Announcing The Aun Year

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[@waywardbard]

I think making an 11-month mead would be a great way to pay tribute! I would have preferred to make an 8-YEAR mead, but seeing as this is the first awakening of the old ritual, I'll make the adjustments.

[@Dibzva]

I'm very enthusiastic about this. At first, I thought it an excellent excuse for another scandinavian family holiday. Thinking on, though, I really like the idea of a lot of smaller events at historic sites around the world. All celebrating the Year of Aun.

[@zulu18751]

Brilliant about time we all pulled together to celebrate the year of Aun, I'm sure there is going to be some fantastic ideas for everyone.

[@jenncampus]

I appreciate that you invited others into planning this over the next year! Looking forward to participating however I can. There are plenty of sacred places here in Sardinia, and some that our family has been making regular pilgrimages to over the last decade. Thanks for the initiative!

[@BillKillIll]

Underbart!

[@TheNinjaFromNuevo]

Thank you for your work! What a valuable contribution to reestablishing traditional practices to our modern world. I look forward to joining with you all in celebration, and I will share this with all the practitioners I know.

[@babykraken1]

When you used the word yarning I thought Tyson Yunkaporta. A good bloke. Yes, thank you I am getting excited about this.

[@MrManse1010]

toppen bra ide! vi är med från norra dalarna

[@MarianneSelvigOlsen]

Count me in.

[@MrEnaric]

Great idea! I also support the hallowed sacrifice of faulty leaders on this occasion. A truly healthy Iron Age solution we should also honor.

[@karitauring7361]

Do you think the Sónargöltr/Boar Sacrifice was only done every eight years? I wonder...these days I only do a pig shaped bread and a bit of sausage, but raising a boar for the occasion of next Jul would be a pretty cool undertaking. Many thoughts. Glad of the conversations!

[@NordicAnimism]

I don't know, but my guess would be that this kind of sacrifice was done every year

[@karitauring7361]

@@NordicAnimism Also wondering, why call it the year of Aun? I may have missed that in the video but was that something they called it in older times? It seems like more of a cautionary tale than one I would want to "celebrate" so to speak.

[@NorthForkFisherman]

@@karitauring7361 At 01:22.

[@hornandhearth2581]

Here for it! Our hearth is excited to participate!

[@jochemvanrijswijk9027]

What a great idea! Let's make this happen!

[@zacwhyte]

Ya 🔥

[@MaudMargretheRex]

Such Great you tube invitation today.. Thanks a million 🙏🏼🙏🏼 brilliant initiative Tak for sådan en smuk gestus, i dag Og med White Raven, der vejrer foran min butik, vil jeg virkelig gerne finde en måde at deltage på. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@Rossion64]

Really exciting!

[@vegahimsa3057]

There are approximately 99 lunar months in eight tropical years or 235 months in 19 years (Meton cycle). They differ from eachother by exactly one month in 152 years. Neither cycle is perfect nor are the sun and moon perfectly predictable nor consistent. The 99/8 cycle will probably be long one month about every 143 years.

[@vegahimsa3057]

Both are months faster than the more accurate synodic/tropical cycle of 4366 months in 353 years.

[@renata_of_the_craft]

How marvellous! Something I have been hoping for for a long time. I myself have already the leap month in my personal moon calendar which I follow. I hope I find a way to get involved in this project! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@kimberlyanneinc]

Thank you for this 🖤🌿✌

[@renata_of_the_craft]

As we are now slowly moving closer I updated my mobile calendar to include my important dates. i noticed that these Aun days appear to be held on the day prior to the full moons each time. The only way for me to make sense these celebrations would have to start at sunset, and by counting the days the old way. I hope I´m correct in my assumptions and calculations.

[@NordicAnimism]

The reason is the way taht the full moon fall in the clock - for instance, if you look at the January moon. It falls technically on January 7, but very early AM - in existential terms that means that the astronomical full moon falls late at night on January 6. Think about an airplane ticket that goes at 01.00 AM on April 4. You need to go to the airport on April 3 - getit ??

