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Random Heathen Ramblings: S4, EP13 - Thor & Sif: Complimentary Opposites · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Hey Alan. Hello, welcome back.
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Everyone to another episode of the random even ramblings
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There's a lot of information, you know, stories lower
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but we're not going to be talking about him.
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We're going to be talking about his other half, which we hear
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So, again, we are here today to talk about Thor and Sif before I
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do get started and, you know, into this discussion, what I'd
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just like to mention a couple of upcoming events here in the
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Middle, Tennessee area that I am a associated with they're going
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to be a part of some in-person events here in.
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Well actually, let me back up, I'm going to start with it is
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the weekend of Seager bloat for all of you.
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That that observe your Heathen re in a more historically
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accurate fashion. If you're a Reconstructionist at
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all or lean towards The Reconstruction side of things
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above, When You observe the holy Tides, we are in right now, the
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start of the cigarette, boat Victory month or the victory
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bloat for victory. And my tribe is going to be
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celebrating our sigur bloat here in just a couple of days.
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So I'm looking very much forward to spending time with my my
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extended family, and we're going to be growing out.
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We're going to be cooking and You know, having a private
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ritual to celebrate our victories in and so good sticker
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boats blessed signal bloats, however you want to call it to
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all of you, fine, folks out here that that do find yourselves.
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Observing it in this way, and I hope you have good weather and
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hope you have good fortune. And I hope that you are able to
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acknowledge and celebrate your victories as well.
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No matter how big or small they might be.
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So moving moving past that the the next big thing that I wanted
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to announces that and all this information, by the way, if it's
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if it's public, you know, if I'm going to be doing any sort of
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public appearances, anywhere in the Middle Tennessee area, it's
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going to be linked in the show notes and description of the of
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this podcast. So here in a couple of weeks
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more than a couple actually second week of May, I think it
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is. It's Let me just look at my
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calendar here because I'm terrible.
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Yeah May May 6th May 6 which is a Saturday is here in
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Murfreesboro myself. My wife, Greg from The Raven,
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Moon Hearth, Kindred him so Greg and and our tribes go thee.
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Call them both. He them to our guy though.
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Them to guys are pairing up to host a public event, at one of
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the parks I believe is going to be a case in Trailhead here in
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Murfreesboro, going to set up. You know, one of The Pavilions
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and it's going to be I believe they're calling it him.
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What is it? From boots here, Feast of symbol
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t or something. It's a feast for dedicated to
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Odin. So we're going to have a lot of
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discussion around, Odin, not sure all what else I think there
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might be some, you know, food that that we're going to have at
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least to some degree. There's there's an offering that
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we're going to I think plan for to give to Odin, but it's going
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to be here in Murfreesboro. It's going to be the case in
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Trailhead so information for that's going to be linked down.
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In your podcast show notes or description here.
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So check that out. If you're closer in proximity
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want to come out and say hi to some local heathens, local
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pagans talk about Odin. Come on out, say hi and check
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out those details. The next one after that is going
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to be actually the following weekend, May 11th 12th and or
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sorry May 12th 13th and 14th. If I am.
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Yeah, cash accounting for a correctly.
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So May May 12 May 12th through 14th.
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That is going to be the Feast of the fallen.
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So it's the weekend after the, the Odin thing that I just
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mentioned that's going to be a raven Moon, Hearth event, my
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wife, and I will be there as well.
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We're actually going to be spending the weekend camping.
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We're going to be doing some vending, my wife's got some
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really nice handmade or handcrafted items.
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Items. She's been doing a lot of wood
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burning here lately. So please, if you're in the area
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again the event details are going to be linked down there
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but it's a weekend-long so, Friday Saturday and then they
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shut everything down around lunchtime on Sunday.
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But it's a, you know, weekend the long weekend camping event.
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So you can come and set up a tent on the property there and
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this is a raven, Moon Hearth hosted event, so there will be
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games, there will be workshops, there will be vendors, there
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will be classes there. Will be games.
