00:07:58.100So the journey to New York's Hoff was a little bit interesting and long.
00:08:03.520How did you really keep yourself motivated and keep the folk down in Florida motivated for, you know, this past weekend to finally come to fruition?
00:08:14.120Oh, yeah, it was quite the roller coaster ride.
00:08:17.420I think the disappointments, the setbacks, if nothing else, motivated us more.
00:08:25.200It made us even more determined to make this happen for New Arthur.
00:08:30.440And I think that he played a part in that because some of the earlier Hoffs that we looked at,
00:08:38.660some of the earlier properties, quite frankly, weren't as good as this one.
00:08:42.600So, you know, it truly did work out for the best, without a doubt.
00:08:47.420well we have uh the ability to ask questions on youtube and on entropy so if nick if you
00:08:56.780could plug that link up there if you log into uh entropy you can go ahead and give us a donation if
00:09:03.260you like also ask a question we will get that put up there if you have any questions for myself or
00:09:09.340lane you can go ahead and visit that site log in there and ask your questions lane it was a really
00:09:16.780good weekend for you um and you had the opportunity to be not just amongst your folk but to become a
00:09:25.020real leader for your folk can you tell me about your ordination your thoughts and what went through
00:09:30.460your mind it was a surprise to say to say the least or so you're going to i know that he likes
00:09:36.860to do that but i i did not see that coming at all it was quite the it was quite a quite a shock i was
00:09:43.020It was, I noticed, we had a video of it.
00:09:46.000I noticed, I stuttered a few times and stumbled.
00:09:51.280Just a lot of emotion, a lot of emotion.
00:09:53.820Hearing all of the leadership's toasts,
00:11:12.520One thing I always really definitely want people to know is just because you don't have a Godar nearby doesn't mean that we can't help you out.
00:23:08.780Meat is tested too in many of the sagas.
00:23:14.580But you don't, of course, if you don't have access to meat
00:23:17.960or you don't drink, there's many different forms
00:23:21.940that can be used, milk, honey itself, even water.
00:23:27.580For our bloat tenures that we've been doing
00:23:31.700for seven years now, we do that on the beach
00:23:34.800and we actually use seawater to receive the blessing
00:23:40.140and to pass that along to the members.
00:23:44.560That's really interesting, the seawater to be the receptacle
00:23:47.400the the gifts of the god that's that's really in it's brilliant lane it really is thank you
00:23:53.640so for for those of the for those who may just be starting out um and as a true do you have any
00:24:01.400recommendations for how they would start their offerings to the gods and goddesses or to their
00:24:09.400ancestors or to the baits here is there any recommendations that you would have
00:24:13.400for them just starting that gifting cycle well just just starting keep keep it simple
00:24:20.600um put out sit out something it could even be uh for instance for for free facts if you're
00:24:26.520sitting something out for flavor it could be the loaf of bread uh that that you sit out any any type
00:24:32.600of of food uh preferably something that you that you've cooked yourself that that you've put effort
00:24:38.680into it um one of the things that i like to do when i make something uh for instance the the
00:24:44.760hammer i'll i'll save the shavings from the carving and and use that as an offering to
00:24:51.720symbolize the effort and this goes the same with you know with your your food offerings
00:24:55.960it's something that you've cooked your effort going into that is part of the gift
00:25:00.440when i first started uh out on in as a true one of the first things that i did i i like to write
00:25:10.380poetry terrible poetry um but writing a poem specifically uh for one of the gods or goddesses
00:25:16.940or to my ancestors i used to do that and then i would burn that as an offering because that was
00:25:22.540my creativity my work my time um the time spent trying to make the calligraphy perfect
00:25:29.620specifically for them. We do also have members that will do woodworking specifically as an
00:25:35.220offering. They'll do a carving for a specific god and goddess and offer that to honor one
00:25:43.220of the gods and goddesses as well. So there's always interesting ways. You just got to be
00:25:47.360creative about how you can start that gifting cycle with the gods and goddesses or to your
00:25:51.580ancestors. My grandparents loved coffee. They drank coffee from sun up until probably six
00:25:58.480o'clock in the evening so i've always used coffee for them if i'm doing offerings with a morning
00:26:03.760cup of coffee or something like that awesome yeah you we look at it you know they are our
00:26:11.040our most distant ancestors so it's much like you know that gift that you get from a from a child
00:26:16.800that's had that handmade card you know it's all the more special than than something bought at a
00:26:21.920store yes definitely we have a question from storm chase mike ask lane how it will be now
00:26:30.880being our new gothi how it will impact your life outside the hof so how will being a go
00:26:37.120the impact your life outside of the hof uh well like like i said i've i've been i've been performing
00:26:46.080the role unofficially because we had we had no leadership i was a as a folk builder because that
00:26:53.600i was at that time i was i was that was the highest ranking person in florida so i think well um
00:27:02.720i don't know how it will impact maybe uh just getting getting to do more things maybe now i
00:27:09.280like it's like i mentioned the hand fastings i look forward to that was something that i i would
00:27:13.840i would you even though i was doing the i would not have done that i would have made sure that
00:27:17.600there was an actual we did an actual go through here so i think that would be will be the biggest
00:27:23.200thing although that's not outside of the half so i'm i'm dodging the question
00:27:30.160i i don't know i i think um one of the things that i that i took particularly from sheila's uh
00:27:36.000interview last week was she'd mentioned the balance. And that's something that
00:27:43.860I will work very hard on, finding the balance between personal life and my duties as a gothar.
00:27:54.660Balance is very important. Sarah asks, the motto for New York's Hof District is the harshest winds
00:28:02.940make the strongest wood could you speak on what that means to you personally and to our folk
00:28:09.820well it it means it means a lot there's a lot of tie and i think with with the um and i didn't
00:28:14.860come up with that by the way um that was something on one of our live chats uh with our also your
00:28:20.220guilty uh somebody was somebody threw that in the chat and i'm like that's uh that's really good we
00:28:25.900ran it we ran it by the rest of the leadership and everybody thought it was a good one it it means
00:28:31.180many things here in Florida. Being the hurricane center for North America, it seems harsh winds
00:28:38.940where we are the land of harsh winds. Our hero is Ralph the Strong, so the strength is there,
00:28:47.340but I think it's through trial, through difficulties, we become stronger and better people.
00:28:55.500a life a life of ease does not build a strong foundation
00:29:01.580okay son of woden gave us a ten dollar donation and a message hail njord hail the afa thank you
00:29:11.320very much for your donation we appreciate that very much tracy adler asks lane what are some
00:29:17.880of your personal book recommendations? Well, here we go. Culture of the Tootin's. I've read that
00:29:25.380three times. Our first study group was reading that. It really gives you a flavor for the sagas,
00:29:34.140helps you understand how they speak, the use of cannings, the importance of honor, of frith.
