#1 Divination in the Germanic World

[@songofandred3561]

Looking forward to hearing more about ancient Celtic culture. Thank you

[@ŽỌỌŽṢ̌Z]

Me too!

[@simonidastankovic2627]

And Slavic

[@ragnorvalhalla545]

And me

[@meganaxelia]

Thanks! I love the videos. Learning of my cultures and others.

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you for being there and watching :D

[@iremainproductions4827]

Always learning on this channel!

[@OmasHouse5976]

I loved all of it. When you got to the point of talking about using your own blood for the divination sticks or runes, I got excited. Mostly because I had made my own runes from diamond willow branches (as is a common tree in Interior Alaska) and I wanted to stain them with my own blood, but felt silly. You touched on that subject and actually USED the term, "adding your own essence". So now I don't feel silly. I create items for my altar myself too because I feel that adds my essence. For me it's a psychological thing, as I'm atheist with animistic beliefs. To intentionally add myself to something that I use in practice makes sense. Oh and thank you for your accounting of women in Germanic roles as far as how they were viewed. That was beautiful.

[@iremainproductions4827]

I'm going back through all the videos I've missed... and I am never disappointed. Thank you for all the knowledge!

[@groseillegrowa3659]

Thank you, Arith ...

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

Fascinating, as usual. I'm now addicted.

[@sevenis9712]

Good morning. This was very good. It made me think of the oracle of delphi. Speaking of birds, hawks leave me feathers around my house all the time. I see them when I’m driving etc. I had a very strange but what I thought was an amazing encounter one mid morning at my house. A hawk flew onto a low branch behind my neighbors house and I was in my backyard. I looked over at it which was somewhat far away and the hawk flew straight over to me and landed at my feet a tiny bit off to my right foot and turned it’s head a looked at me straight in my face for a few seconds and then flew away. I was amazed and honored at the same time. Anyways, very nice to see you more close up. Mi sei mancata.

[@ArithHärger]

If indeed ancestors can become wandering souls in bird form, as many Indo-European cultures believes, maybe we should pay more attention to them hehe :)

[@sevenis9712]

Luna Nero I have 3 raven families I’ve taken care of and the big daddy of the last family got so close to me I could almost hand feed him. If I was not at work my boss would text me saying he was outside his window having a fit. Lol

[@sevenis9712]

Arith Härger oh I definitely believe in calling upon the ancestors. Since I was raised in a pagan home my Italian/ Norwegian mother said that hawks belong to the gods and she felt it was their way of acknowledging me on that day because of the path I try to follow and example and teaching I give when the times are appropriate. You don’t have to believe in a Judea /christian way to have knowledge wisdom or be a good person. I have to say i felt honored for sure.

[@mickkeker1990]

My man, you are providing some very, very deep and useful perspectives lately. Thank you much my friend!

[@bernardorodero8374]

Yay! more Celt info!

[@angaidhjones2605]

Thank you so much for this video ! Learned a lot !

[@taylorbaysinger]

Thank you for this video, and your research and dedication to the dissemination of information on all these wonderful pagan and historical subjects! Would definitely love to hear more about the sanctity of horses and about the temple at Uppsala!

[@sanguinetitarot7780]

very good video -deep healthy inspiring! also practical

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you :)

[@annat4280]

I love these kind of videos, very interesting! I want to learn more about the beliefs of my German ancestors, so I can preserve the knowledge and pass on to my children.

[@sizsht196]

Thank you for your enlightenment,

[@recalone]

I hope one time you can talk about old frisia and the beliefs in that region

[@denyse6666]

fascinating talk Arith filled with great info ....... In Tibet they break up the dead bodies of the priests and leave then on a rock for the birds , a wonderful way of carrying on the cycle of life ..... the number 3 has always been very important in my life , I was born of the 9th and my family name is Treble ..... and I could bore you for hours on the many ways this number has played a part in my life ... he he but I wont :)

[@ricksteekelenburg507]

love your perspectives and your vast amount of knowledge, thank you for sharing as always!

[@MR.Forget519]

Great video Arith. You touched a great deal on Lots and animism, but not much of second sight. I think this is a very practical form of divination, especially when relayed by the Spá/Volva. These forms of divination can be seen the world over, in many cultures. Thanks you again. 🍻

[@ForestGirlTeresa]

I so appreciate your videos, Arith, and that your comments are based on solid research. If you published them as a collection of Norse beliefs and practices, I would certainly purchase them. The videos have an uncertain future on KZbin and are not always easy to find. But they are worth listening to many times if one is serious about acquiring knowledge.

[@erintobler7254]

Once again, an excellent video and topic my friend. Keep up the outstanding content

[@joeyscott4299]

Thank you ! Very interesting ! I will be sure to follow . Take care.

