Youtube comments of (@bjornekdahl721).

  1. A VERY VERY interesting aspect here is the top chakra ve∂rfölnir (Väderfölne in Swedish), basically meaning 'the fading/subsiding wind'. If we take the concept nirvana (to find peace and no longer being reborn) it literally means 'nirva' - wind, and 'na' - no, i.e. 'no wind'. It's the same as the moksha. So hinduism (sanathana dharma), buddhism and jainism all basically say that when the individual mind (atman – also meaning 'breath', just like what Odin blew into us) understands that it's a part of the Brahman it will find peace, the 'wind' will no longer blow. Don't we have something here?!
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  2. The pumpkins used at halloween nowadays represent the skulls of the ancestors that people used to pick up from the graves and put outside the houses this time a year, to be able to communicate with them. Indo European spirituality was almost more about ancestor veneration than one of worshipping the gods. One day you'll be an ancestor. Don't forget that one is immortal until the last person utters your name. So make sure to live a life full of hamingja and worth being remembered. And don't forget to 'sing the names' of your ancestors. That way we're immortal.
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  3. Complex topic. Certain people and places definitely 'belonged' to a certain deity. Pythia, the oracle of Delphi, was appointed to Apollon. The warrior class of Norse society was appointed to Tyr, Odense means 'Odin's ve' i.e. Odin's holy place. Thor's hammers are overrepresented in Skåne and Denmark. But that all seems to have been on an institutional level. And tbh also 'fashion'. In general I don't think people in their everyday life belonged to ONE deity like in Christianity. That would be like wanting to win Champion's league in football, but your team only consists of a goalie. Pagans are opportunists. They're like 'Ok, we've got a ghost here. Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!'
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  4. We all die in battle. 'The death of the warrior' means having finally defeated false ego. In the Vedic scriptures we can read about that we choose (VAL!) our swadharma before entering a new life. To die in battle and entering Valhall is having fought for becoming a better and more conscious person. You have chosen your destiny that the next life will be less attached to ego.
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  5. We're all pagan by instinct! Greetings from the Hamingja Foundation
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  6. Magni. The word itself related to mægen/megin, i.e. the force of life. In an animistic world everything has life force, the power to act. Therefore everything is related to Magni. The name is also related to English 'make', 'might/mighty' and also German 'machen' and 'mag'. Same thing with Swedish 'makt' (power/force) and 'mäktig' (powerful). Magni has to do with life force, the ability to act and to change. What has Magni (megin) is animate. What doesn't is inanimate.
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  7. Tbh the Nordic glima wrestling reflects the ethics of our ancestors – get your opponent down on the ground quickly, and you win if you show that you can immediately get up and away from danger. Nothing like today's cowardly and dishonorable fighting with 10 on 1 and not stopping until the person on the ground is dead.
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  8. I actually hadn't seen this video before, but here we once again have the things I've mentioned – that the physical cosmos is created from the resonance from a sound; the word AUM that The Divine (brahman) utters. A stands for creation, U stands for conservation and M for destruction, which later became Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. And when the Divine manifests physically it does that with a roaring Sound (i.e. Rudra, or let's call it Big Bang if we'd like) and takes an elliptical shape (lingam). It's so clear that all the Indo European peoples have the same source.
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  9. On top of what I've written before, about ritual and yogic prana breathing, I'm thinking that this came from the Vedic soma (homa in Zoroastrianism). Indra drank large amounts of Soma before and while fighting the serpent demon Vritra. It is said to give immortality. The steps of the ritual and procedure of Soma are also connected to 'conquering territory' (like the kóyros we've mentioned before). In Rig Veda there's a chant - 'what can hostility do to us now, and what the malice of a mortal? You are elixir of life, achieve physical strength or light of god, achieve control over senses; In this situation, what can our enemy do to me?'. The Zoroastrians drank homa to grant speed and strength to warriors. Since the Vedic and Avestan periods the peoples have changed plants over time (I have many examples, if you're interested) so it's quite likely that so did the Norse.
