The Celtic idea was there is an "Otherworld" afterlife with many realms but it was not the end destination , it was a place of rest and recharge before you 1. reincarnate 2. become a spirit that watches over a place or person 3. become an active spiritual force in the world.
Starting to think Helheim/Helhām is a term literally meaning that. Hel comes from a root meaning hidden or covered, if I remember right, -heim is basically realm. So, hidden realm / otherworld
I've been a practicing pagan for 16 years and the past 6 of them have been studying Hinduism, Taoism, and Buddhism. What I've learned is that everything is connected and energy is everywhere. Seidr and Tantra, for example, are very similar. The exact methods may differ, but the connections made are the same. If you go back far enough in any culture, you'll find similarities in their shamanic practices and their core beliefs. This is because nature is not that different, despite where we live. We all have the same moon and sun. We all see the same stars. We all find connections with animals and water sources. The names may be different, but that's just because languages have changed over thousands of years of migration. But go back far enough in any culture and you'll find we're all connected.
Do we have a legitimate Seidr tradition still around? Genuine question, I'm very much under the impression that what alot of modern pagans practice as far as "magic" for lack of a better term is influenced by modern neopaganism or other living traditions which may explain the connection. I very well may be wrong, and in this case would be overjoyed to be wrong. Where would I look if indeed this stuff remains?
@@travismitchell210 It's hard to say. Like the Gauls/Celts, the Norse didn't write much down. They only used runes rarely for special monuments. We have an Icelandic book of spells that gives us some idea of how they practiced (Icelandic being the closest language today to what Nordic tribes spoke). We have some mentions of Seidr in the Eddas in stories involving Freyja and Odin. Odin sacrificing himself on his own spear while hanging on the boughs of Yggdrasil is a shamanic ritual. Many shamans believe that you don't become a shaman unless you've experienced death. Odin learned the runes and taught them to Freyja. She in return taught him Seidr. We also know that the Germanic tribes mingled with the Sami people, who were shamanic in their practices, as they moved north into Scandinavia. Which explains the allegory of the Germanic gods (Aesir) fighting with the nature gods (Vanir and Jotun) before the Vanir merged into the Aesir. It's a reflection of how the people fought with the Sami before merging. At least in the southern parts of Scandinavia. We do have reconstruction attempts made by modern authors, but it's just like modern druidry. We only have records of magical practitioners of the area from descriptions made by outsiders. For the missing pieces we have to look to the Sami practices to the north and archeological finds of what tools and attire Seidr practitioners were buried with. The difference is that druidry has formal reconstructionist courses with modern reconstructionist organizations. Seidr reconstruction isn't quite that formal yet. There are some teachers, authors, and RUclipsrs but not many. And it's hard to tell just how valid those works are.
Love this because it really is that so many of our ancients knew what was real a d truth but it’s been burned and banned. The difference truely is perception and what it’s named. But when we take the time to study other energy arts or theologies, we can learn so much about our Germanic inner knowings.
of course , Hindu and Celtic , and Germanic, we are one , yes I see it now. thank you! I am an old man 76 now and I very much enjoy hearing about the old religions, you have a lovely Thors Hammer!
Gonna just be honest varg broke it down best. As did einar selvik for that matter... existence is clearly cyclical. And that principle wasnt lost to our ancestors. All it takes is a few months in the woods to come to this conclusion, wether done in thailand, scandanavia, or some plot of land in northern michigan... You will climb no tree unless you can see past the tree. You absolutely nailed it in this video. Definitely won my subscription.
Yes the forests and beautiful waters of northern MI have done well by me. When the insanity of the world gets to be overwhelming walking in the woods is the best therapy I have found. Its beautiful and just in case shit goes bad it sure wont hurt being surrounded by most of the earths fresh water ;) I can definitely see why my family chose NW MI as their new home when immigrating from Friesland and Denmark, there are many similarities ...minus the salt water that did so much damage to our lands back in Europe.
I absolutely love how you paint a big picture and not just look at things isolated. The connection to Hinduism, reincarnation and so on, great work. People who think this way should connect. This gives me hope.
From what I understand, Hel is the standard afterlife, where spirits go to continue life as if on Earth, until reincarnation. Valhalla and Folkvangr were where those who died in battle would have gone. In this context, it would make sense that mentions and beliefs in such realms amongst warriors would increase later on as populations grew and more people sought out the warrior life, especially once overseas raiding began.
I was pronounced Clinically Dead on the 14th of November 2019 three times, I was airlifted of which I have no recollection. I don’t even remember getting to the nearest hospital, nothing. I remember being seated at a massive wooden table with three longhair muscle bound men, they all had different color hair with different color eyes. The one that was at the head of the table looked at me and said, “you have to go back”, I looked down and when I looked up I saw my daughter at my side. My husband was there too and he asked me what I had encountered in the other side, (as a physician he didn’t want to give up on me).......What you explained makes perfect sense 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
Thank you so much for this. Like so many of us, I am surrounded by the "brosatru" guys who think they are these new "vikings" because they grow a beard, they often have the "Ragnar" hair, and some "viking" tattoos and say "see you in Valhalla." As a true believer in the Old Ways, I am always seeking to deepen my understanding and increase my knowledge of the faith, and this is just what I needed. It is interesting that in my spiritual journey out of Christianity I studied Hinduism for several years and that the journey has in some ways led me back. Keep up the good work!
What a great video. I was always under the concept and this being simplified, that Valhalla was where the warriors went to to wait for Ragnarok and Hel was where the common folk went to. This mainly due to my laziness and reading historical fiction books.
According to Rudolf Simek in "The Dictionary of Northern Mythology" (well worth getting for scholarly insight), there are "some mountains in South Sweden which in folk belief are thought to be the place where the dead live, as mountains of the dead are also called Valhall." So Valhall could come from old norse 'Hallr' meaning Rock rather than 'holl' meaning hall. Perhaps the idea of Valhalla therefore is related to burial in mounds/ dying into mountains as we see in the sagas/archaeology. And then the idea of Valhalla as a hall of the slain is a later development from that idea.
Yes Iv'e got that book and love it. Forgot that part actually. Yes and lots of folktales later on in time mention ancestral spirits living in the rocks/mountains. Thats something to look more into for sure.
I think holl is the word for a rocky hall. Still use it in Norway as a word. Im thinking rock covered floor, just like a cathedral or other big construction.
One thing you didn't discuss is the comparison between Valhalla and Folkvanger. You also didn't discuss the role of the Valkariyes Please make a video on this in the future. Much love
Reincarnation, yes! I have been in Thailand for many years , speak thai, and am Buddhist, which suits me very well. reincarnation is a central point in Buddhism and in Thai, Hundi etc religions. In Thai cluture they have gods of earth, water, trees, sun , moon, animals... which is similar to Celtic culture, I felt right at home there.
the Germanic word Buda , German Bote, means Herald/messenger/ delivery boy, so Buda = Buddha he Proclaimed/brings the messege / delivers the truth . …*budō-, *budōn, *buda-, *budan, germ., sw. M. (n): nhd. Bote, Verkünder
It's a mixture of all the different things that are mentioned. A "golden" hel where you await your reincarnation. Like a first class hel. A way to elevate some higher status people to the front line of who aught to be reincarnated first.
in the uralic world it´s related to the different concepts of the soul.. a person could have up to five different "souls" that all went to different places.. the breath soul went to the sun where it was re-incarnated and born again to a child of kin.. in the next tribe it was the shadow soul that went to the moon.. so the sun and the moon both very important in this.. in the next tribe one of the souls carried on / was re-born as their totem animal.. so all the earthly bears you saw were actually your dead relatives which is why you could not kill bears (while the tribe next door had no problem of killing bears). then there´s all kinds of beliefs about a place of spirits that is beneath the ground / in the mountain / in the lake / down the river.. usually one of the souls travels there.. it´s the place where the spirits of the ancestors live (just like they did on earth, a matter greatly emphasized).. there´s even mentions of a valhalla-type warrior heaven but it´s considered turkic influence (it´s one or two notes compared to hundreds of pages about souls and re-incarnation). that probably doesn´t help much, just to give some idea of the diversity.. people were more local / clan based back then which is the perfect building ground for different beliefs.. the common nominator, as you said, is the same everywhere, that it´s re-incarnation based.. i would suggest tracing the different parts of the soul in your native languages (breath, shadow, self, shape, ray (sun rays, moon beams), blood, hair, tooth, spirit, child, body, birth, words like that.. maybe different animals / birds / insects that were seen as soul animals / totem animals.. it´s complicated but not (it just has to make cyclical sense).
also bones, heart and liver, all connected to souls, as well as dreams and names.. i mean, they returned the bones of dead animals to nature so that they could be reborn, it doesn´t get any plainer than that.. i think it´s important to understand that the shaman is not there to make the tribes the same.. they´re there to make the tribes different.. you don´t want to be doing the same things as the neighbouring tribe, whom are sometimes seen as the enemy.. also that it´s likely different layers that have been added through time.. at first it might have been only one or two "sacred parts" (blood, bone, breath, shadow) and then other concepts were added to it.. like the uralic fifth "male soul" could very well be a "warrior soul" (that might have gone to a different place) but it could also be a "hunter´s soul" that simply turned into an animal.. it is well documented that they (some uralic tribes) took the heads / scalps of enemy warriors so that they could not be reborn, which again doesn´t point to a valhalla type place but to this earth. to me it´s the environment you live in and how many "sacred parts" you want to include, in the "whole".. before the uralics there were the pre-uralics (tsuudit) whom are considered a true winter based culture.. it is told that they never wiped snow off them.. to me what this suggests is that their children might have come back as snow flakes.. it is always something tangible like that, because that´s how they thought (and that´s how we still think).
