Thanks for the share brother ….. I’ve always wondered not so much the traditions of celebrations yet the parts or system of soul ? Do to varied branches of traditions it seems the idea of soul never had basic standard and even possibly transformed away from certain superstitions which most cultures evolve away from . Like Hebrew uses a single tree , then evolved into extended tree etc , Indigenous peoples also move through different worlds as process of transcendence , same with Greek and Hindi . I have not any doubt that my Anglo-Saxon/German heritage evolves similarly especially over thousands of years ( Tiw at one point the leader of Gods , then Odin ….. surly it don’t stop ? ) What is the basic standard of soul and is it subject to evolution and transcendence or just part on nature subject to emotions and ego of heaven and earth 🤘 Just ramblings here , maybe some has idea they could dare to put forth …. Be well all ✝️
Beacon? He isn't even Norse by blood. He's one of the same imposters we find across the west trying to blend in, many who admit trying to steer us "g0yim" off course.
I practiced a pagan tradition for over 20 years, I was High Priest, after looking deeply into the beliefs I'd been practicing and teaching, finding that much of it was misrepresented, I went back to my aboriginal native traditions. Great work thank you.
It really helps me create my heathen past to know the history as best we can. I also feel that just because a way of practice is new, doesn’t mean it’s not valid. Excellent video!
Kitty! Thats an awesome cat right there! Excellent information, I appreciate your help in the battle against my own ignorance. I for one would love to hear your perspective on the whole DNA thing so I vote yes for that. And I hope you have an amazing new year!
Good morning! I hope the holidays are treating you gently and that you are finding joy and comfort in the return of the light. Thanks for another great video, we'll see you next year 💙
Hellos Arith! Well thought out video, and much appreciated! Shall have to listen to it again! MY take on things is no matter how one celebrates, the Season is dictated by the Winter Solstice going back millennium! Neolithic monuments show that some sort of observance was made at this time of year! I tend to pick and choose what appeals to me as to how I spend the time! Loved seeing your Cat exploring it's home! Yes DNA and ancestral past is an interesting subject! Take care my friend!
Bagpipes show up all over Europe from the high medieval through the present. There may have been some kind of earlier bag instrument, but the ones we know of were based off the shawm, which was likely a version of the Zurna brought over from the middle east after the Crusades.
Good morning Mr. Arith. Everything it transmits is a compendium of cultural! Fantastic and very consistent content, thank you for everything you make so special.
My modern way of wishing everyone a happy holiday is to say: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and a Cool Jul! I think it is good to remember how the history of the winter holidays (in the northern hemisphere) is to provide a celebration to drive out the darkness of the short days, stave off the cold and the wind, connect with your tribe while the ground lies fallow, offer prayer to the gods and hope for a prosperous New Year! The lamps of Diwali, The menorah of Hannukkah and the Lights of the Christmas tree, all remind us that the light shall return! When we gather together and stave off the dark we evoke the oldest traditions of humans around the fire ring. May your fires burn bright and keep you warn!
As a proud Scot who loves my tartan, yes! Tartan is found all over the world, it's a good way to use the small amount of the few colors you have left, without just making something with uneven and unseemly stripes.
Interesting video! I'll echo the other commenter that the distaff is a stand alone tool used long before the spinning wheel that has ancient origins found in the archeological record. The other evidence covers the argument well though. In regards to the flower crown or wreath, it's also found in pre-Christian Slavic culture, such as the 'vinok' in Ukraine.
Arith vc não precisa demostrar nada para ninguém, somos juntos e misturados e cada um tem as suas origens. Eu sigo você pq vc é uma pessoa diferente e de muita cultura. PS. Sou italiano, misturado com grego e olandes e sou pagano tbm. Cultura não tem limites e se tem alguém que te fala o contrário é só um ignorante. 😂🎉 Abraço!
