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  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. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13.  @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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Trolldom this and trolldom that. But what about TRELLDOM?! 😄
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21.  @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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  22. And this is still cheap compared to Sweden! I paid something like €1400 for a 90 sqm apartment.
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