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Random Heathen Ramblings: S6, EP13 - Earth Worship Among The Germanic Tribes · Random Heathen Ramblings

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All right, so anyway, now we got all the the.
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The housekeeping stuff by the. Way why did I want to record
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today and in in this fashion I'm in my work office.
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I'm on kind of like a lunch break from from work.
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Normally I record these things in the Evening Times during, you
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me that you guys are. Used to.
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To seeing in in season 6. So the reason why I'm doing
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this? Here today is 2.
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Reasons #1 is that the day that I normally record is on Mondays
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and Monday. This week, the 21st, was my
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eighth year wedding anniversary. So I had.
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We have family that comes in from out of town on my wife's
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side. They live in California and
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North Carolina respectfully respectively.
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They they come in every year around this time of year.
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Too, Because. One of her aunt's.
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Birthdays is 2 days. Before our anniversary.
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Her other. Aunt and uncle are on her dad's
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side. Are also.
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Celebrating an anniversary the with within a week of hours.
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So they always come out this time of year and and we all
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gather, you know, it's the one time of year that the family
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gets together and and we celebrate all of those things
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together. So it's a it's kind of a family
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tradition. So that's the main reason why I
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didn't, you know, set Monday night.
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Aside to record. Because I was doing family stuff
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and then after dinner, you know, I wanted to keep my evening
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available to, to spend time with my wife, whether we watch a
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movie or, you know, just enjoy time with one another without
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any other, you know, obligations or things like that.
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So yes, eight years together, we made a joke or I made a joke.
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I don't think my wife found it too funny.
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I made a joke that my my 8th year wedding gift from her was,
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you know, an anniversary gift from her was a was a was a urn.
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Or a headstone. Because I know I give her more
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grief than I should. But bless her heart man, she's
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she's the best. Person that I know you know the
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best thing that's ever happened to me in a relationship and I.
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I have a lot of of. Improvements to make to, you
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know, show my appreciation to her and to make her feel like
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she is as important as she is to me.
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So then the other reason why you know, I I didn't or I I.
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Decided to to do the podcast today is because today.
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At the time of this recording. Is Earth Day April?
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22nd and you know so. That's like a big.
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Calendar date where people. Like to be conscious of our.
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Impact to the earth, right so so all of the environmentalists and
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activists and and and and and folks you know that that do this
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stuff every day that that think about our impact, our footprint,
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the carbon footprint that we. Leave by our behavior.
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You know, these are these are things that are there in their
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day-to-day. Lives, but you have other folks
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who. Seasonally, occasionally
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casually, they don't think about this stuff.
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And then of course, Earth Day comes around and, oh, protect
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the earth, you know, save the earth and think green and, you
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know, pick up trash and all this kind of stuff.
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Well, it got me thinking that, you know, OK, we've got this
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calendar date here, at least in the United States, where
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everybody becomes. Hyper aware.
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And conscious of again our our impact on the earth and what we
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do and how. We treat the Earth.
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And it made me start to think about the the importance that
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the earth was and and has been to dramatic heathens, our
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ancient ancestors in in even heathens now and today, and the
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importance. That the earth is in our beliefs
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so. The more I got to thinking about
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it, the more I, I, I go, yeah. Do we have any examples of
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ancient pre Christian practices or you know any sources that
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that point us in the direction? That the Earth specifically.
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Not, you know. The Gods of.
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You know. War or the sky?
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Or fertility, or anything. But like the Earth specifically,
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is there anything that we know of that can help us become
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informed of the? Ways that that the.
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Pre Christian Germanic tribes viewed the importance of the.
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Earth or viewed the. Earth, you know, and there are
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quite a few things that I'm going.
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To talk about today. Some of which you might know
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about, some of which you might have not.
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Heard before. You know, but either way, if if
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it is something that you're new to, you know, let me know, you
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know, share it in the comments. You can write into
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thepodcastmidgardmusingstn@gmail.com. You can call into the podcast
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Let us know what you think about it.
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All right. So it really should have come as
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no surprise, right? I mean with, with pretty much
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any Pagan belief or any Pagan practice, you know, nature is a
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central. Focus there.