00:29:41.460it's it's invaluable um it's it's definitely one that i i go back to time and time again it's it's
00:29:48.060so beaten up dog-eared highlighted underlined notes in the sides it's it's like an old friend
00:29:53.860at this point those are the best books those are the best books to loan people as well as long as
00:29:59.980they come back afterwards absolutely um another one is uh germanic heathenry by james coulter
00:30:07.560that that's a a very good book not quite as in-depth but has a lot of very good information
00:30:15.000particularly uh around like house rights uh the husinga and the taterman the out the land rights
00:30:22.600and the house rights um it is a little tricky they do use the german terms for everything
00:30:27.800as opposed to the norse so there's a bit of a translation uh going on there but it goes in
00:30:34.680into at the end it goes into rituals prospect items uh much like deep ancestors another one
00:30:41.000that i another book that i can't recommend enough yeah that book is excellent and anything by hilda
00:30:46.360ellis davidson she is she is a research uh beast you read a book of hers and you realize there's
00:30:52.84010 other books that she references that you may not have even ever heard of before let alone read
00:30:57.080mm-hmm tanner asks brandy lane what sort of work do you guys do with runes do you have a daily
00:31:07.380routine for example or do you or have you delved deeper into the subject i.e thorson
00:31:13.880lane i'll let you take that one first i have read um fathark and alu and i was gifted several of
00:31:24.420his books by our law speaker at the dedication. So I'm looking forward to getting into those.
00:31:31.400I do have, I definitely do have a routine in the morning before I, before I start work,
00:31:37.300after I get back from the gym, I will draw a rune, meditate on that galder and perform my,
00:31:44.240perform my morning ritual, my morning prayer. So I, I don't tend to use runes necessarily for
00:31:52.800divination or anything like that but i do use them as a guidance so i'll pull a rune um either
00:32:00.480at my ancestor altar or my main altar and then i will just focus on what that message is meant to
00:32:08.880give me for that particular day um i tend not to do divination with runes um i do try to go through
00:32:17.360through the rune steps once a year and take them and evaluate my own personal spiritual
00:32:25.140practice and as true in general and check in with myself and say, okay, so where am I at?
00:32:33.160What is my belief? Where am I? What have I taken from the lore lately? Do I still see this rune in
00:32:40.500the exact same way. I do take the time to meditate with that. I also like to do when I first started
00:32:48.520learning the runes, I used a process for touch where I actually traced the runes on paper and
00:32:56.960then poked holes in them and I would meditate while running my finger over the raised paper
00:33:00.720like braille just to help me as a sensory assistant there. And I'll still do that when I go back
00:33:08.200through the runes and check and then see if there's any way that I feel differently about
00:33:13.280them or if there's any other messages that that I feel that I could benefit from with those.
00:33:19.300Yeah, that's very that's very interesting. I'd like to I'd like to try something like that as
00:33:23.520well. I don't use them for divination either. But I will. I write them on my calendar each day that
00:33:31.360I do. And I do like to go back and kind of just look at the month, the weeks and see the see the
00:33:37.240see the patterns there and see if you know if sometimes you may get a meaning from the rune
00:33:42.200itself but in the context of what you pulled that week or that month it may uh shift its meaning or
00:33:49.400emphasize it depending on on what else you're pulling i was pulling kinahs and durazas a lot
00:33:55.960back to back even uh three times you know those two runes three times within a week and you know
00:34:02.440i got to thinking you know about okay you know this is you know that that of course key now is
00:34:07.880you know the transformation through fire going through the going through the gothar program
00:34:11.400getting the half that was that was clear and thurizas you know grabbing grabbing the thorns
00:34:16.200you know not just being comfortable within them but actually grabbing them and and then using
00:34:21.240them against the the evil and chaos of the world we also do use uh the rune wunyo at uh baldursof
00:34:31.400specifically in our start to rituals that's something that we do and i do believe anna
00:34:36.440uh githia anna plort has done this for you guys over at norshop as well we'll actually comb the
00:34:42.200rune wuneo as part of our ritual to bring our people together with you know joy and frith and
00:34:48.360in unity um so that's something that we do specifically at balder's hof and i also do
00:34:53.720use that more of a galder though what i'm doing crafts or or something that's related to thread
00:34:59.880work uh rather than watching tv or or listening to a book or something like that i'll actually
00:35:06.040uh gold or one of the rooms while i'm creating something especially if it's specifically for
00:35:10.200an individual um things that i want to put into that that craft or that blanket or that project
00:35:17.160that i'm working on yeah ryan oranson wilson question do the gothis and githyas learn the
00:35:27.400deeper meaning of the myths indo-european comparative mythology study for example
00:35:32.440what about astral theology go ahead lane i'll let you start with that one yes we definitely do
00:35:39.560comparative studies um the deep ancestors for example it does look more into the indo-european
00:35:45.640side of things and touches on on the vedic uh something else i've uh i'm interested in learning
00:35:51.960more about in this process as well one thing i do want to add about um when we look into the deeper
00:36:01.480meaning of myths um it's it's very easy to ask a go the argithia for the deeper meaning of of lore
00:36:09.480but i'm a very very firm believer as well that you will always get the message from the lore
00:36:15.240that you need at that time you can read um any of our any of our lore any anything in the eddas
00:36:23.240and you'll get something different every time you'll understand something a little bit differently
00:36:27.960uh you'll pick up on something that you didn't see before and i'm i'm a firm believer that you
00:36:32.360get those in the times that you need them the most or the times that you're most ready to understand
00:36:36.600them i couldn't agree more when i when i first started the first lore that i read was the
00:36:43.480the Heimskringle. And, you know, looking back, that is the book that I needed to read, because
00:36:49.340I came at it from a very Hugh Hammerist point of view. You know, they say that, you know, that that
00:36:54.580was used to lead our folk away from the gods. Well, the gate goes both ways. And for me, I wasn't ready
00:37:03.120to accept them as divine beings at that time. If I'd read anything else, I may not have, I may not
00:37:07.940have continued on the path. So you're exactly, you're absolutely right. You get what you need.
