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Random Heathen Ramblings: S4, EP27 - The Importance Of Hearth Cult In Heathenry · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Random Heathenry Ramblings
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podcast, where we discuss all sorts of things dramatic
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Heathenry related. My name is Jesse.
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I am your host. Let's get into it.
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Well, all right, everybody hail and welcome back to this week's
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podcast, the Random Heathen Ramblings podcast.
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Another episode, another week in hot as mussville, Haim mid
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guard. I think almost everywhere in
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this world is feeling heat, feeling the heat.
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But here in the here in the southern United States, it is
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been oppressively hot, particularly so I hope you're
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all staying cool and able to get some relief and some enjoyment,
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you know, during these hot, hot months.
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We're in August now, so for all intents and purposes we should
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hopefully be on the downhill, you know, coasting on the
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downhill side of things, you know, getting ready for those
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cooler months, those shorter days.
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I can't wait for it particularly.
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I'm looking forward to it. We got some really fun things
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coming up here in Middle Tennessee in October.
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You know, we got the Raven, moon, hearts, Shadow Mood event,
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my tribes, got our winter nights and then just a few short weeks
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after the ends of all that, you know, we're going to be going
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into my birthday month, November.
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And we've got something really fun and exciting, a small I
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would say small but a semi small private invite only gathering
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which I'm not going to divulge details about yet.
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Some of those of you who are watching know of what I speak.
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But for the rest of you in time, in due time there, there will be
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more details to come and I would what I would I will say right
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off of the rip regarding this thing is that it's going to
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involve my tribe. It's going to involve some other
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friends and allies and companions of of our tribe, and
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there's going to be a lot of weird being interwoven and tied
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together with this event that's coming up.
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And it's going to involve a long journey.
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So that's all I'm going to say for right now.
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But I do want to mention to everybody listening and watching
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that because of the long journey, because of the the
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distance, because of the preparations that it takes to do
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all that, I'm going to be soon here crafting some Elder Fudar
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Rune sets out of Birch. They will be for sale and the
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sales of of those Rune sets are going to help fund this upcoming
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event that my tribe and others are going to be part of.
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So be on the lookout for that. Wherever you are listening,
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watching here in the coming weeks I will have available for
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sale some elder food like rune sets that I've made.
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If you guys have been following me for any length of time and
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you've seen some of my handiwork that I've done before, you'll
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see a pop up here on the screen. Some Birch rune sets which look
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like this. What you're seeing right now and
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if you're not watching this and you're not seeing it, they are,
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they are small. You know about inch I would say,
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but you know anywheres between like half to 3/4 of an inch up
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to an inch or so around in diameter.
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You know maybe about 1/4 inch thick or less thick Birch rune
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discs and they have all the 24 elder food are runes on them.
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So if you're looking to get a rune set for yourself, if you
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are looking to explore studying the runes, learning the runes,
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or maybe you want to get them for a gift or as a gift for
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somebody, maybe consider buying them as I make them.
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And then also know that the purchasing of those items are
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going to help fund this very meaningful trip coming up here
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in November. So more to come on that.
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It will be getting released here soon on all of my social
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platforms, so be sure to follow me.
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Head down in the description and show notes of this podcast.
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So that way you are following me on all social.
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So no matter where you are, you will see what it is that I'm
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talking about. All right, So today's podcast is
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going to be a solo run. I'm doing this one without any
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guests today, but this is a topic that I thought would be a
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really good one to kind of dive into.
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And it's regarding Hearth Cult. Now, I know I've talked about
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this on other podcasts. I've mentioned how important it
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is I feel, for Modern Heathens to establish their Hearth cult,
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to have a Hearth cult of their own.
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And and and I've alluded to how important I think that is.
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You know, I've even gone so far as to say that if you are coming
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into Heathenry without having your hearth cult established,
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without having something in place already or without having
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an understanding of what that is and why heathens find it so
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important, if you don't have that and you're kind of putting
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the cart in front of the horse, you're jumping the gun.
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You're moving, You know, you're putting things ahead of each
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other, you know, jumping right into, well, how do I honor the
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gods? What should I gift to this God,
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that God? You know, how should I honor?
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Venerate, bloat, fame, gifting all these other types of things
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to the gods, to the divine? And in the meantime, there is no
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understanding or precedence of your individual cultic practices
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or what we refer to as Hearth Cult.
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So I want to talk today about Hearth Cult, why it's so
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important. But I also wanted to kind of
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help maybe those that are hearing me say these things and
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going what, what does that really even mean?
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How do I do that? Where do I start?
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I know that for a lot of folks like myself and when I was first
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coming into Heathenry, I didn't know about these things, number
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one. And I didn't find out about them
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until kind of later on into my into my practice.
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And had I known about this up front, I think it would have
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probably speed me up a bit in terms of where my my progress
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is. I mean, I'm not upset of of of
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the progress that I've made And and being at this for you know,
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going on soon to be 9 years, next year, this coming year
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coming up 2024 will be, you know, nine years that I've been
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a practicing even. But you know, had I known early
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on what Hearth Cult was or is and and why it's important and
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all that, then I would have probably, I don't know, I think
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my worldview would have developed a little bit sooner.
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But so in in addition to talking about why Hearth Cult is
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important, what it is also going to try and help give you guys
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some ideas or steps that you can take to establish and build and
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and maintain your own hearth cult.
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Because that is exactly what you need to do.
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Nobody can tell you how your hearth cult should be framed or
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or built up around. This is something that you have
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to develop yourself. There is some framework here
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that you can that I'm going to be talking about today that you
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can maybe work off of, but please be you know, I I just
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want everybody to please be aware of the fact that I am not
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trying to tell you how you should, you know, build your
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hearth cult necessarily. I'm just trying to give you
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ideas of how it can be done. And then you take those
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suggestions, you take that material and then you go and you
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build it, you do it your way, your family's way, whatever.
