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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP18 - Sunnablot, Sovereignty of the Hearth, & Intertribal Relationships · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  All right, folks, hail and welcome back.
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  Hmm. Excuse me.
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  The next rendition. The next session. of the random
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  than Me trying to just get my bearings set over here.
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  As you can see. I have a nun.
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  Burnt incense burner, and based off of the poll results that I
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  posted last week. I've got I've got mixed results.
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  So half of you voted. Well, those of you that did
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  vote, I got almost like a 100% response to burn a Balsam cented
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  incense on the Spotify pole. And then over here on the
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  YouTube channel. All right, you know, the the
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  pole that was run last week there.
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  It was almost a neck and neck tie between frankincense and I
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  want to say mugwort but frankincense did beat mugwort or
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  whichever. The other one was.
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  So I go you know. Now what do I do?
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  Do I burn Balsam? I burn frankincense and then I
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  thought, well, let's get really wild and let's burn one of each.
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  So here we've got a Balsam and frankincense stick that we're
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  going to burn. So it's going to get nice and
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  aromatic up in here today. So I hope you guys have your
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  smell-o-vision enable even if you don't have your visual.
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  Capabilities. If you're not watching this on
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  YouTube or Spotify video podcasts and you're just
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  listening to this on one of your other podcast platforms, engage
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  your smellavision. Because it's about to get very
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  aromatic in here. So before we get started with
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  the show, Let's go ahead and just get these bad boys rolling.
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  And so yeah, I'm gonna do this every week.
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  Don't know if we'll do a poll next time or or what that one
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  double check and make sure. It's got a double check and make
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  sure, you know. There it is.
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  Okay. So hopefully I won't get too
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  badly smoked out here. I'm just going to keep this off
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  to the side still sort of kind of in frame, but it's already
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  smelling very smelling like a resin e, tiny almost woods.
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  I've also got some Scotch going here as is the norm, you know,
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  so for you that are catching the premiere on Thursday mornings.
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  Don't worry. I'm not drinking. in the
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  morning, although I have done that and keep your judgments to
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  yourself on that because it's never a bad time to have a
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  little something, you know, I mean But this is a nice.
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  It's Yura Yura, Jay you are a, is the is the Distillery, or the
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  brand. And it's a, it's a one that I
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  recently tried. I actually tasted it for the
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  first time on the last Plague Inc.
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  Gaming live stream on the YouTube channel.
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  So, if you guys caught me tasting it at that time, you'll
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  know that I'm a big fan. It's not day.
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  Very expensive Scotch at all. I think this was just under $30
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  for the whole bottle and it's got a lot of the caramel e kind
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  of vanilla and and bright fruity notes with a little bit of a
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  touch of smoke. Nothing too crazy.
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  Nothing to, you know, it's definitely not annihilate.
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  It's not it's not an island, but it is a nice just sipping.
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  I mean, they're all nice, sipping Scotch is so, but yeah,
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  this is like a, I don't know. I think this was finished.
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  I think it said it was finished in American Oak.
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  Barrels or Oak barrels. Something like that.
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  So it's got a really, you know, kind of Woody.
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  Almost almost bourbon e thing going on but it definitely
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  doesn't doesn't come off as a bourbon.
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  It's more of just a like a space side or lowland scotch.
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  It is a single malt. But so.
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  Yeah, guys, what are we going to be talking about this week?
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  Well, I wanted to talk about a couple of things.
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  But first before we get into, you know, the actual subject of
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  today's podcast, which is going to be about the sovereignty of
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  the Hearth and the blending of tribes.
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  Now, before we get into that, I wanted to talk about an upcoming
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  event that I hope to see some of my listeners viewers friends
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  subscribers. If you're in the middle,
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  Tennessee area or close to Tennessee in any proximity.
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  I mean, this, this is a yearly and annual event than myself and
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  hopefully other members of My Tribe and my wife will be
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  attending. Is the annual Sunnah bloat?
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  Festival or celebration, which is hosted by The Raven, Moon
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  Hearth Kindred, or tribe kind of north of Nashville in Spring
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  Hill. So that's where it's being held.
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  There's going to be some details about that in the video
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  description and in the podcast show notes.
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  So whichever, you know, platform you're on catching this on,
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  check out wherever the that information is.