About Christmas: you point out that a lot of what we think of as Christmas today is influenced by Dickens. However, as someone from New York, I have to correct you about something - Dickens did not "invent Christmas as we know it today." New Yorkers did, long before Dickens. Dickens's contribution was hugely important in shaping how we view and celebrate Christmas, but it was authors in New York, romanticizing our Dutch heritage, that invented Santa Claus, from Dutch Sinterklaas or St. Nicholas, associated him with Christmas instead of St. Nicholas Day, and began the tradition of a children-centered day of gift giving. Washington Irving started this, in A History of New York, 1812, which included a story about St. Nicholas inspired by Dutch traditions but was really heavily his own creation, and then in 1820 he wrote stories about a romanticized version of English Christmas, trying to reintroduced customs that had long disappeared in England itself. Other authors then became influenced by his imagined folklore, and in 1823 Clement Clarke Moore wrote "A visit from St. Nicholas," publishing anonymously in the Troy Sentinel, a local paper in upstate New York. While Puritans in New England still abhorred Christmas, and in the south it was just treated it as a day to have a break and drink too much, in early 19th century New York, it was becoming a time to eat Christmas "cookies" (a Dutch derived word) and sell toys for "Santa" to give to children. While in Europe, much like any medieval feast day, Christmas might been a time to have a market or a very communal celebration, in New York it became a time to spend at home with family. Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" is not published until 1843. He's super important for bringing Christmas back to the UK, and his story is a staple of the Christmas canon in America too, shaping how we see this time of year as one of charity and good will toward all, but we New Yorkers were way ahead of him in turning Christmas into the "holiday we know today."
This video reminds me of the time Nintendo invented a norse myth about a bow called Ichaival that was basicly a machine gun that was attested to belong to Odin and ullr. Ironically it was from a fire emblem game in which in belong to a character named after the Celtics goddess brigid, and the myth circuled for long enough online that other media started claiming using it as part of norse myth furthering it's claim
Aside from your over use of air quotes when saying Nordic paganism I agreed with just about everything you said. As a Germanic Heathen myself I pride myself on doing my research, the need to know extensively on how & why I believe in anything I suppose came from my many years a an Atheist. I do know some pagans who will claim anything that looks pagan as pagan, those of us you do the research call them Cringe pagans. In a way I sympathize with them as the lore & sources tend lack extensive details on actual practices & traditions of the time. Also, I love your cat including itself and making this video 20% cooler. 😎
45th to like. will you talk more about the paleohispanic alphabets someday, maybe? I learned about them from your channel and have been studying them for years now, but still know basically nothing. I am not a patreon, though, so you could ignore my request (I'm quite poor). maybe others want that video, though, and maybe the algorithm does, too? - so if you make that second rune origins video, getting into Vasconic and a reinterpretation of Vennemann, say, then you will become a trillionaire....?
Hello my friend. Indeed, I have quite a few new sources and I want to return to the paleohispannic scripts, but before that, I would like to make a study on Ogam and Lusitanian scripts. It's been quite a lot of work to gather all the information so I need a little bit more time. But eventually I do want to return to those studies :D have a wonderful day my friend!
You just explained why culture can't be transplanted. Others may read and learn on an intelectual plane, but they won't understand it on a deeper level. That's when we get "I don't care, this is how I want to do it!" from a national dish to a cultural practice. And it drives me nuts!
Yes my friend, I've briefly talked about the Celtomania phenomenon at the video "Celts and the Megalithic Fantasy": ruclips.net/video/3Kbs_r4R2O4/видео.html In that video, I speak about a few examples, especially at the end of the video. Hope it helps!
I m Welsh and all my ancestors apart from one are Welsh , however what does that mean ? I want to keep the mystique however will succumb to a DNA test just because
The layering of cultural meaning, one atop the other results in a fabric of many origins , coloured by the mists of time. What we call culture has always been a two edged sword. As it can help societies grow and develop, it can also be used to imprison individual thought by creating cultural acceptance and rejection of ideas not endorsed by the cultural narrative. Holidays and religion being two examples.
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding but regarding the distaff, a distaff is a long stick that holds material to be spun and has existed long before spinning wheels did, so your point about spinning wheels only being invented in the 1300's is kind of moot. Not arguing against your point about Frigg and her less than questionable association with orions belt 😅
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I am multi-racial. I got my DNA results in part because I wanted to know what magical practice would be open to me. I was shocked that several Norse goddesses chose to work with me - even though my Scandinavian heritage is small. Not only that, seidr practices feel the most natural. This is after I was Christian 33 years with no positive results. And though my other DNA has opened doors for me, I find that I would rather chase that which welcomes me boldly.
I shared all of this because our heritage is our own business. You do not owe us your private information, Arith. I'm just glad that we get to come here and learn from you.