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And you know, if there are people that are listening and
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watching that already know what I'm talking about and have it,
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then please do feel free to comment down below, share your
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So what am I talking about when I say hearth cult?
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Well this is the thing that is really going to help you develop
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your experiences between yourself and the divine later
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on. Because the the, the framework
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of of your hearth cult is going to include things that later on
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become part of your larger, you know, religiosity, the larger
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religious practices that you have with the sacred.
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And some people may be wondering, you know, how the
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dramatic people would have had their their hearth cults, You
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know, what did they do, how did they do it?
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There's very little if any evidence that we know of of how
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it was done. You know we we have some like
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secondhand witness hearsay sort of source material.
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Tacitus being one of them who mentions that like amongst these
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people they had a particular like there's this one line in in
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Tacitus in his Germania he he writes about how the this
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particular tribe that he was observing or he was getting
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information about held a particular interest in casting
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lots in Divination and they would cast lots and he mentioned
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specifically that the the the father the head of the household
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would be the one to cast lots for the family and on a larger
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scale for for like the community or something would be like
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someone of a priest maybe go the something like that right
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Somebody of a religious spiritual leader of the of the
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the culture at that time and they would be the ones to do it.
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But we we, we here specifically Tacitus mentioned that when it
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came to families that there was a designated person, the father
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of the man of the house, the the household of the of the clan,
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whatever would be the one to perform these acts of
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divination, that is an example of hearth cult.
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Now what could be some other examples of hearth cult?
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Well your hearth cult could include you saying a prayer or
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having a morning wash routine or lighting incense, lighting a
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candle for a person or persons or spirits, beings that are seen
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and unseen near and around your presence, around your house,
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around your home, around your living space.
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Could be you know that you pull a room.
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Could be that you read something from one of you know the sagas
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or or one of the edits or something like who knows It
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could be something totally non Germanic.
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Like you could have you know just your kind of spiritual
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practice of of doing something specific that is that you
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something that you do repetitively every day or maybe
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not even every day but something on a semi regular basis that
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becomes part of your practice, your your, your, you do it the
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same way all the time. You build up this kind of muscle
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memory, this habit as it were of of doing it and that is hearth
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cult. That's you know if we want to
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just cut and trim away all the fat of things like what is
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hearth cult? What am I talking about is these
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are the the cultic practices that the things that you do in
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your home to connect with the spiritual beings that are
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existing around us, that are unseen, right Could and and for
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a lot of us as as dramatic heathens.
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There is this sense or this idea of having the spirits of the
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home, the housewives or who's here is a name that gets used
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quite often to describe these entities that live in the home
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that we coexist with in our home.
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Another name that gets used, I believe specifically in like
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maybe Anglo-Saxon. I don't want to say for sure,
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but I think it's Anglo-Saxon, Heathenry Kofgod.
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Or maybe it's just Saxon here. But Kofgod is another name that
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we here used to describe basically the same thing.
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It is the spirit of the home the spirits of the home and then
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throughout folklore we we hear them called different things we
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hear them we're called you know Tom de the nice we we you know
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see different names put to them in different stories throughout
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different regional folklore. So there are a lot of cultures
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are a lot of places that have a something something similar to
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what I'm talking about this the spirits that reside in the home.
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You know we have the the spirits that reside in the land, the
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land vatir. And then we have the spirits of
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the house or of the home, the hisphere, the the Coast Guard,
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the the the, the beings that are unseen.
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In most most cases that dwell in the home and in for many people
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your hearth cult will involve them.
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Because again, we are looking at our existence, our sharing of
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space with the unseen, as a relationship that needs to be
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maintained and kept up to a certain standard.
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And one of the standards that we have is to exchange in the
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gifting cycle, same as we do with the divine with the gods,
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right? We we gift to them in hopes of
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receiving gifts in return. That reciprocity is a very
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important concept amongst heathens of all different types,
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dramatic and otherwise. But that is a very common theme
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that we see even down to the hearth cult practice of modern
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heathens is that exchange of gifts to the spirits that live
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in our in our that we share space with, right.
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So I I know some people have like a accustomed to whenever
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they pour their coffee or whenever they have their
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breakfast, right, they believe a small offering of porridge,
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maybe oatmeal or cereal or something, a small bowl of oats.
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You know, maybe a shot of coffee or something.
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Like I don't know again that that is part of your individual
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cultic practice. That is part of the hearth cult
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that I'm talking about, a gift to the house God, the hispeteer,
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the the housewives, the vateer that you share space with.
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Because it is believed that when the vateer are happy, then
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happy, happy happy whites, happy home, you know what I mean?
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If there is upset, if there's turmoil, if the if the vateer
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are upset then things can go awry in the home.
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That is a theme that we see repeated throughout different
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again folklore and sagas too. You know they specifically with
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like the land veteer. It was it was believed that if
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you know if the land veteer were upset or if the land veteer were
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were scared away from their land that the the crops of the land
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would suffer. The people of the land would
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become sick. There would there would be war.
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You know there would be all these things that would befall
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people in the land to be of of of of harm.
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Right that now we have to, we have to we have to boost that
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gift. We have to we have to do
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something to make them happy again.
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We want to keep the vate tier happy.
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So when it comes to our hearth cults, a lot of folks will have
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place and time for the vate tier of their home and have that in a
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private ceremony. Maybe just something small every
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day, maybe not every day. But again, it depends on your
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hearth cult practice, right? So I want to mention also really
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quick that there are a couple of sources.
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You know, I always like to try to, whenever I can back up what
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I say with source material if I'm able to.