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There will be ritual. I've never been to one of the
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Feast of the Fallen events but this is a yearly recurring thing
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that they have every year around this time.
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And I said, as I recall, this is kind of like their ushering in
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of summer. So, And, and also to commemorate
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and remember fondly, those loved ones who have, who have passed
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on that are that have other, you know, fallen in battle or that
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sort of thing. So, we'll be there for that too.
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Hope you guys, if you're in the area, you want to come out and
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check that out. So details for that are in the
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description and show notes. So now that we've got all of
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that find stuff out of the way I wanted to.
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Talk about Thor and sift today because I don't know.
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I got to thinkin about Us as people now and how you know, we
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share existence with so many people in so many different
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ways, you know, whether it's friends, Partners, spouses,
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roommates. I mean, just all sorts of things
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and, you know, we share existence with people and I
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wanted to focus specifically on the relationship or the, or the
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dynamic of couples, you know, gender and all that aside.
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Like, I'm not saying it's Your man wife, husband wife,
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whatever. It's whoever and however, people
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want to classify or identify, I should say themselves as is, is
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perfectly fine. But I'm talking specifically
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about, like the relationship between, you know, two people
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who love each other. And I wanted to look at the, the
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ways that that Thor and Sif are are described at least from what
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we know in the Lord. And stuff and that's therein
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lies the challenge. Because with Thor, as I
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mentioned early in the introduction, you know, we've
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got a lot of stories, a lot of information that is documented
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about floors mannerisms his characteristics.
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What he's known for and virtually nothing of the same or
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similar way that we have of his wife of Sif and, I know I got to
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thinking you know, the the the way that that married couples
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way that couples coexist and cohabitate and how it can be
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beneficial or how to make it beneficial when, you know, you
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meet somebody for the first time and you get to know them and
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they get to know you. And next thing, you know,
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there's this contract that's that's established as it were a
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social contract or of spending the rest of your life, you know,
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together. With that person and how to
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different people. You know, that can be opposites
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of one, another can still find a peaceful and amicable and even
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beneficial lifestyle. And I know a lot of us out here,
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you know, myself included have are either, you know, in
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committed relationships or have been in relationships in the
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past that you might consider. You know, long-term marriages
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domestic Partnerships. What have you that you know, you
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you enter into them thinking that it's the long-term, you
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know? I've made mistakes in my past
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thinking of the of the same thing.
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And you know, I've noticed that you know, Florence if you know
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like they we know a lot about Thor, we know his
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characteristics, we know very little about Sif, but we can
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probably I think a lot of us maybe would come to some sort of
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agreement that You know what, what is not preserved about
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anything to do with? See if you know the, the most
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that we know from the lore is she is Thor's wife and that her
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hair is made of gold or his golden.
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There's, there's references throughout some of the
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throughout some of the Poems that suggests, her hair is
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golden right? Or that it's made of Gold's.
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Matter of fact, the the best-known or the really the one
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of the only known stories that we have about Sif is when Loki,
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shaves, her hair off. And in, you know, this enrages
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for to the point that, you know, Thor demands that Loki makes
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this right that he that he does something to get her hair back,
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you know, because this is what she is known for.
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This is her Her call it her. Characteristic, you know, it's
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her aesthetic and now that it's gone.
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It's, you know, this is a problem and what's really
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interesting if you think about it is that you know, up to the
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point in the story up to the up to the point of Sif losing her
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hair, thanks to Loki's you know, mischievous ways or whatever,
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you know or what have you up until that point, you know, Thor
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didn't have his hammer, Odin didn't have his spear or his
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ring, but I'll paneer or going the air of authority and have me
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only ER, frere didn't have his boar or his ship, you know, the
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golden bristle Godin, bursty or skis blood near the the ship
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that is All that is it capable of being folded and fitting into
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his pocket. You know, none of these magical
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items are we're procured up until sif's hair was was stolen
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from her, because when when Thor was was mad about this and
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demanded that Loki make this right, his solution was, he
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would go to the dwarves and the dwarves would make a new set of
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hair made of actual. Gogol in that, you know, that it
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would never, it would always be gold and or something like that.
