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Spirituality vs. Tradition
One common theme we have seen with people wanting to make things up in their practice is the idea that their personal experience trumps ancestral faith. How it has “worked” for them means they are successful and therefore their way is the correct way.
What they are describing is the idea that their spirituality comes before the tradition. In actuality, it is the other way around. After all, if personal experience with the Gods came before ancestral teachings, and the former were to dictate the latter, is there anything at all that is not arbitrary and capricious? Would the religion not then be subject to the whims and fancies of whoever claimed some “personal experience?”
The tradition guides the spirituality, always. This means learning the ancestral ways, understanding the sources, and developing practice from it. It is our fundamental purpose in rebuilding this religion that it is actually a religion, and not just the desires of modern practitioners made into whatever they want. The argument that their faith is built on feelings is probably the worst theological argument ever made.
Religion must be built on truth, and our truth lie in the Primal Endowment, which was given to us through Heimdallr’s Æfinrùnar, the most ancient teachings to our earliest ancestors. It is our holy duty to restore that endowment, for it is the theological basis for everything we do.
Spirituality is your way of experiencing the tradition, it is using the lore and the rites to connect to the Gods and feel their presence in your life. The feeling comes in connecting to your ancestors and the orthopraxy left behind. It is our legacy, and in so doing we develop that divine relationship.
We do not believe that this represents a chain of symbols that merely reflect an idea of fertility, but rather specifically denotes a sacred substance that our ancestors saw as being a part of the very world they lived in.
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I would like to add to this point. Many times people believe that The Norroena Society is seeking to fulfil only an academic standard. While scholarly research is the basis of our work, the end result should always be to build a relationship with the gods. The tradition is what we are seeking to restore. With the tradition must come proper research. It cannot be rejected or excused away. But spirituality is how we develop our own connection to the divine.
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A theory is only as good as the evidence which supports it.
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Join us for our Year's End Stream where we will go over this past year, have interesting discussions and so much more as we look toward the Solstice!
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In the first episode of The Northern Hearth, Mike and McKenna discuss life in Alaska, homesteading, and subsistence from the land in a Heathen context and worldview.
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🌲 The Beauty of Revival 🌲
This video is a breathtaking testament to the power of dedication, creativity, and reverence for our roots. Every detail, from the aesthetic choices to the passionate delivery of the folk song, reflects an energy that goes far beyond mere performance. It is a celebration of our ancestral spirit—a tribute to the traditions and beliefs that once guided our forebears in harmony with the natural world.
The effort poured into this piece—its costumes, setting, and music—shows a love for our shared heritage. The song itself carries a message of resilience and pride, standing as a beacon for those who feel the call of their folk faiths. It’s a beautiful reminder that our revival cannot be stopped.
To all who were involved in creating this, you have our deepest respect. Your work inspires others to embrace their cultural identities, to reconnect with their roots, and to honor the old ways in a world that often forgets them.
Let this serve as a rallying cry to European folk faith communities worldwide. Take up the mantel! Create art, music, and traditions that reflect the beauty and strength of our faiths. Every act of revival, no matter how small, brings us closer to the rebirth of our cultural and spiritual heritage.
Together, we are part of something greater—a movement that honors the past while building a future rooted in tradition.
Hail the gods, hail the ancestors, and hail the revival! 🌿⚔️
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ODIN'S WIFE:
The First Definitive Study of Odin's Wife, Frigg.
For more than a millennium, the people of Northern Europe venerated an Earth goddess, which evidence attests is the oldest known Germanic deity. Called by a number of names, when the accounts are compared, common traits emerge. During Yule, she rides among her people in a wagon inspecting homes, rewarding the industrious and punishing the lazy. With her husband, she leads the fearsome Wild Hunt, riding through the winter skies, cleansing the air of evil. Most often identified as Odin's wife, the ancients called her "Mother Earth", "Queen of Heaven", and the "Mother of the Gods", roles firmly rooted in her Indo-European pedigree. Only now can the full scope of her reign be revealed.
Presenting an in-depth study of Mother Earth in Germanic mythology and folklore from prehistoric times to the present day, with an emphasis on the primary sources of our mythic knowledge.
