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Random Heathen Ramblings: S4, EP01 - Oaths Can Save The Day! · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  Hello everyone and welcome to the random Heathen ramblings
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  Well, well, well, hello everyone.
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  Welcome back to this podcast season for ladies and gentlemen,
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  I am just coming off of the Hi the mental.
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  Hi I guess you want to if you want to call it as such but you
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  know riding the coattails of the festivities of Yol which My
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  Tribe. Hurry.
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  The folk had celebrated just this past weekend on the weekend
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  of the You'll Moon month, early your mother.
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  Or your manure, yellow monitor, my guess, is that the right
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  pronunciation? Anybody that knows how to
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  pronounce it correctly, go ahead and let me know down in the
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  comments or you can write anybody gets your monitor.
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  Anyway, the you'll month, right? You will Moon the full moon was
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  on January 6th, which was the first night of historical
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  Heathen, you'll and it goes for three nights.
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  So our tribal celebration of your old was on Saturday.
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  The 7th And this was a particularly fun and exciting,
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  you'll because we for the first time both in a new member and
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  took Oaths of positions of leadership ourselves.
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  So for all of you folks here, that I may be wondering, what
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  the hell I'm talking about. What in odense graybeard?
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  What in Thor's? Redbeard, what in sieves Golden
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  Hair? Am I talking about?
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  Oh thing in someone and all this taking I was and blabbity blah
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  that What today's podcast episode is about.
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  I have mentioned, and actually done some videos before about
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  Oaths and how they are more than just a promise, right?
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  But you know, how content is out here?
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  You gotta stay fresh. You got to stay relevant.
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  You got to stay new. You gotta stay strong, you got
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  to stay wise, you got to stay Heathen, man, you got to stay
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  true. He got to stay together.
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  All I know, all I know is. Oath can save the day.
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  Alright, and that's all the singing that you're going to get
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  out of me here on this on this podcast.
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  Hopefully, forever. I am not a singer.
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  I am not a musician. So we're just going to keep to
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  the fact that I am a rambler. We are on the random Heathen
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  ramblings. Not the random Heathen singings
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  podcast, right? Then who got to throw in some
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  levity, right? Talking about Oaths today
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  specifically those that are sworn during your so as a recap
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  I was just going to go back a little bit and tell you about
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  the way that you know, my tribe and I mentioned before really
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  really folk and that is quite literally just boards people,
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  people of actually thundering store.
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  I think through the depending on who you cite your sources, as I
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  remember watching a Jackson Crawford video on literally and
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  what that name of what that word means.
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  And I think he gave a, some sort of information that suggests or
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  the or that you know supports that it has something to do with
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  a boar or hog or pig or something like that.
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  And everything that I found has suggested, or supported that,
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  there really is a name of Thor. And I believe the Old Norse word
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  for that translates to thundering Storm Thunder.
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  You know. So clearly the as the thunderer
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  as we are everything folk of the thunderer's people, people of
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  the Thundering storm and that's what we call ourselves as people
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  of the Thundering storm and the name of our tribe started
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  because of so many. Any instances where our tribe
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  would? You know, host some sort of
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  small intimate Gathering of ritual, right?
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  We would, and we would start it, you know.
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  Around, you know, the winter months in the summer months and
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  we would do different ritual, Gatherings for different
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  different things and early on it was, you know, not really
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  historically based or rooted in any sort of historical sources.
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  But as we've grown, we've leaned more towards adopting, a
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  practice that favors historical reckonings at least when it
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  comes to the holy Tides or holidays.
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  Of ancient Germanic tribes. So, so many of the things like,
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  I mean, I'm talking there would be thunderstorms, and the spring
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  / summer, there would be thunderstorms in the, in the
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  fall and in the winter months. And yes, I say winter months,
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  meaning like in January, we've had thunderstorms.
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  And so in this part of the country in this, in the middle,
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  Tennessee area of the of the of the Southern United States, you
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  know, Thor just kind of comes and goes as he pleases and it
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  doesn't really matter. This time of year or the seasons
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  and all that. So his presence has been very
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  active Among Us and of course, Thor in the lore and in the
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  mythologies and in the stories is always been recognized as
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  sort of the, Every Man's God as the god of the people, right?
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  The protector of midgard. So not just because of that.
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  But because of mainly his, his acts of presence Among Us during
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  ritual purposes, it was I was almost a no-brainer that we go
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  with that name and it would, instead of saying, you know,
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  Thor's Kindred or Thor's, hammer kinder to the mjolnir people or
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  anything like that. You know, we went a bit old
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  school and gave him gave us the name of our tribe is, is a not
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  one of Thor's names, which is very easy.
