Asatru Folk Assembly - Temple Unearthed in Norway 2012

00:00:00.000 This is Steve McNallan of the Ausatru Folk Assembly, bringing you the latest on the revival

00:00:10.220 of the ancestral faith of Northern Europe and the awakening of the European descended peoples

00:00:16.080 everywhere. Our gods and goddesses never went away. They are with us always, and now they stir

00:00:24.840 and we reclaim our spiritual birthright.

00:00:29.020 A glorious dawn awaits.

00:00:31.740 Hail our awakening.

00:00:33.800 Hail Asatru rising.

00:00:39.560 I was intrigued by a recent story in the news.

00:00:44.460 The site was old, dating from the 5th century.

00:00:49.440 A circle of stones 15 meters across and a meter high

00:00:53.720 provided a central focal point.

00:00:57.320 Leading up to the circle was a processional road

00:01:00.020 that had not felt a human foot for a thousand years.

00:01:04.760 To one side, there had been a wooden structure

00:01:07.240 supported by pillars,

00:01:08.800 but the wood had disappeared long ago.

00:01:12.260 The entire array had been carefully,

00:01:15.620 lovingly buried in peat,

00:01:17.680 preserved from plow and from weather,

00:01:20.520 deliberately hidden from those who would harm it,

00:01:23.420 awaiting the day it would be safe to once again honor the old gods.

00:01:30.200 Surely, those who covered it must have thought,

00:01:32.680 the Christian madness will someday pass,

00:01:35.940 and our descendants will be glad that we have saved this for them.

00:01:41.840 When an intact pre-Christian temple was unearthed in Norway recently,

00:01:46.880 archaeologists were overwhelmed.

00:01:49.320 Comments like unique and unprecedented

00:01:51.960 splashed across internet news pages.

00:01:54.840 But now it has been demolished,

00:01:58.460 bulldozed to make way for a housing development.

00:02:03.780 Could the pagans of old,

00:02:05.920 as they tenderly buried the holiest place they knew,

00:02:09.560 have imagined a world where gold was more important than God's?

00:02:14.020 Where their own descendants would destroy their temple

00:02:17.400 so that the profane houses of workers would forever crush that which they loved.

00:02:24.340 When the steel blade of the bulldozer bit into the sacred earth,

00:02:28.820 the present spat on the past.

00:02:32.580 The clear intentions of the ancestors were ruthlessly betrayed for mere money.

00:02:40.040 What would I have done had I been magically transported

00:02:44.040 to the site of that crucial moment of destruction?

00:02:47.400 Had I been the bulldozer driver, would I have refused and lost my job?

00:02:53.860 Yes, I think I would have done that.

00:02:56.560 Had I been a bystander, would I have risked prison, injury, possibly even death to stop the machine?

00:03:04.600 I hope so.

00:03:06.640 I am only a man, not a hero.

00:03:10.120 But sometimes being a man is enough, especially if that man is doing the right thing.

00:03:15.760 As the poet once wrote,

00:03:19.100 And how can man die better than facing fearful odds

00:03:22.620 for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods?

00:03:28.320 Money has carried the day.

00:03:31.240 The site was presumably private property

00:03:33.500 being developed by a corporation for profit.

00:03:37.220 I have no objection to profit.

00:03:40.220 But who owns the past?

00:03:43.100 Who owns the ancestors?

00:03:45.760 Who owns the gods? Is there a right to bulldoze an ancient holy site in Norway, or, as has also been done, to level an ancient stone circle in Ireland for profit?

00:03:59.440 the most important things

00:04:02.680 cannot be owned by anyone

00:04:04.760 I do not own

00:04:06.800 my family name

00:04:08.180 I merely borrow it to pass

00:04:10.980 on with added honor hopefully

00:04:12.700 to my sons

00:04:13.920 I do not own the genetic

00:04:16.880 and cultural inheritance left me

00:04:18.920 by my forefathers and foremothers

00:04:20.880 this too I have only

00:04:22.880 borrowed from my ancestors

00:04:24.540 they are not

00:04:26.520 mine to destroy

00:04:28.440 one of the old rune poems says that gold causes strife among kinsmen the wolf grows up in the

00:04:38.520 woods so what does this cryptic verse mean anyone who has sat in a lawyer's office to attend the

00:04:46.920 reading of a will has seen this family members do battle with each other to get money and they hate

00:04:53.320 each other for the rest of their lives and the wolf in the poem he is none other

00:04:58.840 than Fenris the wolf restrained only by the bonds of love and kinship that we

00:05:04.480 forge with each other from generation to generation and across the centuries

00:05:12.080 when the wolf is loosed Ragnarok the great battle at the end of this cycle of

00:05:17.620 time can only follow. In Norway the wolf is loose, the gift of one's ancestors

00:05:26.740 passed on for a thousand years, thrown away for a pile of money. Not that all

00:05:34.120 Norwegians would have plowed the temple of their forefathers, and not that America

00:05:39.160 is any better. We too have sold, given away, our inheritance. Materialism,

00:05:46.680 narcissism, alienation, and superficiality permeate our popular culture. Our laws,

00:05:54.600 although based on ancient codes, are corrupted by judges. Every man's thoughts

00:06:00.540 and every woman's thoughts are now the property of the emerging surveillance

00:06:05.220 state. Truly, this is the time foreseen by the seerists in the ancient poem,

00:06:10.680 Wind age, wolf age, till the world falls.

00:06:17.680 The temple so lovingly preserved by Norwegians a thousand years ago emerged in this time and place for a reason.

00:06:28.180 Ours is the time of awakening.

00:06:31.440 Awakening, that is, if the gods of honor and valor can win against the gods of gold and whoredom.

00:06:39.100 if men and women will remember their ancestors, and if blood runs true.

00:06:46.360 Across the north lands the ravens stir in the trees, great chieftains await the call,

00:06:53.300 heroes strive to be reborn, but we, their descendants, no matter where on earth we now live,

00:07:00.700 must call them if they are to awaken.

00:07:06.540 I call them.

00:07:08.280 I call on Odin and Frigga,

00:07:11.500 Thor and Seif,

00:07:13.260 Frey and Freyja.

00:07:15.180 I call on the ancestors all holy

00:07:18.560 and the heroes who sleep in the mounds.

00:07:22.600 Let us remember that we are the sons and daughters

00:07:25.560 of warriors and poets,

00:07:27.720 mystics and seers,

00:07:29.080 adventurers and explorers. Even now the old gods stir. Organizations dedicated

00:07:37.720 to the indigenous faith of the Northlands, called Alsatru or simply Our Faith,

00:07:43.000 or by many other names, exist in many countries. Like the emergence of a

00:07:49.300 forgotten Norwegian Hoff in 2012, they are here because a wind of awakening

00:07:56.100 blows through the branches

00:07:57.760 of the world tree

00:07:59.060 because it is

00:08:02.120 time

00:08:02.720 we will chain the wolf

00:08:06.460 this is

00:08:10.240 Steve McNallan of the Asatru Folk

00:08:12.080 Assembly, thank you for listening with

00:08:14.100 us today and please tune in

00:08:16.000 to the next edition of

00:08:18.020 Asatru Rising

00:08:19.580 you can reach us at

00:08:22.020 our website www.

00:08:23.720 www.runestone.org

00:08:27.080 Thank you.

Asatru Folk Assembly - March 03, 2021

Temple Unearthed in Norway 2012

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