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  It's you know, show notes for the podcast description area for
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  the video, but I didn't want to talk a bit about it because I
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  have attended soon a bloke with the Hearth once before a couple
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  years ago. Actually, probably now three
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  years ago, at least three or four years ago has been that
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  long because it was before covid.
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  So it was either 2018 or 2019. So yeah, already three maybe
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  four years and because of Of some situational things.
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  We have our least, I have refrain from going to a lot of
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  Hearth events. And this is going to kind of,
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  you know, eventually segue into part of the topic of today's
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  discussion, the blending of tribes, inter tribal relations,
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  that sort of thing. But suffice that to say, the
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  good thing to report is that previous roadblocks.
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  Have been lifted in order for us to pursue.
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  Inter tribal relations, you know and and having members of each
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  other's tribe get to know each other and kind of hopefully
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  build more on the community as it exists right now.
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  So it's going to be on June 18th, which is a Saturday.
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  And as the name might suggest, Sunnah, Sunnah bloat.
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  Okay? Is it's an event.
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  It's a public event. It's open to the public.
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  It's not a tribal only or closed off event as Holy tides are at
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  some festivals or celebrations. Might be this is open to the
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  public and it is a festival. A Midsummer Festival case you
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  can imagine. June is it's almost I mean for
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  Tennessee, you know, we're definitely in the middle of the
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  year and it but some are still has a ways to go.
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  But anyways, it's right near it's right around the time of
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  what, you know, a lot of folks would celebrate as the summer
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  equinox. So June 21st, June 18th is the
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  weekend leading up to that but soon, upload is a celebration
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  and a dedication to Sunnah the the sacred representation.
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  The sun, some might say goddess, which is I believe the
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  definition that the Hearth uses. And some of the sources that you
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  may read in here about within like the poetic Edda of a loofah
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  or even snore. He's prose Edda in the cone
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  goofy gaining, I believe soon as mentioned but the female
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  Representation of the Sun in, in Germanic mythology.
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  So there's a going to be a bloat, upload to Sunnah, a
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  ritual being held. Usually, as I recall there.
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  It's held at the end of the day, course, when the sun's going
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  down and but prior to that throughout the day, there's
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  going to be games. There's going to be feasting.
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  There's some vendors that are going to be showing up all of
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  which I don't have a lot of details on, but I know there's
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  going to be some Folks who do like divination of sorts going
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  to be talking about that here in just a second because you guy
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  over here will be there doing some of that but there's a going
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  to be information posted again in the description and show
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  notes of the video for podcasts. Whatever you're catching this,
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  that explain more in detail. So there's a Facebook page or
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  Facebook group events and, you know, link that's going to be
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  posted there. So, you know, feel free to To to
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  check that out and see all what's going on.
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  Some of the vendor information is posted in there.
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  Greg Strong. Who's the chieftain for Raven
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  Moon Hearth is kind of leading that type of stuff.
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  He's the one that's posting all about it, and sharing
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  information, and it is a family-friendly event.
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  There is Saturday, into Sunday, capabilities of, you know, so,
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  there would be Camping options there.
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  It's on one of the tribal members.
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  I think it's it's it's the fuel, whose property, it's being, it's
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  hosted on in Spring Hill. There has, you know, plenty of
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  land for for people to stay over in Camp if you so choose, but
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  all those details will be posted.
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  There. There is a entry fee.
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  You don't have to stay overnight.
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  You don't have to stay the whole day, but to come and to be a
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  part of it. There is a an entry.
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  Fe so there's food. There's going to be communities,
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  sharing is going to be Fellowship.
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  There's going to be hopefully a lot of good weird being tied and
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  I will be there with my wife and I will be kind of like a, you
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  know, you could say vendor guess it's the best term because
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  they're going to have people there that are selling their
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  crafts, but also selling their services.
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  So I will be there in person. That's una bloat on June 18th to
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  do Rune, castings $10, a cast, you know, so and I don't do, you
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  know, one runecast, I'll do like a three-rune spread, where kind
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  of like how the like we read about in tacitus has
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  recollection of how the Germanic tribes would believe it was
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  tacitus. Yeah, blue was tasks where he
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  talks about that. How they they cast lots, you
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  know, and or and they from fruit bearing trees.