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  10. ​ @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  In the Somayajna ritual today it is the somalatha plant that is used, and the Zoroastrians that are left use ephedra mixed with pomegranate twig (and used in the battle between order and chaos). Historically and trying to find the original identity of the soma plant they're mainly talking about 10 plants – in fact the fly agaric (rød fluesopp ;) is one of the most commonly mentioned. The others are: the already mentioned somalatha, the psilocybin mushroom Psilocybe cubensis, Ephedra, the perenn Peganum harmala, the Lotus flower Nelumbo nucifera, the fungus Claviceps purpurea, the sugarcane Saccharum Sara and cannabis. Haven't had time to figure out which of them grow in Europe. What we DO know – and here it gets very interesting is that the original proto-Indo European word for this drink is *medhu – 'methu' in Greek, ('mead' in English and 'mjöd' around here) and the Greeks had another word for wine, so it was NOT alcohol (in fact the Sanskrit/Hindi word to describe the characteristics of Soma drink is 'madhu', meaning sweet or honey). Odin actually steals 'the mead that's been mixed with blood and been fermented' and uses it to create peace between the Aesir and Vanir. The Celts had the 'Flaith' drink, meaning 'red ale'. In Homer we find several ritual drinks beside the 'methu', for example the Nekter drink (ambrosia meaning 'not dying' in Koinë Greek). I could go on and on, but as you know YouTube comments aren't the right forum for this ;) One thing is for sure – the Indo European tradition is FULL of ritual drinks, made out of everything from alcohol to hallucinogen mushrooms and plants. It's part of our history and worldview and very important in my opinion.
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  11. Don't know if I've mentioned it before, but a recent study from Florence University proves that based on IF and HOW you speak to plants and trees they grow more and live longer. Not only because of the carbondioxide in your exhalation, but based on the tone and vibration of your voice. Plants that were spoken to nicely grew more, while plants shouted at or ignored grew less or stopped growing. Our ancestors understood this, while the Christians forbade pagans by law to 'talk to trees'. They also cut down the lion's share of European forests. For me it's just getting clearer and clearer that animism is real, not 'immature superstition'.
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  12. Thomas Rowsell (Survive the Jive) has made a fine video on the parts of the self. In the traditional Indo European animism we knew that the self had several parts, and only one was immortal and later merged with the divine (atman/brahman - that later became Valhall). They also had the view that if a thing, like a stone, had so few 'parts' in this dimension, then it must have the other parts in higher realms. It is therefore likely that our ancestors cherished and appreciated things that so obviously had so few parts left in this realm and therefore must be able to 'lend you' the energies of higher realms. As we both know it was all about the 'ghosti' principle – being the guest and host, exchanging gifts and building a relationship to every spirit.
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  13. Great video! Another idea: Considering that (Indo)Europeans always have lived close to the spiritual leader (not the least because communities were small) there must've been rites of passage, like the Vedic 'samskaras'. If we listen to 'He who must not be named' one of them was for the child to enter the grave of the ancestors at the age of 7 or 8, to sort of 'become' him/herself (i.e. the ancestor). It would be interesting to dig deeper in what we know about rites of passage among the Germanic tribes. If you want I can help with information as research and ideas. All the best / Björn
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  14. I've heard that Mjölnir was originally, during the Stone Age, 'just' a (flint)stone that was put on the chest of a person who had died, and it was believed that the life force (megin/mægen) went in there, and when a child in the village was turning seven he/she entered the grave, took the stone and hung it around the neck and by doing so actually 'became' the ancestor. That was also when you took the ancestor's name.
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  15. Thanks for once again pointing out that our gods are metaphors for forces/phenomena in nature. People need to hear it; in their judeo-christian context they still think it's supernatural bearded men sitting on clouds.
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  16. To pragmatic people who don't believe in the divine or the afterlife I always say that at least they believe in the laws of physics, from which we know that energy can't be created nor destroyed – only converted from one form to another (1st law of thermodynamics). So we are de facto immortal, in one way or another.
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  17. I personally connect Ullr with Skadi. She's also the hunter, and the personification of winter and darkness. The reminder that life is ups and downs, that night is the mother of day, and that hardships strengthens you. Skadi – and Ullr too for me – is the reminder to strengthen yourself, physically and mentally, cause life will be hard and only the strong survives. Prepare during the day what it'll take to get through the night (🎵 When night falls / she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness / a chill rises from the soil / and contaminates the air / suddenly life has new meaning). When I think of Ullr I also think of the episode in Bhagavad Gita when Arjuna wants to give up on the battlefield but Krishna forces him to continue fighting – 'You have to fight!' – a reminder that we can't just lay down and die, we are all Dharma warriors and our actions will come back to us whether we want it or not.
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  18. Hi again! Since we have so few texts and sources from the Norse and Germanics I often go to the Vedic and early Persian texts. Considering the (Proto)Indo European heritage we share it’s quite likely that this is what the Norse and Germanic worldview looked like. And the similarities are immense.
