Beautiful OP. Didn’t expect where it went. Not fond of a god that makes you speak a particular language or thinks there is just one way to a dialog. In the end there are just the two of us in the room, the maker and the made and there is a dialog taking place always if you listen.
Every once in a while you say something that makes me think you hear it too even when wrapped in that language that is uniquely yours.
It’s a risk/reward gamble I’ll likely continue into the future.
Mowk, I don’t hold the notion of God as equal to creator.
I do not think Odin created the universe. He is not reputed to have done so, the universe is supposed to have come from ice and fire, which in fact scientifically speaking is correct, if we take near 0 Kelvin hydrogen clouds as ice (seems fair) and the nuclear furnaces they condense into as fire (seems fair).
When Ice met Fire, the primordial being Ymir took shape.
As for the creation of Earth, this is generally attributed to come from the primordial being Ymir.
“Of old was the age when Ymir lived;
Sea nor cool waves nor sand there were;
Earth had not been, nor heaven above,
But a yawning gap, and grass nowhere.”
Im a simple human, if someone comes to lay down weak blobs of nihilism repeatedly in a shrine Im building I begin to detest that person. Such a fucking cunt. Now I hope he’ll fuck off; In the end all trolls give up.
Huginn and Muninn, his ravens. Odin was once asked which of the two he would sooner sacrifice, and after long thought, he decided that to be without Muninn would be even worse than to be without Huginn.
Mostly, Huginn is known as Mind, and Muninn as Memory. The latter meaning is however somewhat indefinite, and speculation exists.
I think Memory is essentially correct, in the very deepest of its meanings. The Soul. My feeling is that Muninn is the Soul.
So Odin is asked: which would you rather lose, your mind or your soul?
In the midst of this clash and din the heavens are rent in twain,
and the sons of Muspell come riding through the opening.
Surtr rides first, and before him and after him flames burning fire.
He has a very good sword, which shines brighter than the sun.
As they ride over Bifrost it breaks to pieces, as has before been stated.
The sons of Muspel direct their course to the plain which is called Vigrid…
The sons of Muspel have there effulgent bands alone by themselves.
The Prose Edda, Gylfaginning
Old Norse:
Sutr ferr sunnan
með sviga lævi:
skinn af sverði
sól valtiva.
English:
Surtr moves from the south
with the scathe of branches:
there shines from his sword
the sun of Gods of the Slain.
Metal Gaia:
Na Moey Zemle” A Folk Metal Journey Across Pagan Lands
Arkona’s Na Moey Zemle translates into “My Land”
In this song, a man leaves his home in Russia in search of happiness. He travels through Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, and the Netherlands in that order. Yet in his journey he learns that true happiness is back at home where he belongs.
A surprising number of guest vocalists have contributed to this Arkona ballad. We have the vocalists from Heidevolk, Menhir, Månegarm, Obtest, and Skyforger participating in this song.
[list][b]* Nerthus: Germanic Earth-goddess
Svitjod: An Old Norse name for Sweden or its people
Sunna: Germanic Sun-goddess
Veles: a major Slavic god
The One-Eyed: Odin, the chief Norse god
Žemyna: Lithuanian earth-goddess
Velinas: Lithuanian creator-god, represented as a blacksmith
Ąžuoliniai mounds: earth mounds in the village of Ąžuoliniai
Thuringia: a German state, renowned for its natural beauty.[/b]
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Before societies got more warlike, the cults of the moon calendars ruled agricultural Europe from the Mediterranean to the Iberic North, to the northern lands for a hundred centuries; much of that did not survive the age of Aries, the contest of arms which led to the dominion of the city states and their ironclad logics of common living which we call politics, after the polis; Plato as the culmination of the city as an ethics, Rome as the actual fact of it. The supreme discipline in which the city had its foundation then allowed for dispersion of the human spirit; speculation - and becoming etheric; mysticism and the age of Pisces reached into the void of power, somehow resulting in the retrieval of discipline on a higher arc as science, the ultimate detachment; - now in the outset of the age of Aquarius the we suddenly look back as far as the end of the age of Leo; the origins of the Moon cults.
I dont know if someone said it, Id like this to be a quote and not my own statement, ill put it in quotation marks anyway: “power is duty”.