Asatru Folk Assembly - February 06, 2026


Heliosphere： Sun Shield - Where Science and Lore Meet #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Mentioned
Sunnah
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Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

117.36

Word count

160

Sentence count

9


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

In this episode, I discuss the role of the sun in our world, and the role it plays in the creation of the world s illumination. I also discuss the idea of a radiational helios shield between the Earth and the sun.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 But the sun is brought to dominion over the spark and drives the chariot of the sun, which the gods had fashioned for the world's illumination from that glowing stuff which flew out of Muspelheim.
00:00:16.160 Those horses are called early waker and all strong, which, again, these translations I have some issues with, as out of arker could also mean our year waker or season waker.
00:00:32.480 And all speed is very fast or very swift.
00:00:36.920 And under the shoulders of these horses, the gods set two windbags, two bellows, to cool this spark.
00:00:46.540 But in some records that it is so-called iron coolness.
00:00:51.560 And there's another reference elsewhere in our stories that Sol or Sun or Sunnah carries a shield upon which to block the heat of the sun.
00:01:05.400 And I find that very interesting. Recently, scientists found what they consider a radiational Helios shield in between the Earth and the sun. And I thought that was very interesting.