DNA results don't mean anything to me. Language matters. Ancestor is anyone who came before me. I will answer the call of any deity regardless of their origin. 🤷♀️
@neva_nyx He is not Norse by blood and he is often misleading because he actually belongs to another tribe who historically steals names and tries to blend in, changing and subverting cultures. Unfortunately, they all lie, and many don't even know this is what they are and what they're doing. But this platform won't let me talk about it too clearly or directly. I'd you know, you know.
I have some respect for your willingness to research subjects, and have had my own run-ins with reactionaries, it occurred to me though that when you said that people had very simplistic views on ancient Norse religions, that you may be guilty of the same simplistic views. If you would entertain a conversation I could demonstrate why I am suggesting that, your problem with "inventions" seems to suggest that the only reason they occur are interactions with different cultures, which though it may be partially true, completely ignores the possibility of inventions (developments is a better term) being derived from direct mystical experiences. You are also perhaps guilty of committing a genetic fallacy (though you could prove me wrong by better explaining your position than you did in your video) which is ironic since you seem to want to appear like a reasonable person.
Hello there! We are all subject to being victims of manipulation and illusions, that is true, and I (like all of us) certainly am not capable of seeing all the possibilities. And I did not say people HAD very simplistic views on ancient Norse religions, I say the great majority of people HAVE (including within academia), and that goes for all other ancient religions. I say this, because the great majority of people see the past as a reflection of their own known reality of their own lives and what they have been experiencing in the present society we live in. Much is overlooked. The great majority of ideas about past cultures and religions, is based on the religions people are most familiar with. I'm a former archaeologist, and that running joke when archaeologists don't know what a certain finding was used for and immediately say it is "ritualistic", it is very much true. Much of the past 200 years of studies on ancient cultures and religions is mostly based on assumptions or comparing things with what is known from belief systems of one's own present reality, culture and society. Taking the example of Old Norse beliefs, past studies and the current general public always assume something seemingly religiously-related to have been connected to Odin, as an example. Although Odin played an important role within the aristocratic displays of religion, in the past it wasn't this "Odinism" many assume to be, and such assumptions are mostly based on biased studies, lack of evidences, assumptions, political constructions and audio-visual and other media trends. And when it comes to culture, very little is a new invention at this point. The great majority of the construction of culture, is indeed through interactions with different cultures and between people. Culture, for thousands of years, has been about adopting and adapting, and reshaping and recycling ideas. At some point in human history, without a doubt there's been an original point and new inventions, but that has been thousands of years ago. The continuation of interaction between human cultures has led to the reshaping of ideas, giving terms, names and social constructions to the already existing information, reshaped to fit one's own cultural reality. Now, talking about human spiritual experiences, everything in its original creation is personal gnosis, passed down to others. And when it is passed down, it ceases to be personal gnosis and yet again adopting and reshaping and re-living some form of someone else's invention-through-experience. When each of us has a spiritual experience, it belongs to us, and it is our own gnosis. However, we must be critical towards our own spiritual experiences and look to see what has been an exterior influence, not of our own experience. Inevitably, we are all overwhelmingly influenced by the information passed to us during our upbringing, and the information shared by culture, society and belief systems we have been introduced into. Such introduction, not of our own choosing, but chosen for us. I do not deny the existence of genuine spiritual experiences that originate within the individual. However, there's also no denying that such spiritual experiences are also the product of information that influences us through our life, and such information is the culminating interaction between humans.
@@ArithHärger I agree, it can and should be both approaches at the same time. But I disagree that spiritual experiences have to be merely personal, I have taught people to meditate, visualize, invoke the runes etc, now through myself and those who have had the courage to have those experiences it has ceased to be personal gnosis, it becomes communal gnosis and as William James points out in The Varieties of Relgious Experience, we can develop "over-beliefs" from there. The basis for religion for me is mystical experience, not institutions, anyone who takes my word but does not have the courage to have their own experiences turn it into a faith, not me making claims about my experiences which are empirically justified and have epistemic authority. I don't deny that the continuous interaction between human cultures have changed us (and yet not changed us at the same time), my contention is that I don't believe change can occur without something undergoing the change, as such there is something beyond the change, that is reacting to and hopefully reconciling with it, not just the change itself. As Heraclitus said in the Fragments, "we never step in the same river twice and yet do, we both are and are not". We're in the process of becoming, but as we both know the Germanic soul is conceived of being compound, even if part of it is changing (for instance the physical or the spiritual), the other may be effected by such change, but not necessarily change at the same time. I agree with you on the simplification of Norse mythology that we generally see with reconstructive groups today, and I agree we should question information and narratives that we receive from either our parents or our communties, especially if we are from Christian backgrounds because a lot of the "Odinists" and "Asatru" have very Christian ways of thinking, and have no interest in developing a truly Germanic pagan metaphysical tradition that isn't rooted in Christian "slave morality". I hope that someday you (who appears to be a more liberally-inclined individual than myself since you seem somewhat atomistic in your conception of the self, whereas for me it is more inline with phenomonological and dialectical selfhood) and I can have a discussion on politics, ontology, ethics, and metaphysics from a non-reactionary and non-Abrahamic perspective. What wonderous tools we've plundered from the Christians.
