March 23, 2024 • 19 mins
Embark with me, Matt, on an auditory voyage to the frostbitten realms of Nordic antiquity where fire meets ice in a saga of creation and cosmology. This episode of Old Gods and New Pagans is not merely a podcast; it's an intricate tapestry, weaving the ethereal threads of Norse Paganism, its deities, and its deep-seated connection with nature. From the primal forces that shaped the universe to the spirit residing in every rock and river, we'll traverse the ancient beliefs that continue to echo through time, beckoning modern seekers to explore their resonance.
Prepare to be immersed in a narrative where giants roam and gods reign, as we explore the nuanced relationships between the Jotun, Aesir, and Vanir. With every tale spun and deity dissected, you'll gain a profound comprehension of the forces that illustrate the human experience and the natural world. So adjust your earbuds and let your imagination roam free; this is where myth meets the spirit, and the echoes of the Old Gods still rumble beneath our feet.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello everyone, my name is Matt and you're
listening to Old Gods and NewPagans, A show that takes a jump
into topics for New Pagans,animus or anyone that just wants
to build a stronger connectionto nature in the Old Gods.
Welcome to Episode 3, and thisweek we're diving into the world
of Norse Paganism.
Be sure to check the show notesfor information that we talk
(00:37):
about, including any notes I maytake or relevant links,
including a basic transcript ofthis episode.
If you haven't subscribed,please do so to follow along
with us from week to week.
Alright, let's get started.
So Norse Paganism is a beliefsystem that has its roots and a
(00:58):
pre-Christian belief systems ofthe Germanic people of Northern
Europe, specifically in theareas that are now known as
Scandinavia.
I'll be sharing my knowledgeand my personal perspective on
this really fascinating beliefsystem, including some of its
origins, key beliefs andpractices.
So what does it mean to sayNorse Paganism?
(01:23):
Well, norse Paganism againrefers to the pre-Christian
belief systems of the Germanicpeople of Northern Europe,
specifically Scandinavia, theNorse people, often commonly
known as Vikings.
I won't get into the problemsassociated with that particular
topic today, but that's howthey're generally described,
(01:47):
because mostly that's because ofthe modern view, and that's
really the view we know of theNorse people or Viking culture,
where they started expanding outand started exploring other
areas, other countries.
Well, they spread throughGermania up into the
Scandinavian countries and kindof brought their belief systems
(02:10):
with them as they explored andsettled the other parts of
Europe and even beyond.
So those beliefs and practiceskind of evolved.
So you may hear the termGermanic Paganism, celtic
Paganism, norse Paganism, etc.
A lot of those kind of had thesame roots as the people
migrated north and west.
(02:31):
But then things changed as theyreally the cultures evolved as
well.
Basic belief structure of NorsePaganism is animus based,
meaning that they believe thateverything in nature has some
sort of a spirit orconsciousness.
This goes to include the people, the gods, animals, plants and
(02:52):
even inanimate objects likerocks, mountains, rivers, things
like that.
So the basic belief structureagain is centered around the
worship of the gods and thegoddesses of the Norse Pantheon.
These represent differentaspects of nature, human nature,
(03:15):
civilization and community.
These gods and goddesses aredivided into three main
pantheons the Jotun, the Aesirand the Vanir.
This also kind of includesdwarves, elves and other
entities like the Dessir.
I'll go into the specifics ofthis pantheon in a little bit.
(03:37):
First I want to kind of tell alittle bit of the creation story
.
This is the myth of how theJotun, the Aesir, humans, the
world kind of came into being.
So the Norse creation story, asit's told in the ancient sagas
and myths, is a tale of how theworld and all its inhabitants
(04:00):
came to be.
This will not be a detailedaccount.
I may do an episode on that inthe future where I go into a lot
more in depth of the creationstories and tell all the side
stories that kind of go alongwith that.
But it's a story of struggleand triumph.
It's kind of a fire and icesaga and ultimately the triumph
(04:21):
of order over chaos.
The story begins in the voidknown as Ganunga Gap and the
vast emptiness.
Two primal forces lay dormantthe force of fire and the force
of ice.
On one side of Ganunga Gap thefire of Muspelheim blazed, while
the other, the glaciers ofNiflheim stretched endlessly.
(04:42):
As the two forces met in thevoid, the ice began to melt and
the two forces began to mix andclash, creating sparks that
would eventually form into Ymir,the first of the giants.
Ymir, being the first giant,was the father of all giants and
the gods.