00:37:13.480when you need it when you need it and when you're ready
00:37:16.840tony king of cheese he wants you to uh repeat the name of the book what was that book again
00:37:23.800sorry the one talking about the housewives and such he wants to look for it uh germanic heathenry
00:37:29.180it is no longer in print but you can you can find it out there but yeah it's germanic heathenry by
00:37:37.120James Coulter. Thank you, sir. Tanner Anderson asks, you mentioned in brief a main altar and an
00:37:47.140ancestor's altar. Do you mind expanding on this? I find this especially interesting as someone who
00:37:52.580ran out of space at one altar, and I like that idea a lot. Lane, I think I'm going to let you
00:37:58.480take that first. Do you have any altars set up at your home that you would like to describe a little
00:38:03.720bit sure i actually my my my main ritual space if you will is is outside i have a ring of pine trees
00:38:12.440that i've planted that i galled her over and they're growing nicely one of them is almost
00:38:18.360over my head but my altar my indoor altar is actually has three levels the first level is is
00:38:27.320is my indoor ritual space and then the second level is my ancestors and then the top level
00:38:33.880is the gods so i've got it set up um in in that uh it was sort of uh pillar to the to the between
00:38:43.160the gods and midgard with the ancestors there in the middle sure so i have a main altar um and i
00:38:51.640have a space for ancestors specifically so my main altar is um pretty big and i i don't like clutter
00:39:01.960on things so my altar is pretty sparse i have my my bare minimum of things that i have i have my
00:39:07.520horn a specific um a cup that i use for offerings to the goddess saga um i have a bowl i also have
00:39:17.720on there a spool of roughly woven together thread and a pair of rituals scissors on that
00:39:27.920I like to work with thread a lot when I'm you know stressed out have things to work through
00:39:33.340I'll tie knots in it and and undo them you know to me to me that's working out you know the knots
00:39:38.880and knots in my weird and in my tapestry and then I do have a few separate bowls that are for
00:39:45.080ancestors or Veitir. And I also have one little spot that's got its own bowl, its own incense.
00:39:52.580It has a postcard from one of our recently departed members on it. And that's where I
00:39:58.820give my ancestors their specific space. And then I have my ritual space, which is for
00:40:04.880the Veitir as well as for the gods and goddesses. I also do have little, I wouldn't necessarily
00:40:12.720call them altars, but little spots in my home that are for the bay tier. I have a spot outside
00:40:19.760that's for the land bay tier and I have one in my house as for my house bay tier. So I do have just
00:40:25.500little spots kind of set up all over the place. I have a little spot just in my computer area
00:40:30.920that I use when I'm working with creativity or if I get stuck writing on a project or something like
00:40:37.140that, I have a spot for an offering for someone in particular there. So I kind of just have little
00:40:42.940pods of worship set up around the house in different areas. It's not so much for worship,
00:40:49.040but we do have, we do leave our nutcrackers out year round. And that's one of the things that
00:40:55.020Coulter talks about in Germanic heathenry is that as we went, as we left having hearths in our homes
00:41:02.060And the stove kind of became that central place.
00:41:06.180And the Nutcrackers were a home for the Husinga.
00:41:12.520I remember when I was first starting out in Azatru, and I had a big, beautiful, elaborate altar.
00:41:19.780And I had all the statues, and I had all the candles, and I had all the bowls.
00:41:24.800And it was just overflowing with things.
00:41:27.020You know, every beautiful rock that I found on a walk or something like that, I put it on my altar.
00:41:34.080And it really, to be honest, got to be a lot.
00:41:37.400And I found that my spiritual practice and my worship of the gods and the goddesses and of my ancestors has actually become more meaningful as I've scaled back down.
00:41:47.780know. I can't speak for everybody, but for me personally, I found as I've decluttered that space
00:41:54.700and really focus on myself and my own personal worship and the offering that I'm giving that
00:42:01.260the things around me, I was able to put them away until I really needed them.
00:42:07.880Yeah, no, that makes sense. I was just saying about a cluttered desk, you know, for work. It's
00:42:12.920the same I'm sure it's the same concept yeah I still have all those things don't get me wrong
00:42:19.200you know you accumulate a lot of things over the years but I tend to just bring them out when I
00:42:23.980want to use them in particular um and I think it was just uh me being overzealous and wanting to
00:42:30.220have all the things for all the reasons but yeah I really like the the decluttered space that I've
00:42:36.520got is it's just a lot easier I think for me spiritually to work with um also Tanner you
00:42:42.220mentioned that um you're kind of short on space one thing i've seen a lot of people do and some
00:42:47.820of our godar do as well is they'll actually make layered altars shelves you know you have your main
00:42:53.400altar but you may also have bookshelves that you can hang on it or regular shelves that you can
00:42:58.820hang above it making tiered altars i've also seen some of my personal friends that have used
00:43:05.060those little cubes the six cube where you can put baskets in but they don't have baskets they just
00:43:10.200have little pods for different gods and goddesses so there's always ways to get creative with space
00:43:15.740and definitely reach out to your folk if you're on any of those me we groups throw that up in in
00:43:20.940the groups and you know ask to see if anybody has any pictures they'd like to share with you
00:43:25.920you know about how they've managed their space and how they've for example like me accumulated
00:43:31.120way too much stuff and had to put it away or or how they're they're stacking their altars or
00:43:35.320moving them around the house. Tony King of Cheese asks, Brandy and Lane, what are your thoughts on
00:43:43.540culturally specific practices as far as the AFA is concerned? My heritage is largely Scottish,
00:43:50.800for example, but the AFA is largely Germanic in practice, which I understand. But what do you
00:43:55.660think about incorporating practices from our heritage into our worship and practice? Do you
00:44:00.820think there are any issues with that or that it could cause problems forgive the wall of message
00:44:06.100no problem tony king of cheese elaine why don't you go ahead and take that one first sure well
00:44:11.580we definitely want to incorporate our our heritage that's that's kind of the whole point uh once you
00:44:17.380start doing that i think though you'll see that a lot of there there's more similarities than
00:44:22.600differences between them uh the names may change locations may change but the themes are the themes
00:44:29.120are the same. I think that's the whole point, you know, from the British Isles and Ireland
00:44:37.980all the way to the Slavic countries and the Caspian Sea and the Baltic Sea. The themes
00:44:45.300are the same. The stories are the same. I don't like to say that they're the same gods
00:44:51.340with different names um i see them more as cousins um they they have the same functions
00:44:59.180but they're not necessarily the same deity i like to keep let let our let let our gods be our gods
00:45:07.500there's a lot of you know we are we are europeans you know we are we are all one
00:45:13.820folks so if you have your your slavic deities in your your north your north deities your celtic
00:45:19.980deities you know they're all the way that um the asherah go they explains this and he does it
00:45:25.320really really well he does this really really well he says imagine a table and chairs they're
00:45:30.880all made out of the same wood they're all of the same origin um you know that they may look a little
00:45:37.240bit different they the names may be a little bit different but they are all of the same material
00:45:43.420know they're all the same thing so as far as um the practices of specific cultures and things like
00:45:53.340that you know always remember that our culture is you know our music our food our gods our ancestors
00:46:01.380you know those are all things that we incorporate into as a true um you know your if your scottish
00:46:08.960grandparents may have may have appreciated maybe some some music you can give that as an offering
00:46:13.920when you're giving your dedications you know definitely definitely use those cultural
00:46:21.040you know those cultural things into what you're doing and especially when you're doing you know
00:46:25.120ancestor worship you know those are things that your ancestors would recognize you know whether
00:46:29.440it's the music or a specific food um you know those are things that they would recognize and appreciate
00:46:34.640Okay. Corey asks, I think a library bookshelf at each Hoff or some sort of book exchange would be
00:46:42.540a really cool idea. Thoughts? What do you think, Lane? Book exchange at New York's Hoff?
