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Random Heathen Ramblings: S6, EP22 - The Divine Origins Of The Germanic Peoples · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Just thinking about where we've come from, where the Germanic
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people have come from the Germans, at least according to
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the, you know, mythology, according to lore.
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So let's talk about this. You know the origins of the
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Germanic peoples and you know, wouldn't you know it, trying to
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scroll around and do things and my mouse died.
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Go figure. Now I got to.
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Use the old touch pad. Screen OK, but anywho the the
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origins of the Germanic people according to the mythologies,
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according to lore. Now, if I were to ask, most
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heathens nowadays, you know. Where did?
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Where did? Mankind, you know, come from
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where? Where did mankind start?
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You know, what is our origin story, as it were?
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I think most heathens. Will will refer.
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To the Scandinavian creation myth where you know Ode and
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villain Bay are are walking the beach and then there's you know
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driftwood and they. Or or they're, you know, pieces
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of ash pieces. Of almond and.
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They out of those. You know, out of.
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Those bits. Of timber, each of those.
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God figures. Impart or imbue into that.
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Piece of wood or those pieces of wood?
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Various. Things that then.
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Give those pieces of wood life. Form mind you know all the
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things that OSC and Embla or ash and Elm in the in the
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Scandinavian, in the Norse myths, in the in the creation
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story, that is where mankind originated from is is through.
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Those. Efforts of Odin and his
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brothers. But now what if I were to ask?
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You What about that before that? Or what about the in, on on, on
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the continent? Maybe not necessarily.
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Yeah, before that. Before.
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Those myths came into being like, where did where did it
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originally start? Where did?
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Where did? The Germanic peoples come from,
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because you got to think like the the people in in
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Scandinavia, they are Nordic, they are Scandinavian of course,
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right? They also they.
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Fall under the. Category of of.
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Of a Germanic heritage. Germanic lineage.
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So I don't know of too many heathens that I, at least not
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that I've encountered who know where the Germanic peoples
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started from, where they came from, how they originated.
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So I wanted to talk about that today and give you some some
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education, as it were. So this probably won't be a very
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long show for you guys and gals out there.
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But hopefully it'll be worth. Your time and worth your.
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Yeah, your your time to to learn.
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So I'm going to be talking about a specific figure in the one of
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the primary sources that we know of that.
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That give us a. Background of, of what and
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where? The dramatic.
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People's you know how they started, where they started.
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There's not a lot of clues, OK, there's not a lot of
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information, but there is some things and, and then from those
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small kind of bread crumbs or from those small little hints or
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some from those small tidbits where we can come up.
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With. What we know.
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So you've you've. Probably heard me talk many
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times about the Roman Pagan, the Roman historian Tacitus or
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Tacitus I guess, depending on who you ask and and and and what
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pronunciation you want to put to his name.
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But he is considered a primary source for understanding the the
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ways and the customs of the Germanic.
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Peoples well before. The migration period, at least a
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good, a good, a good couple of centuries.
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I think probably, you know, before, before that Viking age
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or, or, or when we started reading or hearing about the,
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the, the, the Norse myths. So you know around AD 100 or 100
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of the common air 98 is when. Tacitus writes his.
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Infamous Germania. So according to that source and
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only this source, Acidus. Recalls or.
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Or or mentions the name. Of a God who is.
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Earth born and the name of this God.
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Is twisto. Also sometimes and some.
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Other sources is Twisco TUISCO but Twisto.
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Is the earth born God that is mentioned by Tacitus and and why
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he mentions this? Figure is that there are.
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Traditional songs that the German people, the Germanic
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peoples of the Germanic tribes would sing about him.
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So I'm going to just recite the line that is.
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That that that Tacitus writes about this.
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In his Germania for you, you can find this, you know, online if
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you have a copy of it, you can of course read it, but it's in
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Germania and it says that in the traditional songs which form
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their only. Record of the past the.
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Germans celebrate an earth born God called Twisto.
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His son Manus is supposed to be The Fountainhead of their race,
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and himself to have begotten three sons who gave their names
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to. Three groups of tribes, the.
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Ingevones nearest the sea, the Erminones in the interior, and
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the Estevones who. Comprise all the rest some.
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Authorities with the freedom of conjecture permitted by remote.
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Antiquity assert that Twisto had.
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More numerous descendants and mentioned more tribal.
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Groups such as Marsi. Gambrivi, Sweebie and Vandali,
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names which they affirm. To be both.
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Genuine and ancient. So Twisto again, is is his.
