Today is the Day of Remembrance for King Radbot of Freesia. We talk about the upcoming event at Baldershoff, the upcoming harvest festival at Sigerheim, and a bit of news from the home of victory.
00:09:10.440And it is in the reconstructed language because we got to remember that the Elder Futhark has no trans,
00:09:18.500like named translations of the titles of the runes uh and we use old norse anglo-saxon
00:09:26.020and gothic language uh of the alphabet to retrograde the um the names and so ansuz
00:09:35.620ansuz is the name it can be spelled many different ways a-n-s-u-z or a-n-s-u-s but
00:09:42.980the meaning of ansus is where we start to get into some debate about the name the goths called it on
00:09:51.700uh ans and ans could mean or or uh excuse me or also asa which could mean a god or an ash tree
00:10:02.340so that immediately kind of starts to throw things but we can look at the um
00:10:07.300um, the, uh, Icelandic and the Anglo-Frygian Futharks. And even though they're spelled
00:10:14.580differently, one is spelled with an A and a dash above it, uh, S and the other is spelled O-S-S.
00:10:21.060They both have the same sound. It's, it's Os. And so Ansuz in using those names correlates to
00:10:29.020divinity. A god, the gods, singular. The word os is used in Old Norse almost as much as a title
00:10:41.300name as the word tir, which also means a god or god or a specific god. The difference, though,
00:10:50.000is that os is not correlated specifically to a god. And so that's caused a lot of
00:10:55.460debate as to exactly what this means. But first and foremost, I think this rune represents divine
00:11:05.020message. And it is immediately associated with the Lord Odin. Odin is, of course,
00:11:14.780the leader of the Aesir, and he is, of course, the one that attained the runes.
00:11:22.460And as we were talking about in the last episode, we were talking about how the runes kind of create a story replicating much of the overarching mythos, but also we were talking about motion.
00:11:39.480And we're talking about the expansive motion of Fehu and the condensing motion of Uruz and the piercing motion of Thirzaz.
00:11:48.640Ansuz is where we start to go vertical.
00:11:51.280And this is where we talk about the gods in the upper world, in the upper realm.
00:11:56.860When we talk about our gods, we see our gods as in the upper when we look up to the sky.
00:12:02.340And so this is really the first semblance in this story arching of the vertical motion and the descendancy of wisdom coming down.
00:12:15.140And there's multiple occasions of this in which Odin, Thor, and Heimdallr have come down to disseminate knowledge.
00:12:25.640And so the first and foremost honor of that, though, the attainment of the runes goes to Odin. So Odin is deeply associated with this rune. And it's also because of its connections to the mouth, to speech, and to the knowledge of transferring.
00:12:51.020And, you know, when we talk about Lord Odin, we do talk about one of the great powers, the enlivening and the synchronic ability of Odin to weave the folk in the material together, to inspire them, to move them, almost as if by a whisper alone, is that power.
00:13:13.600So Ansuz, though, really is focusing on, say, for instance, in a divination sense, it would be correlated to receiving a message, receiving divine insight, receiving an omen or a sign.
00:13:31.660And so in essence, it is the rune of runes.
00:13:43.160It rises up and it establishes itself, but not quite, it's almost within itself.
00:13:53.060So again, I think this nods towards the consciousness of Lord Odin placing himself within Yggdrasil and then transcending even the fabric of all that is to gain the sounds of creation.
00:14:08.560So most certainly, if we're talking about expansive and condensive and piercing, this is the upward rune. And so the association with air, with breath, with consciousness, and the idea of even in the symbol itself, kind of the rising knowledge and then the two representing the mouth, the disseminating of knowledge.
00:14:30.900So attainment, retainment, and then exclaimment out of knowledge is all kind of associated with onsous.
00:14:44.900All right, there you go. So, no, no, no, that's great.
00:14:50.900So Nick, producer Nick is going to, last time I read rune poems to you guys, producer Nick
00:14:57.780is going to throw those up graphically and I will read them, but just so we're on the
00:15:03.060same, okay, he's throwing it up, but super, super tiny.
00:15:07.020So let me see if I can, can squint and try to read this.
00:15:15.640Is this the Norwegian or is this the Icelandic?
00:15:20.900i say that like nick's gonna pop on and say something no this looks like it's probably not
00:15:27.720so that's old icelandic i should know this stuff that's okay all right so uh no this is uh this
00:15:37.700is old norse i mean uh not old norse anglo-saxon i can see it on the screen i can't see it on the
00:15:44.320screen but okay cool anyways without further ado um god is the source of all language a pillar of
00:15:56.500wisdom and a comfort to wise men a blessing and a joy to every night um so the confusion is that
00:16:06.140first god term and it depends on the translation but the ones i was looking at it pops up differently
00:16:12.660uh it's a mouth and it's included but again the idea of the name itself translates to god or a
00:16:22.420god or to estuary or mouth um which is is fine and dandy with that um i think the correlation
00:16:33.300there is that they're when when you see the anglo-saxon room poems and they immediately
00:16:37.380have christian overtones and again in the last episode we were talking about how the anglo-saxon
00:16:42.980rune poems are actually the oldest of them uh they have christian so i like the tone of them
00:16:50.340a lot though they are much more overtly
00:16:56.580pious slash moral whereas the others are more linguistic mnemonic devices
00:17:03.620and whereas the christian overtone is a little bit off-putting the knightly overtone is is really
00:17:11.380cool and they use that quite a bit and so i think those ideas of piety and nobility are really
00:17:17.380stressed there whereas the others it's just a linguistic tool and this talks a little bit about
00:17:22.340the deeper esoterics of the roads yeah and i think also that lends to the the importance of
00:17:27.780alliterative poetry amongst the scalds and the and the the court uh poets of the norse as opposed
00:17:37.060to this being written down in the anglo-saxon time frame and it was kind of like the the poet
00:17:43.220the warrior and the lord were all starting to kind of meld and condense at that time because
00:17:48.340more of the the um i guess the their their structure the anglo-saxon structure was
00:17:55.540much more uh regimented than than the norse all right well nick could you throw on could
00:18:01.460you put up the next one please all right uh odin is the olden father and asgarther's chieftain
00:18:14.660the leader of valhall this is the icelandic one and this is you know very specific and
00:18:22.900unequivocal this is odin's rune he's you know the father of ancient times he is he is the
00:18:29.940the leader of the the realm of the gods and he is is the the host and the lord of his great hall
00:18:37.140foul hall uh can you throw up uh the next one on here for us excellent uh os is most journeys
00:18:47.140dealings but uh sheath is the swords okay but sheath is the swords um scabbards yeah
00:18:59.540i've got translations about this it is the scabbard of swords
00:19:05.300yeah so i don't like that um cool the version that i have reads estuary is the way of most journeys
00:19:15.060but a scabbard is of swords um and again this talks about the the mouth of rivers the mouth of
00:19:23.380things mouth is an orifice that that things go into um or expand out forward like that is where
00:19:32.500you set sail on a journey is also where the sword goes to rest um and then i'd also like to mention
00:19:42.340the um the arminen use of this rune and it's it's uh os i believe in the in the arminen system
00:19:52.420a fourth i know if men make fast and chains the joints of my limbs when i sing that song
00:19:58.820which shall set me free spring the fetters from my hands and feet so through
00:20:05.860divinity and through the the power of speech and the divine power of speech
00:20:14.700it can set you free and it's a liberating force and i think that's certainly true
00:20:20.220um big things to remember with with ansu's is and has always been um
00:20:29.780that creative breath from from the gods we see the most primal elements both Ymir and Odin with
00:20:40.800associations of of roaring of speaking of shouting into existence our our existence
00:20:49.840of conjuring through through Galder through speech of incantation and
00:20:57.720And speech, speech is the first way that something internal becomes external.
00:21:10.200We talk a lot about we are our deeds in Ausitru.
00:21:16.560The difference between having a good idea and doing a good action, the intermediary stage is speaking it.
00:21:26.280this is like when you when you talk about oaths this is something that i'm really aware of in
00:21:33.240my job as i'll tell you go through the afa when i have a really you know an idea that i think is
00:21:39.480really great idea i want to do for our folk i don't want to talk about it until i've got a
00:21:46.440solid plan because i don't want to it creates bad weird to speak things into existence unwisely
00:21:58.840so if i'm going to by speaking it i'm making something that
00:22:02.760was just in my head speaking it into the world makes it real
00:22:08.760once it's real and in the world then there's consequence if i've made a promise and said
00:22:13.160i'm going to do something then i have a commitment that i have to fulfill it um this is part of the
00:22:20.200idea that fafner demanded that sigurd give his name to him after he after he struck his mortal
00:22:30.120blow and it was a a taboo amongst our ancestors you didn't tell a dying man you know who's mad
00:22:37.240at you your name because with their dying breath they would curse you by knowing your name they
00:22:41.960could affix bad things to you they could magically put bad things on you if they speak your name
00:22:49.320because speaking is so very important um i guess what i have to add on this rune at this point
00:22:58.120and i think we can go to some questions while while the questions are being loaded um one thing
00:23:04.840that's worth noting when we talk about the um anglo-saxon uh usage of it as clearly when they
00:23:13.320talk about god or the or the word they're talking again in in a kind of con context of the connection
00:23:19.560between sound and the word of like yahweh and their religion but but also there's clearly a
00:23:27.640connection to the voice and the sound of odin and his as alzergo they brought up the the breath
00:23:34.840So if we're talking about that arc of the of the if we're talking about Fehu being the ignition of Muspelheim and the the dross that's burned off of Nivelheim and Adumla and Yggdrasil in the creation and condensing of the universe.
00:23:51.760And then Therizaz, of course, being the formulation of Ymir in the center and thus creating the first tripartite of Yggdrasil, Adumla, and Ymir.
00:24:04.780then when the, when the gods, the epoch or this part of the arc of the mythos is on Zeus is when
00:24:11.800the gods are elevated and the gods come down, Odin comes down and breathes on into and shapes
00:24:22.200the folk. And so in this sense, like we're seeing a formulation of a story. And so this,
00:24:31.720this is about vertical and descendancy of knowledge. Really, really important. And you
00:24:37.160can see that from the wisdom of the scabbard being placed in the sword or when to draw it,
00:24:42.640the estuary and the starting of the journey. And I mean, of course, the Icelandic one is
00:24:48.580pretty straightforward. It is worth noting that in the Icelandic one, at the end, there is mention
00:24:55.520of um jupiter because at the end of the icelandic rune poems there are these uh these uh kind of
00:25:04.520latin based connections at the end of it and so one of the things that really holds true to this
00:25:11.800is when people are and and this is a whole nother subject we kind of touched on about um the
00:25:17.760desperation for the search of the singular sky daddy um uh because i think there's a a desperation
00:25:25.540in it without looking at some other things but um and of course when you say that people are like
00:25:32.060are you saying oh that isn't and i'm not saying that at all um but there is a connection there
00:25:37.780when we talk about uh deus pater and um uh jupiter and odin that the the really the one big connection
00:25:48.660that a lot of people point to is that mentioning of the uh it says uh jupiter odvidi is at the end
00:25:56.820of that rune poem so um i just thought that would be like a little nugget to throw out there if
00:26:03.060you're looking at the rune poems and you don't have those little latin pieces at the end definitely
00:26:07.220find them because they're worth having a kind of connection there all right so first question and
00:26:15.060we're getting this thrown in there first is the order it ought to be i think that's how
00:26:20.420it's nice that it goes down like that um gentlemen how is y'all's evening tonight
00:26:30.900i'm doing fantastic my evening's going good like say look forward to these every week uh talking
00:26:36.340as fun about the ruins is always good times i've got a couple of different imperial ipas to uh
00:26:43.700wet my whistle while we're talking this evening so i am i am doing all right and
00:26:48.580i've been super excited because we got an enthusiastic group of guys that have been
00:26:52.980putting in some work at sigerheim and i'm still on the high off of being at sigerheim a couple
00:26:57.620of weeks ago um that's that's my happy place that i go just when i'm daydreaming of the stuff we're
00:27:03.860going to do there the house i'm going to have there the the hall that we're going to build
00:27:09.060and the uh the hofta tier that we're going to build there so i'm having a good day as far as
00:27:13.780that goes uh how are you doing swan i am doing great uh this evening this evening time um
00:27:22.980i uh i ran a terrain race over the weekend with my son and um i realized a couple things one that
00:27:30.500was i was very proud of my son because he was he the only obstacles he he only did skip two and
00:27:37.300that was because of uh well technicalities of his hands weren't big enough to get over some of these
00:27:43.060obstacles so he couldn't really do them um because he's not even he hasn't even done his man making
00:27:48.580yet but um you know uh to run with him and go over all the other obstacles but i also realized
00:27:55.060my age and and the uh the uh accumulative damage of the military over time has really done a number
00:28:02.900on on my old man knees so i am i am a rickety rickety guy right now even up till now i'm still
00:28:12.260shaky it's been almost a whole week yeah i had uh a regular i don't know i've been slacking on
00:28:20.740my jujitsu just to let myself heal up a little bit and this night was the first time back in
00:28:26.500about a week and a half and um for those of you that don't know i do uh danzen rue japanese jujitsu
00:28:33.860so it's a lot of throws and gravity adversely affects me as a as a heroically proportioned
00:28:41.140gentleman um compared to some of the other guys in class when all you know 238 pounds of me is
00:28:47.620coming down on the mat it uh tell you what i felt it this morning i was hobbling around all day so
00:28:54.820feeling feeling the old man wearing our next question is which translation of the poetic
00:29:02.260etta do you recommend most i don't play that game there's a lot of people that really do
00:29:07.540have strong preferences i don't i really like mixing and matching and being
00:29:15.220promiscuous with my translations because honestly, I think that by looking at all the different ones
00:29:22.340together, I'm able to piece it together in a, I don't know, more complete way. Like I can
00:29:29.360take some from one, some from another and match things up and I can see what's consistent and I
00:29:36.180can see what's not in those. So I really don't have a hard one that I'm bound to. What say you,
00:29:44.000fun i do but i i think i i have legitimate reasoning but i think a lot of people don't
00:29:50.720realize like the gothlinger in the afa that the the pre-seminary uh track where they're where they
00:30:00.000the go the goth are kind of prepping to even tackle the idea of it um we go over all the
00:30:06.240translations across the board but i do have a preference um it's hollander and i know that
00:30:14.560pulls a lot of people but i think first and foremost i'm uh i'm a scald or i'm a poet
00:30:22.960at heart and i really like the english language because it wasn't my first language and i find it
00:30:28.400very beautiful and i so i find that translation holds the spirit of poetics while keeping it in
00:30:37.360english and kind of like bridges the gap between nordic and english um it conveys a lot of the
00:30:45.680spirit in but does not get the translations completely right um so you just kind of have to
00:30:51.360to bear with it. But I'm really becoming a fan of Thorpe and Bellows as far as the way they
00:31:00.800translated specific words that throw a lot of people off. And that a lot of people that
00:31:06.220attempt to translate, especially here in the modern age, I find that their translations do
00:31:15.100hold up to a lot of kind of the um shooting from the hip guys nowadays where um certain words like
00:31:22.300you read them and you can see the construction of those words are much better bellows seems to
00:31:26.620understand that very well thorpe does as well thorpe especially um but you look at these modern
00:31:35.100uh kind of takes on certain words and they're all they're way out in left field sometimes so
00:31:42.060So I'd be, I'd be coming more of a fan of them structurally.