00:50:25.660When the question often comes up, you know, who's your patron god?
00:50:30.400I would always say that I just worship all the gods, you know, depending on what was needed.
00:50:36.780but uh you know the last time it was actually in telegram and i think i think it was uh
00:50:42.620stephen mcgowan was commenting on it while he was on there and it made he made me think well
00:50:48.860maybe i do and i come to realize you know i found the asa truth on the pacific coast on the shores
00:50:55.580in california in san diego and i found the afa here on the east coast on the shores of the
00:51:01.020atlantic and every every major spiritual moment that i've had the ocean's been there so and the
00:51:08.620first public bloat i i did was tenured in in 2017 so he's whether i realized it or not he's
00:51:16.220his hands been on the helm i myself was um pretty partial to um saga um as well as froggy for a long
00:51:29.020time um again i worship all the gods and goddesses every day but i was pretty partial to them um but
00:51:38.300since since i especially since the opening of balder's hof um and in my ordination um as the
00:51:46.460The Gythia for Balder at that Hoff, I've really, being closer isn't necessarily the right word.
00:51:58.340My personal dedication to Balder and to Nana has definitely grown.
00:52:04.700And I think that's natural for Godar who are attending altars of specific gods and goddesses at the Hoffs.
00:52:11.960Now, we do worship and honor them all, but we tend to spend a lot of time specifically with those gods or goddesses or the gods of the Hoffs and the associated goddesses there.
00:52:24.740Tracy Adler asks, Lane, how important is physical fitness to you and is physical fitness part of the Gothar program?
00:55:14.920it was all it was all so new it's like something something that had been been hidden that are lost
00:55:24.280that that you had and you've been looking for but you didn't realize it um of my best friend
00:55:30.360from high school we had made up when we lived in california we made a blood brother pact um
00:55:36.200thinking oh native american uh you know why why why didn't we know of our own ritual
00:55:43.560and that just it it saddened me and and just made me made but made me hunger for for learning more
00:55:50.580it's like what what could we do if we had if we had this growing up and now we get to see our
00:55:56.660children uh growing up in in the faith and having this from as a foundation not something that they
00:56:02.740have to search for later in life it's it's such a such an amazing thing to see
00:56:06.340If there was any advice that you would have for someone who is stumbling upon this path for the first time and they're not quite sure where to start, what would you recommend as that stone that you need to step on first?
00:56:27.580Is there any recommendations that you have for someone who's just finding what we're doing?
00:56:32.500I would say, you know, like we've mentioned earlier, start with the ancestors, you know,
00:56:39.600a simple shrine to communicate with them. A lot of people do that already. They don't realize
00:56:44.480that it is a ritual practice. People will talk to their, you know, their dearly departed,
00:56:51.240and if either at a gravesite or just in their daily life, you know, doing something that
00:56:57.720reminds them, like you've mentioned, working with Thread or something like that, you're doing
00:57:02.480something that your that your grandparents did you you talk to them and you don't you may not
00:57:08.560realize that that is an act of an act of ritual an act of communication beyond the veil you know
00:57:14.560reaching in reaching back to the well to to learn and that simple that simple act is is so empowering
00:57:21.600once you once you're conscious of what you're doing you know you realize that oh yeah this is
00:57:26.000this is natural and it and it feels it doesn't it doesn't feel like you're something well like a lot
00:57:32.240of us didn't grow up in this in this faith so it's it's new but it isn't we've we've just
00:57:39.760disassociated the religiousness from it but we do these practices just by by nature
00:57:51.440tanner asks lane you mentioned philosophy as an early part of your journey
00:57:56.080did any other existentialist philosophy have any influence on you
00:58:00.080i was i i really enjoyed uh hess herman hess was one of was one of the early early things that i
00:58:07.840read um i've recently uh been introduced to evola i'm surprised i didn't find that sooner
00:58:13.600uh with with what i was reading but i really enjoyed enjoyed reading his as well um heidegger
00:58:21.760by way of of cleary um so that that's on my list is to is to start delving into some some martin
00:58:30.320heidegger folk the rude gave us a 25 donation thank you very much and he asks i have been
00:58:42.480trying to find information on european pre-christian fasting traditions but have been
00:58:49.040unsuccessful do you know anything about this i can't say that i do no i don't know of any
00:58:56.320any fasting traditions uh of european uh origin i am unfamiliar with that as well sir but if you
00:59:06.320send us an email lane ashby at runestone.org or b callahan at runestone.org we will
00:59:15.440get together with our fellow godhar and get you an answer how about that
00:59:20.960Tracy Adler asks Lane you mentioned the soul complex how would you describe it and do you
00:59:28.440believe having a strong soul complex helps one with their connection to the gods I think it
00:59:34.740helps with everything I mean it helps it helps with with you work with relationships with I mean
00:59:42.200it literally is what everything you are stems from. So yeah, of course, it would also apply
00:59:48.620to your connection to the gods for sure. Absolutely. So at this point, I'm going to
00:59:54.860ask Nick to go ahead and put up our link for your top websites. And we did speak a little bit
01:00:01.520earlier about, you know, the Godar that you can contact and things of that nature. Also on
01:00:06.640yorkshoff.com as well as our other uh hoff websites there you can find information on to
01:00:13.500contact your folk builders you can contact your godhar and there's also a really great spot for
01:00:19.060all the events that are going on we regularly post events on there as well as a calendar you can see
01:00:27.020all the upcoming information on all the events going around in that district now lane there
01:00:34.400always seems to be going something going on in your top whether somebody is having a moot somewhere
01:00:40.720or a bloat on the beach what is your upcoming events at new york's off itself north off itself
01:00:48.480we have freight faxy coming up a week from this saturday next month we will have our winter
01:00:55.040finding in october of course winter nights and yule our first yule and always always a big event we
01:01:03.040usually roast a whole hog. That's been a tradition that we've done for three years now,
01:01:06.880is roasting a whole hog for Yule. So I'm sure we will carry that on at New York's Hof this year.
01:01:12.720And who should they contact if they are interested in attending any of those events at New York's Hof?
01:01:19.120They can contact myself, Jason Plourd or Anna Plourd, as well as our new folk builders,
01:01:26.160Tracy Adler, Mike Joyner, or Otto Refuse.
01:01:34.220While we're speaking at events, the reason you all have me tonight is because Eroshia Argoldi is currently traveling to our national event this weekend at Baldur's Hof, which is the oddly named Fall Fest in August.
01:01:50.940August. The name was Kept for Tradition, but this is going to be an August event that is going to
01:01:59.560run Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, starting at eight o'clock in the morning on Friday, and it
01:02:05.280will run until about noon on Sunday. We do have about 65 people so far who have said that they're
01:02:12.700going to be there, so we're really looking forward to that. It's always a great event.