[@renata_of_the_craft]

@@NordicAnimism '..... getit??' That's a rather snide remark towards someone who just spend £35+ on your calendar and was hoping for an answer not aimed at an idiot, which I fear you seem to mistake me for. Anyway, your calculations, according to your explanation, only hold true then for January, the full moon on March 7th is in the afternoon, no need to 'celebrate' the day before, but maybe you don't wish for either to fall directly on a major Blót, Yule and Dísablót?

[@NordicAnimism]

@@renata_of_the_craft - I apologise if that came through as condescending. I totally didn't mean it like that. I wanted to say: did this make sense to you

[@renata_of_the_craft]

@@NordicAnimism it might be my age, being a crone, that I misunderstand certain phraseology. I do notice that my life is slowing down, whilst everyone else's keeps speeding up. And that seems to apply to vocabulary too, a lot of words and phrases just go Whoosh and pass me without slowing for me to catch their meaning.

[@larsandersson2052]

Bra idé! :D 👍❤️

[@dentonstales2778]

This is very good indeed, I'd like to back it too. A very fine idea.

[@AquillaStar1]

This sounds amazing and cant wait

[@TheChap1970]

we are the 6 of jan 2023 today start the year of AUN ;)

[@donworley7448]

I'm very excited to participate in this way to reckon Yule, the year of Aun, and the cycle of the year! I got the book, the Nordic Animist Calendar for Christmas, by the way, and I love it. I have a comment and a question about inclusive counting... First, this counting system sounds the same as how to count your age in some east Asian cultures, like China (I think). When a child is born, they are 1. One year later they turn 2, because they're beginning their 2nd year of life. Someone who says they are 18 by inclusive counting is actually 17 by modern western counting. (They've completed 17 years, and in the process of completing their 18th.) So now, my question: is year "9" always also year 1? This would make sense because it's the beginning of year 1. This would mean the year after is year 2, because it's the beginning of year 2 (and the end of year 1)... I want to call inclusive counting "processional", because it declares the number in process of completion, rather than the count completed.

[@00ddub]

There is no zero in counting because zero is the logical representation of “a lack of anything to count.” This is why we always start counting at 1. But what creates the biggest confusion is how we count time passing on the clock (and our birthdays) vs how we count calendar time. Time on a clock and birthdays is “time passed”, so 1am marks that one hour has passed; just like 1 year old means that one year has passed since your birth. Calendar time, on the other hand, denotes the period of time within which we are currently existing. You wouldn’t say that it was Monday right at the 24th hour. No, it’s Monday all day long. This is why a clock can start at zero but a calendar never will. This is also why most people celebrate the end of the decade/century/millennium a year too early as they think that a 10 year cycle somehow ends on a 9 instead of a 10, which is logically impossible since you must always start “counting” at 1.

[@coregoon]

Spot on! I've had that "we still have one year left" conversation way too many times already. Some of the arguments I've heard people use when I point out the error is actually kinda mind blowing. 😆

[@sylviawoodham334]

if nine was the sacred number, where do you get the 8 year cycle for this? After every 8 years the 9th is the cycle?

[@deismaccountant]

Ah I get it, and eightfold it eight-point fractal. I just hope I can make it to Upsala a year from now.

[@aldsidu8600]

Andreas Zautner in his book argued the next year is 2028, based on two runestones and literary evidence. Two Rune-Stones proving the 9-year sacrifice was every eight years: Rune Stone of Blekinge and the Rune stone of Stentoften. [See Dr. Andreas E. Zautner, The Lunisolar Calendar of the Germanic Peoples, p.154]

[@NordicAnimism]

I am not sure what the stone of Blekinge is? Does this name refer to another stone in the Blekinge group ?? - I haven't read Zautner's book, but my intuition would be that using the Stenoften inscription to reach exact dating of anything at all sounds spurious and speculative to say the least. It is one of the most difficult and gnomic inscription in the material. Check the Runenprojekt Kiel. Research history has 19 suggestion for translation. Very difficult texts like that are extremely vulnerable to confirmation bias. I should mention btw that I showed my analysis to professor Nordberg at Unviersity of Stockholm, and he buys it, - not as a certainty of course, but as the best current hypothesis.