00:31:48.400All right. And I'll say this, Hollander is the one I'm most familiar with. That was the first
00:31:56.140version that I read. And so, you know, I, again, I don't really have a strong preference, but that's
00:32:01.900probably the one that I'm most familiar with and is, you know, in my head, the firmest.
00:32:07.760um so travis is talking about this and i've also got eric talking to me about it on the side
00:32:14.780wanting me to mention it um in the afa we have a like a men's uh men's chat group where guys talk
00:32:23.620about different things and uh i'll just read his question then i'll tell you a little bit more
00:32:29.400about it so good evening also here you go with you matt and witness fun myself plus 25 other of
00:32:35.800our menfolk in the AFA just completed a four-day fast for the Odin World Prayer Day. Are you guys
00:32:42.740going to join us next month? So Odin World Prayer Day is a thing that a Swedish member came up with
00:32:51.740a number of years ago. And on the ninth of every month, a lot of people synchronize and will do,
00:32:57.860you know, prayers to the All-Father to awaken our folk. And these gentlemen got together and
00:33:04.960decided to flex their willpower and, you know, make a sacrifice. And as an offering to, to the
00:33:11.300all father to put in a four day complete fast. And there's, you know, additional on it that I heard
00:33:17.460it is a complete, just water, no food, four day fast. So congratulations to them. That is a
00:33:26.700testament. That is absolutely a testament to willpower. And that's, that's fantastic. And
00:33:32.480it's absolutely impressive. I wonder why four, I would, I would gladly do three, um, fasting,
00:33:39.080you know, especially a complete fast, water fast, uh, only, um, you know, and I've always heard
00:33:45.080about the dangers of going past three days at that point, body stops, um, you know, healing
00:33:51.960itself and starts to be destroyed, uh, internally or, you know, things going on there. So I wonder
00:33:58.780why that is and especially because olden is the tripartite within the tripartite because they're
00:34:04.300sacrificing self to self they are uh they're they're gleaming that cube they're they're pushing
00:34:11.100the boundaries uh no i will not be joining you with that next month i'm not a big fan of
00:34:16.540fasting myself a part of what i'm trying to do with myself and my body is to i don't know get
00:34:25.740the best physical conditioning i can get work on that and you know make a little bit of progress
00:34:31.660every month um and i found that fasting doesn't work very well for me um i don't want the
00:34:41.180deterioration of muscle tissue or muscle gain and i also quite honestly i salute your guys
00:34:50.700ability to do that drive me insane and i think that my wife and child deserve a version of me
00:34:57.180that is not fasting um but i i absolutely respect what you guys are doing that's a huge huge thing
00:35:04.780and i don't know if anybody has tried to fast before or whatever but a four-day fast of just
00:35:10.700water is that is daunting and that is quite a feat so hats off to you gentlemen that's amazing
00:35:17.260i would like to uh i would just maybe i i'll go and talk in there and uh argue the case of a three
00:35:25.500day as opposed to a four spawn's gonna come in there trying to trying to sell you guys weak sauce
00:35:33.100but i i also commit to a personal it's um a personal fast uh before yule i i i and another
00:35:42.220a friend of mine from a long time ago um started it where we would 12 days start and it's called
00:35:49.100the widening um it doesn't always have to condition itself towards eating or a fast
00:35:54.540so the widening is kind of a funny choice of words but yeah i was gonna say there's a lot
00:35:57.980of people around the holidays that practice the widening well and in relation to vidar and the
00:36:04.140widening uh as in his name the uh the widening of the jaws of avarice uh the widening of the
00:36:11.820mouth of fenrir um is kind of the the allegoric meaning so it could be basically depriving
00:36:18.940yourself of anything that um can be uh seen as i don't know whether it's i mean and food's not
00:36:27.180really that case but i know that as yule's coming you will and the the widening that everyone gets
00:36:33.100into it can be kind of uh daunting or or or you know it's about keeping focused um you know but
00:36:40.540sometimes it's 12 days of going to the gym or it's 12 days of you know running a certain amount
00:36:44.780of time or walking a certain amount of time or whatever it might be uh just holding true to that
00:36:49.660so i'm used to fasting fasting isn't my thing but these periodic things to test your willpower to
00:36:59.980test your ability on stuff there's a lot to be said for that and um i don't know if ladies
00:37:07.820approach that the same way but certainly for men finding finding challenges sometimes creating
00:37:14.780challenges to see if you can hold up to them see if you can and rise up to them that's a really
00:37:22.380important thing that i'd love to see more men uh do and i think that's really great that they're
00:37:27.740that they're able to do that and not not just that they're able to do it but the fact that
00:37:32.540they're able to do it together to gain strength from each other to gain competition from each
00:37:39.100other to push a little bit harder to dig a little bit deeper to do a little bit more i think that's
00:37:44.380really cool to see and i'm very glad they're able to do that yeah i'm pushing for ice baths this year
00:37:51.660you and you know you and the law speaker law speaker will join you uh we're not that kind
00:37:57.580of organization maybe not joining states yeah but you guys separated by states can
00:38:04.220synchronize ice baths or whatever he's a fan of that um
00:38:09.900our next question is are there afa members that can read the eddas in their original language
00:38:16.380so it's an interesting answer as of right now not that i know of but recently our gothar have
00:38:29.180embarked together on on a similar thing i suppose we've challenged ourselves to take on the task of
00:38:35.500learning a new language and together our gothar are endeavoring to learn at least how to read
00:38:43.260then hopefully how to pronounce and speak a little bit of old norse so we've kind of taken
00:38:48.220that on together and we're about three weeks into that process i think it's harder for some than for
00:38:55.740others languages is a it's an interesting skill set that some people are very very good at like
00:39:03.260the concept of learning languages um and one of my very best friends and a kid i grew up with um
00:39:09.740it's funny because he's he's a colonel now and he is a leader of men and I still treat him like a
00:39:19.220little brother because that's how we we grew up but he always always impressed me growing up
00:39:25.820learning languages he ended up getting degrees in languages and now he speaks he fluently speaks I
00:39:32.480think four or five languages so I'm really impressed with that I am I'm not blessed with
00:39:37.620that skill. So I find it much more difficult, but it's fascinating. It's something we, like I said,
00:39:41.620we just started doing. But Svan is leading us in that effort. He is one step closer. As a son of
00:39:49.600Iceland, he speaks the closest living language that is related to Old Norse. And so he's got
00:39:57.580a leg up on that. Yeah. And I was going to say to the question is, you know, I came to the States
00:40:05.320i was very very young i was uh six so but english wasn't my first language but it was hard pressed
00:40:12.440on me and uh even though i grew up in the south i learned english from teachers so my there's no
00:40:20.200kind of discernible accents um they uh but the the the good part about that is that i retained
00:40:27.960all of the ability to pronounce icelandic i don't speak it conversationally and i think that's a
00:40:33.320And a thing I want to be clear with people is, you know, I don't conversate with in Icelandic on a regular basis at all because there's nobody around me that really speaks it unless I go to like the Icelandic social club that is in Virginia.
00:40:52.700But it still is I'm able to read it and pronounce it and don't really struggle with the linguistic rules as much.
00:41:02.060so as we're doing this and learning it's becoming uh increasingly easier almost as
00:41:08.220if i'm just kind of remembering things that have always kind of been in there so
00:41:17.660sorry i was just checking up on the chat see if we got anything
00:41:21.020else coming through that needs to oh all right so this one came through i don't know if it's a
00:41:27.580question or a directive or whatever, but it's, it's, it's something I want to do regardless.
00:41:34.200Whitten Daniel Young says, I'll hear you go with you. Please challenge our folk,
00:41:38.380men and women alike to better take care of their health.
00:41:45.300So Daniel put it out there. So I might overshare. He might be mad at me. That might happen,
00:41:50.700but that's okay. I'll take one for the team. Daniel recently had a pretty concerning health
00:41:56.360scare and one of the reasons i think that he's here being able to have this conversation with
00:42:02.280us is because he does take good care of himself it's funny um he's got he's got a lot of fat man
00:42:08.040ailments but he's not a fat man so it's really kind of strange but he and i were talking about
00:42:12.680it just before this broadcast our health is so very important and you know a lot of us feel that
00:42:21.160more acutely as we get older but take good care of yourselves you know um time is one of our most
00:42:29.880precious commodities you know when we pass beyond the veil we will exist in in mythic time and our
00:42:37.320priorities might shift but in the meantime the time we've got here in midgard with our families
00:42:43.000contributing to the afa building a legacy for ourself here it really matters um you know i've
00:42:51.000I've noticed that my wife and I were both 39 when we had our daughter and we're going to be old when she's, you know, when she's young doing things and she deserves to have active parents.
00:43:01.920So we've got to, you know, try double hard to not be old and crusty and decrepit and not being able to do stuff with her.
00:43:11.460I don't. You know, I don't think this is necessarily an AFA problem specifically.
00:43:18.120I think this is certainly an American problem. I think it's a Western problem a little bit more
00:43:23.120generally. We got a lot of fat people. If you're fat, stop. If you're getting fat, get less fat.
00:43:31.040All of us, that's one of the things. None of us are perfect, but we can all tomorrow be better
00:43:37.140than we are today. We can all make an improvement by the next time we talk to each other and we can
00:43:43.420help each other do that. But yeah, whatever your situation is, if you're scrawny, go out there,
00:43:48.940try to get stronger. If you're fat, try to get less fat. If you're slow, try to get faster. If
00:43:54.160you're dumb, get smarter. If, you know, and I'm being frank, it doesn't even have to be something
00:43:59.860bad. If you're smart, still get smarter. If you're strong, get even stronger. If you're in good shape,
00:44:06.920get in better shape. You know, there's all stuff we can do to improve, but your health is so very
00:44:11.360important and we got a lot of people with preventable health problems if you can fix that
00:44:15.920do that do it for yourself and do it for everybody out there watching also too just the way we look
00:44:23.280the attempt of discipline and moving uh you know there this is a very visual world and and i'm i'm
00:44:31.520a barber so style or self-discipline of style is important to me and the idea that you know i wear
00:44:39.680this like i wore this to work i this is how i dress so um i'm trying more and more to dress
00:44:46.560you know more professionally and it's it is really considerate of of us to present ourselves to the
00:44:53.200world in the the best way and the best way to do that is to physically mentally spiritually
00:44:58.800be healthy and exude that in in your you know the discipline of of your hair and your facial hair and
00:45:06.560and that's the thing we want to look our best and a lot of people find that shallow or whatever
00:45:12.240those people are wrong um your first impression that you make on folks says a lot about you
00:45:18.880and in also true we are very aware that it doesn't just say something about you
00:45:23.680it says something about your partner it says something about your family it says something
00:45:30.160about us as the afa and it says something about also true are in general and i guess on even a
00:45:35.760bigger thing it says something about white folks um how you look and how you present yourself
00:45:41.920look your best look your best for your family for your gods for all the rest of us for those of us
00:45:47.280standing next to you in a picture for your spouse for yourself so you carry yourself with your head
00:45:54.400high and your chest out with pride and dignity and how you look look good it's not a bad thing
00:45:59.840we should all want to look our very best celebrating beauty is is a very aryan thing for us to do
00:46:05.760Um, that is the questions that we have so far. So I think it is time for us to move on to Ribo.
00:46:20.680So, uh, yeah. And I wanted to mention for the folks here as well, just remember when Alciragothi is bringing up the Armanin.
00:46:29.340The one thing to remember is that the Armanid is completely sourced from the Halvamal, and it is sourced from the Runetal, which is in the Halvamal.
00:46:41.880And so there are the 19 runes, and those rune poems are kind of sourced in connection to Maestro Guidovan List's holding lateral to the meaning of the runes, the Armanid.