(05:02):
While he slept and as the frostcontinued to melt, a cow Odd
Humla and please forgive me formy pronunciations and some of
this emerged from it.
She nourished Ymir with hermilk and she in turn was
nourished by the salt and theice.
Her looking slowly uncoveredBuri, the first of the Aesir
(05:25):
tribe of gods.
Buri had a son, bohr, whomarried Besla, the daughter of
the giant Balthorn.
The half-god, half-children,half-giant children of Bohr and
Besla were Odin, who became thechief of the Aesir gods, and his
two brothers, vili and Ve.
(05:46):
Eventually, the Aesir gods, ledby Odin, killed Ymir and created
the world mid-guard.
From his body, his blood formedthe oceans and the rivers, his
bones formed the mountains, andfrom his skull the sky was
formed, and from his brain theclouds.
Odin then, with his brothers,created the first humans, asc
(06:09):
and Imbla, from two trunks thathad washed ashore.
The Aesir gods then builtAsgard, their home in the
heavens, and mid-guard, theworld of humans, on the body of
Ymir.
They also created the ninerealms and appointed the dwarves
to be the craftsmen of the godsand assigned the other realms
for entities like the elves.
(06:31):
With the creation of the worldand the Aesir gods, the giants
and the gods were an internalstruggle for power and dominance
, but ultimately the Aesir godswere able to maintain order and
balance in the world, ensuringthat it would be a place of
beauty, wonder and prosperityfor all its inhabitants.
(06:54):
So that was the creation mythfor the Norse pantheon.
I really like the idea of thetriumph of order over chaos, the
fire and ice.
Really.
I know it's quite poetic andthat's the thing.
A lot of the sources we havefor the Norse gods and the Norse
(07:15):
paganism, pantheon and stuffcomes from the culture that told
stories a lot in poem and theyembellished and they told these
stories in such a way that theywere very interesting because it
was an oral culture, that a lotof these stories were passed
down in the most interesting waypossible One, I would imagine,
(07:37):
just so it could be memorized alot better.
So let's get into the pantheonsof gods First.
Pantheon that we know of, kindof where it all started, were
the Yotun or the giants orbelieved to existed before the
(08:00):
other gods and goddesses, andthey're kind of the source of
the Norse pantheon.
They are associated withnatural elements such as the
earth, mountains and winter.
Notable members of the Yotunpantheon include Yard, the
personification of earth, whichis like the Norse version of
Mother Earth, is Yard, and wherewe get the term like our back
(08:21):
yard, we take care of our yardkind of came from.
Also Skadi, the goddess ofmountains and winter, and
Engroboda, the maid of Loki andthe mother of Fenrir,
jormagander, and hell, thegoddess of the dead.
(08:42):
The Aesir pantheon is made up ofgods of war and power and
community and civilization, suchas Odin, also known as the
Allfather, and is associatedwith wisdom, war and death.
Thor, associated with thunder,the sky, strength and
agriculture, and there's alsoBaldur, who's associated with
(09:05):
light, wisdom and courage.
These are considered the morepowerful gods in the pantheon,
and there are others as well.
Then we have the Vanir pantheon, which is made up of gods of
nature and fertility, such asNjord, who is associated with
wind, sea and its riches.
(09:26):
Freyr, who is associated withfertility, harvest, prosperity
and peace, and is also known forhis association with virility
and sexuality.
Fonny's also commonly calledthe god of the erection, mainly
because most of his totemstatues and everything that's
(09:49):
done in his honor show him withan erection, which is kind of
putting into the idea of thefertility, sexuality and
virility that he's associatedwith, and we also have a sister,
freyja, who's associated withfertility as well.
But whereas Freyr is associatedwith the seed of fertility,
(10:15):
freyja is associated with thewomb of fertility.
She's also the goddess ofbeauty, war, strategy and magic.
She is often considered themother of saith magic and she is
the leader of the Valkyriefemale warriors who fly into
battle and choose who will liveand die.
(10:42):
Some of the Norse paganismpractices include certain
practices like rituals,ceremonies and different
offerings to the gods andgoddesses, and this will go into
more detail in a future podcast.
But these practices wereperformed to honor the gods,
(11:02):
gain their favor and also aswell as just thank them for
their blessings and protection.
A lot of these practices weredone during seasonal things,
such as harvesting, planting aTopical flower that we have
tried and zumatized in our HopiMonument of Providence.
Time to travel.
So it'd be like rating times ortimes to make war, because a
(11:24):
lot of these, these cultures,these people, would not make war
in the winter time, so duringthe summer they would use this
time to.
