00:05:44.660She understood that she was desired, but she respected herself to such a degree that she outright had two suitors killed because she felt that she was being dishonored because these were people that were not worthy of her gifts, of her, and were not mannered enough to address her properly.
00:06:14.660So, I've got a lot and I don't want to, I don't want to miss the point, or I don't want to, I guess, flow stream of consciousness here and maybe not make sense.
00:06:30.300but there's some things that I really like to say. One thing that, I mean, I think a lot of us
00:06:40.120notice in society generally, but in my position as Alsherier Goethe, and just as a Goethe generally,
00:06:50.600a lot of what I do is counseling and helping people. And we talk on this program a lot about
00:06:57.580soul sickness and about the various ways that our people are, are suffering because
00:07:05.400of, you know, social conditioning and sicknesses of the time that we live in and separation
00:07:12.800from our traditional values and from our gods for a very long time, generationally.
00:07:18.600You mentioned a lot of this in what you were saying, Eric, and I think it was spot on society has taught our women for, I don't know, 60 or 70 years now.
00:07:40.600Now, varying shades of women, women and feminine things are bad or are not of as much value
00:07:54.320or not as good or less than are subpar in a direct comparison to men.
00:08:02.220So the only way that women can be valuable and taken seriously and celebrated is by them
00:08:10.100pretending that they're men and trying to be the best men they can be. And
00:08:20.100that is terribly damaging in so many ways. But one of them is it set up a paradigm to
00:08:27.940where they cannot possibly win. If the ultimate arbiter of value is man or not man,
00:08:36.900the very best woman will never be better than the very worst man because at the end of the day
00:08:44.720you know not to be vulgar but they can drop their pants one of them's a man one of them's not
00:08:50.160that's such a low standard and it's such an insidious
00:08:57.140device that it puts a goal in front of them that no matter how hard they tried, they could never
00:09:09.380possibly be satisfied with a reach. But in the meantime, we've watched generations of ladies
00:09:16.420spend their life pursuing something they can never quite attain and missing out on all the
00:09:24.740amazing things that are inherent to them, and look back with a lot of regret. One of the things
00:09:32.440that I've seen is this desperate need for acknowledgement. One thing that I hate seeing
00:09:38.620is whenever we have a symbol, and someone wants to raise a general toast to men, or to,
00:09:49.500you know if it's father's day and they want to raise a toast to to the fathers
00:09:55.320if they're talking about soldiers and they want to talk about men who've gone and fought and died
00:10:01.880it's you can almost count on it there's a knee-jerk immediate response i want to raise
00:10:08.100a horn too to the women that did stuff yay women and
00:10:13.040And there's obvious reasons that that's cringy and not great. But what it says to me on a deeper
00:10:23.500level is there's this desperate need for validation that if men get praised, they have to get
00:10:32.040something too, because there's a desperation there. And I don't care if they want to raise
00:10:37.020a horn to girl power. What I care about is the fact that something inside of them is broken
00:10:44.940to where they are so desperate for that acknowledgement. And I want my daughter
00:10:50.940raised in a place where she doesn't feel a desperate need to do that. And you'll notice
00:10:57.280men don't do that. If it's Mother's Day and we want to raise a horn to the mothers, somebody's
00:11:02.620like dads are good too. Nobody does that because we don't, that's not one of the ways that our
00:11:10.120soul is broken. It is one of the things about our ladies I would like to see fixed. And I think it
00:11:15.180has this inherent devaluation that our culture, especially nowadays when, you know, we're as a
00:11:24.580society pretending that gender doesn't exist. Reality has a way of pulling the carpet out
00:11:33.900from under you. If you exist in an imaginary bubble of wokeness that by legislation, people
00:11:41.040aren't allowed to pop. When reality sets in, you realize that in the competition to be
00:11:47.640a man no matter what surgeries and hormones and anything you do you will never reach that goal
00:11:56.680that's devastating if that's the only way you see you see value
00:12:01.600queen sigrid was exuded value she not only did she understand her value
00:12:12.560but her contemporaries did as well that's why the suitors were lining up
00:12:17.640She had tremendous value, value in her femininity and her being a woman, in her being the mother of kings, in her being able to produce offspring of she is that blood link to the kings of old, to the kings of the future, of dynasties bringing them together, of literally forging kingdoms through choices that she made.
00:12:44.240and she felt that and everyone around her knew that so this goes into you know
00:12:53.300it's it's me and eric two guys sitting here you know telling you ladies about
00:12:58.620lady stuff and in a way it's preposterous in another way we're two fathers of daughters
00:13:06.400who are tremendously interested in the things that we're saying because they matter to us
00:13:13.540in a way that they isn't as readily available to maybe some others. So one of the things I always
00:13:21.820get a little bit emotional thinking about it, I apologize for that. But
00:13:26.700I'm just thinking of stuff with my daughter, I always, always, always try to
00:13:33.560I don't know, tell her how special she is. Tell her, you know, in silly ways,
00:13:40.360Just like, yay, Aubrey's the best. Yay. And just tell her how great she is all the time,
00:13:45.900because I don't want her feeling like she's not. I want to reinforce that and ingrain that
00:13:51.900from literally the day she was born to where she knows that and she feels that. Because I think that
00:13:59.700that lack of feeling valuable often puts our ladies in very vulnerable positions when they
00:14:08.280are least able to fend them off when they're young when they're in school age when they're around
00:14:14.520you know teenagers and guys into their 20s they're put in a very vulnerable position
00:14:23.480and i want i don't want her to have those questions in her mind about
00:14:28.280her value that she's going into the game with um
00:14:32.040One of the things that's fundamental in what we do and in the tradition of our ancestors
00:14:40.540is this special, there's so many things, a couple of things, just to mention off the top of it.