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  So anyway, no. Thunderstorms this year for your
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  butt. you know, this this year was our first you'll of oh thing
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  someone in or or welcoming a new member to our tribe.
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  And that process of welcoming them in included and involved,
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  the taking and giving of Oaths. Now, some of you that may be new
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  to, he, the ringer that may just be listening or tuning in or, or
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  when I say, taking and giving right?
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  I think a lot of people, maybe just automatically assume that
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  an oath is something that is Taken, you know, you you take an
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  oath or you give an oath, you know, take an oath of silence,
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  like we hear terms like that, take a vow of silence.
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  Take an oath of silence or you give your oath to accomplish
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  XYZ, blah, blah, blah. Outright that sort of thing.
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  Well, while there is some connection of correlation to
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  that in any dramatic Pagan Germanic Heathen context.
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  When I say taken, you know, all those that are taken in those
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  that are given it means that there is more than just one
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  person involved. Okay.
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  Now if you are the type of person to promise to do
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  something, you might use the term.
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  I took an oath, you know, to whatever it is right, do
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  whatever it is, say, whatever it is accomplish, whatever it is.
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  And if it doesn't involve anyone else if there are Other people
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  present then in the in the sense of what I'm speaking of now, in
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  the Germanic he than since then, it is not truly an oath because
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  in order for an oath to be an oath, then you need to have the
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  the one who is taking the oath and the ones who are the one,
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  who is giving the oath. So, the way that.
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  And so I'm going to just add a little bit of Information.
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  As far as what I mean by that, someone who takes an oath is
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  swearing, an oath of something this that or the other, right?
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  So that person is the oath taker.
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  They are taking the oath. IE new members of our tribe.
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  They take an oath. Then there's the oath Giver, the
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  one or ones, who is giving this person their oath and entering
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  into a will refer to, as an oath web, the oath web, once olds are
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  exchanged or, oh, those are given and taken, right?
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  What is, what is happening from, you know, again, the Norse
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  perspective or the dramatic perspective is things are being
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  tied together, threads of individual, people are now being
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  intertwined and come together. And we are now Entering into
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  this, this web of weird. Okay, weird being this,
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  something that everybody has everybody has their own
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  individual threads of weird, the the norns, but the Norden ear as
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  an old nurses that they are, you know, thread The Weave, the
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  threads of man, and gods alike, right?
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  So, every individual person has their own weird to tie.
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  And then, once an oath is given and taken between individuals.
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  Those groups. What have you now?
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  Those individual webs are becoming intertwined, right?
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  So, the web is becoming bigger. There are other things
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  happening. And so, it's a pretty
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  monumentous Monument is momentous occasion, right?
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  It is, it is something that is very profound to happen to enter
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  into such a thing where multiple lives are affected and impacted
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  by this and the reason why and you may see this and if you are
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  a solitary practitioner, this may seem a bit foreign to you or
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  you may going, you know, that sounds kind of weird like
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  strange, but if you're a tribal type of heathen or a tribal type
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  of person, or if you are the type of pagan who is interested
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  in Becoming part of a collective becoming part of a Kinder
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  becoming part of a try, becoming part of some sort of group or
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  Collective of individuals. You may encounter, you may find
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  that. That group of people has
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  something similar set. Set up for them and it's
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  different, for every tribe. Okay?
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  Or it's different for every Kindred.
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  Not every Kindred would have something like this.
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  This is something specific to us.
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  It is not something foreign in the, you know, the mines or the
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  world views of many heathens, but it may not be something that
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  you see across the board. It is not a universal approach.
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  This is our approach and I'll tell you why.
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  Before anyone is considered or even, you know yeah consider to
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  be worthy of being a member and that may sound again strange for
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  some people. But when I say worthy, I don't
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  mean like, you know, worthy in the sense of what you might
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  think of. In modern times what we were
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  talking about is is that person What kind of worth does that
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  person have and worth? All right, in the Germanic sense
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  and in the Germanic Heathen, sends worth is not something
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  that is one of, you know, I can't tell you what I am worth
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  to you. You can't tell me what you are
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  worth to me because we don't know each other.
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  Some of you, I know. Alright.
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  So there's going to be some of you that are listening and
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  watching that are definitely people who have proven
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  themselves of great Worth to me and hopefully I can't say this
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  up myself. I can only hope and I can only
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  you know you know yeah hope and pray that that that my worth has
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  been established to others. But what I can save some people
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  is that they're worth has been proven.