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  19.  @noahriding5780  This was the most entertaining comment I've ever read. I'll see you in about 30 years when you've studied maths, history, linguistics, anthropology and history of religion.
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  20. #MakeEuropeForestAgain
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  21. One of your fellow compatriots – who apparently mustn't be mentioned on YouTube, but who is very knowledgeable – has spoken a lot about this topic. Among other things the old peoples in Scandinavia entered graves to 'become the ancestors' – when someone died they put a flintstone on the chest of the dead, where the mægen accumulated, and when a child was 7 years old they entered the grave of the ancestor to take the stone and hang around the neck, to take the mægen and 'become' the ancestor. They then also took the ancestor's name. If they dared doing all this they got gifts at jul, otherwise not. The name elves (alfar) itself comes from this; the dead were wrapped in white fabric and painted with ash in the face, and were thus called 'the white ones' (with alfr meaning white, compare for example latin 'alba'). On top of this the old Scandinavians also took things from graves to 'remember previous lives', by possessing the looted things. Another thing they did in the graves was to take out the skulls of the ancestors and put outside the houses in the autumn to remember them. This tradition later became halloween, and when the christians forbade using skulls they started using pumpkins as a substitute. Edit: When finishing the video I saw that you mentioned the compatriot who mustn't be named.
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  22. Pyrrhichios (the Pyrrhic dance), the Greek weapon/war dance, is extremely ancient and also well-attested.
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  23.  @pauladee6937  Haha, this person was so out of bounds that it was quite amusing. I don't think there was one single correct statement in his comment, so it just got ridiculous enough to laugh at. For 2000 years the 'merchants' and desert religions have tried to erase our true roots, but they'll never succeed. We're pagan by instinct!
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  24. I'm quite sure the Norse/Germanics followed the principle of least effort/resistance when meditating or at seidr/utiseta etc. Not because they were lazy, but because they were pragmatic and smart. Imagine doing utiseta for hours and hours if you're not comfortable at all under your cloak.
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  25. Do like you do with 'normal people' – the foundation of Indo European spirituality has always been generosity and hospitality; being the host and the guest at the same time and exchanging gifts, creating a relation. And like in all relationships you might receive insight and knowledge as a gift back.
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  26. Writing a book about megin I definitely know about the amazing energy related health benefits of walking barefoot. And personally I know of those you mention too, but it’d be nice to know where you’ve found this information. I definitely believe you, but I always want to check sources before I myself claim something to friends and acquaintances. So it’d be nice to know where your information comes from. Lovely video as always, btw. All the best / Björn
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  27. The small city of Höör in Skåne is actually named after hörgr, so something must've been very important there. And many other Swedish places got -hörg or -harg in them, but often became -herge, -hälla or even -erid. Btw, a video on the sacred places and groves (ve) would be very interesting. I've heard that our ancestors sometimes built the hörgr inside a ve, and the whole site was the 'altar'. Then there was also a fire in front of the hörgr. Speaking of ve – so many Scandinavian places are named with that, not the least Odens(v)e, Vä, Ullvi, Karlevi, actually even the city of Skövde, that was originally Skedevi. Hälsningar från Sverige!
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  28. To circumambulate something is to honor that which is circumambulated, and the spirit associated with it. (Proto)Indo-European rituals often included this, since movement is to act in natural accordance with the Xártus. Interestingly enough, compared to the later phenomena you describe, is that the original (P)IE way was always to circle clockwise, since this is how the sun moves, and it'd be to act in accordance with natural order. You invoke the power of nature, you become the sun – and the object becomes that which the sun orbits. Also, for the (P)IE it was important to move clockwise since then you'd always have your right side toward it – meaning you honor it. Moving counterclockwise did happen, and that was the kind of magic when you wanted to disestablish something, to break things up and open them, so that your prayers may enter the realm that way.
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  29.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  The 'A raven shit on my car what is Odin trying to tell me?' pagans often accuse Rowsell for being 'not pagan enough' (not the least because I think he married his wife in a Christian church), but he's a historian and extremely cunning. I'd say that he's one of the most well-read (and eloquent!) pagan sources on YouTube. He's posted many a fine video here, not the least his 'From runes to ruins' and the interview with the Vedic guru Pravartaka Acharya.
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  30. I'd say that Loki is evolution.