They would say have like a bigbloat or like a sacrificial
feast offering to to start offthese times.
Some of these practices weredifferent types of sacrifices,
(11:47):
as I mentioned before, and somekind of a another ritual
ceremony, additionally the,additionally the use of runes my
dog is under my desk wanting tomess with me right now.
Some of these practicesincluded the bloats, the, some,
(12:09):
and different sacrifices, andagain these were done more on a
seasonal basis.
That wasn't something that wasdone daily, but it was again
like before.
A farmer would plant, he mayprovide an offering to Thor or
Sif.
In that way a family wanting toconceive a child would probably
(12:30):
provide an offering to Freya orFreyr.
And then also the use of runesas a form of divination or spell
work was also an aspect ofNorse paganism.
There's very little we knowabout this, but there are some
(12:50):
sources that do claim that,particularly the Hava mall,
where Odin sacrificed himself onthe tree for nine days, the
tree Iggressel, and he, and insome of those texts he talked
about the magic and power of therunes, some of the things that
specifically about Norsepaganism that make it different.
(13:12):
Most pagan practices aresimilar across the world and
most have an emphasis on animism, and Norse paganism is no
different from that and that'sjust again believing that
everything in nature kind of hasa spirit or a level of
consciousness.
Norse pagans also believed inancestor worship.
(13:36):
Because of their belief inreincarnation, this kind of came
as a veneration of ancestors,mainly because they believe that
your ancestors would bereincarnated into grandchildren,
great-grandchildren etc.
So they, you know, kind ofworship and honor their
ancestors who came before themand the knowledge and everything
(13:58):
that they provided coming down.
And additionally, you know thepantheon of gods and goddesses
and Norse paganism is a littlebit unique and complex just
because there's multiplepantheons of gods that were like
considered different tribes.
You don't get that with otherpagan belief systems and you
(14:24):
know they have in differentaspects of nature, human nature,
civilization and community.
There's also an emphasis on thewarrior culture that was common
in the north and the, both fearand respect for things like
mountains, snow and ice, justbecause that was a big aspect of
their civilization and theirculture and so that kind of had
(14:47):
a big part into the beliefsystems.
So you may ask, is there somekind of a bible or other source
materials for Norse paganism?
And the truth is there is nobible.
Paganism really is just acollection of culture and
practices and really customsthat were passed down.
So the primary source ofmaterials for Norse paganism are
(15:11):
in the Norse sagas and eddasfrom the Norse, from the
Scandinavian countries, iceland,etc.
And it's just kind of acollection of stories, myths,
poems that were passed downorally for generations before
eventually being written down bytravelers who came up to those
areas and wanted to documentwhat they found, what they heard
(15:34):
, what they saw, and so thesetexts provide insight into the
beliefs, the values and thepractices of the Norse people
and are considered to be themost comprehensive source of
information about Norse paganism.
Again, additionally, likearcheological, archaeological
evidence such as differentartifacts, inscriptions, rune
(15:56):
stones, also provide someinformation about the belief
system.
So, in conclusion, norsepaganism is a fascinating and
rich belief system, has roots inthe pre-Christian belief
systems of the Germanic peopleof Northern Europe and into the
Scandinavian countries.
(16:16):
It is animist in nature, with apantheon of gods and goddesses,
with multiple pantheons of godsand goddesses representing
different aspects of nature,human nature, civilization, and
these practices and rituals wereperformed, usually in honor, to
gain the favor of the gods andgoddesses, thank them for their
(16:39):
blessings and protection, and tojust pass down different
customs and cultures togenerations.
A lot of these beliefs andpractices were not simply
spiritual, as if they were alsoto teach life lessons on how to
(17:02):
work with other people, how toget along with other people,
practices to how to treattravelers or how to treat a host
or a guest in your home.
So a lot of these practices andstuff kind of go beyond the
spirituality and get into thecommunity aspect of it all.
I hope this episode has helpedprovide a deeper understanding
(17:25):
and appreciation for Norsepaganism and if you're
interested in following Norsepaganism or interested in more
information about it, I highlyencourage you to join our
community.
Old Gods, new Pagans we have asmall group in there, but these
are really respectful, goodpeople who follow not only Norse
(17:48):
paganism but Celtic paganism,wicca and a few other pagan
paths.
You do not discriminate againstany other paths.
We try to set a foundation ofwhat paganism is and allow, give
you the tools and allow you tofind your own path as you see
fit.
I thank you all for listening.
If you haven't subscribed tothis show, please do so.