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  They have proved their worth and how is worth proven worth is
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  proven Through Deeds through actions, okay?
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  And the were thing process takes time.
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  You don't meet somebody off the street or out of a Facebook
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  group or off of, you know, he sort of social media platform.
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  You don't meet somebody and talk to them for days weeks months,
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  right? And you, you can't really
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  establish or prove, any one's worth in that way.
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  You can become close friends, you can confide in one another.
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  You you can develop at least on the surface, what would appear
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  to be bonds of Fellowship, bonds of friendship bonds of kinship
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  even, okay, and that is 100% true that has been 100% true for
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  even long before social media ever came into into existence.
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  I remember as a kid in school and throughout the years and
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  whatever having pen pals, You would then for the younger
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  generation, what the hell is that?
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  You would basically start writing letters to people across
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  miles across countries, right? This one time, I remember I was
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  a kid. I went to Disney World with my
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  parents. I was like, you know, again, I
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  was like, 9, 10 years old, right?
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  And we went to Disney World in Florida.
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  And we met this lovely family who had kids roughly around my
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  sisters age from the UK. And I don't even remember the
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  specifics of the circumstances, right?
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  I mean, there's literally thousands of people in this
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  amusement park and wherever we were whatever we were doing.
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  When we met been standing in line, strike up, conversation,
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  whatever ended up having, you know, a brief moment of
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  connectivity with these people and their kid, their daughter,
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  forget, or even your name at this point.
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  We exchanged addresses, you know, now in today, you know,
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  it's always take out your phone. Let me, let me add you on
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  Facebook. Let me follow you on Twitter.
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  We had you on the, on the Instagram, right?
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  Whatever. No man.
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  Back in the day was look what you eat, what?
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  You not even your email address. We didn't have the internet.
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  Yeah, it existed but we didn't have an email addresses when I
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  was 9, 10 years old, you know what your dress, write a letter.
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  Every couple of weeks, month month or two, whatever we I get
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  a letter, she'd get a letter from me, I'd get a letter from
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  her whatever. We went back and forth and it
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  didn't last very long. I don't think I don't again, I
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  can't remember her name, but, you know, you would write to
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  each other about things. You would establish a friendship
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  that way and you could learn a lot of things long distance.
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  So now in this modern time, right we got social media,
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  everything is immediate You can learn a lot about somebody.
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  You know, in like 15 minutes just by adding them on Facebook
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  or Twitter or Instagram or whatever.
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  I you can learn a lot from somebody by scrolling through
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  their socials connecting with them in that way and learn a lot
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  at least on the surface level and somewhat on an inner, you
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  know, on a more dinner and deeper level because some people
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  over share some people, go crazy with what they put out there on
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  on their social media. So yes you can, you can
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  establish friendships fellowships And the appearance
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  of what might be kinship over long distance.
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  I still maintain the fact that bonds of kinship cannot be
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  established. Unless there is a, unless there
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  is time for you to prove their worth and for you to prove your
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  own worth to this person. So all of this, you know,
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  brother this sister that Lala that you see in these Pagan
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  communities and all that, I mean it ain't for me.
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  I don't I don't just flat my jaw to every Tom Dick and Harry out
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  here who wears a meal Or you know you know venerates the gods
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  and goddesses of Northern Europe or anything similar to what I do
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  and I just do Hey Brother. Hey this you know know now I get
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  a lot of folks that that say this type of thing to me online,
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  I don't take offense to it. I just want people to know that.
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  I don't reciprocate in that way unless I have been given the
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  opportunity to be proven T to that person as brother, and
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  that, that person has been that I have.
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  I have they have proved their Worth to me of receiving said,
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  title of kinship, brother, sister, whatever.
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  So for any of you that are listening and watching, right?
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  If you are following me on my social media and you refer to me
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  as brother, and I don't refer to you as the same or sister, or
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  any other sort of kinship title in return.
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  Don't take offense because we haven't met each other in that
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  way. And we haven't established each
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  other in that degree of closeness.
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  Now, if you do see me reply to somebody's comment and call them
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  brother or sister or whatever, then you should know then.
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  The that person and me have done things worth each other, to
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  establish a degree of Fellowship to be considered kin to one
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  another. Okay?