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  They have pieces of wood that they pick and they pick three
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  different ones. And there's there's designated
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  people that are supposed to do it, but we're gonna do, like, a
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  three-room spread. We'll talk a bit one-on-one
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  about, you know, the purpose for the casting purpose for the
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  drawing. I'm just trying to get a little
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  bit of background and stuff on things and make it a thing.
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  So I'll be doing that. There might have a few items to
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  actually sell. I do still have some room sets
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  that I've made two of which are made out of seashells.
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  So I have I have those looking to try to, you know, provide as
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  a gift or as a good I should say along with the services.
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  So I'll be there. I'll be there as soon as I blow.
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  Not sure how long I'll be there, you know, the whole day or the
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  definitely not going to be staying overnight.
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  But if you're in the area and you're close enough to Spring
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  Hill, Tennessee, come on out, become part of it.
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  Would love to meet you. I'd love to get to know the
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  other people out here that are, you know, listening and tuning
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  into this sort of thing. So I know there are some people
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  that listen and watch, that are not that far from that area.
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  Tennessee in. That would even be willing to
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  travel a bit if they're outside of the immediate vicinity.
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  So think about it and hope to see you there.
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  So again, that's Saturday June 18th, check the description show
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  notes for those details smelling really good in here, guys.
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  This is a great idea. I like the, you know, I'm never
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  just settled with one instance. Like I did last time, I think I
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  might entertain doing doing two at once.
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  If I get a, get a Wild hair at my butt as it were.
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  So, that's the kind of the announcement about things and
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  where? Where we're at with that.
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  So let's get into the topic. Actually that I wanted to talk
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  about today. The sanctity.
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  The sacredness. Of the hearth.
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  And the sovereignty of it. Mainly some things have happened
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  recently that I've learned a lot through the trial and error.
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  Part of learning, you know, you make mistakes, you make
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  decisions you say or do things that you later.
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  Learn? We're not the The wisest of
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  choices to make, but it shouldn't deter us and it
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  shouldn't distract us from ever or shouldn't deter us from doing
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  things again, in the future. Right?
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  I mean, just because you stuck won't stumble and fall trip
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  along the way doesn't mean, you can't keep walking can't keep
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  going. And do you shouldn't just then,
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  you know, just don't give up. But along with that.
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  It shouldn't distract us from the lessons that we can learn as
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  well. And because even I saw something
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  the other day where it said something along the lines of,
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  you know, even even the wrong path, can lead, us to the right
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  destination. You're taking the wrong path,
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  can lead us to the right destination, something along
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  those lines. It gives you pause to think or
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  gave me, you know, plus think that wow, you know, I went down
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  the wrong path here a little bit.
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  I strayed into territory that I shouldn't have.
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  As an individual, who serves in a position of leadership with my
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  tribe and you know, not going to are all the details out here and
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  this platform because that's private.
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  That's that's between us. But the lesson that was learned
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  is the sovereignty of the Hearth and how those individual Huts.
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  Those individual roof trees are sovereign.
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  They are, they are They are sacred in their own, right.
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  And they are governed by the ones that are over their Hearth
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  and none of that should ever be interfered with from anybody
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  outside of that Hearth. Now side of that home and no
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  matter what. It's, you know, your tribe, your
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  Chieftain, your go, the your does not have or shouldn't I
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  should say, have the Oversight or or the or the position to
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  tell you how to run your home to tell you how to live your life
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  and to tell you what to do and then to make ultimatums or to
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  make, you know, it's either this or that.
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  And and so forth. There is a fine line.
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  I will say that there is a fine line.
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  I feel that that that someone like a chieftain in a tribe or
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  however, rules the tribe over leaves the tribe in that in that
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  ultimate position. However, the tribal structure is
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  set up. Every tribe is going to be
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  different with Kendra, going to be set up a little bit
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  differently. And that's for them.
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  You know, their haul, their call.
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  Shout out there shervin, the Ravens, call, not my haul, not
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  my call, and it kind of ties into this in many, many ways.
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  So we're going to talk a bit more about that.