The fact that it was customary for The Norse to often name children after a deceased grandparents, or ancestors reflects a much stronger emphasis on reincarnation than simply a larger focus on Hel or Valhalla. But, the Norse idea of reincarnation is little different than Buddhist, and Hindu concepts because in the belief of naming children after ancestors it was thought the child might inherit "reincarnated personality traits/skill set aptitudes" from the deceased ancestor, not necessarily the inheritance of an ancestral soul in the sense that the eastern religions understood it.
Odin was the Master Shaman. The Norse people used mushrooms and mead and were very into "seeing through/lifting the veil". I think Valhalla was a type of "reward" for those waiting to be reincarnated. As a pagan Celt, Myself..this makes perfect sense
I think of Hel as the place where the vast majority go and wait there for their resurrection. There a special minority who are chosen by Valkyries and shared by Odin and Freya. Those chosen by Odin go to Valhalla and live eternally but not immortally. Those chosen by Freya are sent to the land of the elves to live immortal lives. That bit about the person in Valhalla who is reincarnated outside Valhalla is intriguing. I hope to come across more about that in the future. As always, thanks for your great videos.
Im glad you made this video. Honestly though I am grateful for all of your videos, but this one is really good. I have deep roots in Germany and some in Scandanavia. My family has been to war for as long back as I have seen. Almost every male has been in the military. War is in our blood lol Main topic: My faith was my own for a long time before I married a christian woman then it became christian. Having studied all facets of the bible and the texts that were not included led me to fall back to my old Faith (wife hated that lol). Afterlife: Bottom line, I have always believed in reincarnation and that there is no Heavan or Hell. There is simply an Afterlife that we all go to, all in the same place. Like a waiting area to be reborn and possibly to enpart or learn additional knowledge before we do so. Reincarnation: I have a birth mark on my arm, since I could remember though it was actually a scar I got. Its on both sides of my arm, like an arrow or bullet exploded through it. Thanks again for your content brother. We are all connected, both here and in the realm of our Ancestors.
I wish people would focus more on how we live our lifes and how we treat eachother, instead of thinking about what happens after death and which (delusional/fictional) religious concept "is right" in the end. Because: ek veit einn, at aldrei deyr, dómr um dauðan hverm very interesting content brother, I keep watching with great interest. Greetings from an old german :-)
I've always believed in reincarnation, and when I was in my teens, had serious spiritual insight on what I thought were past lives of mine and how 2 of my loved ones were in them. But there's a problem that just doesn't add up. Numbers of souls versus total numbers of people on the planet at different dates in history. My earliest and non-Ger manic life was as an artisan during, I think, some time in the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt. So how many people walked the earth back then? Now, let's look at today. We have an over-populated planet. Perhaps in present-day India you could have the same number, or even higher, of people living all over the whole world about 1.300 years ago. So what does that say about the number of souls? Do they reproduce, too, just as human bodies do? That's my big doubt, though I still believe in reincarnation. The numbers just don't add up.
There’s actually a lot of insight to this in the uncorupted new age theologies. Not the goverment steered ones. Also in Hinduism Yes souls can make baby soul sparks as others ascend out
it's not a stretch to suggest that most people today have not lived before / have young souls / have no soul. the average person has almost no concern with the past, nature, or spirituality except when it's socially beneficial for them.
curious if you've heard of Shambhala? I've been seening a lot of correlation between Buddhists and Norse Pagan beliefs. this is speculation but I find it highly intriguing the annunciation of the two is damn near identical. love your videos and all the information you share!
Yea I been dealing with it my whole life. I had no TV as a kid. I think I over dosed on Myths. Then I studied Molecular Biology and got a job testing DNA about 18 years ago. The DNA started blowing my mind. I am a Melungeon so I heard Gypsy Myths, African Myths, the Norse myths preserved by Kale in Wales. Why Welsh people preserved all kind of Viking myths is weird. But the amazing thing is how similar it all is especially the Iroquois Seneca. It's as if the Seneca are descended from one of Odins wives. The Seneca have a Jesus too accept he is a Muskrat. The Matrilineal tribes kept the Earth sacred because the Forest was their life support system. The Farmers and Wall builders are the Patrilineal tribes they see the Forest as a threat. But all people have some common origin - it's the Mbuti pygmies. Funny we are looking for Giants - we are Giants. The Pygmy is a real man.
@@CountBeetle I'm not sure my Maw maw told me all the Iroquois stories. People like me know a lot stuff that's not on the phone. I'll look and see. I would search Hadenosaunee or Sky woman and Muskrat or Turtle Island and Celestial Tree. The Seneca story I was told as a child was the most magical heart breaking tragic and uplifting heroic story I ever heard in my entire life. I have an almost maternal feeling of emotion for protecting Muskrat in the Big Ugly forest where we are from. Sky Woman fell down into the roots of yggdrasil and she fell down to the Earth where there was a great flood and she saved many animals and gathered them on the Turtles back. She was the wife of the Thunder Father and full of magic if only she could get a handful of mud she could rebuild the whole Earth on the Turtles back. The Mountain Lion tried first but could not dive- the Otter kept getting distracted and eating Fish. The Beaver was to Fat to dice deep. The great Bear tried but could not get to the bottom. Then the goofy Muskrat said " let me try" and everyone laugh except Sky woman. So Muskrat dive deep and got some mud but he could not hold his breath and choked on the water but with his last but of strength he handed sky Woman a handful of mud then Muskrat died. Sky Woman threw him in the sky and he became an ever lasting sky god ( the big dipper) and his children were given great blessings by Sky Woman.
@@CountBeetle Only Vikings and Iroquois called themselves people of the Long house; only Biking and Iroquois and Altai have y chromosome Haologroup Q and R in proximity and X chromosome " X" - we jokingly call the Atlantean modal haologroup because it appears to originate in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Vikings and Iroquois were once the same people often called Solutrean
I had a thought after watching this vid: Might it be possible, considering the time-frame of the known mentions of Valhǫll as an afterlife, that the concept was intentionally created and disseminated as a sort of motivational concept contextualising Ragnarøkkr with the struggle against Christianity? As if the message was "Don't worry if you fall in battle for you'll join the ranks of the einherjar and will fight the enemy at Vígríðr", as opposed to the unpleasant option of merely being reborn into a potentially Christian world.
I like this idea actually because the end times verses the warrior heaven fits well. And I certainly am tired of being reborn into this shit hole of religions conquering and controlling. I hope there’s a way to exit stage left at some point because dying in battle against the nw0 and then being reborn into it doesn’t sound great.
Nobody knows what happens when we die but I like the older notion of "the meadows" I find some comfort in the idea of wide open spaces, beautiful trees, and fish filled streams 😆
Oh i agree that there is not much left about Slavic beliefs. And i kinda feel that the 3rd option you talk about is a logical for me. I read somewhere that Valhalla was a place where spirits go to rest and await the rebirth.
Really good work!well presented.Totally agree with the reincarnation process...and that Valhalla,for as to use to day,it seen to me like a spiritual archetypal place,where we can summon our inner self trough the unconscious.A place to temper the mind,soul and spirit...in order to be able to rise the cosmic raw energy in to this world ,and trough our body and actions...
When I hear this, it reminds me of Kemetic spirituality. This is all about symbolism where most just see strange gods. Also, the work of Brian Weiss who did a lot of past life experiences tells about these same things. Kemetic spirituality dates back to around say 10.000 years or so and is still clearly visible in the hieroglyphs. How this works is like the image of a human with the head of say a dog, which symbolizes very good hearing like a dog for example or a bird could represent freedom or wisdom... etc. If I listen to the experience of Brian Weiss, he also speaks of an area where you meet the "Sages" or Masters and a time to restore before you go back in the next life, either back in time or the future. The reason is to evolve as a Soul but without judgment, the Soul is free to learn and to review once you die. Dying is only physical as it's merely a transition of energy. When I look at Kemetic science, practical application... all it means is we are living in this time, this body, as a soul without judgment. We live in harmony with nature (NTR - Neter) and the symbolism is esoteric, not exoteric. In Kemetic application, it's all about finding your purpose and evolve as a Soul and the gods of Egypt are merely symbolism for certain ways to gain knowledge/feelings/character evolving... I can dig deeper if you appreciate it, but what you said sounds very familiar to me. This has nothing to do with Christianity as I believe the Council of Nicaea made up a corporeal Jesus in the year 325. Anyway, hope this helps
Great overview and discussion! Just found your channel as I was researching reincarnation and Valhalla for a book I am writing. Interestingly in the ancient Greek afterlife beliefs there was the The Elysian Fields, also called Elysium, the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous in Greek mythology and religion. Set apart from the plebs with extra perks 😀 I have been a keen reader and thinker about the Viking age since I was a kid and this morning the connection of Valhalla and reincarnation just sort of hit me. It always seemed a bit ridiculous that the heroes were just living to kill each other, be brought to life and then feasting at night, who the hell would want to go through that? ( Westworld anyone?) But when you see it as a myth of living a valiant wild life, as most of us tried to live for untold aeons of incarnations, and then having a nice bit of a party and a rest in between lives in a higher realm before coming back here, makes sense to me. Looking forward to checking out more of your channel mate.
when i had my almose dead experience i ended up in a room with reall brith light and there was no shadows en no sounds and no time. yet my mother was their waiting for me and we communicated with energie. when i came back i was totally disconfuse for 2 days. happy it did happen. so i believe in number 3
I’m a novice at best when it comes to Norse Myths. But something about this video brought an interesting idea about Hel, Odin, and reincarnation. I’ve read that even Odin and the other gods pay respects to Hel the Goddess of Death, as she seems to be more powerful than they are. Now after watching your video on Odin possibly being a powerful Spirit/god that’s reincarnated throughout time, he has to go through Hel to be reincarnated. So now it makes more sense why Odin and the other gods have to pay respects to Hel as they all have to go through Hel the goddess and place to come back here. Which now may bring Ragnarök into play here. As it’s the ‘Twilight of the Gods’ they and we die. We all go to Hel then comeback here and do it all over again. Recycle, rebirth, ouroboros (possibly Jörmungandr?) Just a thought I had Now I ask myself, why? Why do we have to go through reincarnation that seems to be endless. Why not stay in the after life with past loved ones? Do we have a choice on coming or staying there? Or do we choose to leave to be better people this time around and possibly go to Valhalla/Nirvana?