[@aldsidu8600]

@@NordicAnimism That is really awesome that you have discussed this with Nordberg. Amazing. Truly amazing. I will make note that I should "question" or ponder more Zautner's use of the Stenoften inscription. Both of these are new to me, but reading Zautner, I "assumed" he was right. I think your expertise in this area makes me conclude I should just do more research.

[@aldsidu8600]

@@NordicAnimism I should also add, I wonder if other tribes like the Saxons did an 8-year blot. Considering the Saxons were allies to the Danes during the Saxon Wars, and some feel Widukind (when fleeing Saxony) went to Tisso (that is not fact, a theory), why would other tribes not do this? There were 8-parts of the Nordic day, and most of the Futharks have rows of 8. maybe this has NOTHING to do with the 8 year sacrifice (or 9-year, etc), but it is something I have thought about. Most understand three being an important number, especially with three Gods denounced in baptismal vows and three statues in Upsala, etc. But there are significant 8 numbers too, but could be coincidence. Interesting to ponder, but I do understand we only have evidence in Lejre and Uppsala, and Adam of Bremen heard it second hand, so how reliable is he (and why would he make it up?) Lots to consider. Thanks for the discourse, and God Jol if you are keeping it now!

[@NordicAnimism]

@@aldsidu8600 - I think the best we can do is to realize that will never, ever, ever know. It is too long ago and sources are extremely thin. So I don't think the real question is whether pre-christian Saxons in the 6th century might have done it. The real question is whether it makes sense for Saxon identitifying contemporary Heathens today. When nordix have some cool stuff.... - like .. why not use it?! All any of us do is engaging and dialoguing the past in a big churning melting pot. This particular festival is only really attested in the Eastnordic area (Denmark and Sweden), but when this is going into contemporary usage it surely be communicated with that West Nordic material and names that sets the standards today. I doubt there are many who insist on East Nordic figures or East Nordic name forms. So... the fact that Bede might not have spoken about octennial celebrations, that might mean that they weren't there in England - or it might just mean that he didn't mention it (for whatever reason) - But it doesn't mean that they don't make sense for people inhabiting the North Sea region.. - If you look at recovery of traditional culture among indigenous groups, this kind of transfer between closely related groups is a very common methodology.

[@enochanglin3546]

Is the book and calendar combo not able to be shipped to the USA? I want to purchase it but am unable.

[@lukerobbie3283]

Where does this leave those of us who live in the Southern Hemisphere? Or, have you forgotten of our existence?

[@howwewitch]

Finns det några planer på att ha ett event i Uppsala? Jag finns på plats och är gärna med.

[@NordicAnimism]

Jeg håber virkelig at nogen vil organisere noget i Uppsala

[@sarahgilbert8036]

The closest Norse site to me, is l'Anse Aux Meadows, officially. However, I have seen theories of Leif's men reaching the Bay of Quinte in Ontario - no finds have been done to substantiate it - and that is where I am! I think The Lake On The Mountain above Picton would be a fantastic location, as long as the roads are safe to climb up there. Are there any Norse Animist in this area?

[@NordicAnimism]

I think Muricans should look for sites that are sacred to the space, rather than just a spot where some vikings happened to settle. I am aware that there are political problems involved in this but.... perhaps solutions could be found

[@EmilReiko]

@@NordicAnimism Im sure not all spaces in the American landscape is sacred to indigenous people, i would think its about them identifying "spiritually vacant" spaces in the landscape and then hallowing it somehow by means of ritual and build traditions at these locations

[@NordicAnimism]

@@EmilReiko Not a bad point. And I totally follow you. But the thing is - how do you hallow a place? I think part of the hallowing the place is finding "right story" about it. These stories probably become "right" by being rooted in tradition of landconnectedness.

