Asatru Folk Assembly - Preserving the History #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

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In this episode, I discuss the history of the Alcitru religion, and how it influenced the development of the ideas and culture of our ancestors. I talk about the importance of preserving the stories and oral traditions that our ancestors told, and why it is important to keep them alive.

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00:00:00.000 it is really important to keep in mind

00:00:05.460 his efforts weren't to synchronize they weren't to

00:00:15.920 syncretize I think is the the right usage of it in this case his points weren't to like somehow

00:00:25.500 how reconcile the Alcitru religion to Christianity his point wasn't to you know some kind of bridge

00:00:38.820 a gap or whatever Alcitru was bad and of the devil and Christianity is good but he wanted

00:00:51.060 preserve the stories of his people he wanted to preserve the histories of his people and his

00:00:57.060 entire point was to preserve it and have preservation not to alter it to like make it okay or to like

00:01:04.900 massage it to fit what's acceptable the massaging to fit is this stuff's bad don't believe this

00:01:11.540 pagan stuff but this is cool and this gives rise to our kennings and our our vernacular that we

00:01:21.140 have currently and this is why so these are the stories that our ancestors these are those you

00:01:26.340 know heretical devil stories that are grant that our ancestors told and at this point he's

00:01:32.820 about a hundred years i mean during the yeah he's about a hundred years removed from when

00:01:44.340 the official religion of iceland was also true

Asatru Folk Assembly - October 09, 2025

Preserving the History #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

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