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And then, in addition to sift new golden hair that that was
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crafted and made by the dwarves, there was gonna near Odin's
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spear. There was drought near his ring.
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There was the the things that I mentioned Thor's, hammer
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mjolnir, right? So what's interesting to say if
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it is, or what's interesting thing is that if it hadn't been
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for Sif, You know, this very symbol that that I wear around
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my neck, you know towards Hammer, the symbol that so many
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Norse pagans where as a representation of our faith
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wouldn't have come into existence.
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Wouldn't be in existence, had it not been for this mishap or the
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or this thing that happened and if Sif wasn't involved, You
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know? So we almost do it to Sif to
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have these things because it had it not been for what happened to
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her. They wouldn't they wouldn't be
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here or they wouldn't be in existence.
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And that that that's what kind of got me thinking about wanting
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to talk about this is, you know, because Thor is this Brash
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Brave, strong courageous, you know, fiery figure who is who
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is? You know, takes no, you know,
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it's ACT first. Ask questions later when it
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comes to Thor. He doesn't really have the he's
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not known for the Wit you know or thinking things through its
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smash crushed destroy and and and you know, it's better to
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feel like Thor would be one of those folks who, you know, it's
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better to ask forgiveness and to ask for permission.
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You know. It's better to get forgiveness
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than to ask for permission. It's better to do something now
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and then say up my bad later on, then to Try to weigh it out and
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figure it out. And ask is this, okay?
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So, it's action-driven, you know, and we see this many times
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throughout the lore and again, widths, if we don't see much of
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anything, we know about this story, we hear that possibly
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she's a bit unfaithful to Thor and that's, that's really, you
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know, we can't really confirm anything like that.
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At least from the stories, but it's like it's implied, you
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know, Loki's throwing insults all around in a gears Hall and
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in the poem lokasenna and And makes a passing comment about
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Sif and then in Harbor to the oath where harbard and Thor are
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exchanging insults, one of the of Harvard's insults to Thor is,
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you know, that he doesn't think that he can keep track of his of
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his wife because she's probably humping somebody else or
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whatever his they says. Right.
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It's all insults that are being cast around and it's pretty
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reckless, you know? So we don't, we can't really,
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you know, use that as Anger say yes.
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She's probably screwing around on Thor while he's out
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protecting midgard and slaying Giants or Yorkton and doing
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whatever the other things that Thor does.
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So I wouldn't really think that a matter of fact I think that
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it's the complete office opposite and I think that the
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opposite of Thor is calm compassion.
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Love nurturing pause, right? Thinking things through being
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this like the calm Amongst this storm that Thor is he is he is
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this fiery what you know, just brute energy, brute strength,
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and full of vigor and too much of that is you know, too
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chaotic, it's too destructive. It's there needs to be that
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balance and that's why I was thinking about like when it
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comes to us and as in modern times or just us as people in
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general, right? When we look to become
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companions with someone on a long-term basis and we Of this
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this bond with these people you know from from my past
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experiences that the bond that has lasted the longest and that
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has been the best. For me has been the bond with
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someone who is not as same as me.
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That does not contain the same degree of or the same like
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characteristics. You know, they are Complementary
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opposites to me, you know? Or they are she is my wife Now.
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Vanessa, she is my complimentary opposite and that's how I feel
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with Florence. If it's an example to look
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towards as it were you know I mean these are our God's, these
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are sacred. Figures.
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These are our the Divine that we choose to worship and venerate
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in our, in our, in our practices, in our faith, right?
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And to look to them. As examples at times I feel is
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is the way that our ancient ancestors may have looked at
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them as well. You know, they they look to them
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as something greater and better and bigger than they are as far
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as Humanity, right? They are they are greater than
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us. I firmly believe it is.
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It is my personal practice that the gods are greater than us.