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  31. För att hitta tillbaka till sig själv och studera magi är det viktigt att betänka att ett av orden som de gamla skandinaverna använde för magiker var 'vitki', som tex i meningen man hittat på runstenar och runstavar – 'Ek vitki rist runar' (Det vill säga: 'Det var jag, magikern, som ristade runorna'), och att ordet vitki kommer från verbet 'veta' eller 'känna till'. Tänk till exempel på tyskans wissen, anglosaxiska witch och Wicca, ja till och med hinduiska Veda-skrifterna är samma ord! Någon som var magiker var alltså någon som visste hur saker och ting fungerade, hur allt sitter ihop. Det går alltså att söka och lära sig, och till slut få vetskap. Men det är skillnad på att 'bi∂ja' och 'blóta' – för att be om något måste man också offra något. Titta bara på Oden!
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  32.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  I wanna point out that I follow the Norse path, but that I use the Vedic (and proto/indo European) sources to find my own roots. You know that already, but just so you know that I can help not only with the Vedic part! And I'd gladly help you with research, input, ideas etc. Your channel is much needed! Btw, look at the Wikipedia article on (or Google) Kóryos – an Indo-European warrior phenomenon that was the origin of Berserkr/ulfhednar.
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  33. Konstruktiv feedback: Musiken i bakgrunden är lite väl hysterisk. I övrigt STORT tack för en informativ video. Hell Oden, och varma hälsningar från Skåne!
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  34. Once again I go to the Vedic/Hindu sources. Tomorrow they celebrate Ram Navami – the victory of good over evil and offerings to the solar deity. Thanks for another good video! (P.s. The Hindus are celebrating for 'níu' days.)
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  35. ​ @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger  You're missing the point here. I and the channel owner here have several times discussed the similarities between Germanic and Vedic views. It's not about what we 'want to do in 2021' but the FACT that all these views come from the same (proto)Indo-European people. For example the trimurti Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva (Varuna-Mitra-Aryaman) is one of the most significant views of all the Indo-European beliefs. Just like the worship of the sun and the moon, veneration of the fire Agni/Lógi, the natural law dharma/wyrd/örlog, karma/hamingja, Prana/megin and so on and so on.
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  36. In the Hamingja Foundation's Discord server we've discussed the relation between Viking raids and the many millennia older Kóryos tradition; the coming of age period/ritual where young people (-ingr) became outcasts for a year and had to survive, raid and up their honor before being allowed to return home. This makes me think that Viking rather stems from 'vigd' – dedicated/devoted – and 'ingr' – youngling, youth, of someone's kin etc. So a young person who's dedicated his life to raiding in the Proto-Indo-European Kóryos tradition.
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  37. Heathen (hedning/hei∂ınn/hai∂no) in itself is Jewish/Abrahamic terminology, both used in Mark (7:26-) and Talmud to pejoratively describe Hellenistic people living outside the Jewish community – i.e. being non-Jewish. The word hai∂no/hæ∂en/hai∂I was the Gothic try to translate the Old Testament's word for Hellenistic.
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  38.  @janosch1097  No news yet. I'm working on it, but just like the owner of this channel I'm a busy man, so things take some time. Keep your eyes open for Hamingja Foundation (my Indo European community showing up soon) and you won't miss any info in the future.
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  39. What's a naaf? Do they mean knife?
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  40.  @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger  Interesting that you've spent 12 years of your life as a Vedic monk and still don't see the connections between ALL the Indo-European spiritualities. Sorry to hear that not only the third eye has been closed. I could honestly give you a thousand examples right here and now. But let me give you only one: If you can't see the connection between Shiva/Rudra – 'the first breath', the first atman, the first manifestation who 'roared' (Rudr) when he came out to teach us about the mysteries of atman/brahman – and Odinn, literally meaning 'breath' – who sacrificed the physical to learn about the metaphysical and 'breathed life' into everything and encourages us to a lifelong growing and learning, just like Shiva, well then I'm getting worried.
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  41.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  I recommend the YouTube channel DharmaNation, with the amazing guru Sri Acharya, an American who's possibly THE most cunning living person in the field in the world today, who's also ... how shall we put it ... pro Indo European, haha. It's just ASTONISHING how much I understand my own path by understanding Vedism.
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  42.  @svetislavljubisavljevic674  Slavs, Norse, Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Germanics, Greeks, Romans, Hindus, Zoroastrians and many more. It's the faith (and languages) of the Proto-Indo Europeans. And don't worry – we'll be brothers again. It's happening as we speak.