We think that Valhall is the place where you meet your ancestors and there you talk with them and you wait there for your reincarnation why your spirit have to grow and when you finished your way s you grown out you stay in Valhall but for what is know the question maybe some one can help us . Your Movie was very good and helpful we didn't know about the writen Edda's from the Christian but we had this in the feeling that some of this different Myology was changed to become the people to get them faster to change their believe
Since the Neolithic kings/tribal leaders were buried with their belongings treasures animals and whoever I guess wanted to travel to the afterlife with them. Valhalla was likely a hall (perhaps even Scythian) that was famous for its wealth or notoriety. Promises of the afterlife ensured posterity for these nomadic tribes settling in foreign lands
If someone states that there's "proof" of any afterlife, regardless what version, I know immediately they don't mean actually physical evidence proved scientifically. If they want to talk academic proof of a belief's origin that's one thing. But saying that any afterlife/reincarnation concept was proved, that's not actually the case. The first requirement always ends up failing, which is if the idea is quantifiable, i.e. physically measurable.
Look at the tomb lid of Lord Pakal in the "House of Nine Sharpened Spears" - he hangs from the windy tree and "falls back" in the infant pose, which symbolizes rebirth. The Mayan oral traditions say that their gods were bearded white men - as Graham Hancock has been told. I think the Scandinavians traveled much further than people realize.
Real Question here: Wouldn't not believing in Valhalla throw the rest of the stuff out the window as well? Such as waiting in Valhalla until Ragnarok? And what about Fólkvangr? Is there any actual evidence that Fólkvangr was believed to be a real place as well?
I find myself asking that sometimes too. Some things old religions were right on. But some things not. Its ok because all they has was the technology at the time and what they experienced.
I think of it as similar to Hel, where you go in between incarnations, but where specific souls go instead of the masses. Somewhere higher ascended souls go to train hard and rest until the appropriate time for them to come back when their wisdom is most needed. I don't think every soul goes to Hel for a brief time and reincarnates almost immediately, but I don't think there is some "heaven" world that is a final destination.
Thank you for the easy understandable link to our nearly forgotten paractises. I am wondering about Folkvangr (Sessrumne). If the more enlightened worriers go to Frøyas hall, maybe that's the hall you skip some steps on the reincarnation ladder? I really would like to understand more about the differences between Vallhall and Sessrumne..
Thank you for your videos. Growing up in America I was always swamped with christianity. The only knowledge I had of my Nordic roots were from Hollywood.
"Maybe Valhalla-the place people generally associate as Viking heaven, instead of representing a literal new place, instead represents the mindset of affirming reincarnation. Stay with me a second, Valhalla a place where you eat and drink, and fight for eternity...thats life." was gonna post that on a video i was watchin like 5 minuets ago lol
So, let me see if I get this right. Hel and Hell have the same linguistic root and were likely originally the same concept but through time they evolved into what we know them as today?
Exactly. The word Hel/Kel is a very old world going back thousands of years before christianity. I think the christian original latin word for hell is "inferno"? or something like that. they simply took our germanic word and associated it with their belief in their christian hell.
It's supposed to be Wuotan's aka Odin's hall a place for feasting fighting & fucking and repeat until Ragnarøkkr (Ragnarok) in Ásgarðr (Asgard) and only the selected may enter Valhǫll (Valhalla that has been taught) the selected are the slain in battle chosen by Wuotan and or his Valkyrja (Valkyrie)
Moin Moin, i am so thankful that you say Germanic and not Viking what actually in Germanic means wig/ wigan Kämpfer ( fighter), eaven the German Word for War = Krieg is rootet there, in the German/Germanic dictionary for example Kampf: germ. *badwa-, *badwaz, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Streit; *badwō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Kampf, Streit; *dulga-, *dulgam, st. N. (a): nhd. Kampf, Streit, Feindschaft, Wunde, Schuld, Pflicht (F.) (1); *ernustu-, *ernustuz, st. M. (u): nhd. Ernst, Festigkeit, Kampf; *fehta-, *fehtam, st. N. (a): nhd. Gefecht, Kampf; *fehtō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Gefecht, Kampf; *greig-?, germ.?, Sb.: nhd. Anstrengung, Kampf; *gunþa-, *gunþaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *gunþjō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Kampf; *haþu-, *haþuz, *hadu-, *haduz, st. M. (u): nhd. Kampf; *helda-, *heldaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *heldī, sw. F. (n): nhd. Kampf; *hildjō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Streit, Kampf; *kampa, Sb.: nhd. Feld, Kamp, Kampf; *neiþa-, *neiþaz, *nīþa-, *nīþaz, st. M. (a): nhd. Eifer, Neid, Hass, Feindseligkeit, Kampf, Streit; *neiþa-, *neiþam, *nīþa-, *nīþam, st. N. (a): nhd. Eifer, Neid, Hass, Feindseligkeit, Kampf, Streit; *weiga-, *weigaz, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf; *weiga-, *weigam, *wīga-, *wīgam, st. N. (a): nhd. Kampf; *weigi-, Sb.: nhd. Kampf; *wihta, germ.?, Sb.: nhd. Kampf kampfbegierig: germ. *franka-, *frankaz, Adj.: nhd. mutig, frei, frank, kampfbegierig kämpfen: germ. *fehtan, st. V.: nhd. fechten, kämpfen; *haþ-, V.: nhd. kämpfen; *juk-, V.: nhd. streiten, zanken, kämpfen; *weigan, *wīgan, st. V.: nhd. kämpfen, streiten, fechten; *wigan, *wihan, st. V.: nhd. kämpfen, fechten, streiten kämpfend: germ. *-fehtula-, *-fehtulaz, germ.?, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend; *weiga-, *weigaz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar; *weigi-, *weigiz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar; *wenna-, *wennaz, germ.?, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend Kämpfer: germ. *gunþa-, *gunþaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *helda-, *heldaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *kapprjō-, *kaprjō-, germ.?, Sb.: nhd. Balkenkopf, Sparren (M.), Kämpfer; *mili-, germ.?, M.: nhd. Soldat, Krieger, Kämpfer; *weigō-, *weigōn, *weiga-, *weigan, sw. M. (n): nhd. Kämpfer kämpferisch: germ. *weiga-, *weigaz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar; *weigi-, *weigiz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar Kampfkraft: germ. *waigō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Kraft, Kampfkraft , so is most like Worror = Krieger = Wieger = Wickinger = Viking , so is an job in an Tribe not the Name of a Tribe, so i hope you can handle the German/ Germanic thank you for your good Videos , regards from Tyskland
Now I'm worried. I am 18 years old and a boxer. Two years later, I will enlist in the army and die, and I am glad to meet everyone's father Oden in Valhalla. I'm going to die fighting and I hope my destination is Valhalla. ❤️❤️🇫🇷🏴❤️❤️
I would speculate that Valhalla is like Fiddler's Green, the afterlife pub of the seaman (and to a lesser extent, the US Cavalryman). A place, told through folklore, for an honored and noble dead to rest and no longer have to journey towards the otherwise end destination
Yes. First stories of odin can be dated to about the 800s but the stories are much older than that of course. And yes Mercury is the parralel in the roman mythology and (probably) Hermes in the greek
As i always say... ,,We all will see,,😉. For now i live my life until the time the nornes have decided i can go. I don't fear death neither i want to provoke it but i'm excited to see what's comming after. 😁
That's quite funny, I always interpreted Valhalla as a cycle of reincarnation, it's the bridge between death and rebirth. I thought this belief wasn't really popular either and I was right, it isn't popular as, you can probably see, I only found out there's even an idea like that through your video. I need to research more, and I definitely will! Thank you for this video.
i always thought so, valhalla never made any sense in the way its normally portrayed and something always felt off about it to me and the norse and anglo saxons believed in reincarnation after death when the body you previously lived in decomposed over three weeks and this was how long they believed they spent in hellheim with hel and that if the burial site was disturbed, decomposing body disturbed during this time they were forced back into their bodies as Draugr the undead. Also valhalla was more like this idea that odin and his valkyries chose warriors to join him in combating the threat of the jotun, dark elves, surtur and the fire giants and being his warriors for a short while before they to were reincarnate into a new born mortal physical body. Also the theory that Valhalla is reincarnation or where you go to wait reincarnation and those that went to Hel stayed in Helheim for a lot longer than the people who went straight to valhalla and got reincarnated faster seems to be a thing ive heard before and read that it matches the anglo saxon version of Valhalla, where they beleived that woden was the god of death and rebirth and lord over the afterlife as well as the god of the runic magic and war. Woden seemed to be the main chief god of war and it seems more like Tyr was the god of battle, combat and tribalism and spirit of strength and courage in battle., seaxneat seemed to be the god of the seax and patron tribal god of saxons and the spirit of the sword and shield and and god of sword combat. It really is a shame we dont have a clue because they either didnt write it down because they probably didnt think they'd have a bunch christians and roman catholics forcing their religion on them or if they did write stuff down it was either destoyed completely by the christians or so heavily altered and christianized by the christian monks and romans that it seems were never truly know exactly what our ancestors believed in, its like here in britian, im british with some irish ancestry and ive spent along portion of my adult life researching Anglo saxon history, mythology, celtic irish and scottish history and mythology and brythonic history and mythology and mainly as inspiration for my fantasy book series, rpg game im working on and im borrowing from these mythologies for my own original fantasy world mythology and its been hard to find alot of credible sources and proper legit information alot of what i have found is people grasping for straws, a lot of guess work and alot of misinformation and alot of people getting information from media like marvel, god of war and other stuff.
