The Cult of Thor : Introduction
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2021
- A brief introduction to the cult of Thor. Speaking about a couple of important points and historical facts related to myths, cultic behaviour, temples, iconography, material culture, etc. related to the Old Norse god Thor.
Bibliography, used to help me compose this work, by the end of this video.
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(8) Animism: The Trickster Spirit:
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(9) Mjollnir - The Hammer of the Gods:
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The Guardian article on de Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, and recent sediment analysis suggesting its creation during Anglo-Saxon times:
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#thor #oldnorse #mythology
hour and a half video
INTRODUCTION
Arith never change mate.
Gotta love the longform content!
@@TimelessTransience more like feature length content.
Only an introduction
Around 5-minute mark "this introduction needs an introduction" 😂😂 Great stuff, I love you Härger!
I swear this whole channel is such a hidden gem, so much talent, so informative. Much love, mate!
Oh wow not only are you intelligent, funny… You can play the guitar! Seriously we need more of you in Australia!
In Sydney - July is winter so it’s freezing here at the moment, hope you have a good birthday X
I agree his knowledge is genuine and his motives pure. I feel smarter everytime I watch ArithHarger
It's a cool channel. Arith is very knowledgeable. He makes it fun. He may or may not see what others do not...which he does. He is well made and does a great job.
Jackson Crawford could learn A LOT from Arith. Trust.
Do not watch. Listen.
Sooooo much more to Thor than I ever imagined. Also liked your explanation of the difference between religion and mythology.
I thank you deeply for your deep understanding of Norse Divinity and human psychology
More importantly, I appreciate how you appreciate their interaction. Your endeavors give me hope for the enlightenment and redemption of humanity. ❤
Intro reminded me of a fun fact:
In the cartoon "Dexter's Laboratory", there's a recurring character named Val Halen.
He's a cross between Thor and guitarist Eddie Van Halen.
His wields a "mighty axe", which is both an axe and a guitar.
Val Halen was one of my favorite characters.
I was thinking about this too. Lol glad I'm not the only one
This channel has helped me a lot to understand the gods
Finally Mr. Thorstein is back! And also he shreds hell yeah!
He's full of surprises, that's why I don't let him appear that often because he might steal my show :(
@@ArithHärger I don't think he could, this would become a very different channel if he did.
@@ladykoiwolfe Magog of Morskar
@@dangerouswitch1066 well, that looks interesting
I can't even tell you how grateful all your viewers and subscribers are for your content, you are a blessing to anyone coming across your videos. The sheer amount of information you share is incredible, this video specifically has me hooked and I never want it to end. It has led me on several paths of googling and researching topics and points you've spoken about, it's really enlightening to listen to you. Thank you arith, you do so much for us, please know how grateful we are 💗
It occurred to me that your interpretation of "Loki's stealing then replacing of Sif's hair" could have other interpretations.... As you were telling it, I immediately came up with my own interpretation (based on other myths from other cultures along with farming practices employed since prehistoric times).
My (intuitive) interpretation: After the harvest, the plant bodies still remain on the land, but then the FARMERS purposely burn the remnants of the crops leaving the land scorched and barren, but in doing so, they assure a beautiful harvest for the next year.
If you simply leave the leftover plants to decompose, there sure could be benefits from the compost, but sometimes it also gives shelter to pests and diseases that wait out the winter to feast on next season's crop. So, burning it offers the best option (in many cases).
As you said later in the vid, Sif's golden hair is symbolic of a bountiful harvest.
Hey, I'm new to the channel and am loving it. Having an Icelandic mother, I am hungry to understand my own heritage better (than my own mother does)... 😃
Thank you so much for this and the following videos to be made on Thor. He is a diety I have had a great interest in beyond the surface level, but cannot find many resources with that information. Ironically I used to avoid veneration of Thor because of the cultural ties to Marvel, but I suppose these are the woes of an uniformed convert.
