Hel (Hella) Norse Goddess of Death and the Afterlife
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0:40-8:00 Facts from the Eddas
8:01-24:26 Interview with Practitioner
24:26-32:31 Ritual to Hel
That's one of the greater things I enjoy with Paganism and even if you're just researching, not worshipping, that there's several deities and ways to believe. You can worship Þór and his fatherhood, or Freyja and her magic, or Hel and her relation with th dead. There's many of us under this house of belief and we can all coexist regardless of which Gods we follow. We can all be together as kin under the Gods. Thanks for the video guys. Hail!
I personally think every norse pagan should get comfortable working with/knowing Hel more then likely we will meet her one day.
The Hel Ceremony at NC Ostara was my first experience with Hel. As someone who is a little sensitive to changes in energy, I did feel a definite change in the energy as Ian walked through the gate. There was also a sudden burst of cold air JUST as he went through. Just before he went back into the gate, I felt a vibration on my left shoulder. It was like a gentle touch of spiritual energy, and I took that to be my grandfather who I was venerating at this ceremony. It gave me a powerful sense of humility for all the people who lived and died before me. I appreciated the connection I was able to feel in that ceremony, and as I do my ancestor work at home, I am going to be sure to thank Hel for keeping my beloved dead near her.
Hi I have that too it's really cool when you can sense changes I have to ask what exactly is the sense or feeling you got from hel I'm wondering if it's the same feeling for everyone
She's so kind to me and asks for baked goods with fruit - like orange scones and strawberry muffins!
She gives back the same energy that you give her - kindness for kindness. Sarcasm for sarcasm.
I am one who likes to almost bite the big one due to just abnormal circumstances. I had emergency surgery (again) this past weekend. Sometime during my snoozing I heard all the alarms (I’d stopped breathing)
I see this shadowy figure. I don’t see an actual anybody, just a shape. Feminine but not the scrawny sickly scary as was alluded to in the video (first time I’ve watched it was right now) but more a stereotypical “motherly” shape. I promise. I will swear to it this figure said “trying to meet me so soon? Stop ignoring me” as I am coming back around.
Right now I canna be certain who she was, but I FEEL it was her. She gave off vibes of comfort. More chastising than demanding. I don’t find fear with her. She is the caretaker of those who died old or ill. That is a helluva job (pun absolutely intended) I’ve searched for information, but it was limited. But of COURSE you would have a video! I have only very recently entered my path so I’m still unsure of many things still. But this. This was OBVIOUS that someone was reaching for me trying to get my attention.
It's always fascinating and reassuring to see how people's UPG with the gods lines up. I also like giving dried flowers to Hel
crazy to me that you posted this, i was doing extensive Hel research last night😂
I had commented when this video first came out on Friday, but then I noticed it was down, and the comments gone. What I had brought up as well as others is that Hel is the sister of Fenrir and Jörmungandr making her the daughter of Angrbođa and Loki. I thought this was common knowledge. The story of the burnt heart was that he gave birth to a troll a totally separate entity. But I understand your intake on this story.
My own experience with Hel is that she comforted me when a dear friend had passed away. Being that he's Catholic, I asked her to take him into her arms and send him to where he wanted to go. I felt strongly that she heard me. Great video. Loved Ian being part of it.😊
I'm glad to be able to put a face to his voice from the folk podcast .
Love this and always happy to gain in wisdom especially about Hel. I've never really followed her I'm more of a War and Magic Goddess followers and of course Allfather and Frey, Heimdall follower myself but good to know about her. Others have said it and I will as well, never suffer fools or negative nancys as myself and many learn and share a great deal with you and I feel you are amazing and we appreciate you.