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  So the lessons that we learned or that I learned when it comes
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  to the intent behind trying to insert yourself in places where
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  you shouldn't or to have a say in things that you shouldn't,
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  for example, how someone runs their home, or what somebody
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  does with their own life within their own Hearth, within their
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  own home and, you know, stepping into that and making Again,
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  ultimate giving ultimatums or making rules where you
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  shouldn't. It's a fine line for somebody in
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  that position like a Chieftain, Ergo the or whoever's that top
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  leader of the, of the tribe. Because it is, it is their
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  responsibility to preserve the tribal tribal luck.
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  And, and to be that sort of caretaker of the tribal luck.
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  And to make sure that things that are being done within the
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  tribe are, are safe and good. And Will will, will bring luck
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  to the tribe and not damage the tribes luck.
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  But it gives a I've learned. It is a very fine line that one
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  walks when it comes to that because individual homes,
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  individual people, individual families, individual Hearts,
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  have their own luck that they need to, to work out.
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  And they have their own left that they need to preserve and
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  their own, you know, all of that.
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  That's not the Chieftains job and it's not his, or her job.
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  It's not there. Job, too. interfere to the point
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  that that person's house is under that Chief under that
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  leaders of that rulers oversight and if it gets to that point,
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  Then you start getting into territory if you guys can hear
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  it, but it's pouring down. Rain is probably not going to
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  pick up Young on the mic, but it's a, it's, it's pouring down
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  rain here. So hopefully will We'll be able
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  to keep this rolling without any technical difficulties or
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  interference. Sometimes, the weather can have
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  strange effects on electronics and Technology things.
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  So, anyway, defining barriers to finding the lines.
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  There has to be a line set, right?
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  And There has to be an understanding and respect of
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  what lines not to cross the sovereignty of the home.
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  The sovereignty of the Hearth is Is Paramount as much as the
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  sovereignty and and preserving the luck of a tribe is, it's all
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  important, you know, but it's not the responsibility of the
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  chieftain. Let's say to make sure that, you
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  know, John Smith's family is, is acting, right, right.
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  That's the responsibility of John Smith, you know, so whoever
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  John Smith is with whatever his, you know, life is.
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  Whatever angle his life is taking whatever Direction.
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  His life is heading in, that's John Smith's business.
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  Not necessarily The Chieftains. Now if it gets to the point
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  where the decisions that John Smith is making as a member of
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  the tribe start to negatively impact and have an effect on the
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  overall tribal luck. Then it's The Chieftains job or
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  the go, the whoever it is, whatever that person's job is to
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  see to it that it is addressed, you know in a right way, so when
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  we talk about, Tribe. Whenever I talk about tribe, I'm
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  always referring to that as an extension of the Hearth and it
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  should never take over. The importance of the Hearth
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  because again, at the site of the sovereignty, the sanctity of
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  of it. And the way that I've seen, how
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  Heathen re best functions is things start at the home.
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  It has to have, you have to have a strong home.
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  You have to have a strong roof-tree.
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  You have to have a strong Hearth.
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  You have to have a strong home life in order for the tribe to
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  grow out of that. Because it's again, it's like a
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  extension of the family. It's where in modern times I
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  feel we see the dynamic of, you know, kin and kith.
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  You know, Ken is family of your blood kisses is the married into
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  or oath in. Family that are not necessarily
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  tied to you through blood but are nonetheless tied to you in
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  the way that whether it be through oath or through
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  exchanging of luck and weird. You become You know, like Ken
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  fact that kiss element. And you know, we see this in
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  examples throughout many of the sagas and in some of the older
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  sources that we have that we can look to and see how Society
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  functions. So it's like a representation of
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  that, in modern times now, but none of it.
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  Should none of it. None of the tribal building
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  activity another tribe, the furthering of a tribe should
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  ever. Get into.
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  You know, inserting them inserting oneself into a, the
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  sanctity of the Hearth. Now, I suppose one could say
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  that if, the tribe starts out with family and you have always
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  been family and then your Tribe tribal Affairs become now opened
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  up to more people as the tribe grows.
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  The dynamic has to change. The relationship has to change
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  its like. Yeah, we may be brothers.
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  We may be cousins. We may be uncle's nephews nieces
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  nephews, Etc. And that would never change.
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  And then if you know at the same time now, we have other people
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  who are becoming part of the tribe, the extension of this
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  family. And so, We have to be careful of
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  of that whole thing too. And that's that's I think where
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  for me, you know. I was having some.
