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Random Heathen Ramblings: S4, EP08 - Honoring The Landvættir · Random Heathen Ramblings

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So today's episode is a going to be about the land fatir where
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the land whites may hear that term they tear or White's W.
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IG HT s used interchangeably to describe these Spiritual Beings.
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So we're going to talk about it today and it The the topic
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itself as actually something that I've surprised I'm
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surprised that I haven't dived deeper or Dove deeper jumped, in
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deeper, whatever delved deeper like the dwarves delved deep
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into this topic. I've mentioned, you know, this
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in many other like midgard, musings videos.
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I've talked about the topic of the Vets here and our
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relationships, how you humans, and And of a tear interact and
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commingle and cohabitate in other podcasts as well.
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But I've never from what I can remember or recall, you know,
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really. Took a took a whole episode into
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discussing this topic and I can't remember who or where I
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saw a comment or a message. I actually scoured through my
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various social platforms to see where the comment or where the
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message had come up on. And unfortunately, I don't
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remember where or who sent this question in or a comment and but
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it It made me think about it and again, I can't even remember
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what the question with the comment was, but I know it had
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something to do with the VT R and I thought well what what
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better way to go into this topic then to podcast about it.
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So again, I apologize for whoever it is if you're
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listening or watching this that, you know, spark to this
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conversation, if I knew who it was, I would definitely credit
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you for it so far. Ah, geez for that.
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But here we are here. We are talking about it, and
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the, the topic specifically is going to be on that of honoring.
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The Vets here or venerating the VT r, or in some sort of way
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interacting and working with debate here.
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So, I mentioned, you know, moments ago that this term VT r
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or whites. Gets used interchangeably and
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that's what the VTR are in other Pagan practices or in other
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cultures you may hear things being referred to as like the
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PHA or fairies or, you know, other terms and different
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cultures. I'm not too familiar with what
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other cultures make all these things.
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But I think a lot of cultures, if not, every, you know, And
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culture at least at one point in time, has a concept of what in
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in Germanic paganism gets called of a tear or whites.
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So these are, these are spirits. These are unseen Spiritual
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Beings that exist in the land around us.
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And so that's what we're talking about you, if you are another
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Pagan of a different variety and you use the term like a or
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farrier or any other sort of, you know, word to describe these
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beings than you can possibly relate to that.
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And I know different cultures, have different folklore
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surrounding these beings, and, and such.
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And how they exist or interact with, with humans mankind,
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right? But I'm going to talk today
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specifically around what I do know, at least a limited
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knowledge that I have and in my experience with working And
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interacting with the land fits here.
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So To start with there. There are some Source materials
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that will be annotated, first of all in the description and show
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notes of the podcast that you can, you know, look into
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yourself. But I'm going to just do a quick
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reference to some Source materials of where that we know
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of at least that Northern European people specifically in
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Scandinavia the Scandinavian countries had this mentioned in
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some of these again, sources going to start with.
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First of all, the Icelandic book of settlement or whether it is
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also called the lung that number book. somewhere in that book, I
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have it, I just It's eluding me where specifically but somewhere
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in that book it was actually at one point in time a law passed
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in in Iceland where the bow of ships, the front of the ships
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should not have these dragon heads on them, something along
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those lines, right? Something along the lines of
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the, you shouldn't have these or could not.
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It was against the law at the time to have these, you know,
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fearful looking menacing-looking images on the boughs of your
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ships, because When they would sail in and approach the shores,
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these images, these likenesses of mythological beasts of
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frightening nature could scare the fatir or frightened of it
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here and cause them to either leave or or not be present and
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active in the land. Now, why would something like
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that? Need to be a law at the time and
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it goes back to again, the the Local or Regional beliefs of
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these people. So the VT R are generally
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understood as being some sort of protectors or Guardians, as it
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were of the land, they are active spirits of the Unseen
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nature. You know, they they're, they're
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not visible to the physical eye and they have a place in the
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land to again, protect it from harm to protect the land from
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Especially when it comes to like agricultural.