You got me thinking more about reincarnation. Birth death rebirth the circle of life. There is one factor in this equation. Energy is constant. our spirit never dies so reincarnation could be possible.
I would love to. I just don't know enough about the celtic ones to speak. I will maybe do a video in the future with someone else who is more knowledgeable.
So Christianity does not have a horrible history of brutality? History is complex because so much of it is written, then revised and is revised again by the current "victor". Blood ran on the streets of Jerusalem when the Crusader Commander said "Kill them all ... the Christians will be going to heaven!". All history includes brutality ...
I believe all religions throughout the world in there beginnings struggled to bring people together and feel a cohesiveness. It's important to remember that the world was a not so nice place to live millennium s ago. All religions started with one man or woman trying to bring some sort of peace to the world. A great person for sure. The heavens and the hells from the different religions were conception. Basically if you're a "bad" individual you go to hell. Good people go to heaven. Within the realms of "heaven and hell" there need to be good guys and bad guys, "gods, deities etc." To make the whole concept seem more plausible. Did the beginning religions make an impact in the beginning? Norse tribes that invaded other lands needed comfort. How? If you die in battle or possibly raiding you could possibly go to Valhalla. A great place to live in the afterlife with the aforementioned gods. It brought the Scandinavian people together. I'm from Scandinavian background and British Isles. I believe in my forefathers belief systems. I do believe one needs to however understand the differences between hard facts and fiction also. No disrespect to this channel, I've gotten great information from it. Skàl👊
Sup bro, I dont watch but content but this one popped up in my feed. Come here to give ya a thumbs up for the all blacks shirt. I'll watch the vid too though seeing as I'm here anyway
Valhol seems to me like a military deployment. The best warriors are brought on cycles to teach newer tactics and techniques to the older einar before being reincarnated to learn as much as possible before ragnarok. It is how many modern special forces groups improve consistently.
Gode argumenter. Her må jeg abonnere!!Ettersom jeg er medium (som jeg tror har vart så lenge vi har vært på denne jord), så er det for meg nr 2. MEN jeg har prøvd å nå inn til energier fra Vikingtid for å få informasjon, og jeg får ikke inn en dritt!! De er på et helt annet energinivå/reinkardinert??. Du har rett reinkarnasjon er fokuset!!
Our forefathers believed that we lived on in the trees and I'm pretty sure that this belief extended into the Viking age. The trees feed on our bones just like in real life.
based on modern swedish and my "uneducated guess" asgard sounds like it could mean "burial ground": asgard --> (gard sounds like gård(garden/yard) asgård -->("as" is a corpse) so corpse garden? (this was only based on the word, not any facts or context)
Thank you for sharing your wisdom over the matter. You have given me some reassurance on how I've been going about educating myself on what it means to be "PAGAN" in today's world. SKOL! 🍻
what i heard and understand it from the video when it come to Valhalla it is like when a some reaches the point to become transcendent. (wich definetly requers alot of reincarnation ) The definitive from or tem used on Valhalla as an "afterlife" is a bit out of context to label Valhalla as an afterlife thats for sure. What i am trying to say (sorry my english not the best hence it is not my native language so i am sorry about my grammar and spelling but i hope you get it what i mean) is bascily already heard in the video when you mentioned Nirvana. Nirvana is not an afterlife thats for sure. it the point when the soul or your spirit is become transcendent and became the very "divine" beeing what we truly are (at least in occult phylosophy ofc) In my opinion same apllyes to Valhalla as well. You born you are inside the circle until you reach your transcendent state then you break out of the circles of reincarnation. Please note this, this cannot be achieved by saying okay im done and i am leaving the circle now. No one know exactly howmany reincarnation is requered to achieve that state when you can leav the circle, and actualy became what you truly are. A divine beiing(not in a christian term at all) You said in one in your video that the we have parts from the gods lives within us like the heart, wich is beating. The Odr (not sure if i spelled that right) but if what you said is true (and i am 100% sure it is) that means we are parth of them as well. And Valhalla is the higest state what the soul or your spirit can achieve. If we think a bit behind the word what Valhalla means (in true context not by the unsure or christan stuff) but we can clearly put the piecies together and we have the conclusion. We are their children (according to the sagas at least (poetic) ) so Valhalla means we are not going to the christinised heaven, it is the oposite the childern of the gods are awaken. And they decide when they reach their last reincarnation (becasue there is always a chose) to re enter the circle and become the messenger (you know whom i speak of) or you just dont. You have acomplished the thing what you meant to be become. your own divine self. The seed wich lives inside of our souls or spirit is a direct divine spark from the gods, even if were created out of tree or not, why? you said it even trees have tehir spirituality, energy, vibes, frekvenczies etc. They are all connected.They are all part of the whole big picture. they are not just plants, or stuff. they have their own macrocosmical hensikt. You know what i mean? some one might say that there is no escape from the ciclycal reincarnation, but thats not true. everything has a reason. And the main goal is to realize yourself. wich means reaching the point of Become Valhalla. what do you think? i hope you could get it what i meant to say i am so sorry about my grammar and my spelling :D honestly i wish i could help it but 12+2 tense usage in a language is a bit to hard for me :D
Valhall as a Christian concept makes a lot of sense to me, early on when trying to convert pagans the priests tried to sell Jesus as a warrior prince. There’s an early Saxon poem called Heliand mixing pagan warrior ideals with Christian beliefs, also i personally prefer the idea of reincarnation
I think valholl is the mark you make on life and how you will be remembered. Only legends and true heroes go to Valhalla such as the ones in the saga's. And Valhalla reincarnation is probably that you remember your previous life without having to go through a ritual or process. You probably also will have a very successful life in Valhalla type reincarnation.
I've been enjoying your channel. I've tried a few Asatru groups on FB for a minute here and there to see if I could enroll anyone in actual discussion regarding lore, symbolism, practical philosophy and lessons, but after seeing too many comments by wannabes that think Loki is some kind of "god of laughter" and brag how they tell their goddamned kids that Thor makes the thunder they hear and asking if anyone knows any "good prayers" to one god or another to ask for something and showing off pics of their home-made altars, I get irritated and bail. And don't get me started with the random meat-heads I'll run across in public with a Walknut or Aegishjalmur tattoo. So far I've gained (outside of reading actual fucking books), I think, the most salient info from your vids and those of Jackson Crawford, so, much thanks. Random question: Were you born and raised in Norway? I seem to detect a bit of a subtle Norski accent here and there, but I noted a California licence plate in another vid. Your pronunciation of Norwegian sounds too native and natural to my ears for it to be a second language. Maybe you've lived in the US for a long time?
Haha yes you have come to the right place. I have laready pissed off those "FB pagans" and they stay away from here. Yes thats right. Norwegian but lived in the US and other countries for quite some time now.
The Celtic idea was there is an "Otherworld" afterlife with many realms but it was not the end destination , it was a place of rest and recharge before you 1. reincarnate 2. become a spirit that watches over a place or person 3. become an active spiritual force in the world.
Starting to think Helheim/Helhām is a term literally meaning that. Hel comes from a root meaning hidden or covered, if I remember right, -heim is basically realm. So, hidden realm / otherworld
@@BrigantinosDoRoudos "Heim" in german means also "home". So after dead we are going back home.
Don't make this harder than it is. Hel is where ur body goes, unt Valhalla is where ur spirit goes = after u die.
What're the sources for that?
@@BrigantinosDoRoudos The great void before the Big bang = Ginnungagap, Yggdrasil = the universe, Ymer = God
I've been a practicing pagan for 16 years and the past 6 of them have been studying Hinduism, Taoism, and Buddhism. What I've learned is that everything is connected and energy is everywhere. Seidr and Tantra, for example, are very similar. The exact methods may differ, but the connections made are the same. If you go back far enough in any culture, you'll find similarities in their shamanic practices and their core beliefs. This is because nature is not that different, despite where we live. We all have the same moon and sun. We all see the same stars. We all find connections with animals and water sources. The names may be different, but that's just because languages have changed over thousands of years of migration. But go back far enough in any culture and you'll find we're all connected.
Beautifully said! Only (very slight) differences around the world is the specific nature and peoples perceptions of it.
Sounds not unlike my own route to the roots so to speak. Taoism definitely remains the primary tool in my arsenal. But no tree can grow without roots.
Do we have a legitimate Seidr tradition still around? Genuine question, I'm very much under the impression that what alot of modern pagans practice as far as "magic" for lack of a better term is influenced by modern neopaganism or other living traditions which may explain the connection. I very well may be wrong, and in this case would be overjoyed to be wrong. Where would I look if indeed this stuff remains?
@@travismitchell210 It's hard to say. Like the Gauls/Celts, the Norse didn't write much down. They only used runes rarely for special monuments. We have an Icelandic book of spells that gives us some idea of how they practiced (Icelandic being the closest language today to what Nordic tribes spoke). We have some mentions of Seidr in the Eddas in stories involving Freyja and Odin. Odin sacrificing himself on his own spear while hanging on the boughs of Yggdrasil is a shamanic ritual. Many shamans believe that you don't become a shaman unless you've experienced death. Odin learned the runes and taught them to Freyja. She in return taught him Seidr. We also know that the Germanic tribes mingled with the Sami people, who were shamanic in their practices, as they moved north into Scandinavia. Which explains the allegory of the Germanic gods (Aesir) fighting with the nature gods (Vanir and Jotun) before the Vanir merged into the Aesir. It's a reflection of how the people fought with the Sami before merging. At least in the southern parts of Scandinavia.