00:46:58.100so that's one thing if you're looking for the rune poems and you're like where are these coming
00:47:02.040from that's where they're coming from so worth noting or just look up the armanin um
00:47:08.180so again we we've we're and i'm i'm reiterating and reiterating over and over again about
00:47:16.300movement about the movement of the runes and the epochs of the runes and the story that they they
00:47:21.580tell and the the construction of of the elder futhark in its in its quite in its perfection
00:47:30.380um in my opinion and this one is the circular motion this is this is where we have the upward
00:47:37.900and then afterwards with with raido we have rotation and alignment so this is the circular
00:47:46.680rune. And it doesn't look circular, but we'll get to it in a second. First off, the pronunciation
00:47:53.140of the word. There's some confusion. You'll hear some people say it with a hard D,
00:48:01.780raido, or you might hear it with raido. And that's because of a little bit of confusion
00:48:07.820that happened in the 80s and 90s when they were printing books and they didn't have the
00:48:12.860ed which is a d with a line through it in icelandic they oftentimes supplemented that
00:48:19.820with a dh and that was just symbolic of the ed so if you look at some of the older aussitrew books
00:48:25.580written by um people that were writing about uh as a budding faith um sometimes they even spell
00:48:32.700uh lord olvin's name o-d-h-i-n-n and so there's a little bit of um linguistic kind of back and
00:48:42.060forth and it's also true with the pronunciation of the r itself the r and the sound are in the
00:48:49.980germanic languages is all over the place if you look at this the scots the scots trill their r's
00:48:58.620but the irish do not the german do not the english do not but the the north the uh the danes
00:49:09.260the icelanders you know there's a trill in the r sound um and that's because linguistically
00:49:17.980especially during the time the printing press a lot of things were changing the the the th sound
00:49:24.220stopped being a thorn and it got changed to a d like in german so you know deutschland became
00:49:30.860deutschland um thunor became donner and so there's a lot of other things to to consider when we talk
00:49:40.700about this rune is uh for instance when doing galder or just uh you know the proto sounds do
00:49:47.100we say the r sound or do we say that the the trilled um i've had people ask me that and
00:49:53.500And I really think it's at the root of every sound, whether it's trilled or soft, is the construction of the arch of that sound.
00:50:06.640So imagining like the difference between a smooth wheel and a sprocketed wheel, the curvature is still the same.
00:50:13.980And that's the key to understanding this kind of vocalization of this.
00:50:17.820but in the folk futhark we use it in in relation to the way english uses the letter r um
00:50:25.260this rune is about movement but movement in a very particular way this rune is called
00:50:33.700the the riding rune and a lot of people associate it to uh the symbology of it being almost like if
00:50:40.740you turned it at 180 and you could see the, or excuse me, 90 degrees and see a wagon without a
00:50:49.580wheel almost. A lot of people kind of, I think, correlate the pictures as more of a visual
00:50:56.660alliteration to the meanings. But the meaning is the riding rune. It's the rune of riding or the
00:51:03.920rune of movement. And that is very important, especially when we do talk about the movement
00:51:09.120of the runes the circular aspect of this is that now we're talking about the the the holy gods have
00:51:18.080risen up begin to attain and disseminate knowledge even incorporating the breath but also to aligning
00:51:27.920the movements of things so that the polaric forces are set and then everything begins to revolve
00:51:35.520the sun knew not her place the moon knew not his place and they were then set in their courses and
00:51:42.480what this is really talking about is the alignment of all movement going on in the in the world and
00:51:49.200in the in the universe um it speaks a lot about movement indeed um and it talks about more or
00:51:57.520less the idea of gaining the ability to flow with the correct course of time sometimes we call that
00:52:07.760alignment of weird or the alignment of oral and the idea that our deeds and our actions and our
00:52:15.200words and our overall uh whether it's the the the culture of our of our folk everything kind of
00:52:23.360coming into a natural alignment and following the path that is really where raido is about
00:52:30.320um the reason why we celebrate our bloats at certain times of the year is because it's about
00:52:37.760realigning ourselves and keeping ourselves on track and this rune is it that's what it's about
00:52:45.680but when you see it like say in divination this rune coming up has a tendency to be immediately
00:52:52.000correlated with physical travel and that is pertinent but there's also the spiritual travel
00:52:57.840or the traveling through hierarchy the traveling through um you know in relation to perhaps uh
00:53:06.880unseen distances and so it could also be associated with traveling you know uh outside of oneself
00:53:15.840there is an esoteric kind of usage of this rune as well as also the idea of it being
00:53:23.200um exoteric in the idea that uh you know duke can the obligation of of honoring your ancestors of
00:53:30.560honoring the gods going through the orthopraxy that is set by your culture then ends up
00:53:38.080replenishing yourself so this cycle of giving out and receiving in foundationally builds itself so
00:53:45.360it could have a lot of meanings in that outside of just physical travel
00:53:52.640so i'll get to the rune pones here in a second but i wanted to talk about this one of my favorite
00:53:58.160runes would certainly come to be one of my favorite rooms um certainly all the things
00:54:06.320that swan said but but more it's the rune of
00:54:14.240equitas it's the rune of man and horse united it's the rune of the night
00:54:19.440um it's the rune that in the arminen system is uh writ which is the shortened of ritter
00:54:28.400which is a knight in germanic um it's the idea of nobility and right action at the right time
00:54:36.320It's not just movement, but it's capturing synchronicity through the right movements at the right time.
00:54:44.100And that's one of the big keys to esoteric efficacy, I think, and to magic generally, is to be able to draw things to you, draw synchronicities to you, to recognize those synchronicities and then to act on them appropriately.
00:55:05.200And if you can't do all of those steps, then you miss that perfect moment.
00:55:13.540But being able to recognize and execute right action at the right time is essential to what
01:02:58.700and uh writing is blessed sitting and a swift journey and the toil of the horse i think that's
01:03:10.840the icelandic yes and one of the ways uh for the folks listening is that these rune poems
01:03:17.640you could tell the Anglo-Saxon is longer, and again, connections to nobility and piety,
01:03:24.200whereas the Icelandic is more alliterative and has kind of a poetic flair to it. The Norwegian
01:03:31.040is oftentimes just two sentences, and they're actually kind of in juxtaposition to each other
01:03:36.260just by the way, at first, you know, the way they sound. All right, and now if we can see the
01:03:42.620norwegian uh riding is said for horses worst uh reagan forged the swords of swords the best
01:03:55.740ray and the smith of sigmund that i mean sig uh sigurd sigurd
01:04:02.300so they make connection right there and an interesting uh concept of like riding and
01:04:09.920movement and then formulation in relation to that sword was reforged from sigmunders sword correct
01:04:20.320yes so the alignment of a broken blade to its true purpose yeah and for those of you who are
01:04:26.080not familiar that comes from the the story of of uh sigurd or siegfried uh battling fafner
01:04:32.400um and then in the arminen uh writ rune the uh stanza from the rune at all that that it uh
01:04:46.880connects to a fifth i know when i see by foes shot speeding a shaft through the host
01:04:54.400flies it never so strongly i still can stay it if i get but a glimpse of its flight
01:04:59.920so go ahead i wanted to bring that up because we didn't i didn't um what about the fetters
01:05:07.120and the loosing of fetters in the room at all in relation to the arman and the way that maestro
01:05:12.800grito van list was looking at the runes in their uh in their placement especially amongst the old
01:05:19.600norse is that the the olden releasing the fetters through speech this happens in numerous occasions
01:05:27.200in which the fetters are spoken or or spelled loose if you will uh like loose loosening the
01:05:34.320evil eye or loosening a curse or loosening quite physically fetters or um you know bondages that
01:05:42.320of imprisonment um which has a lot to say about consciousness and and attainment
01:05:48.480with an ability to speak your way out of a jam or out of trouble is
01:05:53.920no less magical than anything else i think that um we do ourselves a disservice linguistically
01:06:02.880when we've come to something ceases being magic when you can explain it scientifically and
01:06:11.840i don't think that's the case you set up a paradigm that's impossible to to meet there
01:06:16.560magic is ridiculous by virtue of as soon as it becomes not ridiculous then it stops being magic
01:06:23.120according to the way we linguistically understand it now and i think that's absurd
01:06:29.760medicine and magic potions are the same thing medicine we just have a fancy latin words to
01:06:36.640describe why it does what it does herbal remedies and magic potions assuming that they're efficacious
01:06:45.760are absolutely that and there is a magic to your ability to enchant people with your words
01:06:55.760and to speak your way out of out of trouble and out of hardship that way
01:07:01.120and it's also liberating to the soul for you to be able to speak things that are on your mind
01:07:06.560freely so much of our higher self is imprisoned within us and fettered within us in a way
01:07:15.520if we don't have the courage and the eloquence to properly speak that um
01:07:23.600this is a super nerd reference but i'm put it out there anyway
01:07:27.200oh boy what really sucked watching um old school star trek back in the day was christopher pike
01:07:34.480in this wheelchair thing with these three little lights that would light up and that's his way of
01:07:38.480communicating if you have things and and you can think of it that way as somebody who's catatonic
01:07:45.360or somebody who is disabled in that way that they can't speak they have all this in their soul and
01:07:51.120in their mind that they can't express they can't articulate to someone they care about that they
01:07:57.600love them they can't speak an eloquent prayer to our gods they can't
01:08:04.480speak the most brilliant idea that they have and knowing but not being able to speak is such a
01:08:12.100I mean we could all feel viscerally how imprisoning that is you being able to speak
01:08:20.460and is letting that out it literally sets you free in a lot of ways yeah the the reason why we use
01:08:27.320the word harrow for the table is the harrowing call to call out I know now in modern English it
01:08:33.740means kind of like a cry, very similar to like Old Norse gyalper, like to cry out. But, you know,
01:08:41.240it means the place to call from. But I was going to say also about raido. And when you talked about
01:08:47.400the aero flight and the arcing of it, to be able to grasp it as long as I can see it. This, I think,
01:08:55.860really does talk about the understanding of being in complete motion and alignment with things
01:09:04.660even to the point in this case they're talking about the prowess of
01:09:08.660snatching an arrow out of the air because all i have to do is be able to see it is is this is
01:09:14.580like the true point of necessity and alignment and correct timing all coalescing in quite a well and
01:09:22.820so again i want to extend a metaphor on this and
01:09:33.780i think ecstatic is the closest word in our lexicon to capture it but in a concept that
01:09:42.980more of you listening and and reading on the side will be familiar with is the idea of zen
01:09:48.180of warrior zen and just as a side note zen buddhism was taught by a bearded blue-eyed barbarian from
01:09:56.820the mountains of the steppes just saying the guy who taught it didn't have you know the the eyes
01:10:04.900going on it was a round eye so that being said that moment of warrior zen that you're familiar
01:10:11.780with in that concept that's absolutely an area in concept as well that moment where everything works
01:10:18.180perfectly with the right timing in the right place and you are in the zone people in sports may know
01:10:23.940that idea of being in the zone when everything works perfectly because everything is aligned
01:10:29.780and your timing hit just right that you can do things beyond what normally should happen in our
01:10:37.140common understanding i mean some of us are are very fortunate if that happened once or twice in
01:10:42.500our life but the idea of that being perfectly you can just imagine this person being able to catch
01:10:48.260a spear that flows through the host or knock an arrow out of the sky that's coming towards them
01:10:54.500that level of timing is the mastery of rhido
01:10:58.020um we've got a few more questions that have come to us since our last question period here
01:11:09.580um but before i get to those please like share subscribe send this out help me spread the word
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01:11:38.280We want those folks to be able to come home.
01:11:40.160And so many people just don't know about us and don't know what we're doing.
01:19:20.540how important not that other questions aren't but i think this one's a lot of people wonder this
01:19:25.740how important is pronunciation when chanting the runes what are your thoughts fun uh i kind of hit
01:19:32.540on it with with uh raii though the idea is like some people can roll their r some people cannot
01:19:37.580but the understanding of arching the sound with you know the the uh if you were thinking of it
01:19:43.420is like again the the base of the sound is is the er the er sound and then
01:19:51.900is kind of like the same arching but with sprockets um pronunciation again we've been very
01:19:58.620open and honest about this from the beginning and i think it's i think it is kind of when people
01:20:05.260don't say about for instance the uh raido is a reconstruction of the other futharks that have
01:20:16.060tangible titlings uh you know the elder futhark was was very minimally uh there's there hasn't
01:20:22.780been a lot of um archaeological finds of the elder futhark we have far more in the anglo-phrygian
01:20:29.260which expanded to 32. And then the Old Norse, that one was condensed down to 16. So we have a lot more
01:20:37.580inscriptions in those two, but we have the rune poems themselves, and they are titled, luckily.
01:20:43.760And then when we look at Gothic, or Guttanish, I should probably say Guttans, when we look at
01:20:51.200their language, we look at the, that was in the third century. So you have the, it's based off
01:20:58.920the greek alphabet but they use the runic names for the alphabet of the of the gutins and that's
01:21:05.720in the third century by the 10th century it's written down in anglo-saxon and by the 12th
01:21:13.400century the icelandic ones are written down or the icelandic and and the norse and i'm using
01:21:18.200very very broad windows here so not specific dates but that's because they're not able to
01:21:24.360too. Um, and then of course, I mean, we even have the, um, this one is always the one that
01:21:29.960kind of interests me because of its obscurity is, um, the, uh, I'm going to say it wrong.
01:21:36.940So that's why I'm looking for it. The, um, uh, the Swiss rune poem that was also found
01:21:45.560The Abbeccadarium Nordamonicum, which is a very, a truly interesting poem that was found in Central Europe, and it is based off of the 16 rune Futhark of the Old Norse, so most likely it had actually cycled back down into the Central Europe.