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And there are two sources that appear to indicate the
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importance of a domestic setting, and and these are the
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names on on on your screen. I'm going to also be linking
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information about these two sources in the description and
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show notes of of this episode. So for those of you that are
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can't see what's on screen, just just head to the description or
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show notes of the podcast and they'll be links to either the
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source material itself, maybe a PDF or at least the name of it
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for you to be able to research yourself.
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But these are two particular sources that that that make
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mention specifically of, you know, the importance of having
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this domestic setting sort of focus on on Hearth cult.
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All right. So why is it so important?
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All right, now this is going to get into something that I think
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could spark some more conversation and I want to just
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put this out here right now as to why what I'm talking about is
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so important. We're going to get into the
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what's right, the the, the, the little idiosyncrasy, some of the
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suggestions and the things that I would maybe recommend people
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do that have never done it before.
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But why is what I'm talking about so important?
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The reason why these things are so important?
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Cuz as I mentioned before, Heathenry especially, it is an
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orthopratic orthopraxist or orthopraxic religion, which
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means that the correct performance of right action is
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more important than correct belief.
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So the doing of things right we we want to do things correctly.
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That's why a lot of times you'll see folks I think really really
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drive hard home the historical reckoning of things right.
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If it was done historically a certain way, then there
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absolutely can be no wiggle room about how it's done now.
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There was a there's there's a reason for it.
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And that's because Heathenry is is looked at it as an
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orthopraxic religion, the repetitive, you know, doing of
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things as they have been done traditionally, so on and so
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forth. Now, you all heard me say
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before, right, that tradition is not about preservation of or the
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worship of ashes. The tradition is not the worship
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of ashes is that. It is the preservation of fire.
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This aspect of things I think can go both ways.
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You can become so enamored and so rooted in the past.
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You can so become so root down that you don't allow for growth
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and things don't become, you know, they don't blossom and
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bloom into the now. And so we're doing things
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archaically and and and and things that just don't apply
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anymore. So again there's a fine line.
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There is I think value and and purpose and reason to have
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things done in a in a way that was done at least that we can
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recall and and and and have source material back us up and
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say that it was done a certain way.
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I think that it's important to have it you know done that way
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at least to some close proximity now without getting too far off
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into the weeds with it, right. So how below is done?
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Right. That is something very
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specifically that we have documented that you know, there
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were there were, there was, there were certain items, there
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was a way things were done. There were materials that were
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there that were present, you know.
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So without those materials, without it being that specific
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way, then it is not bloat. We can call it something else,
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but we cannot call it bloat because it's not, it doesn't
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involve or include those specific things.
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Semantics okay. Like you know we can argue that
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all day long if you if you want to call what you do bloat and it
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doesn't involve any of those things.
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I'm not going to be the one to breed down people's necks and be
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like what you're saying it wrong.
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I might just genuinely share like hey, don't know if you know
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this but from a historical aspect to call something to do
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bloat, right. To have bloat means a very
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specific thing with with specific things present.
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Maybe they call it that because they didn't know.
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Maybe they just thought it was an overarching term for the
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gifting exchange for the feigning that is being done for
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the offering. It's like well, not necessarily.
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You know, if you're going to call it bloat then there has to
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be certain things involved with it.
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But again, I'm not here to argue semantics and and and breathe
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down people's necks about what they calls one thing that or the
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other. But I would approach it in that
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way when given the chance or opportunity without infringing
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on somebody's cultic practices, right.
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And that's what we're here talking about today.
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Hearth cult, how people do things in their home the way
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that I do things. And you know, my hearth cult's
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not going to be the same as yours, and your hearth cult's
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not going to be the same as the next person.
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There might be similarities. There might be things that you
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become involved with if you if you become friends with people,
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if you come, if you become intertwined in their life.
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You know you might be present for some of the things that they
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do in their hearth cult. And those things that somebody
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does may provide you with inspiration to adopt things in
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your individual practices as well, or maybe to adopt
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something similar like that in your hearth cult.
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I think we see this across regions, across cultures, across
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everything throughout time. You know, inspiration, you want
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to call it appropriation, but how somebody or somebody's did
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something a certain way at 1 certain time, other people were
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exposed to it and said, wow, I like the way that works.
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I like the way that feels that would work really well for us
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over here, you know, So let's let's take this and take that
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framework, right, and build something of our own with it.
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You know, again, that's why we have so many.
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That's why there's nuance to so many things.
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That's why we have so many things to compare and and and
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find similarities in is because at one point in time and we're
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all started wherever that might have been you know came by way
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of of other people's influence and other active presence from
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from other culture. So you know it.
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It goes, it goes without saying that you know I don't think it's
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it's doing anything wrong to the tradition itself to find a place
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for it in your hearth cult. You know if you if you were
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maybe a guest at somebody's home and they you know they did
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something specific that you've never seen before and you know
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you asked about the the the tradition of what they're doing
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and they give you some sort of history or background to it.
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Then if it if it's something specific and there go the dogs.
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The dogs are going crazy because I've got my father-in-law that
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comes over and feeds them every day so when when he comes over
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they lose their mind. So if you heard that, that's
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what that's going on about. So anyway if somebody that you
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go into their home and and they say, you know, well this was
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done, you know, by my ancestors and and this is the reason why
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it was done. You know, you could ask and say
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you know is this is this something that is specific or
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closed off. You know out of respect you know
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is I, I really like the way this feels.
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I would like to maybe, you know, use this or adopt, adopt this
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into my my heart cult, my, my individual practices, you know,
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I think within reason and within respect of somebody else's
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traditions. And then that's perfectly fine.
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And okay, as long as they're okay with it, as long as it's
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not like, no, no, you know, first of all, if if you're in
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somebody's home and they're sharing that stuff with you,
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that is that, that that should be seen as something very, very
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sacred. You know that's that's my
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opinion is you wouldn't, you wouldn't walk into somebody's
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home and take something of theirs in front of their face or
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or behind their back even and then call it your own.
