Loki isn’t really gender fluid … he’s just a really good liar.

Masculinity can't be toxic. If it's toxic it's anything but masculine, it just becomes insecurity

When I first wore a pentacle in Catholic school, the only thing that happened was one teacher thought I was a fan of the Texas Rangers. Honestly, since I was a pretentious little teenybopper, I was devastated to have not been identified as edgy.

I'm not calling u a heathen bro, I'm tired of slurs

Isn't Ullr Sif's son and Thor's stepson? That speaks to another lover or a previous one.

Guy seems to have decided that religious acts of illogicality are worse than political illogicalities or ideological illogicalities and is arguing that religion is the worst because he’s decided it’s the worst. And, bless him, he still thinks appeals to logic always work on atheists. As if the ability to hold to irrational ideologies in defiance of evidence weren’t a common human behavior.

What kind of research did you do to determine Norse Paganism was true among all the religions? If all these sources you use are flawed, how could you determine such a thing?

Eald Englisc Wicca where similar to medicine men ,you have bad medicine, you go to the wise old hillbilly lady that lives in the Celtic fringe ,you enter her cottage house she gives you spiritual advice, a remedy, does a ritual, respect the process go home your better. They were holy people not halloweeny baba yaga $#!+ at that time it was a cultural tradition that goes way way back before conversion even before the later development of Germanic paganism. My opinion anyway

I wore a sun wheel and one dude asked if i was a Wiccan

The act of the ritual of sacrifice of eating "his" flesh and drinking of blood. Yeah, in symbolism or not, it's being done. Inviting a spirit to live in your heart, bowing at an alter, the giving of money, baptism. It's full of spell work.

Who would have thought Nazis would be trying so hard to stay relevant still today. No doubt this Steve guy is hardcore Nazi, but learned not to show his stripes so flamboyantly as those who came before him.

Stupid narrow minded christians, they betrayed their old faith, Slava Rodu 🙂👍💪!!!

I long for the day I can use the Voltron comparison in a friendly debate lmao

This is a heavily biased video Non biased videos acknowledge why someone’s wrong while also explaining how they can be right in some ways You did not do that once in this video and used words that biased new anchors would use like “slippery” ect to add emphasis and make something seem worse than it really is I personally agree with him and disagree with you but can also respect your take on it simultaneously I just wish this video was less biased And you know the 9 noble virtues that most use pagans follow Well McNallen literally came up with that himself and one of them literally says ancestry is better than universalism so for people to be going against him is kinda crazy

Oh! I see here, where the Volsi is a real concern, and the dog is the bound Fenrir...

Iduun apples were able to keep the Gods young. They were immortal, but they had the ability to reincarnate. This was around the times the pyramids were built. Loki captured her for himself, letting all of the other Gods die. There’s a little trick to God’s abilities to reincarnate. Only a certain race of people can be used as host. Loki has been in control of the world, playing God, never having to reincarnate because he has Iduun. Iduun was a very important key to the God’s immortality. I bet you’d never guess who Loki is. The Bible was Odin’s last effort to stop Loki… but you saw what happened

The Gods are dead.

Two ships passing in the night.

In German this is actually a huge problem because theres no german way of saying Pagan, Asatru means nothing to 90% of people and if you say Heathen or "Heide" in German most people will actually understand that as Atheist because somehow that's kinda synonymous 😢

I’m blown away by how awesome, thought provoking, and articulate this video is. Thank you.

The concept of Monotheism is responsible for all unrests in the world. Monotheistic thinking in religion, thought, ideology, food, clothing and everything else is the prime cause for unrest. In other words, ''Only my way, Only my god, Only my book, Only my faith. Or only 1 way, 1 God, 1 Book, 1 faith.'' This kind of thought is responsible for all the chaos in the world.

I keep asking this question who is God in the old testament ?? Satan? Or some fallen diety? It also says God can't be seen in the old testament but Moses the high priests Jacob Abraham Enoch Adam and Eve saw God ? So who where they talking too ? Then? Not only that Jesus made reference to the old testament God they would mean Jesus and Yahweh aren't the same

Jormungandr World Serpent Dragon... c.1200BC as described in Plato's Hermocrates Dialogue (360BC) - Atlantean trek from Ethiopia to Gold Coast - Achilles dwarfs + Egyptians = Thracian Field Workers (Olmecs) - Cape Verde to Bravalla Moor (mouth of Amazon River) site of El Dorado - Tor, Vikingar - to Machu Picchu, to Chorus Island - Goddess Hel, bloodline of Helen of Sparta, She-Wolf Lupa of Rome - to Orient, to Istanbul-Constantinople-Byzantium, Byzantine Empire to Scotland, 1438AD

If you don't believe me, then listen to garmr by tyr and listen to the lyrics. And if i'm not mistaken garmr geri and fenrir but anyways, let me know if anyone has any ideas

Instead of garmr being fenrir how about this geri is garmr are the same thing because odin loves garmr and geri and they are the only wolves with the letter g beginning of their name

My mjolnir is exactly like "b". It and all my jewelry is 316L stainless steel. I wear it because it reminds me to stay strong in the face of adversity. Learning about heathenism and norse paganism helped me to end my thoughts about suicide.

