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How To Perform A Heathen Ritual · Random Heathen Ramblings

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So guys today's episode is going to be about how to do a solitary
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ritual. Last week's episode was talking
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about, the gifting exchange the gifting cycle why we do it the
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importance of it for not just engaging with our you know holy
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powers. Our deities, but with one
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another, in the other heathens in our communities.
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So definitely, if you are unfamiliar with that, you can go
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back through my catalog on your podcast listening platform and
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check out the importance of the gifting exchange or gifting
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cycle. But what I wanted to talk about
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today is you know, how do we actually do a ritual or what are
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some of the steps that we can take to perform one especially
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for a Of folks out here, who may, be new to Heathen, re
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coming into this path with a little bit of a uncertainty of
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how to perform these various things.
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So what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be going over some
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historical information. I'm going to be giving you like
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a historically, accurate solitary, ritual, practice or
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performance, all right. How different folks do their
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own? Jules, you know, based off of
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the their own experiences and sorry it's early today and I'm
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voice is cracking here. Apologize for that.
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We'll get it through here though.
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We'll get through it. How different folks do their own
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rituals, is going to be entirely up to them.
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So what I'm what I'm showing you or what?
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I'm going to be talking to you guys about is you know, based
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off of Oracle evidence and things that we can see as being
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how rituals were done with. We are with regards to archieve
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Andre, pre-christian Scandinavia.
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Okay. So bear that in mind, if you
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want to do it differently, you're certainly welcome to
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develop your own methods. How you communicate with the
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your, with the gods and with your ancestors, and with the VA
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tear of the land of the home. That's all all up to you, okay?
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Welcome back. Thanks for taking the time and
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I appreciate you sticking around.
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Let's get into the discussion for today.
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Are the episode for today, really excited to do this.
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When guys because we talked last week about the importance of the
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gifting cycle and equal exchange and engaging our deities and our
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ancestors and the various They tear that we live around and
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with and so this episode is going to be on how to do ritual
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or how to do things that can be a part of this this gifting
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process or this gifting exchange or cycle.
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Okay? So the first thing that we're
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going to be talking about are what you need.
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OK. We'll we'll try to go into the
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things that you need kind of getting yourself set up before.
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The ritual, a simple prayer or something that you can do or say
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that, you know, get you in that mindset and then the actual
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ritual itself, and then how you would basically end the ritual
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and so on and so forth. So let's go ahead and get
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started with the items needed. One of the first Things that
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you'll want to have is a sacred place to do your ritual, right?
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So this could either be if you have one set up and this could
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be included in, this isn't just one place you know like you have
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what we talked about a week or so ago was the Holger the
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outdoor. He even altered.
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That's historically Made of Stone or space outside that you
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have dedicated to your Ritual to your bloat and you can also have
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one just indoors. You could have a table or a
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mantelpiece or something set up for your altar endure.
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So historically speaking you have the holder which was
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outdoors and was literally just mating like a pile of stones so
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it could be as simple or as elaborate as you want it to be,
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could also be something that you just have set up in door.
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So anyway, you have you have that, you have your space.
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You'll want to have a bloat Bowl something that is used for
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ritual only, not something that you use in your kitchen or that
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you use for anything else. It is dedicated and set aside
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specially for your ritual. So it's, you know, preferably to
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preferable to be made of wood, you can use Stone, you can use
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marble, you know, whatever, but it's rare.
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Leave. Would you also want to have
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something that is like a twig? The hotel chain is like a
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something from a tree. Leave.
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A lot of people use pine or Cedar, some sign of coniferous,
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tree something small enough to fit in your bloat Bowl to use
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for the blessing of things. You also want to have fire
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materials such as incense candles because fires used for
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ritual historically and pretty much any time I do ritual as
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well, regardless of who or what it's for, there is fire
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involved. Next you want to have something
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that holds the fire when it's lit.
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You can use a candle, some sort of a sensor a torch you know,
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something like that. So if you're if you're Outdoors
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you'll you can make a fire obviously if you're indoors you
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can't start a fire in door safely.