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Things, the people believe that as long as the vator are pleased
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and happy that they would, you know, have success with with
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their crops that the land would flourish that there would be
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peace. You know, that there wouldn't
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be, no, you wouldn't be rated or invaded or have, you know, these
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sorts of things. So there was there was a
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generalized belief that you don't want to piss the VTR off.
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You don't want to upset them and you want to keep them happy.
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So what are ways to keep I'm happy as in this particular case
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and alumni my book, there was a law in Iceland that there's no
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the bowels of ships should not have these appearances of
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dragons on because that could frighten the fatir and drive
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them away. There's also another source, I
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believe it's The Saga of King Olaf.
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Tioga, Pass on tear gas on. Again, I'll be linked in the
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description below and annotated in the podcast show notes.
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But in That's The Saga of King Olaf.
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There is a men Action of the King was looking to invade
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Iceland, believe it was Iceland but he was looking to invade and
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as The Saga goes. And again, this is like a rough
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retelling of it. It's don't, you know, go find it
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yourself. I'll have it linked down below,
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but in the Saga, the king sends a wizard.
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Or has a has a, has a wizard employed under his on his
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retinue to go and investigate the landscape to see where the
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best ways to invade would be in this.
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Wizard under the Kings retinue Journeys off, in the form of a
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shape-shifts into the form of a whale and is, you know,
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basically doing a Recon of the shorelines and the area
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surrounding Iceland and each place that this wizard in the
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form of a whale reaches. He is met by different.
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They tear and the VTR take on different forms.
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There's a giant, there's a bull. There's a like a dragon.
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And I think an eagle, right? And so essentially, every place
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that he goes in these four corners, the the it is, it is
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determined right? That the land is protected by
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these various forces, and he's met with the opposition by these
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forces, by these Spiritual Beings that make themselves
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manifest to this Wizard, and the form of a, well, as these
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various creatures of, you know, either mythological or natural
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form. And so with the, the interesting
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thing about that is that those they tear the, the likenesses
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that the VTR took form of are represented even still in
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Icelandic coat of arms, right up here.
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This this image right here again, for those listening, I'll
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provide Source material in the links in the description or show
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notes for you guys to click on this image.
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Image that represents the this old Saga.
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You know, semi old Saga. At least.
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So And then I've also learned of other sources.
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I forget if it's Iceland or Sweden or something basically,
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wear. There's this, this this person.
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And again if it's a saga it's going to be linked down below.
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It's going to be anti to below. But there's a story perhaps a
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saga of someone who was visited in a Dream by and again this
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again the the side whether it's a saga or whether it's a more
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modern storytelling, I want to say it's a more modern thing and
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it's either Icelander Sweden. But this, this this guy has a
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dream where There's there's, there's work that needs to be
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done excavation. They're going to tear down a
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part of the land, the authorities, the government or
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something like that. At the time, we're going to do
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some sort of modification to the land.
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And this man has a dream where he is approached by this by this
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being, if it's a woman or think it's a woman.
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If I remember correctly, where she tells him in his dream that
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don't do anything until We can move out and it specifically
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centralized around this rock or large Boulder or something like
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that. Like you know, so you know the
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man tells the the authorities and whatnot, hey, we can't do
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anything because of his dream that I had and they're like,
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okay, whatever dude. And I'm not there's there's a
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There's some Aid that the guy gets if it's from another agency
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and other government or something, where they they hold
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off long enough or for a long enough period of time where this
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and this man has another dream and he is he is Revisited by
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this by this by this Forest by the Spirit by this woman by his
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whatever whoever she is that says okay it's good.
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We've relocated you can you can do what you need to do now.
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So there is there's you know, you can, but you may call it
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Superstition, you may call it, you know, the police or the
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regional folklore. But there is definitely a lot of
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evidence that in northern Europe and Scandinavia has as well.
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There's this specialized Focus specifically to the spirits of
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the land on. This has nothing to do with the
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realm of the Gods. You know this Has nothing to do
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with what I would refer to as the Divine or the sacred Realms,
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because the gods and the sacred, the Divine, you know, that that
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is on its own level and that is on its own thing.
