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Spat From The Eagle's Beak [RHR S6, EP33] · Random Heathen Ramblings

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I sought that old yoten, now safe and my back.
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Little served my silence there, but whispering many soft
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speeches, I won my desire in Sutung's hall.
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I bored me a road there with Roddy's Tusk, and made room to
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pass through the rock. While the ways of the yoten
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stretched over and under. I dared my life for a draft Twas
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Gunloth, who gave me on a golden throne a draft of the glorious
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Mead, but with poor reward that I pay her back for her true and
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troubled heart. In a wily disguise I worked my
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will. Little is lacking to the wise
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for the soul stirrer. Now sweet Mead of song is
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brought to men's earthly abode. Hello everyone, welcome to the
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following along. Got an interesting one lined up
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for us today. I'm going to get into that here
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in just a minute, but I do want to kind of share with all of you
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that here soon in about just less than a month.
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So October 4th, which is a Saturday in Nashville, TN
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believe it's at Two Rivers Park in yeah, just just S Nashville
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there. I believe it's South Nashville
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is the Nashville Pagan Pride Day.
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I will be there with my wife and a friend.
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I will be offering rune reading services all day.
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And my good friend and brother Zeb of the Nordic folk, Dark
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ambient folk project Skogamore will be coming all the way from
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the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina to perform his
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musical craft that day. So I've had Zeb on the show a
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couple of times in the past. It's been a little while, but he
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is a great guy. We met years and years ago, some
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other mutual friends of ours have, I actually introduced them
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to one another. So we have this shared
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friendship and brotherhood thing going on with other great men
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and, and individuals in our lives.
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And he's like I said, he's been doing this, this, this kind of
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solo project where he's, you know, man of the forest, you
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know, Skogermother is the old Norse word for it.
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But Skogermore, he's got a different Appalachian twist.
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The way he says it's kind of kind of cool.
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And I don't want to ruin it or, or, or spoil that for you, but
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he will be performing. He's coming out to perform that
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day at Nashville Pagan Pride. So in addition to coming out and
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seeing all the other cool things that are going to be going on,
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all the other vendors, workshops, activities, food
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trucks and things, it's just a good old time.
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You know, it's it's a one day thing.
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If you're in the area or if you feel like coming out, come see
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me and come get your runes read and stick around to see Zeb
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perform Skogarmore. His his music and stuff, which
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you hear actually every episode of the podcast, the outro that
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outro track was written by him for me for the show.
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So definitely looking forward to that.
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Can't wait to see him and hopefully you all here again.
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It's October 4th in Nashville. I'll leave some information in
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the show notes for those of you that are listening in case you
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want to follow up with that. So yeah, so now that we got all
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of that fun stuff out of the way, want to talk a little bit
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about something that has kind of been weighing heavy in my heart
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and and on my mind. You know, every year I go out to
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North Carolina and I reconnect and with friends and, and
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brothers of mine for Fire on the Mountain.
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It's a annual thing. And this was our fifth year
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doing it for a men's spiritual health, spiritual Wellness and
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coming back from it this year, you know, we, we made a big
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jump. We made a big shift into how
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we're going to continue with, with this whole thing.
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It's, it's becoming more than just a men's spiritual retreat.
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It is we we saw the the potential for this to become
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something that is like the pinnacle of a institution for
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men and our holistic health, our holistic Wellness.
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So not just spiritual health, but our mental health, our
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physical health, our spiritual health, you know, kind of
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covering all bases. We work together.
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Me and the other founding fire, who kind of started this whole
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thing five years ago as fire in the mountain.
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We we worked very hard to come up with a like I said, this
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institution, this order, OK for men to be a part of and got a
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lot of work to do with that. It's it's, it is work.
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It is, you know, everything is earned, nothing is given sort of
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a thing. So coming back from that, you
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know, coming back from that retreat every year, first of
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all, there's always this period of time where the, the
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reintegration back into everyday life.
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You know, when you're out there camping and doing things of a,
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you know, inner work, spiritual work, and you're, and you're
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working together with other men doing the same thing.