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His name is only mentioned once, or is only mentioned or only
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appear is. You know, it only appears in in
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Tacitus's Germania, and that's about it.
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That all that that that he says is that there.
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Are traditional songs which formed.
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Their the record of their past. Of the of the Germanic people's
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past. So Twisto is the progenitor.
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Gives. Birth or begets the his son
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manus and then manus. Is the sort of.
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The one. Who begets three other?
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Sons which start. The three groups of tribes.
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Now I'm just going to briefly go into.
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What those, what those where and what those tribes?
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Are so the first one is mentioned is the the the
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ingevones. So the ingevones comprised.
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A. A.
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A cultural group. Of of Germanic peoples that were
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living in the northern. Area of.
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You know, along the North Sea, this would make up.
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Coastal areas such as. Yutland, Holstein, Holstein and
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Lower Saxony. So the tribes of that.
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Area of the country that make up who the Ingivons were.
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That group of tribes would. Have included such tribes as the
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Angles, the Saxons, the Chausi and the utes, the second group,
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the Irmenons or the Irmenons. Are they were largely.
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Settling in like the, the, the. Elbe watershed region closer to.
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Like or expanding rather into. Like the areas that were?
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Now Bavaria, Swabia, Bohemia, the the most notable group of
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the most notable tribe that make up the the the Airmenones would
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be the Swaby, which it that themselves contain many
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different tribal groups, but the Imenon Irmenons.
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Also included the chati SO. One of the greatest like stories
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of, you know, one of the. Heroes of of of old.
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Germanic tribes would be would be Herman.
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Or what would? His, his, his, his Roman name
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would be Arminius. So if you want to learn more
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about that, he was, he was of the Chati, you know.
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So that's the second group, the ermenones and then the
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Estevones. They were a group.
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Of tribes that were living near the banks of the Rhine during
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like you know the the when when the Roman Empire was was
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commonly sharing cultures and and orange origin so they they
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were. The the, the, the, the.
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The North Sea. Coastal areas, they were like.
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Neighbors to that section of the world.
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So they were probably probably the.
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Or the the like the ancestors of the, like the Franks.
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And you know what became the the the Dutch.
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And so forth. So the the the.
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Origins of the Germanic people in this part of the world again
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we're starting with twisto, who then bigot a son, manus, who
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begets three sons which. Starts the subgroups of of the
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various tribes. That that consist or that make
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up that that area of the world. Now, what's interesting is that
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some because Twisto's name is only mentioned, you know, in in
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Germania. It it only appears in Germania.
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There is not a lot of clear evidence or or strong evidence
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that. Supports who this figure is.
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In in. Later sources or who it.
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Could be in later sources. Now there are some scholars who.
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Have compared twisto to the. Norse figure or the giant emir.
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You know that sort of primordial begetter beginner of things.
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Now others, one of which who is Jacob Grimm, tried to make.
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Twisto out to be two. Or T or later on.
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Tier, so T was slash tier. One of the one of another great
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source and I'm going to probably get into a little bit more of of
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this in in. Just a moment, but.
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Another great source who I've. Talked about before HR Ellis.
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Davidson. Who wrote the Road to?
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Hell, talking about the conceptual.
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World view of. Of death in the afterlife among
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the Norse, so you know. Miss Davidson maintains that the
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name Twisto is related to an old Swedish.
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Word which is tvistra. Which means separate.
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There is also others who. Have.
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Linked. This name to be something.
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Closer to like 2. You know, kind of like.
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Meaning twin or something. So etymologically, and this is
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where it gets kind of interesting, the whole thing
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about, you know, 2 or twin this, this, this could be very
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possible because of a commonly seen a root of in Proto
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Germanic. The root.
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Word TWI, which means to and it's.
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Derivative twis which is. Twice, which where we, you know,
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get our word. Twice, twice or or doubled.
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You know, thus giving Twisto that that chord meaning of 2
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twin, you know, double that sort of thing.
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The other I mentioned earlier on like the other variant of
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Twisto's name which. With a with AC.
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So twisk Twisco. Is is seen and.
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There is. There is a.
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Proposed etymology for this variant, which reconstructs A
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proto Germanic word tiwisco, and it's connected with the proto
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Germanic tivas. Again the old proto Germanic
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name of of what became to or later on in the Norse in
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Scandinavia tier, you know. So you could you could.
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Almost. Maybe interpret to Twisco if
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you're looking at Twisco with AC instead of.