00:14:48.620So when it came to having a tangibility with the interaction with our gods and with the world beyond the veil, women have always had a special ability that way that men don't have.
00:15:09.920um women are much more likely to be perceptive of those things to have what you know some would
00:15:17.880call second sight to be able to interact with spiritual forces in a way that men either can't
00:15:26.020or it's much harder for them to come by uh it's one of the things that tacitus talks about amongst
00:15:32.340our ancestors and why the the position of of vulva or saithcona was such an important thing
00:15:41.380because these women had this ability inherently to their to their sex to their gender that the
00:15:46.180men didn't have um so there's there's that and it goes into and i hope this makes sense and
00:15:54.340please ask questions if this wanders and and doesn't isn't as clear as i'd like it to be
00:16:02.340Women have an ability to shape and distribute power in a way that men don't.
00:16:17.560But that power is transmitted and bestowed by the women and by the people they choose
00:16:26.560to acknowledge, to show favor to, to give themselves to, in a way.
00:16:32.340you know, the prize of Queen Sigrid to whatever man was able to win her as a wife was a tremendous
00:16:41.680transmission of power and of dignity and of status, of regality itself. And we see that in
00:16:49.020our ritual culture. That's the reason that the horn passes in high symbol from women to the
00:16:56.360person speaking back to women, that ability of controlling who gets the horn, who's served first
00:17:02.580in the feasting hall, who gets their drinks first, the order in which people are seated.
00:17:08.840We see that tremendously. A really good book to read, ladies, if you're interested in this,
00:17:14.740is Lady with the Mead Cup. It is a dry read. It is repetitive, but it is worth the labor,
00:17:21.540And it speaks a lot about that ability to show and to distribute power.
00:17:28.860And all of that may seem ethereal, but in real world situations, you see this.
00:17:37.880In a room full of people, women distribute social credit in a very important way.
00:17:45.460The highest, you know, objectively, all things being equal, the highest valued guys in that room, if all the women ignore them and pick out one of the lower valued guys and show him deference and attention and take care of him and ooh and aah over what he says, immediately the power dynamic of that room changes.
00:18:08.440and I think that we've all seen that. It's one of the reasons we talk about our ladies
00:18:13.720and their ability to be frith weavers. If we're in a room and me and Eric are having a dispute
00:18:20.680amongst each other, Mandy and Laura on the side can fix all of that in a way that men don't do
00:18:28.640nearly as well. They have the ability to bring us together to soothe our, you know, anger or
00:18:37.780whatever indignity we feel we've suffered or whatever, and make that work. They have the
00:18:44.100ability to take guys who are shy, who are on the wall, who are scared to talk, make them feel like
00:18:50.400a million bucks and introduce them to the group to where they're part of stuff and they're included.
00:18:55.560They have the ability to take guys that are acting inappropriately, who are behaving ignobly, who are being bullies, whatever else they're doing, by not showing those guys attention, they're arbiters of what is socially acceptable or not socially acceptable.
00:19:15.140And women possess a tremendous power for that, not just in terms of regality or distribution of spiritual might with a drinking horn, of just helping groups of people get along together, of the smooth flow or not of society.
00:19:37.380They possess tremendous power amongst themselves, and it's important for, I guess, the social economy, when women hold themselves with dignity, things function in a really special way and have tremendous potential that they don't have.
00:20:01.440When those women are functioning out of desperation or out of a lack of self-esteem, it messes up that whole economy.
00:20:17.580The ability to, I don't know, women are extremely important.
00:20:23.160They're extremely valuable inherently in the gifts and the blessings that they come into this world with.
00:20:31.440And it's very important to instill, and this is back to the question of what we can do with
00:20:37.120our daughters. We can show them other female role models that are doing it right and encourage
00:20:43.980their interaction and learning from these women. We can build them up from the day they are born
00:20:50.780to celebrate how wonderful them being women is and how special they are. And we can reinforce
00:20:59.860that and build a solid foundation when children go out into the world and become adults
00:21:06.020so much of their strengths and their weaknesses go back to childhood and how they were raised
00:21:13.920and experiences they had when they were still forming their sense of who they were and their
00:21:19.300identity in the world we can't fix everything for them but if in those you know 18 years that we
00:21:29.440have that much influence over them. If we can fill them up with that much value and love and
00:21:37.980sense of self, they're much better equipped to face the world. And so I'm hopeful that we can
00:21:45.720all do our very best at making that happen. So the ladies of, you know, 20 years from now are
00:21:51.820in a better situation than the ladies of 20 years ago. And hopefully that keeps getting better.
00:21:59.440Um, that was rambly, but it's something I think about since I had a daughter. It's amazing how the everything changes when you have kids. And I knew that before I had kids. It's something you hear all the time, but you know it on a much different level when you do. And I absolutely feel that.
00:22:21.100So speaking of one of the ladies that our women would do well to look up to and learn from, Githya Anna says, Ufda, what time is it over there?