Thaks for the "Obrigado por hoje", salutes from Brazil Arith. You have great content buddy, keep it up.
Arith, have you considered uploading the audio of these videos to Spotify as a podcast? I love watching your content, and being able to listen while I'm at work would be amazing! Thank you for all you do.
Me too, Spotify would be great Addition.
At the least, I'd love an audio version. Anyway love your work Arith 😁
July 2 is my Birthday Thor Is Always Coming Down to Midgard on July I love the Thunder And Lightning The Best.🐺💪💪⚡🍻
This video has got to be one of your best videos, if not definitely top 5. So much information on Thor and confirmation on so many things concerning the affiliations of Thor for so many of us. I can’t wait for the next non-introductory video on Thor.
his cat sleeping on the botton left is so cute
Happy,happy birthday. Thank you ad always
The introduction of this video was brilliant. Its a perfect example of animism explained through Mythology. Thank you!
as a brazilian that end in portuguese was a really nice surprise! Ótimo trabalho Arith!
Helping me alot with my mythologically accurate homebrew dnd campaign
Thor is frequently compared to Indra and sometimes to Brihaspati. Indra is concidered the king of the gods And is depicted as the slayer of the giants/gnomes
Which could mean that they are both representations of an earlier Proto-Indo-European god.
That would make him a very old god indeed.
FANTASTIC, YOUR VIDEOS ALREADY HAVE THE OPTION OF SUBTITLES IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES, CONGRATULATIONS SO YOU WILL REACH MORE PEOPLE!
I have been binging a lot of your content recently, but I look forward to absorbing more of your knowledge and wisdom as I learn!
Loved the intro! As always awesome information on the Gods. Thank you Arith
That solo was fucking brutal
thank you, very fxcking much :D I'll tell Mr. Thorstein, he will be happy about it.
Thanks for taking your time to put out this educational content!!! Been loving it
Happy Birthday!
Not yet! Bad luck to wish happy birthday before the date! D: lol, yeah I'm a little bit superstitious :p but thank you very much! :D
Your astoundingly deep knowledge and understanding of a great many things make me greatly appreciative of you as a guide to humanity for the hope of our future so that we can do what is right, and not disappoint the gods who've desperately tried to keep us from destroying ourselves.
I never considered as a woman that I could get away with a Thor's hammer, but now you mention that women mostly wore them, I think I'm going to have to get me one of those there mjolnirs!
I love mine.
Why did you think you couldn't wear it as a woman? I always thought Thor was the god of all people.
Fell asleep with headphones on listening to a previous video, then this one came on and gave me a heart attack.
Very well done brother Arith! It left me hungry for more though.
So glad your channel exists. I'm an eclectic pagan on a left-and path that includes Norse influence among others (when you're of Scottish/Irish/French/German ancestry living on Turtle Island, you kinda have to do it that way bc so many of those pagan traditions are land-based/folk practices and thus I can't practice them here, plus I can't find anything about Scottish pagan practice at all here so... 🤷). It's so nice to get an objective view of religion. So hard to find 😅
Awesome information! Looking forward to the next one.
Such a fantastic analysis and scrutiny. I wonder if Heimdallr too is associated with a more ancient and profound Norse mythological platform because of his somehow vague and specific maternal lineage. I think there can be some interactions between him and Thor as rainbow and rain/thunder could be put together in the fertility category.
Yes, Heimdall is a particularly hard one to study in terms of the pagan associations related to this deity. It's hard because in Snorri's version of Ragnarök Heimdall actually plays the role of the Archangel Michael; on that one Snorri didn't even bothered and it's quite clear the Christian associations. However, and fortunately, there are other works of literature, kennings and Skaldic poetry. There's much to tell about Heimdall as being one of the ancestors of humanity, but perhaps most especially is his relation to the number 9 and his 9 mothers, which again gives us an indication of his connection to magic and creational-powers. Some people like to use Heimdall for their far-right political ideologies because Heimdall in the sources is described as being white, although colours in Old Norse myths in relation to deities is never in relation to ethnicity but rather easy colour-associations with the functions and attributes of deities. White is in reference to wool. Heimdall is related to wool as a much needed product to make clothing but also rich garments, and related to sheep, goats and especially the ram. I'll explore Heimdall some day, and also the rainbow bridge concept, which is closely associated with the rainbow-serpent the "shaman" rides into the Otherworld, attested in many Eurasian animistic mythologies.