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Twisco with AT So Twisco. As it being this sort of meaning
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like again. Finding it's it's reconstructed
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Twisco. And T was as meaning like the
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son of tear. Again a a sort.
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Of interpretation that would make Twisco the son of the proto
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Indo European sky God. You know Deus, which we also
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know is. A route for where Tear?
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Later comes from is. Is is that old?
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Proto Indo European. Deus, you know so the.
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So the so the result. Of Deus and Inerthus.
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Or Deus and an earth goddess. Now some interesting other, you
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know, like etymological or linguistic connections I
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mentioned before. You know that there's been some
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proposed ideas with between the 1st century figure of Twisto
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being? The later.
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Primeval or primordial being Emir, you know that that appears
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in later Norse mythology. So, you know, we're talking, you
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know, 12 centuries later and you know, the reason for that again
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being close etymological similarities.
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One such scholar, which I'll mention down below, is Meyer.
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I get the first name, but Meyer is.
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Is says that. They're the connection is so
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strong that you know it's considered.
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That these two are. Identical.
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It's. It's almost.
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Hard to to separate. Them entirely.
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So. What we do know again?
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From from the from Tacitus. 'S.
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Germania. Is that the only?
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Description that Twisto gets is that he's.
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Described as being celebrated, songs being sung, traditional
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songs being sung. So nothing you know, negative or
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anything about him that he is he is recognized or he's regarded
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by the Germanic peoples as somebody of worth celebration.
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Now, one interesting thing to think about here with this right
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when we go back this far, when we're talking about, you know,
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the 1st century of the Common Era.
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Where Tacitus? Is writing his things over then
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you know, the 1st 100 years of the common era is that you know,
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we're, we're seeing well, we're getting closer.
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Back in that period of time to. Very very old proto.
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Indo European mythologies and structures so to see
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similarities between the ways that the dramatic peoples.
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Viewed the world, their worldview.
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Of things and how. They identified divinity.
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Is very, very close. Both in imagery.
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And linguistically and a monologically.
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To the Vedic. Indian mythology, the proto Indo
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European stuff. So let's look.
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At 11 particular figure. Of Vedic.
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Indian mythology. Tvastir.
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Tvastir. Is said to have.
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Been the grandfather of twins yama and yami and so there are
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some who maybe would argue that the.
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Germanic twisto, which is. Assuming a connection to
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Tvastir. Or Tavoster must have.
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Originally been the grandfather. Of the the the.
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That that primordial sky primordial being emir later
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which later appears in in Scandinavian sources as being
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cognate, the emir being cognate to to to Yama.
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Now, I'm not a linguist. I'm not.
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A etymologist to to to know. Whether that is a.
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Whether the dots connect? Some people believe.
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So and some people think. So so incidentally, Indian
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mythology places another. Figure remember I talked to you
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earlier about. The Germanic.
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Manas, the son of Twisto, who is.
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Again, the the the the. Father of three groups of.
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What we came tribes of the Germanic people.
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So in the Vedic Indian. Mythology.
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We have Manu that is cognate to the Germanic manus and in the.
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Vedic mythology Manu is the. Progenitor of mankind, which
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again you, you, you. Look at the the mythology.
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The the. The Worldview.
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That the Germanic. People had and how closely.
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It. Resembles.
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Or how similar it is. To Proto Indo European.
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Beliefs that you know a. Vedic mythology.
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So I don't know it's, it's all very interesting to me to see
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the the the correlation. The connection to those things.
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And how? How far back?
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These origin stories really go. So, you know, does this mean
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anything? Does it really mean anything?
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For heathens. I would I would say that if you
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are if. Heathenry is, is.
25:12
Is part of your. Identity and you are identifying
25:14
with Heathenry to pursue. It as a extension of.
25:19
Your spirituality, religious or otherwise, and however
25:24
structured. You want to whatever structure.
25:26
Whatever name you want to put to it.
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This this is information. You know these?
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Are these are things? That tell.
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Us as Germanic people about our origins, this is, you know, this
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is our. This is where we come from.
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So is it important for? Us as heathens, is it important
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for dramatic people, for dramatic heathens?
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To figure this out to. Learn more about.
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This to to to study it. I believe it is because it's
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it's. Part of our history.
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It's part of our heritage. It's.
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Where we. Have come from way.
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Way, way, way back. And if we are?
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Attempting in some sort. Of way to.
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You know find Heathenry applicable in in in modern times
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we have to know where. To start, we.
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Have to know where things have kind of originated from, you
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know? We can't just make things up
26:27
along the way. I talk a lot about.
