Asatru Folk Assembly - November 02, 2025


Don't Limit the Divine #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Mentioned
Thor Svan
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

123.46

Word count

308

Sentence count

6


Summary

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In this episode, we talk about the role of the gods in our world, and how they relate to our world. We talk about their role in the creation of the world, their influence on it, and the role they play in shaping it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I think a lot of people get into a thought process that, especially if they're coming from Christianity, and Christianity says, oh, you know, these people had a God of this, a God of rain, a God of rocks, a God of, they try to oversimplify.
00:00:20.340 No, our holy divine beings are divine beings, and there are primordial forces at play here in the middle, in the material, and the gods have the ability to affect them, perhaps some better than others.
00:00:39.640 But the idea that there is Lord Odin creating a storm for the sake of this moment would not be, there would be nobody in the audience going, I thought that Thor was the god of storms.
00:00:57.060 No, that'd be like, you know, you see Svan out mowing his lawn, like, wait, you're only allowed to talk about lore on VNS. What are you talking about?
00:01:07.840 you know um real people do lots of things real entities real beings can do a great many things
00:01:17.560 um there may be things that they are most noted for or that they are particularly
00:01:24.120 powerful at or they choose to display their power through there may be symbols that are
00:01:32.140 associated with them but our gods are it's going to say three-dimensional but our gods are
00:01:40.760 four-dimensional our gods are well-rounded and multi-dimensional they're not
00:01:47.580 two-dimensional things they're not thor equals strong odin equals wise
00:01:57.840 tier equals justice like no those associations are fine and if
00:02:04.400 if you're brand new and that helps you start down paths to understand them that's that's wonderful
00:02:11.440 if you're a young child and that's how you get your first you know something to hold on to about
00:02:18.800 who these gods are amazing great but that's that's where we start to understand uh the
00:02:25.680 it's not where the end of that understanding is.