Elevating the Folk #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts
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Summary
Lord Heimdall is one of the most famous figures in Norse Mythology. He is the son of Odin, the King of Midgard, and the great-grandfather of our own, Thor. In this episode, we discuss his journey from the stasis throne to the middle world, the place of time and material.
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so right off the bat there's some things to consider speaking of his strength the name rig
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also has reference to the lifting of things there is an old norse word rika which means to lift or
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to press high above your head to bear up to raise up or lift up with great strength and i think
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that's pertinent right out of the gate what this story truly is about with great strength he's going
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to lift up our people because in this sense here awi excuse me awi or ada awi and ada are great
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grandfather and great grandmother so that's the first flag letting you know this is not simply a
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class situation we have references to time and again lord heimdall is often connected to time
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with the growing of the grass with the with hearing the hair grow on a sheep's back these
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are all references to the spanning of time it has been my suggestion though when we're talking about
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calendars we do have the iron mark that's um practiced by some folks as the calendar timekeeping
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that instead of logger's dog there is heimdall's dog or heimdall's day again that the presence of
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time that's often always mentioned with lord heimdall and also it kind of goes in juxtaposition
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to some of the people that on the internet try to take logger's dog the wash day and turn it into
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you know the kinslayer's day and i i think it's only fitting that we juxtapose that but there
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are references clearly to lord heimdall being connected to time and at this point he steps out
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of the stasis throne and moves into the dynamic and he goes the mid most way which is of course
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mid guard so he goes through the threshold of heaven and enters now into the middle world or
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Midgard, the place of time and material. And he finds himself on a seashore and he goes there and
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the doors are on the posts. I always thought that was an interesting point to make, that at least
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the door was framed and it was holding threshold. It had a certain sense of guardianship. I don't
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know. I mean, I've thought about that possibly being symbolic as well, is that the entry for
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Lord Heimdall as Rigg was not easy and that he needed to break another threshold in order to
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come into the realm or the existence of great-grandfather and great-grandma.