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There are different ways to study runic magic. Usually
people who use runes for the first time do it to solve everyday
problems: to heal themselves, to help loved ones, to attract
money, to attract love - in a word, everything that is close to
the heart and needed by the body. Nobody is saying that this
is petty or wrong - we are doing all this and will continue to do
it, including on the pages of this book. But first of all, the
student of runic magic is interested not so much in everyday
effects as in his own transformation. You can learn ordinary
witchcraft anywhere and achieve tangible results in this matter.
results; and although this has an indirect relation to magic, it
also has a right to be. My students are mostly
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Ksenia Menshikova Futhark 8
Introduction 9
Tree Yggdrasil 11
Loki 61
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Vany 183
Njord 191
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Frigg 225
Balder 233
Hel 246
Norns 260
Mimir 271
Kvasir 286
Bragi Hed 294
Hermod 302
Vali 310
Vidar 325
Ull Forseti 331
Skadi 336
12 347
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"handmaids" 364
Frigg 369
Saga Eir Geviyon Fulla Var 377
and 381
Ver 383
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Practice 16 672
Practice 17 682
Practice 18 687
Practice 19 693
Practice 20 700
Practice 21 704
Practice 22 707
Practice 23 714
Practice 24 719
Practice 25 723
Practice 26 727
Practice 27 731
Practice 28 736
Practice 29 740
Practice 30 744
Practice 31 747
Practice 32 751
Practice 33 756
Practice 34 761
Practice 35 765
Practice 36 769
Practice 37 773
Practice 38 777
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Ksenia Menshikova
Runes and gods. Ancient sacred
knowledge about runes, gods
and worlds, about northern magic a
© Menshikova K. E., text, 2022
© Tsentrpoligraf, 2022 ©
Art design, Tsentrpoligraf, 2022
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Futhark
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Introduction
Listen to me, everyone
sacred births,
great and small
Heimdall's children!
Alone you want
so I can tell you
about the past of all beings,
about the ancient things that I remember.
Having comprehended the elder futhark, locking all the runes into a single
chain, the Fehu rune connected with the Dagaz rune, and all 24 runes
began to work independently, transforming consciousness every minute
through consistent transformation, recalculation of all data, connections,
causes and consequences. Basis
was the task that everyone who entered the process of change through the
runes set for themselves: who to become? How
change yourself so that reality changes?
Futhark is designed in such a way that every transformation that a rune
makes gives the basis for each subsequent one to include its own special
processes. But, having closed
runes into a chain, the transformation becomes continuous; cor-
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Here and below, passages from the Elder Edda are quoted in the translation by A.I. Korsun
and M.I. Steblin-Kamensky, from the Younger Edda - translated by O.A. Smirnitskaya
and M.I. Steblin-Kamensky.
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Relation occurs constantly with each introduced change -
everything
changes. Such a connection brings consciousness closer to
the northern tradition, makes it ready to perceive ancient sacred
knowledge about gods and worlds, about northern magic and its se
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Tree of Yggdrasil
By studying runes at the first stage of knowledge, you are already partly
began to plunge into the space of myth. Really,
knowing every rune of the elder futhark, it is impossible not
to at least touch upon the myth that stretches behind one or
another rune, like a thread behind a needle. But it is possible
to fully enter the space of myth only when this
entry begins from the very primary step from which
Once upon a time the gods began the myth of the creation of the worlds.
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I know the ash
tree by the name of Yggdrasil,
a tree washed with
muddy moisture;
dew from it
they descend to the
valleys; above the Urd source
he is green forever.
The Yggdrasil tree is the structure of the system, a description of the All-
of gods and people in the Scandinavian tradition.
Gravvitnir's children, -
Grabak and Gravvellud,
Ofnir and Svafnir, -
they are constantly
On the same day, a boy and a girl appeared under Ymir’s left hand, and from
his feet the six-headed giant Trudgelmir was born. This was the beginning of a
family of giants - the Grimthursen, cruel and treacherous, like the ice and fire that
created them.
Vafthrudnir said:
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«For many winters
The rest of the worlds that we see on the Tree of Yggdras-il do not
affect our world personally, but only indirectly through worlds connected
directly. The surrounding worlds, and
exactly:
The key to understanding this world is the Isa rune, the rune
stability and immutability. In human manifestation
– will.
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The world of Nifelheim (sometimes Niblheim or Niflheim) in the mythology of the ancients
Scandinavians is one of the Nine Worlds that make up the observable Universe
(Yggdrasil). The etymology of this word is ambiguous; in all likelihood, we are
talking about the Old Norse niflheimr. At the same time, many sources (in
in particular, the now popular Wikipedia) are cruelly mistaken in this regard,
translating the word “Niflheim” as “abode of mists.” In fact, about nothing
there is no speech here in the fog. If the base heimr is completely translatable
(literally - “earth” or, rather, “earth”), then nifl, according to M.I. Steblin-Kamensky,
whose authority in the field of Old Norse linguistics is indisputable, is translated
as "dark". Thus, Niflheim means "dark lands" or, if
to put it a little more poetically, “the world of darkness.” Note source: © runarium.ru
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(Elder Edda.
Waftrudnir's words)
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The wives who came from Jotunheim are the Norns, the goddesses of fate, about whom will
told at the time.
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la, but principles) on which the entire system of created reality
is built and operates. The key to the world of Asgard is the
Gebo rune - the rune of the law of balance, the rune of
connections and
proper partnership. Odin rules not only in Asgard. He has a
throne in a special kingdom - Valhalla, which means “Chamber
of those killed in battle” (Einherjar).
They shine with gold, eternal happiness is destined to
their inhabitants. Valhalla is surrounded by a river that
separates the living from the dead; the entrance to the
chambers is through a special gate. And in front of the gate
there is a grove called Glasir. All the leaves on the trees in
it are made of red gold, it glitters and shines so much that
it hurts your eyes to look at it. This is the
most beautiful of forests among gods and people. Odin
closely monitors the progress of any battle. All who fell
gloriously in battle are his adopted sons. And everyone
ends up in Valhalla. If Odin needs help, 800 warriors will
come out of each door of Valhalla, and there are 540 doors
there. Great Lord Odin - what a great multitude of warriors obey
Every day, as soon as the Golden Crest rooster crows,
the Einherjar awaken from sleep, put on armor and go out
onto the field. There they fight and kill each other to death.
This is their fun, because afterwards everyone comes to
life and together, cheerfully, peacefully return to the wards.
Valgrind - gate,
standing in the field
ancient gate
locks and latches.
Bilskirnir
accommodates
five hundred chambers and
forty more; of all the
palaces my son owns
the most spacious.
(Elder Edda.
Words of Grimnir)
In Asgard there are the palaces of the gods, which are called
Folkvang, Noatun, Sökkvabek, Thrymheim, Idalir, Brey-dablik,
Landvidi, Glitnir, Brimir, Bilskirnir, Himin-björg, Valaskjálv, which will
be discussed further.
One said: “I
traveled a lot, talked a lot
with the good gods;
would like to see
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how Vafthrudnir lives in
his own house.”
Frigga said:
“Wander healthy, return
healthy, have a
good journey!
May wisdom be your
help there in your
dispute with the Jotun!”
It was from the world of Jotunheim that the god Frey chose his wife, and
the beautiful giantess Skadi, although not for long, was the wife of the ancient
god of the sea Njord. So the description
of the Jotuns as terrible troll creatures is not entirely accurate. Later
narratives, including
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This is told in the ancient saga “The Song of Hyndla”.
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Les and descriptions of astral travelers around the worlds
talk about the inhabitants of the world of Jotunheim as gods
with completely different appearances: they can be incredibly
beautiful and terribly ugly. Extremes do not frighten them -
after all, they do not know good and evil, and the nature of
the Jotuns, enhanced memory, insists that everything has
a place in the worlds of Igdrasil, including any past, any
history. The key to the world of Jotunheim is one of the
nine irreversible runes Nautiz (Naud). In the human world
and mind, this rune acts as the rune of need. But as the key
to the world of Jötunheim, it gives us a wider disclosure -
memory, history, the need for information - any, without
censorship or evaluation.
One said:
“Greetings to you, Vafthrudnir!
So I came to
look at you;
I want to comprehend your
knowledge, are you all wise?
you know."
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(Elder Edda.
Speeches of Vafthrudnir)
Intelligence and wisdom are the main qualities of the world of the
ancient Etuns. But they do not share their knowledge with everyone.
The sagas tell us about the tests to which the bearers of the memory
of all questioners are subjected. And it makes no difference to the
Ancients who stands before them - a strong god or a weak person.
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human likenesses,
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as Durin ordered.
Midgard
It would be a mistake to associate our planet specifically with
Midgard; this is fundamentally wrong. Such a misconception has led
many seekers in their research to places where mistakes are made and
incorrect conclusions are drawn. Midgard is
not here. Midgard is now.
Midgard is the only world that is not in the tree system
has an obvious pair. It is limited and finite, just like limited time in
general and human time in particular. Serpent Mid-
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guard (Jormungand) encircles the human world and,
like a snake, Ouroboros bites its own tail, acts as a timer,
compressing the time ring more and more
and more. Everything has limits and everything has limits; world
Midgard is the first, which depends on limits and deadlines, and
people living in the here-and-now know this well.
The key to the world of Midgard is the Yera rune, the rune
of time. But you can only understand how this key works
but considering it in connection with other worlds, as a point
on the Naud-Yera-Inguz, Jotunheim-Midgard-Va-naheim time
line, which defines the present moment. While Jotun-heim
(Naud rune) is the past, and Vanaheim (Inguz rune) is the
future.
The history of the creation of man in the cosmology of the northern peoples
Dov is described as follows:
(Elder Edda.
Völva's Divination)
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scurries briskly
through the Yggdrasil ash tree;
all the eagle's speeches
she is in a hurry to carry it
Nidhyoggu7vniz.
tree is larger and more beautiful than all the trees. Its branches are stretched over
the world and
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Ratatoskr - “gnawtooth”.
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Nidhogg is the black dragon mentioned in verses 39 and 66 of the Völva's
Divination.
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rise above the sky. Three roots support
tree, and these roots spread far away.”
The power of runic magic lies not so much in being able to compose
and read runic formulas and scriptures, but in
accurately and accurately, through runes, to maintain certain connections-
channels between worlds, changing the world according to one’s will and
task. The power of runes is enormous. But the answer is even stronger -
the property of the one who uses them in this capacity - after all
the processes taking place throughout all worlds will be irreversible.
(Bow to you)
Cleaning away the remnants and scraps of the once powerful epic from
Christian touch, restoring bit by bit the mosaic of meaning, we will try to
find this hidden message - commandments and parting words for us, the
living, and the young gods who replaced the Ancients. If it works out as
planned, then
We will restore and reanimate the Yggdrasil world program, we will build
the world anew according to old drawings, but taking into account
knowledge of all the mistakes made by predecessors.
The world that the Old Gods built is a world in which
the main human qualities and the main power of the gods
there had to be Valor and Honor. That's right, with great
letters.
They say that once the One, breaking itself into a huge
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the number of smallest parts allowed these parts to develop
independently. This is how the gods appeared. Each god decomposed
himself into billions more parts - this is how people appeared.
Each god worked “on his own topic,” that is, he developed himself
in a certain way. The northern gods were working on creating a
universal algorithm that would allow
the concepts of “valor” and “honor”, bringing them to perfection.
And not only people became full participants in this
process, but the gods themselves took the most active part in it
participation. So the sagas told.
But the gods had not only helpers, but also opponents.
Some, out of hostility, tried to stop them. Others are from
friendship - tried to do the same. What's the difference?
V motifs.
When everything goes smoothly, when there is no development, when in joy
victory, you don’t notice the price at which this victory was achieved,
it’s easy to stop searching and be satisfied with what you have achieved
and ultimately lose. A harmful friend will point out mistakes, push you
and stimulate you to action.
If you understand this, then know that you have found an ally in your
deeds, the one who loves you sincerely - not with words, but with
intention, action. But if you don't understand, then the difference betwe
friend and enemy will be erased, for you judge by deeds (which is
wrong), and not by motive (which is right).
The story that the northern gods have given us is a story of failure.
Yes, reader, don't be surprised. Brag-
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(Völva's Divination)
The Younger Edda unfolds this story prosaically and in detail: “...Where did the people
inhabiting the
earth come from?” And the Tall One answers: “The sons of Bor were
walking along the seashore and saw two trees. They took those trees and
made people out of them. The first gave them life and soul, the second -
mind and movement, the third - appearance, speech, hearing and sight.
They gave them clothes and names: the man was named Ash, and the
woman Willow. And from them came the human race, settled by the gods
within the walls of Midgard. After this, they built themselves a city in the
middle of the world and called it Asgard, and we call it Troy. The gods
began to live there with all their offspring, and there the beginning of many
events and many strife on earth and in heaven.”
One
I know I was hanging
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Heiti in Old Icelandic poetry is a poetic synonym that is used to denote a
name or object instead of a common word;
changing names, renaming.
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tists and magicians exploring invisible connections with the planet
Mercury, which, in turn, in magic is associated with the fundamental
principles of Good and Evil in the system of magic circles of power.
Here it must be said that in magic these concepts are viewed somewhat
differently than in the world of human morality.
More precisely, in magic these two concepts have nothing to do with morality at all.
have no relationship, since in the magical worldview
Good – effective algorithms for achieving results,
or, simply, algorithms for victory.
Evil – ineffective algorithms, or – pro-
toy
God One had comprehensive knowledge about the “correct” ways
to achieve results for victory, knew about
prerequisites for loss, knew everything that could lead him
team (family) to success and victory among the pantheons of others
deities It is for this, and not just for the runes, that the god Odin is named
god of knowledge. Only those who have access to these resources are
worthy of developing civilization, building it “from scratch,” developing
processes and creating people - genetic and spiritual carriers of the
program and the main task of the project. Therefore, it was Odin who
became the head of the pantheon. It was he who committed actions
that helped him gain the missing knowledge and power that no other
god of the northern family possessed.
Odin is the leader of the Aesir, sage and shaman, lord of the runes.
Patron of the military aristocracy, master of Valhalla, scholar
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ny and alchemist, magician and sorcerer. He appeared to people
under different names and in different guises, but what remains in
human memory is his blue cloak and wide-brimmed hat, which
hides his wounded eye - in this guise God Odin is most recognizable
wow.
The origin of the god Odin is the same as that of other aesir
gods - he is from the frost giants. The concept of "ace" is not
designation of race or other blood origin. Ace,
Asinya is a status, position, position in the hierarchy of mi-
ditch, but not a designation of nationality.
In Snorri's Prose Edda we read:
He [Buri] was handsome, tall and powerful. Him
a son named Bor was born. He married Bestla, his daughter
Bölthorn the giant, and she bore him three sons:
one was called Odin, the other Vili, and the third Ve. AND
I believe that Odin and his brother rulers are in heaven and
on the ground. We think that's his name. This
the name of the greatest and most glorious of all known to us
husbands, and you can call him that too10 .
10 Bölthorn is a frost giant. Bestla is the mother of Odin, daughter of Belthorn. Storms –
the first man who was licked from the ice of Nifelheim by the cow Audumla.
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Yes, it is inside it, and not outside it.
