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The Norns' Web · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Thanks, guys. Hey folks, welcome back to
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another episode of midgard musings.
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My name is Jesse. Thanks so much for listening
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today. I've got another kind of cool
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story. I want to not really a story but
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a neat bit of information to go over in Norse mythology and the
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lore. And then he even re in general,
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we hear about things pertaining to fate specifically The three
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figures of kind of Fate as you will something that similarly is
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mirroring what you would see. In Greek mythology, the sisters
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of Fate right in Norse lore and a Norse mythology, we have the
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norns and I wanted to talk a little bit about the norns and
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I've got a little excerpt from a book here called epic Tales
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Norse tails. And or Norse myths and tales.
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It comes out of the Publishing Company flame tree.
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You should be able to find it in your local bookstore or online
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platform. It's a really neat source of the
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stories of the of the of the mythology aspects of Of things.
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So does it really go over the world view of human resource
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much, but it does deliver a nice Pros approach to the myths and
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stories of Norse lore. So before we get started real
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quick, make sure you guys are following me on Facebook,
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So I'm going to be reading you guys out this short.
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It's X section. I can get it out of about the
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norns, the norns web, okay. And then we're going to be
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talking a little bit about these figures and who and what they
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are. Within our, our belief system.
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Our faith. What have you?
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All right. So this is the norns web.
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So here we go. The northern goddesses of Fate
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who were called norns. We're in no wise subject to the
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other gods who might neither question nor influence their
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decrees, they were three sisters probably descendants of the
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giant Norva from whom sprang note which is night in Old
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Norse. As soon as the Golden Age was
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ended and sin began to steal even into the Heavenly homes of
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Asgard the norns made their appearance under the great Ash
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yggdrasil and took up their Abode near the order Fountain,
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According to some mythologists, their mission was to warn the
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gods of future evil. To bid them make good use of the
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present and to teach them wholesome lessons from the past.
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These three sisters whose names were lured vetted on D and
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schooled where personifications of the past present and future.
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Their principal occupations were to weave the web of Fate to
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sprinkle daily the sacred tree with water from the order
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fountain. And to put fresh clay, around
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its roots. That it might remain fresh, and
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Evergreen. Some authorities further state
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that the norns kept watch over the golden apples, which hung on
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the branches of the tree of life experience and knowledge,
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allowing none. But you do need to pick the
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fruit, which was that, which with which the gods, renewed,
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their youth. Norns also fed and Tenderly
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cared for two swans, which Swan over the mirror, like surface of
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the order order Fountain, and from the pairs of birds, all the
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swans on Earth are supposed to be descended at times.
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It is said the norns clothed themselves with Swan plumage to
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visit the Earth or sported like mermaids along the coast and in
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various lakes and rivers appearing to Mortals from time
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to time to foretell the Future or give them Sage advice, the
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norn sometimes wolf, webs. So large that while one of the
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wheat Weaver's, that one of the Weavers stood on a high mountain
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in the extreme East, another waited far out into the Western,
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see the threads of their wolf, resembled chords and varied
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greatly in Hue, according to the nature of the events about to
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occur and a black thread tending from north to south was
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invariably considered Omen of death.
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As these sisters flashed, the shuttle to and fro they chanted
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a solemn song. They did not seem to weave
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according to their own wishes, but blindly, as if re-elected
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lie, executing the wishes of order log, the Eternal law of
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the universe and older and Superior power who apparently
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had neither beginning nor end. Two of the norns wort and
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vedanti were considered to be very beneficent indeed.
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While the third it is, said relentlessly undid their work
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and often when nearly finished toward angrily, two threads,
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scattering the remnants to The Winds of Heaven, as
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personifications of time. The norns were repressed
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represented as sisters of different ages and characters
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watered or Word or weird apparent.
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Appearing very old, and decrepit, continually Looking
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Backward, as if absorbed in contemplating past events and
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people better than D. The second sister young, active
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and fearless look straight before her while schooled, the
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type of the future was generally represented as closely veiled
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with head turned in the direction opposite to where
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order to Gazing and holding a book or scroll, which had not
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yet been opened or unrolled these Norms were visited daily,
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by the gods who loved to consult them and even Odin himself.