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What we are talking about here today, are the V8 hear the
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spirits that link exists in profane space.
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So they are we are cohabitants of midgard with these Spirits,
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these forces, right, these unseen beings.
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And you know, so, So I've seen comments on when I announced
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that this was going to be the podcast topic for this week.
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You know, I saw comments from a lot of people saying, this is a
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topic that needs to be discussed more.
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You know, thank you. I'm excited, right?
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A lot of positivity and I want to say thank you to everyone
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that did respond in such a way because I'm excited to talk
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about this and I agree. You know, I've agreed for a long
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time that there's not enough Focus to me, at least, not from
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what I see. There's not enough Focus. up to
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recently, especially of these types of things of how we
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interact and how we deal with The things that are literally
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right in our backyards you know that that exist in the same
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space and time perceptions that we do, you know so we're not
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talking about entering into a ritual with the Divine and
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creating Sacred Space. We are talking about dealing
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with with forces and spirits that exist in profane space.
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Even though the we can't see them, they still exist.
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And that is one part that I want to eventually touch on here.
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Is today is that what we can or cannot?
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Nazi doesn't you know, negate its existence, you know.
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So there's also is before I move on.
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There's also one other particular Source, that a lot of
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people may be familiar with, especially if you're a dramatic
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or Norse, you know, dramatic even Germanic Pagan or Pagan,
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whatever, northern European flavor of variety of paganism.
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The Saga of a Google Scholar, Crimson or agiel saga.
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In that Saga agiel. I believe it's a deal, right?
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He erects a knees Pole, or need strong and the, the needing pole
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that the need stung, Is a, it's meant to frighten deter and
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almost in a way curse, the land, you know, and I think there's
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other source materials that, that make mention of need songs.
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And there's even things of a more modern reconstruction of
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that. The purpose is served the same
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way, right? It's intended to be a deterrent,
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a A curse in a way and in this Saga, Vegas kg and you know this
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this nice tan that he that he directs and faces towards the
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king the kings land or whatever is is meant to be a frightening
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thing to scare the fatir off into pissed of a tear off and to
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make that realm, you know, unpeaceful and unfruitful, and,
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and Barren and all these sorts of things, right?
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So, again, multiple examples that we have We know of at least
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of different time at different times, and in different ways
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that people knew or had a belief that they shared space with
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unseen spirits, and that just because you couldn't see, them
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does not mean that they are less powerful or that they are not in
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any sort of way, less active or present.
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And so, how do we, you know, push push that?
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At into into a modern Heathen approach into modern paganism in
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the way that we do things now because again, so wait.
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So many of the things that we're done, way back in the day, may
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not be practical or in the same way.
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You know, the way that things can be done.
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Now, however, when it comes to the vet here, I think that it
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is, it is absolutely an important part of of Are pagan
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beliefs, regardless of, you know, what you want to label
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yourself as or Or call yourself how we interact and deal with
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these unseen Spirits is a very important thing.
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And I'll tell you why, I believe that they were here first, you
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know, we are guests in their house as it were like when we
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see so many things happening in the modern world.
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Now, you know, we see these terrible disasters, you know,
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train derailments And explosions and you know, all these various,
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these things that that hurt the land, you know. just the way
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that humans have have become not everybody but you know on a
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large scale the way that the human race, you know, the human
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species have become so reckless, but the way that the land is
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respected Beloved. Honored, right?
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It's it's terrible and and it's and it shows right when we
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mistreat the land, you know, again, they were here first, we
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came in and we tore down the forests.
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We, you know, laid waste to land that, you know, so that way, so
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that way, what we could build these cities and we could pile,
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people asked us to elbows. And build businesses and grow,
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you know, great modern wonders, and all these things that, you
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know, you can look back and say that they were, you know,
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advances of technology and advances of the human race and
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so on and so forth. And, you know, you have to some
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degree, you can go, you know, there's been some good and some
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benefit out of it all, but when it comes to the things of like
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the destructive nature that, We, you know, a lot of the, the
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human race seems to have no care or concern for the ramifications
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for the consequences that result in mistreating.
