920 and it's just because it's less flashy doesn't mean it's necessarily less important it's

02:13:59.380 extremely important it literally weaves the fabric of community together and we see that

02:14:04.900 reflected below with how our women are frith weavers and capable of of bonding together

02:14:13.060 very strong personalities in unity and community with with one another to make a strong tribe

02:14:21.140 so it's it's a very very important and that's why we're honoring them here uh the best of our

02:14:28.260 ability as as as we know and hopefully as we continue our worship we'll build stronger

02:14:35.540 relationships with all of our gods and understand them even better and have more to say about their

02:14:44.100 nature um may i intercede one second too because this is the whole time i love you wolf throne

02:14:51.540 this is the third time we've addressed this uh you know why do you think snorri doesn't list

02:14:58.900 sif in his list of our senior that we ought to pray to it always struck me as odd that frigg's

02:15:05.220 handmaidens are included but not more prevalent goddesses like sif idun and scotty we have we

02:15:11.620 have addresses but i'll address it again there are like the four classifications there's an

02:15:16.980 There's aus, aus senior, aus veneer, and himen verder.

02:15:22.660 Those four elements make the eisir. 0.87

02:15:27.760 Why are they more prevalent? 0.92

02:15:30.320 And in what way are they more prevalent?

02:15:35.380 I took this as prevalent to say the individual person

02:15:41.460 who has troth with the gods.

02:15:42.940 Perhaps they have a relationship that might be unique.

02:15:46.980 and coming from them and feeling like the listing might be so i think that people

02:15:56.260 because in 2024 you're for more familiar with the name i think it's worth checking in to see

02:16:06.100 are they in fact more prevalent? Do you find issuances in any of the archaeology of place

02:16:18.120 names that indicate them? Do you find more information in our lore talking about them?

02:16:27.740 sometimes you do see them in story very often it's directly as

02:16:36.780 in a instigation

02:16:42.700 i don't want to be disrespectful and i don't mean to but the position that they are in the

02:16:47.740 story is as very often as a plot device that facilitates actions with between gods and

02:16:56.940 and the giants or gods in one another or things that way but i don't think you really do see a

02:17:04.780 lot of attestation i've talked a lot before and i'm not suggesting i'm not denying their existence

02:17:10.300 or their values goddesses but what i am saying is when you see the lord that is instructional like

02:17:18.060 listing gods that people worship and it talks about worship and it talks about those things

02:17:22.940 you do see these goddesses mentioned and you don't see them mentioned when you see

02:17:30.380 lore that is more entertaining storytelling there you see them have a greater prominence

02:17:38.040 but i think examining

02:17:39.380 why and how you conceive of them as prevalent is worth looking into as well because there's

02:17:49.580 not a great deal of lore on many of these goddesses outside of uh freya and and frig

02:18:01.580 all right so 0.76

02:18:05.660 lore is the careful one she sees what others overlook details matter and small things can

02:18:12.860 have great importance vower takes notice vower is the patroness of intuition and foresight

02:18:25.580 scene scene she keeps the door in the hall and locks it before those who should not go in

02:18:34.140 she is also set at trials as a defense against such suits as she wishes to refute

02:18:40.700 thence is the expression that scene is set forward when a man denies guilt beginning 35 0.93

02:18:48.940 scenes name means refusal she exemplifies a woman's responsibility to set boundaries 0.99

02:18:57.260 seen as a resource of inspiration and power women seek to influence events around them 0.99

02:19:02.940 and put order to chaos seen is the patroness of thresholds and of personal sovereignty 1.00

02:19:10.280 clean clean she is established as keeper over those men whom frig desires to preserve from any

02:19:21.000 danger thence comes the saying that he who escapes leans guilt beginning 35 clean is the protector

02:19:31.040 Hlynne is good for women to pray to when loved ones are far away and there is need to safeguard them.

02:19:38.560 Hlynne is the patroness of protection, especially protection of children.

02:19:44.660 Snotra. 0.78

02:19:46.040 Snotra. 0.98

02:19:46.940 She is prudent and of gentle bearing.

02:19:50.140 From her name, a woman or a man who is moderate is called Snotra.

02:19:56.280 Gil beginning 35.

02:19:57.960 Snotra.

02:19:59.560 Snotra's name means clever. Often women have need of creative and artful solutions. 1.00

02:20:06.760 Snotra is good to look to for help in this area. Snotra is the patroness of tact and social

02:20:15.800 propriety. Now. Now her Frigg sends into diverse lands on her errands. She has that horse which

02:20:29.520 runs over the sky and sea and is called Hooftosser in Guilford Giving 35. Now is the divine messenger

02:20:38.260 of mother frig now is the patroness of communication um go ahead on translation i saw something um

02:20:50.900 for those folks looking at lovin and sioven or soven remember to the in the n at the end is its

02:21:01.540 own syllable just like much much of the times with like say like heim dotler the r at the end of

02:21:08.900 heimdall's name is oftentimes read as its own syllable so and the other worth knowing is that

02:21:15.860 the f in the middle of the word is a v sound so solven and lovin um is the the correct old norse

02:21:25.460 pronounced or nordic pronunciation i'll say um because again sometimes there's speculation on

02:21:32.020 the way old norse was pronounced um

02:21:38.820 yes and lean was charged with protecting balder sarah lynn you are correct um i was hoping

02:21:46.820 i mean i didn't think anybody was going to bring it up but that is why she is the sorrow

02:21:51.700 another sorrow of clean is that she is also charged to protect or to stand by lord olden

02:22:01.540 uh it's the it speaks about the sorrow and the inevitability of the of ragnarok but clean is um

02:22:09.860 i have a personal relationship i think that's very strong with um with this awesome year and uh

02:22:18.580 one of the things that it's worth noting is she's often symbolizes having a shield

02:22:22.740 and it it's not that she's a uh like a valkyrie power no one of the things that's worth noting is

02:22:32.260 the shield oftentimes the the imagery and the the tools in which the gods have speak on a higher

02:22:40.820 level she can intercept the flow of fate the shield intercepts things this is a very powerful 0.56

02:22:50.660 thing and causes a lot of ripples uh having that power being bestowed upon her by her matron

02:22:58.980 the holy frigga is is a huge deal so 0.94

02:23:03.140 All right, part two, the Aesir and the Aryan folk. 0.99

02:23:12.100 Ausatru is an ethnic religion. Ethnic religions spring from the unique collective soul

02:23:19.380 of a particular race and their relationship with their gods.

02:23:24.180 Ausatru is the religious relationship between the Aesir and the Aryan folk.

02:23:28.980 Aryan means noble. This is an ancient word used by our race to describe ourselves.

02:23:36.980 The name Aryan is a recognition of our inherent nobility and sets the highest standard for us to live up to.

02:23:44.980 Our relationship with the Isir is integral to our very existence and identity.

02:23:53.980 identity. The Aesir were our gods at our inception and have always been, and we have always been

02:23:59.900 their folk. The Aesir are our deepest ancestors and we are their sons and daughters. The Aesir

02:24:06.880 will guide us eternally towards victory and we will ever seek to make them proud. Section one.

02:24:15.980 Go ahead. So that part there is really, really what you did there. And I think a lot of

02:24:23.960 people don't realize like what you you constructed this and kind of added on with the um guidance and

02:24:31.880 like or just asking a lot of us like in the witten to look at and kind of tweak but these

02:24:39.080 are this is your construction and one of the things i remember when i first came in and uh

02:24:45.880 had said was that our gods would be with us despite if the adas never existed

02:24:54.040 a lot of people don't see that they don't understand that that i think might be out of

02:25:00.840 their that that the gods are the lore and only the lord and you were the first person i ever

02:25:07.640 encountered that said no the gods are not the lore the gods would be with us if if the adas

02:25:14.520 had never made it they would still be with us and i i i was deeply affected by that because it

02:25:21.960 suddenly broke me out of the um kind of i think the the general mode that people are on that that

02:25:30.040 that train track that they're on is that they are so integral to us that even if we didn't have the

02:25:37.720 eight us they would be there and i i brought this up in a gothar class when we were talking about

02:25:42.360 the holy asenia gavion the giver i i likened her to the usage of colombia amongst the early americans

02:25:52.200 i likened her to the um the spirit of manifest destiny when we see that painting and we see

02:26:00.040 her floating above as folk are moving westward the potential of the land that is exactly who

02:26:07.800 she was in scandinavia and now here she is again because she is with us ada's are not

02:26:16.520 the the gods manifest within us we express them uh or what we're talking about uh the painting of

02:26:24.600 um i always always forget the german painter um that did the gold tears klempt

02:26:33.720 Klempt did a painting where, you know, a woman with golden tears and blonde hair coming out, again, manifesting out of him this pure image.

02:26:46.300 So those last lines where you say that Iser are our deepest ancestors and we are their sons and daughters, they will guide us eternally. They are guiding us. They have been guiding us, despite the fact that we have been obfuscated from the truth by, you know, foreign religions and, you know, organized ideals from organizations that I don't think have our folks' best interests in heart.

02:27:14.600 And if you look hard enough, if you scratch, you can, under the surface of a lot of that, you can see the holy gods.

02:27:22.820 You can see the holy house and the holy house and you're still with us, still bubbling up in our art and in our music and in things, because we can't be separated from them.

02:27:40.100 Absolutely.

02:27:40.660 Absolutely. Section one, Odin, Bili, and Vey give us the gifts of life. Odin, along with his brothers, Bili, sometimes called Honr, and Vey, sometimes called Lothr, created our reality. They took what they found, and from it, they created Aryan mankind.

02:28:05.960 the Iser gave us life, fate, and our Aryan soul.

02:28:10.940 Thus began the sacred gift cycle.

02:28:14.280 When the sons of Bor were walking along the sea strand,

02:28:18.880 they found two trees and took up the trees

02:28:22.220 and shaped men of them.

02:28:24.260 The first gave them spirit and life.

02:28:27.120 The second, wit and feeling.

02:28:29.780 The third, form, speech, hearing, and sight.

02:28:34.020 they gave them clothing and names the male was called oscar and the female embla and of them

02:28:42.180 was mankind begotten which received a dwelling place under midgard gilfaginning nine

02:28:54.420 our soul the arian soul is multifaceted and beautiful in its complexity

02:29:01.620 our personal soul has nine parts we are all connected to all of our folk past present and

02:29:10.080 future by our folk soul the folk soul is the collective unconscious of our race and our shared

02:29:17.900 world experience below are the components of the Aryan soul leak the lifeless body the physical 0.64

02:29:28.380 by ek i the self or ego cure mind the analytical mind mini remembrance memory owned spirit 0.93

02:29:46.380 breath animating breath of life hammer shape skin the appearance one projects

02:29:55.660 Saul, the soul, the fundamental individual identity.

02:30:03.060 Hymenya, luck, accumulated luck and spiritual potency.

02:30:09.660 Philya, someone who accompanies, a protective guardian that watches over a person or family.

02:30:25.660 gw farnsworth bought us five coffees 25 thank you very much we appreciate it

02:30:35.420 and new apprentice folk builder uh brody and his wife olivia sutherland uh folk builder olivia

02:30:43.340 southern donated

02:30:48.700 i'm checking on something here

02:30:50.140 yeah they donated $500 to the Odenshof fund we appreciate you very much that's awesome

02:31:03.280 we will get your get your names up on the plaque so anybody knows anybody who donates

02:31:10.780 $500 or more either as a lump sum or all together to one of our Hoffs we make sure we put their

02:31:18.800 name uh on a plaque to remember them and celebrate them there so thank you very much for that that's

02:31:25.440 huge um svan is there any note or anything you want to say about the soul complex while we're

02:31:35.460 on that yeah i think people might get a little confused about the lifeless body um maybe the

02:31:42.380 that's that's red um i think that that remember the other components are what makes the totality of

02:31:52.220 of the um of the soul um the other thing that might um you know isn't really said

02:32:05.180 this is the interesting and beautiful thing about the true log mal is the true log mal is a is a

02:32:11.020 foundational point it's not the end it's the beginning of for instance that there is the the

02:32:20.940 uh belief and uh inclination in the gothar about what was what would be called the woad self

02:32:30.300 and the word self is the accumulation of your hammer kind of emanating with your hummingya

02:32:42.140 while also your your huir and your mini are uh completely focused the the self becomes um or the

02:32:50.940 the das ein or the ek becomes honed like a funnel and it pours itself into the cell

02:32:59.020 and then the soul then shines and becomes the woad self, if you will. This is mentioned

02:33:07.980 in Ausatru by founder Steve McNallan. And so if anybody has any questions about why that isn't

02:33:15.580 there is because that component is actually a culmination of other components. And that would

02:33:21.020 be just a slight leaning towards one of the esoteric paths that the that lies within our um

02:33:29.340 within our faith um so you know outside of that i you know i saw some questions coming

02:33:38.300 in and one thing that i you know was wanting to address was about the the idea of an afa

02:33:44.860 a true bible um most likely what's going to come from us is not a reiteration of lore because we've

02:33:52.780 spoken about the gods are not just the lore but that we would also greatly look at what the folk

02:34:02.220 have built with the gods especially say for instance the goddess air we could speak about

02:34:09.580 her and her relationship with the folk quite clearly, even though Snorty leaves us scant

02:34:18.920 or Saxo Grammaticus completely euhemorizes the gods. So there is a difference. I think that the

02:34:26.400 lore that we want everyone to read is all of it. We want people to read multiple translations

02:34:32.980 to get the best idea, but we don't necessarily see one translation as better than the other.