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There's obvious. Things about Pagan practices
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across cultures that make it very clear and obvious that, you
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know, nature is is central. Nature is important in our
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relationship. As people.
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With nature sharing in space and engaging with the spirits that
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inhabit. That space is a is a very
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important aspect. Of a lot of Pagan beliefs and
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Germanic heathenry is is no different so one of the fun
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things I like to. To to do is.
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Is is look up, you know. How?
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How far back? Can we find examples of of stuff
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like this being important and what was ever documented?
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And it's it's hard to find things for the for the Germanic
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peoples because by and large they were not, at least in pre
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Christian times, they were, they were never ones they were they.
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First of all, they were they were illiterate.
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They didn't have, you know, anything to write things down or
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they, they couldn't read or write or what they could read
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were, you know, they're ruining characters and they didn't have
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any, you know, paper or anything.
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Pens and paper weren't a thing. Paper wasn't really a thing.
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It was, you know, you didn't write stuff down.
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To share your beliefs. It was all.
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Passed down orally so the the the documentation of things most
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things from lore and and and sagas and all of that didn't
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come about until Christianity began to spread and you and you
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and and you had more literate. People.
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Living in those areas, documenting things or or or
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educating the local Indigenous people.
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But so like. One primary source that we.
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Do have that that is AI guess I would at least.
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Consider a primary. Source of of.
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Germanic tribes, behavior, beliefs, worldviews, things like
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that is from Tacitus, because the reason why I say that I.
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Believe Tacitus. Can be considered a primary.
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Source is Tacitus. Does not write his things down
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from any sort of Christian bias. You know he doesn't have
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Christian bias. He is a Pagan at the time,
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albeit a Roman Pagan, but his. Views of the.
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World are a you know they they are from a from through a Roman
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Pagan perspective. So what he sees, or what he at
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least is. Witnessed to by hearsay.
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Or. Eyewitness accounts or or.
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The the, the the. Reports of other things going on
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and around him is he's just taking the in and he's
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documenting them. As he sees.
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It or as he's hearing it, there's no.
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Twist to it so. One of the things that Tacitus
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documents about and I believe. This is a.
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Line from Germania from Tacitus is Germania maybe chapter 2 or
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something like that, but in this is.
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This is This is. Not verbatim, I don't think,
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actually, At least not the intro.
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So anyway, Tacitus begins one of his accounts by telling or or
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talking about the the Lango Boardi or the Langabardi, which
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are the Lombards of the Lombardis.
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Right, the tribe. That is distinguished by their
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boldness in battle, who, despite their small number, retained
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their independence in the midst of of mighty neighbors made-up
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of seven tribes, including the Angli.
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OK. And the Angli are the ancestors
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of the English of? The angles so.
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So so this next portion of of. Is is what Tacitus writes he.
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Says that the Longa Bardi. The Longa Bardi are
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distinguished by being few in number, surrounded by many
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mighty. People they have protected.
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Themselves, not by submissiveness.
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But by battle. And boldness next to them and he
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starts naming a bunch of of different tribes.
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He's next to them comes in. But by the way, I'm not a
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linguist, I'm not a, a reconstructionist or not a
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historian. So some of the names, if I'm
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saying them incorrectly, if I'm putting the wrong emphasis on
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it, I'm I'm sorry. But next to the Langabardis, he
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says, come the the Rudinghi, the Aviones, the Angli, the Varani,
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the Udonsis, the Swarinis and the Quatones, protected by
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rivers and. Forests there is.
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Nothing especially noteworthy about these states individually,
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but they are distinguished by a common worship of nerthus.
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That is. Mother Earth and believes she
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intervenes in human affairs and rides.
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Through their peoples. Now this is an interesting
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observation from. Tacitus that.
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Reinforces the idea that not just certain tribes, but many of
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the Germanic peoples, at least in this portion of of of the
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continent, were distinguished by a common veneration or.
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Worship of the Earth. Under the name Nerthus and.
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There is a very particular example of of a.
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Celebration of Nerthus later on where the statue of Nerthus was
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brought. Out of a cave.
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From an island on a cart and and paraded into a village, into the
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village where. Where gifts were.
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Given and and there was this time of of worship, and it was.