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The spirits of the land. That were here first that we
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invaded. in a way, you know, and and and took over So, how do we
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Rectify it? How do we fix it in a way?
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How do we, how do we make the fatir happy again?
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I think it starts at the very basic individual level, you
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know? And when one person starts
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something, it it inspires other people to start doing things.
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And then when more people start doing it, it gets noticed, and
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the word spreads and the awareness is made, you know,
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that much more visible and you get more people jumping on board
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and doing things. That collectively result in a
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positive outcome. There's another channel here on
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YouTube, there's another Gentleman on social media is a
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he's a he's a doctor, I believe it Danish dr.
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Arun Rasmussen he's a Nordic animism is his channel and his
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Facebook Persona, right? The the page.
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But yeah. He's big on and Nordic animism.
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And that translates back to, you know, our connection to, you
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know, natural existence, right, with the animals, with the, with
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the land and all these sorts of things, he's got a really great,
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he's got really great content. Really, very knowledgeable.
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So, I encourage you guys to check it all out Nordic,
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animism, I'll link his stuff down in the comments to and in
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the description and show notes. So you guys can check on his
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stuff out, but he's one of the ones that I see doing, you know,
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using his platform to raise awareness of You know we got to
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take care of the land. We got to take care of our home,
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right? Because we all live here and
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really and raising awareness for that sort of thing.
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And again, it's one person using a platform that he has a great
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voice in to share that and raise that awareness.
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So, you know, I think about this type of thing.
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And, you know, let you know some people were saying, you know,
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this this this conversation needs to be made more of there,
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needs to be more talks about this and I do agree because
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again these are the, these are the forces that we share space
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and time with So on the individual level, right?
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I'm talking about all these things, what can we do?
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How can we do it? It starts with you, it starts
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with me and starts with us wherever we are wherever we
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live, you know, for me I live in a fairly residential You know,
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area and it's only getting built up more and more.
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There's more Apartments being built, there's more condos being
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built. There's more land being
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Decimated to build more housing, you know, we are overpopulated,
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you're in in this part of Tennessee where I live, it's
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evident by the rise in crime, the rise in just accidents, you
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know, two tragedies that sort of thing.
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And I have to, you know, I can't help.
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But wonder if the as a result of these things like yeah, sure.
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You know, the more people you put into a central concentrated
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area, you know, the advance. It's these things are going to
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increase crime, is going to go up and not all these sorts of
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things, these problems are going to arise, but where else can we
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look, right. We are tearing apart this land
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and have we infuriated the fatir so much that their protection
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that was here. Once before has abandoned us, we
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have been abandoned by the Guardians Of this land.
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And so it's no wonder that, you know, accidents are happening
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and deaths are occurring in such tragedies and things are
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happening. We are outside of the protection
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of these spirits that we've the, you know, whose homes we've
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destroyed. That's where I think, that's
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what I think. So what I Look to focus on is in
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my little spot. My little place, you know, is to
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keep the land happy, take care of the land.
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How do we do that? Well, we can, I do how I do it.
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I should say is first of all, keep a keep a tidy place, you
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know, think about, you know, visiting, someone's home or
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visiting a person's home and, you know, and if it's you know,
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all up in arms and just you know, things are overgrown and
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it's a An unorganized mess, right?
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Are you less likely or more likely to visit?
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You know, I would, you know, not not every person's home needs to
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be, you know, white glove, you know?
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Everything has its place. Like there's there's there's a
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degree I think, too. You know, a happy mess, you
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know, or whatever the term and you want to call it is.
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It's you know, it's it's it's delightfully unorganized.
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You know, there's some like I look my house isn't perfect my
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wife and I keep a decent home, you know, and there's certain
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things that have a little bit of disarray, but as a general rule,
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I feel like it is a welcoming place.
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And I translate that into the, the land that I cohabitate with
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these Spirits with is, is my is the land that I'm on their land
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to begin with because again, Then they were here.
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First, is the land that I am leasing from them borrowing for
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them while I'm here for this space and time being well
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maintained and well ordered to keep them happy.