@@ArithHärger Thanks for the comprehensive reply dear Arith.
For me I revere Thor for his aid of destroying obstacles of the world,-personal Giant problems, health and physical exercise/training as well. Lol! He is interesting for sure. Thanks for the video man. Great content.
I humbly thank you for your beautiful clarification of Thor. I only desperately hope your accurate understandings will help humanity prepare for it's inevitable evolution. ❤
-the head bobbing at the end was perfect. well done man.
So if most people believed Thor was there god to go to in the after life than when and where did Hel come in as the common place after death ?
Your channel is getting better, I love it! Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!
I was so excited for this and this video definitely has met my expectations. Great video as always, and thanks for all you do 😊
Thank you so much for making these videos! I always learn a lot from them and they are very interesting. This was perfect timing for a video about Thor as it is storming here and it was nice to have the sound of the rain in the background while I watched the video. Great job as always, Arith!
I wish I could have had access to information like this in the mid 60's. I was limited to articles in National Geographic, & occasional school book articles. I wanted to find my viking heritage (Norwegian, Dalehefte). My uncle Olaf I only met twice, & my grandfather Gottfred I only spoke to maybe 10 times. Family history was not a subject of conversation in the family.
If Thor is the god of blacksmiths, it makes perfect sense he can control Loki/fire
Very interesting and informative as usual Arith, and tell Mr. Thorstein that was a tasty riff.
pretty amazing for an introduction, i would highly recommend this to anyone with an interest in thor or norse mythology. i cam away from this feeling as if i knew far more than before, especially about the history. oddly enough, i have been watching jackson crawford and he said that loki was not actually a god of fire, i don't know whether this is right or not
I understand why Jackson Crawford says that, and he isn't wrong if we only look at the etymological roots of Loki, which is what he has done. His argument is that people have made the common error of equating Loki and Logi, and as such the common misconception is that Loki is a god of fire because of the similarities in name with Logi. This argument isn't wrong; indeed, etymologically speaking, Loki (Danish: Loke) and Logi do not have the same etymological roots. However, that's not how mythologies and folklore works. It's not about the root of languages, but instead about purposely creating sound-similarities to help making easy associations and remembering content in oral tradition. And I repeat: "sound-similarities in oral tradition", nothing to do with linguistic roots. This is all over every world-mythology. Loki and Logi sound similar, because they are meant to sound similar, to create an easy association and remembering the cultural and traditional content in the myths. Jackson Crawford, in my opinion, is one of the very best we have nowadays on the field of Old Norse language, but his field isn't archaeology, history, neither mythologies nor folk traditions, and he knows that, and we know that. So we do have to be careful were and why we place some arguments because they might lead to other misconceptions. Loki wasn't a god, he was a trickster spirit, and he was indeed related to fire (among other things); not just and only, but also. To this day in Swedish and Danish folklore Loki is still very much related to fire, heat, summer and the hearth, as he was in the past. I've done a video explaining this and I have placed the bibliography at the end of that video too, entitled "Loki the Trickster Fire Spirit". If you have the time, please do watch it, thank you:
ruclips.net/video/0sLCiKm2rJQ/видео.html
@@ArithHärger that was an amazingly explanation arith, having watched the loki video i can say that this is just as good and just as long. interesting point raised there about loki being gender fluid, also about loki being a spirit rather than a god and also about being a binding character. some good points there about jackson crawford
Thank you for your videos dude , you are appreciated .