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  Challenges and navigating through because the way our
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  tribe has started became very a dog.
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  Just move my foot and my dog sleeping up under my feet
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  because it's raining, get in there Gunner, get in there go,
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  he didn't there. Yeah, for you get kicked again,
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  but the way that you, the way that our tribe has started, you
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  know, has been very family-centric and and
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  circulated around how strongly where as a family unit.
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  In the family became as such not through blood.
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  But through again, through tying of weird and through sharing in
• 26:40
  ritual and, and having a sense of mutual obligation that fourth
• 26:45
  Bond being being secured and that's what kind of made us
• 26:51
  family. So we have always been very open
• 26:53
  and very transparent with a lot of things more so than we should
• 26:57
  have is is kind of the lesson that I, you know, took away from
• 27:02
  Are there? There were definitely times when
• 27:05
  oversharing took place and it it proved to not be a good thing
• 27:12
  for the hearth for the home. Thankfully because things
• 27:16
  started out strongly with the Hearth and with the home, these
• 27:19
  types of roadblocks, these types of hiccups, these types of, you
• 27:22
  know, things that can get kind of ugly at times, you know, you
• 27:26
  know, being very open and transparent with each other to
• 27:29
  talk about through through these challenges, you know.
• 27:32
  It, your feelings can get hurt, but I would rather have that
• 27:38
  every single time, then to be. Lied to and to be kept behind a
• 27:45
  curtain and and pretended amongst.
• 27:48
  You know what I mean? I'd rather have that open and
• 27:50
  honest approach to things and that's how that's how we've done
• 27:54
  it and that's how we're going to continue to do it.
• 27:56
  And that's how I would urge anybody looking to join a
• 28:01
  kindred or or become part of a tribe or or start one yourself.
• 28:06
  Perhaps is You know, again, your hall your call, you do what you
• 28:12
  want, how you want to do it, based off of whatever.
• 28:16
  But from my experience. And from what I've come to learn
• 28:20
  is that, you know, established those safe and sovereign.
• 28:26
  Boundaries right. Make sure that people know that
• 28:32
  when they become part of a group that they are not going to be
• 28:35
  dictated. They're not going to be, you
• 28:40
  know, ruled over as though they were peasants.
• 28:42
  There is a structure, there is an order and there is a reason
• 28:48
  for that structure and order but it is not to infiltrate and
• 28:51
  insert into the lives and into the sovereignty of the And of
• 28:57
  the Hearth and that is something that I would never.
• 29:02
  Change. And when will never change, you
• 29:04
  know, it's kind of the thing that started us off in our in
• 29:09
  our approach on building our tribe.
• 29:13
  But but again because so far as it is right.
• 29:15
  Now the tribe has is been mainly in only close family, or kif
• 29:20
  extension of family, you know, the thoughts of how that applies
• 29:26
  to us have been kind of lost in the lines, a bit or are lost in
• 29:29
  the sand. you know, so there has to be that there has to be that
• 29:33
  respect or has to be that understanding of we're going to
• 29:38
  do our thing. We're going to be what we're
• 29:40
  going to be. We're going to do, we're going
• 29:41
  to do in our hearts and then when we get together as a tribe,
• 29:45
  we're going to do the Triad thing.
• 29:48
  And until or unless one affects negatively the other.
• 29:53
  Stay out of it, you know, so that is and I, you know, I
• 29:58
  wanted to use this week's episode.
• 30:00
  This week's podcast to really talk about that and get that out
• 30:05
  there because I see a lot of folks in our area in our Middle,
• 30:10
  Tennessee area. Looking for A tribe or looking
• 30:15
  for a Kinder looking for a group, to be a part of whichever
• 30:20
  group you end up deciding whether it's, you know, you come
• 30:22
  out here to Raven when Hearth and you want to learn more about
• 30:24
  their way of doing things, or whether you talk to me or some
• 30:28
  of the other tribes, member tribal members of our tribe for
• 30:32
  the folk and ask us about things.