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So you'll want to have something like a candle or whatever like
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that, you can be a little creative.
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Of. And in that instance and then
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you'll want to have the actual plate of something that you're
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offering on. So you'll want an offering
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plate. This can be something of also
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set aside that is specifically used for ritual, but the it's
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different from the bloat Bowl. The bloat bowl is something
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specifically used for bloat to carry the, the liquid.
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Okay. It's not part of the offering
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per se. It's Of the it is, it's part of
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the offering ritual but it's not like the actual offering could
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be the food, whatever. So, there's offering Place
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separate from the bloat bowl and then, of course, integers fire.
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You need to have something to start the fire.
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So this could be a lighter piece of flint or steel, or flint, and
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steel obviously, to, to, to spark a fire, but whatever you
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use a Firestarter, okay? So now that we got that part out
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Now, here we go. Getting into the sort of the
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meat and potatoes of the solitary ritual, aspect or
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performing the ritual. We've already got our what we
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need. We've got our materials and now
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we're getting into the Performing of the action, okay?
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So what you want to do, Is first whatever you're offering, okay?
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Whether it be the food or a handmade item or whatever that
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physical offering is you're going to want to put it on your
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your altar, okay? You want to have your fire
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method already and then you can also want to have your the
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liquid for the bloat Bowl. Whether that be you know your
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cider Mead wine. Ale or beer or literal blood
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because this is a we're talking about it historically accurate
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type of ritual, lot of heathens, if they can will use blood from
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either their own animals, their own livestock, and we can get
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into that here in just a little bit of it.
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In terms of a proper use of this, some heathens will go to a
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market like a Sure, and ask for blood for cooking.
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A lot of times that's readily available, but that's preference
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at that point. You'll want the The Twig of the
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branch of the tree that you're going to use and with the bloat
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to sprinkle things. We're going to get into that
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process here in a little bit. But you want to get yourself all
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set up, okay? If you have Idols or statues
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statuettes in physical representations of The Gods on
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your altar, there as well. You'll want to have that all set
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up, and then if you're indoors, make sure that beneath them.
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There's something to catch the liquid that you're going to be
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using from the bloat, okay? Because we're going to get into
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that here in just a second. So, the next step is you want to
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create your Sacred Space with fire.
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This being like I said that, that sensor.
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Something that can hold or carry the fire.
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It could be a candle holder. It could be a, like, a metal
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bowl with the candle inside it other people will use literal
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like wood chips, incense, some people use oil creating a fire
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that will last at least about 10 minutes or so, give or take.
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So, like, you know, oil lamps, teacup lights, things like that
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work. Well, You can try doing this
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here where you light your fire walk in a circle around the
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halt, the altar, the Holger the the Sacred Space here and you
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can say some sort of a prayer to any of the deity's really but a
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lot of popular ones would be Odin Thor.
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For are frigg for a some of the more dominant deities that exist
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in the law. And you recite a prayer to them.
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It could be anything, you're handling them.
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You're welcoming them to the Sacred Space and creating that
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space with through the fire. Once you've created your Sacred
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Space you'll want to say some sort of simple prayer or of
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acknowledgement to the gods and goddesses and your ancestors
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isn't have to be pre written, but it can be but you can make
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it on the spot. Really?
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Just whatever comes to you from. Your heart and whatever suits
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you it's going to the gesture is what matters.
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Like I said, it doesn't have to be a big long dissertation.
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It could just be, you know, something simple Hail to the
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gods hail to our goddesses hail to our ancestors in the whites
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of the land, something, whatever?
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Okay. Something with that, that is
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genuine. That comes to you from your
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heart. Next comes the actual bloating.
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The Where you get your float bowl, that contains the at the
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blood or The Cider, or whatever beverage that you have in there
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again it whether it's blood or not doesn't really matter.
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Because again, that that's going to depend on.
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First of all, the nature of the ritual, what you're doing, do
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you even do you have a problem with using blood or you
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screamish are the people around you?
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That are involved if there are people there.
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But again, we're talking solitary rituals.
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So basically want to have enough of liquid in the bowl to take
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the spray of the door. The Twig the hero time.