01:22:12.400um so you you have pronunciation and i think when we talk about the symbols and we talk about
01:22:20.240pronunciation that they're both very fluid they were not per se to our ancestors because we didn't
01:22:27.900or they didn't have the entirety of knowledge placed before them um like with the internet
01:22:34.540and things like that so i think they they taught very strictly but we have this um huge amount of
01:22:42.080knowledge so the emphasis of understanding is more i think about the frequency of sound
01:22:46.800which is an interesting thing that would take a long time to go into about utilizing the idea of
01:22:52.600what exactly the the the pitch of the sound is to the rune and it opens up to a lot of debate
01:22:59.680but um the ultimate idea is that sound and the the overall meaning of the rune is far more
01:23:10.720important than say the specifics of the symbol and the specific of the of the titled name you
01:23:17.540know reconstructed names are our names of our generation just like the anglo-saxons had their
01:23:23.720own and the norse had their own um and i think they have just as much validity but that it's not
01:23:29.900i gotta say it in old norse or i have to say it in in anglo-saxon because those are reconstructed
01:23:35.300that means that they're not good because people have a tendency to kind of go back to the older
01:23:42.420just for the sake of it being the oldest without considering that there are you know validities in
01:23:48.820the transformations or the knowledge of the rings themselves um and hence why all the
01:23:53.860futharks do have importance and why the the folk futhark that is that we have uh constructed for
01:24:01.780um and i say constructed in the sense of like bringing together we only use the runes from
01:24:07.380all the other futharks and use them to write or to transfer spiritual idioms on on the uh
01:24:15.060on the murals with the intention of of inspiring people to learn all the futharks um
01:24:21.700but people get caught up on that oh how dare you guys create your own runic futhark and it's like
01:24:27.460no they're all the they're all from the other futharks we just have a purpose with them
01:24:32.340much like why people speculate that the younger futhark was boiled down to 16 and there's other
01:24:38.900theories especially when we start talking about arthurian legend and perennial mysteries in
01:24:44.180relation to the grail in relation to the angle of phrygian and their extension into 32 it's a
01:24:51.220wonderful stuff to speculate about and to really open your mind to and and discuss um but to think
01:24:58.820that you know the it has to be pronounced only one particular way is certainly i think a path
01:25:05.060of folly when it should be considered more about the movement more about the the the mouth uh
01:25:13.380placement and frequency when we're talking about fehu and expansion and it's the pressurized
01:25:18.900whereas the condensing is opened it's volcular or the vol the vocularity of that sound is very broad
01:25:28.260and opening and then we start talking about raido and we talk about the trill uh kind of being the
01:25:36.100the wheel moving or the sprocket moving or perhaps just the the bending arc of the wheel itself
01:25:43.140um i don't think it's don't get too hard up in the idea that it has to be pronounced
01:25:51.060specifically i think focus on the sound focus on the mouth uh movement and um and focus on the
01:26:00.180meanings the overall meanings too not just i'm only going to look at you know especially for
01:26:06.340the next room because i'm kind of i'm placing you guys here on this one when you look at the
01:26:11.060meanings of the runes too at first if you just follow one pathway i think you lose the entirety
01:26:18.180of the knowledge of the rooms and i think that the gods understood that we would reach a point
01:26:23.140in which we would have a multiplicity because nature works that way and the gods work that way
01:26:28.340divinity is not singularly boiled down into one thing it's we feel it's necessity to have
01:26:33.540the one thing and and i think that's uh quite a different a deviation from the way our ancestors
01:26:40.820all all the gods work in multiplicity and so do the runes so
01:26:53.060so in in svan has mentioned this typically when we start out with any of these runes but
01:27:01.460they're reconstructions of what we think they sounded like um as you get further into the you
01:27:09.700know the anglo-saxon futhark or uh the younger futhark you start getting more uh definitive
01:27:19.940on what the runes sounded like but as far as esoterics magical work the armin and rune its
01:27:27.220runes the elder futhark really is the bread and butter of that
01:27:31.940and we're working from what we think it probably sounded like
01:27:36.820um i've i've said this a lot and i think to a lot of people whose minds are very
01:27:51.380black and white on everything it's it's unsettling
01:27:54.900but so much of the efficacy of what we do or what we don't do is the focusing of our will and of
01:28:02.100intent. If your runic knowledge is good and you have a very clear idea of what you are trying to
01:28:12.580do, then I think your pronunciation is secondary to that. I think if you're doing solitary work
01:28:19.700by yourself, it's fairly irrelevant as long as the sound you are making connects you to the concept
01:28:28.100you are projecting again the rune is the mystery behind the noise it's not the noise and it's not
01:28:33.940the sticks um it's the mystery they embody if your noise connects your brain and your heart
01:28:44.740to that mystery then it probably works pretty good maybe it works even better if you are a
01:28:51.140perfect linguist and you're doing it absolutely perfectly but i don't think any of us have that
01:28:56.180assurity that we are um i would say it becomes much more important when you're in a group
01:29:03.700and i want to speak on group galder there's some people that have free form like everybody's
01:29:09.380saying a different thing at a different pace and some people are just making the vowel sounds and
01:29:14.820some people are making the consonant sounds and there's different things depending on what you're
01:29:18.900trying to achieve that you can do with that. When I do it, the intent is harmony. So I want
01:29:26.100people to harmonize. And if we've got one person that pronounces it one way, but everybody else
01:29:31.080pronouncing it a different way, all we hear is that one person messing up the harmony. Don't be
01:29:36.220that guy. If the idea is to harmonize, then it becomes very important that you harmonize not
01:29:43.480just the pronunciation, but the pitch and the tonality, the wave that is created, because
01:29:48.280that's powerful. I think that if you had to prioritize a lot of
01:29:59.980it is about the vowel noise more than it's about the consonant
01:30:06.460noise. So if there, you know, when in doubt, or if you know, if
01:30:11.980you're picking and choosing which to do wrong and which to do
01:30:14.580right which i know is silly in and of itself focusing on getting the right vowel noise
01:30:22.420so the r and the th aren't the important part the i sound right
01:30:36.340the i and the o are really important the others are kind of transitional so
01:30:42.900really focus on getting that very strong and consistent vowel noise and the rest is a little
01:30:51.540bit more flexible in my opinion uh uh you just brought it up and it made i wanted to make sure
01:30:59.060that because we talked about urus as the first vowel of the first actor the second vowel is
01:31:07.060ansus sorry i as soon as you said it i was like ah there are two vowels per ev every actor and
01:31:16.020that's why i think what alisari is saying about the emphasis of those runic
01:31:23.060vowel sounds is because they're there's two in every effort that shows the emphasis of how they
01:31:28.820carry so when you speak that galder and you are saying uh ra e and then oh at the end
01:31:36.900those emphasis are carrying in essence the the consonant powers
01:31:43.700and it's tricky if you're just getting involved in this if you're doing it over time you'll figure
01:31:48.100out the pronunciation most people want to use there are different variants of a number of these names
01:31:54.900that have completely different vowel structures and are tricky for you. Don't be dismayed by
01:32:03.160that. The more you expose yourself to this, the more you will pick up what is more commonly used.
01:32:10.440And, you know, even if people mix and match what they use it for, typically when there's multiple
01:32:16.740names, the one name evokes different imagery than the other name does. And that will come into play
01:32:25.840a little bit more on our next rune. Oh, yes. Our next one, which is a good reminder from
01:32:35.480our folk builder, Sarah Ault, please let parents know that if they're considering homeschooling
01:32:41.520and their children are in the age range of K through third, there is still time to enroll
01:32:46.500in the Astro Academy. That is something we are proud beyond words of. We talked about it last
01:32:57.360week when we had Gauthier Dean Stam on, who is the Dean of the Astro Academy. He, along with his
01:33:05.900amazing, amazing volunteers, Sarah's one of them. Rachel Johnson in Washington is another one
01:33:12.320putting in a huge amount of work and several others it's amazing in our first year we just
01:33:19.360did kindergarten it was fantastic it helped so many families and so many kids and our team has
01:33:27.280been so diligent we've made a promise that we're going to stick with those kindergartners and
01:33:31.480provide them with you know their next grade level all the way through to i think class of 36
01:33:39.060um which makes me feel very old saying out loud
01:33:44.340that said that was that was the minimum that we're committed to but in that first year's time
01:33:50.900we've expanded the curriculum to where this year our second year in we have k through third
01:33:56.180so four four grade levels of uh of of course material for the students and for parents
01:34:03.860um please please please if you are able to if that is a reality for your family and you are
01:34:11.060able to homeschool please homeschool if you want to homeschool and you would like to we invite you
01:34:18.420to homeschool with us we would love to help you and your family to succeed at that one of the big
01:34:25.140things that i am very thankful for as a father who's going to homeschool his daughter is that
01:34:32.020the austral academy we hold your hand and i say we collectively our very our amazing volunteers
01:34:38.180in the austral academy hold your hand through every step of the way to make sure it's compliant
01:34:45.700in your state or your province or wherever you're at to where it's legally it meets all the checks
01:34:50.740all the boxes completely legit and good by your state to where if it's something that you don't
01:34:55.780know how to teach or you have a question or or whatever we have support there we have other
01:35:02.020parents doing it together that can support you we're truly doing this as a community and as an
01:35:06.660afa family and uh i can't say enough good about it we are so very proud and if you're interested
01:35:14.500go tell your friends if they're interested yes you have to be a member in the afa to use the
01:35:18.740austro academy but please do it and like i said you know that's awesome we would love to have you
01:35:25.220do the astro academy would love to have you do it with us but even if you don't if you're not
01:35:30.420a fan you're doing your own thing you're not for whatever reason if you can homeschool it's a
01:35:37.220really amazing thing to do i'd love to see you guys do it i hope that you can if you're not able
01:35:43.140you're you're doing the best you can there's no no no judgment here from it it's just really cool
01:35:48.420if you are able to and i can't i can't urge that strongly enough for the children i really
01:35:54.260care about our children's future and i think that's a that's a key to giving them a good head
01:35:58.020start on it um go ahead i wanted to say one thing not about the um to answer a question that was
01:36:07.380kind of snuck in but isn't really highlighted is ryan orion was asking about the wheel of thor
01:36:13.060yes you are correct remember if there is the stasis of the tripartite which is the north star
01:36:19.940then you the striker is the the revolution of or the rotation of and so those two the
01:36:26.580catalystic and stasis thrones of stability and rotation are very important and of course then
01:36:33.060there's the last one the big one is dynamicism the movement between up and down and uh under and
01:36:40.260everywhere anywhere is dynamicism but in relation to i think a lot of people don't correlate an
01:36:46.260understanding of the catalystic throne of the striker as his ability of edges rotation and
01:36:53.140ultimately stability so yes all right so next question from jared williams and
01:37:05.700i tried to do a quick database search so i could help you a little bit more
01:37:09.140and i could not find your name in our database so i'm assuming that is a
01:37:13.380i don't think nom de plume is not the right nom de gear perhaps um either way assume that's not
01:37:23.220your real name that being said what advice would i give to a member like me who wants to be more
01:37:31.060involved with their local kindred but has lived a solitary life for years
01:37:35.300and has been outside of a family-like setting that kindreds have
01:37:38.660do something instead of doing nothing that's the thing is you can sit in a place of indecision
01:37:49.700indefinitely and miss all the opportunities um there's no perfect way to do it but start and try
01:38:00.100and if on the side or whatever you want to send a message
01:38:04.660um we can try to connect you with who's local to you the reason i was looking you up is because i
01:38:10.660wanted to see who to direct you to to help you with that um matt flavel at runestone.org if you
01:38:18.700want to tell me where you're at i can give you some advice on that and send you in the right
01:38:23.560direction but that's exactly what our gothar and folk builders are here to do is to help you
01:38:28.380experience the fullness of our faith and that's done in a community
01:38:33.280um i don't know what specific parameters come with your living your solitary life because it
01:38:47.160means different things to different people you have some people that are agoraphobic that
01:38:50.620you know live in an apartment and don't leave you have people that are that socially isolated
01:38:56.920i have no i that could be you for all i know maybe it's not maybe you're just a guy that
01:39:01.360lives out in the country and doesn't have a lot of friends you know it's it's a big spectrum but
01:39:06.240the baby steps of what that looks like are really different depending on the details of that but
01:39:13.280one way to do stuff that's really easy is to get on me we me we's where all our afa social media
01:39:22.000goes on and you can make people's acquaintance there before you get to know them in real life
01:39:27.040if it makes you more comfortable or if that's an easier you know um step towards more interaction
01:39:34.000with people and i'm really encouraged to do if you do that by all means please friend me i would
01:39:38.640love to accept your friend request and talk to you um we have a lot of different groups like i
01:39:45.040mentioned earlier talking about the fasting we have a specific men's group that does that does
01:39:49.280that we have regional groups we have more topic specific groups so yeah that's a really good way
01:39:55.920to start if you're willing to do a little bit more than that um depending on where you're at
01:40:03.040we have hey you know what this is a good time to plug that nick can you throw up the different
01:40:07.920addresses to our different hoff districts so we've divided midgard into into four chunks that uh
01:40:17.680roughly um conform to our hoffs now if you live in brazil these chunks are a little bit absurd
01:40:28.960you're not particularly close to any of these things you are i believe if you're in brazil
01:40:33.760you're arbitrarily in the njordshoff district but you're nowhere close to florida we get that
01:40:38.720but as we get more and more hoffs it will be more and more relevant to people that are further
01:40:43.280spread apart these districts are fairly relevant if you're in the united states
01:40:49.120um or depending on where you are in canada on where we would direct you but um either of these
01:40:57.920these four hoff districts has a website and on the website it's got a calendar of events and
01:41:03.040it shows where all these different events are you can drive and attend these events if you want to
01:41:09.680there may be one really really close to you it may be a little bit more of a distance it's hard
01:41:14.000to tell without knowing the specifics but going out to one of them a lot of them are
01:41:19.760there's some that are in people's homes and that can be really nice and a really intimate setting
01:41:24.560where you can get to know people very well but it also may be intimidating if you're not
01:41:30.320ready for that socially but a lot of them are at public places at a bar at a restaurant you
01:41:35.680can go and have a drink and then leave if you need to you can go say hi uh hey i've got other errands
01:41:42.720i just wanted to say hi cool that's something that counts puts you closer than you are today
01:41:47.200and again jared this isn't just aimed at you it's anybody in our audience that might have
01:41:51.440this question you may or may not have that difficult for time socially but some people do
01:41:57.120especially with all of the people that
01:41:59.040that we're very, very isolated due to the COVID lockdowns, due to whatever in the world that we
01:42:08.320live in. A lot of people have problems socially that way. But no, there's, we've got hundreds
01:42:16.840and hundreds of members that would love to be your friend and meet you, and you can be exactly
01:42:22.680as involved as you would like to be. If you want to become a folk builder, if you want to become
01:42:27.660a go-fi if you want to eventually make it on the wit and these are all open to you if you want to
01:42:32.060be the all's harrier go-fi then maybe we got a fight i don't know but you we want you to be as
01:42:37.580involved or as not involved and if you just want to sit back at your house that's okay too but if
01:42:43.260you want to get involved we have people that literally that's what makes them happy is helping
01:42:50.060you be more involved so we would love to connect you that way please do reach out to me or any of
01:42:55.260our folk builders in gothar you can find the contact information at runestone.org
01:43:00.860but yeah i hope that was helpful and i hope we see you being exactly as involved as you would
01:43:06.620like to be one other thing too i would like to point out is if you can't find a folk builder or
01:43:13.020gothar to come to you or a temple that you can go to or a kindred that you can go to
01:43:18.860if you're that far into the isolation perhaps maybe like my homesteading or something like that
01:43:24.860reach out to your gothar ask about personal devotions at home and then get your family
01:43:30.700involved get your children involved uh get your neighbor involved if you know they're folk and
01:43:35.340they're they want to reconnect you can start by also building for yourself around you and and and
01:43:43.340then you know perhaps something from that grows plant the flag if you will a lot of a lot of times
01:43:50.060kindred start that way so again this this is not specifically to the guy asking the question this
01:43:55.500is everybody out there who might have similar questions every single area that there are
01:44:00.780groups of afa members started with one guy that was by himself that got together with another guy
01:44:08.300or gal and made something happen that is the root of every one of these things
01:44:15.100I wish we were at a level to where we could pay missionaries to go out and develop these
01:44:20.060different areas, but that's not our reality right now. I wish I was magically potent enough that I
01:44:27.080could cast a spell from Reno, Nevada and make stuff happen certain places. As of yet, I lack
01:44:33.760that ability, but what each of these places is built on is individuals that started out as just
01:44:40.540somebody who put in a member application that stepped up and said hey i want a folk build
01:44:47.500and that through doing that built a community around themselves and in their area and a lot
01:44:52.380of those communities live on long after that person may have moved and gone and done something
01:44:56.460different um so each of you you know you guys are empowered to go out and
01:45:03.500start building and you've got a whole team of people here who want to help you do that
01:45:07.420um our next question i wanted to ask about the no race mixing rule would people who used to
01:45:17.020be in an interracial relationship but are not anymore and would not again if they had no
01:45:22.860children from it be allowed to join absolutely people make mistakes people you know there's
01:45:31.020i have not always been also true but i've been
01:45:36.540squared away on that particular issue for you know most of my most of my life a lot of people
01:45:44.340haven't um a lot of people have walked a lot of different roads to get where where they are
01:45:49.540you can't change your past you can just change your future um
01:45:54.100um the issue with the offspring isn't that it's the unforgivable sin it's that
01:46:01.000that's libel's to spill over into our group by those people being around and to confuse and
01:46:10.840stymie the group dynamic of things that we're doing and that's why that's the way it is
01:46:18.700If you don't have a non-white significant other or non-white children to bring around, then, of course, we'd love to have you in the Ask True Folk Assembly.