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Do they like it? Are they happy?
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And from my you know, time that I've been here it's you know a
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resounding yes because there hasn't been a whole lot of
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turmoil or disruption You know, because they are kept happy, it
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doesn't take a whole lot to piss them off, you know, they
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expected. Now we've set the expectation of
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it being orderly calm peaceful, right?
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And when things aren't that way when there's turmoil and when
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there's it's well-known you know we get those little nods or
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signs or whatever like hey man get your stuff together.
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We happy. You know.
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Now. The ways to keep the VTA are
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happy. Now, I had talked about
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interacting with them, honoring them.
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I look at it this way. if I have a friend, you know, somebody
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that I like to take like to hang out with, and spend time with
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you, I'm going to do things with that person frequently.
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I'm gonna, you know, talk to them regularly.
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I'm going to maybe have lunch or dinner, or a meal, maybe a
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drink, go on a hike interact, right?
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Do things with each other on a regular basis and that That
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behavior that action secures for us, this bond of friendship,
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right? And when it comes to people,
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when it comes to our nearest and dearest our friends are can our
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kith, right? It is it is establishing
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building, and maintaining what we would refer to in the Heathen
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areas potentially frith, you know, fourth is, you know
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there's there's a sense of obligation trust piece.
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All these things. Similarly, not exactly.
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But similarly the way that we interact, the things that we do
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with the Unseen builds relationship, I don't think that
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the same thing applies because I don't, you know, there again,
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fourth is mutual obligation. What you do for me, you know, I,
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you know what you do for me? I do for you.
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There's this again, there's this reciprocation thing involved.
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I don't think the same thing applies to the VT R per se,
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because they are not bound by the same social constructs as
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humans. Are They don't have that
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barriers to find. They are they are by all intents
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and purposes outside of that in in guard that that in inner
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yard, social structure that social construct.
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So first, I don't think this is the right word to apply here in
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that sense. However, there is definitely
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signs that you can read and see Omens perhaps that can be given
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where hey, what I'm doing, is keeping them happy.
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Like they're, they're cool. They're going to be cool with
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me, and I'm going to be cool with them.
28:40
And we have this, you know, unspoken agreement as it were
28:43
of, as long as things are such and such a way.
28:46
We'll, we'll keep things such and such a way over here on this
28:49
end, right? Doing things like, again, taking
28:54
care of the property, keeping the land.
28:56
Looking pretty right, appearing. Pleasant to the eyes.
29:02
Also doing things like gifting to them.
29:05
I've made posts throughout time, you know, especially when it
29:07
comes to like Times of sparseness, right?
29:10
The winter, the harsh months. Give thing to the fatir to make
29:16
sure that they're okay, right? Things like a fruits,
29:20
vegetables, nuts seeds, right? Things that are consumed by The
29:25
Land, by the VTR, by the physical representations, of the
29:29
Vitara, like I mentioned earlier in, in The Saga of King Olaf,
29:33
you know, and that wizard, he's in, he's away.
29:34
Alright, he's going around, he's finding all these the fatir are
29:38
represented in physical form as creatures of both mythological
29:41
and natural. Forms to the same degree.
29:45
I feel that the fatir now can be represented in physical form.
29:51
When we see birds or other creatures of the land that
29:59
again, not necessarily all. But but Ken have a place that
30:05
they tear take physical form in the in, in these Woodland,
30:09
creatures of the of these, these sorts of things.
30:13
So again, when it comes to our efforts, our desire to interact
30:18
and maintain good or maintaining, Good standing with
30:22
the V8 here, we gift to the vet. Here, we we put out food, you
30:26
know, a lot of people might look at things like birds bird,
30:31
feeders or squirrel feeders or all.
30:33
These are the types of things that give food back to the, you
30:36
know, creatures that we live in and around and that live in, and
30:40
around us, as ways of establishing maintaining, those
30:46
those interactions, those, those ways, of honoring, the Vets
30:49
here, because it's being received, By the land, the tier
30:52
by the spirits of the land that habit cohabitate with us and
30:56
that inhabit these these these animals.