We do have reconstruction attempts made by modern authors, but it's just like modern druidry. We only have records of magical practitioners of the area from descriptions made by outsiders. For the missing pieces we have to look to the Sami practices to the north and archeological finds of what tools and attire Seidr practitioners were buried with. The difference is that druidry has formal reconstructionist courses with modern reconstructionist organizations. Seidr reconstruction isn't quite that formal yet. There are some teachers, authors, and RUclipsrs but not many. And it's hard to tell just how valid those works are.
Love this because it really is that so many of our ancients knew what was real a d truth but it’s been burned and banned. The difference truely is perception and what it’s named. But when we take the time to study other energy arts or theologies, we can learn so much about our Germanic inner knowings.
of course , Hindu and Celtic , and Germanic, we are one , yes I see it now. thank you!
I am an old man 76 now and I very much enjoy hearing about the old religions, you have a lovely Thors Hammer!
You Forgot Baltic and Slavic peoples sir.
Yes , thank you kind sir, and the the Slavic and Baltic people. I dont know about the Greek and Roman people
I agree on this one, Valhalla being the ultimate state of being. Never thought about it, but it makes sense.
Gonna just be honest varg broke it down best. As did einar selvik for that matter... existence is clearly cyclical. And that principle wasnt lost to our ancestors. All it takes is a few months in the woods to come to this conclusion, wether done in thailand, scandanavia, or some plot of land in northern michigan...
You will climb no tree unless you can see past the tree. You absolutely nailed it in this video. Definitely won my subscription.
There is meaning in Jesus Christ friend.
@@unkownoflife5959 there is meaning in life friend
Yes the forests and beautiful waters of northern MI have done well by me. When the insanity of the world gets to be overwhelming walking in the woods is the best therapy I have found.
Its beautiful and just in case shit goes bad it sure wont hurt being surrounded by most of the earths fresh water ;) I can definitely see why my family chose NW MI as their new home when immigrating from Friesland and Denmark, there are many similarities ...minus the salt water that did so much damage to our lands back in Europe.
I absolutely love how you paint a big picture and not just look at things isolated. The connection to Hinduism, reincarnation and so on, great work. People who think this way should connect. This gives me hope.
From what I understand, Hel is the standard afterlife, where spirits go to continue life as if on Earth, until reincarnation. Valhalla and Folkvangr were where those who died in battle would have gone. In this context, it would make sense that mentions and beliefs in such realms amongst warriors would increase later on as populations grew and more people sought out the warrior life, especially once overseas raiding began.
I agree.
Makes sense
I was pronounced Clinically Dead on the 14th of November 2019 three times, I was airlifted of which I have no recollection. I don’t even remember getting to the nearest hospital, nothing. I remember being seated at a massive wooden table with three longhair muscle bound men, they all had different color hair with different color eyes. The one that was at the head of the table looked at me and said, “you have to go back”, I looked down and when I looked up I saw my daughter at my side. My husband was there too and he asked me what I had encountered in the other side, (as a physician he didn’t want to give up on me).......What you explained makes perfect sense 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
Thank you so much for this. Like so many of us, I am surrounded by the "brosatru" guys who think they are these new "vikings" because they grow a beard, they often have the "Ragnar" hair, and some "viking" tattoos and say "see you in Valhalla." As a true believer in the Old Ways, I am always seeking to deepen my understanding and increase my knowledge of the faith, and this is just what I needed. It is interesting that in my spiritual journey out of Christianity I studied Hinduism for several years and that the journey has in some ways led me back. Keep up the good work!
I discovered your channel yesterday and i'm already hooked. Cheers from Argentina!
Our ancestors were ancestors worshiping, it's that simple. So yes Reincarnation
"Hel aint no bad place to be!.."
-Bon Scott
What a great video. I was always under the concept and this being simplified, that Valhalla was where the warriors went to to wait for Ragnarok and Hel was where the common folk went to. This mainly due to my laziness and reading historical fiction books.
According to Rudolf Simek in "The Dictionary of Northern Mythology" (well worth getting for scholarly insight), there are "some mountains in South Sweden which in folk belief are thought to be the place where the dead live, as mountains of the dead are also called Valhall." So Valhall could come from old norse 'Hallr' meaning Rock rather than 'holl' meaning hall. Perhaps the idea of Valhalla therefore is related to burial in mounds/ dying into mountains as we see in the sagas/archaeology. And then the idea of Valhalla as a hall of the slain is a later development from that idea.
Yes Iv'e got that book and love it. Forgot that part actually. Yes and lots of folktales later on in time mention ancestral spirits living in the rocks/mountains. Thats something to look more into for sure.
Thank you Matty i learned again something new 👍
I think holl is the word for a rocky hall. Still use it in Norway as a word. Im thinking rock covered floor, just like a cathedral or other big construction.
Fits in well with animism
One thing you didn't discuss is the comparison between Valhalla and Folkvanger. You also didn't discuss the role of the Valkariyes
Please make a video on this in the future. Much love
Your work has impact. Thanks for staying true to the sources.
I’ve been listening to your channel while I work. I really enjoy it as I do have Scandinavian and Viking ancestry.
Reincarnation, yes! I have been in Thailand for many years , speak thai, and am Buddhist, which suits me very well. reincarnation is a central point in Buddhism and in Thai, Hundi etc
religions. In Thai cluture they have gods of earth, water, trees, sun , moon, animals... which is similar to Celtic culture, I felt right at home there.
the Germanic word Buda , German Bote, means Herald/messenger/ delivery boy, so
Buda = Buddha he Proclaimed/brings the messege / delivers the truth .
…*budō-, *budōn, *buda-, *budan, germ., sw. M. (n): nhd. Bote, Verkünder
It's a mixture of all the different things that are mentioned.
A "golden" hel where you await your reincarnation.
Like a first class hel.
A way to elevate some higher status people to the front line of who aught to be reincarnated first.
in the uralic world it´s related to the different
concepts of the soul.. a person could have up to
five different "souls" that all went to different
places.. the breath soul went to the sun where
it was re-incarnated and born again to a child
of kin.. in the next tribe it was the shadow soul
that went to the moon.. so the sun and the moon
both very important in this.. in the next tribe
one of the souls carried on / was re-born as their
totem animal.. so all the earthly bears you saw
were actually your dead relatives which is why you
could not kill bears (while the tribe next door
had no problem of killing bears).
then there´s all kinds of beliefs about a place of
spirits that is beneath the ground / in the mountain
/ in the lake / down the river.. usually one of the
souls travels there.. it´s the place where the
spirits of the ancestors live (just like they did
on earth, a matter greatly emphasized).. there´s
even mentions of a valhalla-type warrior heaven but
it´s considered turkic influence (it´s one or two
notes compared to hundreds of pages about souls
and
re-incarnation).
that probably doesn´t help much, just to give
some idea of the diversity.. people were more local
/ clan based back then which is the perfect building
ground for different beliefs.. the common nominator,
as you said, is the same everywhere, that it´s
re-incarnation based.. i would suggest tracing the
different parts of the soul in your native languages
(breath, shadow, self, shape, ray (sun rays, moon
beams), blood, hair, tooth, spirit, child, body,
birth, words like that.. maybe different animals /
birds / insects that were seen as soul animals /
totem animals.. it´s complicated but not (it just
has to make cyclical sense).
Very interesting. I did not know alot of that. Uralic belifs are very closely related to ours. Thank you.
also bones, heart and liver, all connected
to souls, as well as dreams and names.. i mean,
they returned the bones of dead animals to
nature so that they could be reborn, it doesn´t
get any plainer than that..
i think it´s important to understand that the
shaman is not there to make the tribes the
same.. they´re there to make the tribes
different.. you don´t want to be doing the
same things as the neighbouring tribe, whom are
sometimes seen as the enemy.. also that it´s
likely different layers that have been added
through time.. at first it might have been
only one or two "sacred parts" (blood, bone,
breath, shadow) and then other concepts
were added to it.. like the uralic fifth
"male soul" could very well be a "warrior soul"
(that might have gone to a different place)
but it could also be a "hunter´s soul" that
simply turned into an animal.. it is well
documented that they (some uralic tribes)
took the heads / scalps of enemy warriors
so that they could not be reborn, which again
doesn´t point to a valhalla type place but to
this earth.
to me it´s the environment you live in and
how many "sacred parts" you want to include,
in the "whole".. before the uralics there were
the pre-uralics (tsuudit) whom are considered
a true winter based culture.. it is told that
they never wiped snow off them.. to me what this
suggests is that their children might have come
back as snow flakes.. it is always something
tangible like that, because that´s how they thought
(and that´s how we still think).
The fact that it was customary for The Norse to often name children after a deceased grandparents, or ancestors reflects a much stronger emphasis on reincarnation than simply a larger focus on Hel or Valhalla. But, the Norse idea of reincarnation is little different than Buddhist, and Hindu concepts because in the belief of naming children after ancestors it was thought the child might inherit "reincarnated personality traits/skill set aptitudes" from the deceased ancestor, not necessarily the inheritance of an ancestral soul in the sense that the eastern religions understood it.
So glad I found this channel!
Once again you’ve opened my eyes even wider thank you
I love this page! There's way to much bad info out there! It makes learning difficult!! Thank you and all the people who comment!
Nice channel; you dig well and not get satisfied quick with common knowledge.. I really like it!! You are a true Viking!!