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Brought to a sacred. Grove and then.
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Brought back. And and kept away.
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So there was, there's there's. Definitely a common theme here
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We. We we do see.
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Historically that the Germanic peoples had a common worship of
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Nerthus. Now what they did, how they did
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it. Doesn't he doesn't get into, but
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we definitely see that. They had a a.
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Important role placed on Earth. Mother Earth as they say.
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Nerthus now outside of Tacitus, and this is a much later source
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and arguably something that is echoes of a Pagan.
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Belief or or or. Pagan practices from the Anglo
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Saxons, I believe the name of it.
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Would be the Acerbot. So again, if if I'm saying it
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incorrectly, if my old English is not correct, if if it's not.
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Acerbot. It's Acerbot.
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But it's an 11th century charm again, Anglo-Saxon, so Old
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English, and that means. Basically like a field.
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Charm is the blessing of. The the the fields.
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For crops and things like this. So in that charm the name ershe.
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ERCE. Or ersa again, if if I'm, I
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don't. I don't know enough of Old
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English to know if that. C says like A.
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Sound or a sound or a sound so. Ersha Ersha Ersa.
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That name is chanted 3 times. So it.
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Would it? It's in the charm.
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It's like. It says Earth.
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And Mother, Mother Earth, Earth and Mother, or Earth, Mother.
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And then there's a ritual performed which takes.
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A full day. If you want to do your own
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research, I'll leave some information in the show notes or
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the description area below in the video.
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Of of a place that you can start.
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To look for information about this Acer boat.
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But is it? Is it is a ritual that takes a
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full? Day there's a bunch of things
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talking about it and there are definitely some things about it
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later on that that are Christian OK, there's there's obvious
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mentions of Lord God and and and and all of that but.
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There's there's there's also this.
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Mention of of of of Earth mother.
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So when I say. You know earlier A.
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Later version. This is an 11th century thing.
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Obviously, Christianity has already become part.
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Of the of the. Regions identity.
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So anyways, during this this this ritual the.
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Rituals there were be 4 sods of earth.
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Taken from the field and then a. Poultice applied to the.
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Root mass. They then returned.
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Those those those sods of. Earth are then returned and
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chanting over them. The charm continues.
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As the field is plowed. As they're preparing to.
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Start their crops or. Whatever.
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So again, some Christianized elements of the ritual they
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think there's mention again, aside from the mention of the
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the the Christian God there. Is use of.
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Frankincense in the poultice and also the sign of the.
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Cross or or or. Or a Christian cross put on each
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of the pieces. Of sod.
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But the main elements of the ritual do seem to be very part
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of an older and more authentic Pagan tradition of the area.
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And then there's. Also a.
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Note of one thing that says that Ersha.
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Is that to? Stem from Ershan.
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Did I say it right? Aerschnan meaning true, genuine,
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or holy, from an earlier goddess named most likely to be Aersche,
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meaning Mother of Earth. EORCE so either.
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The mother of Earth or mother Earth, Earth, mother, right?
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So again, a very similar, almost identical acknowledgement of the
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earth being not just feminine, but a mother, a mother figure.
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And what else? Yeah.
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So there's there's. Two, you know, sources or or two
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examples of Germanic peoples you know, so the early Germanic
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tribes and then later on in the 11th century, the Anglo Saxons,
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which are still Germanic. Had.
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A had a belief and had a worldview that encompassed earth
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veneration, Earth worship if you will.
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Another thing that I remember hearing about.
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Is. This goes back to the lungbards
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or the lungabardi and their and their particular focus on tree
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worship. So.
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I'm going to try and find the source OK?
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So this is a the history. Of the Longabards by Paul the
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Deacon in this writing. It contains one of the best
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original accounts of continental Germanic myths in the story of
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their naming. Of of of like.
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Freya playing a trick on Odin, but it's.
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Freya, Freya FRIJ. A Freya playing a trick on Woden
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but. However, there is a.
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Lesser known source on the life of Saint Barbatus, which attests
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to continued heathen practices by the Longabards in the Dutchie
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of Benenbento around the 600 sixties, So in the 6th.