Odin's Wife: Mother Earth in Germanic Mythology by William P. Reaves (2018). https://www.amazon.com/Odins-Wife-Mother-Germanic-Mythology/dp/0578430843/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2B86AAWFPFX6Y&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kwlvIcZP8xqXyVmXOuLrQ1ovQouKvH_WgWI-GOhLXhp-3IPZxQQV2rsDttYAWvwuO6uYXTqYnRWFrd9b0ANBB__DiMCl9IInttBohNWczjo_FPYZTuNyb0LWEF0yXiJyPLMwWHUOtSayjiayqQ9099sRQzBMslRPIWlyruqLybSxJOjeCtOXANLKCPujr4DStI34kB9hTzuj7blYZrNrzrPLrZ7VJzB-S1O45HxbrjI.GskjAk4tnishpyFOgeATHV_XxjT-5TDk_pNqKnvo7e8&dib_tag=se&keywords=odin%27s+wife&qid=1732763985&sprefix=odin%27s+wife%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1
We have stated here on this channel that our sacred legends were, before put to parchment, songs. And these songs would be preformed in gatherings, rituals and even in halls for feasting. The rhyme and rhythm to help in memorization, and to protect these legends from tampering or revision.
These moiraiensemble1548">ladies made a song with passages from the Germanic Voluspa. Part of revival is to hear how your forefathers and foremothers did. Tapping into your blood memory where reason alone cannot reach. A deep primal feeling and profound spirituality flows within your veins.
Gods love you
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Compare these coins. The first from 9th c. Denmark depicts a stag surrounded by three holy signs; a mask (Wodin?), a valknut and a coiled snake.
The second, from 9th c. Ribe, has the mask but the valknut is replaced by another snake. the stag's antlers look like an Ing rune.
The third, also from Ribe, has the snake and the valknut but the mask is replaced by a ring or torque.
The fourth is from Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, and introduces the Christian cross.
The stag evokes Scythian imagery, while the snake evokes the underworld. The meaning of the Woden mask and Valknut are unclear.
Ponder these symbols of power, friends.
The fact that the same symbols are used in Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts shows there was a shared religion. We also can tell from the following account that stags and snakes were depicted in Anglo-Saxon pagan temples.
"Let us raise a hymn, especially because He who thrust into Tartarus of terrible torture the ghastly three-tongued serpent who vomits torrents of rank and virulent poisons through the ages deigned in like measure to send to earth the offspring begotten of holy parturition... and because where once the crude pillars of the same foul snake and the stag were worshipped with coarse stupidity in profane shrines, in their place dwelling for students, not to mention holy houses of prayer, are constructed skilfully by the talents of the architect."
— Aldhelm's letter to Heahfrith, 680s
Many new agers of the brosatru crowd have a hard time accepting that Germanic heathens did in fact kneel before their gods. This is attested many times from histories, to the Eddas, and sagas. All polytheistic religions had forms of prostration, all people found it acceptable to do so before their gods.
This Grevensvaenge figurine is dated from 800-500 bce. Depicting a kneeling figure. The second image of a of a Roman bronze statue of a Germanic man with a Suebian knot, also kneeling.
"Another observance shows their reverence for this grove. No one may enter it unless he is bound with a cord, by which he acknowledges his own inferiority and the power of the deity. Should he chance to fall, he may not raise himself or get up again, but must roll out over the ground. The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient. The Semnones gain prestige from their prosperity."
-Tacitus' Germania
"The moment their boats reach this dock every one of them disembarks, carrying bread, meat, onions, milk and alcohol (nabīdh), and goes to a tall piece of wood set up <in the ground>. This piece of wood has a face like the face of a man and is surrounded bv small figurines behind which are long [10] pieces of wood set up in the ground. <When> he reaches the large figure, he prostrates himself before it and says, "Lord, I have come from a distant land, bringing so many slave-girls <priced at> such and such per head and so many sables <priced at> such and such per pelt." He continues until he has mentioned all of the merchandise he has brought with him, then says, "And I have brought this offering," leaving what he has brought with him in front of the piece of wood, saying, "I wish you to provide me with a merchant who has many dīnārs and dirhams and who will buy from me whatever I want <to sell> without haggling over the price I fix." Then he departs. If he has difficulty in selling <his goods> and he has to remain too many days, he returns with a second and third offering. If his wishes prove to be impossible he brings an offering to every single one of those figurines and seeks its intercession, saying, "These are the wives, daughters and sons of our Lord." He goes up to each figurine in turn and questions it, begging its [11] intercession and grovelling before it. Sometimes business is good and he makes a quick sell, at which point he will say, "My Lord has satisfied my request, so I am required to recompense him." He procures a number of sheep or cows and slaughters them, donating a portion of the meat to charity and taking the rest and casting it before the large piece of wood and the small ones around it. He ties the heads of the cows or the sheep to that piece of wood set up in the ground. At night, the dogs come and eat it all, but the man who has done all this will say, "My Lord is pleased with me and has eaten my offering."