• 30:36
  You know, that's sad, be something that you have in the
• 30:39
  Forefront of your mind. Like I'm, you know, We are about
• 30:43
  that. We support that we recently had
• 30:48
  to really live by that and learn what that means in its
• 30:52
  application. So and if it's not any of our
• 30:56
  group, so, you know, if it's if you're out, swear if you're
• 30:58
  listening and watching and you're not in this area and you
• 31:00
  looking for something in your area guy would vary.
• 31:03
  Again, highly suggest that, you know, as you consider what
• 31:06
  you're considering, make that a stipulation make that something
• 31:10
  that you will not You know abide if they're not willing to keep
• 31:17
  those lines, the find and keep the sovereignty of the Hearth
• 31:20
  with the people who are in that Hearth themselves, you know, I
• 31:25
  would very strongly consider reconsider, tying yourself to a
• 31:30
  group that wants to be in your business in that way.
• 31:32
  So You do you label do then? But consider that that's it.
• 31:39
  That is this week's kind of thought or lesson that I wanted
• 31:44
  to to mention the other kind of half of this whole thing, you
• 31:47
  know, intertribal relationships. Again, it's kind of a segue into
• 31:51
  that. And by the way, I know that if
• 31:55
  if by the time this airs, you guys are seeing or hearing
• 32:00
  another video from Eric shervin at the Even call the word
• 32:05
  Weaver. I think he may have either
• 32:09
  content coming up. Or maybe in the near future or
• 32:14
  maybe the one that that's about to be released that ties a
• 32:17
  little bit into this. So it's going to be interesting.
• 32:19
  We used to it's crazy because me and him, you know, we we upload
• 32:22
  stuff on a different schedule and his life has been so busy
• 32:26
  and so hectic. And he's had so little time to
• 32:30
  release content that in back when we were, you know, he was
• 32:34
  uploading videos every week and I was to still upload the
• 32:37
  podcast every week, but things have changed a little bit in
• 32:39
  terms of might, you know, Everything everything has
• 32:43
  changed. Anyway, my point is that we used
• 32:46
  to put videos out not ever. Talk to each other.
• 32:49
  Not know what each other was was doing in terms of content.
• 32:52
  And it would just so happen that some much it like his content
• 32:55
  would have tie into to what I was saying or I would say
• 33:00
  something of a kind is and there was like a similarity and it's
• 33:02
  almost like, you know people think are you guys talking about
• 33:05
  stuff in the background? Are you coming up with, you know
• 33:07
  the content to to push out and it's like no we did. /.
• 33:12
  We don't collaborate in that way.
• 33:13
  We had the video collaborations that we've done that we're plan
• 33:17
  and that were, you know, thought about.
• 33:20
  But some of the other stuff that was unplanned which SI.
• 33:22
  Wow, you know, it's almost kind of eerie.
• 33:25
  Now. I will say that this topic of
• 33:27
  discussion was something that I was privy to, and I knew ahead
• 33:31
  of time that he was going to be doing this, but I did not intend
• 33:34
  on the things that have happened that led up to me want to talk
• 33:37
  about this. Turtle obviously fall in the
• 33:41
  same line or time frame. So we're talking about it.
• 33:44
  Now, you'll probably hear something all along the.
• 33:48
  Same lines are at least the same topic in terms of intertribal
• 33:51
  relationships and that sort of thing.
• 33:54
  So, I'm excited to know that that may be something coming
• 33:57
  down the pipeline for Eric, or from Eric.
• 33:59
  So, you guys be sure to check out the Ravens call on YouTube
• 34:02
  and see what he's got coming up soon.
• 34:05
  So anyway, without knowing what he's going to say without
• 34:09
  knowing what is topic if it even is going to be, I'm still going
• 34:12
  to proceed because again with With what I was mentioning
• 34:17
  earlier about us in our area in Middle, Tennessee and having you
• 34:22
  know, the Raven Moon Horse soon upload event coming up.
• 34:27
  It is rekindling a relationship that myself and other members of
• 34:33
  our tribe sort of got in we're starting to get into before the
• 34:39
  pandemic and then because of the pandemic and the way the world
• 34:43
  went and everything every you know, last few.