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Before. The seven hundreds before we
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start seeing you know the Viking Age in in in northern Europe
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take place This is this is happening in the six 60s of the
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Common Era and so the. This this Paul the.
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Deacon, right, Obviously very Christian, you know, obviously
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no doubt, but he recounts thou the the the Longbards
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worshipped. At a sacred tree.
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Located in the woods. Outside of.
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Benevento and they would hang sacrifices in the tree.
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They would hang them in the in the, you know, among the
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branches. They would then hold
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competitions where each man would.
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Spur their horses to ride as hard as they could.
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Towards the sacrifice and spear off a chunk of meat with their
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lances. Which?
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They would then eat. And because this site was where
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they swore. Oaths.
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They named it Voltan, which means vow or oath.
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So VO. TUM, there was one particular
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Duke his name was. He was a Longabaardic Duke named
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Grimwald. He.
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Refused to ban this practice by saying that it was an excellent
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thing Quote it was an excellent thing to.
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Observe the law of. Their ancestors, and so often.
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And you know, quite often, as we see, there's there's, you know,
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divine retribution soon follows that in the form of an invasion
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of southern Italy by Eastern Roman Emperor Constant the
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second Constance the second with the long bards under siege in
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Benevento, St. Barbatus called on them to
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convert and be saved. Enough with your Pagan ways.
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Enough with all of this. We're being invaded.
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It's time to to. To get your act together I
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guess. And, and so, so they did, but
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they did so, and then the, the Byzantine forces that were
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there, they, they, you know, miraculously, you know,
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abandoned. The siege of of.
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Saint Barbatus and then. Just like with.
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Is it St. Boniface just like what Boniface
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did with Donar's Oak in Saxony? It's a very similar thing.
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So so this St. Barbatus dude, he he chops down
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the tree or. Or has the.
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Tree that the Longbards would. Conduct their sacrifices at.
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He he had the tree cut down and rooted out, even down to the
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stump so that there would be no recollection of its location.
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And much like with Donor's oak or the site of the Irmin sole
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for the Saxons, there was a church.
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Erected. And.
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The the the church. Or the name of that.
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Spot is, was is. Santa Maria del Volto.
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So what do we see? Here?
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We see. Yet another example we we
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definitely know that that the Saxons, the Long bards, the
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Germanic tribes in general. They they had a.
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Very important view of. Where they?
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Would conduct their religious. Affairs where they would be.
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Connecting with the Gods. Where they would be?
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Sacrificing they would give. Gifts.
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It was in nature. It were it.
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Was in sacred Groves. Often times there was a.
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Tree dedicated to the site for the practice to to to.
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To take place in tacitus again goes back to to saying that the.
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The the they, they. They shared this common worship
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of of nerthus, and I think that that is enough evidence.
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To to to prove. And and to confirm that the
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Germanic peoples held in high regard.
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The Earth, it was life. Giving they, they relied on the
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Earth's bounty to live, so they, you know, when they would plant
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their crops, it was, you know, to make sure.
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That the earth was was healthy. This is it.
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It was a daily part of their life.
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It wasn't a. Day of the year or a week of the
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year? Or a day of the month or
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something that they would think. About it casually or?
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Just in passing. It was a it was a belief that
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they carried. With them all the time, it was
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their life and. It's sad to say.
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You know that I don't think a lot of modern heathens give
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enough attention to this. I, you know, I, I, I'm very
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candid about my, my. Practices to the degree.
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That I'll say I'm an animist. Germanic heathen, yes, but but
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animistic through and through. I I I thoroughly, I truly
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believe. Of the the Presence.
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Of Spirit. In everything around me, in, in
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the river that I live by, in the trees that are planted near my
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house in the ground, you know, the animals, you know, like this
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is all, these are all things that whether animated or not,
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whether they move to my visible eye or not, they, they, they
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contain spirit. And it has reinforced and
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strengthened my relationship with Mother Earth.
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You know the nurse? Would call her yord yorder where
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I believe. Is it might be cognate, you
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know, again, I'm not a linguist, but I believe.
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Yours is is. Cognate to yard where we get our
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English, Modern English word yard.
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Maybe if there's a linguist out here that that knows more.
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About it could. Could confirm for me or not.