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  So anyways, going off on that tangent, coming back to Oaths
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  and The Taking of Oaths when clearly folk, when we really
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  started to establish ourselves as a legitimate tribe as a
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  collective of people. And right now, we're still very
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  small and I mean very small and I mean, we're in count on one
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  hand, the amount of people who are literally Folk we had to
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  establish our own, through our own Customs, our own laws as it
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  were I'll probably do a series or something about what through
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  is for those of you that don't know, but it basically means law
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  is essentially the bones of the in and guard.
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  It's the bones of the inner Hearth.
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  It's the sting that establishes law and order for that tribe.
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  Kindred, what have you so Arthur?
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  Who should we determined? Should include a Worthing
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  process. We are not just going to meet
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  someone off the street at a park moot.
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  Public gathering at a happenstance, you know, exchange
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  of how you dues, right. We're not going to just say, all
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  right? Well after that shake hands.
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  You want to join our group. Yep.
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  Okay. Hey Brother.
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  Hey sister, you're welcome and that's it.
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  No we established as through that we would have a Worthing
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  process. And that Worthing process has A
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  time period or a period of time, two laps.
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  So, without going into specifics because that would Violate what
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  my position in the tribe is, which is to preserve our tribal.
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  Like, I'm not going to, I'm not going to share details of what
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  we do in our tribe to any great degree.
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  Anything that would potentially harm the luck of our tribe
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  because I serve as Chieftain. Okay, that is what the group of
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  people that we have together with.
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  Our tribe has collectively deemed appropriate as my job is
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  to be Chieftain. And The Chieftains job is
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  amongst many things is to be the protector of The luck of the
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  tribe and to make sure that nothing happens that we've been
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  Fringe or be damaging to the tribes luck.
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  So, anyway, tribal structure, we have one Loosely and one of the
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  things again, about adding new members is that after they have
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  proven their worth after said period of time, after said,
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  specific things after it is decided upon by the Elder
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  Council of the tribe that That? Yes, this person we would like
• 25:05
  to extend them an invitation to be a brother or a sister to, to
• 25:11
  our tribe, right? At that point.
• 25:15
  That person is going to. Then swear an oath that ties
• 25:20
  their luck ties, their weird with with ours, right?
• 25:23
  So we be we enter again into an oath web and so the and the neat
• 25:29
  thing about, you know, owes or at least our oath is that it's
• 25:32
  not you, you're you know, it's not some sort of, like, I don't
• 25:36
  know dictatorship where, you know, I swear to serve the king
• 25:42
  and under pain of death, a la Li da, di da, you know, It's
• 25:47
  nothing it's nothing quite that grave.
• 25:48
  You know and it's nothing quite that serious and again I don't I
• 25:54
  won't be going into details but suffice that to say an oath was
• 26:00
  sworn to collectively for a new member to become part of our
• 26:06
  tribe, and that person has proven their worth time.
• 26:10
  And again, since last year since 2022, Has become a very close
• 26:17
  friend of our family and, you know, again, displayed great
• 26:23
  Worth to us. So, again, worth is placed on
• 26:28
  someone by the people and then at the same time worth was
• 26:33
  placed upon us by this person, right?
• 26:36
  So this person would not have felt it comfortable, it wouldn't
• 26:40
  felt it wouldn't have felt right to, you know, swear an oath of
• 26:44
  fealty Swear an oath of loyalty to do something or to become
• 26:49
  part of something that, unless they felt comfortable with.
• 26:51
  So, the wording process is a two-way street, you need time to
• 26:56
  establish and to make that, you know, connection with somebody
• 27:01
  and they need that time to make that connection with you.
• 27:04
  So, again, it's a symbiotic relationship of exchange between
• 27:08
  parties between people That's what makes a tribe strong as
• 27:14
  what we feel so he's already been you know it's already been
• 27:19
  shared. It's always been shown to put it
• 27:20
  out on social media you know so are our newest member is Josh
• 27:25
  who we know as aloof or the wolf.
• 27:28
  This is a name. This is a title that is not
• 27:30
  just, you know, for funsies, right?
• 27:32
  This isn't just for, you know, because the the wolf is
• 27:36
  something important in Norse mythology, and Odin's wolves and
• 27:40
  And Wolves of Odin and Ernie and that nonsense.
• 27:42
  Now, this is this, this this was a name.
• 27:45
  Something that came to him long before that through his own
• 27:48
  personal ordeals. But yeah, so Olaf is our newest
• 27:52
  member and our now Goethe. So that's a really, that was a
• 27:59
  really fun and exciting thing to happen at our, yo, Le vent.
• 28:03
  Because again, this was a first for clarity.