01:02:17.380If you have any questions about accommodations or you need a ride or looking for somebody you can stay the night with or see if there's any openings and with anybody or just any questions in general about what's going to be happening at Fall Fest, you can contact Jason Gallagher at jgallagher at runestone.org.
01:02:39.420He is our veteran Fall Fest coordinator.
01:02:43.040He has been a part of Fall Fest since the very first one,
01:02:46.920and I think we are on year number seven, I believe.
01:02:51.500Jason will correct me if I'm wrong because he will know.
01:02:54.720So, yes, please, if you do plan on coming,
01:02:57.460tickets are available on the store, runestone.org store,
01:03:01.600and you can find information for tickets at Baldur's Hall,
01:04:00.680chance it could be happening on the same weekend since we had this schedule
01:04:04.700before we had Nürnzhoff, so we're trying to stick to it for those that had planned time off from
01:04:11.780work, etc., and it does work out with our schedule. We did have to push Freyfaxi back a week
01:04:17.620because after the national event of having the dedication, everybody kind of needed a week to
01:04:24.620decompress, and so we did push that back a week, but otherwise we're on the third weekend of the
01:04:31.260month throughout the rest of the year. Fantastic. Roy, if you can reach out to Lane at laneashby
01:04:37.680at runestone.org as well as go the Daniel Young at Thorshof. If you are looking for information
01:04:47.320on the Thorshof schedule, you can go ahead and check that. Or you can also take a look at those
01:04:52.680handy dandy websites for Thorshof and New York's Hof and take a look at their schedules there and
01:04:57.520see that and see if you are able to make both and I sure hope that you can. All right. Lane,
01:05:08.760is there anything that you have to add tonight? Anything that you want to discuss? Anything on
01:05:14.560your mind that you want to tell your folk tonight? Just how excited I am for what we have ahead of
01:05:21.580us we've got work to do but we're growing we have a strong core group and it's amazing getting to
01:05:29.340meet new people even before the half every every week we would have new people at events and that's
01:05:34.360that's what I'm so excited about is seeing more of our folk come home and getting to uh share
01:05:39.880and sharing as a witness and says sharing their uh their inheritance their birthright
01:05:46.100mm-hmm josh asks you touched on ego and such go the ashby could you expound on self-introspection
01:05:56.900and personal growth for the azure from your perspectives as spiritual leaders
01:06:01.640i it's it's it's imperative it's you know odin uh sought wisdom uh he sacrificed himself to
01:06:11.080himself and we need to do we have to do the same in order to in order to grow we sacrifice our time
01:06:17.540to learn we we sacrifice to better ourselves and that that's not just like we mentioned the
01:06:25.280physical realm but like in the in the ego and ego is a healthy thing it's it's not pride is not a
01:06:31.020sin to us it is a healthy thing to have but on on the flip side of that as as most things are
01:06:37.180dualistic in our faith from the runes to the gods themselves, you have to know when to let it go
01:06:43.720also. You have to know when to sacrifice that ego for the folk. Tracy has a question for you.
01:06:53.420Lane, what is your stance on the Norena Society and their attempt to make our faith more organized
01:06:58.060and dogmatic which which most seem to dislike um i don't have an issue with being dogmatic i mean
01:07:09.500even even we have things that we believe and we have precedents that we carry and we that we are
01:07:16.220building um i think the difference is between practicing and studying the theology and theocracy
01:07:26.140you know do you do you are you are you doing it or are you are you learning it um the knowledge
01:07:32.800is important it is it is good but you have to get out there you have to commune with the gods you
01:07:37.600have to commune with your ancestors and your folk that's that's where the magic happens um you can
01:07:43.060always pick up learning something along the way but don't don't think you have to study for 10
01:07:48.940years you have to read this book that book or this book to to be awesome true like like we'd
01:07:54.900mentioned. It's your birthright. Do it. I have a great deal of respect for Mark Pierre. He's done
01:08:02.220a lot of great things, and I do enjoy his take on things, and I do like to read him and converse
01:08:09.640with him. But the Neuron Society, they're more of a study group to me. They're more focused on
01:08:20.160the book learning and the the intricate uh translations and like i said it's good it's
01:08:26.920good to have access to that so i i appreciate the work that he does but i don't think it's the
01:08:31.320the end all and be all and to be honest i don't know that he does either i i don't know him
01:08:35.680personally but he seems to be a very um from watching him and reading of him he seems to be
01:08:41.360a very spiritual man and i i know that he does practice in in his in his personal life
01:08:46.660I don't want to sound lecturing because I tend to get on a, on a soapbox on this particular topic, but despite popular belief, whether that is on YouTube or, you know, the latest podcasts or the internet sensations, as a true is not and never will be a solitary practice.
01:09:14.340It is very difficult to do. If you are stuck in a situation where you don't have anyone to share frith with, you don't have anyone to worship with, you don't have that community, that's something that is very hard to do.
01:09:30.560being solitary is very very difficult to do our faith is definitely something that is shared
01:09:38.560you know it it is reciprocal with our folk whether it's building frith whether it's celebrating a
01:09:45.360feast getting out there and actually worshiping the gods and actually practicing as a true and
01:09:53.600actually being a doer and getting things done for the gods for your church for your folk that's
01:09:59.200important to your spiritual path. You know, just sitting at home reading a book is, it's going to
01:10:04.740be real difficult to find the same connection as you would if you had a group of people to share
01:10:10.780it with. So if you haven't joined the AFA yet, you definitely need to. And you can do that by
01:10:18.760going to runestone.org and taking a look at that application process. And if you, if you feel the
01:10:27.020need to continue your spiritual path and really live it with your folk go apply talk to a folk
01:10:35.680builder reach out to any of the folk builders in your area and really find that community
01:10:40.060connection because if you're a solitary practitioner of as true that is going to be
01:10:44.780something that you're not going to find in a book so please reach out to your folk builders please
01:10:49.840go apply for the afa and really come home to your folk come home to your gods come home to your
01:10:54.740ancestors. And you made a good point, Brandi. You said celebration. And that's really what it
01:11:01.620boils down to. Our faith is a celebration. And you can't celebrate alone. You can't have a
01:11:09.540birthday party by yourself. You need people to celebrate with you. Absolutely. Finn Raith asks,
01:11:17.380if we want to join the AFA and attend events in Northern Europe around Scandinavia, who do we
01:11:22.500contact and what do we do good question so we do actually have a folk builder in scandinavia
01:11:29.700and nick if you'd like to put up eric's email address you can go ahead and send him an email
01:11:37.380and get in touch with eric i'm gonna have a hard time saying your name my friend
01:11:41.700eric lugnet lugnet um get a hold of him he is holding moots and he is very active in the afa
01:11:50.740um you know even over in scandinavia he's always in contact with us over here he's always trying
01:11:55.780to bring people together over there um holds events and post the most beautiful pictures
01:12:01.220you've ever seen they are absolutely amazing um so yes he is very active over there in sweden
01:12:08.820so please uh get a hold of eric he can help you out and get you in touch with with other
01:12:13.940folk that are in your area um all over the place over there so yes we definitely do have active
01:12:19.940AFA folk over there in Northern Europe and Scandinavia. Tanner asks, have you guys seen
01:12:26.700anything in the Ash community at large that you're particularly excited about, and is there anything
01:12:32.440that you'd like to see more of, whether it's music, films, creative stuff, courses, etc.? Yes,
01:12:39.500I am. I am very excited about several things. The first thing that I'm really, really excited about
01:13:13.820take a look at the website as true academy.org get your child enrolled into that program um it is
01:13:20.780i'm super excited about that we are now raising a generation of young men and women who
01:13:28.360have the very beautiful ability to be raised in this faith a lot of us that come to as true do
01:13:38.540so from christianity or any other religions or we've tried this or that and it didn't fit so we
01:13:44.360finally came home to as a true we have the opportunity to raise our children in this faith
01:13:49.780to raise our children worshiping our gods um to raise our children within our church and going
01:13:55.420to hops you know as the al-shara godi says our children these days will never know what it's like
01:14:00.180to live in a world that does not have a hop in it they will never know that loneliness or
01:14:06.000that loneliness that a lot of us have spent as we milled around looking for the AFA or milled
01:14:14.180around looking for our community. So that is one of the things that I'm very, very excited about.