02:34:40.020 And I have seen people attempt to create this kind of ADA or Bible. And again, it starts to

02:34:50.420 get brittle, especially when some of the translations are shoddy or shaky at best.

02:34:59.160 And then others is that it, it, um, goes along the presumptions of the author. And so there are things that are brought about from the lore, um, that, uh, don't meet the, they go like halfway across the bridge.

02:35:16.260 Like a perfect example is I saw a translation in one of these books about the fish, the wolf, the children of the wolf or the nation of the wolf were so readily encompassing the river around Valhall.

02:35:33.660 and the author didn't know what that was so he kind of uh tallied it to um a holy house

02:35:43.700 without ever kind of giving it the the concept that you know the the the nation of the wolf

02:35:50.860 being like the berserker or being the or being really the the elevated warriors of of ecstasy

02:35:58.840 amongst Lord Odin surrounding Valhall.

02:36:02.200 So when you get into the one book or the one thing like that,

02:36:07.800 I know that it was spoken of as being practical

02:36:11.360 and helping people come home. 0.91

02:36:14.240 But more importantly, I would say that the Trulong Mal,

02:36:18.980 as it's right now, is one of the best devices

02:36:21.820 you could use to point out to folks that are new.

02:36:25.760 i would say also the website is another good one um because i even saw some other um uh

02:36:33.120 comments about like this is so great i get to you know go through this information without

02:36:38.320 getting super bogged down um because not everybody is a scholar um and you know if only scholars can

02:36:48.640 honor the gods then then we're in trouble um you know the people that live their lives and and and

02:36:56.320 honor you know honor the gods but if you're having a problem with say honoring individual

02:37:04.160 relationships with the divine i would also say you can always default to honoring the

02:37:09.040 totality of the ice here um and that includes all of the gods so you if you're feeling um

02:37:18.960 you know kind of lost in that go there and we do that with the ancestors

02:37:24.560 you know we have ancestors that we specifically honor perhaps even ones that we used to know

02:37:30.800 um or had relationships with and we wish to continue those relationships now but you can

02:37:36.720 still in the large harken back to the uh faith and the relationship with your ancestors just like

02:37:45.600 you can at large with the gods so that's a really important point um

02:37:49.760 um if you're just starting out you don't need to be an expert on these things hopefully this

02:37:57.740 document is pretty small will give you a place to start but if you're unsure just making offerings

02:38:06.440 in praise of the I seer is a completely acceptable and a nice place to start

02:38:13.700 um so much of this is about intention and that is a nice thing to do you're not fooling our gods

02:38:22.520 our gods know if you know stuff or if you don't so you're not going to impress them with

02:38:29.360 nonsense and with um you know some kind of illusion if you come to them as you are

02:38:37.740 and you don't know very much, but you want to learn more,

02:38:42.200 just approaching them honestly and say, you know,

02:38:45.380 Hail the Aesir, you know, I want to learn more.

02:38:49.200 That's awesome. That's great.

02:38:50.920 That's a wonderful place to start.

02:38:52.980 It's so much more important than going before them

02:38:56.340 and trying to impress them with how many of Odin's by names that you know.

02:39:02.960 I don't mean to speak for the Allfather.

02:39:05.640 if he appreciates that then please disregard what i'm saying but logic doesn't bear out to me he

02:39:12.680 he knows his names so you giving him a book report about odin he knows who he is i would be much more

02:39:22.200 impressed if rather than like aha let me tell you let me tell you this i pulled up your

02:39:29.000 transcripts from high school and i know this obscure thing about you so i care a lot more

02:39:36.280 about folks that i met this last weekend that worshipped with me that stood in the circle

02:39:41.720 with me at midsummer and that you know upon leaving gave me a hug and said hey it's great

02:39:46.600 to get to meet you and you know i hope i see you again next time i care a lot more about that

02:39:50.920 person than the guy that dug through my trash and knows some obscure detail about me um

02:39:59.800 so that brings us into section two the nornier weave our orlo and you know and you'll notice

02:40:10.360 orlo is has the same word in it that true law model has the that l o with the umlaut g

02:40:20.600 So this is like the primal law, the original layer.

02:40:27.660 Thence come the maiden's mighty and wisdom, three from the dwelling down neath the tree.

02:40:36.060 Erther is one named, Rathandi the other.

02:40:40.500 On the wood they scored, and scold the third. 0.96

02:40:44.500 Laws they made there, and life allotted to the sons of men. 0.86

02:40:48.620 and set their fates for those about 20 the three norner are other fate she is associated with the

02:41:01.460 past that has been that has led to this point her than be happening she is focused on the present

02:41:10.580 school should linguistically her name is the very root of that word should she focuses on

02:41:19.740 direction on the direction of the future not what must happen but what should happen if the current

02:41:27.840 trajectory continues the nornir weave the tapestry of orla orla means primal law and is the tapestry

02:41:38.260 fate. Orlo is woven from deeds, past, present, and future, that determine the form and course

02:41:47.840 of existence. When a name is affixed to someone or something, from then on, they are woven into

02:41:54.900 the tapestry as a unique being with a unique fate. Orlo sets the course and the momentum

02:42:02.380 towards a destination. Our deeds determine whether we achieve that destination or whether

02:42:09.500 we change course. Our deeds and reputation shape our futures. Also an important point

02:42:24.240 something that came up talking to some folks this weekend. There is a highly dramatized idea

02:42:33.120 that our ancestors just believed in some kind of, you know, predestination to everything

02:42:42.640 and this completely fatalistic existence. This is another time that I want you to use logic

02:42:51.240 to think about that and to apply it to that.

02:42:55.300 If everything is pre-written for you by some external source

02:43:00.320 and we're just NPCs playing out the script

02:43:04.600 that was somehow written for us by something else,

02:43:08.300 it's fundamentally askew to every principle that we value

02:43:12.220 and every virtue that we value.

02:43:15.440 If there is no such thing as free will,

02:43:18.800 then there is also no such thing as villainy and no such thing as heroism there is no such

02:43:25.920 thing as nobility there is no such thing as thralldom or churlishness there is no such thing

02:43:32.600 as any of the extremes of there's no such thing as winning fame for yourself you're not winning

02:43:39.180 anything they've already won it for you you're just acting out the will of of some kind of

02:43:44.480 preordained fate. All of that doesn't make sense. And I think fundamentally, we know that to be

02:43:50.700 true. We exhibit free will every day. And we know that from the smallest, tiniest decisions we make

02:43:56.880 to the grand dreams that we posit for our life, it's literally the value of existence

02:44:06.400 is our ability to execute free will.

02:44:14.480 Billy who we just spoke about his name literally means will so much of what we do is about

02:44:23.940 intention and will and if there were no such thing as free will then none of those things

02:44:29.940 make any sense so for those that were under the assumption that there's no concept of

02:44:36.080 free will or that our ancestors somehow that doesn't play out that's kind of a Hollywood

02:44:42.860 myth and it's not supported by the sagas which tell the deeds of heroes and which speak glowingly

02:44:49.580 of courage there's no such thing as courage if there's no such thing as free will so i just ask

02:44:56.300 that you factor that in when you when you read and digest that i'm looking over at um some

02:45:02.460 questions on the side can i speak up on that as well please it's worth noting the english language

02:45:11.420 has a past has a present but every future tense is just the present but with the usage of the word

02:45:21.340 will i ran i run and i will run the other point of of this is the okay it's like somebody saying

02:45:32.620 well swan there's mentions of the of the fate of the gods or there's mention of the fate of of um

02:45:39.820 a hero or something like that it's always about being able to pre-determine determine the fate

02:45:49.180 of the future through the actions of the past but that means that great deeds can change those

02:45:58.060 hence why lord odin is doing what he's doing why he's gathering classes mead or blood and uh why

02:46:07.020 he is you know trying to stave off or change the course of things it's not that it's already

02:46:15.100 predetermined it's that the actions of the past are sending things in a trajectory that's the or

02:46:21.980 law but the will the manifestation of the will the the weird that is being woven now is what allows

02:46:31.580 you to turn the tides of these things it's like much like the wave and the sail on a ship

02:46:39.500 the wave is going to take you but the sail is what's going to possibly you know you can turn

02:46:45.180 you can go across um across the grain of the of the wave or so on and so forth those two things

02:46:52.220 make the the ultimate kind of guiding force another reason why lord odin placed his eye

02:46:59.660 in the well of memory a lot of people try to misconstrue mimers well as being the well of

02:47:05.020 time no that's earth's well which is in heaven by the way but mimers well is the memory well

02:47:13.420 it's the well of all actions that have come to pass so that way he can best

02:47:19.660 predict the trajectory of the future otherwise if it's already known then it's again it's playing

02:47:27.660 it's like a needle playing on a record so we have a couple of uh questions that are relevant to this

02:47:34.060 i would like to address uh ryan or ryan wilkinson i respectfully disagree with the last gifts uh

02:47:41.180 lit to goda victor reidberg explains it quite well it's like personality visage the divine light

02:47:48.860 from our face that is unique to us i think that should be made clearer i mean the translation of

02:47:57.180 I'm talking about the gifts of Odenvillian Bay.

02:48:09.900 Right. Well, I mean, one, the translation itself is actually not detailed. It means the

02:48:20.860 the goodly light or goodly,

02:48:24.660 I mean, if you're like looking at direct translation,

02:48:28.480 it is the goodly light, and that can

02:48:36.020 and has been already by many scholars

02:48:40.060 placed in as to what that might mean,

02:48:42.180 whether it's the goodly hue or the shape of the folk.

02:48:45.940 Sometimes, you know, like we see the translation

02:48:49.440 held as the shape of the coloring of and i i think you're dealing with

02:48:56.160 a different chunk of lore than we're dealing with describing the same event but it was something we

02:49:02.240 because you're dealing with the goodly hue um so i don't want to over speak spawn you may be able

02:49:11.200 to pull this up in your brain quicker but remember we there are two descriptions of this event that

02:49:17.600 happened and we chose this one for a specific reason kind of like i mentioned earlier this

02:49:24.400 is a place to begin and not an ending nothing we're saying conflicts with what you're suggesting

02:49:30.160 at all but this is described in two different passages and next time spawn gets on a roll

02:49:39.200 i will look it up and find the second passage for you because they're out of different little

02:49:43.360 chunks of our lore describing the same event so the one that we use is from the guild beginning

02:49:50.240 but the other one is from the volus bow um the uh in in the volus bow it says uh

02:50:02.960 lao gave loather or lead to goda so

02:50:07.440 uh you know it's it's their lao and liter alone goodliness is of course goda but those two words

02:50:19.680 are again very very hard for people to translate some people have looked at it as again the when

02:50:25.440 they talk about the light is it you know in usage of of the way that you know their face their

02:50:32.960 coloring looks some people try to deviate away from that because it could imply you know the uh

02:50:38.960 racial uh concepts or some people say it's sight some people say it's again the wits of or the um

02:50:48.160 the the comprehension of the mind um and and the blood the lao being the the blood or the the life

02:50:56.160 flow or perhaps the genetic descendancy i know that's getting really kind of deep in the weeds

02:51:01.920 but lao and liter are very hard to kind of nail down and that's why you find a lot of these

02:51:09.200 interpretations all this pretty straightforward it it's mentioned again with with the holy freya

02:51:16.400 it's mentioned with lord odin and on again very very clear but lao and liter are

02:51:23.360 interesting and i think that when it comes to say perhaps having a better interpretation

02:51:34.720 is like it's it what flavor do you like what flavor sits best well with you in the

02:51:43.440 interpretation of it because if you look at bellows if you look at you know thorpe if you

02:51:47.760 look at um the ryberg and their explanations or some explain some don't they just simply translate

02:51:55.040 it to be of goodly hue or goodly light or um goodly visage if you will um

02:52:06.160 yeah i mean so like there's those two words and specifics are interesting because

02:52:13.360 when you go to look them up very often times you will get it like lao as a prefix and um

02:52:21.520 that's when you get some interesting things or uh sometimes lead to is often um

02:52:29.680 referred to as like the being in and of itself but that they're referencing to like the shape or the

02:52:35.920 the presence of the body as opposed to even being the coloring or the wit if you will

02:52:42.800 But the translations here, too, are the specific, what is it, the quote that was pulled, oftentimes is bellows.