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You want us to be able to sprinkle your Idols, your
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statues, the the god, representations of the Gods.
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You want to be able to dip this twig into the liquid.
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Sprinkle the gods? Sprinkle the offering Your self.
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And then, if there's anybody with you or any folks with you,
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so you're using this and you want to have enough liquid in
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the bowl, which is why I say, if you don't want to get bloody,
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you can use any sort of alcoholic beverages, you know,
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Mead weinsider ale that sort of thing.
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So, and then when you dip the blood or dip The Twig into the
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float Bowl, however many times, it's as often as needed to To do
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all these, you know to sprinkle everything.
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You can recite something. You know if you're sprinkling
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Thor you health or if you're sprinkling old and haloed and
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you can do anything at that point.
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So going to the blood thing I mentioned earlier that people
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will often try to get blood, whether you go to the Butcher
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and ask for it or whether you have your own animals.
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Now, I'm not suggesting testing and I'm not even implying that
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you should purposely kill an animal just for the sake of the
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blood, I would strongly urge anybody that decides, they want
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to use blood of an animal in ritual to use it and obtain it
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and acquire it in such a way that respects and honors the
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life of the creature that you're getting the blood from because
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this is their life that is being taken.
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So I would not harm it like so, so let's say, for instance, you
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have the means of slaughtering your own livestock or your own
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foul. You know, some people have ducks
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chickens geese, other things like that.
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Don't just go out there and kill an animal for the blood.
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You may want to wait until You have an animal that has may be
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weaker, that's not going to make it that's, you know sort of on
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its last leg either through old age or through illness that
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would if it was to stick around, would be a detriment to the rest
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of your flock of the rest of your livestock.
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Okay, cleanly. Humanely.
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Respectfully harvest. The blood from the animal and do
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so with utter respect Act and utmost.
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Thanks again, I'll clean slaughter.
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A peaceful Slaughter is something that you definitely
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want to. You know, keep in mind.
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So if you're not comfortable with doing that, don't it would
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just be better to use something of non-blood as some other
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alcoholic beverage or something like that.
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So once you do that once the so that's one point, I definitely
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wanted to bring up. If you're slaughtering it,
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you're going to, you know, use the bloat Bowl to catch the
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blood from that animal. Okay.
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So once you've done that, actual bloating of that, you want to be
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Present the offering on the plate.
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So whether I said, whether you Slaughter your own animal or
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bye-bye, it it's the bloat part of things.
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We've blessed everything already through the the bloating process
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and now we're into the offering. So the bloat is a meal, the
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offerings going to be a meal that you share with the gods.
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So you want to get some of the best portions of your meal,
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place it on the plate, put it on Or alter, and then that's the,
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you know, that's that's all set up before you start the rituals,
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that would during the ritual, it's already there.
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It's already set up. Finally, you'll want to get to
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the closing part. You're going to say, you know,
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thank the gods. Thank the ancestors.
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Thank the deity's for coming to your Sacred Space and sharing in
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this and accepting this gift. And then a lot of times folks
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will be very specific and say you know, this right has ended
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this blow, it has ended, the ritual is done something that
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indicates that we're over. It's over now and then a lot of
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folks will also bid farewell to the spirits that have arrived.
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So, you know, been farewell to the gods and their return
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Journey back to their To the sacred since they have come now
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to, to partake with you that them well on their Journeys
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back. But the, the spirits of the land
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peace, you basically just making it a solid indication that it's
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over now we're done. Thank you for coming.
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You are welcome to stay but you are not obligated to stay.
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So that's another neat. Touch that I would recommend.
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And Then you're going to go and you're going to eat your meal.
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You're going to partake in the meal, literally, you'll go and
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eat the food that was offered to the gods and if there's anything
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left over, if I guess if it's a one practice that I like to have
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is any meat offerings, I have I have animals and at home, you
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know, I have my pets. These are to me the
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representations of the they tear of the home and they are, are
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they are they are contained in these animals so I gift to them
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by feeding the the the dogs, some meat things that are
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healthy for them. If it's biodegradable vegetables
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fruits, things like that. You can leave it on your altar
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for the victor of the land to partake of it.
