Asatru Folk Assembly - Job of a Goði #afa #asatru #ásatrú #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

00:00:00.000 the biggest responsibility that is given to our gothar is the maintenance of the gift cycle

00:00:09.020 between the gods and the folk um with you know capital g and capital f

00:00:15.860 We have a sacred responsibility to bring the troth and to bring the gifts, the sacrifices of the folk to the Aesir and to accept whatever blessings the Aesir see fit to bestow on us,

00:00:42.860 that they find us worthy of, and to bring those back to the folk.

00:00:51.340 There are other responsibilities that we have that are very important.

00:00:56.140 Presiding over Sambal is one of them.

00:01:01.460 Conducting the threshold rights, the rights of initiation,

00:01:07.200 um such as a a man or a woman making the naming of a child uh the marriage of a man and a woman

00:01:17.720 and the funeral of someone who's passed on are are all very important but the

00:01:24.560 the maintenance of the gift cycle in blue is the the highest of them if we had to choose one and

00:01:30.620 could only do one it would have to be maintaining the gift cycle because without that the rest of

00:01:36.240 it breaks down um there are other responsibilities outside of um outside of of holy rights that that

00:01:48.420 are very important that our go thar do uh counseling of our members in any way that

00:01:55.720 they need um whether that's you know some kind of um marriage counseling or grief counseling or

00:02:03.060 you know anytime our folk find that they need really someone to listen to is mostly what it

00:02:10.680 comes down to but sometimes it's advice sometimes it's guidance sometimes it's being told what they

00:02:17.340 don't want to hear

Asatru Folk Assembly - November 04, 2025

Job of a Goði #afa #asatru #ásatrú #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

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