02:53:00.480 Am I correct on that, Osiragudi?

02:53:03.400 I believe, yeah, I believe that's the one we use with bellows.

02:53:06.720 Yeah, and again, it is mentioned in the Gilfoginning and in the Volaspau in stanza 18, if you're following Bellow's translation.

02:53:18.980 Yeah, we went with one, but they're described in both places. And again, this isn't conflicting

02:53:36.460 with that. I think it's kind of a really narrowed in thing. Most translations that I've found of

02:53:44.940 the below spout passage you're referring to make it goodly hue or like handsome good-looking coloring

02:53:55.380 um of note i have dropped the old norse from the gilfaggoning and the blue spout in the private

02:54:03.720 chat if spawn needs to look at it but we yeah you are correct about everything you said but

02:54:08.540 we used to get back in the true true them all and the blue spout is what actually

02:54:13.320 immediately rolled up so we didn't and i don't think that it doesn't mean what you're suggesting

02:54:20.520 please don't get me wrong on that i think that the coloring most of one of the overriding themes of

02:54:28.120 this and they use a little bit different terms in both of these different passages of lore

02:54:32.680 but the idea is these things differentiate a corpse from a living being they differentiate

02:54:39.160 a wax museum likeness of something from the living presence of that thing one of those things is

02:54:48.180 color and some of that is the light in the eye some of that is that spark of life that you see

02:54:55.900 and that's being defined here in a number of you know I guess in six different ways

02:55:04.440 three in the translation that are in the uh guilt beginning and then three you know slightly

02:55:11.500 different but expressing the same thought in the uh in the blue spout so i don't feel that we're in

02:55:18.880 in disagreement and there's a lot of extra that you can add on to it or extra that you can read

02:55:23.860 into it that's of value to you i'm not we're not attempting to take that away but that passage that

02:55:30.660 you're mentioning is is from the the other account of of creation one thing i would like to bring up

02:55:37.900 there is that the the word litu the fact that it has a u on there is because it's connected to goda

02:55:44.060 the word itself is is is lita and that means to look or in this case to look good if you want to

02:55:53.120 talk about like a direct translation it's like and good lookingness but what it really like kind of

02:56:00.160 means is is to project that which is fair to look upon that would be like the probably the most

02:56:06.260 poetic correct way of translating that's where you're getting goodly hue light if it was light

02:56:13.060 that would be leos correct yeah yes but and lead to there's i mean there's leet litem leetan

02:56:22.680 lita litu are all to look to look in someone's eyes to to gaze upon them but in this case it's

02:56:32.360 to be good looking it is to be to look good or to be pleasing to the eye so there is therein lies

02:56:41.320 a lot of interpretation with the idea of the coloring the shape the fairness the light of the

02:56:47.000 eyes that which um shows life as opposed to death i mean yeah it's it's not clear because it's not

02:56:56.280 really a clear translation and and good looking doesn't doesn't you know i guess

02:57:06.840 would translate to like

02:57:08.440 like uh hell yeah hell yeah um but yeah i think all of those things within the encompassing of

02:57:24.440 all these these three gifts is the idea that one's giving you the breath of life that animates you

02:57:31.560 the other giving you you know your your blood your your appearance of liveliness your

02:57:39.480 your response to touch and the other your connection with divinity the the

02:57:45.560 embodiment of a spiritual being something above the animal kingdom and i think that all of that

02:57:51.000 really is communicated here and then the other thing and i think this point is worth doing this

02:57:55.640 is kind of a this is a nick thing that he threw it in there as a question but i think it's a thought

02:57:59.880 that other people might have and i think that the answer to it is illustrative of something that i

02:58:05.880 want really clear to folks so nick says i don't know if this is uh pedantic or hyper focused or

02:58:14.520 what but in my brain i don't think of the nornier as weaving a tapestry but as carving in stone

02:58:20.840 seems a bit more fixed yeah but they're supreme so i figured they could adjust their carvings to

02:58:26.040 To me, weaving fate fits more with Greek fates. 1.00

02:58:30.520 It's all Aryan, of course, 0.97

02:58:32.100 but I'm just trying to fixate on imagery in my head. 0.99

02:58:35.100 And I think that's a really good question

02:58:36.640 because it's the kind of thing that people think of.

02:58:39.660 So what's important?

02:58:44.580 A couple of thought processes to me on this.

02:58:48.300 And actually, for you to know,

02:58:49.920 I was just looking in the blue spout,

02:58:51.680 and in the blue spout, they actually mentioned carving in wood.

02:58:54.980 yeah on what the quote that we just mentioned is that that carving so both imagery is is there

02:59:06.740 more often it's referred to in a weaving as far as fate and tapestry and I think some of that relates

02:59:14.660 to women's industry where it comes to weaving that's typically a female art that they do

02:59:22.640 whereas stone carving is not quite as much but the thing is

02:59:30.200 that's what the lore presents us and hands down to us overwhelming and that's what i wanted to

02:59:37.720 faithfully represent there's a lot of times that i could deviate from the lore out of convenience

02:59:44.240 or to reinforce stuff i like or stuff that's cool to me versus stuff that's cool to other people

02:59:51.640 i wanted to be very conscious not to do that because it's a really important responsibility

02:59:57.640 if anything is a evolution of the lore or an expounding on it then i try to do that very

03:00:04.760 cautiously with prayerful reflection and taking that responsibility really seriously but i never

03:00:12.520 want to change something around or represent something differently if it's just a matter of

03:00:20.120 convenience or utility or preference the only way that i want to and again not change the lore but

03:00:26.920 um but add to it is if it's a genuine truth that i feel is is communicated to me by my relationship

03:00:36.200 with the gods and by my understanding as it goes but i would never want to represent that differently

03:00:44.360 for something mundane like that so i try really hard to make sure i'm avoiding doing any of that

03:00:50.280 it's really important to me the other thing is they're not carving on anything and they're not

03:00:56.520 weaving textiles and and but it's no this isn't really fair no no no but we but we all do this

03:01:06.200 nick that's not aimed at you snarky i will absolutely aim snarky things at you but not

03:01:10.680 right now this is we all do this and it's worth checking in with ourselves when we hyper focus

03:01:17.640 on detail in the lore no stop great cosmic goddesses of our folk that govern existence 0.99

03:01:27.560 are shaping through their power as goddesses 0.91

03:01:33.080 the course and current of events in incalculable unfathomable processes of the cosmos that

03:01:43.600 we don't have frame of reference on so our ancestors likened it to the things they found

03:01:51.500 most similar or the things that the the listener would be able to put form to in their mind and

03:01:59.840 make sense of but there's not you know three women sitting around a loom weaving something or you

03:02:08.140 know woodland some wood and that's not anything silly we all do that but it's worth checking in

03:02:15.320 on some of these things and say you know what is the point of the communication what does this mean

03:02:19.880 versus you know again what kind of thread count does that loom have well there's something else

03:02:27.140 too about the weaving that also holds well especially with what we've been talking about

03:02:32.420 there are two strings that make the weave of a fabric the warp is the vertical lines that are set

03:02:40.660 before the willful action is the weft so in a way or log is the warp it's the um it's the things that

03:02:50.020 have been set down before it's the orlaw and then your own individual will and the way that you

03:02:57.060 move through these things create the weft and that is what locks it together so i think it's a good

03:03:04.180 analogy um either way and especially with the way that we explain or law and weird even though they

03:03:11.380 are technically the same thing or the one fabric they are kind of made up of two elements so i'm

03:03:18.820 curious on something here i wanna um

03:03:27.060 so the the suggestion is that in in you know tell us more if there's a thing but uh goodly

03:03:39.220 hue slash color is good i just think the afa might as well use non-pc language

03:03:45.860 i'm unaware of what pc language that we are using and if there's if you could be more explicit on

03:03:52.820 that i'm i'm genuinely curious because i'm not sure what you're picking up on because that's

03:03:56.980 certainly as i think is evident from the rest of the document we're not we're very intentionally

03:04:03.380 not trying to be pc at all so if you're noticing something maybe we're not please you know if you

03:04:09.780 can make that a little bit more specific because i'm not i'm not seeing what you're seeing maybe

03:04:14.740 it's because i spent a long time in this document that sometimes you know when you do something for

03:04:19.620 a while you become a little bit you can't see the forest for the trees so if you're seeing

03:04:24.500 something different than what i am please please let me know uh the word lao means like in common

03:04:32.500 usage in old norse was the the spot in which the land and the sea meet and that's kind of always

03:04:38.420 been taken as um kind of the the ancestral blood like almost like a kenning the ancestral blood

03:04:45.940 meets the the living flesh this is the point of that of that strand um and then uh yeah you need

03:04:54.820 to go that means to they they look are good to look upon and so those are like the direct or

03:05:03.380 like closest direct translations that's when you start getting into um the interpretations like

03:05:09.620 goodly hue goodly shape or light upon you know that's what it gets on i think the biggest thing

03:05:15.700 for us to focus on is is that which makes us alive that as opposed to dead but you know i think he's

03:05:24.020 i think he means um instead of goodly hue we should say like you know awesome awesome skin color

03:05:31.620 well i mean is that the point that we should say like whiteness because i again like nick said

03:05:36.820 i don't think it's indicated in the text i've said that we are the noble race i've said you know i've

03:05:43.540 tried to include a lot of these things it's just not included there um it's just not really in that

03:05:49.460 text and there's a lot of old norse words that mean that and you see it when you talk about

03:05:54.340 nobility we talk about like the white armed maidens or when we talked about um heimdallar

03:06:00.740 being the white house that word just isn't in the translation and i don't really think it's it's put

03:06:09.300 there i think that was kind of a given because when our ancestors were talking about people they

03:06:15.060 were talking about us there was different words for you know other other occupants of the planet

03:06:24.980 that were not them so i that wasn't wasn't an intentional yeah i think that's what he's getting

03:06:35.620 that it's it's it's just not there in that passage i think you and i both agree and we've been

03:06:41.300 you know you know our what we look like and our our race is a gift that is makes us

03:06:53.700 who we are from our gods and that's a reflection of of that divinity um but that's just not in

03:07:00.980 the passage and like i said i'm not going to use i'm not going to i i don't want to uh

03:07:07.940 misrepresent our lore to make points that are appealing to our current political climate or

03:07:17.540 are self-serving to to narratives i want our lord to be distilled in a way that is is accurate to

03:07:26.900 way that our gods handed it to us and that's very important to me um you will find some other i guess

03:07:34.580 less pc pc things or some more some things that may tickle your fancy a little bit more i think

03:07:43.380 in in the following sections where it's more of of me writing about us but um hang on i think

03:07:50.660 there'll be more of that that you might i don't know well there's one interesting point of this

03:07:57.620 the translation lito goda that to good to look upon because litu means to gaze or to look upon

03:08:05.780 and goda is the goodness of that what that means is is that the holy house when they shaped us they

03:08:13.540 shaped us and gave us that which they felt made us good to look upon good to see and i think that's

03:08:21.940 an interesting part of that is that the possession of that sight comes from the gods that they um

03:08:29.860 have done this that they have they have given us colors they have given us red colors and

03:08:35.940 blonde colors and and uh auburn colors and they've given us all of these different um

03:08:41.780 you know colors of the of the palette of of things so that we are goodly to look upon

03:08:48.740 by them and that literally is what it means it's not necessarily good looking

03:08:55.140 it's it's that they're that we are good to look upon from their eyes

03:09:05.140 um all right so section

03:09:07.380 let me look here because i'm trying to find a good place

03:09:16.420 this is probably as good a place as any to leave off until next time and go to the questions we

03:09:23.300 haven't answered yet so we are in section three of part two if we could remember that and will you

03:09:33.780 be able to join us next week for the continuation absolutely i am going to step away for one second

03:09:40.500 to use the restroom and then i'll be right back excellent

03:09:46.100 so

03:09:49.140 all right getting back let me go back and look at some of our uh questions here that we've

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03:12:02.020 okay so now we're getting to some of the wolf throne questions so this is i will try to get

03:12:08.660 this as best i can and i appreciate that it's very thought out and complete it's just in really big

03:12:15.060 chunks so um let's see what we can do the world throne says uh it is believed by some that the

03:12:25.300 proto-indo-european religion spread across not only europe but much of the world in general

03:12:30.740 including asia and even the americas those similarities and mythologies and names through

03:12:37.460 similarities in mythologies and names of demons ron mcvan even uh proposed the idea that the aztec

03:12:45.780 god quixaquattal could be the same as odin i read about shinto a bit online and found that some of

03:12:53.860 their gods actually originate from the hindu pantheon via buddhist influence would this

03:12:59.700 indicate that shinto gods are our gods but practiced through the ethnic japanese interpretation

03:13:07.460 Could this mean that other pantheons, like Native American, Aztec, African, also share a very ancient root?