Odin was the Master Shaman. The Norse people used mushrooms and mead and were very into "seeing through/lifting the veil". I think Valhalla was a type of "reward" for those waiting to be reincarnated. As a pagan Celt, Myself..this makes perfect sense
I think of Hel as the place where the vast majority go and wait there for their resurrection. There a special minority who are chosen by Valkyries and shared by Odin and Freya. Those chosen by Odin go to Valhalla and live eternally but not immortally. Those chosen by Freya are sent to the land of the elves to live immortal lives. That bit about the person in Valhalla who is reincarnated outside Valhalla is intriguing. I hope to come across more about that in the future. As always, thanks for your great videos.
@@hette457 I got it from Maria Kvilhaug's book The Seed of Iggrasil.
Thank you for the great work. Please keep it up. Well presented, easy to follow and understand. Well done. Chris
Im glad you made this video. Honestly though I am grateful for all of your videos, but this one is really good. I have deep roots in Germany and some in Scandanavia. My family has been to war for as long back as I have seen. Almost every male has been in the military. War is in our blood lol
Main topic:
My faith was my own for a long time before I married a christian woman then it became christian. Having studied all facets of the bible and the texts that were not included led me to fall back to my old Faith (wife hated that lol).
Afterlife:
Bottom line, I have always believed in reincarnation and that there is no Heavan or Hell. There is simply an Afterlife that we all go to, all in the same place. Like a waiting area to be reborn and possibly to enpart or learn additional knowledge before we do so.
Reincarnation:
I have a birth mark on my arm, since I could remember though it was actually a scar I got. Its on both sides of my arm, like an arrow or bullet exploded through it.
Thanks again for your content brother. We are all connected, both here and in the realm of our Ancestors.
I wish people would focus more on how we live our lifes and how we treat eachother, instead of thinking about what happens after death and which (delusional/fictional) religious concept "is right" in the end.
Because:
ek veit einn, at aldrei deyr,
dómr um dauðan hverm
very interesting content brother, I keep watching with great interest.
Greetings from an old german :-)
I've always believed in reincarnation, and when I was in my teens, had serious spiritual insight on what I thought were past lives of mine and how 2 of my loved ones were in them. But there's a problem that just doesn't add up. Numbers of souls versus total numbers of people on the planet at different dates in history. My earliest and non-Ger manic life was as an artisan during, I think, some time in the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt. So how many people walked the earth back then? Now, let's look at today. We have an over-populated planet. Perhaps in present-day India you could have the same number, or even higher, of people living all over the whole world about 1.300 years ago. So what does that say about the number of souls? Do they reproduce, too, just as human bodies do? That's my big doubt, though I still believe in reincarnation. The numbers just don't add up.
There’s actually a lot of insight to this in the uncorupted new age theologies. Not the goverment steered ones. Also in Hinduism
Yes souls can make baby soul sparks as others ascend out
it's not a stretch to suggest that most people today have not lived before / have young souls / have no soul. the average person has almost no concern with the past, nature, or spirituality except when it's socially beneficial for them.
curious if you've heard of Shambhala? I've been seening a lot of correlation between Buddhists and Norse Pagan beliefs. this is speculation but I find it highly intriguing the annunciation of the two is damn near identical. love your videos and all the information you share!
Wow, this was a lucky shoot.
Verry fun and refreshing channel.
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Yea I been dealing with it my whole life. I had no TV as a kid. I think I over dosed on Myths. Then I studied Molecular Biology and got a job testing DNA about 18 years ago. The DNA started blowing my mind. I am a Melungeon so I heard Gypsy Myths, African Myths, the Norse myths preserved by Kale in Wales. Why Welsh people preserved all kind of Viking myths is weird. But the amazing thing is how similar it all is especially the Iroquois Seneca. It's as if the Seneca are descended from one of Odins wives. The Seneca have a Jesus too accept he is a Muskrat. The Matrilineal tribes kept the Earth sacred because the Forest was their life support system. The Farmers and Wall builders are the Patrilineal tribes they see the Forest as a threat. But all people have some common origin - it's the Mbuti pygmies. Funny we are looking for Giants - we are Giants. The Pygmy is a real man.
Videos on this?
@@CountBeetle I'm not sure my Maw maw told me all the Iroquois stories. People like me know a lot stuff that's not on the phone. I'll look and see. I would search Hadenosaunee or Sky woman and Muskrat or Turtle Island and Celestial Tree. The Seneca story I was told as a child was the most magical heart breaking tragic and uplifting heroic story I ever heard in my entire life. I have an almost maternal feeling of emotion for protecting Muskrat in the Big Ugly forest where we are from. Sky Woman fell down into the roots of yggdrasil and she fell down to the Earth where there was a great flood and she saved many animals and gathered them on the Turtles back. She was the wife of the Thunder Father and full of magic if only she could get a handful of mud she could rebuild the whole Earth on the Turtles back. The Mountain Lion tried first but could not dive- the Otter kept getting distracted and eating Fish. The Beaver was to Fat to dice deep. The great Bear tried but could not get to the bottom. Then the goofy Muskrat said " let me try" and everyone laugh except Sky woman. So Muskrat dive deep and got some mud but he could not hold his breath and choked on the water but with his last but of strength he handed sky Woman a handful of mud then Muskrat died. Sky Woman threw him in the sky and he became an ever lasting sky god ( the big dipper) and his children were given great blessings by Sky Woman.
@@CountBeetle Only Vikings and Iroquois called themselves people of the Long house; only Biking and Iroquois and Altai have y chromosome Haologroup Q and R in proximity and X chromosome " X" - we jokingly call the Atlantean modal haologroup because it appears to originate in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Vikings and Iroquois were once the same people often called Solutrean
@@CountBeetle there are a few vids on RUclips I never even thought of just searching for it ruclips.net/video/qV5sGEneGCM/видео.html
@@shadowforger2035 very interesting Sir. Thank you
Thank you for sharing.
I had a thought after watching this vid: Might it be possible, considering the time-frame of the known mentions of Valhǫll as an afterlife, that the concept was intentionally created and disseminated as a sort of motivational concept contextualising Ragnarøkkr with the struggle against Christianity? As if the message was "Don't worry if you fall in battle for you'll join the ranks of the einherjar and will fight the enemy at Vígríðr", as opposed to the unpleasant option of merely being reborn into a potentially Christian world.
I don't think so. European faiths have a concept of a last battle.
I like this idea actually because the end times verses the warrior heaven fits well. And I certainly am tired of being reborn into this shit hole of religions conquering and controlling.
I hope there’s a way to exit stage left at some point because dying in battle against the nw0 and then being reborn into it doesn’t sound great.
Nobody knows what happens when we die but I like the older notion of "the meadows" I find some comfort in the idea of wide open spaces, beautiful trees, and fish filled streams 😆
Thanks so much for your work! You are appreciated!
Perhaps Valhalla is the concept of Ending the reincarnation cycle via doing something worthy, and Hel is the place you wait to go into the next life.
Great vid
Oh i agree that there is not much left about Slavic beliefs.
And i kinda feel that the 3rd option you talk about is a logical for me.
I read somewhere that Valhalla was a place where spirits go to rest and await the rebirth.
Really good work!well presented.Totally agree with the reincarnation process...and that Valhalla,for as to use to day,it seen to me like a spiritual archetypal place,where we can summon our inner self trough the unconscious.A place to temper the mind,soul and spirit...in order to be able to rise the cosmic raw energy in to this world ,and trough our body and actions...
When I hear this, it reminds me of Kemetic spirituality. This is all about symbolism where most just see strange gods.
Also, the work of Brian Weiss who did a lot of past life experiences tells about these same things.
Kemetic spirituality dates back to around say 10.000 years or so and is still clearly visible in the hieroglyphs.
How this works is like the image of a human with the head of say a dog, which symbolizes very good hearing like a dog for example or a bird could represent freedom or wisdom... etc.
If I listen to the experience of Brian Weiss, he also speaks of an area where you meet the "Sages" or Masters and a time to restore before you go back in the next life, either back in time or the future.
The reason is to evolve as a Soul but without judgment, the Soul is free to learn and to review once you die. Dying is only physical as it's merely a transition of energy.
When I look at Kemetic science, practical application... all it means is we are living in this time, this body, as a soul without judgment. We live in harmony with nature (NTR - Neter) and the symbolism is esoteric, not exoteric.
In Kemetic application, it's all about finding your purpose and evolve as a Soul and the gods of Egypt are merely symbolism for certain ways to gain knowledge/feelings/character evolving... I can dig deeper if you appreciate it, but what you said sounds very familiar to me.
This has nothing to do with Christianity as I believe the Council of Nicaea made up a corporeal Jesus in the year 325.
Anyway, hope this helps
what you say in this video makes so much sense, based on my experiences
Great overview and discussion! Just found your channel as I was researching reincarnation and Valhalla for a book I am writing.
Interestingly in the ancient Greek afterlife beliefs there was the The Elysian Fields, also called Elysium, the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous in Greek mythology and religion.
Set apart from the plebs with extra perks 😀
I have been a keen reader and thinker about the Viking age since I was a kid and this morning the connection of Valhalla and reincarnation just sort of hit me. It always seemed a bit ridiculous that the heroes were just living to kill each other, be brought to life and then feasting at night, who the hell would want to go through that? ( Westworld anyone?)
But when you see it as a myth of living a valiant wild life, as most of us tried to live for untold aeons of incarnations, and then having a nice bit of a party and a rest in between lives in a higher realm before coming back here, makes sense to me.
Looking forward to checking out more of your channel mate.
Thank you so much for your work! Keep it up!!
when i had my almose dead experience i ended up in a room with reall brith light and there was no shadows en no sounds and no time. yet my mother was their waiting for me and we communicated with energie. when i came back i was totally disconfuse for 2 days.
happy it did happen. so i believe in number 3
Thank you for making such critical content
I’m a novice at best when it comes to Norse Myths. But something about this video brought an interesting idea about Hel, Odin, and reincarnation. I’ve read that even Odin and the other gods pay respects to Hel the Goddess of Death, as she seems to be more powerful than they are.
