00:00:00.000There's a concept in Aryan mythos in general of horse goddesses and of cow goddesses and meaning the horse goddess is more wild and untamed and represents the unmarried women and women in a more raw elemental context, often a more sexual context.
00:00:25.760and the the cow goddesses are goddesses that are more about the home and the hearth and the raising
00:00:33.880of children and women in relationships as as wife as mother um and i think you see freya and frigga
00:00:44.520as as exemplars of this dichotomy um but i don't think that those things don't overlap and i don't
00:00:52.920believe that our gods or our goddesses are one-dimensional um you know thor's not just
00:00:59.180strong he's other stuff too um freya's not just sex and magic she's other things as well
00:01:07.500so um i i don't view our gods as archetypes and i don't view our gods as the result of
00:01:13.880linguistics i view our gods as actual spirit persons and one thing that you know i will say
00:01:19.520I understand that if we go back, there are undoubtedly, if we take all of the continental sources, all of the British Isles sources, all of the Scandinavian sources, I'm certain that there are some deities and some personages that overlap or that are a confusion of one or the other.
00:01:45.380But when practicing religion piously, I would much rather err on the side of worshiping two different aspects of a God as two separate things than mistakenly assuming that they're the same God and only worshiping one and excluding the other.
00:02:07.240um at the end of the day if one of our gods happens to be worshiped under two different names
00:02:15.180in two different ways they still get that worship and that relationship still exists
00:02:20.780if i make the mistake and only worship the one and not the other if i'm wrong one of our gods
00:02:29.720doesn't get that worship that they're entitled to and doesn't get that uh love and worship from
00:02:35.460from their folk and i would never want that to happen i think it would be impious so that's why
00:02:40.800we tend to err on the side of always assuming that they're distinct and different even when
00:02:46.760sometimes that may or may not be the case