03:13:15.620 Thomas Rousel also believes in the idea that all polytheistic religions are arriving at the same truth.

03:13:22.520 He uses the analogy of a mountain being truth and that there are many pathways to get to the top of the mountain.

03:13:29.000 But you can only choose one path, in this case, your native religion.

03:13:33.600 and if you try to change paths midway you will probably fall off the mountain. If all polytheistic

03:13:39.900 religions share the same root that would mean all indigenous tribes are actually worshiping the same

03:13:45.660 deities. Although I believe if that is the case we would be the god's chosen people since we are

03:13:55.200 directly descended from the gods and those other people are not. Any thoughts on this idea?

03:14:04.560 sure spawn what are your what are your thoughts on that idea and i think that's the perennial

03:14:13.040 perennial philosophy school of thought

03:14:17.680 i mean this is kind of a big one because it hits a lot of different points but um

03:14:23.840 it's kind of hard and we we've talked about this in vns before there is the inner guard and the

03:14:35.160 outer guard of things and what we're truly what what you're asking by your question is

03:14:40.420 you're wondering about where that perhaps outer guard goes how far does it go out you know when

03:14:49.980 we start to look at the connection between, say, Teutonic Aryans and the Aryans of India

03:15:04.400 and the invasion of India, the Vedic Aryans, as we generally kind of call them. That is

03:15:14.220 a great question. We see it in our language and things like that. One of the first things

03:15:18.260 that i would look at though is the that language is so important for carrying the the gods especially

03:15:28.660 through prayer and one of the things that's clearly not present when we start to look at say

03:15:34.420 the african continent or the asian and um america's via asian uh land migrations

03:15:44.900 you don't have a huge linguistic connection you do after with the with the japanese say

03:15:51.220 they were influenced by the indians were influenced or influenced the chinese the chinese

03:15:56.340 influenced the koreans and then they both in turn also influenced the japanese and so there was a

03:16:03.220 pipeline there um that is pretty tangible and we know that through language um there is also a lot

03:16:09.860 of similarities between uh japanese shintoism and say like arian faiths um uh that are you know

03:16:21.940 interesting i i would say certainly i think that gets a lot more um hard to to pin down when you

03:16:31.300 look at say north america and south america like quetzalcoatl and a lot of the the um you know

03:16:38.260 uh natives but i understand what you're saying like could there be or you're you're just speculating

03:16:44.980 that that how far out it would go and is this more of a universal monotheistic

03:16:53.620 my uh relationship with the divine or is it more of an intrinsic multiplicity polytheistic

03:17:00.820 and that all people that are poly polytheistic are more connected than we know and that the

03:17:07.300 aberrant you know new thing is singularity and monotheism and i get that i i think that's a

03:17:14.820 really cool question i just again with the fall of language to substantiate um and also to genetics

03:17:26.180 that's where things start to kind of fall for me especially when you're looking at between say

03:17:31.940 ireland and norway or iceland and and traveling all the way through to india you can see these

03:17:40.500 connectivities language language and genetically but it starts to fall off south of that line and

03:17:46.980 northeast of that line in the orient and things like that um but i do think that the word of mouth

03:17:54.500 affects a lot of things as well we spoke about that with um how about leo that a lot of people

03:18:01.540 were trying to say oh that's not harvard that's loki but if you look at the stories of the slavs

03:18:07.380 and the the fight between velez and perun and those those two dominions those two thrones kind

03:18:14.500 of um going at it i think they influence those stories so i think yes they they do travel and

03:18:21.540 they do kind of expand i don't know i mean if i was joking in my head when you when i read the

03:18:26.180 question and i'm not trying to laugh i i love your questions it's just like it was like the honorary

03:18:30.500 arians of the japanese but and also sorry i was gonna say one thing too the ainu throw a lot of

03:18:41.460 loops in for people the ainu are a northern japanese people and they grow like full beards

03:18:46.980 and they look they have like a very kind of eastern siberian look to them and i know that

03:18:52.580 throws a lot of people off but language and genetics i think are very important to uh what

03:19:00.980 makes um an ethnic faith the the key to holding towards the divine and that um the you if i think

03:19:10.900 about the gods of other people i don't i don't at all they're not even inside the they're in the

03:19:16.340 outer guard it's like not my place to even try to figure that out and i that was something that we

03:19:21.940 talked about really early on when i first started kind of coming on vns was that it's very hard for

03:19:27.300 people we constantly try to seek maybe a unity or uniformity and um i think ethnic faiths and

03:19:35.460 folkishism doesn't it's it's my people and everything outside of my people i think that

03:19:43.540 we want everything to be perfectly clean and we

03:19:59.460 spend a lot of time mentally struggling on things that are confusing or obscure or

03:20:09.220 present challenges and i think that instead of focusing on the one percent of odd mystery

03:20:19.700 focusing on the 99 of clear path makes a lot more sense so

03:20:28.500 one of the things

03:20:31.540 we share a certain common existence with other groups of people in the world

03:20:38.980 like we literally can overlap and interact on the map um you know if we are climb if we're

03:20:49.060 not talking about the spiritual mountain that uh that you were referring to but if we climb

03:20:54.500 one side of a mountain and some you know black dudes are climbing the other side of the mountain

03:21:02.420 we're sharing the same mountain we can walk over the same terrain some things just are

03:21:06.420 are and undoubtedly Africans have divinity that relates to their mountains

03:21:17.460 and Asian people also encounter mountains so they have divinity that have to do with mountains

03:21:28.580 and white people also have divinity that has to do with mountains because mountains exist

03:21:33.860 and so the reality of the world in which we live gets reflected in our mythos that's going to have

03:21:42.500 commonality whereas you know an extraterrestrial from somewhere else is going to have something

03:21:48.980 perhaps very different because they're dealing with a completely alien landscape and factors

03:21:56.900 that make up the world that they live in but the most important relationships of our deities aren't

03:22:07.060 about weather or about landscape they're about soul those are very different

03:22:14.420 in the different forms of polytheism and they're expressed extremely differently

03:22:19.140 it's something that okay I came into contact with this a little bit in dealing with South Africa

03:22:29.160 so in South Africa it's technically illegal to practice indigenous religion or ethnic religions

03:22:37.680 because ethnic religions in parts of africa are shockingly different than ethnic religions

03:22:52.000 in different parts of the world they involve cannibalism sometimes and some really shocking

03:22:59.440 things that are very very far askew from how how our people or how white people experience religion

03:23:07.280 and i don't mean how we experience it through abrahamism i mean how we have always experienced

03:23:14.080 spirituality we are very different people built by different gods in very different

03:23:21.760 ways or by different powers in very different ways

03:23:30.080 when you deal with migrations of people back into the very most ancient mists of time

03:23:37.280 undoubtedly you have anomalous crossovers that are interesting and certainly you do so

03:23:46.560 in the most fundamental sense there's a lot of overlap between vedic deities and

03:23:54.480 european expressions of arian divinity the further you go down that line in the more the people of

03:24:02.800 india intermix with other different asian peoples the less similar those gods become

03:24:10.640 and the more there are other gods that are added to that list that don't come from

03:24:18.640 our common our common root as that goes east you do see some overlap you start seeing a

03:24:27.600 a Hindu overlap into parts of China and Tibet you see that get perpetuated in a strange way

03:24:39.360 with the advent of Buddhism and then you see Buddhism get transferred to Japan at some point

03:24:48.420 and so you see this like passing of this like game of telephone in some ways all across the

03:24:55.500 Silk Road and into Japan and it's really strange it's interesting it's historically anomalous

03:25:03.960 and maybe on some fundamental they're applying the wrong names to their own deities somehow I

03:25:13.320 don't know I don't propose to know how all that works in those places but I think it's really

03:25:18.360 far-reaching I think if you look to find things in common you will certainly find things in common

03:25:25.500 But I don't think you find enough commonality to make them the same.

03:25:32.300 We are folkish and not universalist, meaning that we do not claim that our gods are the gods of everybody.

03:25:43.760 I have no desire to do that.

03:25:45.980 I can't dictate what other groups of people, if they want to worship my gods or not, that's, I suppose, between them and our gods.

03:25:54.620 but that's not what we do that's not also true that's not our practice um

03:26:07.020 you get cultural overlap and you get an exchange of things you see it in an exchange of material

03:26:13.100 technology and merchandise and things you see it with an exchange of language and you see it with

03:26:20.620 an exchange of of genetics here and there but just because there's a a tiny piece of similarity that

03:26:27.100 gets there through trade or through travel or something else the anomaly doesn't overtake the

03:26:35.100 the fundamentals which are quite different

03:26:40.460 we are very different people we reject the theory that we are all out of africa

03:26:46.700 we know that not to be true we don't wish to diminish any other race of people's relationship

03:26:56.740 to their religion by claiming that ours is the only one that's right or for everybody else what

03:27:03.100 they want to do is up to them what we do is focused on us and ours we have no reason to

03:27:09.640 believe that our gods are the same as any other ethnic groups gods and divinities that's not

03:27:19.500 what we do what our focus is or something we have any reason to seriously entertain or believe now

03:27:25.460 it's very tempting when it's very tempting for some folks to find things that might indicate

03:27:35.440 that all the good if you go far enough down that rabbit hole there's these theories that

03:27:42.400 all the good things and every cool thing in the history of earth originates with some white guy

03:27:48.660 somewhere that's cool but that is not the claim of the astro focus India it's far beyond

03:27:57.280 when you get back to some of those most ancient times that's very very speculative and I think a

03:28:04.160 of people have a lot of different ideas about what that may look like again it's not what our focus

03:28:10.560 is we don't believe in the commonality of all of these things that's universalism fundamentally

03:28:18.480 we are focused we're not universalists it's one of the big things that defines

03:28:23.520 what we do it's very very easy to slip into this melting pot idea and resisting the need

03:28:31.680 to make everything a melting pot is a huge part of our foundation and how we relate to the world

03:28:43.360 and how we relate to our gods so that's kind of a key tenet that um we have no reason nor desire to

03:28:52.240 discard ah does anyone know where uh books in the store like living house true will be restocked

03:29:02.000 working on that we actually talked with folks that are working on our store

03:29:05.280 last week about that and some of those orders are being processed for us to refill the stock

03:29:11.600 on uh australian native european spirituality by our founder stephen mcnallen also living

03:29:18.400 outside true by our founder stephen mcnallen as well as his pamphlet on metagenetics i know those

03:29:24.640 are all have been ordered or have been directed that we restock those so we'll see how fast we're

03:29:31.600 if we can get those in, but we are restocking them.

03:29:41.040 Raven, question on cultural impact.

03:29:43.300 How do the concepts of cosmic order and noble action

03:29:46.720 embodied by the Isir influence our folkish, 1.00

03:29:49.760 cultural, and moral values today? 1.00

03:29:52.360 Svan, you wanna take a swing at that?

03:29:56.880 You're muted.