01:46:29.600We all we all hopefully learn and grow as as we develop as people.
01:46:38.320And a lot of us come from a lot of different places. So I'm really glad you asked the question.
01:46:42.880It's a good question. But, yeah, if that's your situation, of course, you'd be welcome to join.
01:46:48.700and our next one and her next one gets me geeking out on the stuff that i like to spend
01:46:55.500probably more time than i should on uh no how small will thorshoff district be
01:47:02.600once tiershoff and phrasehoff are built it's a fine question let me pull up a member map here
01:47:08.800that i harass all of our folk builders on using we've got this uh google map behind the scenes
01:47:14.620we use to plot where our members are and it's coolest thing and i spend all this time on it
01:47:19.420every month and it's color coded and i nerd out about it and so i try to force all of our folk
01:47:26.620builders to look at it all the time in the hopes that they will be as excited about it as i am
01:47:32.460um when i became the folk builder coordinator many many years ago that was the first thing i did as
01:47:38.860i ran out and i i got this huge map of the united states and i got all these little push pins and
01:47:44.140And I started pushing pins in for each of our, you know, hundreds of members.
01:47:48.360I think at that time we were about like 450 members then.
01:47:58.660A lot more than that now, but it's still a lot of push pins put in.
01:48:03.780This is a little bit cooler and I'm happy that the fine people or not so fine people at Google have created this map for me to use.
01:48:12.160so that said it's that's really interesting question so this is not gospel this is just what
01:48:20.340we're thinking about so far phrase hoff will likely cut off everything in the current force
01:48:33.040hoff district these states i'm about to mention and north so phrase hoff will take likely
01:48:55.280new york new jersey and everything north of it as well as
01:49:03.920hmm so here's the question is what we do in yeah so this will take that and potato europe um
01:49:18.480that would leave tomato europe and it was coming delaware will uh maryland
01:49:27.440dc virginia north carolina south carolina tennessee and kentucky in thorshoff but then
01:49:39.360when we throw tiershoff in the mix tiershoff's probably only going to take tennessee and
01:49:47.440kentucky from what is now thorshoff but it will also steal a few states from baldershoff
01:49:57.440and from yords off i think it will probably take missouri arkansas and oklahoma as well
01:50:07.200but we'll see as we get closer um a lot of them have to do with flat geography
01:50:13.440but then also they have to do with drive times and mountain ranges and stuff on who can get to
01:50:18.880what that's one of the reasons that maryland and delaware have proven to be more likely to attend
01:50:25.280thorshoff than to a future phrasehoff but those are that's just what we're thinking right now
01:50:32.880that's not uh it's not a hard and fast rule but that's what we're currently thinking
01:50:41.200and that is our last question on that one it's time to go to room number three uh swan can you
01:50:48.320tell the folks about kenaz yes kenaz kenaz however again pronunciation um this this rune
01:50:59.680is probably the first rune that really throws people for a loop um so the the most common used
01:51:09.760name is kenaz kenaz is an interesting rune because there's a such a an instant divide
01:51:17.760when we talk about the rune poems but let's just step away from that stay in the middle
01:51:22.720and understand that this rune is about formulation and dissipation so when we were talking about
01:51:29.680movement we were talking about expansion condensement we were talking about piercing
01:51:37.440or penetration or the the destruction of the lifting up with ansus and then you know the
01:51:45.600circular movement and rotation and alignment of all things this rune becomes an encapsulation rune
01:51:52.880of dissipation and formulation it is a condensed rune a tight rune and so this rune has
01:52:02.400lots of connotations to the idea of heat in relation to bringing material together
01:52:08.480or breaking material apart and that i think is the most important thing for you to
01:52:15.120understand before you start looking into the meanings in the rune poems because it will
01:52:19.600greatly help you understand um why there there is a confusion is because again formulation and
01:52:28.480dissipation illumination versus i i would say relief from darkness is is a is a great way to
01:52:39.200to look at this rune um generally when you look at a book any book uh the first thing that's going
01:52:45.440to come up is about illumination and light as a lot of times this rune is associated with the
01:52:51.920torch this comes from the anglo-saxon footwork in which it's called ken or kin and it is it
01:53:00.160It is referenced to a torchlight that hangs in the halls or a lamplight.
01:53:09.040However, one of the interesting things is when you look at the Nordic rune poems and the Gothic alphabet, those two correlate to each other.
01:53:20.000And the Anglo-Frygian meaning is kind of the odd one out.
01:53:26.260So in the Gothic alphabet, this is called Kusma.
01:53:30.160Kusma means a boil or a mound of, like, infection.
01:53:36.800And so the reference to the word of boil is oftentimes used.
01:53:42.260What I think is really important to understand is it is a rune of health in the sense that we're talking about temperature and the heat of things.
01:53:53.600And I think it's really also important that people realize when we talk about the light, there is the light, the forge or the heat of the forge and of the the the sickness of the skin or the flesh as being the forge of the body is the way that our our ancestors understood illness in relation to like infections and bites and wounds.
01:54:23.600of that nature is that infection was part of a purging uh especially in relation to the heat
01:54:29.520and the temperature was a purging of the flesh or a a shunning off of the of the uh infection
01:54:37.520so in a way i have always equated this to the spark within the forge and that the forge is kind
01:54:45.200of the in the uh the mound or the the heated concentric area that boils things down or or
01:54:54.880makes things so hot that they can be melded together when we talk about divination with
01:54:59.760this room this room is often associated with the illumination of creative thought and creation of
01:55:05.680things so again formulation the idea that it's a formulation of thoughts it's a formulation of
01:55:12.240deeds oftentimes this is called the craft the craft room um in the sense that uh when we talk
01:55:19.920about the anglo-saxon word of like craft um people would automatically know if i said which craft but
01:55:26.800craft is is the the the overall knowledge and application of an idea so if we're talking about
01:55:35.600you know brew craft or you know of being able to brew alcohol or um trade craft or uh whatever
01:55:46.080type of craft you're into this that understanding of the word is about the total knowledge and
01:55:53.200application thereof so you know this is oftentimes associated with the trades room
01:55:59.360now in relation to the story arc that we were talking about the mythos arc of the runes
01:56:04.640i think it would be worth noting at this point when we move again i'll re-emphasize going back
01:56:09.840so i'm going to be beating that drum throughout this entire futhark is you have expansive you
01:56:15.920have condensement you have the the penetration or the piercing of then you have the elevation
01:56:23.840and the rise and the descendment down of knowledge you have the rotational um correlation of
01:56:30.640everything coming together and now you have the internalized and this is kind of in relation to
01:56:36.320when the gods ascend into heaven and they they they rise up when the strata of the universe
01:56:45.280is made and the gods take up their upper place um and in that upper place they
01:56:52.800They create Ausgarder. They create the area in which they will encapsulate themselves. There is much there, and it has been brought up and bore up and beset down as the place in which the gods are now above and disseminating time from.
01:57:15.820And in that time, when they do this, they go to the field of work or the field of craft, and there is Iðavól. And in Iðavól, they create the encapsulation of Ausgarder in heaven, in Himenia.
01:57:30.860And, of course, our stories talk about the process of building the wall and how the wall is destroyed as the forces of natural law, the Vanir, face off.
01:57:45.880Again, this is another alignment part of Raido, is that cosmic order, the gods of the upper and the above, meet the gods of the cycle, and when they do, there is a great conjoining of those.
01:58:08.160Right before this, though, there's this golden age that is referred to, the age in which the gods take up their spot when they build their forges and create their weapons and tongs to work in Ithaval.