Great conversation between the two of you guys, i learned a few new things about Hel i didn't know before, thanks✌🏼
I’ve seen some videos that say the only place she’s referred to as being half skeletal or half rotting corpse are from Snorri’s writings and no other sources and he’s the one who referred to her as half black/blue too! 🤷♀️ A few years ago I was scared of working with Hel as I had this idea of her being really dark and it being scary to to poke around into those areas and I knew she would want me to face things and let them go and I wasn’t ready to but then I’ve spent the last few years researching and learning more about her and I’ve actually realised she’s quite motherly and nurturing, she just has a way of making you let things go even if it’s hard and you don’t want to, if it’s for your greater good she will push you to try and get rid of it but I also realised that I’ve always been close to her, as since a really young child I had many family members die and it was only really me and my dad left, I used to unconsciously go to graveyards to sit and meditate in a way I guess, when I was down and lost with depression and I always found comfort there, my back garden also backs onto a graveyard and I’ve always been drawn to bones especially and collected them, so I guess I’ve always shown I was walking her path in a way, I just didn’t acknowledge/realise it until the last few years, my dad died 3 years ago in Nov, so I’ve been facing death in a more intense way than before as I’ve just been so lost and broken-hearted since. I’ve kept getting her oracle card or hagalaz popping out of runes or card decks in the last few weeks and she pops up in random videos I watch that aren’t even about her and stuff like that so it’s been amazing to get closer to her lately, I have found though that since I started to begin working with her or at least telling her that I felt more ready to, that I’ve been given some really weird things, I found some bones and I had put one on my bedroom bookshelf a while ago and now somehow a load of tiny maggots had not appeared anywhere or even shown signs of being there but they were in my jewellery box when I looked for something yesterday and I can only think it’s from that as it’s on a few shelves above it and that was weird and so gross and then a random wing of some dead insect dropped on me yesterday while I was at my Viking reenactment group and it wasn’t connected to anything above me or from a spider web or anything, it just floated down and landed on my leg and I was bewildered and then I was listening to this video while I walked my dog 🥰 and I found the wing of a dead bird in an area I never go but felt really pulled into today, so she’s defo pushing death into my path more and I guess she’s testing my comfort levels with it all and I’m interested to see what happens next but if I find a corpse while out walking somewhere now, then I’m out! 😂😂
I have recently gotten interested in norse paganism and I would honestly, honestly be incredibly excited if it got "revived" in the mass populations. It is beautiful as pf right now and I am glad for it but I hope more people will see the beauty of it. It truly is an extraordinary religion and lifestyle. Keep up the good work! ❤️
Yous are doing great work guys thanks to the blessing the gods have given me I am now 96 hours sober I feel so much better I know the allfather is with me all hail lord Odin and all hail lord Thor and all hail the true god's and all hail the spirits of the land skal brothers and sisters
Thankyou for this video my wife works alot with hel and has received a couple visions of her mother and father before they died. But she didn't realize how much she has been talked to until she thinks back . She works in a nursing home and assist in transitioning her her residents from Midgard to hel. My wife feels and smells when she will be handing her resident off.
You just answered a question I didn’t know I had. I’ve had loved ones come to me in vision, in dreams, right before they passed.
Hey keep up the good work and never give a voice to those people that are being negative towards your channel just because they want attention.
Absolutely great comment
Thank you so much
💫❤ Thank You so much!!
Lady Hel definitely lives up to her moniker of "The Hidden One." At certain times, or times of the year as is stated in the video, is far easier to communicate and feel as if you were acknowledged by the lady. Other times, such as a now right around Midsummer, I find it more difficult to commune with her, as she seems either distant or doesn't communicate at all. But what we have with our Gods is a relationship, and we shouldn't ignore them just because we feel ignored. I find that Hel likes flowers, freshly plucked and in their prime, placed upon a sacred space to her. Then, you allow them to wither and dry, fully letting them live and die on her altar. Hel is ambivalent about offerings of drink (Sometimes she seems pleased, other times she seems to ignore it.), but does seem to like fruits that are close to spoiling. I find she likes burnings of a specially devoted candle or of fine incense in her honor.
You mentioned this is a long video. I'm just hear to encourage you to make videos long! I'm here for it. :)
I’ve always had a strong pull and connection with Hel. To me she has always been a warm and inviting personality but she can also be very stern and orderly. She has always been on the side of order for me.
Motherly. That’s how I feel her.
Stern, and sometimes grim, but not without love.
I received a vision of my Ancestors, the afterlife, and what I believe to be Helheim… since then, I long for Helheim, to join my ancestors, and have been pretty devoted to Hel ever since.