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  43. It's important to point out that in none of the Indo European paths the gods are the 'solution' or 'end goal'. That is an Abrahamic thought (and you can clearly see it in today's very monotheistic so called Hinduism too). The traditional IE view is that there is a divine order – xártus – to which all individual souls – swártus – belong. It is the atman in the brahman. It is the hieros gamos; the marriage between heaven and earth. The gods are neither omnipresent nor omnipotent. They may be powerful beings, and they can definitely help you towards your goals, but they're not THE goal. They are 'persons' just like we are, albeit non-human persons and very powerful ones. Paganism and animism is to realize the divine natural order and to establish a RELATIONSHIP to spirits that can help you to the xártus. The death of the material body is the true sacrifice to the divine. (Even Jesus understod this, sacrificing his body to ascend into the xártus. It was those coming after him not understanding what he was doing.) The Vedic ritual of darshan, where you 'visit' the god, derives from the Sanskrit verb 'drush' – to see/regard. Like Tacitus states our ancestors were spiritually intellectual people and they worshiped what they de facto SAW with the eye of reverence (3rd eye). They went to visit the god here it belongs, and they believed what they saw and experienced. If you experience the birth of summer and the importance of it, you also worship the inner essence of it. Personally I actually think that the idols and figurines of the late paganism were remaining parts of the original animism – that they used them as talismans/amulets where the the spirit 'lived' and with which they created a personal relationship. They kind of visited the god.
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  44.  @hyperelon5067  Haven't seen it, but it wouldn't be the first time Disney borrows from history, right?
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  45. Ovaries! No wind! Selection of dharma! Read all about it! Knowing that all the Indo European peoples – no matter where they ended up – were very aware of the self-realization and the atman going up in the brahman and had a reincarnation world view, Valhall as a 'heaven you go to when you die in battle' is out of the question. Possibly much later on someone might've thought that – when it all comes down to it we all actually die in battle, since life is struggle and suffering (not the least according to Buddhism). Jung's Warrior archetype has Indo European roots, and 'the death of the warrior', i.e. the death of the ego with self-realization as a result, is something we all have to go through, and the Indo European peoples did this both physically and symbolically to reach your higher level (the YT account Thoughts on thinking has a great video on the strive for excellency in Homer). Nirvana – nirva=wind and 'na' is the negation, so meaning 'no wind' – and moksha is the most probable origin of what later became Valhall. Where there's no struggle and suffering (wind) there's peace, i.e. no more rebirth. In the Vedic texts they talk a lot about that death is just a state where you choose (VAL!) your soul's swadharma before being reborn. I personally also think that Valhalla is a metaphor for the ovaries – a place where you choose your swadharma but also where you are the one chosen to be reborn. Of millions of sperms the egg (Freja) chooses one sperm to fertilize. We are all the chosen one – we have been 'VALD' (VALGT in Norwegian). In nature it's all a selection. And a very interesting last point is that the norn Skuld (meaning both 'debt' and 'what will come' simultaneously, for our non Scandinavian readers) means that you actually are in debt to your own future, the future and the duties you have CHOSEN before this life. You have a choice, but you gotta fulfill your duties, your personal dharma. And you will die in battle while doing it.
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  46. @Blanc Neige There will also be a Discord group (for serious people) coming up soon.
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  47.  @neutral2380  That two people kiss doesn't prove there's love between them. But if you feel it you know it.
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  48.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  I read and listen a lot to Ceisiwr Serith (his taken Indo-European pen name) and he's extremely well grounded when it comes to sources. He's always talking about the IE and already PIE peoples having clockwise and dawn as their two most important foundations. Interestingly then that somewhere down the line it must've changed, or we're just missing the point, that some rituals and actions were meant to be made counterclockwise.
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  49.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  Nowadays they say it's mainly a Vishnu festival (hence the name Rama), but below that they celebrate victory for goodness and the light.
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  50.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  I've definitely read it in Varg's books – and if we disregard his reputation and politically correct opinions about him he's an extremely cunning man in this field. I've also read about the above in at least one more source, but I just can't remember which at the moment.
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  51.  @wulfheort8021  What you write is the perspective Thor brings up in the video, and nothing new to me. You heard me present another theory. There's no doubt the Viking tradition (just like Berserkr and Ulfhednar tradition, and the Lupercalia in Greece and Rome etc) stems from the Kóryos. Ingr has to do with youth and being of the same kin. Also; the letters K and G were often used interchangeably.