[@EmilReiko]

@@NordicAnimism Personally I would sacrifice an animal, and bury it at the spot.. raise an idol over the buried animal and make it a warden spirit of the place. And then start to worship it as a local divinity fitted into the wider Nordic cosmos A bit like the logic of the very probable old danish custom of burying a horse at a new graveyard to make it the spirit of the space... I belive if such procedings are followed and a continuation is kept, stories and mythology will grow out of explanations by themselves. The space can be used as a sort of guerilla burial site by bringing, locks of hair or cremated ash to the site and deposit it - making it an abode or access point for ancestral interaction.

[@phillipff9923]

Where are you, US or Canada? I'm a day away from L'Anse Aux Meadows, in northern Maine.

[@loungeblogger]

did the summer part of the year start on winter solstice or spring equinox?

[@NordicAnimism]

Probably neither - it started at summer day - April 20

[@Dibzva]

Sharing this to my blog, if that's okay?

[@NordicAnimism]

go ahead!

[@Dibzva]

@@NordicAnimism Thank you :)

[@denisdemiantsev2871]

Hi! Still very confused about how the ninth year became the eitghth. The only way I can make the analogy with the centuries work (9th century = 800s) is to rename the 1st century into "century number 0". If you do that then the 800s will become "century number 8", BUT 8 centuries (800 years) still have to pass before "century number 8" can start (which is actually the 9th century). Does the modern cycle include year 0? This way you get a 9-year-cycle with every "year number 8" being a celebratory one. But you are clearly talking about an 8-year-cycle... Cannot wrap my head around it. Please, explain. I really need to see the logic behind this.

[@NordicAnimism]

You analogy is exactly right - we don't count a zero'eth century, only a first century. Thats why the great heathen army attacked england in the ninth century, meaning in the eight hundreds. In a similar way there isn't a zero'eth year when we are counting to nine with ordinal numbers, only a first year. That is why "in the ninth year" becomes "every eight years" in our contemporary way of formulating it

[@denisdemiantsev2871]

​@@NordicAnimism Yes, that's all well understood. I just don't get how the "ninth year" becomes the "eighth year" because neither ancient Germans (and Norse peoples) or medieval Christian chronologists operated with "year zero". Or am I missing something? Some difference between the medieval way to count years and the contemporary one? The only explanation I can come up with is that Adam of Bremen called the first year after a cycle of eight years "the ninth year", which would make it the first year in a new 8-year-cycle, but that is very weird. I mean, why not instead say "post octo annos" if the chronologist meant that the celebration happened on every eighth year. To me "post novem annos" sounds like the celebration happened every ninth year. But I'm no expert, that's why I'm asking.

[@DavidBrown-xu4ew]

I'm not sure about your method of reckoning. The mounds at Gamla Uppsala mark the end of one Metonic cycle and the beginning of another; where a full moon on 8th February is followed by a full moon on the following 28th January. These dates, whatever calendar you are using, are marked by alignments; you cannot argue with the mounds and the postholes! I appreciate that the octaeteris is roughly an eight year cycle but I think its 99 lunations are linked to the Metonic cycle too - this is surely the significance of the ring Draupnir, a mythological coding of the connection. 2023 doesn't take account of the Metonic cycle; Feb. 2020/Jan. 2021 was the last co-incidence so possibly we have just missed it! Another such co-incidence was February 852/January 853 C.E., the date recorded in the Chronicle of Rimbert for the second visit of Bishop Ansgar to Birka, which states that just before his second visit, there had been a great sacrifice. I think there is still work to be done here and its maybe premature to say 'let's restart in 2023'. Do you have a more detailed written explanation of your method of calculation?

[@RUR2006]

Could you tell me please what means "aun"? I can't find this word in dictionnaries, both physical and virtual ones.

[@NorthForkFisherman]

The myth of King Aun - talks about it at 01:22

[@LaValkyRican]

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