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But. I think some of the you know.
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These these words Airsha. You know Airtha motor.
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Like these are these are words that are very.
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Similar to our modern English earth and yard and.
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The the the. Sacredness of Earth has been
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recognized by. A lot of cultures, a lot of
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people for, a lot for. A For a very long time.
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And the Germanic people are no different.
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They had their names. For her, they had.
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Their names or recognitions and and how they would venerate.
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But it was always in nature they did.
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It was. Whether it was Earth herself or
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the gods. In, in, in ritual and sacrifice.
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It was done in nature. It wasn't done under a roof in a
30:20
temple or church or anything like that.
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It was done outdoors. It was done in nature, you know,
30:28
and the reason why I say like, you know, with modern heathens,
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modern times, we do, we live in such a, an interesting time
30:35
where where, you know, heathenry is becoming.
30:38
So I won't necessarily say prevalent 'cause it's, we are,
30:45
it is still a minority belief, but it's popular, you know,
30:49
it's, it's gaining traction and it has for quite some time, you
30:54
know, and then when somebody puts on an event or, or, or
30:57
something, and it's, you know, come on out to this thing and
30:59
we're doing it outdoors. How many people are like, ah,
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it's too hot and it's too cold and it's raining, you know, and
31:07
I'll be, I'll admit, as much as I love the outdoors, I do enjoy
31:11
the comforts of modern living. And I am a N man, I was born and
31:17
raised in New York and I have, I am hot natured.
31:21
So living in the South where it's, you know, summertime, you
31:26
know, 70% of the year and it's a humid heat, you know, I, I am,
31:31
I'm. Like I'd rather be cool.
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I'd rather be. Cold.
31:35
If I'm going to be outdoors, I'd rather be, you know, having to
31:38
put layers on or something and. But it does it.
31:41
It it gives me reason to think like, oh man, like, you know,
31:44
you, you, you claim to be this, you know, person that believes
31:46
in in something and then so much of what that belief.
31:48
Is, is, is. Founded in the the worship, the
31:55
veneration of of nature, of earth, of our mother.
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And you don't want to spend time with her.
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You don't want to be out taking care of her.
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Being a custodian of the land and picking up things on a
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regular basis. You know, when you see
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something, do something. I mean, I can't tell you how
32:13
many times when I'm on the river.
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Where right where I. Live, you know I'm always
32:18
picking up trash. Because it's always there.
32:20
There's there's always that. Presence.
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Of of of our. Human.
32:28
Species which is neglectful. They they don't care.
32:31
Or they're or they're. Careless to the point.
32:34
That they just think. Well, somebody else will do it
32:37
or it's not that big of a deal. I mean, I'm sorry, it's it's.
32:40
It is a big. Deal.
32:41
This is our home. This is our mother.
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She has nurtured us and and we don't show enough thanks.
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We don't, we don't give enough recognition to her, as you know,
32:53
in general, you know, any I. Didn't realize this is.
32:55
You know, a Heathen podcast, and there's probably going to be
32:59
some people who don't necessarily subscribe to Heathen
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Values Heathen. Worldview of of.
33:05
Of the Germanic people. However, you are still a part of
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this world. You are still of this earth.
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This is our. Home for now.
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This is our space. That we've been given for now.
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Take care of her, love her, protect her.
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You know, and she will do that. For you we, we.
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Have this wonderful opportunity on a daily basis.
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I don't, you know, it doesn't matter where you live to
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disconnect from technology, disconnect from your phones,
33:39
from your computers, from your life in technology and put your
33:43
bare skin touch earth and and. Feel the.
33:48
Vibration of the mother. Release your.
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Burdens to her. Because she can carry.
33:55
Those things you know and then. Feel the.
33:58
Healing that she brings. Back to you.
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And. Reciprocate that love by.
34:07
Leaving as as as minimal of a carbon footprint that as you
34:12
can, you know, be as organic as you can be in your in your
34:17
lifestyle. The consumable waste, you know,
34:23
the the things that we consume. That we discard.
34:26
You know, how much of that can we eliminate using things of of
34:30
a synthetic nature and and change to a more organic
34:33
approach to it, You know, paper goods instead of plastic, you
34:39
know, paper. Is is biodegradable?