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  52. Watch Arith Härger's latest video on talismans.
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  53. They were basically two 'schools' of warriors. Read for example about the Greek kóryos. In the Indo European societies it was very common with a 'military service'. In the Vedic tradition this 'school' started already when you were 8 years old, with reading heroic poetry about battles. And you 'belonged' to either the wolf or bear team (most likely this had spiritual purposes too.) The wedding ends the warrior phase, and you enter the householder (artha) stage.
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  54. Cernunnos, see my comment above about this.
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  55.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  I actually want your advice concerning the book: I'm hesitant whether to let it go VERY deep into megin (and thus having a more 'hardcore' and cunning target group) or rather introducing megin and ways of strengthening megin in everyday life as a way to make westerners realize that they have their own spirituality right in front of them.
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  56.  @fvrorpoeticvs  My messages get deleted since I mention other places. Look for Hamingja Foundation and you'll find the contact page
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  57.  @oscarrang986  Ok. Tell me a bit about yourself and your interest and practice in the pagan path, and what you want to get out of being a part of our group. (Du kan skriva på svenska om du är svensk)
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  58. Fizzics
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  59. Trolldom this and trolldom that. But what about TRELLDOM?! 😄
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  60. For some reason I came to think of the wonderful song 'Gal anda' by Of the Wand & the Moon, with its lyrics from the magic spell from the Högstena churchyard inscription, to make the dead stay in their graves.
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  61. Vi är många här som gärna hjälper dig framåt i detta. Jag och skaparen av denna kanal håller på att bygga upp ett litet community där vi ska göra just det. Det är viktigt att vi hittar tillbaka till våra rötter. Allt gott till dig
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  62. Hej igen! Once again thinking about this video and the research you're doing for upcoming videos, and I just wanted to share my thoughts from this morning – that for the original Vedic 'Hinduism' (that wandered into India from the west) it was also very important NOT to worship in temples etc, but instead outdoors. That must've been the Indo-European heritage, and maybe there's even more to what you're saying about temples and worship among the Norse. Just thinking out loud here, and don't know what value this has for you, but I thought I'd share it with you. (Despite the Scandinavian background we have in common I'm writing in English for the sake of your channel.)
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  63. See my comment above.
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  64. What happened to Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras?
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  65.  @danilapolesciuk4316  The first documented mention that the earth is round is from 5th century BC. But they knew it much earlier than that.
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  66.  @janosch1097  Pagans did (do) indeed pray a lot. Just watch all the statues/sculptures of praying pagans, or why not read all the Vedic and/or (proto)Indo European prayers? Or all the praying Greeks, sitting on their knees with their hands towards the sky? There's even a Proto-Indo-European word for praying - 'gwedh'. And then we're many many thousand years back in time. Where you're actually right is the ghosti-principle of reciprocity. The PIE word 'ghosti' means that you're the guest and the host at the same time. The Norse said 'Man måste blota för att bi∂ja' – to ask for something you gotta give.
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  67.  @torstenscott7571  American subjects? I've never seen/heard him comment on anything American. You're sure you're not mixing it up? The only thing I've heard him say about modern times is that we have a hard time understanding animism in a society influenced by Abrahamism. Anywho, my comment was aimed at Demoncore above. So ignore it if you want. Otherwise I'd gladly give more information or recommend other videos and sites. All the best / Björn
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  68.  @torstenscott7571  That sounds very weird and like a big mistake of him. I normally appreciate his content and thoughts, but in that case it sounds like he went somewhere he shouldn't have. I'm creating a community for Indo European spirituality, so soon you'll hear more about that. Take care!
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  69. Thanks for another interesting video. I shudder at the thought of Irminsul! Btw, I've heard of several (British) excavations in groves showing thorn hedges enclosing a hörgr. I guess that must've been seen as permanent 'temples'.
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  70.  @hyperelon5067  Coco Chanel?
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  71. A video about not watching videos.