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They aren't we are not peers. We are not equal to them the
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lure. The mythology.
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Right contains accounts of times when the gods display, very
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human characteristics, human-like characteristics.
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And they do things in the go through things that are
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relatable to us. And that's again, I feel like
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part of the religiosity of it all is when these, when these
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stories started to get documented down.
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Which as we all know happened during a time when Christianity
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was spreading. So the bias there, that that is,
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is based present. We got to keep that into
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consideration but I'm just saying, right?
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Like we I'm not the only one, I know.
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I'm not the only one that when times are rough or when you feel
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like you need strength, you might find yourself appealing or
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wanting to appeal to Thor and offer to thaw.
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Lauren and gift tooth or sacrifice to Thor for the
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strength, for The Bravery, for the courage, for the tenacity,
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for that, that just, you know, brute Unapologetic.
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Force of nature to get through things.
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But in at the same time think of what the the the the opposite of
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that would be and what the complementary opposite of that
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would be, you can't just be all gung-ho all the time.
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You need that kang-hee need that.
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You know I can almost imagine any again pure UPG.
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Right. But you know you get to thinking
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when you read these stories and yeah kind of come up with stuff
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on you. Your own to fill in the blanks
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like you know you imagine right? Sifts they're just mind their
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own business, probably is asleep, you know.
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And here comes Loki with a, whether it with scissors, or a
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knife or whatever, I Cuts, all her hair off, she wakes up like
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freaks out probably like, oh my God.
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So right like it's my hair is gone, this is crazy.
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And in Thor loses, his loses his shit because that's my wife, you
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bastard? Right.
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And he comes to her defense and to defend her honor and I can
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almost picture right at that. That moment that, you know, safe
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was like Thor baby. The take it down a notch, right?
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Try to try to settle that storm a little bit.
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Let him do his thing. Let him be what he needs to be
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in that moment, but but be that's that, that favorable
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balance out of it all. And I have I have experienced
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that myself in my own life. You know, not to get very
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specific on anything, but I'll just give you guys like an
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example of things that have been happening recently for me, where
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I have been very Re much Thor. Like, I have been very direct
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very bold, very Brash, very Unapologetic in the way that I
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approach things or have approach things.
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And my complimentary opposite you know my wife she has been
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the one to settle that storm. She's been the one we like look
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you need to not be that way. Stop being you for a minute,
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stop being the way you are dial it back in and and she's been
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the one that kind of kind of give me that. much-needed
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counsel that that calmness, you know that that Let's let's think
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about things here for a minute, you know, this isn't the time to
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be Thor. Like this is not the time to be
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Brash. This is the time to be tactical.
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This is the time to be thoughtful.
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This is the time to be wise and have your wits about you, you
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know, and when we find ourselves in a position where the storm is
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Raging And that all we want to do is just ride through that
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storm and let the storm carry us through it and just be Reckless.
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There's no telling what what damage can can be left in your
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wake, you know? And so I feel like when it's
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necessary, the yes, you know, there's there's there's all of
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that necessary necessity to take action without really taking a
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consideration of the, of the consequence, you know, it's the
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risk is You know, the risk is worth taking and in those
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conditions, but at times, we need that complementary opposite
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of ourselves. And in this could go for a lot
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of things, you know, maybe it is roles were reversed, right?
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Maybe you're the type of person or maybe person is more passive
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and doesn't have that that necessary raid that necessary
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fire. And then the complementary
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opposite of that person is to be the Catalyst to Spark, what
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needs to be done, or to provide that, that attitude, that
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behavior those mannerisms was characteristics when it's
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needed, you know, we can't be all things all the time
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individuals, right? I mean, and in, I'm talking
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right now, of course, about, you know, situations or
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relationships that, that mirror what we're seeing in the
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mythology, you know, a man and his wife were or A married
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couple but I think the the spirit of the message is that it
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doesn't, it's not restricted to just that, right?
