Asatru Folk Assembly - Going Beyond the Preconceptions in Rígsþula #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly

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In this episode, we take a deep dive into one of the most famous poems in Aryan history, "The Song of Solomon" by Aryan poet Ayn Rand. It's a poem about the relationship between Aryanism and stealing from the gods, and the process of doing so over the course of time.

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00:00:00.160 We have come to an understanding of a lot of these things because information has already

00:00:05.980 been processed and regurgitated to us, and then we parrot that regurgitated information

00:00:13.460 without thought.

00:00:15.220 We all do it.

00:00:16.180 We're all guilty of it.

00:00:17.240 We all start with a lot of that as our default, and that's not a wrong place to be.

00:00:22.820 But when you realize you are there, it's always valuable to view it with fresh eyes.

00:00:27.280 I don't believe that a person without the need to make this conform to a Dumazilian structuring of Aryan society would take that as the fundamental meaning of this poem.

00:00:42.120 Once Dumazil laid that out, we can see obvious parallels that make sense in that.

00:00:48.000 but a fair-minded reading of this if you didn't already have the preconception especially with

00:00:52.640 the naming of all of the couples involved and their children as this progresses is clearly a

00:00:58.720 process over the course of time it's not just a promethean stealing of divine and and i think that

00:01:05.680 that's part of a similar concept but i think the fundamentals are really different stealing from

00:01:10.320 the gods and like transgressing by giving it to mortals is very different than the way this story

00:01:16.560 is laid out. And one of the beauties in this is it's not like, hey, I'm trafficking stolen goods

00:01:22.440 to you, do whatever you want with it. It is a generational over the course of time, tutoring,

00:01:29.020 teaching and instructing and a process. They don't go from knuckle draggers to space in

00:01:36.680 because they got this magic thing. No, over time, they develop and they mature and they evolve and

00:01:43.640 they become and they learn and they grow. And you see that throughout this, the generational

00:01:49.300 nature of it, the process of it is self-evident, I think, to any fair reading of it. So I think

00:01:55.600 that's important to bear in mind as we go through it.

Asatru Folk Assembly - September 16, 2025

Going Beyond the Preconceptions in Rígsþula #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly

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