Temple Unearthed in Norway 2012
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Summary
When an intact pre-Christian temple was unearthed in Norway recently, archaeologists were overwhelmed with comments like unique and unprecedented splashed across internet news pages. The clear intentions of the ancestors were ruthlessly betrayed for mere money. Who owns the past?Who owns the gods? Is there a right to bulldoze an ancient holy site in Norway, or in Ireland for profit?
Transcript
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This is Steve McNallan of the Ausatru Folk Assembly, bringing you the latest on the revival
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of the ancestral faith of Northern Europe and the awakening of the European descended peoples
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everywhere. Our gods and goddesses never went away. They are with us always, and now they stir
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A circle of stones 15 meters across and a meter high
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Leading up to the circle was a processional road
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that had not felt a human foot for a thousand years.
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deliberately hidden from those who would harm it,
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awaiting the day it would be safe to once again honor the old gods.
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Surely, those who covered it must have thought,
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and our descendants will be glad that we have saved this for them.
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When an intact pre-Christian temple was unearthed in Norway recently,
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bulldozed to make way for a housing development.
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as they tenderly buried the holiest place they knew,
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have imagined a world where gold was more important than God's?
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Where their own descendants would destroy their temple
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so that the profane houses of workers would forever crush that which they loved.
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When the steel blade of the bulldozer bit into the sacred earth,
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The clear intentions of the ancestors were ruthlessly betrayed for mere money.
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What would I have done had I been magically transported
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to the site of that crucial moment of destruction?
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Had I been the bulldozer driver, would I have refused and lost my job?
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Had I been a bystander, would I have risked prison, injury, possibly even death to stop the machine?
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But sometimes being a man is enough, especially if that man is doing the right thing.
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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds
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for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods?
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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?
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one of the old rune poems says that gold causes strife among kinsmen the wolf grows up in the
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woods so what does this cryptic verse mean anyone who has sat in a lawyer's office to attend the
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reading of a will has seen this family members do battle with each other to get money and they hate
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each other for the rest of their lives and the wolf in the poem he is none other
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than Fenris the wolf restrained only by the bonds of love and kinship that we
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forge with each other from generation to generation and across the centuries
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when the wolf is loosed Ragnarok the great battle at the end of this cycle of
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time can only follow. In Norway the wolf is loose, the gift of one's ancestors
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passed on for a thousand years, thrown away for a pile of money. Not that all
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Norwegians would have plowed the temple of their forefathers, and not that America
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is any better. We too have sold, given away, our inheritance. Materialism,
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narcissism, alienation, and superficiality permeate our popular culture. Our laws,
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although based on ancient codes, are corrupted by judges. Every man's thoughts
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and every woman's thoughts are now the property of the emerging surveillance
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state. Truly, this is the time foreseen by the seerists in the ancient poem,
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The temple so lovingly preserved by Norwegians a thousand years ago emerged in this time and place for a reason.
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Awakening, that is, if the gods of honor and valor can win against the gods of gold and whoredom.
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if men and women will remember their ancestors, and if blood runs true.
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Across the north lands the ravens stir in the trees, great chieftains await the call,
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heroes strive to be reborn, but we, their descendants, no matter where on earth we now live,
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Let us remember that we are the sons and daughters
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adventurers and explorers. Even now the old gods stir. Organizations dedicated
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to the indigenous faith of the Northlands, called Alsatru or simply Our Faith,
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or by many other names, exist in many countries. Like the emergence of a
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forgotten Norwegian Hoff in 2012, they are here because a wind of awakening