Peace and blessings my friend. Happy early birthday 🙌🏼
Wow, this was VERY informative. Thank you!
Happy Birthday!!! It is monsoon season here. Thunraz speaks nightly.
Happy birthday man, my birthday is this month also.
Magnificent introduction to Thor, Arith! Thank you!
You just inspired me to sing for two hours with that intro
Thanks!
Awesome vid.....Love your stuff kick on love it
Happy Birthday Brother. May Thor be good to you this year.
Just scrolling through. I had to look at this one when I saw your get up. Nice playing by the way.
I had his voice, lightning and the Hammer in my dreams, I used Mjolner in my dreams.
What amazing work you have done Mr. Haerger, impressive. Thank you and I can't wait for the next episode, Love!
I would love to hear you speak about Baldr. I started hearing his name in my head recently and didn’t even know if “baldr” was a real word. Looked it up and discovered it was a god. He came the first time I called freya.
I got you, hehe. I've done a video about Baldr already, here it is, hope you enjoy it, and may it be useful:
ruclips.net/video/TfqxYXS8fC0/видео.html
@@ArithHärger You rock!!!!
Holy crap on a cannoli! This was a great video. I used it as a podcast for my 2-hour Drive. I learned so much more about Thor than what I even thought I knew. It really helped out with my journey into paganism
Hey dear bro, first thank you for your work, and as often I'm trying to share in return : in France where I live, many places kept 'thor' in their toponomy through the ages (Thor, Odin, Freya, borvo...) I'm actually living in a city named Thorigny (Ignis in Latin means lighting a fire) so it's something like ''the fire of thor''. Actually there's a large number of Thorigny in France, I'm in Thorigny ''sur Marne'' Marne is a river, it's gallo-roman name is Matrona, the mother goddess in other words.
We can't read the signs anymore but the old gods are still there ;)
Thanks again bro, I like your channel a lot ❤
Add-on about the relationship between serpents/dragons/serpentine shapes and Thor's ''electric'' aspect is what Howard Crowhurst revealed about the telluric currents (about the ''tromenie de Locronan, a long procession in the Locronan village in french britanny which is all along about piezoelectric and/or électromagnétic currents rejuvenating people every 6 or 7 years) mastering the serpent is mastering the natural earth energy (and Thor's mom is ...) I see there another aspect of the pattern in terms of today's science said with myths for everybody to understand. 👌
Love all your videos, but this one is one of my favorites. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Always enjoy your videos and sharing of knowledge! Thank you ☺️ Please keep them coming!
More Thor videos please!
Love you work. Thank you for sharing your deep well of knowledge with us.
Amazing, a thunderstorm is rolling through while I watch this.
Thank you brother
I love the beard on top of the beard thing 😆 always making awesome videos
Headbangin‘ after 40 seconds of the vid 🤩 Love this channel so so much!! 🤟
happy Birthday Arith! it's mine too.
Awesome video! You give us so much! Thank you! Looking forward to more. This is time well spent!
Hey! Look who it is! My beautiful friend. Thank you!
As always awesome thank you 😊
I love all your videos and this RUclipsr I follow has the same sayings of Norse Magic,Beliefs and Myths.. Awesome video Arith
@Jayston Kaliko. Ya but Norse Magic,Beliefs and Myths called Arith a Woke Fake Pagan:( i don't see modern politics in Ariths studies though. Which is good!
Amazing video, thank you for relaying all that you do Arith
I look forward to the rest of the Thor series of videos from you
Of course, also great to see Mr Thorstein again, i had no idea he could play guitar, i knew you do, maybe you two can do a duet sometime? :D
Hammer looks like a lingam or lingam looks like hammer. Regenerative and destructive. Awesome teaching. Thank you
thank you for another great video.... another work of art
I especially enjoyed the guitar from 1:30 on! And thank you!