34:41
It can. It can be emulated or buried and
34:43
it won't. Hurt the earth.
34:46
Or as you know, these, these plastics and, and things are,
34:49
are, are poison. And I, you know, I'm not trying
34:54
to be sitting here acting like I'm, you know, exempt from, from
34:58
any of the things that I'm talking about because, you know,
35:00
was a. Couple weeks ago.
35:01
When I you know. Helped host a.
35:03
Cigar bloat celebration at a park you know.
35:06
All of our to. Go containers were Styrofoam and
35:08
all of our, you know, plates were Styrofoam.
35:10
It's cheap. It's it's, you know, it's easy
35:12
to obtain. And so again, I'm not delusional
35:16
to be like, I'm just telling you what to do and I'm not doing it
35:18
myself. I realize and I recognize.
35:20
That I have. Barriers to improve in as well,
35:24
you know, when what we can be doing, what I can be doing
35:26
individually, I, I, I want to, I want to reflect the change that
35:32
I want to see. I want to be the change that I
35:36
want to see in the world, you know?
35:38
Part of it is. Talking about it?
35:40
Sure. But.
35:43
More of more, the more importantly is is the doing of
35:46
it and showing, showing, showing up you know and showing people
35:51
you know. This.
35:52
Is how it's done. And don't do it for the cloud,
35:55
don't do it for the recognition. I'm not, you know.
35:57
I talk. About these types of things
35:58
because I have a podcast. And this is a.
36:00
Platform to talk about things on, you know, to have a voice to
36:05
to to say things and to share. But I, I.
36:10
I you know, but I don't. Just talk about it.
36:14
When I'm on the river and I'm spending time.
36:18
With. Spirit healing myself,
36:21
connecting. With the Earth.
36:23
Being in that space in that time I'm aware of.
36:25
The fact that there's trash that people have left here, it's like
36:30
it's. Their own dumping grant, like
36:31
there's their personal dumping ground and I'll go, this is this
36:34
is terrible. You know it, it brings it brings
36:37
sorrow to my heart. To see the way that people.
36:42
In general, are treating our home so I try to, you know, do
36:50
more than I talk about, but it's Earth Day, OK, and.
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You're at least at. The time of this recording.
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You know when you by the time you all listen to this in full.
37:03
This will have already passed. But maybe it'll be a fresh thing
37:06
in your mind. Maybe.
37:07
You've had thoughts about? It this week.
37:08
Maybe you were even talking. About stuff like this this week,
37:12
with your people, with. Your inner circles, with your
37:14
friends, with your families, with your tribes, your kindreds,
37:16
etcetera. Maybe this gives you something
37:19
else to talk about the next time you get together, and maybe
37:22
coordinate and organize efforts. To.
37:25
Apply some of the things that I said on a, on a, on a group
37:28
setting or any group setting. You know, what better way to
37:31
bring your people together than to find a common interest in
37:40
being custodians of the land, of being caretakers of our mother.
37:47
You know, doing it as one person is.
37:51
Is is is great? You know, doing it together,
37:54
bringing the family together, bringing your people together is
37:59
even better. So that's going to be my, my, my
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little. Episode for this week.
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Again, not a very long one. I hope that you found it
38:10
interesting and that. You know if you.
38:11
Did get a chance to think about the importance?
38:15
Of of how we behave towards. Our Mother Earth and how we
38:22
interact with spirit around us. That it has been inspiring for
38:26
you and it has helped. Maybe in your growth?
38:29
As a person, as a heathen, just in general.
38:35
So if you did enjoy this episode, let me know in the
38:37
comments down. Below or or if.
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You want to write in the e-mail again is Midgard Musings, TN
38:43
gmail.com, and you can call into the podcast hotline anytime and
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leave a voicemail at 615-671-9832.
38:59
And there you go. So thank you all so much for
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listening to this week's episode and I hope you enjoyed it.
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Let me know what you think. Share it around, talk about it.
39:10
Let's get things stirring. Till we talk.
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To each other again. May the gods continue to notice
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you, and may your ancestors smile upon you.
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See you in the next one.