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You know, you're having your individual experience, plus
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you're having a shared experience.
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There's a lot of energy at work that's had that's at play there,
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you know, and this year was no different.
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So coming back from these retreats, every year after
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you're gone for four days, three nights, there's always a period
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of time within that first week or so that's, you know, getting
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reintegrated back into your day-to-day life is, is at least
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for me, you know, it's a, it's a process.
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And I think there was a lot that came out this year for me
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specifically that, you know, good things that have taken a
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lot more time for me to navigate through.
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And one of the things that has come as a result of that
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experience and those feelings have been this or has been this
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lack of inspiration, not feeling inspired to do what I'm doing on
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the podcast, you know, like I have a set schedule when I
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record every week. And then when the day comes and
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I'm like, I just don't feel like it.
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And I always am. I'm very in tune with, you know,
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my feelings, my, my, my spirit with, with regards to that.
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And I don't ever try to force things, you know, and I know
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that for folks that have been listening and watching this show
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over the years, I'm sure that there have been times, maybe
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even recently that my demeanor has been different, even on
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screen or over the, you know, airwaves, whether it's the tone
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of my voice or the expressions on my face, if you're watching
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or just kind of the, the, the feel of the show, right?
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And you know, I've gone through a lot in the last six seasons,
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things that, you know, could've, could've put the damper on this
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whole operation, you know what I mean?
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I could've said, I'm, I'm done with this.
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I'm, I'm hanging it up. It was a good run, but I'm done.
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You know, and I, if, if I had a dime for every time I thought
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that, you know, this, this podcast would be in a studio,
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we'd have top notch equipment and I'd be rolling in it.
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So point being is that feeling of not being inspired to, to
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want to do anything. I'm in tune with that and I go,
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where is this coming from? You know, really sit with myself
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and sit with those feelings and, and understand kind of the the
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why, right? Why am I feeling this way?
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And I know a lot of it has to do with my own, I guess you could
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say, you know, feelings of not being enough.
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You know what I mean? Like I, I, I'm, I'm a very
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analytically driven person. I have, I have high aspirations
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and, and I try to do the most that I can with what I've got,
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even if it's not, you know, the greatest production, the
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greatest quality. You know, I do the best that I
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can with what I got to. But I, you know, I see other
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things and I go, if I had that, you know, it would be so much
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better. Or I see, you know, the
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analytics of the show, it's not performing as good as I hoped it
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would be, you know, really trying to push the the
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sponsorship thing and then and look at what I do on this
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platform and, and value my time accordingly.
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And when you don't get the responses and you don't get the,
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the reaction or the, yeah, the response, you know, if what
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you're putting out doesn't bring back what you feel like it
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should you do you have these expectations?
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At least I do. Doing these types of things, it
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can be discouraging and it can really, for me, you know, it
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can, it can really put the kibosh on my creativity.
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OK, So whenever I get into those moments, I go, you know, well,
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this is more, this isn't just about me, You know, this isn't,
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this isn't just I'm enjoying what I'm doing, yes, but other
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people enjoy this. So, you know, I do have this
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feeling or this kind of sense of an obligation with this, not in
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a bad way, but in a way that's like I, you know, if I'm not
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feeling it, if I'm forcing it, it's not fair to those of you
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who listen and watch the show to get that version of me.
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You know, you should get the best that I can offer.
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And I realize that sometimes that's, you know, that's not
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always the case. You're not always getting my
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very best, but I'm human. I still push through and
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hopefully you all still get something out of what I'm doing.
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And, you know, I feel like being that authentic and being that
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genuine does, you know, kind of provide a much needed
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authenticity. You know, there's so much clout
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out here that people are chasing.
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There's so much inauthenticity, you know, inauthentic people and
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disingenuous. And it's everybody's trying to
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create an image or create a persona.
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And I'm not, you know, I'm I'm this is me.
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So I was talking to one of the founding, you know, the other
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founding fire, fire on the mountain in this new men's
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institution that we founded together.
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And yeah, it just came up kind of casually in the conversation.