Bro christian myth is anything but boring

Is there a chance im descendant of a God?

Not a work incident, but I once went on a date with a drummer in a touring band who, en route to his hotel room, decided to give me an exorcism in the hotel hallway when I let it slip that I was pagan. Needless to say, we never got to his room.

I might join the afa

Oof. This aged poorly seeing that covid had a mortality rate world wide of less than 1% lmao. You were clearly fully brainwashed

I would say performative beyond reasonable peacocking which is natural lol

What an amazing and surprisingly underrated or under discussed God of our pantheon. It seems his cult was intensely profound and it's captivating to catch a glimpse of it through the Sagas and stories. I think there might have been a whole culture more or less focused entirely on Ingvi Freyr. I'm always amazed by the deep devotion of the worshippers of Ingvi Freyr. Hail Freyr, the Lord of life 🌱🌅🌧️🌈🏞️

The American South is frightening to folks here in Europe. I did visit a unitarian service in Massachusetts, on the other hand, which was the most pagan friendly gathering I have ever experienced..

In the west of Ireland, when I was a child, the local population was deeply Catholic, but everyone also venerated holy wells, tied rags to clouty trees, and would so anything to avoid disturbing a whitethorn bush - and hundreds of other practices which were never seen as problematic

Of course pagans hide. Religion is a very damgerous topic. -- also wasnt there supposed to be a temple built in Iceland like a decade ago? I am willing to bet it will be suppressed forever. I can't say that's the iron hand of organised religion but hmmm

in german we call the Thursday "Donnerstag", named after Donar, that was a different name for Wotan (Odin)

I wear a Ullr pendant (which is incredibly heavy). Still, I want to wear some other "Norse" symbol to signify my commitment to Heathenry in general and Ullr, Freyja, and the other Vanir specifically. I don't specifically follow Thor so is it wrong to wear a hammer? I want to avoid Valknut because of White Supremacy associations. Do you have any suggestions? Also I love your channel, the marriage of scholarly research and spiritual insight is powerful.

I would prefer to compare the oral tradition of the old faith with the Vedic hymns instead of with the Quran. While the Quran was in part also orally transmitted, it is the work of one man claiming to speak for one God. The vedic hymns are, similarly to the norse tradition, hymns praising the deeds of the Gods in a poetic language and utilizing poetic meter. When you mentioned that the ancient tribes of Germania recorded their wisdom in form of hymns that were chanted communally, the vedic tradition immediately came to my mind. The writing down of the Vedas was for a long time seen as frivolous by many, and first written manuscripts appear late. Since they worshipped their Gods in nature underneath the open sky, they didn't leave any temples or shrines. Their oral tradition was literally how they preserved their faith and culture. These oral traditions containing praise to the Gods can be observed in other Indo European cultures. The Zoroastrians preserve the Avesta that is, like the Veda or as you suggested maybe the hymns in germanic tradition, chanted during communual rituals and sacrifice. In fact, the Vedic sacrifice cannot take place without the chanting of the sūktas that contain the stories and praises of the Devas (gods). Secondary texts also prescribed the subsequent telling of the stories and legends of great kings and heroes concluding the sacrifice. It also may connect to the ancient craft of Galdr or "spell- magic". As in the Merseburg Charm 2, where a metric incantation is used to heal the leg of a horse, magical spells and formulas were believed to have an effect on the empirical world. In the vedic tradition this belief was so strong, that the pronunciation of the sūktas had to be preserved miticulously in order to not loose their spiritual potency. I also recall Allfather using sacred incantations to revive the head of Mimir although I can't find the exact passage in the Edda right now. Anyway due to all these parallels i find the vedas a much more suiting comparison.

To add a shorter version of a giant sum of words from a previous comment to any returning. For paganism, heathenry, occultism, or any other form of tradition made by the practitioner. YOU ARE THE TRADITION. There was nearly no traditional STANDARD though there were guidelines and this makes the Gods far more personal and the act of ritual, prayer, or any form of tribute becomes a tradition. There is no punishment for not knowing the words sung from family to family. We must remember them but make new songs and new rites for our ancestors. You are free to be free. To live and be fearless when death smiles upon you for it's claim is a gift at times. Live well and may the Gods watch over your struggles.