a) when you mean scandinavia, dont say "nordic" - because obviously, you dont care and or / dont have a clue off - finnish paganism, which was the last country in the nordics to actually "lose" the original pagan ways from all the nordic nations as late as the 1950... or so. b) your strawbundle may be "modern" in norway and sweden, but we have done that since a long time here in finland different name because different language but if you think you know it all, let me just say - you need a little less confidence, and a bit more humility - realize, that your dont know everyting after all. - i lost patience there, and moved on.. so no idea what happened after minute 14, possibly ranting fodder for a d) and e) haha.. excercise your spirituality as you see it fit - it is not wrong because it is not as it was during the ice ages. Rituals are performed with a certain intent - if your intent is pure, the ritual is valid. Just dont steal my culture and tie that to rightwing movements, my gods will haunt your grave.
a) Here's a video I've done concerning the term "nordic" (and other terms) which may shed some light: ruclips.net/video/SdkeBCDZ4Ns/видео.html ; b) Don't assume to know what I may or may not be knowledgeable about. Even though I haven't spoken much about Finland in this channel (as the focus of my studies have been on Scandinavian and Viking Age studies) I do make a distinction due to the vast cultural, archaeological and linguistic heritage, which is why I "keep" Finland in "Finno-Ugric" and "Finno-Baltic" studies; c) Children in school don't read whole books till the end, or don't read them at all, which is why they make up all sorts of things about a book they know nothing about when it's time to make a presentation to the class about the homework they should have made. Same thing with videos or anything else. How can one speak of a subject without digging through it till the end? (it's a rhetorical question) ; d) "Your culture" and "your gods". You speak as if you owned the divine, as if you owned culture, and as if you have the authority to speak for such beings and on their behalf and everyone else's behalf. "Yours", is a very capitalist spirituality, methinks. I doubt very much the gods are as you want them to be, and do the things you would like them to do. e) Indeed, no one is all-knowing. You would do well to also remember that. Have a great day, happy holidays and celebrations, and a happy new year.
It's nice to see people from the modern world trying to keep alive practices and customs lost under the seas of time. Arith as always is a beacon.
Thank you my friend. Have a wonderful day! Thank you for watching and listening!
Thanks for the share brother ….. I’ve always wondered not so much the traditions of celebrations yet the parts or system of soul ? Do to varied branches of traditions it seems the idea of soul never had basic standard and even possibly transformed away from certain superstitions which most cultures evolve away from . Like Hebrew uses a single tree , then evolved into extended tree etc , Indigenous peoples also move through different worlds as process of transcendence , same with Greek and Hindi . I have not any doubt that my Anglo-Saxon/German heritage evolves similarly especially over thousands of years ( Tiw at one point the leader of Gods , then Odin ….. surly it don’t stop ? ) What is the basic standard of soul and is it subject to evolution and transcendence or just part on nature subject to emotions and ego of heaven and earth 🤘
Just ramblings here , maybe some has idea they could dare to put forth ….
Be well all ✝️
Beacon? He isn't even Norse by blood. He's one of the same imposters we find across the west trying to blend in, many who admit trying to steer us "g0yim" off course.
I practiced a pagan tradition for over 20 years, I was High Priest, after looking deeply into the beliefs I'd been practicing and teaching, finding that much of it was misrepresented, I went back to my aboriginal native traditions. Great work thank you.
It really helps me create my heathen past to know the history as best we can. I also feel that just because a way of practice is new, doesn’t mean it’s not valid. Excellent video!
Thank you for existing Arith
Hi, thank you very much. This is by far the best explanation of Nordic traditions I have heard so far. Very simple, yet thorough. 👍🏽
Thank you Arith 🤗💓🤗 as always, we so enjoy the wisdom and knowledge you bring
Thank you for sharing your wisdom and enlightening us and a happy healthy new year to you arith 🌞
I really appreciate your work. Thank you for helping to identify these things
Kitty! Thats an awesome cat right there!