However, to meet the stated requirements,
the mind of Odin himself had to undergo a corresponding
transformation - necessary and sufficient to fulfill his mission.
How it was?
At the very beginning of creation, the worlds were connected with
each other very conditionally. In this regard, there was no working system
and for this reason the law of balance was fiercely violated.
The worlds that existed from eternity were not created by the
Aesir - they existed long before the birth of Odin and his brothers
the merit of the aces was that they were able to connect various
worlds with a single logical essence, which is called
Tree of Yggdrasil.
However, in fairness, it must be said that what to do
system programming and some “legalization” of their works
were forced by circumstances, and not by their own desires or
well-thought-out projects with far-reaching
plans. What was done initially - worlds with different
properties - the gods did for themselves, for play, for pleasure
actions.
three giants,
mighty maidens
from Jotunheim.
(Elder Edda.
Völva's Divination)
Nobody fed
no one gave me anything to drink
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I looked at the ground
I picked up the runes
groaning, he raised them -
and fell from the tree.
I began to mature
and increase knowledge,
grow, prosper;
word from word
(Elder Edda.
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Speeches of the High One)
in Jotunov Asvyd,
All the most valuable knowledge is stored in the world of Darkness. All-
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True to tradition, this world is called the world of Nifelheim,
and the guardians, bearers of ancient knowledge are foreigners
true giants. Let me emphasize – bearers of ancient knowledge.
The world of Jotunheim and its inhabitants, the Jotuns, are bearers of ancient
memory, but this is not the same thing. Knowledge is something that has passed
the test of time, passed through centuries, or even
thousand years of experience. These are ready-made packages of
information, constants of past times and other worlds; these are ready cod
and keys, the use of which does not require changing them or
improvements. Unlike ancient memory, which is current information
without rules for its application, everything that
is, and everything that was. Once upon a time, worlds began to be
created from the constants of the world of Nifelheim and the triggering
impulses of Muspelheim, and the entire Yggdrasil Tree was built on the
constants of Nifel. It was this ancestral gift that God Odin received from
his ancestor, the giant Bölthorn 11– lu connectednine songs in number
worlds, nine correct codes.
The runes of Midgard, which we know as the Elder Futhark,
were given to people for action in their world. Runes help a person
connect with other worlds, receiving from there
information to formulate changes, but they do not provide
a person has the right to change other worlds with his will or desire.
Midgard is the middle world, the mirror of the entire system.
11 Bestla is the mother of Odin himself, Bölthorn, therefore, his grandfather. He is frosty
a giant from the world of Nifelheim. The bearer of ancient knowledge of the world of Darkness, which
and passed it on to his grandson. And this is a very important point, which in no case
should not be overlooked.
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A mirror cannot voluntarily influence the reflected object, but it
is capable of showing it the result,
will allow you to see what is wrong with it.
But all this happened much later. At first, as legends say,
the supreme god of the northern pantheon was
god Tyr. The Supreme God is like a project manager, he
sets the general line of development, forms the supreme idea:
What is it all for? However, the story of how and for what
reason the functions of the supreme passed from Tyr to Odin wil
described in detail in the chapter dedicated to the god Tyr: after
certain events, he transferred control of the project and
supremacy of the pantheon to the one whose strength and capabilities gave
a chance to bring the project to its logical conclusion and, perhaps,
with a winning result.
Using modern terminology, we can say
that god Odin is the engine of the entire Yggdrasil Tree system.
A system that Odin created and which is aimed at bringing out
the best. However, like any other systems with which other
pantheons of gods worked. It’s just that each system sets its
own mechanism for assessing the best, but in the northern
pantheon, led by the god Odin, this mechanism is
military valor.
Everything that is described in the eddas and sagas is a description
of the formation of such a system, an honest and truthful description. Every
God and every hero describes his algorithms as victories,
and defeats - as truthfully as possible -
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but to preserve a person’s consciousness in his memory and reproduce
conduct subsequently this honesty.
What is embedded in the core of the system begins to develop the
system in a strictly defined manner. When God One is through
self-initiation on the Tree Yggdrasil closed the system of the Nine
Worlds on itself, it gave impetus to the functioning of this
systems also in a strictly defined manner. This key was subsequently
called "Odin's Wrath".
In the system, each world, like an information block, performs its
function. Some worlds within the system
can fully manifest themselves, while some can function only to a limited
extent or only periodically, or never at all. Rules of interaction and
the functioning of worlds within the system sets the goal of the system,
describes its main task - why the system was formed. Since the
emergence of the god Odin as supreme
God of the northern pantheon, the goal was determined - to win.
In this program, the world of people, the world of Midgard, was not
assigned a main mission, but a strictly specific and very limited one.
The world of people had to cultivate victorious warriors who, at the
moment of the decisive battle of Ragna River, at the moment of the last
test of the system's strength
will stand next to the gods shoulder to shoulder.
Einherjar - this is the name of the fallen warriors of the human world,
before which the gates of Valgrind opened -
“gate of the dead”, or “gate of those fallen in battle”, gate to
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chertogi Asgard.
Valgrind - gate,
standing in the field
(Elder Edda.
Speeches of Grimnir)
There the fallen warriors awaited the moment of the last battle,
practicing in duels, treating himself to never-ending boar meat:
Andhrimnir12varit
Sehrimnira-boar
12 Andhrimnir is the name of the cook in Valhalla. Just like Sehrimnir (the name
of the boar, which comes to life every time it is eaten by the inhabitants of Valhalla)
and Eldhrimnir (the name of the cauldron in which this boar is boiled), comes from
the word hrim - “soot”. (Note per.)
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in Eldhrimnir meat -
excellent game;
Few know the
dishes of the Einherjar.
(Elder Edda.
Speeches of Grimnir)
God One was with them, but never ate anything among the
dead warriors, but only drank wine. The dead food of the dead
was eaten by Odin's companions - the wolves Freki and Geri,
the “greedy” and “gluttonous”. Not only at the feast with the
Einherjar, wolves eat the “share of the dead,” but also in the
system of worlds they are able to destroy everything that is
sick and obsolete, ridding the system, by decree of the god
Odin, of everything that can make it powerless and clumsy
from excess matter . Wolves also protect Valhalla from unexpec
(Elder Edda.
Speeches of Grimnir)
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Valhalla is a very important palace. In the interpretation of a
system as a program, palaces are individual databases that require
preservation and enhanced protection. Those gods with whom we
will meet further have
their palaces, provided that this god is functionally entrusted with the
responsibility of forming such a database.
For the god Odin, Valhalla has a database of flawless
warriors, comrades in battle. Wolves protect the harvest
information, do not allow it to be used for other purposes or
ahead of schedule. Valhalla is part of the great halls of Glad-sheim
(“abode of joy”). God has another palace
Odin - Valaskjalf with the throne Hlidskjalf (“watchdog”
tower"), from where the All-Father looks over all the worlds.
It is difficult to leave Valhalla, but getting there is even more
difficult. The Valgrind Gate is like an automatic control system and
cannot be penetrated by an unworthy person:
neither a warrior nor a woman; the one who died from illness or due
to an accident is a very strict selection system.
The right to enter the gates of fallen warriors cannot be purchased or
obtained by deception. The one who died in his bed with a wooden
skewer in his hands will not enter there. The gates will not open to
those who are wounded in the back on the battlefield, or who die,
praying to the gods for salvation. In addition to the gate system behind this strictly
Other henchmen of Odin are also watching - the winged maidens-
Valky-rii. They collect the fallen on the battlefield, delivering them to Va
Hallu of the best of the best, as it is written in the algorithm
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special selection of the god Odin.
The Spear of Gungnir is an artifact obtained by the god
Loki for his brother god Odin. The spear is not only a symbol
of supreme power, but also a powerful control tool. According
to legends, it could hit without missing a beat and hit any
target it was aimed at. From the perspective of a
programmatic view of this myth, we can say that this is a
mechanism that helps not only to accurately identify system
vulnerabilities, but also to block them and eliminate
imperfections. Loki brought many artifacts to the world of
Asgard, but this will be discussed in due time.
Odin's companions, his assistants and comrades are the
ravens Hugin and Munin, “thinking” and “hearing.” They
collected for Odin all the information from worlds where only
these prophetic birds can penetrate. They helped the god
Odin become omniscient - and this is one of his hats.
(Elder Edda.
Speeches of Grimnir)
13 Hugin and Munin are derivatives of huga (“to think”) and muna (“to remember”).
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In the world of people, the god Odin was recognized by his appearance
- a wide-brimmed hat and a blue cloak. This business card is not
only the visible appearance of a wanderer god, a magician god. This is also
indicator of status. In the era in which the sa-gi were formed, the color of
clothing mattered. Blue belonged to the magicians,
seers, those who know how to look beyond the edge.
The warrior god, after many hundreds of years, became the god of
those who seek themselves in magic. It didn't happen then, but it happened
now. The whole history of the god Odin, the history of his victories and
defeats, suddenly, unexpectedly, already in our era, is intertwined like this
in a new and bizarre way, that another, hitherto invisible face of Odin
appeared - the patron god of knowledge, the patron of magic. The old
tradition looked (and saw) Odin from one side, from the side of the
formidable patron god
warriors, the bearer of the spark of “Odin’s rage”. Descendants saw
more. We also saw his other side - Loki. Otherwise
14 Chthonic (from the Greek ÿÿÿÿ - “earth, soil”) animals in many religions
and mythologies - those who originally personified wild natural power
earth, underworld, etc.
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appreciated Odin's sacrifice - an eye in exchange for knowledge. Differently
looked at his training in seidu from the goddess Freya (considering that in the
old era, practicing seidu was considered very shameful for a man). His ability
to talk to the dead
and loyalty to one’s path - all this is the path of the magician, the path of the
seeker - this is how Odin’s descendants saw him.
Odin has gained another power in our era: Odin's rage
becomes the wisdom of Odin. His path is the path of the magician. He knows
they are honest, but they can still only be taken by
stoic. But who is now considered worthy to enter the halls of the one-eyed
god? What is the selection criterion now? Let us now walk the Odin path, let
us walk it completely. Let’s try to understand and accept, learn everything and
experience everything, like a wanderer god, enter our own personal Rag-narok
and experience the very transformation of the world for which everything was
started.
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The honesty with which the seeker enters into the knowledge of
the northern pantheon will help not only to see the description correctly
victories and defeats of the gods, which legends and sagas left for
us. It will help to understand the true reasons for such
successes and failures, to see as it is, and not as you wanted
would like to see. This is precisely the point of Odin's study - to solve
this equation; equation "from the inverse" when
the answer is known, but most of the elements included in it are
unknown. We have to look for and find these elements:
Knowing the effect, determine the cause. To understand where
there was victory, and where was defeat, where was the imaginary victory, and where
giveaway game. Who or what is really to blame for the problems of
the northern project; where is the key really hidden?
mistakes made.
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This approach will be useful to us not only for our interest in knowledge
of the northern myth, but will also give us much more. Every,
who immerses himself in the northern tradition takes upon himself
an internal honest commitment to level out the identified errors of the
system, to correct them, at least in oneself. Not
erase, do not cross out, rewrite in white to convince
everyone, that there were no mistakes - all the machinations of enemies. This
not that. All corrections need to be made in yourself, reprogram your mind,
find vulnerabilities in your consciousness that justify powerlessness and
betrayal, allow you to be
weak and dependent; forced to bow before strangers
gods, they are forbidden to challenge them, they are forbidden to fight for
yours.
Awareness and understanding solve many issues, but also
the action decides them more. Northern tradition is a system
for those who are capable of action, who are able to challenge fate, who
are able to fight to the end. Awareness is not enough.
You need to act in accordance with awareness, perform real actions that
can neutralize the reasons
mistakes of the past, are able to correct these mistakes.
Usually, when a person comes to a magical
or religious system, he is waiting for help for himself. And in the very last
place he will begin to think not about what the system is for him, but what
he is for the system. In the northern tradition this will not work: it will help
only those who are ready to work for its success through action; who is
ready to reprogram-
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to shape reality, acting as a stalker, a progressor in a given form of
being; fixing bugs in your system, fix them outside as well. Power is
given precisely for this purpose, and not for the pleasure of the
powerless. Understanding your imperfections, you need to correct
them, and not stand in the advantageous position of “weak man,
weak”; you need to do real things until
until the imperfect becomes perfect.
God Odin teaches us this, and all the gods will teach us this.
systems of the Nine Worlds.
Practice 5. God is One (p. 369)
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Tor
The power of the gods, which we comprehend and will comprehend,
integral to the main channel that opened before
There is One God among us - everything is included in Him. But this inclusion
will always be only a certain facet, a specific function, which at
the same time is some kind of special
the quality of general strength, basic strength. The specific power
of the god Thor is also one of the facets of the god Odin, but
this is the god Thor himself - completely independent, absolutely
a holistic and powerful force, not inferior in its might
to no other god, and not even to the supreme god Odin himself.
This needs to be seen and understood initially, without slipping
on the usual rails of perception “senior - junior”,
"boss - subordinate", "god - man" or "father -
son".
18 This story is described in the Younger Edda, in the story of how “Thor went
on the way to Utgarda-Loki."
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"rage" and "anger". Rage and malice are the driving force for God
and his food. He can always awaken this power in himself, he
can always satisfy your hunger with it. These are also the properties
of a warrior-defender: if you need to raise a strong feeling for battle,
he will pick it up. Because the gods can rely on him.
All descriptions in myth are descriptions of symbols. The
instructions for the action of the reality building program are
instructions that decipher the algorithms of the gods. Ridiculous image
the goats on which the god Thor rides could well be descendants
subsequently be replaced by a noble horse or self-driving chariots.
But no. It was the image that was left
goats: stupid, lustful animals, to which in myth we are given
corresponding names - Gnashing of Teeth and Gnashing of Teeth,
Fury and Malice, as we would call these two
state now. Renewable strength, natural lust
– not a goal, but a means; can become both a leading force and
and food for the mind - it all just depends on who controls it.
Mjolnir, capable of bringing this force back to life, cuts it off
from the past, breaks the connection between yesterday's memory and
today. Renewable resource like a boar
Sehrimnir, who is eaten by fallen warriors in Valhalla,
there is food for today’s rage, strength for a warrior, despite the fact
that yesterday it was already “eaten.”
The hammer Mjolnir is mentioned in many sagas and legends.
And it is always shown as a value, as an important tool for the god
Thor to influence reality. For example,
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in a very multifaceted story about the theft of Mjolnir, “The
Song of the Hold.” It tells how the giant Thrym stole the
hammer from the god Thor when he dozed off after righteous
labors, and for the return of the hammer the giant demanded
the goddess Freya as his wife. In order to return the hammer,
the inseparable couple Thor and Loki had to dress up in
women's clothing, posing as the goddess of beauty (Thor)
and her maid (Loki). It
is necessary to understand what significance the fact of
dressing a man in women's clothing had in the human world
and in the era of the events described is not just a shame, it
is a shame with a capital S, it is a terrible dishonor. You can
wear pants with a rip in the butt, but covering the rip with a skir
(Elder Edda.