31:02
So that's one way I look at it too is you know when we look to
31:07
give to the material when we look to honor the materials we
31:09
want to do things that are going to make the land happy.
31:11
So you know I wouldn't want to, you know poor you know something
31:16
that is or place something that is harmful to the land.
31:20
And, you know, if I know that a certain kind of food product or
31:27
byproduct of food is harmful to the land, not gonna put that in
31:30
the ground. I'm going to put that out there
31:33
to be consumed, potentially buy something, and then have that
31:37
consump, the consumption of that thing, be detrimental to the
31:40
life and the happiness of that, which would consume it. you
31:46
know, I would look to put things out there that are first of all,
31:50
you know, biodegradable consumable by the land in a
31:53
healthy way, something that gives back to the land, you
31:57
know, and it in, in those ways, I feel that that is how we Honor
32:06
the Lanvin here and keep them happy, keep them, you know,
32:12
acting in our favor. So that when we do things like
32:15
whether it be agriculturally, you know, or socially, right?
32:19
The things that we do on the land are We get benefit from it,
32:26
we reap the rewards of it. Are our crops grow healthfully,
32:30
you know, we don't have an infestation of baleful white
32:35
such as you know, worms and beetles and things like that,
32:41
that could wreak havoc on crops, right?
32:42
We are, we are blessed with Bountiful Harvest and minimal
32:50
infestations of things that could destroy that bounty.
32:54
T. So again, there's all physical
32:57
ways of doing this, you know what I mean?
32:58
Like, there's, you know, obviously you're not going to
32:59
just, you know, try to grow a crop of tomatoes and not do
33:06
things that would help. Prevent things like bugs and
33:12
whatnot from getting to it because again the land of a tear
33:15
that that inhabit, the land don't operate under the social
33:18
construct of us as humans. They don't understand, they
33:21
don't, they don't follow what we follow as well.
33:24
The rules are rules, the wild is the wild, right?
33:26
And the laws of nature are, you know, what happens happens and
33:33
you're not going to be able to dictate when and where those
33:38
sorts of Things occur. But at the same time we have
33:43
again this relationship that we're looking to establish
33:47
maintain and build and grow with the with these spirits that, you
33:53
know, require us to be active, you know?
33:56
So we look to do those physical things.
33:58
And then we also look to do the metaphysical things, you know,
34:02
I've had experiences myself where, you know, I was I was
34:07
growing a garden at the time and I was was looking to put, you
34:11
know, something back to the land that I hoped would be be
34:14
received by the veter as a token of A token of thanks like, thank
34:22
you for letting me work this land.
34:25
Here's a gift in return and I would receive an omen.
34:29
And I remember this one particular time, just to be very
34:33
specific. It was I was gifting to the land
34:38
of fruits and nuts and some vegetables.
34:41
Some some I think I was growing zucchinis and stuff at the time
34:44
and I had some extra of the crop that I would give Back to the
34:49
land. I would make a plate or portion
34:52
and I would bring it outside to this sort of my little, you want
34:57
to call her ogre or alter as it were an outdoor pile of stones
35:02
and stuff. And I swear I put my gifts to
35:04
the VTR, right? And I sat out there, it was
35:07
dark. It was nighttime.
35:09
And I sat out there for a while, and I just, you know, in my own
35:12
way, communicate It To the victor to the spirits that I
35:15
couldn't see necessarily around me.
35:17
Right. Well, next thing you know, I
35:20
hear this, you know, it was like a tree line here, near the
35:23
property line and I hear this rustling in the trees and I
35:26
could see through the darkness that, you know, a little
35:30
movement and it was a, it was a possum that was coming to eat
35:36
the vegetables and stuff that I left out there now That's what
35:43
possums do right? That's what nature is doing.
35:46
Its the physical act of of a possum coming to eat vegetables
35:51
from our garden is a natural thing, you know, like there's
35:55
another there's no real. Whoo, you know stuff behind it.