01:58:25.160ethival and it's worth noting that either of all is the plane of work or the valley of work
01:58:31.080and so this rune i've always taken in that mythos arc is that this is the point in which
01:58:38.040the gods have risen up into heaven or hymenia um and all of the the universe is beset upon
01:58:46.120itself an organization but now they begin to internalize the structure that becomes as we
01:58:55.320know them as the the esir so it's referred to you know in in the um in the guild forgetting is the
01:59:03.640the time in which they take up the tongs and they light the forges and they begin to create
01:59:10.520in heaven. And so this rune is about the internalization. And I've always taken it
01:59:19.060in relation to creation and the time to return to the drawing board or the time to kind of
01:59:26.060grind away at what you're trying to do mentally and then bring that about into mastery of the
01:59:33.500way that you are apple applicating your your ideas so this rune is um you know it's it's an
01:59:41.900inward rune and an outward rune so there's it's it's drawing back in and then it's projecting out
01:59:49.420it's about lighting that forge fire about the bellows and pressing those sometimes people um
01:59:56.060take the uh symbology of of the um rune to mean the the mound or the bump of flesh the hot infection
02:00:06.300some people take it as the bellows uh in the anglo-saxon the the symbol is a straight um
02:00:12.620vertical line with either a uh an arm going up into the uh excuse me into like the one
02:00:19.980o'clock position or down into like the four o'clock position uh again both representing
02:00:25.260either a torch coming out of a wall or a torch being held up from the ground because a lot of
02:00:30.780people didn't realize like feasting torches were oftentimes like six feet tall because they needed
02:00:36.180to burn for hours and hours and hours um so the symbology of the rune oftentimes meets certain
02:00:45.160things or again the bellows the idea of the pressing or the edge sometimes i i i believe
02:00:52.080a lot in the there is a theory too that there might be an origin of the word with keen the
02:00:58.760idea of keen sharpening because again that involves heat and and again creating a focused
02:01:05.220edge it is for any knife makers out there know you know when you set that line on that edge
02:01:11.840blade and then you're working to hone and hone and burr and then flip and and hone and hone and
02:01:17.360own and align that into a tight, focused point of purpose. Kenaz is that rune. Kenaz is that rune
02:01:25.800of formulation. It's the rune that starts off small and then becomes extremely focused in its
02:01:33.420movement. And again, that's that relation to the gods when they attain the upper and the place
02:01:42.760away from time that the nether the nether velor and also uh helgard which is you know
02:01:49.180connected to nivelheim and lower the the worlds are organized and the gods take to heaven
02:01:59.200and they apply themselves they see the well they see the tree they find either valor then they
02:02:06.160start to build and that is when the vanir come and the war is there and then they have to rebuild
02:02:13.840the wall and slepner is created from that situation as they run out into the heavenly
02:02:20.300surroundings um so there's a lot of this this kind of time frame in which there is a build up
02:02:27.220and i think a lot of people can recognize the power of this room when they undertake maybe
02:02:32.100perhaps a new career or they undertake an idea of that first step i've been solitary my whole life
02:02:39.460and i want to step out and start applying my knowledge or or intent into manifesting deeds
02:02:48.420and actual weird it is the the the rune of pre-planning weird if you will or pre-planning or law
02:02:57.620so thank you for that it's fun i appreciate it i always knew i can count on spawn something for a
02:03:07.460little bit aubrey came in it was bedtime she she's in this phase now where mandy and i both have to
02:03:14.200put her to bed and she's got this book called counting kisses and the idea is it's 10 little
02:03:24.840kisses on teeny tiny toes and nine kisses on the wiggly something feet and eight kisses on the
02:03:35.420chubby yummy knees and so on and so forth anyways luckily for me got it figured out so i was able
02:03:43.360to do it quick uh i hope she's not resentful i said hey can i do it real quick if i can do it
02:03:48.640quick i can do it so i did it pretty quick the other thing is she needs me to lift her up as
02:03:52.900high as I can in the air between each of these numbers. So it's like a workout too. And she
02:03:57.300doesn't know if I did shoulder day or not. So she's, she's getting big, but no, I appreciate
02:04:05.140that. That's a special time with her for a couple minutes each night. So I don't know all of the
02:04:13.180things Svon said, and I don't want to contradict on it, but if I do, that means he's got to go
02:04:18.720back to go back to training um no in all seriousness though the there's always the
02:04:26.000juxtaposition in a way between the idea of the torch and the festering sore um
02:04:41.680so that i can uh in the spirit of multiculturalism um we had to read a book in school called
02:04:48.720Raisin in the Sun. It talks about what happens to a dream deferred. And there's this whole
02:04:55.040chocolatey poem about it drying up and festering and whatever. One of the things that I like to
02:05:02.500look on this murk and bright side is the idea of inspiration leading you forward. And much like I
02:05:08.680mentioned on the idea of words, when your thoughts are trapped within you and you can't expel them,
02:05:15.780the agony that that is. When you have inspiration in a similar way that you don't
02:05:24.560act upon, when you have a dream that you don't reach for, it has a way of literally burning you
02:05:31.900up inside. The key that binds both of the meanings of this rune are that ignition.
02:05:37.600And if you have, you know, literally what political candidates call the fire in the belly, if you have that and you sit on your couch and you do nothing with it, the pain of regret looking back on it after the moments passed and that you never did anything with it, literally burn you up from the inside out.
02:06:03.940um being inspired and not doing anything with it is absolutely a malignancy a festering a cancer
02:06:14.060they used to call cancer consumption again this idea of burning and eating up through flame
02:06:20.660um but when i see this rune again i've told you this i've never been a big
02:06:29.500i don't really i don't even know what the right word is because i think fan is is a ludicrous
02:06:34.880way to present it mercstav runes have never been a big thing to me the negative of runes has never
02:06:43.520been something that has been particularly meaningful to me personally i've always
02:06:49.900hyper focused on the positive side of them or the liostav liostaver perhaps i don't know
02:06:58.320we're playing with our uh our old norse um but yeah the idea of that torch that lights
02:07:08.160the way going forward somebody in the comments um post uh posted something about how how lucifer
02:07:17.120his name means the the light bringer um i don't think that our our mythos doesn't need to borrow
02:07:26.240from from hebrew mythos but as a cultural touchstone the idea of someone bringing
02:07:32.160bringing forth light um i think this links it to our first room we had today with ansus
02:07:41.760with with you know the gods enlightening us with the runes
02:07:45.840that's what enlightenment of things means lighting the way moving forward um
02:07:51.200one thing that is kind of a concept that they work that we work with in the AFA with our young
02:07:57.820people and as we get better connected socially and more integrated with our children the idea of
02:08:06.480our young ladies being mead bearers and our young men being torch bearers the idea that they hold
02:08:13.700the torch guiding us into the future is a really important symbol to us of that progressing forward
02:08:21.300into what we will do. Each of these runes, and we've been a little bit negligent so far in not
02:08:26.980mentioning this, the first, these first runes are sigils for each of our Hoffs as part of our Hoff
02:08:38.380naming structure. So Fehu is the rune that symbolizes Odin's Hoth. Again, it's not
02:08:45.580particularly more significant to Odin than, you know, other runes, but the idea of that
02:08:53.400in our Hoth structure is. Thor's Hoth has Urus. Baldur's Hoth has Thurisaz. Njord's Hoth has Ansus.
02:09:08.380um phrasehoff will have um rhido and and kenaz will be the rune of tearshoff and it was really
02:09:19.660meaningful when i drew that as the last route i drew when i did the sword naming uh last month
02:09:25.500because that's the symbol or the sigil that will guide us forward through uh you know that torch
02:09:33.100of inspiration for our future kinas has always meant like literally torch but it's always meant
02:09:43.100the idea of that fire of inspiration to me and i think that's really potent in how i use it
02:09:50.860internally and externally for for my practice is the idea of of that fire of inspiration of doing
02:09:58.380of achieving it burns you up it's one of the reasons victory never sleeps because if it does
02:10:02.060it'll burn you up i think it's something that i internalize and i take really personally because
02:10:08.300one of the things personally that i battle with is just i have this burning desire
02:10:17.260inside of me to accomplish these things and to do these things and
02:10:25.900and i think some of us you know i've felt this amongst the folk in a number of ways i felt it
02:10:31.500certainly amongst the folk politically there's a lot of things we see in the world that we
02:10:36.380want to change that we want to fix that we want to do something about and if you don't see a path
02:10:44.300forward to releasing that and and accomplishing that dream it burns you up and so i drive myself
02:10:54.140and those around me crazy with my just fire to get that out and to get that inspiration out and
02:11:02.700accomplished and into the world and doing things so uh victory never sleeps and your all's harry
02:11:08.620dothi sleeps less than he would like to because he's up stewing on things like that and uh plotting
02:11:16.460and scheming and planning and trying to find ways to make some of these things happen but it's been
02:11:21.340really inspirational room to me personally um nick can you throw up the uh old english room for this
02:11:31.180um torch is known to every living man by its pale bright flame it always burns where princes sit
02:11:41.740within so my advice is read this one and disregard the other room poems because they're nonsense
02:11:51.340um no but this one speaks to me a lot this one again with the idea of knights sitting
02:12:03.120in the halls and feasting and being inspired with all the great things that they're going to go do
02:12:10.980um and its warmth and its benefit to mankind the other the other two speak less favorably of this
02:12:17.960room so let's let's go ahead with our next one if you would sore is the bale of children
02:12:26.920and a scourge and the house of rotten flesh
02:12:33.240and i kind of i kind of leaned in on this while you were um about the idea of formulation uh
02:12:40.840the condensed or not condensement because i've used that word but more like formulation versus
02:12:45.240uh pos like the dissemination or the the fragmentation of things components being
02:12:52.680broken apart by heat and by uh by toil or test in order for them to heal in in a sense like
02:13:01.480the temperature of the body creates the furnace that burns off the infection if you will
02:13:08.680and it's it's worth noting that when they're referring to sore as the bale of children
02:13:12.840they're talking about most likely the uh you know of of plague really the idea or or the illness
02:13:21.960of uh towards children in the sense that they um they suffer often they can't fight through
02:51:10.780ah witness fine can you also use kina's for illumination of a situation against you
02:51:22.320uh you know what i'm going to go out and say i wouldn't there's another rune that i know of that
02:51:32.480i would say is better for illumination curious what you're going to say i was going to say
02:51:37.520Deir or Dagos. Dagos is an interesting rune, one of the big tenets of Dagos that I've often, well, and Soilo. Soilo and Dagos.
02:51:51.120But Daga's is an interesting one, and we'll go into that more, but the idea of that which is in darkness comes to light, or perhaps that which is in light must go into darkness in order to retrieve or to move the transitional spot between illumination and darkness.
02:52:07.540I don't want to go into too much, but from my experience, especially in runic work, that rune and Sowilo, both in conjunction with each other, I feel, again, are better in the idea of illumination, especially deception or vitriol or something of ill against you.
02:52:32.740I think Kenaz in illumination is more internal. So perhaps I should renegotiate and say, perhaps if you are your own folly, then Kenaz is about revealing that which is kind of you working against you, whatever that might manifest as.
02:52:53.360And that those things, those blockages that keep you from proceeding forward with mastery over your craft or over your initiation of duty or the pathways of actions you're going to take.
02:53:07.720Sometimes Kenos is more about finding the folly at your feet, finding the folly at your table, as opposed to, say, the folly or the treachery of someone else's.
02:53:17.960So this is, and this comes from Cody. This is kind of what I was saying earlier in the broadcast.
02:53:31.460Sure, you can absolutely use it that way.
02:53:41.940Svahn wouldn't, and he has very good reasons that he would use different rooms.
02:53:48.020I would use still different rooms, but if you would use Kenaz, and if looking at
02:53:58.380situations in your life that you're suspicious of through that lens
02:54:04.900is meaningful to bringing light to those i don't think that's illegitimate and again i know this
02:54:12.480sounds wishy-washy and i i understand that but
02:54:18.900it's not an exact science so much is with intent and so much is the lens in which you see things
02:54:27.640there is a very significant gray area in the use of runes now there is black and white there's
02:54:36.760runes that would be stupid to use for this this is not one of them there are runes that are perfect
02:54:42.940for certain situations this is not one of them but it's not wrong if that is the way that your
02:54:52.500mind best reformulating the way you think in terms of our runes is in and of itself beneficial
02:55:03.620if this and that torch would help you to do that absolutely if i was performing this for
02:55:10.580somebody else who was not you that's not the rune i would go to but so much of our runic practice is
02:55:18.260informed by how we've internalized these runes as the practitioner now it's very important to
02:55:26.260realize that if you're interpreting runes for others their runes that they've drawn or that
02:55:32.900they came to you with they're like hey i had a vision of this rune it's not about how you see
02:55:39.060that room no x that it's how they might see that room and figuring that out is a challenge for any
02:55:46.580goofy that's something that i run into when folks come to me with runic questions
02:55:52.740if i did the rune pull then cool i'm i'm good with i i say that that sounds arrogant i don't
02:55:58.420mean it that way but i feel a certain amount of comfort in interpreting the runes the way
02:56:04.500that i would understand but when somebody comes to me with a rune pull they did that they found
02:56:10.340disturbing i am much more interested in how they internalize those runes than how i would
02:56:18.180internalize those rooms because they're the ones who did the magic on that if that makes sense
02:56:25.620and i'm not sure it does but the person who puts it into motion it's their lens that is
02:56:34.180the one we're dealing with not your lens is somebody looking at it from the outside
02:56:39.540because there is there is an objective outside element to the runes but there's also a very
02:56:44.100significant internal element to the vitki or the practitioner who uses those rooms um
02:56:54.340do what i say make any sense spawn you can tell me if i didn't you can tell me i mean absolutely
02:57:00.900because again if you're internalizing the idea of kenna's being the torch that bears light
02:57:05.140there's absolutely that there i'm you know again it's a lot of two about the way we
02:57:09.380receive the information of the power of the runes that makes us have a go-to kind of idea
02:57:17.140of your your the way you view dagas and the way i view dagas they're not existentially different
02:57:29.140but some of the fundamentals that i think we place emphasis on are different and that's one
02:57:33.300of the reasons i wouldn't use i use dagas almost as like um now my words escape me um the liminal
02:57:46.740space between light and dark of dawn and dusk more than full day and full night i view it as like
02:57:54.340the point of equilibrium but again yours is completely right i think mine is too it's just
02:58:01.220different from where we're at i think swillow is a really good choice i would have also used
02:58:07.460ansu's because i don't think it's really about light i think light is a figure of speech we
02:58:13.140we use on it but you don't really want a bright light what you want is knowledge you want the
02:58:18.180ability to see and and i think that one but again that's because of what i bring into it versus what
02:58:26.500you bring it versus what cody brings it so i think that's important to keep in mind for anybody out
02:58:32.580there listening um the next question is i think this next question let me check and make sure i
02:58:43.540didn't skip one okay what about having good relations with the land itself and not fearing
02:58:51.300the spirits around us as opposed to what i'm not i think that i'm missing a little bit of context
02:59:01.380on it so i hope that we answer this correctly swan what do you what do you take from that
02:59:05.620well and i think this is referring to the idea of faring forth and and ultimately dealing with
02:59:10.260the relationships of of the living and the the things that are beyond the living or or
02:59:16.580or spiritually about the geist of things.
02:59:21.260Yeah, basically what you're saying is good relations with the land,
03:06:42.620If they don't, they're jerks, but we're still going to do the right thing.
03:06:47.000Again, and I say that as nonchalantly as I would about a person, because I think to treat them otherwise is disrespectful.
03:07:00.520So, yeah, of course we think that they would appreciate that. We hope that they would appreciate that. But it's the right thing to do, so we're going to do it anyway. But that's the thing about building a relationship with land spirits. Like, for another thing, if we find trash, we're going to clean it up.
03:07:18.740We're going to take care of the land to the best of our ability.
03:22:58.280It's just some projection and all this other nonsense that's just not true, that we know damn well is not true.
03:23:07.900There is a, the answer isn't either or.
03:23:11.280However, we absolutely live a material existence that is real, that has value, that is tangible, that exists.
03:23:20.800Don't be a basement wizard and pretend it doesn't.