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As long as it's not anything that's toxic or harmful for the
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Vets here to consume because you don't want to do anything that's
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going to make them upset or make them feel ill or anything like
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that. And then again this is a this is
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an optional thing because it's it's really only kept
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historically for groups and that is sambal, which will be another
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discussion for another time. But some will is something that
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you would leave out if this is a Terry thing, if you're doing
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bloat, if you're doing a ritual as a family, for instance, if
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you are a husband wife children that sort of thing, any sort of
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relationship that you have with someone that you're doing it
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with multiple people, you can do sambal as a family but will that
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guy said, well, we'll get into talking about that.
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this week's episode on how to do ritual, okay, we've given you
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the You know, the what's it, what's needed, kind of giving
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you the how of what to do now, I'm just going to kind of go
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over the explanations of why the source materials why we do this?
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The way we do it. And again this is coming from a
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historical aspect, the right. So I am one of those middle of
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the road type heathens where I am not hardcore Recon, but I'd
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love to learn the historical facts and sources of things that
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way I can read. And like invigorate Heathen re
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today and use these time proven methods that my ancestors used
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to, you know, I guess I'd Revitalize Heathen re today at
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a, my own Twisted things. Add my own personal feelings and
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stuff to it, but still have a source or the roots that are
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honored. So, the one first part that we
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talked about, during the actual ritual was the creation of
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Sacred Space with fire. Okay, from ancient times,
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there's even a North Saga called length number book, which means
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land taking book when a person got a new home real and they
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created Sacred Space. When taking that new home,
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there's messages or stands as I should say in the different
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sagas I get again in London though my book there's a Saga
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called are big you Saga. There's some old Saxon or
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Anglo-Saxon sources the old Saxon Highland fit.
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Number two specifically this is the wise old man.
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Then brought in sense from there to the temple.
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Walking around the altar with his sensor powerfully serving
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devoutly. Carried out, his task performing
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God's ritual, Very eagerly with a clear mind.
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We're hearing about Sacred Space being created with the use of
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fire and incense. All right, so there's some some
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Source material that you can go to and find Historical backing
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as to why that's done the best historical example of bloating.
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Okay, we talked about that during the ritual of blooding or
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bloating, the area, the best historical Oracle example that
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you'll probably find is from The Saga of haakon, the good.
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And I believe, it's see chapter 16 says it was an old custom
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that when there was to be bloat, all the bonds should come to the
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spot where the temple stood and bring with them all that they
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required while the Festival of the bloat lasted to this
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Festival. All the men brought ale with
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them and Kinds of cattle, as well as Horses were slaughtered.
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And all the blood that came from them, was called Shoot and the
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vessels in which it was collected were called those
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vessels or bloat, bowls, hit stoves hotel, chains were made
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like sprinkling brushes again. This is the thing.
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We're talking about The Twig of the tree.
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So a lot of it, you know, you can use like, Pine branches
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Cedar. Anything kind of forces is
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great. With which the whole of the
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altars and the temple walls, both outside and inside were
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sprinkled over. And also the people were
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sprinkled with the blood but the flesh was boiled into Savory
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meat for those present. So there's a historical example
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of the process of bloating, why we do it that way in that form
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or fashion? It's the example that we have in
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The Saga of haakon, the good Altars or holders, you see, it's
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in the Hindi hindley load which is in the poetic Edda forget
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which stands of that is. But it's in Hindu youth.
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In the poetic Edda, it says he made a high altar of heaped up,
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Stones, the gathered rocks, have grown all bloody, and he
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reddened them again with the Fresh blood of cows.
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So there's a example of the Holger, the outdoor assembly of
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stones creating an altar, for an on which the offering was made.
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Okay. So there you have it.
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Everybody that is pretty much it.
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The process of doing ritual for those getting into Heathen, re
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Maybe, Then he them for some time and you're still
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perfecting, your are still kind of fine, tuning your processes.
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Here's a pretty good solid example of how to do ritual.
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