I’ve been working with Hel for around 10 years. She’s interesting that’s for sure
To Anyone who reads this I am just coming back to my ancestry to our ancestry I am coming off of 25 plus years raised as a Christian but it never felt right for me I even branched off into paganism where I felt more at home but always crawled back to Christianity because it was what I was supposed to do and it made me a good girl. But now I have been for the last 2 or 3 years going my own way finally and not faltering and I keep moving forward and as I mentioned just getting back to my ancestry so there's still a lot of new things to me like for example listening to Viking metal I am just now starting to understand the songs because I'm getting back into the mythologies and the stories and it excites me so much I love it. I have never worked with any of the Norse gods there are a few I admire so much and a few that I despise but I feel like one in particular has been reaching out to me or talking to me and that's Hel herself. First it started with the brothers of metal song Hel and ever since I've just been seeing mentions of her everywhere been having some crazy dreams and all that that's why I looked for this video today LOL. I am a new and upcoming Viking I'm still in my training but I am coming back to a place that makes me feel at home and I'm excited about all of it and I feel like personally she's not that bad of a person and to be honest I can identify with maybe a lot of how she feels. If she wants to reach out and talk to me I'll be her friend. Stay safe and may the gods be with all of us sword brothers and sisters
Here from Minnesota Minneapolis l like learning about what others experience. Is to know good thing.
@33:00 - I would recommend thinking about the char-coal versus the ash. Water and ash is the base of lye-soap, a caustic base...
I wrote a song about dying and going to her a while ago.
Yesterday I was at my garden with a guy that was cutting my grass.
I was singing her song in my mind while watching the guy work.
Out of the blue a branch in the perfect form of algiz came flying to my feet and landed right in front of me in the perfect position.
A few months ago I lost a haird bid with this very same rune in my garden.
That's what make me come here to know more about her.
Sorry, if the previous video a lot of people left negative comments. I did not see it. To me you do a terrific job explaining things. when you don’t the first time, you try to answer that person’s comments to help clarify what you meant in the video. Thank you, for posting the video.
0:05 pepsi a man of good taste ❤
I love ur videos somuch
From hi to thanks for your respect.
I don't know if I believe in anything but the only spiritual experience I ever had was with Hel.
In my 20s I had a dream that still sticks with me. I remember telling my old roommate about it and the girl I was with at the time. I doubt they even remember the conversation.
So I had this dream where I was in a ruins in a really black night. I was at peace and it felt nice. This was a nice place to me. There was grey fallen pillar like stones and Hel's face was carved into the stone floor, the area lit by fire I couldn't see.
I could see the shape of her in the shadows just outside of the light and I knew it was her. She said that she was my mother and she loves me. I often think about that dream and I wonder if when I die she'll welcome me home.
Interessting dream you had. I'm interessted in the emotions the dream triggers in me when I have a dream, because this related to something the subconsious works on to remove. The subconsious can remove trauma like the EMDR treatmen can. Based on your calmness in a dark and gloomy space and with Hella around, I think you have overcommed the fear of death. And that is really good, because this fear is limiting life.
Was just listening to yggdrasil, really enjoyed hearing it in the background danheim is awesome, great video keep it up brother.
Great video. I got some great Rökkatru vibes.
Do you think the Aesir sent Hel to Helheim with their blot knives? It's not an easy place to get to.
I have had several thoughts about Hela, both from this video and from before.
(Note: I am going to assume that Hel is the "Seat of Power" for Hela. Even if "Hel" is just the name of her Mansion/Hall/Castle/Fortification.)
First, Hela as a vampire? That half dead and half alive seems very close to Undeath...
Second, Hela as a Warden. Part form what you said about "sending people to Hel" as in Hel is a prison with Hela as the Worden.
Three, there are many stories, Scandinavian stories, of Draugr. Would Hela have domain over both the Draugr and the Necromancer who created them? Or can Hela create Draugr as Tomb Guards?
Four, there was also the idea, admittedly form Fan-fiction, that most of Hel was a land of the dead. However, there was also a section of Hel for the punishment of Evil people. Was there any talk about the punishment of Evil people?
The slandered Satan is Odin the origin of "Christmas"
Is it me or behind him near the tree there's something moving I think it's a spirit or it could be hel. Anyone else see it?
The half blue thing could be like the way Osiris was depicted as being blue because he had died and gone to the underworld. so the half blue thing is like similar to the idea of half black or skeletal.
Great insight and knowledge of Hel. Skãl💀🍻
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Encountered her at work few yrs ago before I hot covid
Is that Danheim at the end and if so what song may I ask?
I think it's called Yggdrasil by Danheim but don't quote me on that lol
Where in MN?
Where can one find the image of the half-decayed funerary statue in the background slideshow at 8:03?