Thank you Arith . Love listening to u💙
Thank you for being in there and thank you for your patience to listen to the whole thing!
As always
40:20 It is also mentioned in Grimsnismal that Thor has the biggest home in the realm of the gods. So it makes sense when the most people go tho him.
48:49 The german word for thunder is Donner, which is very similar to the name. I know the name Donar but have no idea where it is mentioned in sources.
If one looks at the stellar constellation of Orion you can see a man with a phallus and also a big club at the same time. The club is part of Orions lower body. I guess they have seen this constellation as Thor.
Its the hunter in orion traditionally its a bow the Hunter has
@@tristanburns82 I am refering especially to the three belt stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka in combination to Eta Orionis, M41, M42 and M43.
Together they look like a club or a hammer with a too short shaft.
In the Prose Edda it is described that Thor's hammer has a shaft that is a little bit too short.
We do not know how the norse called the stellar constallatons but not all cultures see the same in them.
Belated happy birthday and i hope your upcoming birthday is blessed by the Gods
Useful indeed. Much appreciated. Thank you!!
"more often than not, mythology is created to explain, and represent, ritual behavior" (41:48)
I know Thor symbol is a hammer but I often thought it resembles in shape an axe. I have often wondered in fairy tales if the axe man isn't a representation of Thor. He always seems to be out creeping through the woods until some human needs his help and then he shows up.
The same archetype, maybe the same animistic spirit/god, along with Hercules and Paul Bunion, and others. These heroes, maybe the same guy with a different name in different times and places, wander and face every challenge as a test of their strength...not a bad god or concept to emulate.
I also heard theory that Thors hammer is actualy stone-age axe and that Thor is evolution of some animistic force/deity, just like Arith said, of fertilitiy and protection.
As a budding pagan/magi, i see lightning more as a connection between the sky/heavens and earth/hel lower realms. It is an exchange of power. Just thought it throws an interesting light on thor.
Hooray for Thorstein !! No really you are such a cool person , ha ha love your info , wit , insights and talent ✨👍❤️✨ Happy Birthday dear ! 🎈🧁
My dude. You are very charismatic to me and I love your enthusiasm on the topics you provide.
Thor is ⚡ dielectric and the serpent is magnetic 🧲
Egyptian kundalini Magic told by the Northern peoples of Europe. I love these teachings.
Finally a youtube heathen story teller that isnt a soft handed manlet
Watching this reminds me of Jon Mikl Thor. Rock on dude!
This is great.
Thanks for sharing enjoyed listening , awesome intro Mr. Thorstein I started looking for the mosh pit lol .
Have you already gone over Freyer and if so can you link the video? Thank you.
dude that riff was heavier than thor's hammer 🤟 my birth day is also in July
Yo that guitar was badass
This is so great; thank you Arith! :-)
It make sense Scandinavian cultures would put more emphasis on fertility since it's much harder to farm the more north you travel
@Arith Härger So in a purpose of western syncretism, if this wheather/thunder god was represented with a club/hammer, could we say Donar (germanic) = Thor (scandinavian) = Sucellos (gallish)? would it be accurate to worship it as the different aspects of the same entity, on the same altar? Thanks so much for your job on this channel. Best regards from France.
The use of a hammer in cultic context is way older than christianity though. Also to be seen rock paintings, and with objects given in a grave (=stone axes with no practical aim). The hammer is also there in other Indo-European religions as the object of the god of thunder. Also remember the symbolic use of it in justice (as it is still nowadays). It had also its Roman parallel. Also in the expression of Sub ascia dedicare. In symbolism the Axe and Hammer are interchangeable. The hammer is a mains for initiation. To defend the worldsnake= death and rebirth.
Per intro “ Hail Harger ! “
outstanding expiation's on breaking down everything in mythology and religion's most are still believing fairytales without understanding the meaning behind the teachings.
Haha it seems my birthday is this month too! Always hard month