36:00
But in the moment right in that moment, that was for me, an omen
36:04
that my gift to the be tier was being received and accepted and
36:08
the The act of gifting to them was met in a reciprocal, sort of
36:16
way. It's, I didn't necessarily get
36:18
anything physical in return, but what I got in return was a nod.
36:22
An acknowledgement from the fatir saying thank you.
36:28
We receive your gift. We appreciate it.
36:31
You know, an unspoken yet vibrantly loud, and a resounding
36:38
Affirmation, that what you did is accepted and well-received.
36:44
You know, so maybe something like that has happened for you
36:46
guys or maybe now that you're hearing about this, you know,
36:50
when you're looking to implement, you know, behavior
36:53
that that reflects honoring, and you know, bringing of gifts to
36:58
the veteran and interacting with them in this sort of way.
37:04
I'm going to try to plant things in your mind to think of every
37:06
time you see it. Opossum every time you see a
37:08
bird eating at a at a bird feeder that you know it's debate
37:11
here. They're happy.
37:12
And I could just be that the birds are eating because they're
37:14
hungry and then you know, that's what birds do and that's what
37:16
they need to do. Looks like everything else but
37:19
hey you know, not going to tell you how to read almonds because
37:23
though they are intended for the people to that that are that are
37:27
looking for them, you know? Just like so many things in
37:31
nature. You know, I've talked a lot
37:32
about before about how I interact with some of the wild
37:36
Guardian Spirits over here on Stones River you know herons
37:41
especially are prolific. I see a heron a lot and I
37:47
probably see more than just the one Heron, you know what I mean?
37:49
But every time I see the Heron Heron it's hey, there he is.
37:52
You know, there's the Heron it's Probably seeing different ones
37:57
at different points. In time, I get that but for me,
38:00
it's, you know, you guys know, I have a very close, you know,
38:05
Affinity to herons for for for reasons, I've stated before they
38:09
are and I believe, you know, for me that it is the, my failure,
38:17
my ancestral guide, my ancestral follower of my Algonquin,
38:24
perhaps Shinnecock, Indian descent, that female ancestor is
38:34
represented in physical form, through the Heron, because the
38:37
Heron is a marsh bird, the Algonquin and Shinnecock people
38:40
were Marsh Native indigenous people.
38:43
They lived in swamps and Marshy areas.
38:45
So there's that connection. So yeah there's there's there's
38:49
that and so How you guys read the signs?
38:54
The Omens whatever as you as you have on my know, a lot of people
38:57
that are friends of mine and talk all the time about their
39:00
their nature walks. And you know, they see a deer,
39:02
they see a hawk or they see this so they see that and they know
39:05
that for them is is you know, Ravens crows. whenever I know a
39:13
guy who's who's very got a, he's got a very close Affinity to
39:18
Bobcats interestingly enough, I've heard of other people, You
39:24
know, mentioning different affinities to different animals.
39:27
And that's, that's probably something a little bit different
39:29
than the V8 ear. All I'm saying is that just
39:33
like, we heard about before in the egg, is not a go Saga, but
39:38
in the Saga, King Olaf They tear the Guardians of that land.
39:45
All right, the Protectors of that.
39:46
Land were manifested in physical form as creatures of both
39:51
natural and mythological Stature.
39:55
So as a recap, you know, how do we interact how to honor the
40:01
Vets here? Get out into the yard, get out
40:05
until your land. And, you know, whether you have
40:08
a small piece of property, a large piece of property, maybe
40:11
you live in an area that is like the city and there isn't, you
40:16
know, you don't have a piece of land outside of your dwelling
40:24
that you can necessarily go to, to give to the VT R, you know, I
40:28
think that they tear have have presence in the land, and then
40:32
there are VT or that have presence inside the home, that
40:37
kind of either take up residence in the physical area.
40:42
Like we, like I mentioned earlier there was that one guy
40:45
who had a dream and there was, you know, they'd tear that were
40:47
connected to this Boulder that, you know, don't don't remove
40:50
this Boulder, don't tear this down until we move out.
40:53
Let us relocate before you do anything, you know.
40:56
So there could be those types of a tear.