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I said, man, you know, I've just not been feeling so inspired
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lately. And yeah, one of the things that
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he said or he had proposed to think about is, well, he's like,
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you know, have you ever talked about Mead?
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You know, have you ever had an episode where you talk about the
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topic of Mead and how it is connected to divine inspiration
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and divine speech and poetry and, and, you know, being
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inspired, You know, you're talking about not feeling so
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inspired or not so creative. You know, have you ever
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dedicated or talked about that? And I go, man, you know, come to
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think of it, no, I really haven't.
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And, and to be honest, was what I told him.
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I said, you know, admittedly, I get so like, I, I think too much
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about things, you know what I mean?
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I put myself into the production of this show so much that I go,
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what can I put out here that's not just basic stuff?
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And he's like, well, you know, I totally get that.
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And maybe you should think about that somewhere.
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These aren't his exact words, but you know, what I got out of
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it was, you know, realize that, you know, your audiences include
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seasoned heathens and people who have been doing this for a long
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time. And you have other people who
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are just hearing this stuff for the first time.
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And you getting people that are coming in.
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And no matter how old they are, whether they're young or old,
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it's, you know, they're, they're new, they're fresh.
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And so getting a new and a fresh thing is basic, as it might seem
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to you after having done this for so many years, could be a
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really refreshing thing for them.
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And he started talking about, you know, maybe maybe go over
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some materials, including where the importance of Mead is found
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in the myths and lore. You know, and you know, you
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heard at the beginning of of the podcast of several stanzas of
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the Hava Mall, which if you're interested and you want to check
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out which stanzas those are, it's stanzas one O 2 through one
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O 5 of the Hava Mall. And that it would be the Oliver
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Bray translation. So other translations might not
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exactly be, you know, one O 2 in one translation might be, you
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know, one O 3 stanza, one O 3 in another translation.
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So bear that in mind. But basically it's the section
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of the of the Hava Mall that is is Odin Speaking of about his
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quest for this for the meat of poetry, you know, or the song
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meat. And he's talking about, you
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know, going to good Love's Hall and being given the drafts of
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Mead. And that story.
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If you want to check out more about that is is told about in
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the Prose Edda. So Snorri Sturluson, you know,
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12th century, I believe Icelandic scald and you know,
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important guy, politician, Chieftain, whatever he wrote his
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prose Edda and it does contain stories that are not found in
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the Poetic Edda. The Poetic Edda and and certain
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poems in the Poetic Edda are considered primary sources,
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especially the ones like the whole of them all and Bolas Spa
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things that can, you know, that make up.
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But the the Codex Regis, you know, older sources and then
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Snorri Sturlsson's Prose Edda does not get left out.
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It is still considered, you know, maybe secondary sources
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since at the time, you know, when when it was written, you
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know, Snorri was obviously he wasn't Pagan.
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He was Christian or he was working under the, you know,
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Christian rule of Iceland at the time.
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And so is a lot of the people that read Snorri's work or or
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believe that, you know, there's these are myths, these are
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stories of of when times where Pagan for the area.
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But there's things that come through that might have some
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Christian bias being thrown in there.
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Or sometimes Snorri just, you know, contradicts himself when
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you really get into the study of it.
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But anyway, not to bore you with all of that, the the poem in the
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Prose Edda that talks about Odin and his quest for this Mead and
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other really neat things about Mead itself is found in the poem
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called Sculpt Sculpamal. Sculpamal.
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I'll put that in the show notes for you.
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You know, if you're watching this in the description area, we
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can go look. But that is Snorri's prose
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account that gives kind of the fullest, most enriching, you
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know, surviving narrative about Odin's quest for the Mead and
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also, you know, kind of the importance of Mead and and the
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mythology and the mythical aspect of it.