01:14:19.300What about you, Lane? What are you excited about that you see going on?
01:14:23.340That as well. And just the excitement. I see,
01:14:27.640in even in even in more secular circles i i've i've been hearing also true mentioned
01:14:37.540the the gods the old ways um even even talking about our our founding fathers they're always
01:14:45.520referred to as as the the america was founded on judeo-christian values but thomas jefferson
01:14:53.660stated that we were founded on pagan anglo-saxon law he wanted um he wanted the the symbol of the
01:15:01.340united states to be horst and hengist and he and there's there's just so much there they were deists
01:15:08.620but they had a strong connection uh ben franklin many of his quotes directly parallel lines from
01:15:16.300the havamal you know his early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise that's
01:15:21.900he must early go forth if he feigned the blood or the goods of another would get the idle wolf
01:15:26.380with a little meat on a sleeping man's success i mean the second amendment is literally stated in
01:15:32.140in the half and also and i we're seeing people touch on these points and and realize that you
01:15:39.660know this is this is our birthright this is our connection and just to see it filter filter more
01:15:45.500and more into the mainstream where people that maybe wouldn't come across our podcast or our
01:15:52.140literature or our website can be introduced to it uh for the first time and maybe the the ability of
01:15:59.020for even more people to find their way home it's it's an exciting time the hoffs it the the
01:16:04.140also true academy just thinking 2035 will be our first graduating class that is it seems so soon
01:16:11.500so right around the corner it's just it's just exciting i just it's hard to contain yourself
01:16:18.140absolutely there's so many good things that we've got going on you know we've got um fall
01:16:22.540fest coming up this weekend um we just opened up our fourth half um we're gonna keep pushing
01:16:29.820through until we have another one you know these are things that are powerful and they're exciting
01:16:34.060um and they're fulfilling and it's the support of our folk and um the competency of our leadership
01:16:41.500that has really gotten us there you know without without the folk that we have as members of the
01:16:47.020afa you know they're they're behind making all these all these things happen just by joining
01:16:53.800the community you know just by taking part in that community by showing dedication to their church
01:16:59.860You know, our leadership that we have is really, really pushed hard to move forward in the future, you know, not allowing us to sit still and watch the world pass by us.
01:17:14.440You know, we're setting the example and we're forging away ourselves.
01:17:18.260You know, if the world catches up with us, great, but we're moving forward.
01:17:21.500you know so for for each and every member of the as a shoe folk assembly know that you are
01:17:26.500important and you are a huge part of the reason why this organization is so successful um you
01:17:32.120know all these things we do we do for our gods and we do for our folk as well so you know always
01:17:36.720remember that you are part of something forward moving and hard pushing and something that is
01:17:44.540just paved in the way for you know the future that we want to enjoy but also for the future
01:17:48.620for all of these children that are graduating in 2035 you know so every single one of you
01:17:54.920yeah some of you haven't been born yet you know just the the amazing amount that the families
01:18:00.420that we have and the beautiful children that you know still have not even been born they're going
01:18:05.400to be coming into a world that the path is is really laid for them and with our forward motion
01:18:14.180they're going to be pushing it even further we're really setting our children and our children's
01:18:18.600children up for success and being a member now, you are directly a part of that. So we can't thank
01:18:26.120all of you enough and our leadership enough, but especially our membership, we're doing this for
01:18:30.920you and we're doing this with you and we appreciate all of you. Let's see, Roy Danton sent us a $10
01:18:39.900donation. Thank you, Roy. Appreciate that so much. The long drive back from Yorkshire finally gave me
01:18:45.660time to listen to all the previous episodes in replay. So very powerful and inspiring, especially
01:18:51.100those questions about how to start practice at home. Having won that custom-made horn at the
01:18:56.180auction also really inspired me to build an altar, right? That's great to hear. So, you know, we've
01:19:02.120talked about this before that, you know, your first step is really making the start of that
01:19:07.400gifting cycle. One thing I always want to remind our folk is don't underestimate the power of the
01:19:14.240home feast. And what I mean by that is gather your family around a table and, you know, pass that
01:19:20.860horn around that you have and hail your, hail your God of choice. If it's a day of remembrance
01:19:27.760is coming up, you know, research that, that hero and hail them and talk about what you can learn
01:19:33.280from them. Um, on a Friday night, gather your family together, pass the horn around and talk
01:19:38.000about your ancestors, especially if you have children, um, tell them the stories about the
01:19:42.800grandparents that they would never be able to meet. If you have grandparents of your own,
01:19:48.360go see them and learn from them. Sit with them and share a meal with them and share frith with
01:19:54.680them and learn about your ancestors. Learn about the customs that they had. Some of them, you know,
01:19:59.580may have only been first, second, or third generation, you know, in this country. They
01:20:04.820have a lot of history for you if you're just willing to listen to them. And you're never going
01:20:09.360find a more captive audience than your child so definitely celebrate around your tables even if
01:20:14.720just you and your family pass that horn around that table lane do you have any advice for those
01:20:21.840um how they can involve their their families or or anything like that and what they're doing and
01:20:27.440how they're getting started with this i think uh like you mentioned the meals uh blessed blessing
01:20:33.360the meal i think is a good way to to introduce them to it uh we keep we keep mentioning the
01:20:39.520ancestors you can never you can never go wrong there but yeah i think that is good um and and
01:20:45.600relating relating the gods and goddesses to to everyday things uh air for example is a is you
01:20:52.640know because every everyone knows someone that's sick or maybe is is getting getting older and
01:20:58.560struggling you know making offerings to air is who who could who could oppose that you know who
01:21:04.880could oppose asking a goddess to to help their loved ones feel better to heal faster absolutely
01:21:14.320tracy asks lane it seems like florida has a lot of women at events do you think the female
01:21:19.360element had was important to the growth of the florida afa community how do you get the female
01:21:24.880members to come out yes yes and um i think them them it's a it's a self-perpetuating thing um
01:21:37.680it's it's odd because you're doing doing some digging we we had 30 people at our yule last