That is footage from the Lexington Graveyard where I was filming
@@TheWisdomOfOdin super cool
Does Hel have a rune that goes with her?
very cool video. i am a atheist who is very fascinated in this religion so hopefully you dont mind me asking this. in the video someone said that we will most likely not end up in Valhalla and instead go to helheim. as pagans or asatro, how do you feel about going to helheim instead of Valhalla. are dissapointed, sad or is it just a fact you have to deal with
Well Hel is the place all the dead go, i f not dying in battle a n d be chosen for Valhalla, were those who liked to battle in life can do this the whole day and when they "die" they're back next morning.
It's discussed, if it's also a battle if you fight against cancer or the difficulties of life.
That nobody will ever know unless he meets ones deity.
I have never had a particular desire to work with Hel, however, I have spent the past three months feeling Her, and I believe She may be asking for my attention. Any thoughts on this?
I have discovered that the people sent to Hella, are those with limiting beliefes that make them immovabel in an area of their life. Like Hellas two servants, because nobody have ever seen them move. Perhaps it is time to release some limiting beliefs you got in your past that don't serve you anymore or are now directly harmfull because it limits your ability to act?
So what does it mean to see the goddes of death in your dreams
On the power On El Shaddai Elohim Adoni Ahcad Shama Israel forever Amen El Roi
On the power On St Gabriel
On the power On St Michael
On the power On Virgin Mary All the ufo and bad gad witchcraft will be in the middle in the volcano forever Amen
In danish Hel means whole :)
Thank you. Yes that makes sense. I have learned that those sent to Hella are those that have so many limiting beliefs that they are frozen in acting. Like Hellas two servants, nobody has ever seen them moving. So, maybe Hella helps identify the limiting beliefs so they can become healed, and we can start living? The Nordic Mythology could be an explanation of where the trauma in life goes. In the book "The Body keeps the score" by Bessel Van der Kolk, we can learn that trauma is kept in the brain and is experienced as been frosen /or having a out of the body experience in a stress full situation. Research on the Vagal nerves has identified these nerves are determining when something is too much to bear, and we are then de-associated from the situation that is painful, meaning we go frozen or numb. A soul loss is a trauma., we are frosen in the moment, it is impossible to move. The death can not move. And the trauma is just stored in the brain, which I believe belongs to Odin, based on his character/behaviours and from Traditional Chinese Medicin, he is maybe the Governing Vessel (Du Mai) that is in all living beings, even the tiny bugs. This meridian is responsible for distributing energy to all the other meridians. The other trauma we could experience is sexual abuse, which also can give soul loss. And I think this could be the "death" Freya gets. Because she represents love - the physical part of love, based on the stories about her. I'm still amazed by our ancestors ability to observe how the body handles trauma and then wrap it up in stories that could become transmitted orally for over 1500 years as energies/gods that actually help releasing it so we can heal/hel. I'm getting more and more greateful every time I reflect on it. ❤❤❤
I've had several friends and family die recently so this is my opinion.
I offer sacrifice for them cuz they are not of same religious beliefs.
All my life this spirit has been freaking me out. And now hel is talking to me. It's very freaky. But please contact back. I don't know if its a bad thing or a good thing. Someone please lmk. I'm not crazy I'm a shaman. So I try to spread peace and help spirits pass. But even I don't know how to deal with this situation...
It's always at3:00am-6:00am
Ashes and water are caustic to your skin I would not recommend doing that for the handprints all over your body
Golden paved bridge? Sounds like the entrance to Christian Heaven. 😂 The beauty of a graveyard for those those who worship the Christ the undead dead.
Why would I feel Hel calling to me
Maybe you have some limiting beliefs that makes you immovabel in some areas of your life? I belive Hella is getting those people send to her that are frosen in acting in some areas in their life.
So what's the difference in lokis other children? How can she be a goddess but they are God's at all?
Some kids are just more talented and powerful than others? 😂
Ah Dude coulda had a coca cola but anyways ima drink jager and listen to this
77:77
Maybe she doesn’t want to be known. She probably want to be left alone. Just saying.
This. I couldn’t understand why I kept getting “Hel has frozen over” about two years ago … casually stumbling upon this today. I had to pause the beginning of the video. That lake - she’s frozen. Leave her the fuc alone boys. 🤢 she has many to care for.
Why did you want to film at a christian graveyard when discussing Hel?
You can make lye from ash and water 😉
Because she is a female ofcourse they wouldn't talk about a female in power.