• 28:06
  Focus was a first for us to have the opportunity to To welcome in
• 28:13
  someone who we've become very close with and who has come
• 28:17
  close to us. We've been in each other's
• 28:19
  homes. We've had many many meals
• 28:21
  together. We've done a lot of things to
• 28:24
  establish worth amongst each other.
• 28:27
  You know, to know that if something is needed, we can rely
• 28:30
  on one another, right? So, all of those things, you
• 28:34
  know, again create this this bond that.
• 28:40
  That establishes familial ties, you know it's again not
• 28:44
  something that you can just hang out of time or two with somebody
• 28:47
  and then I think oh yeah you guys are pretty cool people and
• 28:50
  now you're my brother. Now you my sister and all that
• 28:53
  not for us, not for her really folk.
• 28:54
  It's a working process, it takes time.
• 28:59
  And so this this you know, again, starting 2023 off with
• 29:04
  new member, a new goalie was really exciting for us and, you
• 29:08
  know, we're looking forward to Seeing what wolf can can do to
• 29:13
  bring more luck to the tribe and do well for the community?
• 29:16
  Because you know what, the go the does and what the go these
• 29:20
  position is is a leader of spiritual matters, you know.
• 29:24
  So for those in our community that are that are looking for
• 29:31
  somebody that they can You know, release their their worries or
• 29:37
  Unravel their Waits upon in the spiritual realm, right?
• 29:42
  The go, the, you know, I feel at least as is positioned to help
• 29:48
  with that. So we're looking forward to
• 29:51
  seeing that take place and hopes growth as a person and as a go,
• 29:55
  the that we're all a part of now, you know.
• 30:00
  And there was there was a lot of other things too.
• 30:02
  That that took place at you. Ah, but you know when when owes
• 30:05
  are sworn regardless of when they are sworn I mean like I
• 30:08
  mentioned before it's kind of a grave matter, right?
• 30:10
  It's it's serious business, you know, just nobody should at
• 30:16
  least enter into an oath web. haphazardly or, you know, with
• 30:23
  any sort of reservation, it should be done with a clear
• 30:29
  conscience with a, with a clear mind and with a, you know, a
• 30:32
  very I don't know. Yeah, just a very clear.
• 30:40
  Clear mind and clear head about it.
• 30:44
  It's different and it's more than than just the promise,
• 30:49
  right? And I've talked about that
• 30:51
  before, is that Oaths are more than just a promise.
• 30:57
  It's not that you're just promising to be a good boy or a
• 30:59
  good girl. You're not just promising to do
• 31:02
  something in and, you know, I swear on the gods that I will do
• 31:08
  it, you know, there's consequences to oh, those that
• 31:12
  have better that are broken or at least there should be there.
• 31:14
  There's recompense that should be paid.
• 31:16
  There's what we call Shield that should be paid.
• 31:19
  There, is there some sort of You know, if you fail to uphold your
• 31:24
  oath and let's face it guys and gals like let's face it,
• 31:26
  everybody. Messes up.
• 31:27
  There are there are times when even in the lore even in the
• 31:30
  sagas, I should say even in some of the you know it the more than
• 31:35
  700 sagas that we have available to us there, it's riddled with
• 31:39
  stories of a time when you know someone said they were going to
• 31:42
  do something and drop the ball fail to do, so couldn't do it,
• 31:45
  missed it, whatever it happens, things happen, you might, you
• 31:51
  know, No set out to achieve something of greatness or or or
• 31:56
  anything may not be just the greatest thing ever.
• 31:59
  But, you know, you met You may you know set an oath that you're
• 32:06
  going to accomplish a certain thing.
• 32:08
  And then when or if you don't there needs to be something in
• 32:12
  place to balance the scales out. Because when an oath is given,
• 32:16
  when an oath is sworn, an oath is taken, give an intake and
• 32:19
  sworn again, everybody involved is looped into the to the mix of
• 32:25
  things. So when the person who takes the
• 32:28
  oath accomplishes it, they now can Give a boast of it and they
• 32:34
  can say I've done this great thing and I have added to the
• 32:37
  luck, right? Well, if they can't come back
• 32:41
  and boast that they've accomplished what they set out
• 32:43
  to do, then there needs to be recompensed.
• 32:46
  There needs to be a payment. There needs to be Shield set and
• 32:53
  you know that Shield is set by certain other members or leaders
• 32:59
  of our tribe, right? We have a started.
• 33:02
  He started out as the name lost speaker but is now worth rule in
• 33:07
  the thule's job is, is to kind of set that That Shield has, it
• 33:13
  were set the set, the payments at the recompense.