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So it talks about, you know, Classier and him being killed by
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the dwarves and that his blood became the Mead of poetry, you
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know, the Mead of song. So yeah, it was like talking
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about. Why I haven't been feeling
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inspired or, or, you know, I haven't gone on that quest, you
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know, so I get to thinking about these things and I go, man, I
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am, I am, I, am I pursuing that? Am I doing the necessary things
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to pursue that, to go on that quest to even change form as
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Odin did, where he changes into the, you know, he, he goes there
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and he, he disguises himself as Bolvecker, you know, and he, and
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he gets into Sutung's hall and he, and he steals the Mead from,
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from, from good Lord. And he changes form into an
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eagle, right? And, and even a, a, a snake to
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slip through the walls. And then he flies away as an
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eagle to bring the Mead back to the gods and then to mankind,
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you know, and from that Mead is the source of poetry.
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And where I'm getting this all from is from Skullscap them all.
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So there's a few lines, there's a few sections.
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Again, I, I can put a link for you all in the show notes of
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where to find a copy of if you just want to read it online.
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But there's this one particular line where, and I'll just jump
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right to it. So you know what I'm saying.
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It's a conversation that is being had between a year and
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Braggy. So then, said Agir, I deem that
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well concealed in secret terms, and again said to Agir, whence
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did this art, which we call poetry, derive its beginnings?
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Broggy answered, These were the beginnings thereof.
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The gods had a dispute with the folks which are called Vonnier,
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and they appointed a peace meeting between them and
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established peace in this way. They each went to a VAT and spat
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their spittle therein. Then at parting, the gods took
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that peace token and would not let it perish, but shaped
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thereof a man. This man is called Kvassir, and
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he was so wise that none could question him concerning anything
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but that he knew the solution. He went up and down the earth to
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give instruction to man, and when he came upon the And when
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he came upon invitation to the abode of certain dwarves, Fialer
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and Gawler, they called him into Privy converse with them and
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kill him, letting his blood run into two vats and a kettle.
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The kettle is named Otharir and the Vats Son and Boden.
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They blended honey with the blood, and the outcome was that
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Mead by the virtue of which he who drinks becomes a scald or
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scholar. The dwarves reported to the Asir
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that Kvassir had choked on his own shrewdness since there was
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none so wise there as to be able to question his wisdom.
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So there's kind of the origin of Mead in the myths and how
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specifically Kvasir's blood later on, later on in the in the
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poem, there's some really cool like kennings and stuff that
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come up. Kennings meaning like poetic
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renamings of things, you know, like 1 modern kenning for, for,
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for Mead itself could be something like bees sweat, you
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know, or Kvasir's blood. That is a kenning for Mead, but
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this is a this is a really cool line towards the end of Scald
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Scarpa Mall. Let's see if I can see if I can
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find it here for you, Saul. There's a bunch of poetry.
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Let's see. Kvassir.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. OK, yeah.
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Now you shall hear how the skalds have termed the art of
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poetry in these metaphorical phrases which have been recorded
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before, for example, by calling it Kvassir's Gore and Ship of
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the Dwarves. Dwarves Mead, Mead of the Aceir
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giants Father Ransom liquor of Oathrair and of Boden and of
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song and fullness of these liquor of Hinit Bjorg.
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Now Hinit Bjorg was the IT was a place in the story.
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You just, you know, read it. You'll know.
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But liquor of Hinit Bjorg booty and find and gift of Odin, even
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as he even as has been sung in these verses which Einar
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tinkling scale wrote or wrought. So there's a there's a good
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portion of this poems called scuffam, all which includes
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skaldic poetry, skaldic singings.
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You know, I pray the high soul warder of earth to hear the
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ocean of the Cliff of dwarves. My verse here, Earl, the gore of
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classier, very poetic, very, very, you know, well to do.
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And poetry was such an important part of of Scandinavian Pagan
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times. I mean like the, the skalds, the
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poets again, the good ones, they were, they were quite often
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times they know they served in the King's courts or, or you
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know, chieftains or Urals or not Earls or Urals.
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You know, they were important enough to have to be under
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those, those people's retinue. And their inspiration came from,
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it was believed, you know, from drinking of this need of poetry.
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Now again, you know, looking at it from a physical standpoint,
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you know, drinking Mead, drinking anything alcoholic can
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definitely turn people into, they loosens the lips, right?