Völva's Divination)
The nature of Loki is the fire and frost giants, the nature of Angrboda
is the world of Jotunheim. Loki is the bearer of the original fire, capable
of melting the ice of Nifelheim,
his great wife is the bearer of ancient memory, continuous
memory, continuous knowledge. It is precisely these qualities, as the
primary genetic material, that manifested themselves in
various forms in the children of this union - they all have access to
ancient memory, as well as to the worlds of primary forces; They
carriers of chaos magic. This is their nature, and they can and will interact
with the newly created system of order
based solely on it, one’s own nature, and not according to
expectations, perceptions or commands from above.
The gods determined points of origin for all children from this union.
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Positions of activity: the mistress of the world of the dead Hel became
mistress of the borders of Helheim and Nifelheim, the serpent Yormun-
gand surrounded the world of Midgard, swimming in the world ocean
(as a result of this he also began to be called the “serpent of Midgar-
da”). The gods took Fenrir the wolf cub for themselves. From what
has been said, it is clear that the Fenrir injection was not just intended f
the world of Asgard, but for its very core, for the core of the whole
systems, for the basic principle. Fenrir was born for
Tour.
The wolf was terrible and instilled irrational horror in the hearts of
the gods. He grew by leaps and bounds, and the only one
who dared to approach him was the god Tyr,
the rest did not take risks. The gods feared Fenrir because
didn't understand him. Was the god Tyr afraid of him? Maybe. But,
unlike all his other brothers in the project, he has
there was a weapon - not against the wolf, but against one’s own
fear. His weapons are valor and honesty, what lay at the core of the
Asgardian system during the reign of Tyr. Probably, he, like everyone
else, did not understand the nature of the wolf, did not
could recognize it - there were no such recognition algorithms at that
time in the development of the project. But Tyr was capable
despise your fear, look into the eyes of the killer of gods and approach
this all-consuming love and hatred in one
Nom face.
That wolf cub was completely reasonable. This is not some
a wild monster with whom it was impossible to come to terms.
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But his strength was titanic, primordial. A kind heart in a terrible
body, wild love, incapable of being submissive. Fenrir loved the
gods, loved Tyr - the wild primordial
love. Allowing Tyr to feed himself, he chose him as a leader and
recognized his power. The titanic power of the unmanifested
recognized the power of the god Tyr - not out of fear, but
for love. However, all the other gods were frightened by this power,
since the gods did not have a system of containment and control.
With this power, the gods feared the unknown and uncontrollable.
The gods decided to create such a containment system, and Tyr
was forced to agree with them. And it was
his first mistake.
In the primary algorithms for achieving results, the northern gods
did not have those that would imply the possibility of reaching an
agreement, the ability to study the unknown
nature and find mechanisms to control it through
some study. The arsenal of possibilities included conquest,
destruction, restriction. They had no other ways
cope with your fear, in addition to destroying what you are afraid of.
This was applied to the growing threat - the gods decided to bind the
wolf. Tyr, as the supreme god, must
was to take into account everything, including the fear of his fellow
aces. The eternal conflict of any system that goes through the
primary stages of its formation: the rights of one
against the rights of many. Tyr made a choice.
The gods forge the strongest chain called Leding, that is,
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independently create containment algorithms. The wolf vomits
This chain is torn to pieces with a slight movement of the paw. The gods
present this as a game: come on, they say, we will tie you up, and you will bre
fetters. In such a presentation there is already a hint of untruth - after all,
the gods knew that this was not a game. But responsibility for this untruth
lies with the supreme ruler, with the head of the clan. And Tyr remained silen
The gods forge a chain named Dromi for the second time and again
offer the wolf a game. Tyr was silent again.
Realizing that it would not be possible to create a containment
program on their own, the gods decided to turn to those masters
who know how to make programs that cannot be resisted
and there can be no counterprograms. Miniatures from Svartalfheim
- these are the masters. They are the only ones who can do
the necessary artifacts, write algorithms that will close vulnerabilities
in the system, which will make the system again
holistic, indivisible, functionally independent.
In order to have this ability, the creator
the required unique addition must not only be able to
to do this, but also to have a special gift - to accurately determine
what exactly the system lacks in integrity, to determine which
program is failing; calculate vulnerability and determine its true
cause. Having received the task from the gods to create such a
containment program, to forge chains that Fenrir could never break,
the miniatures first of all determined the vulnerability of the
and justice is only then the strength of the king, when nothing
it does not exist at the expense of the other.
Why, in spite of everything, is the god Tyr called the god of kings?
Because it is his example that is needed for those who believe that
supreme power and “good intentions”
can justify everything and provide protection from all accompanying
errors. The story of Tyr tells us that this is not so - but it is
a lesson for kings. The moment family loyalty became
above loyalty to the idea, he ceased to be a king and became a pro-
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a hundred warriors who fight for their own. When someone else's fear
becomes the cause of betrayal, when the fear of the powerless,
but close, becomes the reason for the violation of the royal
oaths. He ceased to be impeccable, and the symbol of the loss of this
essential quality for a true king became
his one-armedness is an obvious defect that should be
visible to everyone.
A bad ruler is one who puts the whole country on the line for the
sake of his family. The ruler who chooses as his own is bad.
the heir not of the worthy, but of the beloved. That lord is bad
who indulges the weaknesses of his offspring. The bad ruler is the one
who considers only his blood to be his family.
and flesh, not soil.
It must be said that in the legends that have survived to this day,
not much is said about the god Tyr. In Senior
Edda contains a mention of the origin of this god - as well as
that's it, he's from the Ancients. His father is called the frost giant Hyu-
mir, and his mother is the light-faced goddess, whom Rökkatru
researchers19 attribute to the genus of fire giants. A lot of-
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Song of Hymir)
The origin allows us to understand that Tyr is not just the god of
truth, but the true truth, the primordial truth. He
bearer of ancient memory and no less ancient constants of the world
Darkness. This is great opportunity and enormous power.
But there are also more ancient sources, even pre-chronicle,
oral traditions that describe the god Tyr as very ancient
chthonic force20. It was such a period of existence
when only the one chosen by the Earth itself could be considered a
true king. I emphasize, it’s not people – the Earth. Only
it can provide space and resource for doing,
only she can decide what should be and what should not be. This
era is considered to be the era of matriarchy, but such a view is
very one-sided perception of the worldview of gods and people
ancient era: The Earth is the force that determines and feeds, while
the gods and people are the doers and changers. For
the one whom the Earth goddess chooses as her husband, questions
impeccability should become the most important, because now
she evaluates, not people and not gods. A true king must
be impeccable, otherwise the Earth will choose another husband.
This is exactly what Loki spoke to Tyr at Aegir’s feast,
where he gave bills of lies and deceit to each god:
20 In this capacity we can recognize the god Tyr under the name Ziu or Tiu, and
his divine consort in the form of his twin sister, the goddess Zisa. This is very
the ancient format of divine twins, which is always and necessarily present in the
mythological description of all pantheons of gods of all peoples and countries.
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(Elder Edda.
Loki's squabble)
Despite all of the above, the god Tyr remains the most
honest and noble god we know of. Because he told his
whole story honestly. He teaches those who are destined to
have power, who are destined to become the “husband of
the goddess,” to set priorities correctly and preferably
correctly from the very
beginning. The Teyvaz rune is associated with the god
Tyr - the rune of one’s own truth. She stands first in the third
ette of the elder futhark, the ette of life results. The power
vector of this rune sets the basis for all other runes of the
family - only those results will be considered final if achieved
in truth. Therefore, the Teyvaz rune is the strongest, but
also therefore the most vulnerable for the entire third etta,
and therefore, to some extent, for the entire futhark:
everything achieved untruthfully will go sooner or later to Hel.
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Tyr is the basis of the northern tradition, its core. And if it is true that
god Odin is the All-Father, then it is also true that god
Tyr is the inner core of Odin, the eternal inner
control - always follow your truth. He is the original
the plan, the basis of the northern project for the development of civilization.
The fact that this rod was damaged is not a reason for its absence or
replacement. Rather, on the contrary, all
the rest of the system, expressed in the mind of Odin and other gods,
followed such a development trajectory in order to heal this vulnerability,
this breakdown of the main core. Primordial
the “Truth of Tyr” project formed the “Odin’s Wrath” project precisely
because of such damage to the axial rod; "Odin's Wrath" is a reaction to
the mistake of the original
new plan.
God Tyr teaches us to never forget what everyone began their journey
with. He shows the value of his own past, whatever it may be. With his
story, he can tell about the reasons that can throw a person from the
highest conquered positions, throw him so low, from where a person even
didn’t start, but even lower. His story is reflected in the mirrors
myths of other pantheons, where his recognizable appearance - a crippled
hand - allows us to see him in the face of the god Nuada, the god
with a silver hand. There he managed to restore his hand,
but the rules of the Celtic pantheon, the algorithms for its development are all
equally forced the god Tyr-Nuada to relinquish his supreme
power, since the rules there said that power must
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to become the best, and the best in the Celtic myth was god
Meadow. A one-armed hero who is found in other myths and
legends, through this symbol also bears the imprint
understand god
Tyura is also always tested by life circumstances for compliance with
her own ideals: honor, valor, impeccability. And this tells us a lot about
the essence of strength
God
Tyura: you can be anyone: a supreme god, a secondary god, a human,
and a non-human - all this
doesn't matter because the idea is higher than the status. Corona is not
will fall from the head of the one for whom the crown is the head.
Practice 7. God Tur (p. 384)
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Heimdall
God Heimdall also bears the title of aesir, and they call him the
White God. His participation in the formation of the northern system is
shown in a very truncated form and quite specifically. He
does not participate in general “travels”, his activities are individual and
independent. Just like himself.
Myths and legends describe his function quite unambiguously: he is
the guardian of the Tree and the organizer of the world of people, the
creator of a social system for the latter. His actions are aimed
not to stimulate the process, but to fix it. God Heim-
dall leads the implementation of principles, but not private rights
forks and non-local laws. The latter may vary from
era to era, from time to time, but the principle of the law must remain
unchanged - this is the basis of the White Ace Heimdall.
In ancient years
born once
mighty hero
from the line of gods;
daughters of the Jotuns -
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There were nine of them - they
21 Heimdall's mothers were apparently the waves, the daughters of the sea giant
Aegir and his wife Ran. But this is an assumption, it is not certain. (Note by author)
22 The names of Heimdall's mothers mean roughly "noisy", "grabbing",
“raging”, “destructive”, etc.
23 That is, he was protected from evil forces by means of earth, salt and pig’s blood
(still used in folk medicine).
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I've said a lot
but I’ll say more -
you should know this;
will you listen?
(Song of Hyndla, or
«A short prophecy
Wolves")
She knows
that Heimdall's hearing is
hidden under a tree that
rises to the sky; sees that
a muddy waterfall flows
from the pledge of
the Lord24, is this enough ,
—
for you?
…
Mimir's children
started the game,
the end was announced
by the horn of Gjallarhorn;
Heimdall trumpets, he
raised his horn, Odin
talks with the skull of Mimir.
24 The Lord’s pledge is the eye of Odin, which he left as a pledge in the source of the
sage Mimir, having received wisdom from him. Mimir was the brother of Bestla, Odin's
mother.
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(Elder Edda.
Völva's Divination)
connection.
25 From bifa (“to tremble”) and rÿst (“path”) (Encyclopedic Dictionary of F.A.
Brockhaus and I.A. Efron).
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giants and giants of the mountains would take over the sky if the path
along the Bifröst was open to everyone. There are many beautiful
places in the sky, and all of them are under the protection of the gods.”
(Elder Edda.
Speeches of Grimnir)
26 For more information on this, see the chapter on the final battle of Ragnarok.
27 Himinbjorg – “heavenly mountains”.
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Listen to me
all sacred generations,
great and small
Heimdall's children!
(Elder Edda.
Völva's Divination)
In days of old
28 The song itself does not say anything about Rig being Heimdall. That's why
some researchers considered this identification a mistake and argued
that Rig is One. However, in the “Divination of the Volva” Heimdall is called the father
of people, and Rig is also the father of people, judging by this song. (Note to the Younger
Edde, edited by Steblin-Kamensky.)
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the valiant old ace, wise,
brave and strong, Rig
wandered along green
roads.
Rig im advice
The great-grandmother
Rig im advice
knew how to teach;
he lay down later
in the middle of the bed,
the owners lay
down on both sides.
He stayed there
three nights in a row;
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And again he walked
He began to grow,
became stronger,
the skin on the hands
was wrinkled, the
joints were knotty,
…………………
thick fingers
and long heels,
He was stooped
and his face was ugly.
He then began to
carried brushwood.
32 Tyr – “slave”.
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fed the pigs
eye glasses.
Also, Threl and Tir gave birth to 9 daughters, whose names should
also be clear to the reader: “pot-bellied”, “thick-legged”, “talker”,
“ragged”, etc.
she yarn
spinning for fabric, - was in
a sleeveless jacket,
a scarf around the neck,
headdress and
shoulder buckles. Grandma
and grandfather
were the owners of the house.
Here the image of people who accept Riga is already more pleasant to
look at: it is clear that they care about their own appearance and that they
already live in some kind of established tradition, where appearance is an
indicator not only of status, but also of their own
significant attitude towards this status.
Rig im advice
He stayed there
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three nights in a row
and again went
to the middle of the
road; nine has passed
after this months.
Then this
grandmother gave
birth to a child, he was
sprinkled with water and
named Karl33; he
was swaddled, red, ruddy,
with lively eyes.
He began to
grow, became stronger,
tamed bulls,
and he got along with the plows,
built houses,
erected barns,
made carts
and plowed the land.
The housewife,
dressed in goat hair,
with keys at her belt,
was brought into the house -
Thus was created the second estate, which both externally and
mentally different from the first. What happened next?
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He entered the house, the
floor was covered with straw,
there were two sitting there
Rig im advice
These people, who are hosting Riga for the third time, are
even more “civilized”. Their status in society is obviously high:
they do not plow the land, do not make utensils, do not worry
about the household: the man is busy making weapons, and the
woman is busy with herself.
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Rig im advice
knew how to teach;
he got up from the table,
spread out the bed. He
stayed there three
nights in a row and
again went to the
annoying dog
he waved his sword,
swam skillfully.
teach runes;
he called him son, gave
him his name,
gave in possession
ancestral lands,
ancestral lands,
ancient villages.
Eighteen courtyards -
that's what he owned
He generously gave people treasures, lean
horses, expensive
jewelry, scattered
rings, chopped off
wrists36 .
On wet roads
The messengers set
off, heading towards
Khersir’s house; his
daughter is smart,
with a white face
and thin fingers,
37 Erna – “skillful”.
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In the knowledge
of runes, he argued with Jarl Rig,
resorting to cunning, his
father was more
cunning: then he
acquired the right to
be called Rig and know
mighty runes.
defeat enemies.
in Dana and Danpa38
richer at home
their lands are better
your possessions;
they rule the rook
used to skillfully
and wounds skillfully
inflicted with a sword."
…………………
In many archaic myths you can find the image of a blind and deaf
god. The image of the god Heimdall is an echo of this myth in the
northern system. It is useless to appeal to him for
establishing individual contact, if he himself did not choose you based
on the specific characteristics of your mind.