• 33:17
  So, Again it goes It goes into being more than just I promise
• 33:24
  you know to do something and that's what's been lost.
• 33:26
  I think over time is you know promises vows people.
• 33:30
  When they swear on something right?
• 33:32
  They it's maybe get caught up in the moment of feeling the power
• 33:37
  of what is behind doing something like that.
• 33:39
  But they you know it if they're certain components not in place
• 33:43
  to set some of the things that I set said before in motion, then
• 33:48
  it loses its Gusto right. It doesn't carry the same weight
• 33:52
  as it does because people break their promises all the time.
• 33:55
  It will break vows even, right? They people exchanged vows
• 33:58
  wedding. Vows, I've been one of them
• 34:00
  right there. Were you exchanged vows between
• 34:03
  people to be loyal to do this? To do that, right?
• 34:07
  To be exclusive to that one person.
• 34:09
  And what happens, you know, those vows get broken and it's
• 34:13
  detrimental, it damages things long term for a lot of people,
• 34:20
  well, you know, and without the proper measures in place to You
• 34:26
  know bringing things back into balance.
• 34:30
  It's just a Perpetual turmoil it there's nothing there to take
• 34:37
  place of the ill that was dumped into into the well, right?
• 34:43
  So for anyone that is considering after everything
• 34:49
  that I've just said in and is pondering the meaning of the
• 34:51
  oath, right? And what that means. of all I
• 34:56
  would, I would, I would caution everybody and anybody that is
• 34:59
  thinking about becoming part of a group of becoming part of a
• 35:04
  kindred a tribe or whatever is is is if the you know, process
• 35:10
  to join, as you may want to just question and ask, you know, is,
• 35:13
  is there anything here that, that I'm required or expected of
• 35:18
  to do because for us in our group, in our Collective, you
• 35:22
  know, it is, it is We rely on one another.
• 35:27
  That's what the tribe is about. That's what I that's what H.
• 35:29
  That's how a tribe. Survives is that everybody isn't
• 35:35
  their own Island. Nobody's out here, just doing
• 35:37
  their own thing, not giving concern or care for the others.
• 35:41
  Everybody is independently industrious and they do, they
• 35:45
  can, and they can hint, they can handle their own, right?
• 35:47
  They they they roll their own ships, right?
• 35:50
  They they run their own house. Sovereignity of Hearth is 100% a
• 35:55
  component of our tribal through is that everybody's home is, is
• 35:59
  sacred and in Sovereign to themselves.
• 36:01
  So, There's nothing and nobody in clearly folk that can tell
• 36:04
  another member how to run their house, or how to run their home.
• 36:09
  But at the same time is, is there is, you know, is there
• 36:12
  anything that you are becoming a part of is, is what you're
• 36:16
  becoming a part of what you want to be a part of right?
• 36:18
  Or is everybody just kind of doing their own thing and not
• 36:20
  giving Karen concerned the others and also knowing that You
• 36:28
  know, swearing an oath in front of her, with other people
• 36:34
  intrinsically ties you in with their life, you know.
• 36:37
  So now instead of being just off by himself, wolf is now her
• 36:41
  really folk and has the protection and has the love and
• 36:48
  the care and the oversight of his tribe now because he's
• 36:53
  proven himself worthy of that. So, you know, again, I don't
• 36:58
  tell not here to tell anybody, how to do things, or what to do,
• 37:01
  or that they should, you know, only join tribes, or groups that
• 37:07
  have a, Worthing processor that have an oath in process of this.
• 37:09
  Or that all I'm saying is that when you are talking about
• 37:13
  combining your life with other people sharing space and time,
• 37:17
  whether it's ritual or any other sort of spiritual or religious
• 37:21
  activity is, you know, Think about what you're doing.
• 37:24
  Think about the gravity that the the severity the sovereignity,
• 37:29
  think about it, all right. Think about what you're doing
• 37:31
  and if these are the type of people that you want to tie your
• 37:35
  weird with all right, it's why we have the working process.
• 37:39
  It's okay. Well you want to be a part of a
• 37:41
  group. Well, we're a group.
• 37:43
  You want to be a part of us? Well, let's hang out a bit,
• 37:45
  right? Let's let's let's see what it's
• 37:46
  like to hang out with you. Let's have some meals together.