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It loosens our tongues. And it gives us this ability to
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speak when more freely. And that could be a good thing
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sometimes, you know, obviously you get too much of it in you
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and it's a bad thing. And you know, there's a lesson
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for that as well. But I look at it more from the,
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you know, metaphorical side of things, you know, having not
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worked hard. And I have not earned that need.
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You know, Odin wouldn't have received the wisdom that it,
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that it came from those 3 drafts, that, that was, that it
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was being guarded by, by, by Sutton and, and Gundloth, right.
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So that, you know, kind of tells me in order to get this, you
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know, inspiration in order to be inspired to be poetic or to
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speak. I mean, sure, I may not be
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reciting poetry on a podcast, but this is a, it's a, it's a
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platform where words are being woven and things are being said.
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And as I, you know, talked a lot about in the past with that, you
27:36
know, our, our words carry weight and I enjoy poetry, You
27:42
know, I enjoy finding my muse within written word, spoken
27:51
word. I love the alliterative meter of
27:56
Germanic poetry. You know what I mean?
28:00
I've, I've done some of my own work in that area trying to kind
28:07
of preserve that, that flame, preserve that fire on my
28:11
dramatic side. And it translates differently
28:17
when you're on a podcast and when you're talking to people,
28:19
you know, you're having conversations or you're doing
28:21
this like we're doing right now, this, this kind of a monologue
28:23
and talking about it. But it it definitely opens up
28:28
kind of some things for me to be like, if you're not, if you're
28:35
not pursuing it, you know what I mean?
28:40
If you're if you're not seeking it out, seeking out those
28:43
giants, seeking out that thing like Odin had to do, it's going
28:50
to take work, but you're not going to get anything out of it.
28:55
And it's also, you know, kind of put into perspective for me, you
29:01
know, what, what the future of this podcast means, because I
29:06
never, I never look too far ahead in the future, right?
29:08
I never look like, well, we're going to run this thing for 10
29:12
seasons and that's it or whatever.
29:14
I just, I go basically, you know, week to week, day-to-day.
29:17
Some, yes, I have in the past, you know, scheduled that people
29:21
out, you know, months in advance.
29:23
And that's fine. That's great.
29:24
I like doing that too, when I, when I can, scheduling shows
29:29
that that far out and, and filling up slots and, and
29:32
getting that done. But you know, I don't know
29:35
after, you know, however far in the future I have something
29:39
scheduled for if, if it'll continue after that, I never
29:45
know. I, I just, I never know.
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And you know, I don't, I don't want to like, I don't want to
29:58
set an expectation for something that is unrealistic, but I want
30:02
to keep the inspiration. I want to, I want to maintain
30:04
that. And then and that takes work,
30:06
you know what I mean? It's, it doesn't come by just
30:08
sitting on my hands and hoping for something to land in my lap.
30:14
It comes through, if not through my own work, it comes through
30:18
the work that I share with others.
30:19
You know what I mean? The things that are done with
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people who mean a lot to me, my family, my friends, my, my
30:28
kinsman, my, my, my tribe, you know, call him that.
30:36
Cause again, had I not had that conversation with, with my
30:43
brother, man, like he wouldn't, you know, this wouldn't, I
30:45
wouldn't be talking about this. I would, I would, I probably
30:48
would have been like, well, guys, you know, no podcast for
30:50
this week. So, yeah, it kind of just it
30:59
opens up, you know, conversation too as well, like for, for, for
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those of you that are listening, how if, if you're familiar with
31:07
the myths at all, like how does it kind of resonate with you?
31:13
I'm not the type of heathen. I'm not the type of person to
31:16
take stories as like literal happenings of things.
31:19
I understand, you know, what the lore is, but it, the lore means
31:22
something and the myth means something.
31:24
And this to me is, is a sort of like a, a lesson to be learned
31:30
here, you know, like this is where this comes from, but you
31:36
got to work for it. You have to put in the work.