-The Rusila of Ibn Fadlan
"There was one thing in him which the King disliked, and one only: he would never bow down to heathen Gods, and he set his mind firmly against all sacrifice."
-Olaf Tryggvasson's Saga ch. 57
"And when he got to the assembly, then some of the farmers had arrived. Then they saw a great multitude of farmers coming to the assembly and carrying between them a huge image of a person, adorned with gold and silver. And when the farmers that were at the assembly saw that, then they all leapt up and bowed down to this monstrosity. After that it was placed in the middle of the assembly field." -Olafs Saga Hins Helga ch. 113
" The same thing is said about the decoration of Þorgerður Hölgabrúður: They then went to the temple and the earl all fell to the ground in front of her statue. There he lay for a long time. wanted to get hold of her, but it seemed to Sigmund that she had bent the spear, and the earl took a great deal of silver." -Færeyingasaga ch. 108
The Aurr and Blót
We have made quite an interesting discovery revolving around what could be a sacred ceremonial practice. In looking at our lore there seems to be a substance that our ancestors held to be extremely sacred, so much that many entities in the lore are named after it. This is the Aurr, which means “clay,” “mud,” “gravel,” or “loam.” It is a primordial substance that has its origin in our creation myth, and develops from the rime (hrimr) that poured into Ginnungagap. The interesting thing is that the names themselves seem to play out the story, as I will demonstrate.
After the rime creates the first world, Audhumla licks the primal ice of creation, which is so saturated with fertile power a God grew out of the ice just by her licking. This rime then fills her with this creative force and she thus becomes the AURochs (Aurr-Ox). After this, Ymir drinks from her milk and he becomes so filled with the creative force that he sweats beings from his body. The three brothers Odin, Hoenir, and Lodur then kill Ymir and from his flesh make the soil of the land. This was the first soil and was saturated with Audhumla’s milk, thus making it fertile. Ymir is then called AURgelmir (Aurr-roarer). The land in the Underworld first created and fertilized using his flesh is called AURvangr or AURvangaland (Fields of the Aurr, or Land of the Fields of Aurr).
Hoenir, as a God of fertility who helps in the delivery of children through the Manna Mjotudr (Yggdrasil’s Fruits), rules over this land and is thus called AURkonung (Aurr-King).
Then, we see the Norns pour a substance upon Yggdrasil which is called Hvita Aurr or “White Aurr.” We are told in the Prose Edda that “these Norns who dwell by the Well of Urdr take water of the well every day, and with it that clay (Aurr) which lies about the well, and sprinkle it over the Ash, to the end that its limbs shall not wither nor rot; for that water is so holy that all things which come there into the well become as white as the film which lies within the egg-shell.” (Gylfaginning 16) This is then related to Völuspá 19, which states: “An ash I know, | Yggdrasil its name,
With white Aurr (Hvíta Aurr) | is the great tree wet; Thence come the dews | that fall in the dales,
Green by Urth's well | does it ever grow.“ This tells us that the substance, especially when mixed with Urd’s mead, is incredibly sacred and important. Once the tree becomes doused with the liquid, it’s change of color makes it radiant, and by the above example, possibly explaining it as invisible. Because of this it is called AURglasir (Aurr-Resplendent). In Volundarkvida Sinmara is called Eir Aurglasir, the Eir (Healer) of the tree. This either makes her identical to Urd or gives her a duty that is the same.
Now, if this substance of Aurr originated as Audhumla’s milk and the Hrimr within it, it justifies milk
as a sacred element within the rite. We know that there are Indo-European elements that are shared here, as well as the notion of the sacred cow.
One of the more difficult names to
understand in this is that of AURboda, whose name means “Aurr-offerer.” She is identical to Gullveig, but this name may refer to her when she lived among the Goddesses and brought fertility, as we see her do in Volsungasaga ch. 2. Here she is called “The Daughter of Hrimnir,” whom we know is Gullveig-Heid-Aurboda. What we see here is that the chaotic element of the rime (hrimr) stays alive through her and her father (Hrimnir). When the Gods burn her and Loki eats her heart it is called ursvöl or “primeval cold.” This element is what would allow her to regenerate and may be the same element the Gods use with Saehrimnir the regenerating boar whose name means “Sea-Rime.” Hvergelmir, the Underworld well also has the name Svalkaldur Sær, which means “Cool-Cold Sea.” The sval- being identical to the -svöl in ursvöl and the Sær being the same as in Sæhrimnir.
