Asatru Folk Assembly - March 03, 2026


Ancestor Veneration, a Tangible Path to Piety #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

146.72

Word count

181

Sentence count

5


Summary

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In this episode, we discuss the importance of daily ancestor veneration, and the role of our ancestors in shaping the way we live our lives, and how we interact with others, as well as the values our ancestors would have held dear.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I think the most tangible way to be able to learn to approach this religion with an overarching piety is our ancestors.
00:00:13.420 I think, you know, in the household specifically, that daily ancestor veneration, at least regular ancestor veneration, should kind of take the forefront.
00:00:27.840 And that's something that's tangible.
00:00:29.000 that's you know people that you knew you were looking at the result of their life's effort
00:00:35.960 they survived thrived loved reproduced so you you look in the mirror every day and you were
00:00:42.760 looking at the you know like the the pages of a book it's the story of your ancestral line
00:00:49.880 it's kind of like i was talking about before is that you know even like the seemingly mundane
00:00:53.960 you know how we carry ourselves how we present ourselves how we interact with others does that
00:00:59.000 does that play out in a way that reflects the values that your ancestors would
00:01:03.140 have held dear?
00:01:08.760 So rather than just seeing the gods as something abstract,
00:01:11.260 I think another way of looking at it is our gods or our elders.