• 37:49
  Let's go on a hike. Let's do things. that's partly,
• 37:53
  I'll just Participate in activities that build
• 38:01
  friendships first. Let's let's get to know each
• 38:03
  other. Let's make sure that the life
• 38:05
  that you're living in the life that I'm living and we're
• 38:07
  living, you know, is not going to conflict with the tribes
• 38:12
  through in the tribes laws and the tribes structure in the
• 38:15
  tribes growth, right? Because again if if what someone
• 38:18
  is doing is not conducive to the growth of the tribe than hey You
• 38:24
  want to be part of a group of maybe this groups, not the one
• 38:26
  for you. The only way to know whether
• 38:30
  that is the case is to allow time to pass and allow
• 38:35
  relationships to build organically you know.
• 38:40
  And and then see how it goes. Prove each other's worth, prove
• 38:43
  yourselves to one another. It's not again, it's not just
• 38:45
  well, what can you do for me? Or what can you do for us?
• 38:48
  That's what can we do for you, right?
• 38:50
  So again there's this reciprocation, there's this
• 38:55
  Exchange of of weird exchange of gifts even you know, exchange of
• 39:01
  Life guys. You know, we share life together
• 39:05
  anyway. So if you're talking about
• 39:09
  Extending Your Inner Circle to others outside you know your
• 39:15
  kith the the people who you want to get to know bit better and
• 39:19
  establish familial bonds with you gotta give it time, you got
• 39:24
  it, you got to test it, it needs to be tested.
• 39:27
  It needs to be proven right? Anyway, there's my little just
• 39:32
  thing about Oaths, the O's I want to just briefly mention
• 39:37
  talking about you land. Wearing those that at you, all
• 39:41
  right? It was said, or it's been said
• 39:46
  that the, the oath sworn at you'll wear of a, particularly
• 39:54
  powerful nature or something like that.
• 39:56
  I'm going to go back and find the source material where it's
• 40:00
  mentioned. I want to say that it's probably
• 40:03
  in hamstring ler, so I got fucking the good or something
• 40:05
  like that somewhere around that time frame where you hear about,
• 40:08
  you know, I was being sworn in the bristles of boars and
• 40:13
  whatnot. Not and but I'll go back and
• 40:16
  I'll find the actual Source material.
• 40:17
  So it'll be annotated in the description of the video and in
• 40:20
  the show notes of the podcast. So just check that out when you
• 40:23
  get time. But yeah, the the oath sworn at
• 40:29
  you'll were believed to be of a particularly potent or powerful,
• 40:33
  so yeah you can swear owes any time but if you're swearing them
• 40:37
  at you'll then you've got all of that extra energy all that extra
• 40:42
  power, all that positive Of. This positivity with you, and
• 40:49
  then at your back as well, right?
• 40:51
  So you've got that added boost of luck, maybe even to carry you
• 40:57
  in that oath. Into the accomplishment.
• 41:02
  So you know there were other roads that were given and taken
• 41:07
  at our you'll which I will not share here and now because that
• 41:12
  is Nunya business man and it's not to be mean it's not to be
• 41:16
  rude. It's to again maintain and
• 41:18
  protect the The luck of those who have entered into that, that
• 41:26
  oath web. But the thing about it is, is
• 41:29
  that because those were sworn, because those were given and
• 41:32
  taken actions need to come forth, Deeds need to be done,
• 41:37
  work needs to be put in. So you will see And those
• 41:45
  especially in the Middle, Tennessee area will see the
• 41:49
  results of those owes being sworn because it has to be
• 41:55
  there. There's no other way for it to
• 41:58
  be accomplished. There's no other way for those
• 42:00
  that were given and taken. To be fulfilled without it being
• 42:06
  seen. So for those that for those of
• 42:11
  you in the middle, Tennessee area and the surrounding areas.
• 42:15
  Stay tuned, just for announcements things coming out
• 42:18
  of the midgard, musings, social media platforms, Facebook,
• 42:23
  Twitter, Instagram, and anything else that comes through.
• 42:28
  It'll definitely be share through those channels as well.
• 42:33
  Don't forget as well, that what I want to do here in 2023 is
• 42:37
  that if you are a heathen Pagan, you know, business.
• 42:42
  If you're a business owner, if you have a craft and I'm going
• 42:46
  to open this again, it was kind of hard to condense it into a
• 42:48
  short form content, but basically, you know, if you are
• 42:53
  a pagan bins and you don't have to be Norse Pagan, okay, or
• 42:56
  Germanic Pagan, if any sort of this is the right word, non
• 43:01
  traditional religious. Just okay.