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You know, if it was given to you, if it was, if you were
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exposed to it in good faith and in trust and entrusted with it,
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then I guess what you do with it at that point is up to you.
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And you would just want to be sure to be a a good caretaker of
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that and and share it around and and do it, you know,
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appropriately without painting that gift that was given to you.
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You know. So again, similarly if you were
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to go to somebody's home and they were doing something a
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ceremony, a cleansing, a prayer or something like that and it
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just really spoke to you, it's it's worth having that
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conversation. I think would be like I would
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like to adopt this into my practices because it could it
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could really help you again in building that that hearth cult
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which I feel again is, is crucial.
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It's paramount. It's critical to have hearth
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cult, have your hearth cult. And then next thing you know
26:20
what happens is you. You would find something of of
26:23
of a tradition of yourself that you built around.
26:25
Maybe something that someone else did or or that was inspired
26:28
by what someone else did. And now you have your own
26:33
tradition. You have your own thing you can
26:35
pass on to your family members or your nearest and dearest,
26:39
right? Hey, this is how I do things and
26:41
this is how we are as a family are going to do things.
26:43
And next thing you know, you've established A tradition.
26:46
You have preserved that fire, right?
26:49
You have carried those flames as coals and and and added and
26:54
breathed new life into these things.
26:58
To be that source of inspiration and to be that thing that
27:07
enhances your relationship with the divine when that time comes.
27:10
Because again these these interactions that we have we're
27:13
talking about hearth cult. These are all things that while
27:15
they are spirit, while they may be unseen, they are near to us.
27:18
They exist in profane space you know and that is that is another
27:24
part of of heathenry that we, we, we, we see the world as a
27:30
separation between profane and sacred space.
27:34
Profane doesn't mean dirty, doesn't mean evil necessarily.
27:37
There is plenty of good and and and and and end nefarious things
27:43
that exist in profane space. But it is just the separation
27:47
between that and what is in sacred space.
27:51
When we when we create sacred space, we're going to be talking
27:55
about this here in just a moment we are putting something of the
28:00
profane. We are creating space to reach
28:02
and and and interact with the divine in that sacred space and
28:07
while those things, while we while everything exists in that
28:13
sacred space. We are now in the in the
28:16
temporarily at least in the I say confines, but we are now
28:22
under sacred time and sacred space.
28:24
It's not a why how when when certain people talk about
28:30
partaking in certain rituals or doing certain things, they lose
28:34
track of time, right? What felt like minutes was an
28:37
eternity or vice versa. What felt like I was gone
28:39
forever was really just a 5 minute span of time and profane
28:43
space, right? That's what we're talking about.
28:46
When when those things happen that we have transcended and
28:49
broken those barriers temporarily.
28:51
And you know, whether or not you feel those things each and every
28:54
time you have your moments of dedication or whatever, it it
28:58
doesn't mean that you, you know you're not going to feel those
29:02
things every single time. Don't.
29:03
Don't. I don't want to be, you know, I
29:05
don't want to be misconstrued and saying, well, just just
29:07
because you defined your sacred space, you you need to be
29:10
feeling like you're not a part of this world anymore.
29:12
That's not don't expect that it may happen.
29:17
You might. You might be really entranced in
29:20
what you're doing and and and have certain things going on
29:23
that can provide that experience.
29:28
But just because it doesn't happen and you don't and you
29:30
don't feel it doesn't necessarily mean that you're
29:32
doing something wrong. But so yeah like hearth cult,
29:40
the the the way that we interact with spirit, the way that we
29:46
interact with the spirits that are in our profane space and
29:50
time that live and interact with us on a daytoday basis.
29:55
How we interact with them is going to help build our our
30:00
world views and and and establish a a more holistic
30:03
approach to how we later on engage with and deal with the
30:08
divine or the sacred. So what that can be looking like
30:14
what that could potentially appear as needs to start with
30:20
some things And so I wanna go over just a few more than a few
30:24
but I wanna go over some steps which again are not.
30:28
This isn't like when I say blueprint, I'm like it's a very
30:32
loose framework okay. So consider this.
30:34
Take what I'm saying into consideration.
30:36
If it fits great and if it doesn't then it doesn't.
30:40
But one of the first things that you're going to to want to do is
30:43
is when it comes to hearth cult right this is this is we're
30:45
talking about things within the home right under the confines
30:48
under the roof tree under within in within that home.
30:55
It's not outside. So you want to locate a space,
30:59
identify a space within your house to set up as sacred space.
31:03
You might call it a shrine, you might call it an altar, you
31:06
might call it anything, and it could be, again depending on
31:12
your living arrangements, depending on your how much
31:16
square footage you have, how much you know space you have for
31:19
you, it could be as small or as large as you're capable of of
31:24
doing. So, you know, it could be of the
31:25
a corner of a room, it could be a mantle, it could be a shelf
31:29
that you put up. It could be a, you know, a
31:31
bookshelf or a shelf on a bookshelf.
31:33
I mean it could be a little foot stool.
31:36
It could be a small end table, really almost anywhere.
31:42
And I've been in some pretty small houses and some pretty
31:45
small living spaces that people have and you know, I've seen
31:50
really, really nice arrangements of of what you might call an
31:54
altar or a shrine. So again, whatever you got going
31:58
on in your living space, however small or big it might be, if
32:02
you're going to now approach realizing wow, after what he's
32:07
talking about, I, I, I want to start focusing on my hearth
32:10
cult. One of the first things you're
32:11
going to want to do is define a space, OK, followed by setting
32:18
it up. Now what could that be?