He hears everything, but does not hear anyone in particular. It stabilizes
the system, and all the elements in it are not for the sake of someone, but
for the sake of system balance. It opens a passage across the bridge
Bifrost only if it complies with the rules of the system, and
nothing else exists for him. This is what God spoke about
Loki, the eternal trickster and annoying fly for all the gods,
accusing Heimdall at a feast with the god Aegir:
39 With very rare exceptions, when other “chosen ones” ended up in the palace
other gods.
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you stand tirelessly.
(Elder Edda.
Loki's altercation)
Loki
The stereotype that has formed to date about Lo-ki as the god of evil is
for the most part created by the black-and-white worldview of dual
monotheism, which has ruled this reality for the last couple of thousand
years. In such a picture of the world, everything is clearly divided into good
and evil and there are no halftones. However, looking at the god Loki in this
manner is a guarantee that the viewer will not understand anything either
about the power of this god or about the system of northern magic itself. The
logic of the presence of a trickster god can only be revealed for
Being the reverse side of the god Odin, Loki through this
clearly shows its properties. If God One is everything, then
and the god Loki is also everything - together with Odin. Loki shows
what Odin is not at the moment and through
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this, as it were, compensates him to the whole, provides Odin with the
integrity necessary for the supreme ruler. If
Now Odin is a furious and tough ruler, then Loki is
a kind peacemaker and trickster; if now Odin is wise
The all-father, all-knowing and making objective decisions, then Loki is
the very ulcer that prevents him from making these decisions. Only the
presence of the power of the god Loki
in an inextricable connection with Odin allows Odin to be
nym, and not some specific, limited and understandable
in its functionality. If it were so, then Odin would never
not to become the god of the universal world order, since for the
supreme god, limitation in at least something is a big
vulnerability. If we look at the god Loki from this side, then much will
become clear to us from the fact that
which was previously completely unclear.
Let's look again at the beginning of the myth, at the beginning of
the emergence of the northern tradition, at that stage when the
supreme ruler of the northern family was the god Tyr. At that time God
Odin was the god of knowledge and wisdom, possessing the
fundamental principles of Good and Evil. In this property and function,
Odin and Lo-ki were like divine twins, complementary
the forces that ensure synchronization are not only each other
friend, but also the entire system of the Nine Worlds in relation to
the newly created Asgard - the fundamental principle of Order. One and
The Loki are opposite to each other in sign, but absolutely
equal in meaning: if Odin is good, then Loki is evil;
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if Odin is evil, then Loki is good. Here Loki balances Odin, but does
not complement him. However, when God is One
becomes the head of the pantheon, its functionality changes. He
no longer just good and evil, he is the realized order
and can no longer be one thing, either good or
evil - he must be both at the same time. It's not
must be balanced, since it itself becomes the principle of balance
between everything and everything. Synchronously with it changes an
the functionality of the god Loki - he also cannot remain in any
particular capacity, but his natural principle
he cannot change and becomes a complementary god,
the force that ensures the integrity of Odin. Not anymore
as a balancing force, and a compensating force, a reflective force
yaya.
Loki has the ability to go where there is nothing
No. It is as if he fills the emptiness, revealing in it
qualities that are not in Odin, but not in opposition, but
in addition. Once Odin became the god of Order, fate
Loki to be the god of Chaos. But Loki is not chaos. His partly fiery
nature does not allow him to dissolve being,
its nature requires change, while chaos extinguishes any change and
only in small doses can it become
the source of such changes. However, the born children of Lo-ki were
not born in vain, and the guardian of the primal-nova of Chaos became
his daughter, the goddess Hel, born specifically for this mission. All
subsequent activities of God
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Loki, described in myths, shows him as a force, dosing
controlling and controlling chaos, and through this it manifests itself
synchronicity with the god Odin - they are two forces that provide
balance to the system, but in different ways.
All of Loki’s activities, from traveling to the birth of children, are
not accidental, but rather special.
Each of his actions is a reaction to what is happening as
in the world of Asgard, and in all the Nine Worlds. A function that
manifests his need to compensate to the whole god Odin, forces
him to do the same for
the rest of the gods and goddesses: after all, Odin is the All-Father, this is
the whole system, the whole program, and every god of the northern pantheon
part of it, which means that everyone, as a part of the whole, also
falls within the sphere of his, Loki’s, interests. This is where Loki’s
different attitude towards the gods comes from, sometimes
paradoxically opposite and illogical. But it is only illogical from the poin
from the point of view of linear human logic, and from the point of view of the
system and understanding of the power of Loki as a system function, everything
very logical: after all
Loki gave the gods what they lacked in integrity
– both personal and within the entire northern system.
The amazing artifacts that Loki obtained for the gods are not just
gifts. These are magical instruments that could compensate one or
another god for his
functional deficiency. And here it should be understood that
the nature of the god Loki does not imply that unique gifts
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intended or created specifically for the recipient
or for his sake - everything that Loki does is done for the sake of Odin and
their project; everything is done based on the nature of the god Loki, and not
because of a personal attitude, whatever it may seem.
If Loki were a man and we judged him as
about a person, we could say that he made his gifts from
love and friendship, or “atonement for sins” - such logic is
understandable to a person and explains a lot to him. But we should
forget that gods are not people, and when speaking about gods, we are talking
about minds, systems, programs, non-human and non-biological
intelligence that sees differently, thinks differently,
has other motives for actions and multiple options
solving your problems. To judge their actions using human logic
is to guarantee yourself a complete misunderstanding of what is
happening and, as a result, incorrect conclusions.
Loki's gifts to the gods are a way to make them more powerful
or, on the contrary, limit their power. Not because Loki wants it
that way, but because Odin’s holistic system requires now and
right now such specific changes.
Legends describe to us several recovered artifacts, some of
which have already been discussed above, and, of course, will
be discussed further. But this is how Snor-ri himself tells us about
this in the Younger Edda:
Loki, son of Lauveya, did such a dirty trick: he cut off
Sif has all the hair. Having found out that Thor caught Loki
and would have broken his bones if he had not sworn
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get the black elves to make hair of gold for Sif that would
grow like real hair. After this, Loki went to the dwarfs, who
are called the sons of Ivaldi, and they made such hair,
and the ship Skidbladnir, and also a spear for Odin, which
is called Gungnir. And then Loki argued with a Karl named
Brokk and bet his head that that Karl’s brother, Eitri, would
not make three such treasures to equal these. And when
they arrived at the forge, Eitri put a pig's skin into the
forge and ordered Brokk to blow, not stopping until he
took out of the forge what was put there. But as soon as
he left the forge, and his brother Brokk took up the furs, a
fly settled on Brokk’s hand and began to sting. But he
worked as before, until the blacksmith took the product
out of the forge, and it was a boar with golden bristles.
Then Brokk took out his treasures. He gave the ring to Odin,
saying that every ninth night eight rings of the same weight would
drop from it. He gave the boar to Frey, saying that he could run
through the waters and air, night and day, faster than any horse,
and at night, and in the Land of Darkness itself it would be light
for him: that’s how his stubble glows. And then he gave Thor the
hammer, saying that he could hit it with whatever force he wanted
and for any purpose, and the hammer would never fail, and no
matter where he threw it, it would never miss, and no matter how
far the hammer flew , it will always return to Thor's hand. And if
Thor wants, the hammer will become so small that you can carry
it in your bosom. And it has only one drawback: the handle is a
bit short. The verdict of the gods said that the hammer was the
best of all
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treasures and reliable protection from frost giants. And
they judged that the dwarf had won the bet. Then Loki
began to offer a ransom for his head, but the dwarf
replied that there was no point in hoping that he would
be able to ransom it. “Then catch me!” – Loki exclaimed.
But when Thor wanted to grab him, he was already far
away. Loki had shoes in which he could run across water
and air. Then the dwarf began to ask Thor to catch Loki.
He did just that. The dwarf wanted to cut off Loki's head,
but Loki said that the head belonged to him, but not the
neck. Then the dwarf took a strap and a knife and
wanted to poke holes in Loki’s lips and sew his mouth
shut. But the knife didn’t cut at all. Then he said that his
brother’s awl would be better suited here, and as soon
as he mentioned this awl, out of nowhere, an awl
appeared and pierced Loki’s lips. He sewed the lips
together, but Loki tore out the strap with the meat. The
strap with
which Loki's mouth was sewn up is called Vartari40 . It is clear
from the legend that Loki launched irreversible changes in the
system by cutting off the hair of the goddess Sif, authorized the
production of additional artifacts, but did not create them himself,
but did it in the best possible way - he “delegated” the process to
someone who, in his own way, nature is better able to sense the
incompleteness and imperfection of each element of the system,
and to correct these elements pointwise. Tswer-gi masters do not hav
41 Her name is translated as “the one who brings grief,” “the one who causes suffering.”
But you can say it another way: “the giver of evil.”
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showed the inferiority of the world, where the form of this
manifestation fully corresponded to the depth of the created proble
These three children are evil manifested, but the key word here is
not “evil”, but “manifested”: if the gods had not turned a blind eye
to imperfection, but worked with the system of evil as a mirror,
perhaps Loki would not have had to manifest into reality the
terrifying forms that turned out to be for gods
unaffordable in self-awareness.
Loki's fourth child, however, was completely different. This
amazing eight-legged foal Sleipnir, nature
which Loki showed us from its reverse side, since for this god
(and Sleipnir is also a god) Loki appeared
not a father, but a mother. This is how this amazing birth of
Snorri is described to us in the Younger Edda:
Then Gangleri asked: “Who owns the horse?
Sleipnir? And what can you tell about him? High
replies: “Then you don’t know anything about Sleipnir.”
and you don’t know where it came from? That's right, you
Do you agree that it was worth talking about when
you will hear.
In those days the gods were just beginning to settle, and when
they built Midgard and erected Valhalla, came to
a certain master undertook to build it in three months
walls so strong that they could withstand
mountain giants and frost giants, if they please
attack Midgard. And he reprimanded Freya to himself
as a wife and wanted to take possession of the sun and the month. Aces
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They held a council and agreed with the master that he
would receive everything he asked for if he managed to build
the walls in one winter. But if at least something is not ready
on the first day of summer, he will receive nothing. And he
has no right to use anyone’s help in this work. When they
set these conditions, he began to ask them for permission to
take the horse Svadilfari to help him. And on Loki's advice
he was allowed to do this. On the first
winter day he began construction. At night he carried
stones on his horse, and the aces marveled at what kind of
blocks that horse was dragging: he did twice as much as the
mason. But the agreement was concluded in front of
witnesses and sealed with many oaths, for the giants thought
that otherwise everything could be expected from the Aesir
when Thor returned. He was then in the east and fought with gian
Winter passed, and the construction of the wall moved
faster and faster. It was so tall and strong that it seemed that
no one could take it by storm. And when there were only
three days left until summer, it was just outside the gates.
Then the gods sat down on their thrones and held a council
and asked each other who advised Freya to be married off
to the land of the giants and to disfigure the sky by removing
the sun and stars from it and giving them to the giants. And
everyone agreed that such advice was given by none other
than Loki, the son of Lauveya, the cause of all sorts of
troubles. And they said that he would deserve a brutal death
if he did not find a way to prevent the master from fulfilling
the terms of the deal, and they settled on Loki. But he
chickened out and vowed to arrange it in such a way that the mas
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conditions. And that same evening, as soon as the master
went for stones with his horse Svadilfari, a mare ran out of
the forest neighing towards the horse. And as soon as the
horse noticed what kind of mare it was, he became furious and,
Having broken the bit, he set off after her, and she galloped
off into the forest. The mason rushed after him and wanted
to catch the horse, but the horses rushed all night, and the
work did not move. And the next day less was done than
usual. And the mason, seeing that he could not finish the
work on time, fell into a giant rage. The Aesir, recognizing
the stranger as a mountain giant, did not look at the oaths
and called Thor. Thor immediately appeared, and at the
same moment the hammer Mjollnir soared into the air. Thor
paid the master for work, but not with the sun and stars, to
live in the Land of Giants - and this was denied to the
master. The first blow shattered his skull, and he went into
the depths of Niflhel. And it was Loki
who ran with Svadilfari and after a while he brought a
foal. The foal was gray in color and had eight legs, and gods
and men have no better horse.”
Njord said:
There is no great trouble
since a woman divides
bed with a man
worse than that
effeminate, giving birth,
I came to our feast.
(Elder Edda.
Loki's altercation)
Loki asked:
“Eldir, answer,
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In response to this, Loki, coming to the feast, exposed all the sins and
problems of each of the aces and asinyas present; I didn’t forget anyone,
and everyone suffered from Loki’s evil tongue. It’s not so much the trouble
that the mockingbird god reviled his fellow project members, but the trouble is
that he did it in a place where
new behavior has ritual significance and no one can
attribute it to drunken delirium or slander of the offended. Moreover, Odin
himself confirmed Loki’s right to speak with the gods on equal terms:
Vidar is the son of Odin and his heir43, after the death of
Balder. By raising him from the bench, and no other god, Odin
showed how high Loki’s position is in the system, how highly
Odin himself regards him - still, in spite of everything, as his
brother-in-law, as an equal to yourself. However, this did not
become a step towards reconciliation between the gods and
Loki. Having expressed everything to everyone, Loki cursed the
house of Aegir, and this basically became the formal reason for R
42 ...we mixed blood with you - we entered into twinning. (Note per.) 43
This will be discussed further in the chapter dedicated to the god Vidar.
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will perish in flames,
let the fire burn
your back!
They are
Who are the Vanir? How are they different from the Aesir or Jötunn?
And how did it happen that representatives of various divine powers ended
up in the same pantheon? Myths provide answers to
all these questions, describing in great detail the history of interaction between
the Aesir and Vanir in the system of building the northern travail
diction.
The Vanir are the primordial gods of nature. In any pagan pantheon they
are necessarily present as givers
benefits that provide resources for all living, existing and abiding people. And
gods, and people, and all living things
and nonliving things depend on nutrition, depend on energy, owners
which are the gods and spirits of nature. In the northern system they are
are called Vans.
It must be recalled that the world of Vanaheim was not created by the aces.
Either he was always there, or he “manifested” in the process of creating the
system by the god Odin and his brothers. How to react to
the process of creation, as the reverse side of orderliness.
In this capacity, the Vanir are not carriers of chaos in the usual sense of the
term, but their nature and their world are
This is a completely separate system that exists in its own way.
rules and laws, which are always very different from the rules and laws of
civilization that the gods of order carry within them. The northern system was
no exception, and myths
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tell us about the original difference between the aces and
Vanami, about their fundamental discrepancy in principles
formation of reality and the inevitable initial
enmity between them.
Nature lives according to its own laws, in its own rhythm and in its own
cycles. They are unchanged over centuries and millennia; change-
Changes in natural cycles occur so rarely and so slowly that the point of
view of an external observer can record the absence of any changes rather
than the speed of their increase. However, the forces that introduce the
principles of its specific programming into reality are interested in changing
the natural rate of “accumulation of mutations” - time for them is not infinite,
and the implementation of everything planned requires completely different
speeds.
There was a war. And even, most likely, not alone. In “The Prophecy of
the Völva” we read:
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Celts: when the sons of Mil, the next invaders of Ireland, entered this land, they were met
by three goddesses, Banba, Fotla and Eriu, who were the personification of the Irish
land. The warriors promised each of them to name the land after them, which, according
to the old laws, was a triple confirmation of the agreement of ownership and consent.