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You know, living in Times Now where they are.
26:32
You know, we are in saga times and rewrite, you know, write our
26:34
own sagas and and all that. And I believe that.
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To be something that is worth putting focus and attention on.
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But if you are of. Germanic descent Why not learn
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about the ancient heritage of our.
26:54
People. You know where we came from and
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it's you can, you can, I guess you can, you can apply it in in
27:00
any sort of context as as much or as.
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Little as as you see. Fit.
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I'm not saying that you know you would be.
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A remiss or or. Bad heathen or anything like
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that if you didn't. But what I am suggesting is
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that, you know, a lot of people nowadays are are abandoning
27:19
contemporary. Religious practices so.
27:23
There's, you know, people are abandoning the, the, the
27:25
Christianity that their families raised them in and that grandma
27:29
and grandpa. Believed in, you know.
27:32
Great grandma and great grandpa went to church, you know, all
27:34
the way back, you know, a couple, 100 years, whatever.
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You know, they're, they're abandoning these, these things.
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They're, they're finding that that doesn't it, it's not
27:43
fulfilling for them and they're finding quite often people are
27:47
finding, you know, they're finding comfort, they're finding
27:52
resolve, they're finding peace in ancestral ways and ancestral
27:58
beliefs. And if you're going to proclaim
28:03
that ancestral beliefs are important to you, then then
28:06
shouldn't you put some attention into understanding?
28:10
Who your ancestors are, right? Shouldn't you know where your
28:15
ancestors came from? What the?
28:17
Mythology. What the lore?
28:19
What the what the belief? Behind their pre Christian
28:24
beliefs. Are or or were I?
28:30
Think that uncovering these things, finding this information
28:36
out. Can be really interesting.
28:38
It's it's. Really interesting, for me at
28:39
least. It's it's it's it's like.
28:42
You know, going on a treasure hunt, you know, finding clues
28:45
along the way, and then you find this new thing that.
28:48
Has been there. This whole time, it's not like
28:50
it's appearing out of thin air. It's it's all been here.
28:55
But but getting into the study of it, getting into the learning
28:58
of it can really open up. Ourselves to connecting better.
29:06
With our With our ancestral. Ways.
29:11
I was talking with some. Friends you know.
29:13
Earlier in the week about. How frustrating it is and and
29:17
how tiresome. I think it was maybe the word I
29:21
used or I said maybe said. It's getting old.
29:24
You know to see. You know, every time you, you
29:29
know, we, we, we turn around and it's.
29:31
Anything to do with? Thor's hammer.
29:32
Or you know all of this automatically, right?
29:37
Norse paganism, you know, and that's not wrong.
29:44
But I myself am not Nordic. I am not Scandinavian, I'm not
29:47
Swedish. Icelandic, Norwegian, Dane, you
29:52
know what I mean? I'm not, I'm not any of those
29:56
things. Danish.
29:57
I said yeah, Danish. I'm not Dane, I'm Dutch and I'm
29:59
German and, and amongst other things, I mean, I, I got, you
30:03
know, Italian and, and all the other, you know, the English and
30:07
and and stuff, but I know that that my German.
30:10
Roots. Are.
30:13
On the continent, you know, we never the, the, the lineage of
30:17
my family never made it up that far north into Scandinavia.
30:23
We, we, we came over very early on to the United States.
30:26
You know, we didn't migrate north and then come.
30:29
Over we we left Europe. Now, on my dad's side of the
30:32
family, at least, you know they left Europe.
30:34
A while. Ago.
30:36
So, you know, going back to that and understanding that and then
30:42
not trying to, I don't know, I guess like not trying to put
30:48
myself in a place where I don't belong with things, you know
30:53
what I mean? Like I.
30:56
Love the myths of of. Of the Eddas, you know.
30:59
These are these are sources. These are source materials that
31:01
help us fill in the gaps and help us know.
31:05
You know what the beliefs of? The Nordic people, the Germanic
31:08
people were prior to Christianity spreading.
31:13
But you go back even. Further, you go back to what?
31:16
Sources there are, and then study some more about where
31:19
those things originated from and you Start learning that.
31:24
Wow. There were, there were.
31:25
Similarities and closest. To to to other regional.
31:33
In cultural. Beliefs, you know, So no, I'm
31:39
not going to stop, you know, referencing.
31:43
The ADAS as as source. You know, 'cause they are, You
31:46
know, I'm not going to stop referencing.