32:20
A lot of people I know in the past have asked me, you know, I
32:25
want to set up my my altar. I've never done this before.
32:29
What do I do? Where do I start?
32:34
That again is going to go more into your hearth cult.
32:41
There is no one specific thing that one person or multiple
32:46
people can say that you should have on your altar or your
32:49
shrine or your your sacred space, that that that area that
32:51
you have devoted or dedicated as sacred space for your dealings
32:58
with the divine. Here's the other thing I say
33:00
divine, but like the the spirits and why?
33:02
Here's the other thing. There are people who I know who
33:04
have multiple altars, multiple shrines, multiple places that
33:07
they have in their living space for different things.
33:09
There might be an ancestral altar which is dedicated just to
33:14
their ancestors. I know people who have an altar
33:18
for their postfeteer that have an altar for their Cove God.
33:24
Then they have their altar for the gods and they separate those
33:28
things for a reason. They don't want to have the
33:32
space for the ancestors shared with the Cove God or the OR the
33:35
hosveteer. They want them each to have
33:37
their own separate living space, their own separate dedicated
33:43
area. So that way when you go and you
33:44
speak to the ancestors, you're not mixing the energy or mixing
33:48
the thought processes of of honoring the Hosveteer or the
33:51
gods or any other such thing like that.
33:52
Your your, your mind is focused strictly on where you need to
33:57
focus it on, right? So whatever that is, whether
33:59
it's again a little corner, a table, a small bookshelf, A
34:09
mantle, a shelf on top of your television entertainment system.
34:15
I mean, I've seen all the different kinds of things, just
34:17
anywhere, any, any, any way that it works for you, whatever.
34:20
However you can make it work once you've once you've
34:23
identified it, once you've established it as such.
34:27
I've even seen people when it comes to like their Hoospeteer,
34:30
they've they've put up little cabins or little little village
34:33
huts or something, right? And they and they have little
34:37
figurines and stuff that are the physical representation of the
34:40
spirits that live in the home or the spirit that lives in the
34:42
home. And so like they will again be
34:47
able to focus that aspect of their spirituality on this is
34:51
for the Hispetere, this is their home, this little Hut, this
34:54
little cabin, this little whatever cottage, right, that
34:58
little figurine that is the physical manifestation of the
35:01
Cove God, the Hispetere. And and that is that is how they
35:07
choose to identify it. But whatever it is, however it
35:10
is, identify it, locate it and then start setting it up.
35:14
How you set it up is going to be entirely up to you, right a lot.
35:17
Again, the the little cabin or little cottage is an idea for
35:20
your hospital here. You could make a little a little
35:24
Hut or something you can get. I don't know, like there's ideas
35:27
that that are around on on what you want to do and it and it
35:31
really depends on your approach to your spirituality, you know,
35:34
do you want to have something very Northern European looking,
35:37
something Scandinavian looking? Do you want to have something a
35:40
bit more southern like in the southern parts of Germany,
35:42
northern Mediterranean? Do you want to have something,
35:45
you know that is maybe more indigenous to Native American
35:50
who knows, right? Like, I mean that's your thing
35:52
you're going to develop that you're going to come up with
35:54
that your own and that's what that's the beauty of hearth
35:58
cult. It is your own, right.
36:00
So here that's that that's an idea, right, Identify, locate,
36:05
set it up. Next thing you're going to want
36:08
to do is decide when and how often you're going to you're
36:13
going to engage with with your with your VATE tier, with the
36:17
with the whites, with the the cough God, with whatever it is
36:21
that you're setting your space up for.
36:23
Whatever your thing is that you're doing.
36:26
How often are you going to be doing?
36:27
It's going to be daily, weekly, you know, two or three times a
36:31
week, morning, evening, at night.
36:35
I mean, you've got to have something established.
36:38
It can't just be kind of all Willy nilly.
36:43
Again, it goes back to what the importance that he then replaces
36:45
on orthopraxis right? The focus on doing it the right
36:50
way and then doing it that way. That the the repetition of it
36:54
and having those habits established, having that that
36:57
custom, that tradition built right.
36:59
So if you locate your your area that you're going to dedicate to
37:05
your hearth cult practice, whether it's a prayer to your
37:08
ancestors or or an offering to your house, house, God, or who's
37:12
here. Once you've located it, once
37:17
you've set it up, now it's time to decide.
37:19
I will do this on the same day every week, every day, every
37:24
week, certain days, every week, whatever the cadence, whatever
37:28
the frequency is. That's one of the things you're
37:30
going to need to establish and then continue doing it.
37:34
Maybe you only start out doing it once a week, you know, maybe
37:36
you don't want to over promise and under the liver.
37:39
So you say, well, okay. Well, I want to.
37:42
I don't want to, you know, say I'm going to do it three times a
37:44
week or every day and then only do it twice.
37:47
So consider that, right. Consider it being realistic.
37:49
Maybe you, maybe you start off small and say, all right, I want
37:52
to do this once a week, you know, every Saturday or every
37:55
Monday morning or before I go to work.
37:58
You know, when I end my day on Friday, it's going to be my
38:00
prayer to my aunts at whatever, you know, figure that part out,
38:04
Dedicate a specific time and date or dates to what you're
38:10
doing and then see it through. The next thing you're going to
38:15
want to do, obviously, is choose your offering.
38:18
OK. You want to choose the offerings
38:22
that you plan to give, right. So if it's again, like I
38:27
mentioned earlier on, like, maybe it's your breakfast, maybe
38:29
it's your dinner, maybe it's a portion of your meal, maybe it's
38:32
something specific that they get every single time.
38:35
That doesn't change no matter what you're having or what
38:37
you're doing. And maybe your breakfast one day
38:39
is, you know, bacon and eggs, and then then the next day it's
38:42
a, you know, a burrito. Or maybe the next day it's not
38:46
anything. Maybe you skip breakfast.