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  72. ​ @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  Spontaneously; It is a late concept, and it's a devotee/sectarian (Bhakti) concept. And most importantly, it has to do with the heroic ideal that was the fundament of all IndoEuropean culture. If we go all the way back, the IndoEuropeans had their 'Otherworld' – depicted as peaceful meadows (vangr/enger!), a place bordered by rivers where you forgot about the carnal and got spiritual insight when crossing them, guarded by someone (later on either Odin or Freja) and a waiting room for being reborn. It was all about samsara, and never 'a nice place where you stay forever' (that's a very late concept). I mean, the earliest peoples de facto put the dead in the ground cause they had seen plants grow up from seeds if you put them in the soil. The only mentioning about such a place in the Vedic texts is 'the world of the fathers', but that too is about a place where the soul waits to take another shape (hamr). Several things tell me that both Folkvangr and Valhall are late concepts and also sectarian (with that I mean that the later in time, the more people had 'chosen' gods), not the least the fact that you 'stay' there. Rudolf Simek claims that folkvangr can't be older than e.g. Grimnismál (10th century). And just like in India layer after layer has been put on the concept of the afterlife during thousands of years. The Germanic society was built upon different classes (varna), and both Valhall and Folkvangr were connected to the late Warrior caste (Kshatriya). Everything indicates that there must've been different 'teams' – belonging to either Freja or Odin. Areas and tribes that were close to Freja developed a devotion to her and 'ended up' in Folkvangr, and those linked to Odin had Valhall. If we look at the descriptions of the two places the only practical thing separating them is who chooses (Valfreja!) and allows you in. Folkvangr was also a way to show that there was a way for women too to suffer a noble death. For example, In Egil's saga Thorgerd's father is on some kind of hunger strike, and Thorgerd sympathizes and says she'd rather starve and 'meet Freja' (i.e. die a noble death) than to eat. Even death is seen as a sacrifice to the gods, a sacrifice of the material to reach God-realization. Very common in the Bhakti movement. And the love and devotion to Freja was very strong! Also, interestingly scholars say that Suebi Germanics knew of and venerated the Egyptian death goddess Isis, and that has a direct link to Freja. Summa summarum: The fact that IE and Vedic sources talk about death as peaceful meadows and rivers you cross before the next life, while Valhall and Folkvangr are depicted as violent 'forever homes' where you're chosen by a god, tells me that this is a Bhakti layer added on many thousand years later. It basically fitted in with the old 'Guardians' of the Otherworld. Not making it less true and probable though. I mean, the most common belief in India today is that you end up at the feet of Vishnu, and if you do you should be very happy. Freja is my Ishta Devata, someone I have a very strong love for, so I understand our ancestors.
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  73.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  What other social platforms do you use? Let’s connect in a place where we can interact and exchange thoughts more efficiently, and where I’m also more ‘visible’, since it feels weird and unfair that I haven’t presented myself at all and only have a raven as my avatar, haha.
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  74.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  Added you on Facebook. MAN it feels awkward to be there, but at least we can use the Messenger function.
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  75. @Blanc Neige I remember you were interested in the Discord server. Message me if you still wanna join.
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  76. Tells others to stop paying for content – offering content for payment himself.
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  77. @Blanc Neige I'm a complete n00b when it comes to YouTube (it's a platform I've never really worked with), but if I figure out how to publish it here too I will.
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  78.  @brotherknight9484  Say hello to your priest on your Bible studies this Sunday.
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  79.  @brotherknight9484  You didn't. Your words did.
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  80. People who believe in face diapers are screaming. That's the summary of this video. Thank me later.
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  81. Rumour has it that our Western medicine ceased to develop since the Christians forbade us to touch the dead, i.e. doing research.
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  82.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  Sent you a long *ss answer about Folkvangr in your precious video, btw.
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  83.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  The name Ekdahl is quite common in Sweden, not SUPER common, but not rare. As for my part of that surname I know that it was some of my relatives who added that name on as a 'soldatnamn' during the 1700's – since so many in the same battalion had the name Andersson they needed to distinguish them, so my relatives added a name based on the 'oak valley' where they lived and first became Andersson Ekdahl, and then just Ekdahl with time. When it comes to Miranda Ekdahl – if she's aged around 25-26 I know who she is. She lives in Lund, like 20 km from Malmö.
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  84. The dog's amputated and the cat is in prison.
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  85. See my other comment on this video.
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  86. I write a bit about that in my comment above.
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  87. There is some. Problem is that either you'll find the info on utiseta within a book about a larger topic (so not explicitly about utiseta) or you'll end up with these really Neo-pagan hocus pocus that has very little to do with authentic sources.
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  88.  @trimdinbusk  I'm sure you'll find info on it if you buy some other books on journeying/shamanism.I'd gladly share my notes on it but it's like four A4 pages and here on YT we're not allowed to copy/paste in the comments.
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  89.  @trimdinbusk  You'll find more about in books on like seidr and journeying. Good luck.