03:30:01.600 muted you are still

03:30:04.320 terribly sorry wow that was a good one sorry i was looking i was um

03:30:17.120 actually looking up for um what nick had asked about um uh lord heimdall and the the uh

03:30:27.780 translation and that was a rabbit hole unto itself um cultural impact how did the concepts

03:30:34.420 of cosmic order noble action embodied in by the ice here influence our focus culture today

03:30:42.100 i would say first and foremost our allegiances to the icier are based around

03:30:49.860 incorporating ideas of cosmic order and natural law we see those things

03:30:57.780 uh emanating from the gods and so we apply them to the way that we would structure say ourselves

03:31:08.360 and that is we the gods don't come to us and say uh thou shalt you know make your family like this

03:31:18.400 thou shalt make your community like this that shall make your church like this or your your

03:31:22.480 your folk we do that on our own but we do it based off that reflection and off that

03:31:27.760 seeing the gods and trying to emulate the attainment towards the eternal

03:31:34.340 while also understanding the cyclical nature of things so it's it's um it's kind of like

03:31:42.720 when we were talking earlier in this episode about um understanding common sense that's the

03:31:50.100 natural law we cannot break away from that which is the the understanding of it the way things flow

03:31:59.620 but we can seek to look forward look upward to make bigger to make better and this can apply

03:32:07.960 all the way down to oneself to one's family to your you know your kinfolk and to your hoth and

03:32:15.460 and to your church it um i think that's one of the biggest things that when i think of how

03:32:24.060 they translate um uh as a whole individually i think too you know we we have much to learn from

03:32:32.820 the gods um and the notions that they invoke in us if the lore states a story about lord tier

03:32:45.240 and his devotion to his people i think it goes beyond that when you start having relationships

03:32:51.900 like a gifting relationship with lord tiered you suddenly start to look into the the price

03:32:59.980 of maintaining order the price of maintaining um uh things that you need versus you know or

03:33:09.300 what could tear you apart or your what could cause or disruption in your life and you what

03:33:14.500 you must give up in order to make sure that those things don't like flow into your family or flow

03:33:19.200 into yourself you can apply much of the gods in that but i i this is kind of strange so it fits

03:33:28.540 for this though i kind of have a tendency to applicate three columns towards the the holy

03:33:35.320 gods in relation to things i i look at the observable lore i look at the relationship

03:33:42.860 and the observance of uh kind of a larger scale maybe or maybe like what we often talk about like

03:33:51.640 the the big meta of the gods and then you know lastly like the interactions that they may have

03:33:59.700 within the world um but in this case uh you know looking at the

03:34:07.040 the application of pick any holy house or any holy house in here and look at how can i apply

03:34:16.340 this to myself how can i apply this to my family or community how can i apply this to my to my

03:34:21.840 church um and you find a lot of great direction in that um i know that it gets kind of lost in

03:34:29.540 weeds when we talk about the excitement of of a nordic uh battle story but there are certain

03:34:38.340 things that are applicable um setting down rules having them be followed sacrificing for the greater

03:34:44.980 good of your folk um and they they are in there um but the lord doesn't make the gods entirely so

03:34:53.060 So, you know, I think, yeah, that's the difference is like I can

03:34:57.620 applicate from lore, but I can also applicate from personal experience.

03:35:02.960 Lord Odin and what he brings to the way I want to teach my son,

03:35:07.760 because many times I feel that Lord Odin had taught me in a certain way

03:35:12.800 to make me understand things.

03:35:16.180 Yeah, and seeing the gods in the world around us,

03:35:20.240 um you know seeing snotra at sambal or when we do meet together and when we do interact together

03:35:28.080 and those things becoming open to the inclinations that are morally correct um you know

03:35:35.460 uh i i gave an example of of just um during the gothar kind of uh calls that we were doing is

03:35:44.600 you know it's like the knowing impropriety knowing when to be not not to be improper

03:35:54.260 you know these things that lead us towards doing things that might seem strange maybe even strange 0.75

03:36:00.640 to other cultures but we know it and that's where they're like that's where Snotra resides

03:36:05.560 she's there and that emanates her power and we use the example of you know coming to say someone 0.96

03:36:12.720 that you don't know very well and you go to their house and they are not there but their wife is

03:36:18.140 there their children are there and perhaps it's best not to be in there until the entirety of

03:36:25.160 the family is there um and that's just an inclination there's no written point of it but

03:36:31.260 the idea is that if you just kind of you know are in someone's house and they're not even

03:36:36.840 you know there it kind of borders on impropriety so you know you don't do it those things are how

03:36:45.760 i think our faith works it's not commandments it's not edicts it's definitely lessons by experience

03:36:55.500 application through interaction with the gods who i do believe interact with the middle world

03:37:00.600 on a very intimate basis i don't think it's uh as the way a lot of people think um but that they do

03:37:09.260 have dominion in our world and that we are tightly woven all together so it's that's a hard question

03:37:16.300 to answer clearly for me at least but i think that's most questions all right uh question have

03:37:25.520 y'all ever thought about or currently working towards a concept like as true folk records

03:37:31.040 having your own record label to produce homegrown also true music no um but there's more to that so

03:37:46.880 there's a lot of folks out there that want to focus assembly to

03:37:51.520 you or suggest ideas of us branching off into different businesses we would love to have our

03:38:00.800 members do that and we would love to see those things happen we have so much to do

03:38:12.880 developing and implementing the religion of aussitrew that side projects like that

03:38:18.240 like having and owning a record label are kind of beyond the scope of what we as a church would do

03:38:24.960 but we would love to have our members do things like that and be supportive of that and then be

03:38:31.620 supportive of us we for a very long time have wanted to see our people develop musically um

03:38:39.740 I would love for us to have more devotional music in a lot of different styles but

03:38:46.740 what i have encountered so far is ooga booga shoulder pelt roadkill ash on the face

03:39:00.300 cosplay stuff or like metal and

03:39:07.180 i appreciate that those sometimes those are done out of out of sincere piety sometimes they are not

03:39:16.740 um but those are i would like to have more expression of that and maybe some expression

03:39:23.140 of that that is more fitting for a a hoff environment um you know we've talked about

03:39:32.420 that for years and i'd love to see it happen one of the deals that we run into is uh issues

03:39:37.940 with distance and i think there's probably ways for musicians to collaborate over the internet

03:39:43.460 to put together compositions.

03:39:50.220 One thing we're very lucky to have,

03:39:52.140 we have a member out in Odenshof and it's really neat.

03:39:56.980 He plays various, he usually plays guitar,

03:40:01.140 but he's got various musical skillset

03:40:03.940 and he'll play at our dinners and events and stuff.

03:40:07.780 And it's really nice.

03:40:09.440 He has to rely on, you know, often different folk music.

03:40:14.440 It'd be really cool if he had some Alcatruz specific music.

03:40:18.340 And I'd love to see that develop.

03:40:19.820 And there's a lot of different ways that can go.

03:40:23.160 Svon, do you have anything to add?

03:40:24.300 Cause I know this is something you've thought about it.

03:40:27.580 Yeah, there was a website

03:40:32.580 there was a a website and it was probably not necessarily neutral it was most of the contributors

03:40:41.840 are either they're no longer alive or they're no longer ousted through anymore um but it was a good

03:40:50.020 site it was called odin's gift um i think it's still out there and it had some interesting lyrics

03:40:55.880 and some interesting scales to play for certain songs.

03:41:00.540 It had quite a lot of songs.

03:41:04.040 And I thought it was a noble thing

03:41:05.780 that they were trying to do,

03:41:07.560 but then, you know, kind of having these ideals,

03:41:11.780 but then pitching them to a community

03:41:14.520 that doesn't even propagate itself

03:41:16.340 or care about its children,

03:41:18.040 i.e., I mean, the universalist Ausatru of the 90s,

03:41:23.180 it kind of fell flat.

03:41:24.680 and i feel like there's a lot of potential in those songs but i don't know about copyrights

03:41:30.200 and all of those things so that is like ouse through songs in english that's interesting to

03:41:39.400 me and i've always wanted to play with that but um i have a song that i sing often at symbols and

03:41:45.400 that's done in an more of an appalachian um bluegrass thing and i i it's really just a poem

03:41:54.460 about the road up to hell um and i wish there was more out there that expressed there was a uh an

03:42:05.460 artist a long time ago um bob falconstein falconstein um he had a couple of really good

03:42:12.720 songs on on the internet but i think his faith in the icier um he was a you know again a fair

03:42:20.000 weather faith um and that's another thing that we have to you know deal with uh we had the song the

03:42:27.040 hymns the book of hymns um that was an older book i don't recall too much about where that was going

03:42:35.680 but i would really love to see two forms of music i would love to see folk music

03:42:41.600 uh much akin to english folk songs and uh irish and scottish folk songs perhaps a hybrid

03:42:50.720 like appalachian um mountain music and uh the other one i would love to see would be an elevated

03:43:00.000 choir style music and anybody that has ever heard um perhaps chorus of bells or like a bell choir

03:43:11.400 bell choirs and um if anybody's ever heard anything from like jeremy soleil jeremy soleil

03:43:19.880 of course is the guy that he composed the music for skyrim and i know that's kind of a funny

03:43:26.520 segue, but it is true. If you listen to some of Jeremy Soleil's music, he got these choirs

03:43:35.360 together to sing epic songs, songs of great renown as far as like warrior, there's a warrior

03:43:43.000 spirit to them. It's not a lot of, you know, prepubescent boys trying to get the highest

03:43:48.820 pitch they can. It has a different flavor to it. And I think that would be the trajectory

03:43:55.620 we could look towards going towards believe believe the dragonborn comes um i would like that

03:44:08.200 what i would really like to see is also true bluegrass and like elevated

03:44:13.700 Raymer style chant work like if Raymer and like Gregorian chant were to

03:44:27.860 amalgamate into as a true Hoff religious intonation I think that would be awesome

03:44:36.500 I think Swan's idea is really cool I don't really know the name to put towards that but

03:44:42.380 i think that would be awesome yeah i was going to say just to emphasize what you said reamer

03:44:48.320 anybody that's interested you should look that up it's pretty cool um it's icelandic poetry singing

03:44:54.980 um yeah you can find uh spainbjorn bientenson did an album of that that's really really cool i think

03:45:06.360 guys should check that out and uh may find a link send it nick and nick can send it to y'all on here

03:45:13.000 if it's something you guys are interested in because i do think that's that's kind of cool

03:45:16.600 and something you guys may want to check out but in the meantime swan question what is your beard

03:45:22.440 regiment thank you uh i'm lucky i'm a barber i and i sometimes i get bored when i have a gap

03:45:31.640 in between clients and i will just mess around um i don't if you don't have a beard this is

03:45:41.000 i'm speaking as a barber for advice if you don't have a beard that's past your adam's apple

03:45:46.840 you don't need the oils you don't need the balms all you need is to know how to groom

03:45:53.400 and to make sure that you have a beard wash and a beard conditioner

03:45:57.320 um unless you have something on an outlier perhaps overly oily skin or extra extra dry skin

03:46:04.360 I have found um that for my beard it's perfect just with a wash and I use a separate shampoo

03:46:15.400 uh shampoo conditioner on the head and a beard shampoo and conditioner um I re I recommend

03:46:21.500 rootsel rootsel is a really great brand um but there's lots of other brands you can use and

03:46:27.500 that's all you need to kind of keep it soft and then the other thing i would say is make your

03:46:32.700 bottom line and grow the top into it a lot of guys don't do that they they shave it all down to like

03:46:39.100 one length and then as it grows out it looks like a hula skirt on a coconut and it's not it's not

03:46:44.380 good you gotta you gotta shape it you gotta get it to grow out and and then start to kind of cut it

03:46:51.100 to fit and and make your jawline the other thing is is if you got kind of a round face

03:46:56.060 i have a kind of a round face um i do a hollywoodian which is where i cut the sideburns off

03:47:02.700 because i don't want my the roundness of the face it is a style it was very popular in the 30s

03:47:09.500 um and there's lots of different variations if you google it though i think the primary picture

03:47:13.740 is terrible it just it looks like i was like something from like a home home depot like uh

03:47:22.540 contractor or something like that but um yeah so just wash it wash it regularly and and also in

03:47:29.660 lieu of shaving wash it in the morning sometimes i'll do that twice and you put the conditioner in

03:47:35.260 to let let it soak um shampoo usually twice first time just to get the oil second time to clean the

03:47:42.940 follicle and then the third time you put on the conditioner and let it sit for about 60 seconds

03:47:48.460 and then you wash it out and comb it if you have it longer than your your adam's apple though

03:47:53.980 that's when you start getting into balms that's when you start getting into oils and you got to

03:47:58.060 regularly trim the ends or they're going to fray and then once a hair frays or splits it's going

03:48:04.060 to go right up and break off so you're going to end up damaging and thinning your beard

03:48:09.900 make sure you trim it at the ends regularly go see a barber

03:48:16.540 or you know what is an amazing product for your beard gorilla snot

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03:49:16.780 it rusal's the pig fat one right uh yeah okay so rusal's a good product again spawn is a barber

03:49:25.740 and i'm just me so by all means listen to spawn i'm just throwing this out there

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03:49:56.440 I didn't know what to do with my facial hair.