38:48
But if your dedicated thing is to give to the vatier or to do
38:52
your hearth cult stuff with, you know, a bowl of soup or a cup of
38:59
porridge or some oatmeal or cereal or whatever it is, you
39:03
know, maybe a little scoop of honey on some honeycomb or
39:06
whatever. I mean, whatever The thing is,
39:10
figure out what it's going to be and then be consistent with it,
39:14
Have that consistency. And then, you know, consider the
39:19
fact too that, you know, again, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm going back
39:24
and forth with this. It has to be the same thing
39:27
every time versus well, what does it feel right?
39:29
Like what it what do you feel right?
39:31
Maybe, you know, you ran out of something and you forgot to go
39:33
to the store. You got to improvise, right?
39:35
There's going to be times like that, I'm sure.
39:37
But I think having a good strong approach to what we're talking
39:41
about here, having your hearth cult built strong, is going to
39:43
set you up better to avoid things like that.
39:46
You're going to know when things are running low that I need to
39:48
prepare, right? I need to go and I need to
39:51
provide you know more things I need to get set up for with with
39:54
more things that I need to see this through SO.
40:02
I think that that is good discipline.
40:04
I think that that is a good approach to have again for for
40:07
future encounters that you want to have with the sacred, taking
40:11
things seriously to the point that you're not just, you know,
40:14
caught off guard that you're like, oh crap, I didn't bring my
40:16
offering to the to the bloat today.
40:20
What can I scrounge up here as a gift?
40:23
You know, if you don't think about that, if you were being
40:25
given something and somebody just like gave it to you out of
40:27
necessity because they felt like they had to or that they forgot
40:31
to actually do something meaningful for it, you know, for
40:34
you or or to you that that that that gift would not bring.
40:37
So, so, so powerful to you. You know it wouldn't mean as
40:41
much to you. Whereas if they took the time
40:44
prepared, made something, whether it was handcrafted or
40:49
you know, they took the time to procure what it is that they
40:52
needed to do and they did it with, with, with, with heartfelt
40:56
intentions. Not only do you want to choose
41:01
the offerings that you're going to provide during the ritual,
41:05
you also want to decide where, when and how you're going to get
41:11
rid of those things. Because after you perform your
41:18
your ritual, right. Whatever that hearth cult thing
41:21
is, let's say it's a prayer to your ancestors.
41:22
And let's say the prayer is involving, you know, berries and
41:28
and and and oats. I'm just, again, just using
41:31
examples, right. Let's say that that's the thing
41:33
that you provide for your ancestral hearth cult practice.
41:41
And now you've got to figure out what am I gonna do with this
41:44
stuff. Well, that's a great question.
41:47
And I've been asked this before too.
41:48
What do I do with my offerings after I'm done with them?
41:52
And it's really very simple. You've got three main ways that
41:55
you can safely and ethically dispose of your offerings.
42:03
You bog it, burn it, or bury it, Whatever it is that you're
42:07
doing, whatever The thing is that you're offering.
42:09
If you're going to burn it right, you obviously would want
42:13
to make sure that you can do so in a in a space or in an area
42:17
that is not going to be harmful. You know, you don't want to
42:20
light a fire in the middle of your living room.
42:21
And if you're living in an apartment or out there on a
42:24
common area sidewalk where there's, you know, people, but
42:29
you know, maybe there's a spot nearby, a wooded area, that you
42:32
can privately leave it to the land.
42:37
Maybe not even necessarily bury it, right.
42:39
But you can take those gifts. Let's say they're, you know,
42:43
biodegradable food bits, you know, things that can then go
42:48
from the gift that you gave to your house God or your
42:51
ancestors, whatever. That gift can now be transferred
42:55
to the land, and the land veteer can then receive it, you know.
42:59
And so there's this exchange of weird disease.
43:01
There's this exchange of the gift you know that you are are
43:06
entering into, There's this web that you're tying yourself in
43:10
and around, and then the things that are going on, there's an
43:13
idea, right? You can leave it out for the
43:15
land, the tier to consume. If it's not safe to do that, you
43:19
can bury it again, considering the fact of what you're burying,
43:23
what you're putting into the earth, is it going to be harmful
43:25
to the earth? Is it biodegradable?
43:27
You wouldn't want to put, you know, plastic out there in the
43:31
ground that's not biodegradable. That's going to harm the earth,
43:35
That's going to harm nature, That's going to harm things
43:37
later on. It's not going to go away.
43:38
It's going to stay there forever.
43:40
So you wouldn't want to obviously leave a gift of
43:42
something that is not natural, you know, like that just kind of
43:47
goes back to what, you know. What I was saying is, is put
43:50
some thought into what you're doing for the gift.
43:53
Don't just be like Oh no, I ran out of you know, I ran out of
43:57
the good oats that I give to my to my Hisfeteer and now all I've
44:01
got is you know tricks serial or or or something.
44:05
You know what I mean? Like put some thought behind it
44:07
put some planning behind it and and don't give something of of
44:10
less than what you would want to be given.
44:13
You know, I, I remember one time a guy I used to talk to was
44:18
like, I'm, I'm, I'm doing an offering to Thor, you know, And
44:23
I and I he, he, he used a Red Bull or he poured out a Red Bull
44:28
and I'm like, dude, you can do so much better than that.
44:32
You know, You can, you can do better.
44:34
You can cook a meal. You can, you know, even if you
44:38
don't drink alcohol, hell, you can buy a good brew, you know,
44:44
bottle of meat or or small beer, beer or something, right.
44:47
Like something of of more value than a Red Bull.
44:51
You know, full of sugar and nasty preservatives and stuff.
