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The Three Major Norse Holidays (And The Future Of This Podcast) · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  All right, everybody. Hello and welcome back to
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  another podcast episode here on midgard musings.
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  I'm your host. My name is Jessie and I want to
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  thank you so much for listening to today's episode.
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  subject matter, for the episode today, which is going to be a
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  real fun one. I think you guys are going to
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  like it. I want to talk a bit about Just
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  a little bit. Anyways, of the historical
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  accuracy of heathen holidays. And, and how some of the more
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  modern or common views, or approaches of, you know,
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  celebrating these holy Tides have a bit of.
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  There's some conflicting information that what people
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  think is accurate to historical times versus what actually she
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  is. Okay.
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  So that's going to be the subject for today's episode.
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  about the historical accuracy of heathen, real of holidays, when
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  They were observed, not so much, the how they were observed, but
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  of a discussion about just some of the points that maybe get
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  overlooked or misrepresented in terms of, when historical
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  Heathen re was observed. All right.
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  So what we're looking at, is the fact that a lot of folks,
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  nowadays getting into Heathen, re are, you know, excited about
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  it. I may have talked about this and
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  either another podcast. So during one of my YouTube
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  videos, some of those things kind of mingle across over a
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  bit. So I may be repeating myself a
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  little bit here, but one of the things that I noticed, a lot of
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  newer heathens kind of get into when they're discovering, this
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  path is, you know, when to observe certain holidays, what
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  holiday is to observe that sort of thing.
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  And what you'll find is a lot of folks, when might Jump onto the
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  internet, type in a Google search for you know, Asatru
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  holidays or Heathen holidays. And the large majority of what
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  you're going to find. When you Google something like
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  that. Is this kind of wheel symbol
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  with various points marked that indicate certain holidays that
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  are celebrated. It's usually about eight
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  different holidays. That are marked along their you
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  going to see stuff like you'll you going to see stuff like
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  while pure gets knocked, you're going to see stuff like winter
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  nights All-Star, you know, Midsummer all these types of
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  things. You're going to see long this
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  and then other ones as well. Right?
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  So what we see when we're looking at that, is where
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  actually not seeing a historical accurate, her historically,
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  accurate heathen. Dramatic, even now specifically
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  and we're not seeing historically, accurate Germanic
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  Heathen calendar. If you want to call it such,
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  it's not it's not anything that's of Germanic paganism,
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  accuracy. Right?
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  What we're seeing is a model off based on the solar calendar of
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  Celtic and Gaelic paganism and it's and it's become what we
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  receive referred to as the wiccan wheel of the year.
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  All right. Now this kind of came into the
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  whole Norse Heathen ring or dramatic heat, Andre window
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  somewheres in the 70s, the 1970s.
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  And again again, the wiccan wheel of the year is based off
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  of the solar calendar that comes around from Celtic and Gaelic
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  Pagan areas. Right?
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  So even though that the Celts and the gaels didn't, you know,
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  are any of those people didn't know or venerate the SC?
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  Here are the Norse gods. We still see that this model.
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  That's this Wiccan wheel is adopted her or used for a lot of
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  these newer heathens are also true, you know, people of
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  interest that want to follow that path.
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  The the most modern accepted asit review.
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  The the more modern idea of certain holidays is that there
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  are three or four I love them throughout the year.
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  There's not a total of eight that you see in the wiccan wheel
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  of the year. And the other thing that we see
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  is that in the wiccan wheel of the year that is based off of
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  this Celtic and Gaelic pagans, which are Solstice and Equinox
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  based that you know, historical Heathen re didn't like the
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  historical Norse folk the Norse heathens of from Scandinavia and
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  what not. They did not Observe their, holy
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  Tides, or there or there timekeeping.
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  They didn't have a calendar that was based off of solstices or or
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  equinoxes. Okay, they were lunar base.
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  All right. So what we're going to go into
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  now a little bit, is the fact that there are really three
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  historical Heathen calendars from between the 8th.
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  Well, actually from all the 8th 9th and 10th.
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  Centuries and these historical, heat and calendars showed that
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  full moons. After solstices and equinoxes
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  marked Beginnings or marked a month Cycles.