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I think I've had enough experiences myself that I think
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close friends can be complementary opposites for one
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another you know you have I have still have, you know, a friend
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who is very much like me and when the two of us get together
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when the two of us start talking it's almost like you know watch
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out because cuz you've got these you know we're both Scorpios
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were both, double Scorpios are now, we've got very similar
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characteristics that when we talk to one another we relate to
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one another Incredibly well because the same things that you
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know similar things irritate the both of us in the same way and
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oddly enough. We've had very similar
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experiences throughout our lives at different points in time but
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similar enough that we can strongly relate and and you get
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the two of us on a set on a thing then it's it's literally
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you know, the Hammers is just So Wigan and there's no stopping
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it. You know, so you gotta and then
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I have other friends that have that have been very much this
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this Cooling and this grounding sort of presence for me, you
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know, that that have been able to in a similar way.
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But not only the exact same way as what my wife does for me is
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to pull me back from that moment of rage or that moment of
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Reckless, abandon that you month, my find myself in and be
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that. voice of reason, you know, that, that sort of that
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friendly, reminder of, you know, this isn't this isn't the isn't
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the Thunderdome here, you know, it's What's that other one?
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Right? Two men enter one man leaves and
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it isn't. It's not like that.
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This is This is real life and real life.
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Sometimes requires reasoning logic, logical thinking
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level-headedness, you know. And that's what I feel with what
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little we know about Sif from the mythology, or from, for many
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sources. Again, it's almost like she's
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been written off or written out of the stories.
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We've got, you know, not more than just a few references
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mostly from from snore ease. It's tough, right?
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I think she's mentioned, of course again, lokasenna.
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So the poetic Edda A passing mention of her in in Hartsdale
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will go. So again, another poem from the
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poetic Edda skulls group of all I believe she's referred to in
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there or given a mention to in there.
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So but again, we don't we don't see any like Information.
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Historically speaking, thats, if was a major or minor deity who
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was worshipped by, you know, Scandinavians or Germanic people
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in general least, not yet, we haven't found that yet.
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There's no, there's no such Information that we have
29:18
available to us to know that, but it makes you wonder, you
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know, makes you wonder if if those people who we know, you
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know, Thor being the Everyman, God, the common man's God, you
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know, the god of the people sort of thing.
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You know, the one who is the protector of midgard, and who
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has places named after him that has archaeological finds of
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statues, of God, poles of Idols of things.
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That were created to commemorate him and tend to have a place of
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worship for him. We know that Thor was venerated,
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so it's almost like you can't help but ignore the fact that,
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well, if his if he was venerated and worship, then there's
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certainly, wouldn't surprise me to think that there were certain
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maybe Cults of Thor or certain Regional practices that
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included. His wife.
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And I've heard of some people who have a focus on Sif in their
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personal practices and their individual cultic or personal
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practices that they regard Sif, as a goddess of the Hearth, or
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are a goddess, who is sort of responsible for the protection
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of the Hearth and to keep the Hearth and the home safe.
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Just as far as a protector of the wide world and the protector
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of midgard while he's out protecting outside Sif is his
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complementary opposite that protects inside in the protects,
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the Hearth and the home. And so I've heard of some people
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that, you know, make offerings to Sif when Peace in the home is
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needed or peace and prosperity, and love, and care.
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And protection of the home is being is looking to be invoked,
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right? So kind of some neat things to
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think about, you know, I've never as much of a Thor's men as
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I've been in most of my Heathen ways or my Pagan practices.
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I've no that's not right wrong or indifferent?
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I just I've never put too much. Thought up until recently about
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the significance or the importance or the place of Sif
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in Thor's, you know, in venerating Thor, and worshipping
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Thor doing anything with door. It's always kind of like sift
31:52
gets forgotten Sif gets disregarded and in many of the
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ways because I hear he's out doing his whole thing and then
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we'll what about what about the golden-haired wife of Thor?