41:00
And I think there's also they tear that that kind of of go
41:03
with families that go with people.
41:06
So you may have cases or situations where you know
41:11
somebody who lived in an apartment you know there's a
41:15
tear left with them. Maybe that vase here that was
41:20
with them at that point stayed there and then you know another
41:24
person moves in and then you've got there via tear that you know
41:27
that that traveled with them then now there's this Clash like
41:31
whose home is this anyway it's my home.
41:33
No it's My home now because I'm living here and there, you know,
41:35
you might see tumultuous things pop up, you know, maybe of call
41:39
it hauntings or whatever. I don't know.
41:42
This is just my mind kind of running away with the whole
41:44
concept of it all, but there's something to think about there,
41:47
too. I think it may be a topic for a
41:49
later podcast on, on centralized spirits that are tied to either
41:57
a family or tied to the home of a family and You know why?
42:03
There might be conflict if a family left and and that
42:07
particular white didn't lie with them and then you know you ran
42:10
into these conflicts so it also boats the question I think that
42:16
when we go back to like you know talking about land bits here and
42:21
keeping them happy. You know if if the land was
42:25
intended and the plan hasn't been tended and or if the land
42:29
has received a lot of You know, - action against it.
42:34
And we talked earlier about these disasters of, you know,
42:40
incredible magnitude, you know, train derailments that that blue
42:44
toxic gas into the air, into the air, and leaked into the earth,
42:48
into the ground, into the rivers, and the streams and
42:50
everything, and killed all these, you know, animals and
42:54
creatures that live there. That's that's heavy duty stuff,
43:00
you know? And and there could be the fact
43:04
that the VTR have abandoned that place or now.
43:06
It's now it's a Added by baleful weights are baleful be tear that
43:11
that seek to just be entropic and Destroy what they can.
43:18
That takes a lot of work. I don't remember if it's in the
43:22
land on my book, The the book of settlements, I want to say that
43:26
it is and I can't cite specifically where it is, but I
43:29
believe that in the land of a book, we read about land,
43:32
claiming ceremonies land, taking ceremonies that Involve the use
43:39
of fire to walk perimeters of lands that essentially stake a
43:46
claim, right? I am here, you know, banishing
43:49
any bail for whites to 2 then you know, take over that, that
43:55
that space with with wholesome and good.
43:59
And and the types of spiritual forces that you want, they're
44:03
not the ones that you don't. So you know, you make encounter,
44:09
you know, people may be listening to this and saying I'm
44:11
having a rough time right now because they know I have this
44:16
sense of unsettling. And in in the area where I live,
44:20
you know, could be again, not knowing everybody situation.
44:23
It's, I don't think there's one universal answer to this, but,
44:27
you know, it could be that that the reason why things are
44:30
feeling unsettled is because the land is upset, the spirits of
44:33
that land are are hurting or our have been abandoned, and now
44:40
it's being taken over by again, the the baleful entropic and
44:45
malignant spirit And so, in order to regain control in order
44:49
to regain then, you know, something of a benevolent.
44:54
Instead of a malevolent nature, you know, there's work to be
44:59
done and there is tending to that land, that needs to be
45:02
done, you know. And it takes physical work and
45:05
it takes active action too. bring life and bring happiness,
45:11
and bring peace, and bring prosperity and then all that
45:14
back to the land and to, you know, get rid of and to banish
45:19
that that which is harmful or baleful, So as you guys think
45:28
about this and, you know, hopefully this is this is help
45:31
spark some conversation amongst your people in your circles.
45:36
I would love to hear down in the comments or through email or
45:40
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45:43
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45:48
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45:50
thoughts, and let me know, and then let's share with the
45:53
people. And everybody else, you know how
45:56
you interact with an honor Blaine bit here.
46:01
What are some things that you find to be, you know, integral
46:05
and valuable to building growing, maintaining those,
46:11
those relationships with those unseen spirits that are,
46:15
although unseen no less important.
46:18
I would love to hear what you guys have to say about, and I
46:20
would love to hear what your thoughts are, and I'm sure
46:23
everybody else would. You.
46:25
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