Need I say that for the sons of Mil on Irish soil everything turned out a little differently than
for the Aesir on the lands of Vanaheim? It is likely that Gullveig’s three-time appeal to the
Aesir meant an attempt by the Vanir to pay off the Aesir at the initial stage of introducing
the gods of law into the original
system of nature.
45 According to another version, whether to pay a ransom to the Vanir.
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enemies were defeated.
(Elder Edda.
Völva's Divination)
the conflict between the old and new systems, and the “golden
power” of Gullweig can be represented by us as the original power
nature, energy that dictates its own rules to the information
system being implemented into it. Just like nature
human biology dictates rules to reason, and reason tries to
conquer biology, to put it at its service. Who
will he win?
The northern myth describes to us its history of such a
conquest and says: no one won that war. The forces turned out
to be equal, the aces failed to conquer the power of nature and eve
I had to negotiate. In that war, the Aesir fought with the Va-us not
for territory, but for spheres of influence. For the right to dictate
conditions: who should exist by what rules; whose
presence in this existence must be taken into account, and whose
No; who will have control over whom, to what extent and
on what terms. The gods of Asgard needed to be entered
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the world of Vanaheim into the system of the Nine Worlds, while the gods-
va-us needed to preserve their freedom and the old way of life “according to
of nature".
The Aesir need the Vanir. The Vanir are the givers of blessings and own everything
resources of this world. They own all the effects of the existence of these
resources and know in what sequence and in what rhythm these resources
need to be extracted and how
compensate for what was taken. They know how the effects of extracting
these resources should manifest themselves and to whom they should
apply. They master the principle of natural selection, but
this knowledge, it is not knowledge at all - it is part of their nature. They
- the personified mind of nature, and each god is a
- a separate, distinguished property of this mind.
They control the weather and the seasons; in their power
harvest and strength of soil fertility; they regulate sleep cycles
and the wakefulness of nature, master the mechanisms of biocenosis
and synergy. Just as nature is multifaceted and diverse, so is
its gods, spirits and half-spirits are many-sided and varied. All of them
- principles of the existence of life. Can they afford
“developmental” experiments for yourself? No, and it's not even recorded
in their system. Any games or experiments in
Van's worldview is absent by definition.
The Aesir, in contrast to the Vanir, are the creators of reality,
creators of rules and compromises. They don't follow rules, they create
them.
As the lords of compromise, the Aesir entered into an agreement with Vana-
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me?
According to the rules of the era in which the description of this
myth by man for man was created, the process of truce
between tribes was associated with the ritual act of exchanging
hostages. As a rule, these were not the last people
in the tribe and thus the reconciling parties declared and confirmed
the honesty of their intentions: if
one of the parties violated the contract, then the offended party
had the right to kill the hostage. The Aesir and Vanir also exchanged
hostages. The gods Mimir and
Hoenir, and from the Vanir to the Aesir - the god Njord and his twin children
Frey and Freya. Each of them will be discussed below.
In addition to exchanging hostages in the name of reconciliation, the gods
They performed a ritual act: they approached the bowl, and
everyone spat into it. This mixing of biological (and genetic) material
created a new creation called
“wise man Kvasir”, in which there was an equal number of both Va-
novs and Ases. This will also be discussed in due time.
The Vanir received as collateral those gods who were carriers
of information. The hostages, being pro-
originated by the ancient ethins, could have brought into the world the
childbirth, the long memory they lack, personified by the god Mimir,
and the ability to use this memory,
which the god Hoenir embodied. However, the Vanir decided
keep only Hoenir for themselves, and kill Mimir. Why? Did the Vanir
have grounds for killing the hostage? Causes
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and we will analyze the consequences of this strange event when
we will work with the channel of the god Mimir, but for now we will return to
to them
Njord and his children are the personification of the forces of nature. Exactly
their presence gave the gods a constant supply of natural
resource, access to the elements of manifested nature and... a certain control
over it. According to the agreement with the Aesir, the captive Vanirs were not
prisoners, but, on the contrary, entered the large family of the Aesir and began
to call themselves Aesir. They had the right and opportunity to return to their
native Vanaheim, but under certain conditions: only one at a time, then
as the other two had to remain in Asgard. In addition to Njord and the twins, a
fairly large retinue went with them to Asgard, which also became part of the
world of the Aesir
- through marriage with the gods, through a contract, or simply out of kindness
they like.
The Aesir gained a lot by receiving the va-nov gods into their family, much
more than they lost by sending their hostages. To see this, let us examine the
power of each god of natural power in Vanaheim in detail and separately.
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Njord
Njord is the god of water resources. He owns water, but not as
an element, but as a space of life. He has the power to feed
everyone and everything. He is the lord of the natural resource,
and everything that has to do with living things has to do with Njord.
The Elder Edda in the “Speeches of Vafthrudnir” about the god Njörðr
says this:
His parents are called the gods, who are also described as
gods who give wealth. His father Frodi, owner of the legendary
“Frodi Mill”; he's even more
ancient power, universal level. It can be characterized as the
primary principle of reproduction itself, the eternal
an engine of the first kind, a never-ending process of re-creation.
The mother of Njord is called Nott - the goddess
nights. It also represents the primary principle
darkness as hidden and unmanifested. It becomes clear
that the god Njord is a descendant of very ancient chthonic forces
and represents hidden wealth.
He is called "the best helmsman." His halls in Asgard
called Noatun (“ship yard”), and it is located
in the place where the sky meets the sea. Looks like a house
Njord as created from the skeletons of lost ships, and according to
for this reason it is constantly expanding.
Surprisingly, the god Njord was called the “king of men”; They
believed that he was the god of noble and impeccable people.
Such people were seen by sailors and shipbuilders, sea
travelers and even “gentlemen of fortune” - people whose
Courage and the ability to see your happiness and your chance in the
sea became your profession and way of life.
Njord's impeccability is somewhat different from the traditional
understanding of this term. After all, the Vanir are different, and
their concept of impeccability will also, justifiably, be different
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gym From the perspective of the Vanir and, by extension, from the perspective of Njörðr,
He is impeccable who will never violate the rights of others.
Who would never do this? Who wouldn’t violate other people’s
rights? First, the one who has his rights
– exists for real, and not illusory. Secondly, the one who
so bold and strong in his rights that he never
there will be no desire or need to belittle your neighbor,
to become taller against his background. And also noble and
impeccable, from the position of the god Njord, is the one who will
never envy someone else’s good. This quality of consciousness is
inherent specifically in the Van nature - in the consciousness of the
Van gods there is simply no such option as “envy”.
The strong are not envious, the weak are envious; He is envious,
lawless and powerless, which means he is flawed and, of course,
not at all noble. If a person is similar to the Vanir in this property,
then he is more likely to find his reflection in the eyes of the god
Njord, since he is impeccable in them. Njord's impeccability is an
understanding and feeling of the world,
just as a loving man understands his woman. This is the ability to
take from the world only the resource that
is really needed now, and not to ruin nature out of greed or fear.
Njord sees people as whole and strong;
it is these that he can lead with his nature.
The sphere of interest of the power of the god Njord is not just a resource,
a renewable resource; perpetual motion and correct
its distribution process: how much is needed, who needs it, where
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before and when necessary. There is no shortage, but there are no excesses either.
The strength of Van nature suggests that there is and should be only
one law in the world - the law of life and only what is necessary for life
is correct. And only so.
In the legends about the gods of the north, the god Njord is not
often mentioned; his presence as the main character is noted only in
stories about the marriage of the goddess Skadi, where the god Njord
and became her husband. However, this legend has more
more related to Skadi than to Njord, so we will look at it in due course.
Loki said:
“You, Njord, be silent!
Aren't you the gods
was sent as a hostage;
daughters of Hymir
they urinated in your mouth,
as if in a trough.”
Njord said:
"May I be far away
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was a hostage
but I am consoled by this,
that I gave birth to a son,
he is dear to
everyone, he is the first of the aces.”
Loki said:
“Njord, stop it! Don't
you dare brag! I won’t
hide it: you gave birth
to a son and
your own sister - what
could be worse!”
(Elder Edda.
Locke's squabble)
So, what did the god Loki see as harm from the power of the
god Njord? The harm is solely in his nature, following the traditions
of his tribe. Loki believes (and this can be seen in almost all the
sagas of the northern line) that the Aesir should not have
negotiated with the Vanir and given them so much freedom. Loki
sees the harm not in the Vanir, but in the fact that the Aesir were
never able to take their power under their full control, as, for examp
they did this to the elves.
Loki didn't like the Vanir. Despite the fact that the Vanir are
the personification of freedom, this is not the freedom that Loki
personifies. Vanir freedom is still built on constants,
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only these constants are not social, like those of the god
Heimdall, but natural. Nature, Vanaheim, lives on its own laws,
but they are nonetheless unchanged. However, no one can
cope with these laws, and this is an eternal problem for the
gods and the ongoing anger of Loki. But this is anger from
powerlessness, and it can be said that in relation to the Vanir,
Loki is more angry with himself than with them. In his altercation
with Njord, he was more likely to simply vent his anger and rage
than to
actually make accusations. Practice 10. God Njord (p. 395)
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It must be said that Frey and Freya are not the proper names
of these gods, but rather titles. Translated, they mean “lord” and
“madam.” The personal names of these two forces are Yngvi
and Vanadis.
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Freyr-Yngwie
God Frey personifies the power of fertility, strength,
capable of extracting benefit from everything, extracting a resource
from everything. His power is built on the principles of life and death,
where death is permissible only when there is a continuation of life.
If the parental power of the god Njord reflects the principle of a
holistic understanding of the life process, then his
the descendant god Freyr concretizes the power of the parents and
reveals a mechanism for achieving such integrity - the circulation of
force in nature, its renewability and growth, its
abundance and sufficiency. Its function is the function of constant
multiplication. His principle is the principle of nature: that which does
not increase, then decreases. So that life doesn't
has dried up, you need to give some kind of profit all the time,
allowing the methods of natural selection to kick in, where it will survive
the strongest and will give the best offspring.
Freyr's principle, which manifests itself in reality, is
this is the ability to leave behind multiple traces, but
without excessive nurturing and protecting them, allowing the best
manifestation to survive, leaving only a strong trace. The mechanisms
through which the implementation of this principle is achieved are
described to us by the myths and legends about the god Frey-re-
Yngvi. However, the same myths and legends show us
descendants, not only the possibility of manifestation of fertile
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Freyr's forces, but also all the threats that can be directed at her, as well
as all the threats that can come from her.
As you already know, the gods Njord, Frey and Freya were accepted
into the world of Asgard, accepted into the family with all respect and
respect. But what is family for the Vanir and what is family for
aces? For the Vanir, a family is an integral organism created
according to the natural laws of nature; a system where each element is
necessary and, to some extent, system-forming
yawning.
In the Van world there is no hierarchy, no subordination by law
– this is not the case in the Van family either. But in the world of aces everything is built on
hierarchy, including the concept of “family”. This is the difference in
understanding and definition of “friend or foe” has found a very bright
reflected precisely in the history of Frey.
His appearance in the legendary narrative as a hero began after the
death of the god Balder. Its main legend is “Skirnir's Ride”. It all started
with the fact that God
Frey, for some unknown reason, sat on the throne, which only the god
Odin had the right to occupy. From this throne one could see all the
worlds, and nothing was hidden
from the sight of the All-Father. We read in “Skirnir’s Journey” by the Elder
Eddie:
Skirnir said:
“Frey will answer
me with an unkind
word if I try to find
out why the
wise man is so
angry.”
Skirnir said:
“Frey, answer me,
lord of the
gods, tell me, I ask:
why day after day
Are you sitting
alone in an empty room?
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Frey said: “How
can I tell you, young
warrior, about
painful grief? Alva’s
luminary47 brings joy
to everyone, but not to
my love.”
Gerd said:
"The name is Barry
quiet grove,
familiar to us;
in nine nights
Gerd will give it there
love to the son of Njord."
Tyr said:
“Frey is the best warrior
horseman in the
hall of the gods; He did
not offend
virgins or
wives, he released the captives.”
What about the love story of the god Frey? Luckily, she
had a happy continuation: Gerd fell in love with the god of fertility.
However, she did not become asinya. Their house is described as
very small space just in those places where
they met for the first time in Barry's Grove, near Vanaheim. Gerd
has a small apothecary garden there, where she
grows medicinal herbs. The “Small Courtyard,” which is the home
of young gods in love, tells us about
in a lot of ways. Firstly, their palaces are not in Asgard, which
means that this marriage, as Freyr initially assumed, is not
was "approved". Secondly, such a combination of the ancient
memory of Gerd and the power of fertility of Frey was limited only
a small volume of reality, closed from influence on
him, but the house of Gerd and Frey itself is rather an exception to
general rules for the existence of worlds: the ancient memory of
the Great Kansha and the now unarmed Van nature are not a
combination that the aesir gods can allow to exist
everywhere. A closed and remote reality, where
Gerd grows herbs - this is a special form of witchcraft existence,
where ancient and eternal memory can safely
manifest itself in a special form of its magic. Van nature
the god Frey can perform the function of the god of Light, but
always in a very limited space. His power allows him to see
something phenomenal in the worlds, something that
passed “natural selection” and proved the right to life.
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But the throne of Odin, the throne of the supreme god, is destined
not for this: God, who knows good and evil, will support
balance in the system of world order between everything that exists,
and not just the phenomenal. Frey sees his own, and Odin
sees more. Therefore the throne of Hlidskjalf is destined
for Odin and only for him. Remember this - Freyr's channel and its
power are not for power. She is for something else.
Myths say that the god Frey has many
houses in the worlds of Vanaheim and Alfheim, but he does not have his own
palaces in the world of Asgard. This means that his presence in
in the world of nature will be constant, but in the world of law its “base”
there is no data, just as there is no constancy of his presence among
gods-aces.
The loss of the sword is, of course, a disaster, but the sword is not
the only artifact that gave the god Frey additional strength. There are
two more things that were presented to him
miniature masters at the famous “dispute of masters”, which
provoked by the god Loki. Frey was given the boar Gullinbursti (“golden
bristles”), as well as the ship Skidblad-nir. Both of these artifacts made
it possible for the god of fertility to be faster: the boar shone in the
darkness like the sun and had
the ability to move very quickly, and the ship is always
catches a fair wind, is able to contain all the gods,
and when folded, like a scarf, it fits in a pocket. All these “enhancing
programs” make Frey even more
and the god of luck, and not just the power of abundance.
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Practice 11. God Freyr (p. 399)
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Freya-Vanadis
The goddess Freya is called the goddess of love. However, a
correct understanding of the power of the goddess allows us to see th
We are not talking about love as a feeling, but about love as a
natural, natural craving to continue oneself. This craving could be
called sexual passion, only it would be
inaccurate term: one can continue oneself in completely different
ways and not only in children. Freya carries within herself the power
of an uncontrollable craving for manifestation, and in any form.
Therefore, the basis of any trace on the canvas of reality that gods
and people leave behind is the power of the goddess
Frei.
