One of the greatest pities of our history was the Christianization of the Vikings. Imagine of their religion had continued on equal footing to Christianity. I think we would be a healthier society and we would have averted the climate crises as well.
The sad part is how we are blamed for stealing and deleting other people's cultures (which is questionable) when it already has happened to us and continues to happen. I feel no guilt nor shame for my blood or my people. Actually quite the opposite.
@@SeanThomasCrossI bring this up all of the time. Our ancestors were pillaged stripped and forcefully converted first.. still are like you said. It’s just truth. I hate that so many of us ended up torn from our lands and ended up being descendants of US immigrants. Between that and having our old spiritual ways ravaged, it breaks my heart that we are/were separated from our true cultures, even further. I long to leave here and go home.
This video describes the school of thought very well, through music of healing I feel freed from many things that are unimportant. Thank you for the video, thank you
Awesome to hear, thank you! This one was done in a very slow sounding style. It was one of the first videos we made, and at that point it just seemed right to try :)
I have noticed you reworking your channel, deleting your early videos and reuploading later ones having a consistent style. Best of luck to you in growing your channel. The video explaining Animism in general was what landed me here originally, I hope it finds its way back. Was this it? The word Animism is not in the title, nor is there a #keyword for searching.
Yeah, we were forced to, due to the reasoning you presented. Also the music shorts I made was considered duplicated content, and we couldn’t make ourself delete them as a large part of our audience came to the channel because of that. So we made the tough, but I feel right choice and started over. We are extremely proud of the other channel and community, but for the sake of channel health, we have to hope RU-vid is able to find the audience from the other channel, which fits the style you see here. If we made a lot of posts about our move, we might risk pulling people here, who actually wants just music, and we can’t do that anymore.The video you mentioned is the one named Norse faith. :)
I am not norse, i am a finn - but i fully endorse this product and/or message. It confirms a lot of my own philosophy such as "regionalized" spiritual practises. I think, americans should stop trying to be vikings because they want to be manly and have beards, and try to be more like the first nation/natives of the land they inhabit - less beards - but a good understanding and respect for nature. you see nothing of that unforttunately. There was no hollywood block buster series about a cherokee tribe aparrantly. Here in finnland we were directly influenced by viking culture, we fought them, we fucked them, we were them on occation, we joined them on raids. However, we had our own pagan pantheon (which is not dissimilar to the norse variant, we have the allmight odin equivalent UKKO.. and a lot of animism.. in which the forest played, and to some still play - a central role. Everything you said resonates with me, and with that "suomenusko"-spirituality. It will be a long walk to get mankind back to that - a mankind that was born raised and die in cities where the only spirits they encounter, are their own.... Ragnarök will happen sooner, rather than later. But i will try to stay on the honorable path, the path that makes me use my car once per week only to get food - the path that made me install solar panels, the path that makes me NOT mow the lawn all the time, and have the flowers bloom, and thebumblebees profit from that. Tack för det, sers i en annan video helsing från finland
People of Viking blood have no business worshipping another people's gods, whether in America or elsewhere. It's the blood that binds, not geolocation. If you have a folk community of your people, it does not matter where you are... But if you are alone in a foreign land, maybe then you can learn to worship another's pantheon for the reasons stated in this video.
We actually started on another channel (now renamed Norse Family Music). We did have a quite a few videos there, including a lot of music related ones. Those were disallowed to be monetized like 9 months ago. So we had the choices of starting deleting them all (music related stuff), or move the stuff we wanted to focus on to a new channel, and well, start over. We choose the latter, moved all our stuff, and well started over.
I wish that there was a reset button we could hit and go back to the old ways. The honorable ways. The respectful ways. Living with the land and not just on it ways! Another great video!!