44:54
Put some thought behind it, put some meaning into what you're
44:57
doing, right. So again, whatever.
45:03
And and that's so that's bog that that's Berry, that's burn
45:06
and bog. Same thing.
45:07
You know, if you can emulate or bury things or incinerate things
45:17
as as as your gift, as as a suitable way of disposal or
45:22
again, if it's natural food waste and and that that would be
45:25
natural food waste, you can give to the land and then the land
45:28
material will come and consume it, all right.
45:32
So that's, that's that's one thing.
45:33
The next thing I wanted to talk about was purification.
45:37
Not a lot of people I think talk about this aspect of when we
45:42
have a ritual that we're about to prepare for is purification.
45:48
How do you decide on on on purifying yourself, cleansing
45:54
yourself, right? You come home after a hard day
45:56
of work where your work clothes are dirty, you're sweaty, you
46:00
stank, you know, And then you just go and you pour out about a
46:04
bowl of oats in the bowl and you have a fine.
46:06
How do you do to the hosveteer you know?
46:09
Or do you again approach the sacred space that you've defined
46:14
that you've identified in your house?
46:18
Have you you've done this in, in, in.
46:21
Are you approaching this in a way that echoes benevolence,
46:25
right, that you are highest in in your approach to things?
46:28
Take some time, cleanse yourself, whether it be a
46:32
shower. I know for myself, right?
46:36
One of the things that I like to do is is not necessarily like a
46:38
full shower with soap and water, but to go to the river, you
46:43
know, and to let the waters of the river cleanse me.
46:47
You know, like that's a space for me that I find to be very
46:51
healing. I've talked about that before
46:54
And some of my other content, right, like the river is my
46:56
healer. It's like washing things away
46:59
from me. Even though that, you know, like
47:01
the water itself may have, you know, critters and and and bits
47:05
and stuff floating around with it, it's still the fact that
47:08
it's flowing water, it's moving water and it's and it's in my
47:10
mind, it's in my heart, it's, it's cleansing me away.
47:13
And other people look at that the same way that if if they're
47:15
living near a body of water, they will to do something
47:19
similar like that. Or maybe it's it's, you know,
47:23
distilled water that you have separate again from like your
47:26
tap. You know, maybe you've boiled
47:28
it. Maybe you, maybe you put herbs
47:30
or or resin or or, you know, fine essential oils or something
47:36
like that in the water to create it as it being something
47:39
separate from the rest of the water that you drink or bathe
47:42
in. You know, something of the
47:44
cleansing nature that you look at and say when I'm touching
47:47
this, when I'm encountering this object, I am ritually purifying
47:52
myself. So that way when I approach my
47:54
sacred space, when I do my hearth cult stuff, I am now
47:58
clean in front of my audience of who I want to to be there, you
48:03
know, and be there in front of. So we talked about identifying a
48:12
space. We talked about setting up your
48:14
space. How do you want to set your
48:15
space up? What do you want to look like?
48:17
Maybe you already have a space and you haven't really spent
48:20
much time doing a whole lot of set up on it.
48:23
You just kind of, when you find things, you put it there, maybe
48:25
now it's time to think about it, right?
48:27
Maybe it's time to define it a bit more.
48:29
Maybe it's time to cleanse it up a little bit.
48:31
Maybe there's things on there that need to be rearranged or
48:34
moved. Maybe there are things that need
48:37
to be removed you know things to be replaced.
48:42
Who knows. I've my my altar has has changed
48:45
its look over the years many times you know and and and still
48:50
will change its look many more times.
48:52
I'm sure you know maybe not every week or every year but
48:56
they're going to be times where I'm going to look at this.
48:58
I'm going to say yeah there's there's things that I need to
49:00
move. There's things I need to remove
49:04
relocate. Right.
49:07
Why is it all so important? Again I want to reiterate is
49:10
important because Heathenry is an orthopraxic religion and it
49:14
is more important for a lot of us to get the correct
49:19
performance of right actions you know and that and that that is
49:26
more important than the correct belief.
49:29
Some other things to consider is, is this note right here that
49:32
I'm putting on screen is that by performing the ritual actions
49:36
repetitively and with frequency we can we can deepen our
49:41
relationships with our ancestors and household gods, right the
49:45
Hystia, the coast God and receive the benefits from these
49:52
relationships. It goes back to what I was
49:56
talking about with or what we hear and I was talking about
49:59
today. But what we hear so often is,
50:00
is, you know, it's better to give little than to over give.
50:06
And the the the the road between friends that if you walk the
50:10
road between friends, even though the distance may be long
50:12
the the the IT, it, it's actually a short Rd. because
50:16
there is more time being spent between the two.
50:19
The the focus on these things, you know, the focus on
50:25
meaningful repetitive action, approaching things with
50:29
benevolence, highity. This creates in us a sense of
50:37
sacredness. You know that that that we are
50:40
bonding with what is unseen and those who are unseen.
50:43
We are bonding with them in ways that we normally couldn't or
50:46
wouldn't. If we're all just careless about
50:50
it, if we're all Willy nilly about it, that's not going to
50:53
set in us the the the world views that the the the concepts,
50:57
the idea of being able to really and truly interact with the
51:01
divine. And again, there are there.
51:04
We we see this across many cultures.
51:06
The dramatic people should be no less or any different when it
51:10
comes to this stuff just because it's not necessarily documented
51:13
or written down very specifically that, hey, you
51:16
know, the Olaf Sons did it certain way and then, you know,
51:22
the Alfred Sons did it another way and this is how they did it.
51:25
And then we have it all written down exactly.
51:28
Just because we don't necessarily have that doesn't
51:31
mean that it wasn't done. It was done.
51:33
We know some of the examples that I mentioned earlier.