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  Okay. So the the these these
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  calendars, they're specifically there's one recorded by the
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  slant Icelandic and all thing around. 9:30 ad that it lists 12
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  lunar months and it's interesting to note that the the
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  Germanic word Manos and there's a couple other words from like
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  that. Believe.
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  It's like a mano with Mano with month or is the Old Norse word.
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  Anyway, admits cycle of the moon.
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  So the word moon is in our English Modern, English is
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  definitely related to the word month.
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  And as you know, there are from from one full moon to another
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  full moon, even in today's Reckoning.
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  And by looking at the calendars when full moons, there's, you
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  know, a month cycle, 30 day cycle to happen between the full
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  moon. So it makes sense that this is
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  how our ancient Norse ancestors would record time.
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  Or keep track of things. So, when we come back after
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  this, other after this, one more brief break from commercial
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  three major dramatic holidays for for Nordstrom Germanic
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  paganism. Okay, I'm not going to be going
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  into any of the Anglo-Saxon or other Saxon types of holidays
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  that get get get observed. We're going to be talking,
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  mainly just about The three. Big dramatic, Nordstrom attic
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  holiday. Some the ones that I tend to
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  want to focus on myself personally.
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  Now, when we come back, we're going to talk about that.
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  All right. So let's let's talk about really
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  just the three major Norse holy Tides or Norse holidays.
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  That we know that our of that are documented in historical
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  sources, that show of, or indicate kind of the Winds, you
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  know, roughly what time. We're looking at the time frames
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  of what we're looking at here. Okay, there again, there are
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  three. Three major Norse holy Tides.
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  No, bloats. What do you want to call them?
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  And they are, we find them in in context of the England gonna
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  Saga as well as some other references and they were done
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  publicly uppsala. All right.
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  So let me just my mic here. Sorry about that.
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  The, the public events that were held the public boats that were
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  held. This is why we know that Exist
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  in why they were important because they were there public
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  thing will again. What other smaller ones that
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  maybe weren't documented that may have existed.
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  We can't say for sure because we don't have that documented.
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  We don't have it, my nothing to go by.
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  So the first one that we know of these aren't necessarily going
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  in specific order, but we're going to talk about disa bloat
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  or the winter nights. So this is attested to in the
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  vegans Saga and in old Norris winter nights is via Terminator
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  and it comes around the onset of winter.
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  It was a specific time of year in medieval Scandinavia, and it
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  referred to the quote three days which begin the winter season.
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  And from a historical aspect. We see that.
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  It usually fell around the late October ish time frame.
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  In the house, the mountain house to mount another month.
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  And it would be around. You know, it would be on,
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  whatever for whatever date that full moon would fall on whatever
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  time that full moon would fold fall on.
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  So again, we're not seeing an example of a specific solar date
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  for these holidays. In the in these boats to be
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  held, they were strictly based on when the Moon's cycle would
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  go. So you can we can we can safely
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  surmise that for instance. This uploads would be held on
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  the winter night full moon of that house month or month, and
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  it wouldn't be on the same date. Solar date every year because
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  the lunar cycles, obviously change a bit, right?
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  Full moon doesn't ever fall on the same day.
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  Maybe a day or two different every year.
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  Next one that You are often familiar.
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  We are all quite familiar with I think, is you'll, or and it
• 26:00
  would be, and it would fall around midwinter.
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  Alright, so in the home screen, gloor Saga of how can the good,
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  which is documented, somewhere around, 12:30 ad, we read the
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  following that says, quote, the first night of, you'll was
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  hooking your that is midwinter night and you'll was held for
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  three nights. Now, the context of hulking the
• 26:27
  good in this section of that Saga, is that hulking is trying
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  to force a native Heathen. So community population into
• 26:37
  Christianity, right? And so, he will be moved, you'll
• 26:43
  to the same date as the as Christmas, which was then held
• 26:48
  on the solstice of the Julian calendar, which is December
• 26:53
  25th, and is even still held. This day so pre-christian,
• 26:58
  you'll was traditionally a three-day long holiday that
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  started on a full moon and again not on a fixed solar date.