Now after watching your video on Odin possibly being a powerful Spirit/god that’s reincarnated throughout time, he has to go through Hel to be reincarnated.
So now it makes more sense why Odin and the other gods have to pay respects to Hel as they all have to go through Hel the goddess and place to come back here.
Which now may bring Ragnarök into play here. As it’s the ‘Twilight of the Gods’ they and we die. We all go to Hel then comeback here and do it all over again. Recycle, rebirth, ouroboros (possibly Jörmungandr?)
Just a thought I had
Now I ask myself, why? Why do we have to go through reincarnation that seems to be endless. Why not stay in the after life with past loved ones? Do we have a choice on coming or staying there? Or do we choose to leave to be better people this time around and possibly go to Valhalla/Nirvana?
We think that Valhall is the place where you meet your ancestors and there you talk with them and you wait there for your reincarnation why your spirit have to grow and when you finished your way s you grown out you stay in Valhall but for what is know the question maybe some one can help us .
Your Movie was very good and helpful we didn't know about the writen Edda's from the Christian but we had this in the feeling that some of this different Myology was changed to become the people to get them faster to change their believe
The Yoruba culture in south west Nigeria had similar points with Norse mythology and gods....
I love learning my ancestry. Thank you. very informative .
Since the Neolithic kings/tribal leaders were buried with their belongings treasures animals and whoever I guess wanted to travel to the afterlife with them. Valhalla was likely a hall (perhaps even Scythian) that was famous for its wealth or notoriety. Promises of the afterlife ensured posterity for these nomadic tribes settling in foreign lands
If someone states that there's "proof" of any afterlife, regardless what version, I know immediately they don't mean actually physical evidence proved scientifically. If they want to talk academic proof of a belief's origin that's one thing. But saying that any afterlife/reincarnation concept was proved, that's not actually the case. The first requirement always ends up failing, which is if the idea is quantifiable, i.e. physically measurable.
Look at the tomb lid of Lord Pakal in the "House of Nine Sharpened Spears" - he hangs from the windy tree and "falls back" in the infant pose, which symbolizes rebirth. The Mayan oral traditions say that their gods were bearded white men - as Graham Hancock has been told. I think the Scandinavians traveled much further than people realize.
Real Question here: Wouldn't not believing in Valhalla throw the rest of the stuff out the window as well? Such as waiting in Valhalla until Ragnarok? And what about Fólkvangr? Is there any actual evidence that Fólkvangr was believed to be a real place as well?
I find myself asking that sometimes too. Some things old religions were right on. But some things not. Its ok because all they has was the technology at the time and what they experienced.
Perhaps Valhalla is the concept of Ending the reincarnation cycle via doing something worthy, and Hel is the place you wait to go into the next life.
I think of it as similar to Hel, where you go in between incarnations, but where specific souls go instead of the masses. Somewhere higher ascended souls go to train hard and rest until the appropriate time for them to come back when their wisdom is most needed. I don't think every soul goes to Hel for a brief time and reincarnates almost immediately, but I don't think there is some "heaven" world that is a final destination.
Thank you for the easy understandable link to our nearly forgotten paractises. I am wondering about Folkvangr (Sessrumne). If the more enlightened worriers go to Frøyas hall, maybe that's the hall you skip some steps on the reincarnation ladder? I really would like to understand more about the differences between Vallhall and Sessrumne..
Thank you for your videos. Growing up in America I was always swamped with christianity. The only knowledge I had of my Nordic roots were from Hollywood.
"Maybe Valhalla-the place people generally associate as Viking heaven, instead of representing a literal new place, instead represents the mindset of affirming reincarnation. Stay with me a second, Valhalla a place where you eat and drink, and fight for eternity...thats life." was gonna post that on a video i was watchin like 5 minuets ago lol
So, let me see if I get this right. Hel and Hell have the same linguistic root and were likely originally the same concept but through time they evolved into what we know them as today?
Exactly. The word Hel/Kel is a very old world going back thousands of years before christianity. I think the christian original latin word for hell is "inferno"? or something like that. they simply took our germanic word and associated it with their belief in their christian hell.
@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 That's nut's I always assumed that the Vikings adopted the word Hel/Hell as they were being Christianized.
If hel is one of the nine realms where does Valhalla lay in Yggdrasil?
It's supposed to be Wuotan's aka Odin's hall a place for feasting fighting & fucking and repeat until Ragnarøkkr (Ragnarok) in Ásgarðr (Asgard) and only the selected may enter Valhǫll (Valhalla that has been taught) the selected are the slain in battle chosen by Wuotan and or his Valkyrja (Valkyrie)
Are those who did not appear for the last battle worthy of the legacy?
Moin Moin, i am so thankful that you say Germanic and not Viking what actually in Germanic means wig/ wigan Kämpfer ( fighter), eaven the German Word for War = Krieg is rootet there, in the German/Germanic dictionary for example Kampf: germ. *badwa-, *badwaz, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Streit; *badwō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Kampf, Streit; *dulga-, *dulgam, st. N. (a): nhd. Kampf, Streit, Feindschaft, Wunde, Schuld, Pflicht (F.) (1); *ernustu-, *ernustuz, st. M. (u): nhd. Ernst, Festigkeit, Kampf; *fehta-, *fehtam, st. N. (a): nhd. Gefecht, Kampf; *fehtō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Gefecht, Kampf; *greig-?, germ.?, Sb.: nhd. Anstrengung, Kampf; *gunþa-, *gunþaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *gunþjō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Kampf; *haþu-, *haþuz, *hadu-, *haduz, st. M. (u): nhd. Kampf; *helda-, *heldaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *heldī, sw. F. (n): nhd. Kampf; *hildjō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Streit, Kampf; *kampa, Sb.: nhd. Feld, Kamp, Kampf; *neiþa-, *neiþaz, *nīþa-, *nīþaz, st. M. (a): nhd. Eifer, Neid, Hass, Feindseligkeit, Kampf, Streit; *neiþa-, *neiþam, *nīþa-, *nīþam, st. N. (a): nhd. Eifer, Neid, Hass, Feindseligkeit, Kampf, Streit; *weiga-, *weigaz, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf; *weiga-, *weigam, *wīga-, *wīgam, st. N. (a): nhd. Kampf; *weigi-, Sb.: nhd. Kampf; *wihta, germ.?, Sb.: nhd. Kampf
kampfbegierig: germ. *franka-, *frankaz, Adj.: nhd. mutig, frei, frank, kampfbegierig
kämpfen: germ. *fehtan, st. V.: nhd. fechten, kämpfen; *haþ-, V.: nhd. kämpfen; *juk-, V.: nhd. streiten, zanken, kämpfen; *weigan, *wīgan, st. V.: nhd. kämpfen, streiten, fechten; *wigan, *wihan, st. V.: nhd. kämpfen, fechten, streiten
kämpfend: germ. *-fehtula-, *-fehtulaz, germ.?, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend; *weiga-, *weigaz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar; *weigi-, *weigiz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar; *wenna-, *wennaz, germ.?, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend
Kämpfer: germ. *gunþa-, *gunþaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *helda-, *heldaz, germ.?, st. M. (a): nhd. Kampf, Kämpfer; *kapprjō-, *kaprjō-, germ.?, Sb.: nhd. Balkenkopf, Sparren (M.), Kämpfer; *mili-, germ.?, M.: nhd. Soldat, Krieger, Kämpfer; *weigō-, *weigōn, *weiga-, *weigan, sw. M. (n): nhd. Kämpfer
kämpferisch: germ. *weiga-, *weigaz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar; *weigi-, *weigiz, Adj.: nhd. kämpfend, kämpferisch, besiegbar
Kampfkraft: germ. *waigō, st. F. (ō): nhd. Kraft, Kampfkraft , so is most like Worror = Krieger = Wieger = Wickinger = Viking , so is an job in an Tribe not the Name of a Tribe, so i hope you can handle the German/ Germanic thank you for your good Videos , regards from Tyskland
Now I'm worried. I am 18 years old and a boxer. Two years later, I will enlist in the army and die, and I am glad to meet everyone's father Oden in Valhalla. I'm going to die fighting and I hope my destination is Valhalla. ❤️❤️🇫🇷🏴❤️❤️
I would speculate that Valhalla is like Fiddler's Green, the afterlife pub of the seaman (and to a lesser extent, the US Cavalryman). A place, told through folklore, for an honored and noble dead to rest and no longer have to journey towards the otherwise end destination
So where did that concept of fallen warriors going to Valhalla, drinking out of horns with the gods came from?
Where / when did the stories of Odin come into play? And is there any relation to the Roman gods and Greek gods
Yes. First stories of odin can be dated to about the 800s but the stories are much older than that of course. And yes Mercury is the parralel in the roman mythology and (probably) Hermes in the greek
@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 thank you... please keep up the great content, its extremely educational and opens an open mind even more.
As i always say... ,,We all will see,,😉. For now i live my life until the time the nornes have decided i can go. I don't fear death neither i want to provoke it but i'm excited to see what's comming after. 😁
Can you do a video on folkvangr?
It would be more "appropriate" to compare to the Greek Elysian Fields (elsium) than nirvana
Probably. I don't know about greek so much but Im sure you are right
How different is Old Norse from modern Icelandic. I’m struggling finding ways to learn the old Norse language
Its fairly close. There are plenty of books to learn old norse from if you are interested though
So where did the idea of a warrior's afterlife come from?