• 34:45
  Years of just been wild wild and crazy last couple years have
• 34:49
  been wild and crazy. And so now with with again, as I
• 34:54
  mentioned earlier, some of the roadblocks that we had before
• 34:57
  lifted. Now, we're really hungry to get
• 35:02
  back into such things as, you know, Park moots or Pub moots
• 35:07
  or, you know, meeting up at restaurants or coffee shops or
• 35:10
  whatever the case may be and just socializing not having, you
• 35:13
  know, outdoor events or or big huge camping sites or anything
• 35:18
  like that, but just having semi-regular public, meetups.
• 35:22
  Like, hey guys, we're going to post about it on our social
• 35:24
  medias. Hey, we're going to be at You
• 35:28
  know, whatever it is, whatever, restaurant, whatever, bowling
• 35:31
  alley, whatever Park, you know, just we're going to be here
• 35:33
  hanging out, you know, come say hi, you know, come meet the
• 35:38
  pagans and heathens in your community and come see about
• 35:42
  making new friends. Meeting new people and
• 35:45
  establishing ties with each other to perhaps continue to
• 35:49
  grow the community. So we want to do that more and
• 35:53
  given the opportunity to come to such an event like Sunnah bloat
• 35:57
  is a great. Networking Chan Tai opportunity
• 36:00
  because there's going to be people from other walks of
• 36:03
  polytheism. It's not just a heathen event.
• 36:07
  There's going to be the my knowledge.
• 36:09
  There's going to be a couple of different Pagan covens.
• 36:12
  I don't know if they're Wiccan or you know what they are, but I
• 36:15
  was Greg told me it's, you know, a couple of different covens
• 36:18
  from the area, you know, so Kentucky like for Campbell area
• 36:24
  of Tennessee, /. Kentucky, and we're Wherever
• 36:28
  else? I'm not sure but again, it's an
• 36:30
  it's a thing that they've had for years and people have come
• 36:34
  from out of the state out of the immediate area and have been
• 36:37
  have made the journey to you know, come and meet people and
• 36:42
  partake in the games and in the festivities and the feasting and
• 36:46
  the fellowship and it's good stuff.
• 36:50
  I'm glad to be a part of that again.
• 36:51
  I'm glad to be able to step out and away from Where we've kind
• 36:58
  of been stuck in and get to know more people.
• 37:01
  So that's exciting. And I really hope that, you
• 37:05
  know, anybody that's listening and watching that's in the
• 37:10
  Tennessee area. Whether you're East West
• 37:13
  Tennessee, Middle, Tennessee, wherever I mean, sure it's a big
• 37:16
  state. But when there's, you know, a
• 37:20
  month or two plan event, that could that's coming up, or if
• 37:23
  it's an annual event. That is, you know, Every year,
• 37:26
  it happens around the same time. You have that come up enough,
• 37:29
  time to plan ahead, and make the arrangements to be able to be
• 37:34
  there. We want to be a part of those
• 37:36
  things, too. We want to, you know, I was
• 37:41
  telling Greg, it's no. And we're not trying to poach
• 37:43
  anybody. We're not trying to.
• 37:44
  Hey, let's come hang out with your group and see how many of
• 37:46
  your people we can take over to our group.
• 37:49
  Nothing like that. It's just, hey, this is who we
• 37:51
  are. This is what we did.
• 37:52
  This is how we do it. This is where we do it.
• 37:55
  This, you know what I mean, and, and who knows, you know, that
• 37:59
  could be the seed that is planted. for other people to
• 38:06
  come and Try things out, you know, so the inter tribal
• 38:12
  relations having a neighboring tribe opened up their arms, the
• 38:17
  hospital that the gestures of hospitality to people.
• 38:21
  And then us being a part of it is it's a great I think you know
• 38:26
  display and it's a great gesture of The sincerity that much of
• 38:35
  the Pagan and Heathen communities possess, you know,
• 38:37
  the sincerity, the want to be there for each other to help
• 38:40
  each other to give each other a place that we know we can come
• 38:44
  to where there's like minded people.
• 38:46
  You know, you don't have to be a Germanic Pagan.
• 38:48
  You don't have to be, you know, neo-pagan Wiccan.
• 38:53
  You don't have to be, you know, whatever.