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Frequently rode down to the ordered.
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Our Fountain, the bespeak, their aid, for they generally answered
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their, his questions maintaining silence, only about his own fate
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and that of his fellow gods. All right, you know, so guys I'm
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gonna kind of reflect the back a little bit here and there as I
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can talking about what, what kind of I just read, you know,
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one of the, one of the biggest things I've found about this
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path, he even raised specifically, is that we have
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our own webs. We definitely have We definitely
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have an influence on things when it comes to the, the what is
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added to the well, the older. Well, where it talks about the
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norns, The Well of the, of the there, at the, at the base of a
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good SEO Luther Brimmer, right? The things that we add to the
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well, Well, Echo for eternity. So those and how we add things
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to the well how those kind of those threads are woven is
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through our deeds, and through our actions, how we interact
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with folks, the the webs that we tie with others, it's not just
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what we do but it's what we do with each other.
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So it's a very interactive thing fate is At least from my
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perspective and how I view things as yes there are certain
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things that we are fated to happen.
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Things that are fated to happen to us.
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For instance, the fated day of our birth was set.
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There was no way that that is altered or changed because it
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happened when it happened and there's nothing that can be done
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to change. It are fated day of death,
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there's nothing that we can do to speed it up.
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There's nothing that we can do to delay it when it happens, it
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happens at as Our Fate, that is when it happens.
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So anything that we do in Between will only add to the
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well that our descendants then get to benefit from or, or, you
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know, get from the order log that we add to the well.
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So our Deeds now will become order log for our descendants.
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Just like the or log of our ancestors are things that we
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inherit now. So when we do things nowadays,
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whether they be, you know, ill Deeds or Good, Deeds or things.
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It all ends up being kind of added to the well how we
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interact with people the ties that we maintain the week, the
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webs that we weave with one, another has a very impactful you
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know part in not just the Here and Now not not just in the
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vedanti but in the school the things that could should will
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become right. So sorry about that.
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At the microphone adjusted on me.
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I'm having trouble with that lately.
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I'm not sure why I apologize. But, you know, so we live in the
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very handy. The now, the things that are
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happening now in the present and we learn from alert, the, the
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past, the things that have come before us and we try to effect
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and build good and now to influence in positive ways, and
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to do things. Things good for the school, the
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future, the things that that which is that's that which
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should be that which will be. And and how we interact with
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one, another is very impactful with that.
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Like I said before, it's not something that kind of almost
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like the the concept of Karma. You know what, you put out into
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the universe, what you put out there is what comes back.
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So if you put out bad, you get I had to come back you put out
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good it builds and it gives you you know good things to come
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back and that's in a shortened kind of condensed way how I see
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Fate In general it's not that we are just you know destined to
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die to be a certain thing or certain way.
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If things are going tough for you right now, then there's a
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couple of factors at least the way I look at it.
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If things are going tough, for me, I have a Couple of things to
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look at, I have my own deeds and my own actions.
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I've either done something to result in the current situation
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or I've not done things to result in the current situation,
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my action or inaction has resulted in the current state of
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affairs and then there's things that I've inherited.
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There's there's there's things that you cannot control.
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There's traits, there's characteristics about your
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ancestors, the or log that you inherited that you just kind of
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have to deal with and work with. And But the great thing about
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oral log is that you're not stuck with something because it
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is that way the traits and the characteristics and the, you
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know, the, the, the foulness that may be in your well, in
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your family. Well, is not a defining factor
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for your future, you can add more good to the well, to sort
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of the loot and and bring about better clearer Waters, you don't
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have to be stuck with. Those murky Waters your whole
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life and I feel like that's a thing that a lot of people don't
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necessarily realize when they're getting into this, is that you
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have an impact on how clear the waters are, you have an impact
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and an essay and an active part in how your well, looks right?
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How your family. Well, looks how the how things
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continue to proceed throughout your existence and how your
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descendants will benefit From your actions or inactions.
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All right, so that's a little bit about the norns guys.
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I'm going to probably be doing a series.
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Maybe not to help series but at least a video on YouTube about
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