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  Midwinter, you know means three full moons.
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  After the full moon that began winter.
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  So so three full moons after the beginning of winter nights
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  Victor. Victor, not Victor.
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  No, Later, right? And then also it would be three
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  full moons before the full moon, that begins summer.
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  So we're right in the middle. That's why we, that's why it's
• 27:38
  midwinter. It was not halfway between
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  equinoxes on a day called Solstice, right?
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  That's that's an entirely Celtic Gaelic Pagan thing.
• 27:50
  That is used by wiccans and the wiccan ization as week.
• 27:55
  I want to call it of Norse traumatic paganism.
• 27:59
  That's where it has kind of bled over.
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  So for those that are interested in, maybe following a more
• 28:04
  historically, accurate time frame of when to observe, you'll
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  the ulam under is through January ish.
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  Okay, and the you will bloat is on the full moon again, three
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  full moons. After the on Onset of winter
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  nights so you can look at your calendars today for this year
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  and see where the full moon lands in October and then three
• 28:38
  full moons after that would be on that.
• 28:41
  Third full moon would be when you would, if you want to
• 28:45
  observe a historical approach to You'll you would start celebrate
• 28:50
  it, you know, then. All right.
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  Now, thirdly the and this one is probably the biggest most
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  important sacrifice most important bloat out of the mall.
• 29:07
  Our Visa, blows annual the third that I'm mentioning.
• 29:10
  Now comes as the highest and most highly regarded, and that
• 29:14
  is Seeger blocked, which is the start of summer and Seeger bloat
• 29:18
  as it is. A victory bloat is Is sacrifices
• 29:27
  were given for victory because of the coming rating season and
• 29:32
  War season, that is that was indicative in typical for the
• 29:36
  north population during the summer months.
• 29:39
  Okay. Now enhance Kringle has him,
• 29:42
  screaming la la Saga Helga 77. We read that in Sweden.
• 29:47
  There was an age-old custom. Whilst they were still Heathen
• 29:52
  that they that there should be a bloat and uppsala.
• 29:55
  During Goa moon will get into that here in a minute.
• 29:59
  Then they would vote for peace and victory for their King.
• 30:01
  People from all over Sweden were to Resort there.
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  Now, it's worth noting that all of the Germanic people, all the
• 30:11
  dramatic heathens and Scandinavia would venerate the
• 30:14
  same full moon as the start of summer.
• 30:19
  Okay, it may be called different things, but it was the same
• 30:22
  thing. So like, you know, the Germanic
• 30:24
  pagans and Avia would call a secret bloat.
• 30:27
  This the anguish friesians are Frank's would call it a store.
• 30:33
  So EAS store is the Saxon version of that and work.
• 30:39
  That's where you ask where you get a star from.
• 30:43
  That's the, it's a Saxon thing. Okay, and it's also where the
• 30:51
  the Christian get their Easter. Thing from to as well.
• 30:57
  Alright, so there there are those three major.
• 31:02
  Oh, yeah. So the goal, I'm going to let me
• 31:03
  back up a minute. If you wondering, when we're the
• 31:06
  Goa moon or go a month would be that, that that's going to fall
• 31:11
  somewheres in the april-ish time frame, again, pending the lunar
• 31:16
  calendar and cigarillos was held on the full moon of the glove
• 31:23
  month. So that's quite often.
• 31:25
  Why you will see somewhere on about or around the full moon of
• 31:29
  April, when a lot of traumatic pagans will tend to observe
• 31:33
  their either es store or their secret or look.
• 31:39
  So that pretty much covers three major Norse, bloats how, holy
• 31:49
  tides, that sort of thing. Now, as we wrap up this, this,
• 31:53
  this section of the The podcast and wrap up this episode.
• 31:57
  I do want to point out that, like, I mentioned earlier, you
• 32:00
  know, this is all historical stuff.
• 32:02
  Maybe you're not trying to take this hardcore Recon approach.
• 32:06
  Maybe you're not trying to take this as a, you know, follow it
• 32:09
  by the book, you know, kind of approach.