Here is what Snorri Sturluson writes about this goddess in the
Prose Edda:
The sixth, Freya, is revered on a par with Frigg. She
married a man named Od. Their name is daughter
Hnoss50, she is so beautiful that they call her by her name
everything that is beautiful and highly valued. Od went
on long journeys, and Freya cries for him, and
Tears are red gold. Freya has many names, this
because she called herself different names while traveling
through unknown countries in search of Oda. She's called
50 Khnoss – “treasure”.
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Mardell and Hörn, Gevn51i Sur52. Freya belonged
Brisings necklace. She is also called the goddess of the Vanir.
Having received the goddess Freya into their palaces, the Aesir
acquired the greatest jewel, which allowed them to introduce
own algorithms for constructing reality more freely. Freya
strengthened Asgard with the power of naturalness, which never
exists in an artificial system. Naturalness is the basis of voluntary
acceptance, the desire for change without fear, and development
with joy. Freya helped the organizing gods start the process of
continuity: Van
nature, subject to natural cycles, depends only
from these cycles, which, in turn, are closed only
on themselves.
It is difficult to apply only one to the goddess Freya
expressive form to describe its nature. She manifests herself in
many ways, but all of her incarnations do not appear
beyond natural natural effects. Freya, daughter
Vanov is an indomitable thirst for life, manifested in any form.
Freya was truly considered the kindest goddess. She does not
refuse anyone’s request, she hears everyone who is overwhelmed
by desire, she feels everyone who experiences languor, she
understands anyone in whom passion is boiling - after all, this
all her feelings, her strength. In the already well-known saga “The Song of Tru-
51 Gövn – “giving.”
52 Sur – “pig”.
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me" (Elder Edda), where the god Thor so unsuccessfully lost his
famous Mjolnir, Freya appears as the main character of the story,
although the main adventures do not go to her at all. But everything
revolves around her: she is the reason for what happened to Thor;
It was on her decision that it depended on what Thor’s journey with
Loki to Jotunheim would be like and, most importantly, in what
capacity. From the very beginning, everything went quite
peacefully: Thor, having discovered the loss, on the advice of Loki,
turned to the goddess Freya:
Freya said: “I
would give it
away if it were
gold; I would
lend it if it were silver.”
The cause and interest of the giants is not only in the amazing
beauty of Freya - this explanation is understandable and suitable
for people, but a myth is not only a fairy tale. This is, first of all, a
magical description of the processes and mechanisms of
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it is clear that without the power of nature, without the incessant craving for
reproduction decreases the value of any wealth. If some
element does not participate in the cyclic natural rhythms, then
the value of such an element steadily tends to zero.
liu. Jotuns are the bearers and keepers of ancient memory, long
memory, complete memory. But what is this memory worth if it
nowhere will it appear?
The most legendary story about Freya is the story
about her journey in which she found the Brisinga-men
necklace. An authentic version of the legend has not yet
emerged, but there are numerous later retellings of it from the
Middle Ages.
The Brising Necklace is a famous treasure that
one more ancient monument is also called the “Belt
Brising." It went to the goddess Freya as a result of an honest
transactions with miniature masters, the Brising brothers,
whose names were Dvalin, Berling, Grer and Alfrigg. In exchange
Four nights of the goddess they made this unique artefact,
which was not just beautiful, but also enhanced the power
goddesses of love and joy of life many times over. The tswer-
gi masters, as we already know, had the ability to uniquely see
what the person who turned to them lacked to the point of
true integrity. Freya, whose goal on this journey was to find her
missing part53, came to
53 In the legend this is expressed as Od's search for her missing husband. Name "Od"
can be loosely translated as “spirit”, “inspiration” or simply “strength”. Some-
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masters who knew how to see vulnerability and compensate for it
like no one else. What they did for the goddess
Freya, is the thing that made her whole, which means
free. In magic it is believed that Brisingamen is a tool for controlling
all four elements: Fire,
Earth, Water and Air. Having received this artifact, Freya
became the goddess of Freedom.
It must be said that not all aces were happy with such an increase
Freya. In particular, the god Loki once stole this necklace,
but the god Heimdall, it was he, who returned it to Freya back,
as if ritually fixing her right to own this artefact and have the degree
of freedom that is now
belonged to the goddess by right. It is also advisable not to take the
settlement with the Brising brothers “at night” literally. For a Van
witch, giving up the night is a ritual act
connections, mutual exchange of properties. So miniatures
What they received in return from Freya was not the satisfaction of their lust,
but something more: what the Vanir have in abundance - the ability
follow your desires and respect your nature. The race of miniatures
has always lacked this quality: being
unique masters, they do not understand the value of their
th skill. Maybe it was precisely this property received from the
goddess that allowed the miniatures to subsequently not participate
in the battle of Ragnarok? And maybe that's why it's so
God Loki was angry, trying to take away her rightful
The accusations that the god Loki made against the goddess
Freya, as in the case of Njord and Frey, concerned mainly with the
nature of the goddess. Essentially, Loki blames the Vanir for
that they are Vans. His position is clear: Van’s influence is harmful
to the system of order. And it’s hard to argue with this; feelings will
always fight with reason, and vice versa:
Loki said:
“You, Freya, be silent!
Should I not know you?
you are also vicious:
you are love to everyone
(Elder Edda.
Loki's altercation)
Loki said:
“You, Freya, be silent!
You evil witch
mired in depravity:
weren't you the one who had to -
caught with brother -
scream in fright!
Loki said:
“And you, I heard
on the island of Samsey56
was in a drum
cast magic among people,
as witches do -
you are a effeminate husband.”
(Elder Edda.
Loki's altercation)
56 Samsø is the Danish island of Samsø north of Funen. What was Odin doing there?
unknown from other sources. Anyway, the accusation of witchcraft
was as offensive as the accusation of “effeminacy”, since
witchcraft was considered a woman's business. (Note per.)
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worlds quite freely57. The goddess also has her own palaces, which
speaks of its independence and the right to form its own rules for
constructing reality, to accumulate its own
winning algorithms:
Folkwang58– ninth,
there Freya decides
where the heroes will sit;
equal number of warriors
died in battles,
shares with Odin.
(Elder Edda.
Words of Grimnir)
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Sif
The goddess Sif is said to have been the wife of the god Thor.
They have a daughter, Trud, but she also has an illegitimate child -
the god Ull. The myth places emphasis on Sif's beautiful golden hair
and says that "Sif's hair" is the kyo-ning of gold. Nowhere in the
myths is it specifically stated that
the golden-haired goddess was from the Vanir, but the fact that she
was the goddess of fertility allows one to suspect this. Also
History leads us to the idea of the Van nature of the goddess Sif
about the giant Hrungnir from the Younger Edda, when the giant so
unsuccessfully visited the halls of Asgard, which is why he died,
struck by Thor’s hammer:
Then they brought the cups from which Thor used to drink,
and Hrungnir drained them with one breath. Zakhmelev, he
did not skimp on loud speeches, boasting to raise all
Valhalla and take it to Jotunheim, drown Asgard and
kill all the gods except Freya and Sif, and take them
to yourself.
The fact that the old tour equates these two to each other
goddesses, tells us about their affinity; already knowing about the
great need of the Jotuns for Vanessa goddesses, the saga shows tha
This affinity is precisely in the Van nature of both. Goddess Sif
revered as the goddess of the hearth, fertile land and rich home; it
manifests itself in ancient cults and how
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guardian goddess of the clan. Her name (Sif) is very closely connected
with the word sib, meaning “relatives”, “related group”. This once again
suggests that she is to a large extent the deity of the clan, the guardian
of the home and family, and to a greater extent
degree shows itself as disa, and this is Van strength.
So, the name of the goddess Sif can be translated as “kinship.”
But, paradoxically, nowhere in the sagas is there any mention of
the parents of the goddess, nor about her clan-tribe; the emphasis is only
on the fact that she was the wife of the thunder god Tora. Although both
the name of the goddess and her functional power of fertility indicate that
she should patronize
long family ties and carry the memory of this. But
No.
In limiting the power of both goddesses, the main role was played by
the god Loki already known to us. Attempts to limit the will and
the freedom of the senior Vanirs Njord, Frey or Freya were not successful,
but he more than compensated for his failure through his influence on
the goddesses Sif and Idunn. Van nature is something that needs to be
controlled, according to the gods
law. By itself, this force is difficult to control, and
its principle is simple: either by good will, or not at all. What
The Vanir cannot be defeated by force, as was shown by the war between
Asgard and Vanaheim. Therefore, the aces themselves needed
look for another control mechanism. And they found him: through
marriage ties, love, friendship. However, Loki did not consider
that this is enough. God, in whose mind lives not only
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the power of the Jotun long memory, but also the power of the fiery giants
Muspell, also has its own principles. And his principle
no less simple than the Vanir principle: either everything or nothing. Not
having the opportunity to take complete control of the entire power of Va-
naheim, Loki quite reasonably reasoned that if he took
under such control only some properties of the Vanir, then through
this will make it easier to control their other properties. After all
a feature of Van nature is that at its core
In essence, the rule is that everything is connected to everything. Loki, like
no one else, knows how to not only turn weaknesses into strength, but also
vice versa.
The power of the goddess Sif was expressed in her hair. Long,
beautiful hair the color of gold, the color of ripe wheat for
The goddesses were not only a source of pride for her feminine beauty,
but also a symbol of freedom. Long in a deep sense
hair means a connection with the clan, not only symbolically, but
and magically. This means that the goddess Sif, even being in
Asgard, and not in Vanaheim, had the opportunity through its
natural “tool” to always maintain contact with your maternal world, always
draw strength from it, always
receive support from him.
The fact that the goddess was the wife of the god Thor is precisely this,
according to Loki, and was a vulnerability for all aces - Thor
loves his wife, which means he depends on her to some extent. Lo-ki had
to show this vulnerability - that’s his nature. The story of how Sif lost her
hair is told
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zana in the part that was dedicated to the god-mockingbird.
Let's now look at this story from the opposite side.
59 From her connection with Loki, Sif gave birth to a child - the furry baby Ull, from
whom Sif quickly got rid of, but the story about him and his role in the development of
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but at the time of the creation of the artifact it was like this for Sif. Goddess
of a fertile harvest, Seth now symbolizes not the power of natural,
natural fertility, but that made as a result of knowledge and the
labor of others. Now it can be symbolized
as the goddess of selection, the goddess of modified nature.
Such nature will always depend on who makes it,
and from the one who protects her. Without additional care, without
special, artificial, not natural
development, such nature will simply die.
The goddess Sif, having the support of her tribe, disconnected
from the source of Van magic, lost knowledge of the value of this
source. Following your desires, which
were so protected by the god Thor, she saw no threat
in anyone and nothing. This is a feature of one of the Vanir
extremes - egoism, one of the extreme properties that personify
the goddesses from the Vanir clan. Being unfree
in fact, being, albeit beloved, but still part of her great husband,
she was unable to either protect herself or compensate for her
natural extreme with the opposite
by force, as Freya was able to do. Thor loves the selfish Sif, why
would Sif be different? Thor protects the beautiful Sif, why does
Sif become strong? And everything would be fine
but Sif is the wife of Thor, and Thor is the protector of the Aesir. He
defended the borders of the Nine Worlds system, defended the edges of the
just as he defended Sif, who is also in her own way a border and
an extreme. And according to Loki, it should remain so
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howl. In the name of the common good, of course, and nothing personal.
This story with Sif's hair is very multifaceted. And her
It needs to be carefully studied by those who understand their
strength and recognize the Van channel in it. Strength is vulnerable
because of its carelessness, on the one hand, and on the other,
because of its tendency to go to extremes. But if the strength begins to
that she has someone (or something) to rely on, she can enter
into this state and stick to some extreme. Goddess
Sif is a story about a natural witch who followed her desires, stuck
to the extremes of selfishness, because
there was someone to protect her. By cutting Sif's hair, Loki fixed
her in this state; recorded by depriving
its connection with the source and made it permanent - for Thor, for
gods, for Asgard. Not faithful, mind you, but constant: now Sif has
no other protector except the ace Thor,
she is cut off from her family.
The goddess Sif, her story and her tragedy is the path through
which every witch goes through who is forced to break the connection
with her natural witchcraft roots.
But Sif has a daughter, her name is Trud (or Trund, or Frud),
and her name means “strength.” She is Thor's only daughter and
Sif60, witch Trud, witch Trud. She lives in her palaces, and these
palaces are a witch’s tower, where Labor does not allow anyone
except her half-brothers, heirs
Mjolnir, Magni and Modi. It's hidden from everyone, but it can
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be present anywhere: she can go with you to
metro, sitting at the same desk, giving you an injection in the hospital
or sell you milk in the store. Or maybe it's you
yourself. Because Labor is any woman of the witch
a root that has lost contact with its base. She lives
in the system, protected by the system, but the most valuable thing she has
is, is her own tower of consciousness, where she never stops trying
to restore her blood, restore her
memory. The goddess Labor received this task from her mother
the goddess Sif - she bequeathed to her daughter the knowledge of
what not to do. She raised her to hate, but not towards men,
but to vulnerability in front of men. Vulnerability to deception, even if
this deception is useful to everyone. The goddess Sif passed on to
her daughter knowledge about the vulnerabilities of the Van nature.
The city witch of the present century, dissolving in society, must
take into account the mistakes of her ancestors and correct them.
The extreme property of the Van nature of the goddess Sif - egoism
- must be transformed by the power and blood of her daughter into ski
still, following your desires, do not rely on any
on whom, trust no one and highly value every step taken, which
slowly but surely returns the connection
with its natural strength. Sif is a symbol of a woman who loves
herself more than others, and Labor is a symbol
a woman who hates herself less than others. Ego-ism Labor is
hidden from the eyes of others in the inner tower
magical transformations. This property is ripening
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in the darkness is a philosopher's stone that will transform
the ignoble into the noble, but only when the time comes.
According to northern legend, this time will come after the
battle of the gods Ragnarok, when a new world will be reborn
for the children of the Aesir and Vanir, when the young gods
will take control of reality and on completely different principles
of its construction.
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Idunn
The other extreme of the Van channel is symbolized by the
goddess Idunn - absolute altruism. Her name means “renewal” or
“green again.” The goddess Idunn is described in the sagas as a very
young girl, almost a girl. The story of its origin can only be gleaned
from a fleeting mention in the song of the Elder Edda, “Odin’s Raven’s
Witch” (or “Opening Song”).
We are already familiar with miniature Ivaldi. This is the master who
Together with his brothers, he bound the same hair of Sif, as well as
the spear Gungnir for Odin and the ship Skidbladnir for Freyr. The
fact that she is called “disa originally from the Alv” also indicates her
Van origin as a spirit of nature.
This combination of unique skill and strength is constantly
renewing nature, eternal life and return to youth.
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It can be said that this young maiden is older than many gods and is
the power of re-creation.
She is married to Odin's son, the god Braga. This is how he writes
about her Snorri in the Younger Edda:
There is an ace named Bragi. <…> His wife’s name is Idunn.
She keeps apples in her chest. They must be tasted
gods, as soon as they begin to grow old, and immediately they
They will get younger, and it will be like this until the end of the world.
Whether Idunn was in the halls of Tiazzi for a long time or for a
short time, it did not do her any good. Returned to Asgard, the
goddess “lay dead”, and no one could bring her to her senses63.