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Or who, you know, had it not been for her Thor, wouldn't have
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the hammer that he uses to protect Mankind and and I've
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been Force if, you know, the all father, wouldn't have his spear
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that never misses. Its Mark wouldn't have the ring
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that I hope nearest frere wouldn't have Golden Buddha stay
32:21
or gov Scott. It blew their the ship
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skidbladnir. that one the ship, you know that he sells or we'll
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be sailing into When he, when he, when he faces certain and
32:38
sales through Ragnarok and it's, you know, none of those things
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would exist, had it not been for syph. you know, so I it's funny
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that we talk about stuff like this, you know, on a thorsday on
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a on a Thursday and the subject matter is store and I personally
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am a bit more inclined to not forget about stiff, you know,
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for whatever reason, her name was minimal and and her mentions
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are very, very sparse throughout the resources that we have
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available to us now, for whatever reason that is maybe
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now is a time to bring back. What little there is and try to.
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Again, you know, reconstructing things is, it's such a, such an
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interesting position to find oneself.
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And, you know, especially when you can't back things up by
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historical evidence and no, and have a baseline of where to
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start. So you're really Essentially,
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starting from scratch, you know, you're taking like little hints
33:48
or little Clues, little breadcrumbs that you followed
33:52
here there and then and then kind of just, you know, fishing
33:55
around in the dark here, you know, trying to make sense of
33:57
something. And is it worth making sense
33:59
for? I don't know, maybe not for
34:00
everybody. But again, this is what we
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ramble on about. This is what we find ourselves
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talking about. And, and hopefully, You know,
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sparking some some healthy discussion and healthy
34:14
conversation about I personally would love to know more about
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the role of Sif. I've told a rendition of rimsky
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du, which is the story of when Thor loses, his hammer, and he
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has to dress up as Freya to the sky to be disguised as Freya,
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right? To just to win his hammer back.
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And knowing this whole thing about, you know, or thinking
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about this whole thing of Sif having her hair cut off by Loki.
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And then that being the thing that gets his hammer created.
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I can I can like, can you imagine like let's just buy put
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ourselves in the frame of mind for a minute of Lawrence.
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If you know, Thor is he just got back from battling yotan, you
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know, and then Midgard. It was, it was a rough.
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It was like it was on a Friday, you know, he's like, oh my gods,
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you know, my me, right? He's all wore out from the from
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the escapades and, you know, safe is in there and she pours
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him, a fresh Tankard of Ale, you know, because that's what we
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like to associate or with is revelry and drinking a nail and
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he's or meat or whatever like he's, let's say, he's got both
35:32
because serfs that, she's that great wife.
35:34
She knows, hey, he doesn't want some mail, he wants to meet, so
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let's get them both. You know, and her hair is all
35:41
beautiful and golden because at this point he's, you know, her
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hair has been replaced by the by the gift that Loki.
35:52
You know, offered or or provided but that's still in the back of
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her mind, right? She's like that son of a bitch.
35:58
Anyway you know Thor gets back from his from his fighting of
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the of the Oten and he's a he drinks all of his ale and drinks
36:06
all the meat and he's feeling really good and has himself a
36:10
really good night and he goes to bed and Sif goes to bed with him
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and he wakes up the next day and where's mjolnir.
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It's gone. Oh right.
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And you can imagine like sifting, Oh my God.
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Yo dude, look what I had to lose for you to even get that thing
36:29
and now you get drunk and pass out and you can't even remember
36:32
what you put your hammer. But I can you like the
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frustration of a wife towards her husband that does dumb
36:41
stuff. Right.
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I've been in that position more times than I can count and it's
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like I can I can see that being an exchange that would happen if
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he's over here. Like you know my head feels
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like, you know I've I feel like I've been hit in the head with a
36:55
hammer and then sift over there, like well it ain't mjolnir.
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Because where is that? Who knows it.
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Not you yeah, you know all this stuff then he go.
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It's fun to get into that. That mentality or getting to
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that like train of thought and putting things in like a very
37:08
relatable scenario, right? That stuff's over here.