03:23:25.320But once you realize that, there's also other levels of existence that we only have a very slight understanding of that are just as real in their own way that we need to be open to.
03:23:41.280And I've noticed one thing that I'm really proud of.
03:23:47.600This has happened when I've conducted two different funerals.
03:23:52.980Families that were tied to a Christian church and very much shut that part of themselves off that was sensible to the other.
03:24:05.020Because they felt something very strongly at funerals that I was able to be there for.
03:24:11.280opened themselves up to that other, and a flood of other came in that changed their lives in a
03:24:23.300significant way to where they were open to seeing more than they had seen before.
03:26:12.060That is a very unique thing to the Middle East.
03:26:16.340I would say equivalency, though, without pulling from the Greeks or without pulling from the Middle East in any of those concepts,
03:26:24.040The first and foremost thing would be two words is Thursr. Thursr is, again, Thursaz is referenced, again, as a giant. But there's very, very, you know, foundational Ausatrupe folks that have spoken about land spirits and things like that in the classification of the Jotuns when it comes to Risi or Thursr.
03:26:54.040you know muspeli or even the the the rim yachtins and and so on and so forth the thurser is this
03:27:02.520primordial entity of wild and chaos and uh you know feminine malignancy towards order towards
03:27:13.080goodness towards nobility um and that has changed over time to the word troll now the word troll
03:27:21.800has of course changed towards whether it's fuzzy hair naked weird looking things or um
03:27:29.480or even in the norse country looking things yeah oh excuse me yes odd or strange looking things
03:27:35.640excuse me not weird uh we're we're relegating that word to its true purpose more and more every day
03:27:42.600um gallon on you yeah i'm half expecting him to just like bust through the wall with the tiger
03:27:49.640crane but the you know the the christianity minimized um one of the the parts of later
03:27:59.160day christianity was the minimization of land spirits the minimization of of any sort of entity
03:28:05.160outside of the paradigms that they worked in and they demonized um anything outside of that or
03:28:13.400reduced it when it didn't pose a theocratical threat. And that happened a lot in Iceland,
03:28:20.800but it didn't quite stick. But they did talk about the idea that bells, you know,
03:28:27.000church bells scared away, Alvar or land whites. But, you know, again, bells and usage to the Lord
03:28:36.740frere is you know noted and remarked upon and so a lot of our connections to bells and the idea of
03:28:44.900appeasing land spirits with bells uh you know or or in in norse countries especially like sweden
03:28:51.540and norway there is the gray-haired kind of knobby-nosed uh land spirit that is called the troll
03:29:00.100that uh you know is kind of rough and earthy and um i i think that's more of what they're
03:29:07.060kind of considering a land spirit and then of course you have the the giant earth-based
03:29:15.300things that um pose a threat uh not not but their paradigm is is a little different it poses a
03:29:22.500threat because humanity um is encroaching on on places um but in iceland i remember when i was
03:29:31.860very little we had this book and it was called trolls and a lot of it was post-christian iceland
03:29:37.860but they talked about evil spirits that lived in desolate places and that you know people would
03:29:44.660disappear and the the the uh the trolls would scream in their ears and turn them into trolls
03:29:53.540and there was uh you know as a kid i was just like this is super crazy and and uh it was very
03:30:00.660kind of you know terrifying or you know when we talked about grilla and and all and uh you know
03:30:06.260the difference between like her as a troll versus the yule lads being more like land spirits um
03:30:11.460But I would say thirst and troll are an immediate sense towards malignant spirits that cause, you know, havoc and are ill.
03:30:24.260But the encountering of those things is, again, on the status of legend, on the status of like finite hearsay in a lot of ways.
03:30:35.720The other thing I would say is poltergeists. I was taught about this, that the Svartalfar are connected to the material. And so their ability to move the material.
03:30:51.460so when we talk about the paltergeist or the noisy ghost of the german language
03:30:56.020as what it means is this ghost that has the ability to move the physical world um
03:31:03.460as a smart alpha a a being of spiritual power that has connection to material
03:31:09.860quite literally the elements or the the building blocks of the material world
03:31:14.420that which is below kind of coming up uh a lot of times i feel like those those encounters with um
03:31:21.300uh you know door slamming and and flipping of things and all of those things whether
03:31:27.180let's just speak of them as actually happening because i know there are a lot of pranksters and
03:31:31.900people that want to again perpetuate these things via video or just false accounts uh just for the
03:31:38.880lulls or just to inspire uncertainty in people. I've always been taught that those beings are
03:31:47.860oftentimes what we would consider Svart Alvar as they are. When we're talking about Svarty,
03:31:56.160Svart is the soot or the material, the building blocks and elements, and they manifest sometimes
03:32:04.100in our time with the ability to move things that are physical and so oftentimes um appeasement
03:32:12.340and or um a simple it is time for you to go it this is not welcomed here um and again
03:32:23.140protection if you will but oftentimes more along the lines of i give this gift but this gift holds
03:32:31.140the point is that you must leave because this is not where you belong you belong elsewhere you
03:32:36.340belong in the neither valor not here in midgar so there is a point and then that could escalate to
03:32:42.500you need to go um and then that even goes into the concept of um the icelandic varv locker
03:32:48.980the word lockers the ones who can basically go forth and encapsulate and remove uh entities
03:32:58.020that refuse to go so a couple of concepts
03:33:11.460things that are real are real regardless of your faith
03:33:16.500so when you say this house you have a concept of if demons exist in christianity
03:33:22.820are they real or not if they are real they don't go oh this guy's also true we'll leave him be
03:33:30.880we're only going to mess with with christians we have different ways of interpreting different
03:33:38.080primordial forces that exist and a christian would describe things that sometimes we're
03:33:46.340describing the same thing but they're going to use jesus words and we're going to you know do
03:33:52.520our best to trill our r's and use some kind of norse variant that we have yeah there's bad things out
03:34:02.520there there are bad entities that want to do bad chaotic things and cause problems
03:34:14.840it's like now the christians at least the catholics have a whole school of demonology
03:34:21.640to where they itemize these things in a very very specific way i think ours is much much less so and
03:34:29.960much more vague um you know a catholic priest wouldn't always assume that it's satan or beelzebub
03:34:42.680or like a super high demon high-ranking demon that's messing with you because you're that
03:34:47.800important no very often it's just some random like low-level foot soldier demon messing with you
03:34:56.360um that's probably the case like i don't think cert is going to try to possess you and mess with
03:35:03.400you could he sure are you that special that he's that's what he does with his time
03:35:11.640I don't know. I doubt that. So there's massive, you know, Jotun's of supreme chaos that whatever, are they messing with you? Probably not.
03:35:27.920there are are atons or jotnar of much lesser degrees that are also forces of chaos that may
03:35:38.500mess with something or someone or could possibly be encountered there's you know trolls and
03:35:46.560tricksters and little whatever else that might be and then there's the spirits of dead humans
03:35:52.960On the greater Alcetru demonology, we need to develop that better. I don't think we have a good textbook of that or a good Alcetru, you know, legion of exorcists to send towards you if that's what you're dealing with.
03:36:09.840um that said we have had gothar called in to chase off bad spirits and in my understanding
03:36:22.780that's always been very effective um when it comes to spirits of the dead it's like walmart
03:36:33.200so i'm going to take you to walmart and wilmer minnesota so if you've never been to walmart
03:36:42.020in wilmer minnesota if you can imagine what walmart in
03:36:47.020ethiopia might look like that's probably or maybe somewhere in in somalia that's that's
03:36:57.180what the walmart looks like there because of the way that we have populated
03:37:02.080refugees and things of that nature walmart in wilmer minnesota is extremely african and
03:37:12.940extremely islamic um it's neither here nor there it's just setting the stage for the story
03:37:19.440so myself and nathan erlinson folk builder in minnesota gothi student
03:37:27.000If he minds his P's and Q's, he'll probably be a go-thee one day real soon.
03:37:46.940The vast majority of the people in the store, I don't know what they thought about us, but
03:37:52.440they just went about their shopping and minded their business.
03:37:56.180There were some people that saw we were dressed up and were like, hey, looking good. Hey, that's sharp. Some people made some reference to the Italian mafia, and it was still positive. So we're like, hey, that's, you know, whatever. Benissimo.
03:38:10.140mo um so anyways that's fine and then we're in the liquor store and these two hispanic gentlemen
03:38:20.220came in and they were trying to start something with us and so we had like set to the point that
03:38:28.680we set down our our basket because we thought we're gonna have to scrap with these guys
03:38:34.720And it turns out they didn't really want none, but they wanted to start, you know, causing problems.
03:42:08.180if you're using tools to reach out to benevolent creatures
03:42:18.240then i think that also inclines you to find that
03:42:24.120you know what happens most of the time when people use ouija boards
03:42:28.480some jerk just makes it say whatever they think they want it to say to creep you out or to like
03:42:37.020hey give me all your money and oh my god it's terrifying and then people do whatever they're
03:42:43.060going to do but there's absolutely the possibility if you go in there with the right mindset that it
03:42:50.920works well. If you, okay, and this is another, again, might be silly, but I think it's worth
03:43:00.260saying. Another thought exercise is to imagine yourself beyond the veil. And again, none of us
03:43:09.680know what that's like. And I don't even pretend to. I'm just trying to use the faculties that I have
03:43:17.820to reason. If my if my daughter, my grandson or my granddaughter, my great grandson or my
03:43:27.900great granddaughter were performing a ritual in their home and with tears in their eyes were
03:43:34.160reaching out to me because they love me and they want to know about me. I'm very inclined to
03:43:42.160interact with them to the best of my capability because they are my family and I love them and I
03:43:47.300what's best for them. If, you know, again, this is the most, if this happened and, you know,
03:43:58.200this is successful and we have other AFA members a hundred years from now that want to reach out to
03:44:03.780I'll tell you, go see Flavelle because they care about something that I said during this time.
03:44:09.300And that's meaningful to them. First, I would be so very honored. It would mean a lot to
03:44:17.280me to reach out and interact with them. If there was some goofy teenagers that are high on whippets,
03:44:25.820you know, snorting whipped cream and stuff, and they wanted to say some goofy hocus pocus,
03:44:31.960I really don't care. If I was mischievous and I'm like, haha, look at these kids,
03:44:38.400maybe I'll mess with them. I don't know. I don't know what it's like. And I know this sounds really
03:44:44.600silly obviously i'm having fun with the idea but i mean what i'm saying if you're doing something
03:44:53.480that would attract the spirit that you want in a significant enough way that they would are likely
03:44:59.800to care about you or what you're doing you have a much better chance of having a meaningful interaction
03:45:06.440If you're just being silly, most people of substance wouldn't really want to have much to do with you.
03:45:18.060If you're being deliberately dark and disturbed and provocative, maybe some forces that are also dark and disturbed want to take advantage of you in some way or hurt you in some way.
03:45:36.440I think just like where you choose to spend your time if you're advising your teenagers on what to
03:45:44.580do. If they go to the wrong part of town at the wrong parties in the wrong places, bad things
03:45:51.400happen. If you go to the right places and you're doing upright stuff, then you can have a reasonable
03:45:58.260degree of confidence that, you know, you're going to have good interactions. You might learn
03:46:02.520something and i think that as a rule of thumb is reasonable but i do think tools like that
03:46:09.800channel your intent in a way that can make it more meaningful or more appealing or more
03:46:17.320easy to interface with the other side what do you think is fine well i was i was going with
03:46:26.280a little bit more i think the the i guess the foundation of of the idea itself or the or the
03:46:34.760the the steps in which it is taken i mean ultimately what we're what we're looking at is um
03:46:44.200hmm i mean contact with with the other side of the veil of things uh can happen and manifest
03:46:52.040in a lot of different ways we obviously believe that because when we give gifts when we uh place
03:46:58.120you know prayers and offerings and things of that nature we are clearly preceding that that uh energy
03:47:04.920from being physical to being metaphysical and going out and and entering into another scope of
03:47:12.280the environs um but one thing that really kind of i don't know again what else here really has said
03:47:18.440is you think about stuff like this sometime and one of the things that really kind of always
03:47:22.520i thought about in relation to uh ouija boards or what have you is the usage of an alphabet
03:47:30.520in uh in a correlation of communication um again uh an alphabet uh symbols sigils um not the runes
03:47:41.800but uh just the greek alphabet or the greco roman modern alphabet and utilizing that in
03:47:48.760sense of communication and the first thing it makes me think of is um the in the runatal and
03:47:55.880in in the in odin's rune poems there is a lot of again greater knowledge mixed in with i think
03:48:04.360a kind of a reveal of the time and the usage and the conceptualization of of the rune's songs
03:48:13.800the rune's songs of odin as he says but he is i know a 12th that if i see a man hung amongst the
03:48:21.480tree i can carve the runes and blood the runes and he will he will come down and talk to me
03:48:27.240And, you know, there's a lot of, you know, interesting things about, about Lord Odin and his connections with death in many different ways from battle to again, speaking with the dead in relation to whether it's, you know, people say it's, it's been hurled at him as insults in like, in other stories in the fighting Loki or, or in Howabarther.
03:48:53.940But ultimately, again, the communication of symbology to reach across the veil has mystical potency.
03:49:04.540I think even today with the idea of utilizing symbols to transfer messages beyond sight, I think that a lot of the usage of language and of writing was kept from a large proportion of people because it was understood that it had that power both to transfer messages from one person to another,
03:49:33.660but also to transfer messages over time or through the veil, if you will.
03:49:40.840And, you know, we do this sometimes even in our spiritual practices
03:49:44.320when we write things down and then burn them
03:49:47.060or place them in written word on an item that we gift over.
03:49:51.700That's a truly interesting, you know, idea all around
03:49:56.000that I ponder about and I find fascinating.