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03:50:38.980 but instead applying it on the surface best way to do that is to put a little bit on a on like a

03:50:44.080 paper towel and then wipe it onto the outer layer of your beard so it's not getting to your skin

03:50:49.800 if you have some sort of reactions um you know and then maybe combing in in just a little bit

03:50:56.680 I know also too you can use let's say you just have hairspray or or something in the house from

03:51:01.760 someone else you can spray that onto the paper towel and press it down to make sure but also

03:51:07.740 tell your barber you need your beard cut into more of a square shape and they will that will

03:51:14.180 that's the first step to to really um taming the beard and there is a uh there is a great

03:51:20.980 video uh or a i guess it's a series of videos on youtube by the company beard brand they do teach

03:51:29.360 you a lot about how to self-groom with like a it's it's um it's called a rat's tail brush

03:51:35.780 and a blow dryer that's the old school way of doing it a lot of people now have those like

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03:52:49.240 pollinate they just called it pig fat so isn't okay a question isn't grill snot a paralytic beer

03:52:56.260 illegal in the United States. It might be. I don't know if that, if it shares a name with

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03:53:10.420 advocate consuming Gorilla Snot. So that's not its intended purpose, but it does smell like it

03:53:16.120 would be delicious. That said, try them all. They all have unique bouquet. They're supposed to do

03:53:25.440 different stuff for different styling. They don't. They're all the same. They're just different 0.68

03:53:29.400 colored and they smell different. That's okay. That's okay. So back to some seriousness. It's 0.84

03:53:38.040 late at night, guys. I appreciate you indulging my nonsense. All right. So from Joe Worstein,

03:53:44.920 great job producing this document. Great interpretation of the lore. I have a question

03:53:49.920 about the afa's interpretation of the alfar nature artisans or ancestors similar similar to the dc

03:53:57.280 or yes and i appreciate i appreciate your your words there it means a lot um

03:54:05.520 that's one of the troubles with some of these terms in our mythos some terms are used to apply

03:54:15.500 to a lot of different things we've talked about that with jotnar that means a variety of different

03:54:23.980 creatures some aligned with the elf or with the icer some in opposition to the icer some primal

03:54:32.060 and seemingly unconscious some mighty wizards some just big trolls a lot of different things

03:54:42.220 alfar an elf means kind of a spirit uh santa claus is an elf um

03:54:53.820 the gods you know gandalf is the the the the spirit uh the

03:55:03.580 magic wand spirit for lack of a better term um i'm an elf you're an elf it's

03:55:11.580 And linguistically, you can extend it to lots of things. So it does kind of overlap land spirits and dead male ancestors that occupy the spiritual realm in a very similar way that the seer do.

03:55:27.420 so yes all of those things and i think that i know that we want everything to be crystal clear

03:55:37.080 sometimes it's not and i think maybe we could develop you know categories of alf that make it

03:55:46.460 make more sense in our internally and we might consider doing that but we don't want to

03:55:51.100 eliminate stuff in order to simplify it but we do want to come to understand you know where the

03:55:59.660 the edges of those things are a little bit better but i'm glad you picked up on that it's both of

03:56:03.820 those things we address that a little bit more later in the document and we'll be going over

03:56:09.100 that next week perhaps even the week after depending on how long it takes us to to work our

03:56:14.540 way through it um i'm gonna try to mine some more questions here see where we're at

03:56:25.740 uh are there any plans to add the runes to the trulamau or an equivalent document i'd love to

03:56:33.020 see the different futharks laid out side by side so we can see the difference in short explanation

03:56:37.740 of each rune uh description uses etc so i would like to um not as a part of the trulamo because

03:56:47.020 as i mentioned earlier this is what the very basics are but we want to release a number of

03:56:52.540 other positions and documents and explanations of a great many things and we need to do that

03:56:59.980 the runes are one of those subjects and i want to talk with spawn about our best way of

03:57:05.980 producing that but that's absolutely something we would like to do and will do in the future

03:57:21.660 sorry guys i'm having to farm through here and pick through the the questions one of the

03:57:27.340 consequences of answering certain ones that are relevant to the topic at the time and then the

03:57:32.940 kind of more uh independent ones a little bit later uh so you mentioned this i was going to

03:57:41.420 comment on it and i didn't would it be appropriate for the afa to combine all of our lore the eddas

03:57:47.740 and sagas etc all into one holy book by canal's true bible with official afa commentary included

03:57:54.380 it um there's a number of ways to go about doing that there have been efforts by other folks to

03:58:04.140 try to combine them all into one smooth story interweaving all of the narratives into its own

03:58:14.300 telling um i would not want to go that route compiling you know um

03:58:28.380 translations of the works that we like into one massive document would be cool but i think it

03:58:37.260 would i think trying to make it complete all in and of itself would be a big task and what i would

03:58:45.740 rather see over time is us being able to release those documents individually or maybe in chunks

03:58:54.300 i think adding the bits of commentary in them would be really really nice it's something that

03:58:59.020 we talked about for a long time and it's just a matter of allocating man hours of the folks that

03:59:05.820 are able to provide those things in the most efficient way it is something i would really

03:59:11.420 like to see happen as far as like you know a study version of those lore bits with with commentary in

03:59:20.460 there um and that's something we may do trying to put together all of our lore in one place

03:59:26.700 as a collection of documents i think would also be you know that'd certainly be a good thing to do

03:59:32.940 but it would be it would be massive um but i wouldn't want to alter the text of those things

03:59:41.740 i'm certainly okay with adding new things and we ought to add new things

03:59:47.980 but the things that we have i don't want to manipulate and anything that's our own i want to

03:59:58.140 make that clear so that we're representing everything in a truthful way and you know forthright way

04:00:06.620 um and i'm stealing all the answers but i don't mean to we'll get to some more

04:00:12.220 spawn stuff here in a sec um no i already answered a little or touched on that one so

04:00:20.860 oh i know i'm just hit a bunch of them in the row there and it's not my animosity towards your

04:00:26.780 refusing to use the gorilla snot uh so here's a question would you agree with the with this

04:00:36.380 interpretation of signs from the gods we all know storms exist in nature but if you do a bloke to

04:00:43.900 thor at the gathering and suddenly there is a strike of lightning and a roar of thunder out of

04:00:49.180 nowhere that can't be coincidence right surely there is a response from the storm father

04:00:56.780 speak on that if you would as far um i have a pretty clear way in which i i view

04:01:07.740 the interactions between the heavenly realms the middle the the the influx and uh the places far

04:01:14.620 below and what i generally relate that to is that the that the holy icer interact with the middle

04:01:21.340 through the well of urd is it an actual wellspring no you know it's it it's described as being a pool

04:01:29.020 a giant or like a lake of water with two swans in it and the dripping of of yggdrasil is is

04:01:35.260 dripping into the water and there the gods come down from ausgard their their castle for a lack

04:01:42.380 of a better word and they they make their way through and come down to the tree and there is

04:01:48.460 earth's well right there in heaven it's all there and they gather to meet out the dooms of men but i

04:01:56.620 i i'm of the belief that the way that gods interact with the middle world is through the

04:02:03.580 origination point of time which is earth's well so when we see a storm uh you know our children

04:02:12.700 will say thor's in the storm but we know as adults there's storms all over so and and

04:02:21.900 we don't expect to look up and see a um man-shaped uh you know red bearded

04:02:30.540 chariot rider instead what we understand is is that thor interacts with our world

04:02:40.140 through earth as well by making those ripples in the same way that the norns set out the fate

04:02:47.180 the gods also do interact with the maintenance of that which must be maintained the pressure

04:02:54.620 if there is pressure to be built up it is lord thor who who breaks that polarization and brings

04:03:02.060 the balance again um and so i think that the dominion of the gods that interacts with the

04:03:07.820 world we use this the the word and verbiage of symbolic symbology saying the gods are interacting

04:03:15.980 by kind of looking through the well um but that is again a liminal space in which the divine beings

04:03:24.300 are enacting their their purposes within the middle world be it storms and we see this sometimes uh

04:03:32.780 people will say it you know there's you know like there's odin in the wind or um again there was a

04:03:39.580 winter nights one year that we saw this very strange phenomenon that happened um and uh you

04:03:48.060 know we were like that's that's the wild hunt and we felt that there was that placement between

04:03:54.540 the physical and the spiritual that was enacting there and a lot of that happens between the

04:04:00.380 heavenly realm urds well and the middle world which is another huge reason why the guild forgetting

04:04:08.220 and why we see that cosmological um case being that is that the the gods are are um you know

04:04:18.220 they're moving out of oscar but into the heavenly realm because that origination of time some people

04:04:24.380 try to move the wells around and put them in different places and i don't think that is the

04:04:28.780 case i think that there is a very good reason as to why the upper world is the upper world

04:04:34.620 so when you see the divine interacting with our world you see thor in the storms yes those signs

04:04:42.060 very easily can be signs i remember um you know some of the more biggest portent signs i've ever

04:04:49.820 seen during at odin's hof um during the odin's bloat and there was some strange things happening

04:04:57.660 in the sky that were just very very beautiful and meaningful and divine and i feel that the gods

04:05:06.380 i'm not going to say any specifics but because i don't know but i felt like the holy gods had

04:05:13.020 interacted and placed themselves in their dominions and were moving about us and in the sky above us

04:05:22.860 and in the people around us and in the earth that we stood upon and i feel that that's much of how

04:05:28.780 the gods truly interact with the middle world or the the world of the material or um the world

04:05:36.220 that's you know uh kind of like speaking what we were talking about with the alva the leos alvar

04:05:43.100 kind of in between the heavenly realm and the earthly realm and that makes that the difference

04:05:49.820 between this the place where time originates through urd's well and the where it physically

04:05:57.100 plays out here um yeah that's uh that's i would say yes you can see the gods interacting in the

04:06:06.540 world around us um they place themselves within the skein or within the well of weird and that

04:06:13.900 ripples out through so much so to first to answer your question directly and then to kind of expound

04:06:20.700 on it would you agree with this interpretation of science and gods you know the storms exist

04:06:26.220 in nature if you do a bloat to thor add a gathering and suddenly there's a strike of

04:06:31.180 lightning and a roar of thunder out of nowhere so is that a thing first yes um the simple answer

04:06:43.500 yes but i think there's a lot of other ways that happens i think in the most perfect scenario

04:06:53.580 you are calling out to thor and you are not in the midst of stormy weather or conditions that

04:07:02.300 are likely to have that happen and at a fortuitous time during your bloat there's a crack of thunder

04:07:09.980 and a strike of lightning certainly that is a shocking and amazing and miraculous sign from thor

04:07:24.300 but most of the time it's a little bit more subtle than that but so okay so pausing for a second

04:07:30.380 when one of our heroes uh spain bjorn vientensen lobbied the uh

04:07:43.180 i don't know how it's phrased in iceland but the government of iceland to recognize the official

04:07:49.740 status of aussitru in their country there was opposition and there was opposition right up to

04:07:56.460 point but at the moment when they were trying to deny that and he was in front of them presenting

04:08:04.300 his case in a time in a place where there is not very much thunder and lightning all of a sudden

04:08:12.700 there was lightning and thunder and a storm arose and that was absolutely alsa thor um expressing

04:08:21.980 his will and the the government the governing forces recognize that and acquiesce so yeah that

04:08:31.640 happens um but a lot of times it happens in really subtle ways and we notice it not every time and

04:08:41.500 not by everybody different people see different things that are maybe more uh intended for them

04:08:48.380 or perhaps they're open at different times.

04:08:52.640 I know I've had the good fortune of being in a lot of different worlds.