31:39
You got to do the damn work. The whole like poetic
31:47
inspiration that Mead has, like these, you know, to be able to,
31:52
to, to plan something like a podcast or to a plan, anything
31:56
video content related. There is a bit of poetry in
32:02
that. There's poetry in motion.
32:03
There's, there's this whole, everything has to line up.
32:05
Well, you know, especially if you're scheduling with this with
32:07
other people. So it is, it is a pursuit.
32:11
It is a sometimes a relentless 1 to really get in there and
32:19
figure your stuff out and not do it just for you, but realize
32:24
it's it's for others. Yeah.
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The cool thing, you know, is, is like learning about the the
32:29
history of Mead itself and and the importance of it in the
32:34
society. You know, Mead is probably, I
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think one of, if not the oldest forms of alcoholic beverages,
32:43
you know, fermented drink that exists.
32:46
I think there have been like residue analysis done on 7 to
32:55
8000 year old. We call it items in China that
33:04
that that show like a rice, honey, fruit fermented drink
33:11
rice with honey with fruit, right, So that you know, using
33:13
the rice and honey for sweetener and other fruits, right to make
33:16
this fermented drink. I think there's also there's,
33:23
you know, there's some things that that link the OR anchor the
33:26
idea that honey fermented beverages specifically, they are
33:33
not just for drinking casually. They, they, they have a long
33:37
ritual and social history outside of, of Europe, Even so,
33:45
like in the north, you know, in Scandinavia, in northern Europe,
33:51
there's been archaeological, archaeological finds that tend
33:56
to show like mixed fermented beverages made with barley and,
33:59
and honey and, and you know, what fruit was available.
34:03
But other imported goods, you know, found in like elite
34:13
context, again, the kings, the the Yarls, the Earls, the, the,
34:18
the, the nobility, you know, this wasn't, this wasn't
34:22
anything that was readily available to the common folk.
34:26
It was, again, you were you were an important person or had
34:29
important status to have access to this stuff in the in the
34:33
north at least. So, yeah, you know, I think that
34:45
for me talking with talking with my brother about this really,
34:53
you know, because again, I'm still like, even though the
34:56
whole fire on the mountain retreat, you know, even though
34:58
that was three weeks ago at this point, you know, that time
35:05
you're hearing this, you know, it was about 3 weeks ago, about
35:12
two weeks, I think 2, two, 2-3 weeks ago, right.
35:14
Less than a month ago. I still find myself like having
35:20
a hard time with certain things. I don't know, it's been a rough
35:24
reintegration back to, to normal day life or a normal everyday
35:28
life. But we're going to get there.
35:30
I'm going to get there. It's, it's, it's, it's going to
35:33
be OK. You know, So I do actually have
35:38
some really cool news to share, which by the time you, you're
35:45
listening to this, you probably have already seen it because
35:49
it's been, it's been shared already on, on my socials.
35:54
But next week's episode, next week's episode is going to be
36:00
probably one of my most, you know, I've had some awesome
36:04
guests on this show and they're very thankful that the people
36:07
who I do have on here are interested first of all, in
36:10
wanting to come on the show. But there are some that
36:18
definitely stand out. And, and this one, this, this
36:20
guest that I have coming up next week, definitely stands out
36:24
because it is a performer and a, an individual who has, I know
36:31
she's been the inspiration and, and been, you know, an important
36:38
part of a lot of people's life in and out of the performing
36:45
arts. But definitely from the
36:47
performing arts perspective, music specifically, I am talking
36:51
about Mira Ketsi, Mira Seti. I'm, I'm, if I'm mispronouncing
36:55
it now, I'm, I'm going to get it right by the time I speak to
36:58
her. But Mira, who's, you know, she
37:00
performs with High Lung and has for I think now like 6 or 7
37:09
years, something like that, maybe longer.
37:15
She also has her own solo music project and and has for a while
37:18
too. So again, having having the
37:20
chance to speak with her and having her come on the show,
37:23
like, Dang, you know, had Nitland come on the show
37:28
recently. Yeah, I don't know.