31:48
Sagas as as sources. I'm not going to stop
31:51
referencing, you know, poems from, from the Saxons or from
31:55
the Angle Saxons or from wherever you know when and as
31:59
they're found or where and as we know.
32:00
Where they're produced. I'm not going to stop
32:03
referencing those sources. I'm going to include them all
32:06
because that's what makes up this whole thing.
32:10
But it's really interesting for me to.
32:13
I guess. Kind of approach my ancestral.
32:18
Beliefs with the due. Diligence and respect to know.
32:22
Where do I go with this? Where do I?
32:25
Where do I go back to? I'm not going to Scandinavia.
32:28
I'm not going to Norway, Iceland, Denmark or Sweden, you
32:34
know, I'm going to the continent.
32:39
I'm going to the areas of where I know my ancestors came from,
32:44
and I'm learning stuff from there, from that.
32:46
Area, yes, sure. People moved and they migrated
32:49
and they and they took. A lot of their beliefs.
32:51
With them and then when they. Reached an area the the.
32:55
Information that they had the the traditions that they had
32:58
were. Shared with those native.
32:59
People and and they learned some of their ways and there was this
33:02
blend of things, you know, nothing ever really stayed 100%.
33:08
Isolated or or or. True to 1 customer thing it it
33:11
was it was shared, you know, and that's what we're doing today.
33:17
I think, you know, we're, we're experiencing a time where people
33:23
are discovering their foundations.
33:27
They're, they're, they're uncovering their roots, you
33:30
know, and they're going back and they're learning about that and
33:33
they're, and they're adopting ancestral ways, they're adopting
33:36
animistic ways to connect with their ancestors in that way.
33:41
And then they're sharing that. Discovery with others you know.
33:48
And and the sharing of. That is where the beauty.
33:51
I think of things comes through because it's bringing things.
33:53
Out that were, that were. Hidden that were that were
33:57
maybe. Concealed or buried or or.
33:59
Forgotten about maybe at one point in time, you know, they
34:01
were, you know, when, when, when things are buried and hidden it
34:04
they, they, they tend to be forgotten.
34:07
So now they, they're being unveiled, you know, and they're
34:10
being remembered. And in that, in that remembrance
34:12
and in that respect, new life is being breathed into.
34:18
These ways you know, so you have a fresh set of.
34:20
Eyes and a fresh new look on things.
34:24
And so, you know, it's, it's about reviving ancestral ways
34:28
and, and bringing them back into the into the forefront.
34:32
Of our daily practices, Of our daily lives.
34:36
You know, I was I was watching something recently, you know,
34:40
like a lot of you folks know the the importance that the Heron
34:43
places in in my. Individual cultic practices.
34:48
My my my hearth cult. Has a, has a lot.
34:51
Involved with the Heron you know and and and do.
34:54
I try to put or place the. Heron in any sort of, you know.
34:59
What place where it? Shouldn't like, no, I don't, I
35:01
don't claim it to be of any sort of great, you know, Germanic
35:09
importance. And what I found out recently
35:14
was that. The Dutch.
35:18
You know had had a. Because of where they live
35:24
geographically. Very, very.
35:25
You know, wetlands and marshes and and things in that part of
35:30
in that part of in that part of Europe.
35:33
The the, the, the, the. Herons and the cranes and and
35:36
those. Types of water birds.
35:37
Are a prevalent figure. You know they.
35:40
They are. Very much a part of.
35:44
The life of those people. Not maybe so much up further
35:50
north you go, you know, up until like Norway, Sweden, Denmark and
35:55
and some of those. Areas like that, there, there,
35:56
there's probably I. Don't think there is any herons
35:59
you know so to so for the Heron to be relevant to those people
36:02
doesn't make sense. Makes sense?
36:05
For the Dutch, because. It is a native species, a
36:08
native. Bird to that area you know or
36:10
that that type of. Bird and I'm of Dutch and German
36:14
descent. So for it to have come through
36:17
the ancestral line and then through my work and through my
36:21
spirituality, my practices, and then connecting with it in that
36:25
way and it it, it came through organically and it came through
36:30
naturally. I didn't have.
36:31
To try to put. It somewhere where it doesn't
36:33
belong. I didn't have to fight my way
36:35
through it. It's like, you know?
36:37
I get. I get asked.
36:38
Or I have gotten asked, you know, how did you find your
36:41
Filia? How did you find your connection
36:44
to the Heron? And I, you know, go well.
36:46
You know the name Filia. That is a Norse term and and I
36:48
you know. It's the most closest.
36:51
Thing that I can come to as far as what I feel the Heron is for
36:54
me, it's. Is a follower spirit it has.