01:21:43.040year which at that time was was the most uh the largest florida event um amandy has said uh and
01:48:41.060get a folk builder look them up on the websites find your folk find your community and find your
01:48:46.500way home you know that is going to be so much more enriching than trying to stay home and figure it
01:48:53.540out on your own it's it's like lane said previously it really is a celebration so get out there with
01:48:59.220your folk if you don't have a folk builder within driving distance of you contact them see if they'll
01:49:03.700meet you in the middle or get with them and have them get you in contact with people close by
01:49:08.820and see if you can get a move going whether it's just in the park or dinner at your home or
01:49:13.220whatever it is i had someone reach out to me or that you know there's nobody around me there's
01:49:18.580nothing they had they literally had a member on the same street within a walking distance to them
01:49:24.340and all we all we had to do is put them in contact and then they were off and running
01:49:30.260absolutely so for those who have not yet applied for the afa but need to there is always that
01:49:36.260option to say, Hey, I want to, I want to meet people near me and we'll get you in touch with
01:49:40.240the folk near you so that you can meet your folk and get together. Tracy asked, the field thought
01:49:46.100is one of our oldest and holiest symbols. Do you believe it is important to implement the use of
01:49:51.400such powerful ideograph, ignoring the backlog, the backlash such use usage causes? What's your
01:49:58.700take on it? I believe that that is a, a holy symbol and a cultural symbol. And I believe that
01:50:05.760we should use it for the intent that it was created for yeah use it with reverence that i
01:50:13.280think that's the key word um you know you're not going to put it on a t-shirt and go down to the
01:50:17.360mall that that's not being reverent you you treat it treat it with the respect it deserves
01:50:24.240absolutely now i will say if you're using it surely for the shock value of using it then
01:50:29.600you need to reevaluate your use of it you know but it is a holy symbol it is our symbol
01:50:35.860you know use it in the reverence that it deserves use it with the intention that it deserves
01:50:40.900jason gallagher asks what are the different events that your kindred has hosted over the
01:50:46.660years in florida well we've done we've done the 12 we've done the 12 major uh holidays uh it's
01:50:55.840funny how our uh beach bloat came to be i had been doing it in may um and then once i started uh once
01:51:04.560i started getting i had i took a hiatus due to extreme work conditions and when i started getting
01:51:10.080involved again i was asked to do a mayday bloat and i started doing some research and realized
01:51:16.320that i had been doing that for years but instead of nerthus we were honoring york because the sea
01:51:23.760was so um important to our our lives here it it impacts everything that we do in the state so
01:51:30.800it was just it was always there but we we you know so we we'd always called it just the beach bloat
01:51:36.640you know but after after a while it's like well this is just this is just our mayday it's it's
01:51:42.480nothing it's it's just how we how we practice it and that kind of goes to uh another question about
01:51:48.800heritage. That's kind of our heritage, the sea here in Florida. So we just incorporated that.
01:51:56.900But yeah, we do all the major holy days here in Florida. We've been doing them for over two years.
01:52:06.640Nick asks, Lane, what was the GODI program like? What did you learn the most about? Anything you
01:52:12.960were surprised to learn? What are you looking forward to most as a GODI? Anything you're
01:52:17.080nervous about? Wow, Nick, that's a lot in one question. Go ahead, Lane, give that a go.
01:52:22.700Well, what I learned the most about was myself. It was a very intense look at myself and what I
01:52:33.800knew, what my intentions were, and how I can be of benefit and what my weaknesses were,
01:52:39.940where I needed to make improvement. And that is a never-ending process. But
01:52:45.400the the gothar program put that into a very stark uh image for me to to work on
01:52:52.760what were the what were the other questions was there anything that surprised you
01:52:59.880um no i can't i can't say that i can't say that anything surprised me
01:53:08.280um you know i i did learn a lot um there were some things that there were some some books that
01:53:17.060i that i hadn't read or even heard of like deep ancestors i think that was probably the most
01:53:22.520eye-opening um that i wasn't um it was it was unique it was it was something that i hadn't
01:53:31.460anticipated at all but was was very glad to have been brought to my attention
01:53:40.660tracy asks lane this is this weekend is a weekend off from the hof what if anything do you have
01:53:46.020planned this weekend undefined what do you like to do in your free time well this weekend sleep
01:53:53.620i i i need some sleep i i joked that um while we were getting the half ready that uh
01:54:02.420i wondered if my if my uh health insurance would put me in a medically induced coma for about a
01:54:07.300week so i could just just leave and get some rest recover right yes but uh oh on on my time off we
01:54:16.420i like to i like to go i like to just get outside unplug i like to do yard work i i find yard work
01:54:22.260a very uh meditational thing i i'm in i.t so i'm constantly surrounded by screens and computers and
01:54:29.540i got four different screens on my on my desk going at all times so and not that's not even
01:54:34.820counting my phone so i like to unplug i like to to get offline get out in nature saturday mornings
01:54:40.900are my favorite i get out there before anybody before the neighborhood's awake before there's
01:54:46.340anybody with the birds out there and just sit out on the front porch and read and listen to the
01:54:51.380listen to the birds yeah all right whack-a-mole asks are either of you familiar with colin cleary's
01:55:00.260work he's a member of the room guild don't know if he's a relationship with the afa his essays
01:55:04.980are pretty cerebral and worthwhile i would say are you familiar with him lane because i am not
01:55:09.380overly familiar very familiar in fact that's who that's who i was mentioning uh my uh tangential
01:55:15.380introduction to Heidegger was through Comic Theory. Jesse Parton on behalf of Tabitha here
01:55:24.680asks, how can we celebrate our holidays with our children? Lane, do you want to take that one first?
01:55:31.780Well, I don't have any children, but that's one of the things that I enjoy the most.
01:55:37.840Our kindred, most of our kindred has children, having them at the events.
01:55:43.780uh it was so uh it was amazing when one of our members daughter came up uh had her cigarette
01:55:50.320bloat uh last year or earlier no it was last year and and she just walked out and said i'm also true
01:55:56.920and i was just i was like dad was so proud i could just just see it in his eyes and that was
01:56:02.620just an amazing amazing feeling just that they'll you know just don't don't force it on them let
01:56:07.820let them come to it they they'll come to it naturally because it is a natural thing it's
01:56:12.980And it's in them every bit as much as it's in us.