The world of Jotunheim, the world of ancient memory, turned out
to be destructive for the goddess of eternal youth. He was so
opposite to the world of life of Vanaheim and the world of the light
elves of Alfheim, the force (energy) there was so different that a
child of nature could not exist on such vibrations. And Odin, the all-
seeing god, understood this; he alone
understood what
was going on. Chose
Vidrir64 Bifrost guard65 , guardian of the sun,
62 The syllable of the northern skalds is muted, and the poetic gift of Braga, which the
translators of the Elder Edda drank, did not touch this song. But the more interesting it will be
to decipher the legend, the more valuable the understanding.
63 According to one interpretation, Loki failed to transform her back from her form
nut into the original form of the goddess.
64 Viðrir – ruler, heyti of Odin. 65 Bifrost - Heiti
Heimdall.
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go and hear
what does she know
Everything ended well for the gods - they returned Idunn, returned the
apples, and regained their youth. But they also gained knowledge, and this
knowledge was given to them by none other than the god Lo-
Van magic, too thoughtlessly made themselves dependent on it. After all, as
soon as Idunn disappeared from Asgard, the gods began to rapidly grow old
and became very worried
this. And until this moment they did not know that they depended on apples
youth, which they were provided with by the power of the goddess Idunn?
How natural it is for a careless person to not pay attention
for what you always have! But now he also made Odin convinced that the well-
being of the gods of Asgard strongly depends not on a specific god or goddess
from the Vanir clan, but on
the whole world of Vanaheim. Convinced by example.
But let's return to the goddess Idunn. Her strength and the fact that she is
the only one who has access to the “drug of the Aesir,” to the apples of youth,
suggests that this goddess is not at all what she seems. The ancient goddess
of beauty, youth and, probably, immortality, who at the same time retained the
appearance of almost a child, indicates that she will not apply her strength to
her memory, the experience of antiquity or the right of seniority. Just the
opposite, if this power of endless rebirth is applied
to the memory of the past, the goddess of immortality becomes mortal. Her
strength is only for life, only for the future - and this
another indicator of the Van nature of disa Idunn - for everyone
Vans have a short memory, by nature and by their functionality
there is no need for a long one, and the story of the goddess Idunn even clarifies
– for the Vanir, a long memory is deadly. About this and
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cries the legend of Idunn's abduction: as soon as she found herself in
the world of ancient memory, she began to die. Because
The infinitely powerful and kind goddess of youth cannot, by definition,
not bestow the power of rebirth, but,
having given her strength to what is poison for her tribe, she
dies. Reviving the past is beyond her nature, Van
blood animates only the future. That's why her husband and
companion - the god Braga. The singer who gives hope, who awakens
the thirst for life, the will to live, opens
in a word, doors to the future.
Natural magic Idunn, its manifestation does not need
long memory. She needs a connection with her primal power, and
not the memory of her, not the knowledge of her. Therefore, Idunn herself did not
was able to tell the gods what exactly could save her - she didn’t
knew this. But she felt like she was dying. So does anyone
a natural witch may not know the “name” of her
source of power, the name of his progenitor god, but, having lost
the connection with the original source dries up and dies if the wise
Odin does not find that magical skin that will awaken this power,
without even naming it. A person needs to know everything
but the Van witch needs to feel everything. Often smell is
the best knowledge, and it does not require words.
The property of the other side of Van's strength - altruism, infinite
kindness - has a vulnerability, and God Loki showed this vulnerability
very clearly: Van's strength cannot but give, cannot but rejuvenate the
processes taking place. But
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if you force her to revive the past, then nothing will happen -
everyone will die: first nature, then the gods. If wrong
use the power of the goddess Idunn, if this “systemic conflict” is
allowed, then the gods will never be able to exist without constantly
going to the Vanir to bow.
Idunn, like the cow Audumla, feeds with his magic only developing,
growing worlds - only in this case
she will be with the gods, she will be in Asgard. This knowledge “from
Loki” was supposed to redirect the vector of the Asgard’s aspirations:
having frightened them with old age and, as a result, shameful death
from old age for the northerners, Loki formed a rule in the algorithm
for the success of the aces - do not feed the past, do not live for him.
And this means that the world of Asgard and the gods-rule-
should we constantly develop, not rely on the past?
successes, to past victories: he has no right to the future,
who lives only in the past. How successful was this
escapade in terms of training the gods, we will find out further - stories
the gods Frigg and Baldra will tell us about this.
In the meantime, let’s summarize the knowledge of the Van channel of power.
So, two extremes and limits of natural power, which
personified by the goddesses Sif and Idunn, can be characterized by
two mental qualities - selfishness and altruism. These properties are
present simultaneously in the gods
Frey and Freya, as more isolated forces than, for example, their
father, the god Njord: in the latter these properties are not expressed
as clearly as in his children. At the same time, we can see
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It turns out that the god Freyr, despite simultaneously manifesting
the qualities of egoism and altruism, still had a certain bias in
the side of egoism - and this led to a limitation of its functionality
across the territory. In the goddess Freya, this imbalance between
two extremes was also initially present, but
already towards altruism. However, she fixed it through
the right quest, through the right mystery of receiving from
swarts of his necklace (belt) of the power of Brisingamen.
In the manifestation of the forces that personify the goddesses
Sif and Idunn, the qualities of altruism or egoism, when the Van
nature is excited, acquire the characteristics of totality; There are
practically no restraining instruments that would bring these
properties to some acceptable norm, that would smooth out the
deliberate convexity
these qualities. Which, however, is quite expected, since we are
talking about the Vanir - children of nature do not like limits, but precis
this becomes their limit.
The goddesses Sif and Idunn are even more personified
the forces of Van nature, even more refined and refined.
Each of them personifies the Van property of existence, but it is no
longer so comprehensive,
strong and independent in its manifestation, like the properties of
Frey and Freya. An attempt to find an explanation for the fact that
both Frey and Freya, having pronounced qualities
egoism and altruism, showed them freely, but never
stuck on some single selected state, then
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how the goddesses Sif and Idunn were in precisely such a state stuck
to their properties, insists that they were
the legends about all these gods have been correctly analyzed and
a difference was revealed in their described destinies. And the difference
this lies on the surface: neither Frey nor Freya combined
themselves by marriage with the legal gods, with the Ases, while
both Seth and Idunn were their wives. Ases, as we remember, are
informational principles, and the Vanir are natural forces. Information
can change energy, transform
it, to make the force specific and suitable for something specific. In
legend this is represented in the form of marriage, where
female Van nature connects with information
masculine and becomes fixedly defined: a woman always becomes
what they want her to be.
The goddess Freya in the entire northern mythodrama is not only
was able to preserve her freedom and magic, but also significantly
multiply. God Freyr managed to save, but not live very well. The
goddesses Idunn and Sif were unable to either preserve or multiply.
The last fact shows the winning algorithm of the aces for retaining and
conquering nature - history
the goddesses Sif and Idunn describe it to us. For fertility
Sif is to break the connection with the source of power, to replace it
to the one that will be controlled, determine the target,
which the properties of nature, torn from the basis, will serve. For eternal
life and youth Idunn - maintain
connection with the source of power, but strictly ensure that it does not
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in no case was directed in the wrong direction: what happened,
it was, but it shouldn’t be anymore.
What helped Freya independently keep her natural extremes
under personal control and not give up the threads
control them in the hands of aces? Are you close to the god Njord?
Is there a related force in the form of a twin brother? Maybe,
the fact that Freya found the strength to realize her true position in
Asgard and free herself from illusions - she understood
that the position of the Vanir in the world of the gods is a hostage, and according to
essentially slavery? This is a very important realization: free is not
values his freedom, only begins to value his freedom
the one who lost it became dependent, full. All this
there are lessons that carriers of Van blood and Van spirit need to
learn in the world of people, in the world of Midgard, in the world
manifested reality.
The story of Sif and Idunn is the story of the defeat of the Vanir
before the Aesir, the tragedy of the defeat of nature before the law.
Although, if we judge superficially, as is customary to the mind of
the social average person (that is, only by external effects), then
it, history, does not look like a defeat at all. And indeed, the
Vanessa goddesses were taken to Asgard; they do not appear in
as official hostages, but came of their own free will; both goddesses
are married to respected and revered aesir gods - what more could
you want? But, nevertheless, these are precisely the stories about
the defeat of the Vanir, since the Aesir, with the help of god
Loki determined a way to control the power of Vanessa, through this
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learned the peculiarities of Van nature, and the aces know the law:
“knowledge is power”, and power is always limited
freedom.
If there is no freedom, then extreme is the only quality in which it is
possible to somehow exist, but then
There are many conditions for such an existence.
The story of the goddesses Sif and Idunn is a tragedy of living witchcraft
nature, when the law imposes a ban on its manifestation,
and if he allows it, it is always due to the future derogation
freedom.
Practice 13. Seth and Idunn (p. 406)
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Frigg
The rightful mistress of Asgard and the legal wife of God
Odin. The position of the goddess Frigga in the entire northern system
myth is very strong: the hierarchy of the legal system places it on
one level with the supreme god.
The First Principle Tradition, the mistress of which is the goddess
Frigga, maintains order and transforms the first principles into specific
rules, roles and functions. This first principle, like any other in the
magical system of 12 first principles, is a storehouse of knowledge.
However, it has certain limitations, which does not allow the
fundamental principle of Order to completely
rely on tradition or rely only on it. The relationship between Odin and
Frigga is precisely the description
such systemic interaction between two powerful information structures.
67 It can be assumed that in Scandinavian mythology there were two creatures with
the name Fjörgyn - one male, the other female, but with one
or a similar name (Fjorgyn – feminine and Fjorgynn – masculine). (Note by G.
Bedenko)
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There's one interesting rule. If there's something wrong with a woman's husband
it happened that he died or went missing, then the woman
should (or had the right) to marry someone else
blood relative (brother or, in extreme cases, father).
Children born in such a union were considered children of the clan
with retention of all rights and inheritance of the deceased (missing).
Knowing nothing about the science of genetics, ancient people
understood that transitioning to another marriage in this way would be
continue the same blood line, not allowing any other mixing
nia.
In the history of the goddess Frigg there was just such a case. When
God Odin did not return from his next journey, but all the dates
expectations passed, his wife, the goddess Frigga, united
with his blood brothers Vili and Ve (yes, those same gods who co-
created reality from the body of the first ancestor Ymir). The presence
of two husbands at once instead of one missing one is also not
should confuse you if you remember that we are talking
about the ancient era of matriarchy, where the right to choose a husband, and
their quantities were also determined by the woman herself. But exactly
this adherence to the old matriarchal tradition was blamed on the
goddess Frigg by her husband's brother, the god
Loki, which is reflected in the already known to you “Got over-
will".
Loki said:
“You, Frigga, be silent!
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You are Fjörgyn's daughter
and dissolute in disposition:
at least your husband is Vidrir,
you Vili and Be
hugged both of them."
Loki blamed Frigg not so much for the fact that she cheated on
Odin, but for the fact that she, being the keeper of the tradition of
the new system of worlds that the Aesir created,
nevertheless, she acted according to the rules of the old tribal
tradition, built on the principles of matriarchy. Whereas
the world of Asgard, the world of the new order, paved the way
and introduced the principles of the patriarchal structure of reality. Bu
Frigga could not do otherwise than the rule dictated to her
tradition into which she was born. Perhaps this is precisely why in
the new system she became the keeper of accumulated
experience, became the great spinner of human destinies and for
people who live within the tradition, she is the mother, the birth-
singing warriors.
and gets a new pattern. The only thing that limits the weaving of the
goddess Frigg is the rules of order, the principles of Odin, the
boundaries of his capabilities. Not the goddess Frigga
defines these boundaries, but she is the one who necessarily
takes into account.
Frigg and Odin are the two forces on which the entire system is
built. They gave birth to children, three sons, their heirs.
The eldest son is the blind god Höd, darkness incarnate. Second
son - the god Balder, light incarnate. The youngest son is Her-mod, a
god who is destined to become a messenger to the world
Helheim. You will learn about each of them further.
If we look at this narrative metaphysically and use occult terminology,
we can say the following: Order and Tradition gave birth to Light and
Darkness68, and then something was born that would connect them
with each other. Light
and darkness are inseparable from each other. Possibly Balder and Hod
initially they were twins, but there is no clear mention of this in the
eddas.
The story begins with the fact that the god Balder began to have
terrible dreams. This is how Junior Ed describes this myth:
yes:
good luck.
When Loki, the son of Lauveya, saw it, he was not pleased
that nothing would harm Balder. He went to Frigga, in Fensalir,
taking on the form of a woman. And Frigga asks if that woman
knows what the aces are doing on the field of the Thing. She
replies that everyone shoots at Balder, but this does not harm
him. Then Frigga said: “Neither iron nor wood will harm Balder.
I took an oath from them.” Then the woman asks: “Did all things
take an oath not to touch Balder?” Frigga replies: “There is a
shoot growing west of Valhalla, which is called mistletoe. He
seemed too young to me to take an oath from him.” The woman
left immediately.
The goddess keeps the fates written in secret and does not
interfere with the holy law of the wyrd. But in relation to my son, I love
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th she went to violate her own law - who
will reproach the mother for protecting her child? Only
she herself will reproach. And no one else will dare.
Loki uprooted that mistletoe shoot and went to
ting field. Hod stood apart from the men who surrounded
Balder, for he was blind. Then Loki spoke to him:
“Why don’t you throw something at Balder?” That
replies: “Because I do not see where Balder stands,
and I don’t have a weapon.” Then Loki said: “All the same
follow the example of others and respect Balder like everyone else
rest. I will show you where he stands; throw this one at him
rod". Höd took a sprig of mistletoe and threw it at Balder, like
Loki pointed out to him. That rod pierced Balder and fell
he falls to the ground dead. And so the greatest thing happened
misfortune for gods and people.
new sustainability.
Mistletoe is like a virus. It can help strengthen
immune system of the body, but if the body always lives in
greenhouse conditions and is not accustomed to change, then thi
the virus will kill him69. Mistletoe kills those who live on it
tree who feeds from it. A rare bird can eat mistletoe berries -
they are poisonous. Such a tree becomes
dangerous both for the inhabitants of other worlds and for the
itself - it poisons itself and poisons others.
Having killed Balder with mistletoe, Loki allegorically
conveyed the information that even the most beautiful tradition,
the most beautiful and desirable good, which seems eternal to
you and therefore invulnerable, can be destroyed by the fact that
does not have. And it will not be Loki or the machinations of Satan who are to blame,
69 The well-known legend about the collection of mistletoe by the Druids is described as a
demonstration of the priesthood of this plant: “Roman writers (Caesar, Pliny the Elder, etc.)
describe the druidic ritual of collecting mistletoe, surrounded by mystery. The plant was picked
on the full moon or new moon, without the help of iron, sometimes
with a golden sickle, and it should not have touched the ground.” However, taking literally what
is written, descendants forget that both Caesar and the chronicler
Pliny were invaders on Gallic soil, they were occupiers. Then who
Will he tell the occupiers the truth, and even the sacred truth? They described what
saw it, but did you understand the meaning correctly? Druids are a closed society with their own
they don't give away secrets. If the invader, in his great conceit, thinks that
cutting mistletoe is a rite of honor, let him continue to think so. O-chalk should not touch the
ground. The earth, the Druids believed, did not give this tree
roots, which means we shouldn’t either. This means that you need to protect the soil from the
parasitic plant. Golden sickle, white clothes - this is part of the ritual of sacrifice and
purification, but its meaning is not at all in sacred honors to the parasite, but in protection
land from him.