(18:11):
More episodes will be coming.
We'll be diving into more aboutNorse paganism, specifically
going into the specifics of thedifferent gods, goddesses and
creation myths and stories, butwe're also going to start
branching out into other paganpaths, such as Celtic paganism,
slavic paganism, semiticpaganism, which was the origin
(18:34):
for a lot of your Abrahamicfaiths, as well as even going
into some Native American orAfrican Asian belief systems.
So again, thank you forlistening.
If you have any questions,definitely reach out to us and
yeah,
Hello everyone, my name is Matt and you're
listening to Old Gods and NewPagans, A show that takes a jump
into topics for New Pagans,animus or anyone that just wants
to build a stronger connectionto nature in the Old Gods.
Welcome to Episode 3, and thisweek we're diving into the world
of Norse Paganism.
Be sure to check the show notesfor information that we talk
(00:37):
about, including any notes I maytake or relevant links,
including a basic transcript ofthis episode.
If you haven't subscribed,please do so to follow along
with us from week to week.
Alright, let's get started.
So Norse Paganism is a beliefsystem that has its roots and a
(00:58):
pre-Christian belief systems ofthe Germanic people of Northern
Europe, specifically in theareas that are now known as
Scandinavia.
I'll be sharing my knowledgeand my personal perspective on
this really fascinating beliefsystem, including some of its
origins, key beliefs andpractices.
So what does it mean to sayNorse Paganism?
(01:23):
Well, norse Paganism againrefers to the pre-Christian
belief systems of the Germanicpeople of Northern Europe,
specifically Scandinavia, theNorse people, often commonly
known as Vikings.
I won't get into the problemsassociated with that particular
topic today, but that's howthey're generally described,
(01:47):
because mostly that's because ofthe modern view, and that's
really the view we know of theNorse people or Viking culture,
where they started expanding outand started exploring other
areas, other countries.
Well, they spread throughGermania up into the
Scandinavian countries and kindof brought their belief systems
(02:10):
with them as they explored andsettled the other parts of
Europe and even beyond.
So those beliefs and practiceskind of evolved.
So you may hear the termGermanic Paganism, celtic
Paganism, norse Paganism, etc.
A lot of those kind of had thesame roots as the people
migrated north and west.
(02:31):
But then things changed as theyreally the cultures evolved as
well.
Basic belief structure of NorsePaganism is animus based,
meaning that they believe thateverything in nature has some
sort of a spirit orconsciousness.
This goes to include the people, the gods, animals, plants and
(02:52):
even inanimate objects likerocks, mountains, rivers, things
like that.
So the basic belief structureagain is centered around the
worship of the gods and thegoddesses of the Norse Pantheon.
These represent differentaspects of nature, human nature,
(03:15):
civilization and community.
These gods and goddesses aredivided into three main
pantheons the Jotun, the Aesirand the Vanir.
This also kind of includesdwarves, elves and other
entities like the Dessir.
I'll go into the specifics ofthis pantheon in a little bit.
(03:37):
First I want to kind of tell alittle bit of the creation story
.
This is the myth of how theJotun, the Aesir, humans, the
world kind of came into being.
So the Norse creation story, asit's told in the ancient sagas
and myths, is a tale of how theworld and all its inhabitants
(04:00):
came to be.
This will not be a detailedaccount.
I may do an episode on that inthe future where I go into a lot
more in depth of the creationstories and tell all the side
stories that kind of go alongwith that.
But it's a story of struggleand triumph.
It's kind of a fire and icesaga and ultimately the triumph
(04:21):
of order over chaos.
The story begins in the voidknown as Ganunga Gap and the
vast emptiness.
Two primal forces lay dormantthe force of fire and the force
of ice.
On one side of Ganunga Gap thefire of Muspelheim blazed, while
the other, the glaciers ofNiflheim stretched endlessly.
(04:42):
As the two forces met in thevoid, the ice began to melt and
the two forces began to mix andclash, creating sparks that
would eventually form into Ymir,the first of the giants.
Ymir, being the first giant,was the father of all giants and
the gods.
(05:02):
While he slept and as the frostcontinued to melt, a cow Odd
Humla and please forgive me formy pronunciations and some of
this emerged from it.
She nourished Ymir with hermilk and she in turn was
nourished by the salt and theice.
Her looking slowly uncoveredBuri, the first of the Aesir
(05:25):
tribe of gods.
Buri had a son, bohr, whomarried Besla, the daughter of
the giant Balthorn.