04:08:59.140 And sometimes there will be an uncanny stillness at a perfect moment

04:09:06.120 or you'll have birds that will fly in,

04:09:12.360 observe exactly enough to you making an offering to god and when you send

04:09:19.400 the the blessings to whatever god you're offering to the birds will fly up into the air at a fortuitous

04:09:26.120 time or you know those kind of things animals seem very sin uh sensitive to that and often

04:09:34.900 there a conduit and a messenger between gods and men i was doing one bloat in uh our bay and in

04:09:43.140 anchorage or in palmer alaska actually at the time and a bald eagle this was very far from where we

04:09:49.140 usually see eagles came and sat in our special ritual tree and perched in there witnessed the

04:09:56.260 bloat and then left and it was really interesting how some of those things work i had i was doing

04:10:03.140 an odin bloat in um washington state and

04:10:13.380 i had forgotten to get a so if we're going to spurge the assembled folk we most commonly get

04:10:21.700 an evergreen sprig to dip into the mead and to splash the assembled folk to distribute the

04:10:30.580 blessings of of whatever god we're doing bloat to so i gave this this odin bloat and i felt it

04:10:37.780 was powerful and i felt good but i had absent-mindedly had forgotten the sprig and so i didn't have one

04:10:44.580 and i you know i called out like you know if you if you find us worthy will you give us your

04:10:52.820 blessings and i took the uh the horn and held it up asked for the blessings and then it occurred to

04:11:02.340 me and i didn't have a sprig and right at that moment a gust of wind came by and a sprig of

04:11:09.300 evergreen dropped right at my feet and i was like okay and you know there's these things that

04:11:15.940 that happen that are very significant and i think it's easy to over analyze everything

04:11:25.380 i would not i would advise you not to make something out of nothing but to be open and

04:11:31.940 if you participate in bloat openly with your heart open with your mind open and with yourself

04:11:41.780 open to the gods you'll know and i know that's not the the empirical answer people would like

04:11:49.540 but it is true it is the right answer

04:11:54.980 from modesty we got rebellious goy i was appreciating matt's tie and then i saw swan's

04:12:15.560 knot so good i'm glad that you appreciate these things uh we do our best swan is kind

04:12:24.360 of setting a tone with his tie and his having us up our tie game. What are the Germans up 0.98

04:12:32.440 to? Do they have Norse slash Germanic movements like the AFA? The state of Germany as far

04:12:47.460 as religious freedom for our folk is very sad uh it's very very restricted so anything that is done

04:12:55.700 there has to be done with a lot of secret uh secretism and a lot of you know going under the

04:13:05.060 radar so it's hard to really tell i hope that there's significant amounts of people practicing

04:13:10.980 also true in germany um somebody had mentioned over to the side the artsgemeinschaft and they

04:13:17.940 were outlawed for some reason so perhaps uh somebody said they practice abroad i got to

04:13:25.140 meet some of the um leadership of the artsgemeinschaft at one point and they were they were great when

04:13:31.780 i met them i actually met them at an afa trip to sweden and it was fantastic to meet them

04:13:40.980 so i'm not sure what folks are up to now i hope there's a lot going on but i i couldn't

04:13:46.980 tell you the specifics of that because it is it has to be so very secret over there and i hope

04:13:53.160 i hope one day soon that they can i don't know that that situation can be rectified

04:14:01.160 so what are your thoughts on this Svon

04:14:16.260 heathen man says

04:14:18.140 I know we frown on naming children or pets

04:14:20.760 etc

04:14:21.300 the names of our gods directly

04:14:23.900 does the same apply for the names

04:14:26.180 of the Valkyries

04:14:27.820 say Brunhild

04:14:29.800 or chris for a daughter for example

04:14:33.360 um i mean that's already done um most of the the names of the of the valkyrie are

04:14:44.620 um title names um some of them are way better sounding on the tongue like i'm like i know that

04:14:56.260 like kauda it uh in english cara cara uh k-a-r-a but in uh kauda is a um a name sigrun is another

04:15:08.900 name that's very popular in iceland um but then like you might have like names like uh

04:15:15.380 i don't know i'm trying to think scold skoggle skoggle is not a i don't imagine a young girl

04:15:26.580 uh having a good time with that name um or like son song reader uh is another one um these so

04:15:37.060 some of them are really really good others not so much but i think that when you're asking about

04:15:43.060 say the societal acceptance of it i think it's already done um because their their names are

04:15:52.340 title names um that you know victory rune um i'm trying to think there was one about shields

04:16:01.540 though i don't think that was correct um but but you know like shields destroyer or something like

04:16:10.440 that those names are all uh hildur so you have like svanhild or svanhild svanhild just means

04:16:18.760 swan of battle which is of course a kenning for a valkyrie um so they're you know i don't think

04:16:26.820 there's anything wrong with any of that and most of them are quite in common usage in iceland now

04:16:31.980 Sigrun uh my my aunt's name was uh Runeros and that was like the rose rune but that's some

04:16:40.900 reference to a Valkyrie so you know and because the Valkyries were kind of named also as in most

04:16:49.660 names in all of the Germanic folk uh were kind of compound names that meant something Arnold means

04:16:57.780 like you know honorable uh eagle and uh edward means you know wise leader or edgar means wise

04:17:06.660 spearman um so that you know these titles i don't i don't think it's terribly bad i am i do i i do

04:17:15.140 frown upon you know our ancestors don't seem to have named their children directly after the gods

04:17:21.880 but instead have you know thorstein and and thor ulf and um you know thor bjorn but not just thor

04:17:34.360 so yeah i was fun and i know the distinction may may seem small but it's a really important one um

04:17:45.160 specifically the valkyries i think there's a strong tradition of

04:17:49.240 naming persons that way and you don't see that with our gods and our gods are of a different

04:17:57.480 sort they're higher they're more elevated that's the thing out of reverence it's improper to you

04:18:03.960 know give our children certainly to give our pets and i would say our pets not give them valkyrie

04:18:13.080 names either, their pets. But like Svan mentioned, it was appropriate to, you know, add a devotional

04:18:25.540 aspect to a God in the naming of a child, like, like he mentioned. So that's a, that's an option

04:18:35.280 that way um what are the prospects of living at a hof or being the caretaker is that is it that

04:18:46.400 you live near it or do you live on the property so the way that typically works now we don't have

04:18:56.320 set up any like you know for lack of a better term parsonages on our hof properties um

04:19:03.760 Um, the idea with caretakers now is somebody in leadership who is close by and can be trusted

04:19:10.760 with stuff.

04:19:12.180 Uh, it's a little bit different at, uh, as far as the plan goes at Sigerheim, because

04:19:18.080 it's a, you know, a community with a Hoff and a Hall and other things eventually.

04:19:24.960 So there will be folks living there. 1.00

04:19:27.760 Um, it would be cool to have a Hoff that did have a living space for maybe a Goathe to 1.00

04:19:32.520 live in. 1.00

04:19:33.020 that would be that would be cool as it is right now if somebody wants to be a caretaker

04:19:39.580 we would want them to or the ideal and a good option would be to move into the town to where

04:19:46.300 the hof is and that would be kind of a perfect spot for it we'd love to see that happen with folks 0.95

04:19:55.340 did the arians originally come from the moon and settle in hyperborea no 0.98

04:20:00.060 it's a moon whoa negative um

04:20:08.860 children of money so

04:20:15.260 okay disregard nick had producer nick had temporary lost internet connection but that is fixed so

04:20:22.060 So the Wolf Throne with a question here as a follow-up to the ancestral diet question

04:20:31.940 from two weeks ago.

04:20:33.560 I don't think the ancestral diet means literally eating like a caveman, but rather the meat

04:20:40.560 and berries diet of our Viking ancestors, which would probably be very healthy if you

04:20:46.360 think about it.

04:20:47.360 would also mean removing foods that are not native to Europe,

04:20:50.620 like bananas and avocados, for example, from our diets,

04:20:54.420 and only eating foods native to Europe,

04:20:56.780 like apples, for example,

04:20:58.160 which also have significance in our lore.

04:21:01.180 Having an all native European diet

04:21:05.400 may also be good for the folk soul.

04:21:07.540 Do you have any thoughts on this idea 0.86

04:21:09.980 or do you still think it's ridiculous? 0.99

04:21:13.260 I still think it's ridiculous. 0.97

04:21:14.740 um if it's so here doesn't matter what i think is ridiculous as far as your food choice 0.91

04:21:21.940 if that's something that you would like to do and you think that is good for your soul

04:21:26.420 or good for your body or is just cool and interesting by all means do that

04:21:32.660 there is no compelling reason that anybody should do that um

04:21:38.020 um yeah I I I like to eat and I think trying to restrict my diet to what the Vikings ate

04:21:53.860 makes you miss out on a lot of very delicious things with absolutely no tangible benefit

04:22:02.560 and I just think that's I don't know I would never want to do that saying it's ridiculous

04:22:11.600 like I don't want to impose on what you would like to do with your food choices

04:22:16.220 a lot of us have different strange things that we like or that we don't like there's a difference

04:22:23.100 between that and projecting your taste in food upon others as if it is a religious

04:22:32.640 there's a compelling religious reason that others should do so and i don't find there to be

04:22:41.500 any sort of compelling religious release region uh reason to do that um like i said if that's

04:22:47.800 you want to do go for it what's the use fun um i understand the wisdom behind ethnic

04:22:57.640 uh food and or ethnic evolutionary digestion of foods i know that like

04:23:04.600 certain people in the north do not digest um like wheat uh as well or perhaps they only a certain

04:23:13.960 type of wheat like rye um there's a lot of interesting and cool stuff in there

04:23:19.400 but that could also be modern farming practices it could also be the usage of herbicides

04:23:24.520 there's a lot of stuff i i'm more i think like i'll see her go he's like i want to eat it's like

04:23:31.560 and i i get some of the thought behind it but you know there's other also you know diets out there

04:23:38.840 like the carnivore diet is is and and paleo and and keto and i think all of these are more about

04:23:46.040 your own personal dietary desires or inclinations things you might want to do to test yourself or

04:23:54.520 or explore or if you know you you get certain reactions from certain things i know people

04:23:59.960 that like they don't like to eat peanuts because they they feel it inflames their their joints um

04:24:06.440 um and so on and so forth i totally get it but to come out with a viking dietary plan

04:24:18.440 with the express idea that the folk should follow it in order to get closer to the gods

04:24:27.160 that's where it starts once you say it out loud is kind of like yeah you know i i could understand

04:24:34.040 um as as a an inclination folk food folk cooking i even have i was just looking over at my my

04:24:44.680 bookshelf over here i have um one of the it was a very popular cookbook that came out a couple

04:24:50.440 years ago uh traditional uh cooking which talks about you know fermented foods and creating like

04:24:58.440 things that uh you know and and eating things one of the things that really i have a very large

04:25:05.940 uh and broad palate i eat crazy and can eat and have eaten crazy foods all over the world

04:25:13.040 a lot of the things that people don't eat anymore that they really need to is awful or um organ

04:25:22.080 meats not a lot of people cross into that and again not a lot of people know how to prepare them

04:25:27.780 And, you know, here in America, I, I try to think of like very, very clever ways to get my kids to eat kidneys and livers and heart and things like that.

04:25:39.560 I usually make it in a chili because they don't even notice.

04:25:45.300 But yeah, that, that's one of the things that's really, you'd have to consider the vitamin intake from organ meats is so powerfully strong.

04:25:56.480 um that you know if you do go down that road i would say get ready to eat some stuff like eat

04:26:04.640 livers eat tripe um you know eat heart eat kidneys whatever you can get your hands on

04:26:11.940 um and eat it and i i don't eat those regularly but i have and i have no problems eating that

04:26:17.900 stuff um but yeah again saying it out loud we're gonna make a dietary plan for the folk to follow

04:26:26.260 um so that they can be more in line with their ancestors um you know it's a and make it i don't

04:26:35.380 know i guess the question is like is it mandatory is it not i but if it's an inclination and someone

04:26:40.900 wants to follow it yeah go for it just you know be careful and eat lots of organ meats

04:26:46.020 here's the thing eat whatever you want to eat be healthy and don't be a fatty um

04:26:53.060 um there's a lot of choices in life but what i really don't like is the purity spiral and i'm

04:27:01.460 not addressing that to anybody here to the person who brought it up or anybody in the comments i

04:27:05.780 don't know what you do i do know there are a lot of people that talk a lot about boy slop

04:27:10.820 or whatever else they talk about that aren't really about that life that eat fast food every

04:27:17.780 day, but want a virtue signal. We all eat different stuff. Be healthy, figure out ways to

04:27:24.760 live a healthy life. If you want to eat processed things because it's tasty and delicious and

04:27:29.720 convenient, cool, go for it. But make sure you're being healthy. If you've got a specific allergy

04:27:36.240 or a specific nutritional deficit or requirement, adjust accordingly. If you feel like it's

04:27:44.700 healthier or it makes you feel better to eat an all raw food diet, go for it. If you think it's

04:27:51.700 awesome to be vegan, I don't think that's awesome, but go for it. Do that. If you, and there's

04:28:00.680 occasions, it's fun to cook ethnically European cuisine on a special holiday or for a special

04:28:07.300 reason, or maybe your family's just really strong in that tradition of cooking, do that.