Excellent information, I appreciate your help in the battle against my own ignorance.
I for one would love to hear your perspective on the whole DNA thing so I vote yes for that.
And I hope you have an amazing new year!
It's like the cat knew when the video was ending and came out to sit for the end. :-)
muito bom Arith, estou completamente viciada nos seus vídeos, um ótimo trabalho!!! beijos do brasil.
Good morning! I hope the holidays are treating you gently and that you are finding joy and comfort in the return of the light. Thanks for another great video, we'll see you next year 💙
Thanks Arith! Always spreading informations and culture
Hellos Arith! Well thought out video, and much appreciated! Shall have to listen to it again! MY take on things is no matter how one celebrates, the Season is dictated by the Winter Solstice going back millennium! Neolithic monuments show that some sort of observance was made at this time of year! I tend to pick and choose what appeals to me as to how I spend the time! Loved seeing your Cat exploring it's home! Yes DNA and ancestral past is an interesting subject! Take care my friend!
O vídeo ficou excelente! Agradecemos a referência e ficamos felizes em ver produzido mais um vídeo com qualidade sobre temas nórdicos.
Eu é que agradeço pelo trabalho fantástico que têm produzido, que é muito inspirador e ajuda bastante. Muito obrigado e um abraço!
Bagpipes show up all over Europe from the high medieval through the present. There may have been some kind of earlier bag instrument, but the ones we know of were based off the shawm, which was likely a version of the Zurna brought over from the middle east after the Crusades.
Good morning Mr. Arith. Everything it transmits is a compendium of cultural! Fantastic and very consistent content, thank you for everything you make so special.
You kick ass Arith!
My modern way of wishing everyone a happy holiday is to say: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and a Cool Jul! I think it is good to remember how the history of the winter holidays (in the northern hemisphere) is to provide a celebration to drive out the darkness of the short days, stave off the cold and the wind, connect with your tribe while the ground lies fallow, offer prayer to the gods and hope for a prosperous New Year! The lamps of Diwali, The menorah of Hannukkah and the Lights of the Christmas tree, all remind us that the light shall return! When we gather together and stave off the dark we evoke the oldest traditions of humans around the fire ring. May your fires burn bright and keep you warn!
As a proud Scot who loves my tartan, yes! Tartan is found all over the world, it's a good way to use the small amount of the few colors you have left, without just making something with uneven and unseemly stripes.
Good morning. Another great video! Happy holidays!
Can’t give a citation, but I recall seeing a variation of the bag pipes from a dig of the early south central celts.
Greetings from the Texas Gulf Coast, USA. Best Wishes for the coming year. Thank you for all your videos from 2024.
5:45 Por favor, faz um vídeo falando sobre a língua portuguesa e as influências celtas. 😃
Feliz Ano Novo!
Olá meu amigo 😊
Obrigado pelo vídeo e explicações 🙏 👍🏻 💙
Com muito gosto. É sempre um prazer e uma honra. Abraço, e continuação de boas celebrações!
@ArithHärger Que assim seja sempre para todos nós!
Gratidão 💜💜💜🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
Love the sweater..
Yes please a video on your dna results would be amazing
Interesting video! I'll echo the other commenter that the distaff is a stand alone tool used long before the spinning wheel that has ancient origins found in the archeological record. The other evidence covers the argument well though.
In regards to the flower crown or wreath, it's also found in pre-Christian Slavic culture, such as the 'vinok' in Ukraine.
Love your stuff kick on love it ❤️❤️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍
Always a good sign seeing you here! Happy holidays my friend!
Arith vc não precisa demostrar nada para ninguém, somos juntos e misturados e cada um tem as suas origens. Eu sigo você pq vc é uma pessoa diferente e de muita cultura. PS. Sou italiano, misturado com grego e olandes e sou pagano tbm. Cultura não tem limites e se tem alguém que te fala o contrário é só um ignorante. 😂🎉 Abraço!