01:56:16.340And I think it might even be easier for them to connect to it because they don't have all the static of however many years on this earth you've been.
01:56:24.400They can they can connect to it right away.
01:56:27.940Absolutely. Now, when we have our bigger national events, we do like to have, you know, at Boulder Soft,
01:56:35.840we do have a small children's bloat specifically with the kids and some adults to help wrangle the kids in there.
01:56:42.260but we go through it very specifically right now this is what we're going to do and this is why
01:56:48.500and the kids participate in their own little bloat so we definitely like to do that
01:56:52.420um but crafts you know age appropriate crafts for the kids um telling a story that kind of relates
01:57:00.400to that specific feast or holiday um and and teaching them the story in a way that they can
01:57:06.860repeat it so one thing that i found with with smaller children and i found with my own you can
01:57:11.600read from a book all day long to them, but they understand it more and it means more to them when
01:57:16.520they can repeat that story to you. So even though you might want to read this, you know, elaborate
01:57:21.960book on mythology, break it down into real simple terms because it's things that they can retain
01:57:30.180and then they can tell that story themselves. And they're more likely to enjoy it and they're
01:57:35.460more likely to be active if they can actually tell that story themselves and they get more
01:57:39.940excited about it that way. Um, so that's one thing that I like to like to do with the younger kids
01:57:44.680as well as literally break that story down into very short pieces and very simple, very simple
01:57:50.980verbiage and words that they can use themselves and tell that story to their back to their parents
01:57:55.680or, or back to their little friends. So I like to do that as well, but age appropriate crafts are
01:58:00.240really, really great. Um, also on that, um, children's symbol, children's symbol is a lot
01:58:08.020fun it can it can be like herding cats sometimes but it's a lot of fun it's always wonderful to
01:58:14.660hear what comes out of a child's mouth because you never know what it's going to be um we used
01:58:20.260to we have a little horn that we we use and we use just some you know juice or grape juice or some
01:58:25.540sparkling um juice of some sort and and take the kids through take the kids through symbol you know
01:58:33.380let them hail one of the gods let them hail one of their ancestors and if they don't aren't familiar
01:58:38.660with their ancestors let them hail all the ancestors um and hailing each other is always
01:58:44.900really cute you know when when they hail their their teacher or their their favorite pet is
01:58:50.020always a fun one to hear or one of their uh siblings or their mom um you never know what's
01:58:55.220going to come out of their mouth and it's always really fun and and a lot of fun to hear that has
01:58:59.940has to be magical i i can't wait to we we definitely need to do that at york's off that's
01:59:04.920yeah it's a lot of fun especially if you let the if you get the kids together for their own
01:59:09.920symbol you know if you if you surround them by a bunch of adults they're they're not as likely to
01:59:14.340to open up but if you surround them by a bunch of other kids they're going to be a little more
01:59:18.460open to it so that's going to be awesome very neat um you know craft ideas for holidays i mean you
01:59:26.260can, there's so many different things that you can do. I mean, if you're unsure on specifically
01:59:31.780for a specific feast, you can never go wrong with seasonal crafts, you know, like for fall or for
01:59:38.340winter, summer, spring, you can never go wrong with those. And you can always have them make
01:59:43.200two of them, you know, make, make one of the crafts for them, make the other craft for the
01:59:48.300God or goddess that you're giving the bloat to at that particular event. And let them make that
01:59:54.060offering you know that's something that's meaningful for kids when they can actually be part
01:59:57.180when they can actually participate in the events amber c asks how would you define the afa
02:00:05.500it what it what the afa is to those who have never heard of as a true my definition would be
02:00:11.420a church dedicated to the worship of their gods ancestors and um the support of their folk lane
02:00:19.420what would you say yeah i would just just say it's our it's our ancestral it's our
02:00:24.620ancestral religion it's what our ancestors practiced it's what they knew it was it was
02:00:30.140an organic faith of brought of our people for our people and uh and the the tie into the ancestors
02:00:38.460always all right cellar door asks i've heard that as a true is the religion that comes with homework
02:00:48.860do you think this would be you think this could be a negative don't most people deeply crave a
02:00:53.580clear direction and could get lost in the academia yes and no the academia has its place and it is
02:00:59.820important um the knowledge base is important to understand the culture the traditions and the lore
02:01:07.180i think people can get lost in it though they can make that the priority um learning all they can
02:01:13.500and knowing the most when the most important thing is the connection with your ancestors and
02:01:20.140with your gods and act actively practicing in that worship um the academia is really really
02:01:26.460important but it's not the most important thing and always caution people don't don't get lost
02:01:33.660in the books don't let the book suck you in and never let you back out lane what are your thoughts
02:01:38.620said i i agree and i i almost think that that that phrase itself that that that we're a religion with
02:01:45.900homework it's it's almost it almost seems to me that people say that to make it seem more exclusive
02:01:54.860than it is to the to almost like oh you know you don't want to do this it's it it it has homework
02:02:01.900it's like well why would you say why would you even say that and sure we do we don't we don't
02:02:07.340grow up with it but no nobody nobody else says that but there's there's there's there's more
02:02:13.980written about other religions than than ours even but nobody would ever say that oh you have to read
02:02:21.100you have to read these texts or these texts or these texts unless you're unless you're maybe
02:02:24.940you're an orthodox uh faith of some sort but i i just i've just that that phrase has always puzzled
02:02:31.340me that it's it's life life is is is homework you know and every everything takes knowledge and
02:02:38.300learning and growing to to single out asa true it just it's it's never felt right to me
02:02:49.260ketla asks what about the book deep ancestors was so eye-opening i haven't heard about that one
02:02:55.500laney just recently mentioned that book do you want to go into that a little bit
02:02:59.820sure it really the the origin uh the origin story um if you will of of our of our faith or at least
02:03:08.780a large part of it granted um there were gods and goddesses in northern europe before the indo
02:03:15.180europeans arrived but it really goes takes takes you back and shows how closely there's there's
02:03:21.980related and influenced and influenced our what our faith would ultimately become and just just how
02:03:28.940they how they lived like for instance the the that they were they were nomadic they didn't have a
02:03:34.140word they didn't have a word for pig because pigs couldn't travel and just the the etymology of some
02:03:41.660of the words that we use today and and the the gods and how how they how they related to them
02:03:48.700the whole um looking you know looking to the east to the rising sun there's just there's just so
02:03:55.020much rich history there that that uh and and how they're really the origin story too their
02:04:02.220their origin story of uh the twins and this and the sacrifice uh for for there to be uh to control
02:04:10.380chaos it was it's it's not it's not a big book but there's there he packs a lot into it it is
02:04:17.900a very good book we're actually reading that right now with um the boulders huff ladies and
02:04:23.340And for those who look at it, if it's ever referred to as the wheel and the donkey book, this is what it looks like.
02:04:30.460This is the book he's talking about right there.