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you :)

[@dafcarldotter3967]

thank you Arith!!! :) have a great week!!!

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you, you too! :D

[@NikkiEvernight]

Tease! Teach us divination too! :) Really in depth video Arith, good stuff, thank you! :)

[@ArithHärger]

I plan on making videos about divination both in the Classical world and Egypt as well :P Don't know when yet, by I have it noted down.

[@lotharmadsson4246]

Great video Arith!

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you :)

[@IndigoSpeaker]

Well researched and presented, as usual :)

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you :)

[@stewartthomas2642]

Love your stuff kick on love it

[@silversmith847]

Excellent. Crowsbaneful approves!

[@dreamingwolf8382]

It took me way to long to realize that you were saying ‘hidden truth’ and not ‘heathen truth’ 😅

[@ArithHärger]

I know, even I sometimes think about that... that's why I do english subtitles :p turn them on and I'm sure it will save you from trouble :p

[@gaiasguardian205]

Eh, I took it as almost interchangeable through most of it unless the enunciation was clear.

[@dancruz1335]

I'm deeply interessed on your insights over the bird-god Hoenir!

[@starr234]

I'm so happy to have found your channel. It is truly synchronistic with the path I am on. I have a strong Germanic ancestry on my father's side and strong Irish/Scottish and Native American ancestry on my mother's side with some Scandinavian as well. I am very happy to hear you will also cover the Celts.

[@recalone]

Hello friend hope your good, just wanted to add, fun fact...in Dutch we still use the word ‘lot’ meaning fate and a lottery ticket we also call a ‘lot’ ...

[@hychap]

You really are amazing.. I have not heard of half the stuff you speak off. Would you please make a reading list if that's possible

[@Find-Your-Bliss-]

Yes, please.

[@tara-mayemoves1977]

Great video! Could you talk about the ancient German and Slavic mythology? Or perhaps you could do a full, payed workshop on the subject... There is so little information on the latter especially

[@michaelwhiteley7574]

Excellent video as always! I quite enjoyed the story of the king who was chosen to be the sacrifice. Seems like something that Odin would do. Always keeping us on our toes! I am looking forward to your videos about the celts. I’m mostly of Irish decent, so it will be interesting to hear about the ways of my ancient ancestors.

[@michaelwhiteley7574]

Care to elaborate?

[@callummason6589]

@denosocks vercingetorix and budicca did NOT suck, honour your ancestors, do not defame them as you are them.

[@MrEnaric]

I loved this particular lecture very much on every level. ;) Thank you, also on behalf of our Frisian king Redbad (Rathbedo Regis), who tried to hold Willibrord accountable for defiling the sacrificial cattle of the Gods. He is still remembered here. The divination with horses resembles early medieval stories in Friesland where a span of (often white) oxen were set free to decide the building a church. Where they stopped, the church would be built. The white color echoes the bright white oxen, horses and sheep reserved for the Gods that Redbad king tried to protect on the holy island (possibly Helgoland) around the year 700 CE.

[@ravenmysticstartarot8964]

Amazing thank you. It's like charm reading today or runes or even what some call throwing the bones. Reading smoke fire etc etc... I'm still learning runes I just read people and cards charms lots of different types of divination....i listen to birds and feel a very close connection to them. I never knew people observed them as a form of divination.. I actually want to try that 🤗 I do find guidance through them people today do

[@grantaum9677]

Wow! I've heard a number of references to understanding the 'green language' of birds. Morihei Ueshiba describes a vision of Light (it's described on Wikipedia) during which bird song was intelligible. I saw someone on a you tube comment (pinch of salt) they didn't seem to realise what they were saying but this lady saw the Light, during which a little bird alighted on a tree nearby and stated clearly 'fear not, fear not'

[@juanbautistagonzalezalvare4366]

I think the association between birds and the soul is true(just would be a arquetype),and the dreams and divination too.The romans religion were not excempt of sacrifices like other old religions.

[@BDCF4130]

Thank you for making this video! I've read various translations about the type of tree to be used to fashion Rune lots, in some it says a nut bearing tree and, in others, it says a fruit bearing tree (I'm speaking of the Germania of Tacitus). Is this ambiguous as far as you know or are you certain that it is supposed to be from a nut bearing tree?

[@michaelaregenfuss5968]

Being of German descent I greatly appreciate this video.