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and your carelessness. They drink the juices of life from you, but you don’t
notice. You are being deprived of the right to offspring, and you tolerantly
agree with this. You are forced to destroy your tradition, but you will kill
your Balder every time you allow it to be.
Baldr
Everyone loved the bright god Balder - it was impossible not to
be in love. He was strong, kind and beautiful. True good in
all its manifestations. His strength and the love of those around him were
are such that they did not require any confirmation or evidence. For the
same reason, no changes were required: the mother’s love protected
from everything. Tradition prefers precisely such algorithms of good as
those expressed by the god Balder, and this was clear to everyone and
accepted by everyone. For the northern system, Balder was an ideal
program that did not require changes, only protection.
scrap, which will be accepted by all people, all worlds, all inhabitants of these
worlds; will be accepted with joy and without a doubt, will be accepted, which is very
important, voluntary - just as they receive the light,
they rejoice at him and wait for him. What prevented this from
happening? Is it really Loki again?
To become light, good must go through all stages of formation
and development. It must experience everything and not change -
neither in itself, nor in the perception of someone who perceives
the algorithms of such goodness as natural. Myself
Balder did nothing to win the love of those around him, to earn it
not by his existence, but by his deeds. Frigg did this for him, simply
extending her maternal protection to her beloved son, and God
That escape,
thin and slender,
became a destructive
weapon, Hed threw it away.
One said:
“...tell me about Hel, I will tell
you about the world;
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benches for whom
covered with chain mail,
gold floor
beautifully strewn?
sons of despair
aces covered.
Say no more
When Balder fell, the tongue stopped obeying the Aesir, and their hands
did not obey them to raise him. They looked at each other, and everyone had
one thought - about who did it. But it was impossible to take revenge: that place
was sacred to everyone. And when the aces tried
answers:
Zakolosatsya
bread without sowing,
evil will become good
Balder will return
will live with Hod
at Hroft73 in a mansion,
in the home of the gods -
Is this enough for you?
(Elder Edda.
Völva's Divination)
Balder will return with Höd, but the brothers must go through the path
of transformation together. One brother was protected by his mother's
love, the other brother was completely deprived of it. But both
this limited its development and manifestation: Balder did not gain
new experience, did not learn from mistakes; Höd is related to his brother
synchronously, and his blind eyes do not see that God is good
Light begins to emanate from Balder, but the darkness only reacts
who in the world.
Loki saw that Balder's invulnerability is not a victory for the system, it
is its defeat. Good cannot remain static, good cannot always remain
unchanged, especially
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but when reality changes and time moves forward. Early or
Later, such algorithms will come into conflict with the entire system,
and Balder will turn from beloved to hated.
Good to be always desired and loved by everyone,
for everyone to cry about his loss, he must develop and change along
with everyone else. Maybe the giantess Tökk did not cry for Balder not
because she did not know Balder, but because he, the god of goodness
and light, did not know her, an ancient memory?
Balder learns nothing and does not change in any way. He gets
everything for free, and the most important prize is the love of the goddes
Frigga - he already has it. For everyone else, as the youngest son of
Odin and Frigg demonstrated, this love must be earned, but this was
not required of Balder. Nowhere in the sagas is it
talks about his wanderings and travels; he doesn't participate
in common adventures, and this shows exactly what was said
– Balder does not change. After all, only through trials does development
occur, only through contact with others do you yourself become
to others. When did the gods in the game attack Balder when they threw
they threw stones and spears at him, they did not test Balder,
They didn’t train him - they showed off. They boasted about his insubordination
visibility, but what do they themselves have to do with his invulnerability?
What the gods did to make the most
beautiful god, the most valuable thing in Asgard, strong
and invulnerable? Frigga's magic did everything, and the gods laughed.
Again.
Loki saw history repeating itself with Tyr. I saw that
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The gods did not learn anything from that terrible story, but now the
damage has been caused to Odin, Frigga has been caused, and there
is no point in relying on the other gods of Asgard. Therefore, Loki sent
Balder to where he would undoubtedly undergo his studies - he sent
Balder to Hel, he sent him to study. Hod went there with him - light and
darkness must be adequate to each other, they must know and
understand each other, they must not be separated from each other. If
Balder is loved as the god of light, then Höd should be loved as the god
of darkness. But
You can learn this only where this knowledge exists - in the halls of the
goddess Hel, in the worlds of Nifelheim. It is in the halls
of Nifelheim that we see Balder first show himself in action, talking
with his brother Hermod. He sends messages with him to Asgard - the
Draupnir ring, and his faithful wife Nanna - a headband for Fulla. The
symbolism of these messages will become clear to us
We don’t know what Hermod and Balder were talking about all night,
but the small episode of the brothers’ separation gives a strong feeling
that Balder seemed to have woken up, that he had started something...
then understand.
Let us also go there to find out what lessons Lady Hel was able to
teach her pupils, Baldr and Höd. Practice 15. God Balder (p. 413)
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Hel
In the narrative of the northern myth, the goddess Hel occupies
a special place, which is a reflection of her absolute self-sufficiency
and the unique position that
was formed for her by the entire system of the Nine Worlds.
First of all, you need to see and understand that this goddess is not
is the goddess of death. In the northern myth, such a function as
“death” is not personified at all; for this system it is not something
that has independent
characteristics, has no character, preferences or appearance. Death
in the Northern Reality Building Program
not a function, but a phenomenon that exists because there are
other phenomena. Death does not exist by itself. This understanding
was so natural for those living in that era,
that it never occurred to anyone to describe Death as an independent
personality, giving it some characteristics
recognition
Goddess Hel is not death, but she is a guardian
world of the dead. It doesn't bring the end of life,
because she does not go beyond the boundaries of her own world at all:
everyone goes to her, but she goes to no one.
Hel is the eldest daughter of the god Loki and the goddess
Angrboda, sister of Jormungandr and Fenrir. No one remembers
what she was called at birth, because Hel is not a name, but rather a r
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life Hel is the name of the world, and the goddess who becomes
its ruler traditionally receives its name. Guardian of the worlds of
Nifelheim and Helheim, she was born
was for this mission. Her nature is dual, as is her appearance:
some said that she was terrible, while others said that she was
beautiful. Which is not surprising, because everyone sees in another
what he wants to see.
The Elder Edda speaks little and sparingly about the goddess
Hel; rather mentions her world, but not herself. They go to Hel, to He
they send, they hasten to Hel, they stay in Hel. But they didn’t talk
or talk about my goddess herself. She is not an object
for description, it is unknown to the living, and the people, who
were accustomed to telling only the truth, could not talk about what
I didn’t see it with my own eyes. Only the dead or only the gods
(and even then not all) could know the Lady Hel, but neither
no others were in a hurry to describe this acquaintance as something
definite. However, the Younger Edda and later Christian
consciousness no longer had that internal stopper that forbade
talking about what you don’t know, so the owners of the Christian
worldview still decided to describe the goddess and her world, and
did it like this:
Loki also had other children. One was called Angrboda
a giantess from the Land of Giants. She gave birth to
Loki has three children. The first son is Fenrir Wolf, the other
- Jormungandr, aka the World Serpent, and his daughter is Hel.
When the gods discovered that these three children were growing up
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in the Land of Giants, - and the gods learned from the
prophetess that they could expect great troubles from those
children, and everyone expected great evil from the children
of such a vile mother, and even more so the children of such
a father - so the All-Father sent the gods to take those children
and bring them to him . And when they came to him, he threw
that Serpent into the deep sea, surrounding the whole earth,
and the Serpent grew so large that, lying in the middle of the
sea, it girded the whole earth and was biting its own tail. And
Odin cast the giantess Hel into Niflheim and made her rule
the nine worlds, so that she would give shelter to everyone
who was sent to her, and these are people who died from
illness or old age. There she has large villages, and her
fences are amazingly high and her bars are strong. Wet
Drizzle is the name of her chambers, Hunger is her dish,
Exhaustion is her knife, Sloth is the servant, Sonya is the
maid, Misfortune is the grate falling on the threshold. Bed of
Illness - bed. Evil Kruchina is her canopy. She is half blue and
half meat-colored, and is easy to recognize because she slouches
darkness, where all the old first principles of construction are stored
realities, and they are expressed in the image of the ancient hrimtursen, frost
giants, the ancestors of almost all aces. In the magical interpretation of
worldbuilding, Nifelheim is associated
with the fundamental principle of Darkness, while the world of Helheim is
associated with the fundamental principle of Chaos. The Lady Hel does not
control these worlds, does not control their power, but keeps them in some kind
protects to a degree - you can enter, but you cannot leave before the deadline.
And the Equally Tall One said: “Many centuries before
the creation of the land has already been done by Niflheim. In the middle
there is a stream called the Boiling Cauldron, and flows out
from it the rivers: Svel, Gunntra, Fjorm, Fimbultul,
Slil and Hrid, Sulg and Ulg, Vid, Leift74. And the river Gjöll
flows at the very gates of Hel.” (Younger Edda)
The path to the world of the dead is blocked by the Gjöll river,
which flows closest to the gates of the underworld. Che-
75 Although we are talking here as if about the ancient pagan deity God Odin,
but it was no longer possible to resist Christian modulations.
76 Gimle – “protection from fire.” (Note per.)
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from there to Niflhel. It's down in the ninth world." Then
asked Gangleri: “What were his deeds before
how did he make the earth and the sky? And the Tall One answered:
“Then he lived with the frost giants.” (Junior
Edda)
It is not difficult to guess that those chosen ones who are destined
enter the gates of Valgrind, these are units; all other “non-warriors”: women,
children and old people, the sick and those who died from
old age, those who died from an accident or in infancy - all whose death is
“not valiant” go to the world of the goddess
Hel. There are millions of them, born and dead, of no use to the gods. They
will cross the golden bridge, Garm will eat away the fear of the deceased
before moving to the new world, and Modgud will help the true essence to
manifest itself, remove the veils of the idea
about myself. Their life should not be lived in vain, and even then,
that they were not “useful” to the gods of Asgard does not mean at all
that all life experience should dissolve into chaos and go into oblivion. Hel
will not allow this to happen, and the world of Nifel-heim will preserve the
eternal, freeze it in ice until new eggs
Muspel will not melt this ice and the principle of life of the rejected god and
man will not get a second chance to manifest. IN
in the world of Nifelheim there is a preservation of the valuable, and in the
world of Helheim there is a liberation from the unnecessary.
Spiritualists traveling through the worlds say
that the goddess protects and takes care of everyone who falls into her
Norns
You have already become acquainted with the goddesses who
determine the fate of all living and existing creatures during the passage of th
Etta runes: the three runes Naud, Isa and Eyvaz connected your
consciousness with the universal principles of vird and orleg. These sa
the runes are the keys to the three worlds of the tree - the worlds of
Jotunheim, Nifelheim and Svartalfheim, respectively. Goddesses
Urd, Verdandi and Skuld, whose names mean “Fate”,
"Becoming", "Duty" and symbolize (roughly) the past,
present and future. Or in other words: Urd - “That which is”, Ver-
dandi - “That which becomes” and Skuld - “That which follows”
be".
Ash I know
named Yggdrasil,
tree washed
cloudy moisture;
dew from it
they descend to the valleys;
Wise maidens
originated from there
three from the key
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under a tall tree;
Urd name first,
second Verdandi, -
cut the runes -
Skuld is the name of the third;
fate was judged
life was chosen
people's children
the lot is being prepared.
(Elder Edda.
Völva's Divination)
The goddess Urd is the eldest of the three norn goddesses and was
traditionally represented as an old woman. Goddess Verdandi was seen by
people of old times as a woman
middle-aged. Goddess Skuld seemed to be the youngest of the three
goddesses. They are always together, but the name Skuld sometimes
appears among the list of Valkyrie names - perhaps his work
She also performed thread cutting on the battlefield. We see partly this dual
work of the goddess Skuld in
in various songs of the northern myth: for some, the thread of life was
measured and cut off in advance, and for others, the thread of fate was
already cut on the canvas of reality, fixing the woven pattern, clearing it of
“extra tails” that were not needed
to one who is worthy, in the opinion of the god Odin, to become an Einherjar.
In the narration of the northern myth of Norna, how
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faces appear infrequently. But their presence is always natural. Even if they
are not there, they are talked about. Even if they are not talked about, they
are remembered. Even if they are not remembered, their presence is always
implied. Norns in the thinking of a person living inside the northern myth are
that inviolability that neither gods nor people can change.
As acting forces, the Norns appear in the myth at its very beginning, but
precisely when in the system of Nine Mi-
processes have arisen that are so systemically incorrect,
that it is no longer possible to do without the intervention of controlling forces.
This is what the Elder Edda tells us about this in “The Prophecy of the
Völva.”
three giantesses,
mighty maidens
from Jotunheim.
Then the gods sat down
to the thrones of power and
to confer
became sacred:
who should tribe
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from Brimir79 roofs
And Blaine's bones.
When the gods created worlds from the body of the first ancestor Ymir and
settled in Asgard, they, as follows from the Prophecy,
entered a state of relaxation, which, according to the Tree’s controlling
system, was not necessary to do at all. The appearance of three Norns
before the gates of Asgard is a bad sign,
and the gods had to urgently continue what they started - creation
You can't throw it. Made worlds must function,
which means that someone must live there. Moreover, what has been
done should not be superfluous in the system, which means it is
programmatically linked with all other existing systems, and the created
world, the manifested reality, must
interact with each other on the principles of mutual reflection and
mutual reaction.
Norns are not a force that can be ignored.
The gods knew this, and people knew it too. Speaking of Norns, people
talked about fate, fate and inevitability. It must be said that
people of ancient times believed in fate absolutely. However
the worldview of man at that time made it possible to distinguish
two types of fate - Wyrd and Orlyog.
Wyrd is a personal destiny and depends on actions and will
the person himself. Moreover, it does not exist on its own, but
79 Brimir is the same as Ymir (the oldest of the giants). Blain - another name
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is, as it were, inside the fate of the gods, inside the eagle. Fates are
intertwined and create a common pattern: a small fate into a large one,
but it is possible to discern fate-eagle only when everything
Vird stitches are applied to the canvas of reality. Goddesses of spinners
and weavers of all worlds weave pictures of destinies, and in the northern
In myth, Frigg was such a goddess, but the threads from which history and
the future appear are in the hands of the ancient Norns.
A person could go through his wyrd in different ways, but beyond
He couldn’t get out of the orlya. This is, as it were, an acceptable area where
manifestation makes sense.
The Norns control and work for the Orlög as a personal
wyrd of gods and heroes. It is inevitable and not embellished, it is as it is. A
person’s Wyrd is not so rigidly fixed and can be “colored” in different ways,
which makes it possible to see the pattern on the canvas of reality, to
understand
it, read it. This kind of “coloring” was done by the diss.
Their functionality is well reflected in later tales
The Middle Ages as the arrival of fairy godmothers to the main character
or the heroine of a fairy tale - they endowed with a happy or unhappy fate,
wove important knots-conditions into the thread of life, and recorded magical
cause-and-effect relationships. But diss never changed fate or canceled