Waldeinsamkeit

To add : I’m not justifying ignorance here. I believe you should be well read and pursuit knowledge where possible. But likewise I firmly believe one will not find the gods on endless internet debates over man made philosophies or academics. Your relationship with the divine begins at the grove or altar. Over a sacred flame and with a prayer not over the phone.

I don’t believe any man can truly comprehend the nature of the divine or its mysteries without likewise experiencing some sort of madness. No philosophy or its philosopher can ever comprehend or explain the existence of the Gods, I believe it a hubris and arrogant for men to assume that he can ever understand such things. The Gods will show themselves to us, from worship we come to understand them and their nature. Hail to the Holy Gods in heaven

Midwest German narren, the roots run deep here.

"High said: "He is called All-father in our language, but in Old Asgard he had twelve names. One is All-father, the second Herran or Herian, the third Nikar or Hnikar, the fourth Nikuz or Hnikud, the fifth Fiolnir, the sixth Oski, the seventh Omi, the eighth Biflidi or Biflindi, the ninth Svidar, the tenth Svidrir, the eleventh Vidrir, the twelfth lalg or lalk." Then Gangleri asked: "Where is this god, what power has he, and what great works has he performed?" High said: "He lives throughout all ages and rules all his kingdom and governs all things great and small." Then spoke Just-as-high: "He made heaven and earth and the skies and everything in them." Then spoke Third: "But his greatest work is that he made man and gave him a soul that shall live and never perish though the body decay to dust or burn to ashes." " ~Gylfaginning, Faulkes translation

https://t.me/thechadpastoralist/2869 A thought I have been pondering recently is the idea that some Germanic myths originated with the indigenous hunter-gatherers of Scandinavia. Namely, the creation of man from trees, as explored in the Vǫluspá. We do know that pre-literate cultural groups such as the Anglo-Saxons were certainly capable of reciting 12 generations of ancestors (namely, King Penda), which is about 350 years if we assume that the average generational gap back then was 20-30 years. Thus, we can infer that their ancestors (who originated in Scandinavia and northern Germany) were capable of this, too. In the case of the East Scandinavian cluster, we know that they had emerged somewhere in East Sweden around 2600 BC and went on to replace the West and South Scandinavian genetic clusters in Denmark and Norway by 2000 BC. It is this population, the East Scandinavians, that formed the "predominant ancestry source for later Iron and Viking Age Scandinavians", and most Germanic peoples, as explored here. Given that the majority of ancient Europeans were primarily patrilineal (which we can infer based on archaeological and genetic evidence), it seems likely that the East Scandinavians were as well. Given that the predominant Y-haplogroup amongst them was I1, it seems possible that they understood themselves to have been directly descended from hunter-gatherers indigenous to Sweden about 400 years prior to their emergence (in the form of patrilineal stories of their ancestors, etc.). By 2000 BC, the East Scandinavian cluster was already admixed with steppe ancestry for about 400-600 years, but again, their male lineages were not of steppe origin and their burial customs were stone cists, not kurgans (until they incorporated them into their own tradition and became the elite of the Nordic Bronze Age). Their steppe ancestry technically came from their mothers while their main side came from their hunter-gatherer fathers. So I think it is hypothetically possible that they may have brought some form of myth of man's creation from trees with them into Denmark, which ultimately would have come from their patrilineal hunter-gatherer ancestors.

AI artwork has no place in a cultural revival. Our ancestors developed rites relating to their religion and laws relating to their culture. But above all they created. Fashioning idols, artwork, jewelry, clothing, architecture, and more. They created the things which physically defined and represented their own culture. They depicted themselves, their Gods, and countless creatures from various realms, all with their own authentic styles and directions. AI is not a tool to aid you in creation. It’s a tool to replicate actual creation. AI and its use in “creative expression”, will express only mimicry. Creating nothing more than lifeless amalgamations of actual love, beauty, loss, and triumph. Taking an artistic shortcut does no service to our ancestors and the skills they preserved. Don’t feed the wolf.

Train and worship the joyous Gods in heaven. 🌲