04:28:11.320 but it is the thing that is ridiculous is to do viking larp but in a culinary sense

04:28:20.280 because our ancestors aren't just from there there's very few of us that have you know that's

04:28:25.860 our ancestry spawns from iceland but guess what people weren't in iceland for you know most of

04:28:32.220 time so his ancestry goes back before that why why only eat scandinavian viking food

04:28:41.260 why not eat you know asian caucus mountains step food why don't we eat yak and you know

04:28:52.540 grasses from the plains um it's

04:29:00.700 to conceptualize right action or our faith to one geog geographical point or one place in time

04:29:10.780 misses the relevance and truth of our faith to our life now if there's a particular food that's

04:29:19.580 special because it's spiritually important to you by all means if it's important to use mead

04:29:26.620 in ritual cool that that brings us back to something common a taste or a smell

04:29:32.300 connects us to something and that's not wrong at all but confining our confining our space to one

04:29:41.340 temporal moment or geographical moment does it a disservice in my mind especially when we start

04:29:47.820 purity spiraling on it our ancestors didn't do that the vikings ate food from whatever they 0.75

04:29:56.140 pillaged the vikings were and this is this is a thing that we saw and i assume this to be true

04:30:04.780 but i can't quote lore on it but i'm assuming that the vikings whenever they pillaged something and

04:30:09.740 they got foreign and exotic foods loved eating that it's a symbol it's a status symbol i know

04:30:16.700 for a fact the germanic tribesmen preferred getting exotic things from spain and from

04:30:23.820 italy and from the roman empire because that was what the nobility would eat that's the preferred

04:30:28.700 food is these exotic delicacies from faraway lands that's one of the you know one of the

04:30:37.260 virtues of our ancestors conquering peoples and lands was culinary imperialism and i think that's

04:30:44.860 a very real thing so to restrict that food to one time in one place why is restricting it to the

04:30:56.140 viking age any better than restricting it to i don't know to renaissance england or restricting

04:31:04.940 it to just eating southern food if your family's from the american south eating something because

04:31:10.460 it's traditional and you have passed down recipes is awesome i think there is a significance in

04:31:15.500 that because it honors your ancestors and it connects you in kind of a it engages a different

04:31:21.900 sense in your connectivity to that and if you want to and eating like a viking makes you feel better

04:31:27.420 that way then do it but yeah to to get dogmatic about how you must eat viking food or to rant

04:31:36.300 about whatever processed stuff people i just don't buy into that i don't see a lot of that improvement

04:31:48.140 we all have different health things or whatever eat things that you enjoy eating life is short

04:31:54.300 and it's you're not a machine you're a living creature that derives joy from eating delicious

04:31:59.660 stuff find balance and be healthy don't you know don't succumb to voluntary health problems like

04:32:08.940 obesity overcome those things and if that means altering your food to do so by all means do that

04:32:16.460 um what the modern icelandic people think of alsatru people would an icelandic girl scorn

04:32:23.500 an also true guy so there are icelanders that practice also true there are icelanders that

04:32:32.380 think they practice also true and there are icelanders and the majority of scandinavians

04:32:39.180 that often have a very negative view of people outside of scandinavia practicing also true

04:32:45.180 because they have a undeserved elitist attitude towards it and i'm not faulting any kind of

04:32:55.580 elitism they just haven't earned it and there's nothing elite about them that's not every one

04:32:59.820 of them individually just as a group um their conception is is flawed they think that no

04:33:07.500 that's theirs because they're currently in scandinavia they're the you know the fruit

04:33:13.740 of the ones that were not adventurous and wanted to stay home at the end of the day exactly as many

04:33:20.060 generations separate us from the vikings as separate them from the vikings

04:33:30.380 the claim to our shared gods and our shared ancestry is 1.00

04:33:35.420 it's kind of absurd and more than that it's quite offensive when you see a lot of lethargy

04:33:45.980 in that population on how they've maintained or tried to pursue a worship and a loyalty to the

04:33:53.880 R.I. Seer but there is that hostility not between Icelanders and Ausatruar but Icelanders and

04:34:01.480 americans who are outs of true art yeah they're playing viking how dare they worship our gods or

04:34:09.320 so it's so funny they um and i again i always type in tuesday wednesday thursday and i just leave it 0.98

04:34:18.760 at that if they don't get that they're spiritually and mentally retarded anyways um those are your 0.85

04:34:24.440 countryments von no and i mean i've seen it with swedes i've seen it with norwegians and again most 0.96

04:34:29.960 Some of them are just secularists that are attempting to just feel better about themselves,

04:34:36.920 but they have absolutely no comprehension to the idea that, like, the Anglo-Saxons

04:34:41.720 worship the same gods, the Germans, the Dutch, you know, they don't even know that Lord Forseti

04:34:51.540 is the patron lord of the phrygians who live in holland um and it's clearly written in the

04:34:59.060 in the icelandic sources they have no idea it's because it's not it it's kind of like when uh

04:35:06.180 i've seen this with my christian friends getting um lambasted about their religion or their

04:35:12.500 morality from clearly atheists who are telling them how their religion should be it's maybe it's

04:35:20.800 treated them like the agnostic secularists or something they're kind of they they tell you 0.63

04:35:26.560 how things should be and for them it's also on a cultural and ethnic thing the other thing i would

04:35:31.280 say um there's a woman on on youtube who says you know that like the clickbait thing is you're

04:35:40.720 saying the names of the gods right it's like and if you're not saying heim doctor and if you're not

04:35:47.360 saying thor instead of thor or it you know then you're wrong but i mean even the swedes they say

04:35:55.120 tour that's how they say thor's name it's it's tour and that like they don't account for that

04:36:04.080 the the linguistics and stuff becomes like something that again the purity spiral into

04:36:09.920 ridiculousness and um so i don't know if you meet somebody that's cool they might be cool with you

04:36:15.840 but most um most out uh icelanders view also through as a kind of a native expression and

04:36:22.960 if you're not icelandic then why are you doing it kind of thing and they don't think beyond

04:36:29.440 in the big big picture of things so what i've also seen is most icelanders that i've encountered

04:36:38.400 don't really believe in the gods anyway yeah um and if you don't really believe in the gods how

04:36:45.200 How can you possibly claim more legitimacy to your practice vows to true than those of us who live this and worship our gods and have been engaged in the gift cycle with them for decades?

04:37:01.880 It's not a fashion statement.

04:37:04.060 It's a genuine religion. 0.98

04:37:06.680 And most of them are, in fact, the pretenders. 0.63

04:37:09.200 Not all of them.

04:37:09.900 I mentioned Sven Bjorn is a very spiritual man.

04:37:12.700 He's a very deeply religious man.

04:37:15.200 and a number of icelanders i don't mean to paint them all with one brush i'm sure there are some

04:37:20.320 very folkish icelanders matter of fact there was one today i was just asking spawn to do some

04:37:25.440 research for me on because all the information i can find is in icelandic and i'm trying to

04:37:31.040 trying to run some stuff down on this gentleman if i find out more i may tell you guys more about

04:37:35.280 it a little bit later when i learn some more but i don't mean to suggest none of those exist

04:37:40.000 certainly they do that's just not the generalized current that i've seen since i've been involved

04:37:47.600 um how many are currently trained being trained as gothar

04:37:59.200 stop math here for a second

04:38:10.000 four all right see next next okay um send me those on the side if you can and i'll confirm

04:38:27.280 i'm sorry guys when you ask a question i know it may not make a difference whether i say

04:38:31.280 three or four or five i just want to be an actor is important um

04:38:36.000 Um, no, uh, so five ish, there's one that hasn't been invited yet.

04:38:58.080 That's probably fixing to be there's a discussion on.

04:39:05.600 harder than a lot of people realize because it's very time consuming and we take it extremely

04:39:09.840 seriously so a lot of people start the process and then have to either put it on hold or don't

04:39:16.640 make it all the way through because it it really is a very serious thing so it's uh

04:39:24.400 the rate of people that actually make it through is is very small

04:39:28.480 all right very small overstates it is relatively small um

04:39:40.080 all right last question from the wolf throne so the arians came from the moon and settled

04:39:46.800 in hyperborea idea comes from uh helena uh blavatsky's seven root races in her book the

04:39:54.800 secret doctrine have you heard of this yes i have blavatsky in the book yes it's been a very long

04:40:04.000 time so i had not recalled the movie as soon as he said it though i was like oh yeah the

04:40:11.360 The Theosophical Society and that of Blavatsky.

04:40:16.020 I like to keep an open mind.

04:40:20.940 I think a lot of Blavatsky's stuff is fraudulent.

04:40:31.060 I don't, without being much more acquainted with the subject,

04:40:36.580 I think it'd be wrong to dismiss all of the things that she has to say.

04:40:41.980 I think often if you dig deep enough, there's truth in certain places.

04:40:46.340 You wouldn't expect it.

04:40:47.940 But I don't have a particularly positive impression of Madame Blavatsky.

04:40:53.940 I am very entertained, though.

04:40:57.340 Do you have any deeper thoughts on it, Svon?

04:41:00.100 I enjoyed the Theosophical Society's Masks of Oden.

04:41:04.020 thought there were some interesting things in there for sure um madame blavatsky herself

04:41:11.700 yeah i don't know but it it really does remind me um i was introduced to

04:41:21.220 every time i hear that or when as soon as he said it it made me think of it and i remember what i

04:41:25.620 was thinking when i first kind of heard that was um i remember i ran into a seven percenter which i

04:41:33.380 i don't know if anybody knows that but like this it's part of the black muslim movement uh kind of

04:41:39.500 big in new york they i think they're an offshoot um they didn't want to follow lewis farrakhan

04:41:45.260 and they're an offshoot from elijah muhammad and uh they had this like theorem that that the og

04:41:52.460 black people like the black um i don't know like mega scientists of their race are living on the 0.71

04:41:59.380 dark side of the moon watching um i guess the the test race of black folk here are being tested in 0.99

04:42:08.620 in a gauntlet against the uh the white uh devil creations um and i just thought that was so wild 0.95

04:42:16.680 i was like wow the moon and they're up they're on their you know i don't know living their you know 0.81

04:42:27.140 best and blackest life on the dark side of the moon um and i just thought it was super super

04:42:32.660 kind of crazy uh the one thing i would recommend anybody that's interested in moon stuff is to read

04:42:38.060 who built the moon that is a very interesting book and it really ultimately leads down to the

04:42:43.520 fact that there are a lot of theories as to how um the moon was created in a scientific sense

04:42:51.540 I mean, obviously, you know, in our lore, the sun being a spark of muskbell and the moon being a shard or a breaking off of Niflheim is pretty just one is of energy and the other is of matter.

04:43:11.940 And that's pretty straightforward.

04:43:13.800 And that's all that's kind of alluded to.

04:43:15.780 Um, but I'm talking about like impact earth theory, the idea that, um, you know, the, the, let's say the divine and cosmic powers create these processes and that, what does that process look like? Is it an accumulation of, um, asteroids and, and debris? Is it, um, the moon, um, you know, colliding with another moon?

04:43:41.240 A lot of people have a ton of theories, but they don't know.

04:43:44.660 It was a really good book called Who Built the Moon.

04:43:48.660 And it ultimately leads to divine intervention in a lot of ways.

04:43:52.600 That's not spoiling the book at all.

04:43:54.340 It's just, it's intervention of some sort, whether you believe it's divine or not.

04:43:59.200 But I don't, I don't know about the whole coming from the moon.

04:44:03.340 And I've even heard people say that, like, what if we came from Mars as an idea?

04:44:08.440 like Mars was a habitable planet

04:44:10.640 that became uninhabitable and we

04:44:12.300 what is it called? Terra

04:44:14.360 seeded or 1.00

04:44:15.260 Men did come from Mars just like women 0.94

04:44:18.400 came from Venus. Duh. Yeah. 0.99

04:44:21.080 Or so

04:44:22.400 Oprah tells me.

04:44:25.240 Oprah says a lot of things.

04:44:28.240 Just got to push that book.

04:44:30.140 No, yeah, I don't know.

04:44:31.340 I don't know about that. 0.65

04:44:35.540 Hyperborea.

04:44:36.180 so i before i'm out i think that people look for very exotic

04:44:42.000 i think there is an impulse to always chase the new shiny thing and look for more and more

04:44:52.300 extreme exotic kooky stuff instead of focusing in on kind of maximizing

04:44:59.660 what we have in a in a very serious way it's easier to

04:45:04.420 when people catch up to you if you're doing something new if the point is doing the right

04:45:12.860 thing then it doesn't matter if you are by yourself or you're able to have a lot of people

04:45:17.840 with you what's cool is seeing how strange and edgy and different you are then as people come

04:45:27.300 to the truth on things you always need to move further and further out on the fringe to keep

04:45:34.900 your cool like edgy cred and i think there's a tendency to do that a lot of the time um just to

04:45:42.580 clear up any confusion we said four uh gothar being trained um we have 16 that are currently

04:45:50.500 current on their ordination. With that, I'm excited to talk to you guys in one week. We'll

04:46:02.980 continue this discussion. Glad Sfaan will be able to join us again. Thank you guys so much. Thank

04:46:09.960 you for everybody who had questions. Thank you for everybody who donated and contributed tonight.

04:46:15.480 uh much much appreciated thank you guys so much uh we appreciate you uh swan as always

04:46:22.280 thank you for coming on and sharing with them with us thank you for having me always

04:46:30.760 and uh till next time hail the ice here hail the folk hail the afa and remember victory never sleeps

04:46:45.480 Thank you.

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04:47:45.480 We'll be right back.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - June 27, 2024

6⧸26⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 103 - Ásatrú Trúlögmál, Part 1

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