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Just going man, I can't believe that I had my head.
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Shaved and new hair made of gold given to me, just for you to
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lose the hammer that you got because of all that at the
37:26
beginning. Like I went through all that
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just for this, you know, and I'm sure, you know, the wars raging
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mad, like he's pissed. He's turning House upside down
37:35
trying to find the thing and sif's over here.
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Like we're gonna find it. We're going to figure this out.
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I'm not happy about it either but you need to chill out, bro.
37:44
Like you need you need a, you need a calm, your tits.
37:50
I don't know. That's just, that's way.
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I think of it and and, you know, maybe you think it, think it or
37:56
think of it a little bit differently than I do.
37:57
But that's, that's where I went with it.
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And that's where I've found myself thinking, is that she is
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the complementary opposite. With or she is everything strong
38:06
that is needed in a level-headed rationally, thinking logically
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approaching sort of way. You know she's not like passive
38:19
in the sense of being weak. She is just what is needed at
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the home with his needed at the hearth level.
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What is needed within is we got to keep this together, we got
38:29
it, we can't lose our cool at this level.
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We got to keep it together man. You know, and that's what,
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that's what my complimentary opposite has been for all for
38:40
our marriage. You know, I'm approaching now
38:43
here in a few in a few short weeks, you know, I'm going to be
38:46
approaching. What is it six years of marriage
38:52
with my wife? You know, we've been together
38:54
for eight. and, You know, thinking aback and recalling
39:03
everything that we've gone through and, and sometimes, you
39:07
know, sometimes the roles get reversed, you know, sometimes
39:11
she's no more Thor, like one and I gotta be the one that is not
39:15
Thor. Like, because again, you get
39:16
those two Powerhouse energies rolling and it's an Unstoppable
39:22
Force, you know? And so sometimes those roles
39:26
need to be reversed and that's what I think.
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That's what a marriage is, that's what any domestic
39:31
partnership is what that's what any relationship is that you
39:35
when you coexist with someone to that degree and in that in in
39:39
that manner, you know you got to be flexible.
39:44
And yes, you're going to be the certain one in the in in in the
39:50
relationship where you're going to maintain door or carry a
39:52
certain Responsibilities and positions in the relationship
39:56
and so is the other person. But then sometimes sometimes,
40:00
you know, things get flipped around and sometimes you gotta
40:03
got to be flexible. but I'm all I wanted to mention it because,
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you know, complementary opposites I think are the key.
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You get, you get someone that's just too much like, you or too
40:20
much like, again, not saying that's not the same for
40:23
everybody. I'm not saying that, you know,
40:25
if you are happy with someone and they're exactly like you, or
40:28
you guys like the same things or you're always talking about the
40:31
same stuff, you have the same interest, whatever that it's
40:34
that, it's destined for failure, not saying that at all.
40:36
I'm just saying that just because you're different,
40:40
doesn't mean that it's Like your clashing all the time because
40:46
you know how like when you flip magnets in the Polar Opposites
40:49
come together there's no there's no or the there too much the
40:54
like you got the two positives or two negatives right that it's
40:57
that bouncing they're too similar.
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You need that opposite. You need that positive.
41:01
That - you need that. You need that Yang you know my
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my history and from my experience you know when people
41:10
are too much alike and you got, Too much in common.
41:18
Doesn't doesn't play out. Well, that it make me cool for a
41:21
little while and it may feel like it's alright.
41:23
But then eventually it just it crumbles.
41:27
It's weird how that works. So but yeah, there it is.
41:33
There's there's this week's Discussion.
41:37
There's this week's ramblings and I mean I'm I'm curious to
41:40
know what it is about this topic that that that strikes home for,
41:44
you know do you think that it's the more beneficial to have
41:47
those opposites that attracted the complimentary opposite
41:51
scenario? Or do you think that it's
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doesn't really matter that it's, you know, case-by-case?
41:55
I'd love to hear what your thoughts are.
41:58
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