51:36
Again, if you go in the description and show notes of
51:38
the episode, when you go in there and you find the the
51:43
information in some of those source materials, you'll see
51:46
that it was very specifically, it was orthopraxy.
51:51
You know they didn't deviate, they didn't get out of the the
51:55
the structure of what it was because they had this sense of
51:59
if I don't there's consequence. If I if I break this pattern, if
52:02
I if I don't adhere to this strictly that I'm going to miss
52:07
out, I'm going to incur the wrath of of God's or or I'm
52:11
going to you know, there's going to be consequences.
52:14
And that is one of the the things that I think in modern
52:17
times we have lost as heathens. You know there's this there's
52:21
this overarching thought of just do whatever you feel like
52:26
everything that you do, anything that you do it's fine.
52:29
It's okay. It's you know your intentions
52:30
are with the best of intentions it's it's going to be okay.
52:33
I mean yeah like with yeah. If your intentions are right.
52:37
But guess what like people there there's plenty of people that
52:41
have the best intentions in mind when they're when they're doing
52:44
really shitty things like let's be honest.
52:48
So intention. Pure honest intentions.
52:53
Yes. I mean I'm not I'm not trying to
52:55
take away from that and and and anybody that knows me real and
52:58
in person knows that I I I think that that is important but I
53:03
also think there needs to be structure and there needs to be
53:06
there needs to be that practice. You know what I mean?
53:08
There, there needs to be that we do it this way this specific
53:11
time because again it the reason why why that is so important is
53:15
because it it it it strengthens our relationships with our
53:20
ancestors with the local spirits that live with us in our homes.
53:24
I mean we we share space with them.
53:27
This isn't just our home. It's their home too, you know.
53:31
And if the house is dirty, if it's unkempt, if it's a mess, if
53:34
it's a disaster, if there's always fighting, if it's
53:36
arguing, if it's that right, that is not a conducive place to
53:41
have, you know, why would you want to live in a place like
53:45
that If, you know, the Coast Guard, the, the House Whites,
53:48
the goose fits here are not going to be happy, is always
53:51
going to be that, you know, state of of turmoil that that
53:55
disarray, that that unkempt, just unpleasant vibe to the
54:02
area. You know.
54:04
And I'm talking again about some very specific things when it
54:06
comes to like how you approach or create sacred space in your
54:11
home. And maybe setting up an altar
54:13
like this can be stuff that you can, I guess, you know, again,
54:15
framework that you can build around any sort of thing.
54:19
Maybe you're a Celtic Pagan listening to this and all this
54:21
is resonating and ringing. Very true.
54:24
Again, Framework. Right.
54:27
The purpose behind it, the reason behind it is to put you
54:29
in that state of mind of when I come to this part of the the
54:33
room, this part of the room is for those specific things, for
54:38
me to talk to the specific person or persons or to interact
54:42
with this specific spirit or entity, right.
54:47
And that's it. When I create this sacred space,
54:51
whether it be through fire or through incense or through
54:55
sprinkling water or through smudging or whatever, you're
54:59
again, your hearth cult practice would be.
55:02
Because again, everybody is, you know, how do I create sacred
55:04
space? What's your hearth cult on it?
55:07
You know? Is it through fire?
55:08
Is it through smoke? Is it through water?
55:10
Is it through salt? Is it through crystals?
55:12
I mean, it's whatever. That's your hearth cult.
55:14
That is what you do. That is your hearth cult.
55:17
That is your individual cult to practice how you create sacred
55:20
space and and that's what's important because again when you
55:26
when you get into the bigger dealings of of with the divine
55:31
with the gods. When you talk about actual bloat
55:33
ceremonies with with more people and everything that has to be
55:37
established first before you can really and truly be ready to
55:41
enter into that frame of mind to to to deal with what what's
55:45
about to happen and to engage with what's about to happen.
55:49
So I think that pretty well covered everything that I was
55:56
wanting to say and I hope that you guys enjoyed it.
56:03
I hope that you did and find this to be useful.
56:09
I hope that you found it to be enlightening.
56:14
Maybe something that you're gonna take and and consider
56:19
employing in your spiritual practices, your individual
56:22
cultic practices, your cult. If you don't have it, you maybe
56:27
should, right? Maybe this is the time to wake
56:29
up and consider the fact that, wow, I've been so worried about
56:33
the gods, you know, the divine. What is outside of profane space
56:39
that I haven't taken the time to consider what's going on in, in
56:45
and around me. And then maybe ignoring those
56:48
things have been one of the reasons why.
56:52
Again, I don't know everybody's situation.
56:53
So don't, you know, don't sit over, you know, me over here
56:56
saying, well, Jesse's judging on his podcast.
56:58
No, I'm just saying that, well, maybe because you've been
57:01
neglectful, because there has been a disconnect with, you
57:06
know, interacting with what's going on in profane space.
57:10
Maybe that's the reason why things aren't feeling so
57:13
connected with you on a grander scale.
57:15
Maybe you again put that cart ahead of the horse.
57:19
Maybe you need to hitch that wagon.
57:20
Maybe you need to fix the wheels of the wagon before you hitch it
57:23
up and start riding it. So there's my ramblings for this
57:28
week on Hearth Cult and why it's so important.
57:31
If you guys wouldn't care, check down or put down in the comments
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57:37
If you have a Hearth Cult practice that you would be
57:40
willing to share. Again, no pressure.
57:42
This is the type of topic where I would not divulge my own
57:46
hearth cult practices, at least not on this platform.
57:50
I've shared some things that I've heard of, but that's that's
57:55
that's not naming anybody specifically.
57:56
That's that's things I've just either encountered or have had
58:00
told to me and in full anonymity.
58:04
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58:09
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58:31
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And until we hear from each other again, may the gods
1:00:47
continue to notice you, and may your ancestors smile upon you.