[@fixedcross]

A lot of scholars claim that there is no evidence for runes being used for divination in ancient times. However Ive been reading Caesar, and in his account of the campaign against Ariovistus, the German warlord who had crossed the Rhine on the invitation of some Gauls and who had come to usurp them and become a general nuisance, it is related that Ariovistus takes the advice of the women in his tribe who consult the runes. As soon as Caesar learns of this, and of what the runes have told Ariovistus (that he shall not attack before the new moon), he is able to make use of this information and defeat him. In general, it is surprising if we read Roman battle history, that the Germans aren't the simple brutes they are made out to be, but rather strategists of uncanny, almost eerie cleverness and foresight. Much of this is explained if we realize that they did indeed use the powers given to them by the Allfather.

[@sergeymikhailov9234]

White horse, or Nightmare (En), Сauchemar (Fr), Merry-Lwyd (Welsh) - is the very first "Woden", the magic Horse that brought the souls of dead people over to another world. The image of a male shaman was later mixed with the image of the Horse of the Dead, but the "Owner" of the herd of horses was an old woman / female deity.

[@peterje1974]

As always a very informative video. Thanks for that. My only point of critism would be that you are talking about the Germans and Norse. I think you mean the Germanic, right?

[@ArithHärger]

I've explained in this video that I'm purposely making that distinction - Germans as in Germanic peoples of continental Europe and Norse as in Scandinavians, from the Scandinavian Peninsula. In many magico-religious activities they were quite different and so were most of their gods, and I think on the next video you will understand that when it comes to Seeresses/Prophetesses, quite different their ceremonies and ritual in Central Europe and in Scandinavia.

[@peterje1974]

@@ArithHärger Sorry, missed that part. Thanks for your reaction.

[@jeancarlosdasilvafilho8132]

Hi, Despite being black I always admired the Vikings and Nordic culture, And recently I have discovered that my father's Family, Who is white has a nordic and Germanic background, can I Despite being black, being born in Brazil, Can I still a Fallow this path? Nordic paganism, etc? Awesome video.

[@ArithHärger]

Of course you can. Spirituality is a personal path searching for enlightenment, and you construct your path with the choices you make

[@jeancarlosdasilvafilho8132]

@@ArithHärger Thank you very much

[@sigurdjunebug3181]

Also yes you should have no doubts about it man haha( you could practice Germanic Polytheism even if you didnt have ancestry but since you do be proud of it haha) as long as you have Honor and Respect the Tradition of Your Ancestors(and mine haha) Cheers man and good Luck!

[@jeancarlosdasilvafilho8132]

@@sigurdjunebug3181 Thanks :) and good luck to you too.

[@AMeise-vy4fk]

I told my friends , if you want a orakle Sory, take 3,6,9 or 18 sticks and throw them, like Mikado an then look for the Runes they show. Anyway it starts with Isa, I or Ich, because its all about youre self. I is unconvertable, but its just a state of water, what means feelings wich makes us what we are beyond every philosophie at the surface.

[@xbox_cheeto5338]

11:41 "sacred cattle" Now this interests me. I know the German(ic)s sacrificed cows, among other animals historically to different gods. They certainly did not hold the Hindu view towards bovines. But you bring up here sacred cattle. The only thing that this could relate to that I can think of would be the cattle carrying along the statue of Nerthus. But I cannot remember whether these cattle would be killed afterwords or not, as I know certain priests were too I believe. I must apologize that my memory of Germania by Tacticus is at the moment a little shifty right now. Edit: oh you did mention Nerthus later on (I'm typing as I watch which admittedly is never a good thing to do, but this is such a long video that I want to make sure I don't forget questions I have). That said, do you still think that Nethus' cows would have been these sacred ones? Could you expand a bit on what these sacred cattle were all about earlier? Oh another thing: 24:15 This horse divination seems to me as if the horse would become a shaman. Shamans are commonly possessed in their proceedings in Siberia, for better or worst. This sounds much the same, but instead with a horse instead of a person. Commonly it isn't even the shaman who would learn from the entity anyways, but rather those who observed the possessed shaman in what they said/did while possessed. Now you did mention it was the chariot itself which would become used, not the horse technically. But its a possibility for sure.

[@aliciaadkins5237]

i was eating breakfast and as I listened I heard a couple of things .. Thank you .. I've wanted a set of Runes and I think can make them ... but do I get the blood out of my body? ..

[@RavenWolfDrum69]

Brutal

[@danidallariva5720]

Sorry, what is the kind of bind rune that you putted on the cover of the video, the one you see before clicking it and start looking at the video Tanks a lot

[@theslayer1652]

speaking of dreams iv had dream that's been in my mind since I had it I was next to a river under a doc and there was a whole town or village under the dock but the weird part of the dream was that it was a village full of fantasy game style dark elf's like big ears dark skin and white tattoos and they were hiding and cause I found them they told me I had to stay and I for some reason I didn't want to leave ik sounds pretty weird they where like a tribe and they ate only fish and other water animals

[@NwoDispatcher]

Is a self fulfilling prophesy true?