About Christmas: you point out that a lot of what we think of as Christmas today is influenced by Dickens. However, as someone from New York, I have to correct you about something - Dickens did not "invent Christmas as we know it today." New Yorkers did, long before Dickens. Dickens's contribution was hugely important in shaping how we view and celebrate Christmas, but it was authors in New York, romanticizing our Dutch heritage, that invented Santa Claus, from Dutch Sinterklaas or St. Nicholas, associated him with Christmas instead of St. Nicholas Day, and began the tradition of a children-centered day of gift giving. Washington Irving started this, in A History of New York, 1812, which included a story about St. Nicholas inspired by Dutch traditions but was really heavily his own creation, and then in 1820 he wrote stories about a romanticized version of English Christmas, trying to reintroduced customs that had long disappeared in England itself. Other authors then became influenced by his imagined folklore, and in 1823 Clement Clarke Moore wrote "A visit from St. Nicholas," publishing anonymously in the Troy Sentinel, a local paper in upstate New York. While Puritans in New England still abhorred Christmas, and in the south it was just treated it as a day to have a break and drink too much, in early 19th century New York, it was becoming a time to eat Christmas "cookies" (a Dutch derived word) and sell toys for "Santa" to give to children. While in Europe, much like any medieval feast day, Christmas might been a time to have a market or a very communal celebration, in New York it became a time to spend at home with family. Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" is not published until 1843. He's super important for bringing Christmas back to the UK, and his story is a staple of the Christmas canon in America too, shaping how we see this time of year as one of charity and good will toward all, but we New Yorkers were way ahead of him in turning Christmas into the "holiday we know today."
Greetings from Louisiana
This video reminds me of the time Nintendo invented a norse myth about a bow called Ichaival that was basicly a machine gun that was attested to belong to Odin and ullr. Ironically it was from a fire emblem game in which in belong to a character named after the Celtics goddess brigid, and the myth circuled for long enough online that other media started claiming using it as part of norse myth furthering it's claim
As a Swede I'm proud of my pagan heritage
Your pagan heritage
Aside from your over use of air quotes when saying Nordic paganism I agreed with just about everything you said. As a Germanic Heathen myself I pride myself on doing my research, the need to know extensively on how & why I believe in anything I suppose came from my many years a an Atheist.
I do know some pagans who will claim anything that looks pagan as pagan, those of us you do the research call them Cringe pagans. In a way I sympathize with them as the lore & sources tend lack extensive details on actual practices & traditions of the time.
Also, I love your cat including itself and making this video 20% cooler.
😎
Good morning, my friend.
Good morning my friend!
I note the application of the ancient tradition of air quotes.
45th to like. will you talk more about the paleohispanic alphabets someday, maybe? I learned about them from your channel and have been studying them for years now, but still know basically nothing. I am not a patreon, though, so you could ignore my request (I'm quite poor). maybe others want that video, though, and maybe the algorithm does, too? - so if you make that second rune origins video, getting into Vasconic and a reinterpretation of Vennemann, say, then you will become a trillionaire....?
Hello my friend. Indeed, I have quite a few new sources and I want to return to the paleohispannic scripts, but before that, I would like to make a study on Ogam and Lusitanian scripts. It's been quite a lot of work to gather all the information so I need a little bit more time. But eventually I do want to return to those studies :D have a wonderful day my friend!
You just explained why culture can't be transplanted.
Others may read and learn on an intelectual plane, but they won't understand it on a deeper level.
That's when we get "I don't care, this is how I want to do it!" from a national dish to a cultural practice. And it drives me nuts!
Yes! Please explain your DNA results. Thank you, as always, for a very informative video.
Noted! :D have a wonderful day and continuation of amazing celebrations. Thank you for watching and listening, as always, my dear friend.
Putting out a bird feeder: Confirmed PAGAN!
True xD
DNA results and archeology go well together lol. Yes do tell 😂
Celticmania ? Have you spoken your thoughts about it , or could you do a vid about it .
Yes my friend, I've briefly talked about the Celtomania phenomenon at the video "Celts and the Megalithic Fantasy": ruclips.net/video/3Kbs_r4R2O4/видео.html
In that video, I speak about a few examples, especially at the end of the video. Hope it helps!
Love to know your DNA .
I m Welsh and all my ancestors apart from one are Welsh , however what does that mean ? I want to keep the mystique however will succumb to a DNA test just because
The layering of cultural meaning, one atop the other results in a fabric of many origins , coloured by the mists of time. What we call culture has always been a two edged sword. As it can help societies grow and develop, it can also be used to imprison individual thought by creating cultural acceptance and rejection of ideas not endorsed by the cultural narrative. Holidays and religion being two examples.
DNA discussion please!