• 43:05
  And again, it doesn't have to be Germanic paganism but if you are
• 43:07
  a Polytheistic business owner in, you could be a craftsperson,
• 43:13
  you can have provide a service, whatever it is, whatever that
• 43:17
  your service is again. It could be, I don't know,
• 43:20
  divination, music Consulting, I don't really care crafting, you
• 43:26
  know, wood-burning carving blacksmithing tailoring.
• 43:33
  I don't know, just anything. I put a call out there for
• 43:38
  anybody that wants. It's to have an ad here on this
• 43:40
  podcast. You got up, you know, minimum 30
• 43:44
  seconds up to a minute and a half.
• 43:46
  So 30 to 90 seconds long that you can get on a video, deliver
• 43:51
  your pitch think of it like shooting a commercial.
• 43:53
  Right? So I think, you know, a minute
• 43:55
  is, is most of your, real, and short form content that are
• 43:59
  being pushed really hard by the various platforms, and their
• 44:03
  algorithms is to engage with short form content, right?
• 44:06
  So, if you think about it, this is long.
• 44:09
  Kind of this is a podcast, but if you want to get your business
• 44:14
  out here on the airwaves on the podcast, waves in front of the
• 44:18
  thousands of people that collectively, I have that that
• 44:20
  capture, all this stuff I want to get attention drawn to your
• 44:24
  business. I would love to get people
• 44:25
  coming to you for what it is that you do you can email
• 44:28
  midgard, musings Tian at gmail.com with that content,
• 44:32
  right? With whatever it is that you do
• 44:33
  that video. Just advertising your work.
• 44:37
  Hi, this is so and so I have Have XYZ website.
• 44:40
  You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, whatever.
• 44:43
  Your soul socials are Tick-Tock. I don't care, right?
• 44:46
  Even content creators can send it in as well.
• 44:49
  I do this I do that. Find me here.
• 44:52
  Look forward to seeing you thanks so much.
• 44:55
  You got 90 seconds to to share your information.
• 44:59
  Keep in mind that this is a also video and audio formats.
• 45:03
  So if you have content that you're showing it's going to be
• 45:05
  seen on Spotify and YouTube but may not be seen visually Other
• 45:09
  places. So, you know, provide a call to
• 45:11
  action tell people where they can find you, how they can
• 45:14
  support you, and I'll feature it here on this podcast.
• 45:17
  Now, if you don't want that, and you would just rather me read a
• 45:21
  script and say, hey guys, this, you know, kind of like a
• 45:25
  commercial break or whatever. You know, while I'm here.
• 45:28
  You guys be sure to check out, you know, you know, Pagan ABC,
• 45:33
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• 45:37
  blah blah. Nothing, whatever.
• 45:39
  Just give me a script, you know, if it takes up 30, 45 seconds, a
• 45:43
  minute minute and a half, whatever it does, as long as
• 45:45
  it's, if you reread it. And it's, you know, no longer
• 45:47
  than a minute and a half long. I will be glad to read it for
• 45:50
  you. If you for whatever reason, just
• 45:51
  don't want to get on camera and do your thing there.
• 45:55
  I'm happy to do that midgard musings Tian at gmail.com, send
• 45:59
  it in, and I'll feature it here on this podcast.
• 46:04
  And we'll get some hopefully new business.
• 46:09
  Drilling your way. But I did guys, you know, it's
• 46:14
  very first episode of 2023, a lot of user out here, looking to
• 46:18
  make new waves, new starts of things, maybe taking olds, and
• 46:22
  giving those of What Not yourself, wanted to bring this
• 46:25
  out, and make sure that you knew what kind of thing that you're
• 46:30
  doing when you're talking about getting into the swearing of
• 46:33
  Oaks, taking a v, giving of Oaths, it's big business, you
• 46:38
  know. so don't enter into those things lightly or casually, you
• 46:46
  know, make sure that you're thinking things through and
• 46:51
  getting all the pieces in order before you You know, get into
• 46:55
  that sort of stuff. So for anybody, that has
• 46:57
  questions, if we didn't cover it here because of my ramblings
• 47:01
  going off on different things. If I didn't quite make it, clear
• 47:04
  to you, comment down below. Send me an email, you know, at
• 47:08
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• 47:11
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• 47:14
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• 47:18
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• 47:24
  And we'll talk. Together, you know, we'll get
• 47:26
  those questions answered if I don't have the answer, somebody
• 47:29
  sure will. Or we'll find it together and
• 47:33
  that's what it's all about. It's all about learning things
• 47:36
  together. And that's what I want for us
• 47:37
  here in 2023 is to grow together and to learn together and to,
• 47:42
  you know, get some get some good conversations during if it's not
• 47:45
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