[@vivianp5962]

Yep

[@Peace-Weaver]

How do we actually know that runes were carved on these lots/pieces of wood?

[@morganacrows9974]

Amor fale dos Celtas, por favor 🐍🐍🤘🤘🔥

[@morganacrows9974]

💜💜🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥

[@earthgoddesses]

Has anyone Experienced this coming across a dead raven I never had until last week . anyone interested to explain their interpretations? Because after listening to Arith’s informative and very interesting videos recently and learning so much I feel like this raven phone situation explained in this video couple minutes long of what looks like a kind of accidental ritualistic event? I never want to see a dead raven again actually as it filled me with sadness , not disgust or horror. But on the positive side no one picked up the phone as they would not have looked for long as they past the poor dead raven. So it is a good omen or bad? or just a weird coincidence. I’m not trying to look for evidence to prove or disprove either one but I would be interested in reading any comments perspectives and thoughts on this or start a conversation about it in a kind of safe Non -judgmental and respectful atmosphere on this topic I will post the link if any one interested or Arith if you read this

[@margaretwhitmer2715]

Thank you for another excellent video. A question: May I assume that new pagans no longer sacrifice (hopefully) humans or (hopefully) animals? If not, do the gods care? What do you sacrifice instead?

[@deathmorphosis]

Animal sacrifices very much still exist within certain groups and sects.

[@callummason6589]

Human sacrifices still exist, look at all the wars through history, there is power in that that our elites use against us. Not everyone is made to be a witch or wizard like odin or freyja, i wouldn't relish having to do a sacrafice or be sacrificed but we must understand that there is magical power in the act that we currently are unable to access.

[@margaretwhitmer2715]

@@callummason6589 Humans are still sacrificed by the elites today, but not in honor of the gods, but in the name of earthly power, greed, etc., so not quite the same thing? I just wonder if the letting of one's own blood would suffice these days, rather than the taking of a life. Otherwise, perhaps I must seek some kinder and gentler "divine" guides.

[@callummason6589]

@@margaretwhitmer2715 humans are sacraficed in the name of yawah, not just money, he is also a god, a spiritual entity just like our own gods, they are devine beings and forces of nature together. What you sacrafice may depend on the effect you want in the world, the power of the spell or the nature of it as you have lighter magic of healing and darker magic of chaos. if you look into our myths you may find inspiration as to what is a suitable sacrafice or offering to the diety's you are negoiatiting with, some may like food and flowers , other gods with a darker nature such as woden may need more.

[@Jacob-ot3qw]

Margaret Whitmer we can offer sacrifice to the gods or our ancestors in a more modern way. Such as, pouring a horn of mead, saying a blessing over it and pouring it to the earth as a gift. We can also offer food to the gods, some people put the food into a fire, or leave it outside on an altar or rock. Another example, when i was a child i found a beautiful stone while i was with my grandfather. He recently went with the ancestors, so i poured a horn and returned the stone to the earth by burying it, to honor him. And of course, yes, some still sacrifice animals. However, its done humanely and the animal is given more respect than how animals are killed for the grocery store. Whatever feels right to the individual doing the ritual.

[@valkotic7131]

I was your 8,000 sub btw

[@awolpeace1781]

Are people feeding pidgeons for divination purposes?

[@eter999]

Eneagrama , Gurdjieff ???

[@violenceislife1987]

👍👋😀🙋

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

We need divination death metal lol. Scream and scream proudly!

[@sorayatorchic]

Mmmm... what was their stance on menstruation and menstrual blood?

[@callummason6589]

Try not to put your foot in it.

[@sorayatorchic]

Well it’s a valid question. Some people use it in magic. It also might have an interesting role in a matriarchal society

[@silversmith847]

I'm sure they didn't use it for crappy modern art feminist paintings.

[@kadinmay]

Sarana Tari the Norse were not a matriarchal society

[@patfrench8046]

Just how old are you? Couple hundred years? Seems like it would take that long to learn all that you know

[@soldiers3-The-Ancient-Ones]

hey whats wrong with romans :P im thinkiing your winning the in ...the... interesting ..and true dept

[@johngaltman]

. I was here. Were you?

[@ArithHärger]

In-between

[@johngaltman]

@@ArithHärger yes we are

[@johngaltman]

@@ArithHärger good night sir, from the Norns and myself.

[@ManOfEck]

Aye

[@mickkeker1990]

I don’t know, are we black?

[@lorilea3188]

this

[@wizardtooth666]

Skeatty

[@ssam143]

Now I know why the Germanic tribes went crushed. They were ran by women.