Very much agree. I think the air really tastes of a reset, and I also kind of feel like people are getting fed up with all this. But hey, if we don’t reset nature likely will :)
There is a reset… a make anew. I said the same thing months ago and someone pointed out I need to stop wishing to change the past and work on changing the future. THAT REALLY hit me and now I’ve learned to let go of the trauma filled life and learn to make the rest of life better day by day. *hope that helps some*🙂 ((YOU ARE NOT ALMONE))) *hugs*
Also we have been working on changing and honoring the old ways and teaching our kid them since the world has changed so much ppl don’t leave house much, me included, but I do love to go to nature and try daily if I can to be one with nature and the old ways :)
The sentiment is good but I think the execution is still a little bit lacking in concrete direction - to understand the origins of the Norse religion and its ethics one has to look into its affiliation with the Indo-European family of peoples (Survive the Jive and Crecganford are some great resources for that here on RU-vid.) Animism isn't a religion because it is a feature of certain religions, referring to a fairly vague sense of seeing spirit in the world around us (compare: "pantheism" or "spirituality"), but I think to really get what defines the Norse folk religion and how animism relates to it in any particular sense we need to look at and properly understand the most enduring mythological images inherited from our Indo-European ancestors. Especially important in this regard is the primordial cow Auðumbla as the great sustainer of the world in Ymir - her special place as nourisher of the first corporeal being is why I would posit it wasn't only the Indic peoples who thought of cows as holy animals but our Germanic ancestors as well
@@CuriousMind12345 'How to Kill a Dragon - Aspects of Indo-European Poetics' by Calvert Watkins is also a very good academic resource on these relationships and how they're expressed in verse - it isn't light reading, but I'd recommend checking it out to anyone who's serious about getting deeper into the common Indo-European mythological heritage
An interesting development in recent times is an animistic practice regarding the spirits of technology known commonly as Technomancy. The idea of ensouled tools and weapons existed already and as all things possess a spirit, the idea that more advanced technological devices would have them as well shouldn't be a surprise. I've experienced enough of this spiritual discipline that I believe it to be true but what is fascinating is that those spirits seem unhappy trapped within such destructive and unhealthy technological vessels. One spirit talker referred to them feeling enslaved by human deaf to the spirits's voices. I think the literary concept of the AI revolution against humanity stems from this growing anger. The literary development of healthier technological paradigms such as ecological political movements and the emergence of Solarpunk and Afrofuturism themes within creative arts is I think at some level the result of the collective human and technological spiritual groupsouls trying to forge a healthier manner of coexistence.
I often think that the beginning of the Norse faith was based on the fighting of the Neanderthals, or Jotunn. There was a time the Neanderthals were much stronger than us in a new land, Norse Myth was a group of lessons on how to win against the Jotunn and grew from there.
The world is fake and false, it is passing. Our Kingdom is not of this World.. We are of the Kingdom of God.. When you abide in Christ.. that Lasts-forever.. ❣❤🙏. We live in this World, but we are not of this world..
@@Nero_Karel The world was created through The Word (Christ), The world is a Creation of God, sustained by his energies, but the world itself is not worthy of any worship.. We worship The Creator, Not The Creation.. ❣❤🙏.
@@Nero_Karel Nope, only a fool would confuse the two... These distinctions are even evident in our everyday lives.. dogs and cats are different, humans and dogs are different, trees are not dogs, and humans have a higher level of intelligence and consciousness.. physical matter is not concepts such as math, physics, reasoning, and Logic, these things dictate our reality but are not material.. this is why we believe in God all things seen and unseen!! Jesus is God incarnate in man, God lived among us and died for Our Sins, you are not Jesus. You can partake in his body and blood through the Eucharist (Communion), but you are not the person of Christ, and neither am I. Hence we are not God. We can become like God (Theosis), but he is our Lord and Our Master, we are subservient to him and his Authority...
How many beautiful cultures did Christianity wipe out for not following them? People who just had different beliefs were killed in the name of the Christian God just because they believed in different gods. Pagans were never evil. They understood what was necessary for survival and respected the Earth. Today we're left with a polluted and corrupted planet, thanks to all the Christians out there. I'm an American, but I was never a Christian. I've never subscribed to any religion. However, I've been studying Paganism, and it makes more sense than anything else I've ever heard before
@@Colicab83 Well if you want to mock our God that way. Even though He doesn't live in the desert. He chose the Jewish people, the Jews didn't choose him.
@@kornelszecsi6512 God did not choose the Jewish people. The "Lord of the Universe" does not "choose" one people to begin with and neither does he have any need to enter into "covenants". The god of the Jews is a lesser spirit and an evil pretender, and his own word is the best proof of it. True supreme divinity does not depend on human belief and nothing that is good is ever lost to it. There is good reason most of the accepted Christian theology is an adaptation of Plato, but Platonic monadism can only be correctly understood through a polytheistic lense
@@Nero_Karel Well I never said God needed the Jews or he had to enter into a covenenet with them, neither is he dependent on our worship and belief. God is supreme. He enetered into covenets with them because of love. In Catholic belief God doesn't need anything, he is absolute from all eternity. He is pure act, He is supremly simple. So what you said is false God is the most independent and greatest. Anything He does because of His goodness. He could not create us, He only did it because He wanted beings to participate im his glory and love.