If Saturn is the Allfather
Then Saturnalia is Odinsday?
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding but regarding the distaff, a distaff is a long stick that holds material to be spun and has existed long before spinning wheels did, so your point about spinning wheels only being invented in the 1300's is kind of moot. Not arguing against your point about Frigg and her less than questionable association with orions belt 😅
It sounded to me like he said the tartan was invented in the 1800s and had nothing to do with Celts. Wrong, wrong.
That’s interesting that your family left Scotland to go to Portugal and not the USA or Canada like many others did.
Well,.. at least we have the Havamal.
❤,😊.
Do your dna results in s video. Yes
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I am multi-racial. I got my DNA results in part because I wanted to know what magical practice would be open to me.
I was shocked that several Norse goddesses chose to work with me - even though my Scandinavian heritage is small.
Not only that, seidr practices feel the most natural.
This is after I was Christian 33 years with no positive results.
And though my other DNA has opened doors for me, I find that I would rather chase that which welcomes me boldly.
I shared all of this because our heritage is our own business. You do not owe us your private information, Arith. I'm just glad that we get to come here and learn from you.
DNA results don't mean anything to me. Language matters. Ancestor is anyone who came before me. I will answer the call of any deity regardless of their origin. 🤷♀️
Ari Hargbergstein can never tell a Norseman by blood what is his.
I'm sorry, English is my only language. What are you saying?
@neva_nyx He is not Norse by blood and he is often misleading because he actually belongs to another tribe who historically steals names and tries to blend in, changing and subverting cultures. Unfortunately, they all lie, and many don't even know this is what they are and what they're doing. But this platform won't let me talk about it too clearly or directly. I'd you know, you know.
You are delusional.
He will call you this, he will call you that, but he cannot call you a liar.
@@neva_nyx LOL he deleted my response. What a snake
Why are you wearing kannuksenpyörä symbols? Are you aware of that being a finno ugric symbol?
Also goes by the name pykäläristi
The sweater? Aye. It was a gift from a patron some years back, made in the Faroe islands.
I have some respect for your willingness to research subjects, and have had my own run-ins with reactionaries, it occurred to me though that when you said that people had very simplistic views on ancient Norse religions, that you may be guilty of the same simplistic views. If you would entertain a conversation I could demonstrate why I am suggesting that, your problem with "inventions" seems to suggest that the only reason they occur are interactions with different cultures, which though it may be partially true, completely ignores the possibility of inventions (developments is a better term) being derived from direct mystical experiences. You are also perhaps guilty of committing a genetic fallacy (though you could prove me wrong by better explaining your position than you did in your video) which is ironic since you seem to want to appear like a reasonable person.
Hello there! We are all subject to being victims of manipulation and illusions, that is true, and I (like all of us) certainly am not capable of seeing all the possibilities. And I did not say people HAD very simplistic views on ancient Norse religions, I say the great majority of people HAVE (including within academia), and that goes for all other ancient religions. I say this, because the great majority of people see the past as a reflection of their own known reality of their own lives and what they have been experiencing in the present society we live in. Much is overlooked. The great majority of ideas about past cultures and religions, is based on the religions people are most familiar with. I'm a former archaeologist, and that running joke when archaeologists don't know what a certain finding was used for and immediately say it is "ritualistic", it is very much true. Much of the past 200 years of studies on ancient cultures and religions is mostly based on assumptions or comparing things with what is known from belief systems of one's own present reality, culture and society. Taking the example of Old Norse beliefs, past studies and the current general public always assume something seemingly religiously-related to have been connected to Odin, as an example. Although Odin played an important role within the aristocratic displays of religion, in the past it wasn't this "Odinism" many assume to be, and such assumptions are mostly based on biased studies, lack of evidences, assumptions, political constructions and audio-visual and other media trends. And when it comes to culture, very little is a new invention at this point. The great majority of the construction of culture, is indeed through interactions with different cultures and between people. Culture, for thousands of years, has been about adopting and adapting, and reshaping and recycling ideas. At some point in human history, without a doubt there's been an original point and new inventions, but that has been thousands of years ago. The continuation of interaction between human cultures has led to the reshaping of ideas, giving terms, names and social constructions to the already existing information, reshaped to fit one's own cultural reality. Now, talking about human spiritual experiences, everything in its original creation is personal gnosis, passed down to others. And when it is passed down, it ceases to be personal gnosis and yet again adopting and reshaping and re-living some form of someone else's invention-through-experience. When each of us has a spiritual experience, it belongs to us, and it is our own gnosis. However, we must be critical towards our own spiritual experiences and look to see what has been an exterior influence, not of our own experience. Inevitably, we are all overwhelmingly influenced by the information passed to us during our upbringing, and the information shared by culture, society and belief systems we have been introduced into. Such introduction, not of our own choosing, but chosen for us. I do not deny the existence of genuine spiritual experiences that originate within the individual. However, there's also no denying that such spiritual experiences are also the product of information that influences us through our life, and such information is the culminating interaction between humans.