That's quite funny, I always interpreted Valhalla as a cycle of reincarnation, it's the bridge between death and rebirth. I thought this belief wasn't really popular either and I was right, it isn't popular as, you can probably see, I only found out there's even an idea like that through your video. I need to research more, and I definitely will! Thank you for this video.
i always thought so, valhalla never made any sense in the way its normally portrayed and something always felt off about it to me and the norse and anglo saxons believed in reincarnation after death when the body you previously lived in decomposed over three weeks and this was how long they believed they spent in hellheim with hel and that if the burial site was disturbed, decomposing body disturbed during this time they were forced back into their bodies as Draugr the undead. Also valhalla was more like this idea that odin and his valkyries chose warriors to join him in combating the threat of the jotun, dark elves, surtur and the fire giants and being his warriors for a short while before they to were reincarnate into a new born mortal physical body. Also the theory that Valhalla is reincarnation or where you go to wait reincarnation and those that went to Hel stayed in Helheim for a lot longer than the people who went straight to valhalla and got reincarnated faster seems to be a thing ive heard before and read that it matches the anglo saxon version of Valhalla, where they beleived that woden was the god of death and rebirth and lord over the afterlife as well as the god of the runic magic and war. Woden seemed to be the main chief god of war and it seems more like Tyr was the god of battle, combat and tribalism and spirit of strength and courage in battle., seaxneat seemed to be the god of the seax and patron tribal god of saxons and the spirit of the sword and shield and and god of sword combat.
It really is a shame we dont have a clue because they either didnt write it down because they probably didnt think they'd have a bunch christians and roman catholics forcing their religion on them or if they did write stuff down it was either destoyed completely by the christians or so heavily altered and christianized by the christian monks and romans that it seems were never truly know exactly what our ancestors believed in, its like here in britian, im british with some irish ancestry and ive spent along portion of my adult life researching Anglo saxon history, mythology, celtic irish and scottish history and mythology and brythonic history and mythology and mainly as inspiration for my fantasy book series, rpg game im working on and im borrowing from these mythologies for my own original fantasy world mythology and its been hard to find alot of credible sources and proper legit information alot of what i have found is people grasping for straws, a lot of guess work and alot of misinformation and alot of people getting information from media like marvel, god of war and other stuff.
You got me thinking more about reincarnation. Birth death rebirth the circle of life. There is one factor in this equation. Energy is constant. our spirit never dies so reincarnation could be possible.
Do you have any videos comparing Nordic & Celtic pagan religions?
I would love to. I just don't know enough about the celtic ones to speak. I will maybe do a video in the future with someone else who is more knowledgeable.
yooo loving the All Blacks shirt man, big enjoyer of your stuff here in NZ!
The deep religious ideas were cataloged by Adam of Bremen.
The Christians that recorded the beliefs systems also understood the brutality of paganism.
So Christianity does not have a horrible history of brutality? History is complex because so much of it is written, then revised and is revised again by the current "victor". Blood ran on the streets of Jerusalem when the Crusader Commander said "Kill them all ... the Christians will be going to heaven!". All history includes brutality ...
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Yep - big believer in re-incarnation...the only question is how the transition goes, and what the next life holds...
I believe all religions throughout the world in there beginnings struggled to bring people together and feel a cohesiveness. It's important to remember that the world was a not so nice place to live millennium s ago. All religions started with one man or woman trying to bring some sort of peace to the world. A great person for sure. The heavens and the hells from the different religions were conception. Basically if you're a "bad" individual you go to hell. Good people go to heaven. Within the realms of "heaven and hell" there need to be good guys and bad guys, "gods, deities etc." To make the whole concept seem more plausible. Did the beginning religions make an impact in the beginning? Norse tribes that invaded other lands needed comfort. How? If you die in battle or possibly raiding you could possibly go to Valhalla. A great place to live in the afterlife with the aforementioned gods. It brought the Scandinavian people together. I'm from Scandinavian background and British Isles. I believe in my forefathers belief systems. I do believe one needs to however understand the differences between hard facts and fiction also. No disrespect to this channel, I've gotten great information from it. Skàl👊
Sup bro, I dont watch but content but this one popped up in my feed. Come here to give ya a thumbs up for the all blacks shirt. I'll watch the vid too though seeing as I'm here anyway
Assuming that Valhalla is an actual place biuld out of spears and shields. Do you think it's possible for one to reach such a place today?
Valhol seems to me like a military deployment. The best warriors are brought on cycles to teach newer tactics and techniques to the older einar before being reincarnated to learn as much as possible before ragnarok. It is how many modern special forces groups improve consistently.
I thought Valhalla was only for warriors slain in battle
Those got destroyed by, you know who... Genious sentence, i Subscribed
Gode argumenter. Her må jeg abonnere!!Ettersom jeg er medium (som jeg tror har vart så lenge vi har vært på denne jord), så er det for meg nr 2. MEN jeg har prøvd å nå inn til energier fra Vikingtid for å få informasjon, og jeg får ikke inn en dritt!! De er på et helt annet energinivå/reinkardinert??. Du har rett reinkarnasjon er fokuset!!
There is mention of realms beyond Hel. Could this be that we go to Hel then go on to Halls of the Gods? Maybe to other galaxies?
Thank you so much for this! Those ripped out pages really piss me off! Lol
Our forefathers believed that we lived on in the trees and I'm pretty sure that this belief extended into the Viking age. The trees feed on our bones just like in real life.
very interesting channel, I did not know this and the truth makes a lot of sense and is very interesting. like and greetings from Puerto Rico
based on modern swedish and my "uneducated guess" asgard sounds like it could mean "burial ground":
asgard --> (gard sounds like gård(garden/yard)
asgård -->("as" is a corpse)
so corpse garden?
(this was only based on the word, not any facts or context)
Thank you for sharing your wisdom over the matter. You have given me some reassurance on how I've been going about educating myself on what it means to be "PAGAN" in today's world. SKOL! 🍻
what i heard and understand it from the video when it come to Valhalla it is like when a some reaches the point to become transcendent. (wich definetly requers alot of reincarnation ) The definitive from or tem used on Valhalla as an "afterlife" is a bit out of context to label Valhalla as an afterlife thats for sure. What i am trying to say (sorry my english not the best hence it is not my native language so i am sorry about my grammar and spelling but i hope you get it what i mean) is bascily already heard in the video when you mentioned Nirvana.
Nirvana is not an afterlife thats for sure. it the point when the soul or your spirit is become transcendent and became the very "divine" beeing what we truly are (at least in occult phylosophy ofc) In my opinion same apllyes to Valhalla as well. You born you are inside the circle until you reach your transcendent state then you break out of the circles of reincarnation. Please note this, this cannot be achieved by saying okay im done and i am leaving the circle now. No one know exactly howmany reincarnation is requered to achieve that state when you can leav the circle, and actualy became what you truly are. A divine beiing(not in a christian term at all) You said in one in your video that the we have parts from the gods lives within us like the heart, wich is beating.
The Odr (not sure if i spelled that right) but if what you said is true (and i am 100% sure it is) that means we are parth of them as well. And Valhalla is the higest state what the soul or your spirit can achieve. If we think a bit behind the word what Valhalla means (in true context not by the unsure or christan stuff) but we can clearly put the piecies together and we have the conclusion. We are their children (according to the sagas at least (poetic) ) so Valhalla means we are not going to the christinised heaven, it is the oposite the childern of the gods are awaken. And they decide when they reach their last reincarnation (becasue there is always a chose) to re enter the circle and become the messenger (you know whom i speak of) or you just dont. You have acomplished the thing what you meant to be become. your own divine self. The seed wich lives inside of our souls or spirit is a direct divine spark from the gods, even if were created out of tree or not, why? you said it even trees have tehir spirituality, energy, vibes, frekvenczies etc.
They are all connected.They are all part of the whole big picture. they are not just plants, or stuff. they have their own macrocosmical hensikt. You know what i mean? some one might say that there is no escape from the ciclycal reincarnation, but thats not true. everything has a reason. And the main goal is to realize yourself. wich means reaching the point of Become Valhalla. what do you think? i hope you could get it what i meant to say i am so sorry about my grammar and my spelling :D honestly i wish i could help it but 12+2 tense usage in a language is a bit to hard for me :D
Valhall could just be a a (later poetic renaming) for the grave: Val = death, Hall = enclosed place, for the chosen.
Hel is the afterlife too
Valhall as a Christian concept makes a lot of sense to me, early on when trying to convert pagans the priests tried to sell Jesus as a warrior prince. There’s an early Saxon poem called Heliand mixing pagan warrior ideals with Christian beliefs, also i personally prefer the idea of reincarnation
I think valholl is the mark you make on life and how you will be remembered. Only legends and true heroes go to Valhalla such as the ones in the saga's. And Valhalla reincarnation is probably that you remember your previous life without having to go through a ritual or process. You probably also will have a very successful life in Valhalla type reincarnation.
I've been enjoying your channel. I've tried a few Asatru groups on FB for a minute here and there to see if I could enroll anyone in actual discussion regarding lore, symbolism, practical philosophy and lessons, but after seeing too many comments by wannabes that think Loki is some kind of "god of laughter" and brag how they tell their goddamned kids that Thor makes the thunder they hear and asking if anyone knows any "good prayers" to one god or another to ask for something and showing off pics of their home-made altars, I get irritated and bail. And don't get me started with the random meat-heads I'll run across in public with a Walknut or Aegishjalmur tattoo. So far I've gained (outside of reading actual fucking books), I think, the most salient info from your vids and those of Jackson Crawford, so, much thanks. Random question: Were you born and raised in Norway? I seem to detect a bit of a subtle Norski accent here and there, but I noted a California licence plate in another vid. Your pronunciation of Norwegian sounds too native and natural to my ears for it to be a second language. Maybe you've lived in the US for a long time?
Haha yes you have come to the right place. I have laready pissed off those "FB pagans" and they stay away from here.
Yes thats right. Norwegian but lived in the US and other countries for quite some time now.
What is your take on the Bock saga from Finland?