The half-god, half-children,half-giant children of Bohr and
Besla were Odin, who became thechief of the Aesir gods, and his
two brothers, vili and Ve.
(05:46):
Eventually, the Aesir gods, ledby Odin, killed Ymir and created
the world mid-guard.
From his body, his blood formedthe oceans and the rivers, his
bones formed the mountains, andfrom his skull the sky was
formed, and from his brain theclouds.
Odin then, with his brothers,created the first humans, asc
(06:09):
and Imbla, from two trunks thathad washed ashore.
The Aesir gods then builtAsgard, their home in the
heavens, and mid-guard, theworld of humans, on the body of
Ymir.
They also created the ninerealms and appointed the dwarves
to be the craftsmen of the godsand assigned the other realms
for entities like the elves.
(06:31):
With the creation of the worldand the Aesir gods, the giants
and the gods were an internalstruggle for power and dominance
, but ultimately the Aesir godswere able to maintain order and
balance in the world, ensuringthat it would be a place of
beauty, wonder and prosperityfor all its inhabitants.
(06:54):
So that was the creation mythfor the Norse pantheon.
I really like the idea of thetriumph of order over chaos, the
fire and ice.
Really.
I know it's quite poetic andthat's the thing.
A lot of the sources we havefor the Norse gods and the Norse
(07:15):
paganism, pantheon and stuffcomes from the culture that told
stories a lot in poem and theyembellished and they told these
stories in such a way that theywere very interesting because it
was an oral culture, that a lotof these stories were passed
down in the most interesting waypossible One, I would imagine,
(07:37):
just so it could be memorized alot better.
So let's get into the pantheonsof gods First.
Pantheon that we know of, kindof where it all started, were
the Yotun or the giants orbelieved to existed before the
(08:00):
other gods and goddesses, andthey're kind of the source of
the Norse pantheon.
They are associated withnatural elements such as the
earth, mountains and winter.
Notable members of the Yotunpantheon include Yard, the
personification of earth, whichis like the Norse version of
Mother Earth, is Yard, and wherewe get the term like our back
(08:21):
yard, we take care of our yardkind of came from.
Also Skadi, the goddess ofmountains and winter, and
Engroboda, the maid of Loki andthe mother of Fenrir,
jormagander, and hell, thegoddess of the dead.
(08:42):
The Aesir pantheon is made up ofgods of war and power and
community and civilization, suchas Odin, also known as the
Allfather, and is associatedwith wisdom, war and death.
Thor, associated with thunder,the sky, strength and
agriculture, and there's alsoBaldur, who's associated with
(09:05):
light, wisdom and courage.
These are considered the morepowerful gods in the pantheon,
and there are others as well.
Then we have the Vanir pantheon, which is made up of gods of
nature and fertility, such asNjord, who is associated with
wind, sea and its riches.
(09:26):
Freyr, who is associated withfertility, harvest, prosperity
and peace, and is also known forhis association with virility
and sexuality.
Fonny's also commonly calledthe god of the erection, mainly
because most of his totemstatues and everything that's
(09:49):
done in his honor show him withan erection, which is kind of
putting into the idea of thefertility, sexuality and
virility that he's associatedwith, and we also have a sister,
freyja, who's associated withfertility as well.
But whereas Freyr is associatedwith the seed of fertility,
(10:15):
freyja is associated with thewomb of fertility.
She's also the goddess ofbeauty, war, strategy and magic.
She is often considered themother of saith magic and she is
the leader of the Valkyriefemale warriors who fly into
battle and choose who will liveand die.
(10:42):
Some of the Norse paganismpractices include certain
practices like rituals,ceremonies and different
offerings to the gods andgoddesses, and this will go into
more detail in a future podcast.
But these practices wereperformed to honor the gods,
(11:02):
gain their favor and also aswell as just thank them for
their blessings and protection.
A lot of these practices weredone during seasonal things,
such as harvesting, planting aTopical flower that we have
tried and zumatized in our HopiMonument of Providence.
Time to travel.
So it'd be like rating times ortimes to make war, because a
(11:24):
lot of these, these cultures,these people, would not make war
in the winter time, so duringthe summer they would use this
time to.
They would say have like a bigbloat or like a sacrificial
feast offering to to start offthese times.
Some of these practices weredifferent types of sacrifices,
(11:47):
as I mentioned before, and somekind of a another ritual
ceremony, additionally the,additionally the use of runes my
dog is under my desk wanting tomess with me right now.
Some of these practicesincluded the bloats, the, some,
(12:09):
and different sacrifices, andagain these were done more on a
seasonal basis.