• 32:12
  Maybe you're still trying to figure out where you fit in this
• 32:16
  grand scheme of things when it comes to Heathen, read, as a
• 32:18
  whole, trying to figure out which path you're trying to
• 32:20
  follow. Maybe you've already started
• 32:22
  some traditions of your own among your heart.
• 32:25
  Among your family among your friends that the people that you
• 32:28
  share and build fris with. Okay.
• 32:32
  So maybe you guys celebrate your, you'll a month early your,
• 32:37
  then the historical, you know, attestation that is
• 32:42
  historically, attested to in the sources.
• 32:45
  Maybe you do it around the, you know, the traditional Christmas
• 32:48
  time of year towards the end of the month.
• 32:49
  Maybe you do 12 nights of, you'll maybe you do, you know,
• 32:54
  you know, your Midsummer thing later on in the year the
• 32:58
  whatever it maybe maybe you call it something different but we're
• 33:03
  getting to at that point is individual cultic practices, but
• 33:09
  more than that tribal practices tribal Traditions, things that
• 33:14
  have become a tradition for not just you, but for your tribe and
• 33:20
  for your Collective and your group of people that is very
• 33:24
  important, that is Almost, I believe it's as its as or more
• 33:28
  important actually than just trying to live it up from
• 33:32
  historical element. Yes, there are things about the
• 33:35
  way it was done or when it was done that can you know, continue
• 33:42
  the luck that was established back then by doing so continue
• 33:47
  it on. But again, we are modern
• 33:49
  heathens and we are, we are building and we are continuing
• 33:52
  our own traditions. So if you have Traditions, now
• 33:57
  that, you know, fall out a bit outside of the historical realm,
• 34:02
  you shouldn't feel bad about that.
• 34:04
  And you shouldn't be made to feel like you're being a bad
• 34:07
  Heathen, or you're doing it wrong.
• 34:09
  Okay, really? What it comes down to it.
• 34:11
  That point is, is I have you found a tradition that works for
• 34:15
  you and your in the collective of folks that you gather with
• 34:18
  and, you know, exchange weird with anti weird with and are
• 34:24
  those Russians are those things building the luck of your of
• 34:28
  your tribe and and of the people in it.
• 34:32
  And if they are and if it is something that is beneficial
• 34:36
  continue to do so build on those Traditions continue that, you
• 34:40
  know, that that process because when you are gone and when the
• 34:46
  Traditions that you engage in that they won't be gone.
• 34:50
  They will continue to live on. This is why we have so many
• 34:53
  things nowadays that we From those that have gone on before
• 34:57
  us, those Traditions were passed down and they were handed down,
• 35:00
  don't be ashamed of adding your own spin on things.
• 35:04
  Don't be ashamed of doing it. A way that doesn't necessarily
• 35:08
  fit the book or the letter of the law or anything like that.
• 35:13
  There's no real. You no reason for you to to do
• 35:17
  that just for the sake of doing it, if that's what you want to
• 35:20
  do, if that's the path that you want to follow.
• 35:22
  And that's where you kind of want to build on your tree.
• 35:25
  Additions from then that's fine by all means continue that, you
• 35:28
  know, do it that way. But if you started something,
• 35:31
  you know, and if you have something that you've started
• 35:34
  and now you're learning about, you know, this part of things,
• 35:36
  you're going. Oh man.
• 35:37
  I've been doing it wrong this whole time.
• 35:38
  That's not what I'm getting at. And that's not what I'm trying
• 35:40
  to say. You continue to do you not my
• 35:43
  haul, not my call, Big not over here, from Middle, Tennessee,
• 35:47
  out to East, Texas, to Eric, sure.
• 35:49
  And for that wonderful phrase that you will hear on his
• 35:52
  YouTube channel all the time. Not my haul, not Mike.
• 35:55
  If it works for you, it works for your tribe, guys.
• 35:58
  Keep it up. Rock it.
• 36:00
  Okay, that is where he even really shines is when tradition
• 36:05
  is is cultivated from from ancient aspects and also from
• 36:11
  things that you're trying to, you know, nurture and grow today
• 36:18
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• 36:21
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