• 38:57
  Just it, you know, you can take a Celtic Pagan for I mean, I
• 39:04
  don't know, just whatever your polytheistic approaches to
• 39:07
  things. I mean, the Hearth has been
• 39:09
  talking about Raven when Hearth now, they've been accepting and
• 39:11
  open to people. There's another big event in
• 39:15
  Nashville every year. The puff Pagan, Unity Festival,
• 39:20
  you know, I mean you want to talk about bringing people
• 39:22
  together, man, natural Pagan Pride day when they were doing
• 39:27
  that. It's been several years, but I
• 39:29
  mean you talk about thousands of people, thousands of people From
• 39:32
  all over the state country, even that come to this, I even met a
• 39:37
  guy here was from England, you know, comes to the thing every
• 39:41
  year, be great to have something like that.
• 39:46
  And be a part of it, you know and know that if it's
• 39:49
  established and then we have other pagans and we have other
• 39:52
  heathens. We have other folks in the
• 39:53
  community that want to share and and and just tie weird with each
• 40:01
  other, you know. So, I'm all for it.
• 40:08
  I am all for it again. You gotta, you gotta It's all
• 40:13
  great to talk about and and and the the idea of it, the idea of,
• 40:18
  you know, sharing. members or are having relationships that
• 40:24
  transcend barriers between tribes, you know, that can get
• 40:30
  into some of the stuff. I was mentioning earlier where
• 40:34
  about, you know, tribe leaders whose job it is and whose
• 40:39
  obligation it isn't whose role it is to protect and preserve
• 40:42
  and Safeguard the luck of the tribe, you know, that opens
• 40:47
  things up a bit, you know, so you gotta be careful with just
• 40:49
  how accepting and how, I don't know, you know, inviting you
• 40:55
  are. It's great to have that
• 40:58
  acceptance and it's great to have that, you know, willingness
• 41:01
  to be open. there does need to be, I think some checks and
• 41:05
  balances in place, you know, because again, you just don't
• 41:07
  want to Oh, yeah, we're so accepting or so Universal, you
• 41:12
  know that we're just gonna let everybody and anybody come in
• 41:16
  here and have a bloat with us and have a ritual with us, you
• 41:18
  know, gotta be careful with stuff like that.
• 41:24
  Some of those things I feel are, especially when it's, you know,
• 41:29
  tribal events, tribal ritual tribal Traditions, the through
• 41:33
  of the of the respective tribes, like, that should be kept closed
• 41:37
  to that tribe and members of that tribe.
• 41:43
  Or their honored guests. I seen that work before.
• 41:49
  So it's you know, it's a tight rope that we walk.
• 41:53
  It's a fine line that we that we that we definitely navigate to.
• 42:01
  Consider the things I'm talking about preserving, that luck,
• 42:04
  making sure that you're not. allowing, any bad luck to to
• 42:12
  spoil your well, you know, so, Lessons Learned.
• 42:20
  Exciting things coming up, you know, for those that don't
• 42:24
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• 42:28
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• 42:33
  is a midgard, musings, run group.
• 42:35
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• 42:38
  that in the description as well. You guys want to check out if
• 42:41
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• 42:46
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• 42:50
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• 42:54
  media. And if you don't, then you're
• 42:58
  listening to this and you know that will share any updates
• 43:02
  about things. And keep you posted about where
• 43:05
  we're going to be, what we're going to be doing when it's a
• 43:07
  public open to the public event because again, it's nice to have
• 43:12
  these talks in. It's nice to have this, you
• 43:15
  know, platform to share and learn from, but the real deal.
• 43:20
  Deal is when you're face-to-face and then for anybody that's you
• 43:23
  know, close enough, that can make the trip, make it happen.
• 43:28
  That's great. So with that being said, it's my
• 43:31
  it's going to be a little bit of a shorter episode, but I think,
• 43:33
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• 43:36
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  Heathen ramblings. So again, thank you all so much.
• 46:12
  It's been wonderful hearing, you know, being you can see here,
• 46:15
  talk with you guys today. I hope you have a wonderful
• 46:17
  weekend coming up, its the Memorial Day weekend.
• 46:20
  So for a lot of us here in North America will, we're going to
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• 46:25
  Ation and enjoyment with family kin and kith.
• 46:30
  So I hope you all get a chance to do that.
• 46:32
  And until we talk again. May your Hearth fires continue
• 46:37
  to burn bright. As Eric would say May the gods
• 46:40
  watch over for you and may your ancestors continue to smile upon
• 46:44
  you.