@@ArithHärger I agree, it can and should be both approaches at the same time. But I disagree that spiritual experiences have to be merely personal, I have taught people to meditate, visualize, invoke the runes etc, now through myself and those who have had the courage to have those experiences it has ceased to be personal gnosis, it becomes communal gnosis and as William James points out in The Varieties of Relgious Experience, we can develop "over-beliefs" from there. The basis for religion for me is mystical experience, not institutions, anyone who takes my word but does not have the courage to have their own experiences turn it into a faith, not me making claims about my experiences which are empirically justified and have epistemic authority.
I don't deny that the continuous interaction between human cultures have changed us (and yet not changed us at the same time), my contention is that I don't believe change can occur without something undergoing the change, as such there is something beyond the change, that is reacting to and hopefully reconciling with it, not just the change itself. As Heraclitus said in the Fragments, "we never step in the same river twice and yet do, we both are and are not". We're in the process of becoming, but as we both know the Germanic soul is conceived of being compound, even if part of it is changing (for instance the physical or the spiritual), the other may be effected by such change, but not necessarily change at the same time.
I agree with you on the simplification of Norse mythology that we generally see with reconstructive groups today, and I agree we should question information and narratives that we receive from either our parents or our communties, especially if we are from Christian backgrounds because a lot of the "Odinists" and "Asatru" have very Christian ways of thinking, and have no interest in developing a truly Germanic pagan metaphysical tradition that isn't rooted in Christian "slave morality". I hope that someday you (who appears to be a more liberally-inclined individual than myself since you seem somewhat atomistic in your conception of the self, whereas for me it is more inline with phenomonological and dialectical selfhood) and I can have a discussion on politics, ontology, ethics, and metaphysics from a non-reactionary and non-Abrahamic perspective.
What wonderous tools we've plundered from the Christians.
a) when you mean scandinavia, dont say "nordic" - because obviously, you dont care and or / dont have a clue off - finnish paganism, which was the last country in the nordics to actually "lose" the original pagan ways from all the nordic nations as late as the 1950... or so.
b) your strawbundle may be "modern" in norway and sweden, but we have done that since a long time here in finland different name because different language
but if you think you know it all, let me just say - you need a little less confidence, and a bit more humility - realize, that your dont know everyting after all.
- i lost patience there, and moved on.. so no idea what happened after minute 14, possibly ranting fodder for a d) and e)
haha.. excercise your spirituality as you see it fit - it is not wrong because it is not as it was during the ice ages. Rituals are performed with a certain intent - if your intent is pure, the ritual is valid.
Just dont steal my culture and tie that to rightwing movements, my gods will haunt your grave.
a) Here's a video I've done concerning the term "nordic" (and other terms) which may shed some light: ruclips.net/video/SdkeBCDZ4Ns/видео.html ;
b) Don't assume to know what I may or may not be knowledgeable about. Even though I haven't spoken much about Finland in this channel (as the focus of my studies have been on Scandinavian and Viking Age studies) I do make a distinction due to the vast cultural, archaeological and linguistic heritage, which is why I "keep" Finland in "Finno-Ugric" and "Finno-Baltic" studies;
c) Children in school don't read whole books till the end, or don't read them at all, which is why they make up all sorts of things about a book they know nothing about when it's time to make a presentation to the class about the homework they should have made. Same thing with videos or anything else. How can one speak of a subject without digging through it till the end? (it's a rhetorical question) ;
d) "Your culture" and "your gods". You speak as if you owned the divine, as if you owned culture, and as if you have the authority to speak for such beings and on their behalf and everyone else's behalf. "Yours", is a very capitalist spirituality, methinks. I doubt very much the gods are as you want them to be, and do the things you would like them to do.
e) Indeed, no one is all-knowing. You would do well to also remember that.
Have a great day, happy holidays and celebrations, and a happy new year.