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  90.  @trimdinbusk  Did you find what you were looking for?
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  91.  @trimdinbusk  I have that kind of experience. Tell me a bit more about yourself and your spirituality. Maybe you can join our server (on another platform that I can't f-ing mention cause then the comment gets erased)
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  92.  @trimdinbusk  Haha as soon as I mentioned another platform the comment is erased. Go to Hamingja Foundation. That's the group I've founded and that we're building. Under Contact you'll find the server and also other ways for contact
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  93.  @trimdinbusk  Did you find the contact page? If not, see my previous comment.
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  94. ​ @janosch1097  I'd gladly discuss this further, but YT comments isn't the right place. My short answer is 'You're wrong'. It's not important at all for me to be right, but if you look at ALL the historic sources, all the texts, all the Greek and Roman books and dramas, all the poetry, if you look at Indo European sources etc they're all FULL of prayer to the gods. Yes, it's all about establishing a relationship, and there was always offerings, but there's prayer wherever you look. The word 'puja' (itself a way of worship) means 'flower', i.e. 'I come to you with a flower' and the gods answer 'If you come to me with a flower I'll accept it'. There are written hundreds of books on pagan prayer. At the Greek mysteries there was always prayer. The sole fact that all IE peoples have always had altars in one way or another is another proof of prayer. Or read Homer.
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  95. Puerto Rico is only American according to colonialists.
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  96.  @peropero2307  Take a look around you in the world, and you'll see all sorts of problems caused by ego. Everything has turned into a race, and people's health and situation is worse than ever.
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  97.  @peropero2307  I understand what you mean, but we're talking about two different things. You're talking about knowing yourself and being strong in body and spirit. And that's good. In my comments I'm talking about a higher philosophical theme, concerning what's 'real' and not. In most pagan paths we separate the physical self and ego from Atman, which is the true Self, the true individual soul that's part of Brahman. The physical world is basically an illusion, and people get too attached to things that aren't true.
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  98. @Blanc Neige I wrote to you on the 'other place' but I never heard from you again.
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  99. @Blanc Neige Good to hear.
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  100.  @torstenscott7571  Keep an eye on www.hamingja.foundation It looks like shit at the moment, and is mainly placeholders, but that's where I'll build little by little when time allows.
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  101. And this is still cheap compared to Sweden! I paid something like €1400 for a 90 sqm apartment.
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  102. Are they screaming because they're American?
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  103. 'This one time, at band camp...'
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  104.  @manywarswhitewolf7718  Make sure to follow this YT channel. He's got things right! There will also be a podcast called Hamingja Podcast coming up soon, where we'll go in depth in these topics.
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  105.  @nook969  Glad it is of value for you!
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  106. If cows had gods, their gods would look like cows.  – Xenophanes
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  107.  @norsemagicandbeliefs8134  I know that Sharyn Turner mentions the hedge excavations in her Wyrdwayz video on the thurisaz rune, but I've heard about this in other places too.
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  108. @Blanc Neige I actually agree with what he says in the video. What I said about talismans was just a little add-on to his thoughts.
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  109. ​@Blanc Neige Watch Arith Härger's excellent latest video on talismans. What I mean is that for example Thor's hammers or little figurines that people were wearing/owning during the Viking era were remnants of an animistic origin. We all have that origin, where everything was animated, but the later you go in pagan times the more the 'gods' are representations of what they once knew was living in nature. Where I agree with you is that today's so called 'Hinduism' has very little to do with the Vedic origin. On the other hand – spirituality on the Indian subcontinent has had maybe 10k years of unbroken development, so it would be strange if it hadn't changed. It's not always so easy to give the best answers in YouTube comments. If you really want to go to the bottom with where you come from you should study (Proto) Indo European beliefs, together with the really early Vedic period, and the earliest Greek sources. Pretty quickly you'll see the patterns what they really believed, and how advanced it was. You'll also discover that the beliefs during the Viking era – many thousand years later – was just a fragment of what we once were.
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  110. @Blanc Neige Looking at the Proto Indo European language is excellent. Cause, if there was a word for it, then there's a use for it. That's a good rule of thumb. I can give you many tips down the line, but if I were you I'd read the oldest Greek sources. Homer and the dramas. Maybe also study the old Greek mystery cults like the Eleusinian mysteries and the Delphic maxims. If you see what people DID, then you know what they believed. Cause paganism is orthopraxy, not orthodoxy. (Of course also try to study the first Veda texts)
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  111. This woman is right.
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