I am late to tell my tale but for the Phantom Queen I called it, "Call of the Return." I felt it when I was young. My mother would sing to trees and teach me the sounds of nature and their meaning from the lense of a localized indigenous tribe that welcomed her and I as friends. I sang their songs, ate their foods, walked through their souls, and felt stronger with their ancestors but they were not mine. As this land I stand upon was taken from these good people whose ancestors still speak to us if you listen. My mother then, for some unshakable reasons I will not judge her for, moved to Jehovah's Witnesses and many abrahamic beliefs. The die was cast and I was alone on this journey. At 16 I was given a beautiful necklace from a girl I loved when visiting Salem, it was a Triskele. I had longed after it for so long. I had not seen it's shape in my eyes for a time. Amazon wasn't big then and Etsy I cannot recall. It was here they began. Things I cannot say or speak for I fear the loss of their talents should I reveal. If you have successfully completed a prayer, a ritual, a dream, or another form of mote you will know and I will have no need to say but from then on I was changed. I tried to cling to my rebellious atheism but questions broke that resolve. The divine surely existed as there was no way to make total sense of all movement without progenitors made mechanism and individual and total and dream and will and power of life and death. It has to be bigger than us and bigger than the Gods themselves. I was pulled into the well. Sought out the complex rituals of Buddha and the Tao. The whispers of Shinto, the thunderous acclaim (of which I was familiar) of the Greek/Roman pantheon. Spiritualists from all walks of life from Skald, to Bard, to Druid, to Hermeticist, to Alchemist, to story tellers and sages, and then a study on Orthodox Christianity. To become whole I needed to know my neighbors and my ancestors neighbors. Finally the hand of fate was shown. The answer I had been looking for. Blood. I was related to an Irish bloodline and a Nordic (never specified) bloodline. With that I started my research again. Druids, the Gods, divinity from a naturalists perspective (which I already shared and loved greatly). It was beautiful and it gave me the names of the ancestors my ancestors worshipped. We are all called to where our ancestors were born and died. We are called where we are needed. The Gods care not of your blood, they care of your deeds, and commitment to the community you serve. This goes for both good and ill intentions. It is wise to serve Gods that do not meddle with the souls of humans without consent. It's best to study carefully what you invite to you, not just theologically but logically. Do not demand and do not grovel. No one is meant to serve on their knees as the sun rises for all who see it and all who do not. There is no ruler, there is guidance. I am a Druid, a man of green parables sung by tongues rarely spoken, the words may sound different but the stories I tell and the ancestors I pray to and make merry for are my family and I love all those dearly I do not know the voice of. I sing to them They sing to me Every day and ov every night When I die, I 'ill walk a path To sing a song A storyteller guiding little lights

researching this to use as basis for my own philosophy

I would like to respectfully ask for more muppets please :D

I just watched this and then watched the Vaush version and read the comments. His comment section is basically just people making fun of religious people and stories of people getting indoctrinated into Christianity and how bad it is.

Thounds like a thor lother

Vauch:" what if your god tells you to do something immoral?" Ocean:" Argue with them like you would any other authority figure?" Vauch:" No religious person does that and that's why we should oppose all religiousity fullstop." Ocean: " calmly points at both historical and contemporary examples of religiously and metaphysically mind people doing that.* Vauch: That's not real religious belief, real religious belief confroms to my strawman, you can't argue with a god you're actually SUPPOSED to do whatever they tell you unquestioningly, that's why they're all irrational terrorists in waiting!" Ocean( utterly baffled) " WTF dude, no , why in the fuck do you think that?" Vauch: " Oh, that's simple, because I know that if I became convinced a god existed, I'd do whatever it wanted without question because gods are the one class of being whose authority cannot be questioned and you can't apply logic to metaphysics by definition." Ocean:* blinks and stares in ever- increasingly frustrated horror* ( Repeat as infinitum for the entire conversation)

Explain to me how the AFA is wrong? Gender is NOT and never has been a social construct. There is and always will be 2 genders. I am a pagan myself and no I’m not transphobic. If people wanna play dress up and pretend to be something they are not that’s fine with me just don’t expect me to acknowledge or recognize it. I will be forced to recognize what you think you are. Plain and simple.

If you really think about it, lokis the good guy. It's because of him that midgard is now the only viable realm to live in and humans are now next in line to be the next deity's of the world. However...hes also the perfect example of "one bad egg".

jörmundgandr is the Antarctic ice and permafrost, watch

It’s sad to think that you left Christianity. It seems you left the religious notions surrounding Christianity. Many leave the “faith,” but in truth they leave toxic religiosity. The laughable preacher you provided is a weak argument for your case. You could strengthen your argument if you made your argument against a knowledge Biblical scholar. You seem to be very knowledgeable in Norse history and if you stumbled across an expert Christian historian who was trying to argue against the religion of Nordic origin, but used a novice Norse guru as a case in point to show haw silly Norse mythology truly is. I doubt the argument would be appealing to you at all. As a Christian, I’m amused at your arguments, but not at all persuaded for the sheer lack of true robust arguments that’s needed for this topic. Lastly, if the preacher you used in your argument truly reflected Christianity, then I would leave such a harmful sect.