03:49:59.240Um, outside of that, again, I think what, what I was here ago, they just said really does stand
03:50:06.140and boils it down and we're making light of it because you're listening and we're hoping you're
03:50:11.060listening. And it's, it's sometimes it's good to just punctuate things with kind of a joyous
03:50:16.320feeling of laughter about it. And, um, but it is true. It's, it's the sense of ultimately your
03:50:22.000intent going in on this, whether it is someone at, at this board, that's just messing with you
03:50:28.020or the idea that you're stepping out of your bounds as being polite in a lot of ways.
03:50:35.140You're knocking on doors that you don't need to knock on.
03:50:39.980When you go down these roads, sometimes I think it invites, it's like a two-way door.
03:50:47.220Sometimes it invites folly from the self to be present in the physical.
03:50:51.120so a lot of times the people there often bring about their own sense of dread fear or just
03:50:57.920misplacement of because they're reflecting things within themselves other times yeah they are
03:51:02.460knocking on doors that don't need to be knocked on and probably shouldn't be doing that or at
03:51:07.880least not doing it or you shouldn't be doing it so so disrespectfully or or even as a game
03:51:13.340um you know when you call someone with a with a sense of of uh sincerity then yeah there's that
03:51:24.880that is very important and this is the second time you have been the reminder of this with respect
03:51:31.840if you imagine any of these tools as a phone I give out my number very often
03:51:41.800And if you call me because you want spiritual help or because you're want to be because you want to have a conversation with me about something meaningful, I welcome that.
03:51:55.440That's great. And I'm happy to have that.
03:51:58.520If you call me in the middle of the night to prank call me and do something stupid, then, yeah, it's going to make me angry or it's going to offend me.
03:52:08.660it's gonna you know not be taken well i think that i think that matters and on that point
03:52:20.180what i think is really important i don't think that technology doesn't exist but i think that
03:52:27.380we are silly when we are so presumptuous as to try to conjure things that are way beyond our means
03:52:35.860When Wiccans or other silly, eclectic, gothic lunatics think that they can conjure gods, that's dumb.
03:52:55.320Not only is it dumb, it's profoundly disrespectful.
03:52:59.520to think that you can conjure you know whatever your tradition is you think you can conjure arch
03:53:07.680angels or you can like come on you're a kid in crow makeup in mom's basement stop
03:53:20.240and i'm not even being silly because people grown people that we interact with
03:53:26.480feel that they do these things like it is the most meaningful thing in the world to me when i talk
03:53:36.480about how steve mcnalen's enemies even acknowledge that the all-father odin and steve worked together
03:53:48.880to make us a true happen the concept that the king of our gods would work with steve mcnallen
03:53:59.920is mind-blowingly profound and that's a once in history kind of thing
03:54:11.200to think that random people who have no have not earned reputation
03:54:16.400who haven't earned significant status in life can just summon up gods of our folk
03:54:26.660and somehow demand things of them is extremely disrespectful.
03:54:33.780Yet it is a practice that a lot of people in the quote unquote pagan sphere
03:54:39.200feel that that's an appropriate thing to do.
03:54:43.220first. Again, I mean, to imagine you could conjure something that is vastly more powerful than you
03:54:55.000and then command it to do stuff. At the same time, you can't even go talk to a girl that's cute
03:55:04.460looking without being scared of rejection. You sure couldn't go to a bar and talk to some big
03:55:10.440scary dude but you're gonna come before literal gods that's irreverent and it's stupid and it
03:55:18.760means that you're not prepared for what you're doing whatever you do beyond the veil just like
03:55:24.520in life be a respectful person um what is most dangerous and people talked about earlier about
03:55:34.360dain you know worrying about the precautions to take the biggest precaution be respectful
03:55:42.520if you don't think what you're doing is real you need to make really sure
03:55:48.920that nobody else thinks what you're doing is real and i mean this very literally
03:55:55.720you teach children not to point realistic looking guns at the police because the police
03:56:06.580treat that as real and you might die when you're interacting spiritually don't do things when you're
03:56:16.520being silly that you don't mean unless you are prepared for the appropriate response from the
03:56:23.680other side. This is very real. We take this very seriously. I joke sometimes because I think levity
03:56:32.940is funny and I think it's nice, but I'm deadly serious about the points that I'm making.
03:56:40.580Svon and I take this extremely serious, and any interaction that we've had beyond the veil is
03:56:46.040done with reverence and piety and a preparedness that when we reach out, something may very well
03:56:56.260reach back, and we're expecting and ready for that. Don't reach out if you are not prepared
03:57:03.460for someone or something to reach back. That's very, very serious, and I mean that.
03:57:10.020um and i think this is the last it's not we got two questions can people communicate
03:57:19.080it's fun and i've gotten verbose and we have made like an hour of the last two questions
03:57:25.040don't really apologize for it i'm just noting it it's a thing um lou asks can people communicate
03:57:31.480with the alfar and is that something that is beneficial for us to do how would we go about
03:57:38.240this swan could you break down what kind of things constitute the alfar because i think
03:57:46.560that's really important to the question yeah there's a lot of spectrum on the alvar as opposed
03:57:53.280to say like the dc the dc kind of have um you know connotations in different levels there's even
03:58:01.520the the idea of even the our senior being dsir uh the nornir being dsir in a way and again that i
03:58:10.080think that has a lot to do with the spinning of fate and the effect of might name and luck but
03:58:18.400that's another thing aside let's talk about the alvar the alvar have more i think a
03:58:24.480willful manifestational role when it comes to infect affecting the environment or the uh
03:58:32.400i would say the what is the word um uh well i guess environment is about is about it all i'm
03:58:40.400gonna find is you know when we talk about leo salvar and we talk about them as the spirits
03:58:46.000between him and and um and uh midgar or or the middle the midden if you will um they have a
03:58:56.480tendency to be more or less in correlation with environmental uh concepts of light and uh you
03:59:04.800know relegation of environmental effects oftentimes leos are seen as kind of conduits or or not
03:59:12.800projections but like um tendrils of of willful intention from say lord frey and that is why he
03:59:22.800is you know of of them as their lord um and there is alvar when we talk about doc alvar
03:59:32.000the general idea is a shade or a person that once lived a mortal life and is connected to the land
03:59:40.480oftentimes through burials through burial mounds through grave sites through battlefields um these
03:59:47.200um spirits uh whether they're seen as descending and then re uh descending low ascending and then
03:59:55.360descending to kind of maintain their their premise over with an area if you will they have a tendency
04:00:04.320to be viewed as almost like ancestral guardians um whether they're protect they're not necessarily
04:00:10.720always just protecting the folk but they're protecting the land and um you see this a lot
04:00:17.600in relation to um sword giving to heroes or to going out and seeking the knowledge of your
04:00:25.360ancestry or um again dealing with um new lands and and finding you know the the shades of
04:00:35.680protection of the beings that have been there for a long time um and there's you know ways that are
04:00:43.040communicated svarta far are always used in our stories especially in relation to the formulation
04:00:48.080of of metallurgy and technology and the event advancement of certain things oftentimes it's
04:00:54.720often with a mystical tone the idea is like oh you know like reagan reagan the uh the smith in the
04:01:01.120story of sigurd is you know was said to be a taught by the dvergar or the svartalfar he was
04:01:07.360taught by or he understands the spirits of the earth and knows their magic and knows their their
04:01:14.080um knowledge so oftentimes i think svartalfar are kind of relegated very very either for plot
04:01:23.120in a story uh and they have a sense of mysticism and i think are more related to material things
04:01:28.880so let's just focus on really what i think you might be seeing is duck alpha dark elves
04:01:35.920dunkel elven their um their relation to us can be mysterious oftentimes they are a reflection
04:01:43.360of our own mortality so they oftentimes you know i think they unduly strike fear in people because
04:01:49.120they oftentimes see their end as as a doom and um to variant degrees but they always seem to be
04:01:56.720receptacles of of knowledge the ones that give things or memories or things that were lost and
04:02:03.280then are suddenly reconnected uh because they decide to bestow upon someone who gives them
04:02:08.800respect knowledge um but either way i mean overall dealing with alvar is about again sincerity of the
04:02:19.680communication oftentimes it's just gift giving for the sake of but when you start to interact
04:02:26.000that's when that communication is officially communication because until then it's it's it's
04:02:32.160can be um you're there and i give you honor and i am thankful that you are you know protecting the
04:02:40.000land and or the woes that you felt here that have led you to be a guardian spirit of this place like
04:02:45.600battlefields virginia is full of them and and to to give unto them uh that due respect for
04:02:54.480their lives that's that's the first part of it it's when it comes back that that communication
04:02:59.520is made at that point you know when you're dealing with the alvar um oftentimes it's i find that you
04:03:07.840can gain guidance that's much more intricate to your area to personal issues in the area or
04:03:15.120oftentimes what i find is the communication ends up developing in a boon um where things happen
04:03:22.320and you you are alerted if you will in a in some ways like uh strange things that happen that wake
04:03:30.960you up in the middle of the night because you realize your barn is on fire or um that you know
04:03:37.040there's bad things happening in the land and that and alfar don't like it and they have they know
04:03:43.680you've tried to communicate with them so they come to you and speak to you and tell you there's
04:03:50.400there's something bad going on there they kind of notify or bestow that knowledge
04:03:54.640dark alfar are kind of like keepers of secrets that reveal things to you if you're deserving
04:04:02.560or if it's necessary the old software are oftentimes you know i think oftentimes mistaken
04:04:08.720for guardian angels and in the sense of the the light the shining beings um but i do believe that
04:04:14.560they are capable of again doing much of what they want in the sense that they can intervene or uh
04:04:22.640signal to you or uh take a poignant moment to affect the way you see things or perceive things
04:04:30.080and that will lead you down another path or take a decision that you wouldn't normally take because
04:04:36.640all of a sudden there's something kind of affirming that you should or shouldn't do something
04:04:41.600so alvar are very tricky and they they do bridge a very close gap to lanvetier or
04:04:47.760huddle folk or or whatever we would call like the land spirits because again
04:04:51.760the alcohol are oftentimes connected to the land there's a lot of confusion in there it has been
04:04:57.200that way in literature of our faith for a very long time and alvar is a title it's not um it
04:05:06.000it's like basically saying a an out outwardly being they but they're usually of um
04:05:16.160far more of a noble station if a thirst is is seen as something that's detrimental um
04:05:23.600you know that is labeled as a thirst and alvar always has a connotation towards
04:05:27.680either holding secrets revealing secrets or giving blessings at the at a much more like
04:05:34.160local level um and i remember somebody uh a long time ago talking about the spheres of influence
04:05:41.280you have your your own deeds and actions you have your family you have your ancestors then you have
04:05:46.000the lanvetir and then you have the alvar and then you have the gods but if you're a jerk i mean
04:05:52.240there were spells to prevent elf shot and things that way um the alvar is very confusing catch-all
04:06:03.200for all kinds of spirits um because elf in some ways just means a spirit i mean
04:06:16.560it is not incorrect to be like ah svan is a jolly elf
04:06:23.680to a way that's not completely incorrect it's just like using uh tear do you mean
04:06:31.600gods generally or do you mean lord tier in specific um
04:06:39.440there are there's a spectrum of alfar not even just the three color variants if we take the
04:06:48.000dwarves as their own thing and we just talk about different shades of alfar there's still a spectrum
04:06:57.120Now, in one understanding, it's like a promotion to our male ancestors.
04:07:06.240It's like a step of ascendancy for male ancestry.
04:07:11.700There's also land spirits, which are Alphar.
04:07:15.420Um, it is, you know, servants, soldiers of men of Frey's household are Alfar.
04:07:29.500Um, but yes, can you reach out to them? Absolutely. You can interact with anybody.
04:07:35.820Um, should you? Absolutely. If you're doing it respectfully and kindly, and as Fawn mentioned,
04:07:42.460there's a boom. If you ignore them and don't care about them, then there is perhaps, you know,
04:07:48.060negative things can happen if you're a jerk. Um, but one possibility that I want to propose,
04:07:57.660imagine that you are a spirit of land or an exalted ancestry or one of these things,
04:08:09.100And you live in our Western society where nobody pays you any mind for a very, very, very long time.
04:08:21.080Imagine that it's been hundreds of years since anybody has paid you any mind.
04:08:28.580Then imagine that one day somebody comes through that's good hearted.
04:08:35.160That's reconnecting with the faith of their ancestors.
04:08:39.100And that stops to give you the time of day when nobody else has talked to you and wanted to have anything to do with you for hundreds of years.
04:08:48.200Does it work exactly like that in mythic time? Probably not.
04:08:53.480But I think it conveys a point that one of the very, very special things about living in the time we live in.
04:09:02.780We are spiritual pioneers in many ways.
04:09:06.000you could be the first voice that has reached out and spoken to these spirits in a very long time.
04:09:17.980That in and of itself could be tremendously more meaningful than somebody hundreds of years from
04:09:26.280now when everybody's talking to spirits all the time. To be the first person to reach out and
04:09:32.620make that connection is a powerful thing that you can do. And I think that's the case with a lot
04:09:41.080of what we do. We are honoring gods and spirits that people have neglected for a very, very long
04:09:48.780time. And the fact that we're reaching out, we're building Hoffs, we're fixing graves, we're
04:09:56.540leaving offerings, we're doing these things can be very, very significant.
04:10:04.560And the only thing we have to go by to conceptualize that is how would you feel?
04:10:12.720And I think that we would all be, you know, moved to tears by that.
04:10:18.320Hopefully our gods and Alphar are also very appreciative of what we're doing.
04:10:24.800and the things I've seen in my life tell me that that's true.
04:10:33.280Our last question of the night for a completely different thing,
04:10:37.200completely on a different place, but I mean, it's certainly a worthy question.