That wasn't something that wasdone daily, but it was again
like before.
A farmer would plant, he mayprovide an offering to Thor or
Sif.
In that way a family wanting toconceive a child would probably
(12:30):
provide an offering to Freya orFreyr.
And then also the use of runesas a form of divination or spell
work was also an aspect ofNorse paganism.
There's very little we knowabout this, but there are some
(12:50):
sources that do claim that,particularly the Hava mall,
where Odin sacrificed himself onthe tree for nine days, the
tree Iggressel, and he, and insome of those texts he talked
about the magic and power of therunes, some of the things that
specifically about Norsepaganism that make it different.
(13:12):
Most pagan practices aresimilar across the world and
most have an emphasis on animism, and Norse paganism is no
different from that and that'sjust again believing that
everything in nature kind of hasa spirit or a level of
consciousness.
Norse pagans also believed inancestor worship.
(13:36):
Because of their belief inreincarnation, this kind of came
as a veneration of ancestors,mainly because they believe that
your ancestors would bereincarnated into grandchildren,
great-grandchildren etc.
So they, you know, kind ofworship and honor their
ancestors who came before themand the knowledge and everything
(13:58):
that they provided coming down.
And additionally, you know thepantheon of gods and goddesses
and Norse paganism is a littlebit unique and complex just
because there's multiplepantheons of gods that were like
considered different tribes.
You don't get that with otherpagan belief systems and you
(14:24):
know they have in differentaspects of nature, human nature,
civilization and community.
There's also an emphasis on thewarrior culture that was common
in the north and the, both fearand respect for things like
mountains, snow and ice, justbecause that was a big aspect of
their civilization and theirculture and so that kind of had
(14:47):
a big part into the beliefsystems.
So you may ask, is there somekind of a bible or other source
materials for Norse paganism?
And the truth is there is nobible.
Paganism really is just acollection of culture and
practices and really customsthat were passed down.
So the primary source ofmaterials for Norse paganism are
(15:11):
in the Norse sagas and eddasfrom the Norse, from the
Scandinavian countries, iceland,etc.
And it's just kind of acollection of stories, myths,
poems that were passed downorally for generations before
eventually being written down bytravelers who came up to those
areas and wanted to documentwhat they found, what they heard
(15:34):
, what they saw, and so thesetexts provide insight into the
beliefs, the values and thepractices of the Norse people
and are considered to be themost comprehensive source of
information about Norse paganism.
Again, additionally, likearcheological, archaeological
evidence such as differentartifacts, inscriptions, rune
(15:56):
stones, also provide someinformation about the belief
system.
So, in conclusion, norsepaganism is a fascinating and
rich belief system, has roots inthe pre-Christian belief
systems of the Germanic peopleof Northern Europe and into the
Scandinavian countries.
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It is animist in nature, with apantheon of gods and goddesses,
with multiple pantheons of godsand goddesses representing
different aspects of nature,human nature, civilization, and
these practices and rituals wereperformed, usually in honor, to
gain the favor of the gods andgoddesses, thank them for their
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blessings and protection, and tojust pass down different
customs and cultures togenerations.
A lot of these beliefs andpractices were not simply
spiritual, as if they were alsoto teach life lessons on how to
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work with other people, how toget along with other people,
practices to how to treattravelers or how to treat a host
or a guest in your home.
So a lot of these practices andstuff kind of go beyond the
spirituality and get into thecommunity aspect of it all.
I hope this episode has helpedprovide a deeper understanding
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and appreciation for Norsepaganism and if you're
interested in following Norsepaganism or interested in more
information about it, I highlyencourage you to join our
community.
Old Gods, new Pagans we have asmall group in there, but these
are really respectful, goodpeople who follow not only Norse
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paganism but Celtic paganism,wicca and a few other pagan
paths.
You do not discriminate againstany other paths.
We try to set a foundation ofwhat paganism is and allow, give
you the tools and allow you tofind your own path as you see
fit.
I thank you all for listening.
If you haven't subscribed tothis show, please do so.
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More episodes will be coming.
We'll be diving into more aboutNorse paganism, specifically
going into the specifics of thedifferent gods, goddesses and
creation myths and stories, butwe're also going to start
branching out into other paganpaths, such as Celtic paganism,
slavic paganism, semiticpaganism, which was the origin
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for a lot of your Abrahamicfaiths, as well as even going
into some Native American orAfrican Asian belief systems.
So again, thank you forlistening.
If you have any questions,definitely reach out to us and
yeah,
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