37:33
It's and it's one of those things where I go, man, if I
37:37
were to just stop all of this, you know, and hang it all up,
37:39
you know, there's still so much left to do.
37:43
There's still so much left to pursue, you know, that that Mead
37:47
is still out there to steal, as it were.
37:51
You know what I mean? It's being guarded.
37:52
It's being guarded by those, those doggone yotin.
37:58
Yeah, time the heck get that wily wit about us and and get
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out there and do the damn work, as you say.
38:04
So let me know your thoughts. Let me know what you guys are
38:07
thinking when it comes to the application of Mead, not just in
38:13
the lore, but how you know it translates into your daily
38:17
practices or your ritual practices.
38:19
I know a lot of heathens especially will use Mead
38:23
ritually in place of things like, you know, when it comes to
38:29
like libations and and offerings and stuff to the gods or to the
38:32
land, you know, it's, it's, it's safe to consume the land.
38:35
It's not going to hurt anything if you pour it out, you know, So
38:38
it's a very popular and readily available, most of the time, I
38:42
think readily available item. I know several people who make
38:49
delicious Mead. You know, Daniel and Rebecca
38:52
over there in, in Lenoir, NC at Moon Joy Meadery.
38:56
Big shout out to them for having provided some amazing Mead,
39:01
especially, you know, I've had like fire on the mountain
39:05
before. We've had a lot of their Mead
39:07
present 'cause they're, you know, not too far from where we
39:12
go every year out there in North Carolina.
39:14
But we got our local meatery here in Nashville, the Honey
39:17
Tree meatery, the Ravenwood meatery down there in
39:21
Huntsville, AL. They're doing great stuff.
39:23
And then just the, the regular folks, you know, the people who
39:26
are doing it, you know, themselves and then, you know,
39:31
no, not, not a, not a big operation, but they got it
39:34
dialed in. I had a delicious BlackBerry
39:37
Mead that was made by a local elder of our community.
39:42
She's been making me for I don't know how many years, but however
39:46
long she's been doing it, she's got it like she's got the
39:48
process dialed in. It's some of the best meat that
39:51
I've ever had. It's, it's, it's so smooth.
39:54
It's, you know, you don't taste, you taste everything in it.
39:59
You know, you taste the berries, you taste the blackberries,
40:02
especially in this batch was very, very vibrant, very smooth.
40:09
So that you know, and I know it has a has a special place in a
40:14
lot of pagans lives, a lot of heathens lives, whether it's
40:17
casually consuming it, enjoying it with friends and family, or
40:21
having it as an offering. Because it might be those that
40:24
don't drink for alcohol for whatever reasons, but they still
40:27
use it in ceremony and in rituals.
40:32
So I'm anxious to hear what you guys are thinking, you know, and
40:34
how it, how this, you know, maybe forgot about or didn't
40:37
know about scullscope them all. I'm interested to hear what you
40:41
all think about that. And also feel free to shoot some
40:46
ideas. You know, my way.
40:48
You can comment them. You can e-mail them
40:51
midgardmusingstn@gmail.com. If you ever have an idea or
40:54
something that you want. I'm, I'm interested in hearing
40:56
anything that you guys think would be worth putting out here,
41:00
no matter how basic it might be. I have done stuff in the past
41:04
where people are, you know, talking about, hey, can you do a
41:07
show on this or show on that or an episode on this and that.
41:11
And I go, yeah, actually I have. And I'll refer them back to it.
41:13
And then I go back and I like look at what I did or listen to
41:16
it and I'm going, I need to revisit that one again.
41:20
So nothing's really off the table.
41:24
Happy to revisit something so that way you don't have to go
41:29
back digging through content, but I don't know, there's a lot
41:32
of it to, to dig through. So that's going to that's going
41:36
to wrap up today's episode on need and inspiration and how we
41:41
find ourselves inspired and pursuing that, that elusive and
41:45
well guarded need of poetry. So let me know what you all
41:50
think. Thank you so much for your
41:52
support. Until we talk to each other
41:54
again, may the gods continue to notice you and may your
41:58
ancestors smile upon you. See you in the next one.