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A Yuletide warning for brainy young friends. Always direct your reading and learning towards the ultimate spiritual purpose. It is right for a young man so inclined to immerse himself in philosophy, theology and the world of ideas only if he ultimately manifests those ideas into a coherent way of being. The intellectually gifted can fall victim to a type of vanity that transforms them into wordcels incapable of living out the ideas they have studied. Theories become obstructions to the modes of being they present and the victims use them as masks to obscure their failure.
“All too often people forget that spirituality is essentially a way of life and that its measure does not consist of notions, theories, and ideas that have been stored in one’s head. Spirituality is actually what has been successfully actualized and translated into a sense of superiority which is experienced inside by the soul, and a noble demeanor, which is expressed in the body.” Evola
Hann setti þat í lögum at hefja jólahald þann tíma sem kristnir menn, ok skyldi þá hverr maðr eiga mælis öl, en gjalda fé ella, en halda heilagt meðan jólin ynnist. En áðr var jólahald hafit hökunótt, þat var miðsvetrar nótt, ok haldin þriggja nátta jól.
He (King Hakon) made it law that observance of Jól should begin at the same time as Christian people observed Christmas (December 25), and then everyone was to have a measure of ale, or else pay a fine, and keep holiday as long as the ale lasted. But previously observance of Jól began on midwinter night (end of January) and continued for three nights. –Hákonar Saga Góða ch. 13
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We are planning on jumping in here in about 15 minutes for a little for anyone who wants to listen in
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The artwork is Odin and his brothers creating Askr and Embla. And the Yggdrasil from the Överhogdal tapestry is on both sleeves.
In the introduction to Oliver Elton's translation of Saxo's Gesta Danorum, he has the follwing to say about the work of Viktor Rydberg:
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Exploring the Differences Between Cultural and Religious Heathens: A Call for Reflection
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Artwork - Frank Dicksee, A Viking Funeral
Once again we see the system unfold, and the system is the religion. We proposed the idea that the purpose of blót is to offer gifts to the Gods in return for their blessings or “Helps.” This is called both Hjalpr and Bjargr in the old tongue, both meaning “Help.”
When so many random things are telling you the same thing, then they aren’t random at all. They are part of a larger system, and we are now further in our understanding of the system.
The Gallehus Horns are long thought to have been sacrificial horns, and if what is said here is true, it delves once again into the notion of praying for Hjalpr to defeat Nauð. There simply is no other explanation. This IS the ancestral purpose, and is part of the grander system or religion.
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NEW EPISODE — The Bog — What is Orthodox Heathenry? w/ Mark Puryear
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Paganism is wrongly characterized as a lifestyle of personal freedom where the individual determines his own moral obligations. In reality, all paganisms were highly constrained moral systems that were highly rule-based, legalistic, and involuntary. Germanic heathenry no less. So what does actual orthodox heathenry look like? What sort of laws are we bound to? Dave speaks to Mark Puryear of the Norroena Society about our relationship to laws and right action.
Stags and serpents together just as in Anglo-Saxon temple
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MIMIR'S GROVE. LIF AND LEIFTHRASER.
"The grove is called after its ruler and guardian, Mimer's or Treasure-Mimer's grove (Mimis holt-Younger Edda, Upsala Codex; Gylfag., 58; Haddmimis holt-Vafthrudnism, 45; Gylfag., 58).
Gylfaginning describes the destruction of the world and its regeneration, and then relates how the earth, rising out of the sea, is furnished with human inhabitants. "During the conflagration ( i Siirtorloga) two persons are concealed in Treasure-Mimer's grove. Their names are Lif (Lif) and Leifthraser (Leifthrasir), and they feed on the morning dews. From them come so great an offspring that all the world is peopled."
Teutonic Mythology - translated by Rasmus B Anderson, written by Viktor Rydberg.
Artwork- Louis Moe 1857-1945
Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning.
Líf and Lífþrasir plant a tree after Ragnarök with a child.
In Norse mythology, Líf and Lífþrasir are the only two humans who survive Ragnarök, the end of the world. Their names mean "Life" and "Lover of Life," symbolizing hope and renewal. They hide in Mimirs sacred grove, where they survive by drinking morning dew. After Ragnarök, they emerge to repopulate the earth, starting a new cycle of life.