36:57
Been with me now for longer than I even.
36:59
Realized that at first. But it wasn't something I had to
37:02
consciously. Pick out like I didn't.
37:06
You know, it's not like I was. I was picking out a skin, you
37:10
know, in a game and going, oh, that looks cool, that looks
37:12
nice. I'm going to wear that.
37:13
Like, no, it came to me, kind of it came to.
37:19
Me very clearly, but it. Was it wasn't a like up and you
37:23
know, I didn't wake up one day and be like.
37:24
There it is. It was.
37:25
It was a gradual thing. It was a, It was a naturally
37:29
occurring introduction, and I don't know that.
37:35
Just that that, really. Speaks to me into the importance
37:40
of as long as you are staying genuine and staying true to your
37:46
path and and to your and to the thing that you're following,
37:51
eventually more and more things that you're finding your
37:56
connection or are going to manifest themselves in the way
38:00
that it needs to be for you, you know, so but the bottom line,
38:05
you know, for the bottom line and at the end of the day, you
38:06
know do. I take the the the the story
38:11
that that Tacitus. Mentions about, you know.
38:14
The the. Songs being sung about Twisto
38:18
and and how Manas is his son and he is the progenitor of of
38:21
three. Classes or three groups?
38:25
Of people from which all tribes originate.
38:29
Am I taking that information and am I applying it into my my
38:34
heathenry? Practically speaking, am I doing
38:37
anything different? Not with this knowledge.
38:41
It's hard to, I mean, I can't say that I, you know, I, I
38:43
didn't learn any of this and I'm going now.
38:45
I'm changing the way I'm doing things.
38:47
No, I'm, I'm, I'm staying as genuine as I've always been,
38:52
just now equipped with new knowledge about things and, and
38:55
how this will inform my path going forward.
38:59
Time will tell and, and it will be natural.
39:03
It will be organic. It will be just as as natural
39:08
and and organic as the way the Heron came to me and has stayed
39:15
with me and as I go forth in the spirit with the Heron and, and,
39:21
and all of that. This is this will be.
39:24
Nothing, nothing different as far as, as far as I'm concerned,
39:27
nothing is gonna change or be different in that aspect.
39:34
And I think that. Would probably be the the the
39:38
word of advice. If I had to give any or or
39:41
sayings, you know, don't, don't don't take new knowledge.
39:44
That you've discovered. And and then.
39:46
Just because you've got. That knowledge Now reframe
39:49
everything that you've ever done.
39:51
Just for the sake of it. You know, just.
39:53
For the sake of all, now I know this known, so now it must be
39:56
different. I mean, sit with it, learn, you
39:58
know? Make sure that it's applicable.
40:00
For you. And if it you know it helps
40:04
inform your growth and and you grow.
40:07
With all of that. Then great, you know.
40:09
Allow that to be what? Happens, but I got you know, I
40:16
I, I think a lot of people when they learn new things is is they
40:19
are they are enamoured with the the newness of it all right
40:24
shiny new toy. Oh, I want to play with it all
40:26
the time. I got to find new ways of doing
40:27
things with it and you know it. The romantic honeymoon phase of.
40:33
Of newness of things be. Mindful.
40:36
Of that be be be. Wary that the what you're doing
40:39
is not reaction. To the.
40:42
Exciting new thing that you learned take time to to study
40:47
and to take time to respond accordingly and, and and
40:51
appropriately, you know, and have fun with it, you know.
40:58
There's a lot. Of things to be learned from the
41:01
past. Everybody knows the saying, you
41:05
know, if you don't learn from the past and we're doomed to.
41:09
Repeat it. You know, so much of what has
41:12
happened that has been, you know, laid down by the shapers
41:16
and, and and been put down in that.
41:18
Bottom layer of of of weird is is is for.
41:23
Learning It's not to resurrect, it's not to bring back up and
41:27
try to revive it. You know, it's, you know, things
41:29
went extinct for a reason and it's.
41:32
You got to let it be. But you can learn.
41:35
You can learn from the past and you can see and and call up to
41:41
for lessons. You know the things that have
41:45
been laid down in the well before you.
41:48
It doesn't mean you have to go and disturb the water and scoop
41:53
up the muck and then pour it into your own.
41:55
Cups. So, but yeah, there you go
42:00
there. Is a little bit of history.
42:01
Of the children. Of the earth and then where the
42:04
dramatic peoples kind of have their origin story in check.
42:11
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42:13
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42:15
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