WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:12.720 All right, everybody, welcome, Welcome to the first ever Cajun 2 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:15.679 Night Live event. Sorry about the technical difficulties to get 3 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:16.320 started with this. 4 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:19.519 It has been quite an evening. 5 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:23.239 For me personally at the house, so I've been trying 6 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:24.960 to throw things together at the last minute try to 7 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:28.600 make this happen, And honestly, I don't exactly know where 8 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:30.719 I want the conversation to go tonight as far as 9 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:35.840 anything at all. Honestly, I mean, if you look at 10 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:38.359 the news right now, there's all kinds of wild things 11 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:43.079 going on. If you look at the cultural and media space, 12 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.359 there's a lot of things going on right now. But 13 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.240 I want this to kind of be an open form 14 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:49.320 for all of us to just kind of bounce ideas 15 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:54.399 around and talk about whatever really comes up. So I 16 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.759 didn't necessarily want this to be a conspiratorial conversation, although 17 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.200 it definitely can be. I'm looking at these fire is 18 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:02.280 going on in California right now, and there's so many 19 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.359 red flags that are jumping out to me. But I mean, 20 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:07.200 I guess that's just kind of that's my natural way 21 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:09.319 of looking at things. So I mean, I don't know 22 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:13.239 if I'm being extra, if there's really you know some 23 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:17.920 conspiratorial things happening here. But first and foremost, I want 24 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:20.480 to thank y'all for joining me on the first one. 25 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:23.560 This really means a lot, this side project that I'm 26 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.840 trying to turn into an actual thing. It means a 27 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:28.920 lot to know there's people behind me on this. So 28 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:33.719 much love and appreciation to y'all. But uh, you know, 29 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.280 actually with the two, actually the three people here, interestingly enough, 30 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.480 I am very interested to talk to Anthony and to 31 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:46.319 Tony and to Ravenly about a couple of different things. 32 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:48.000 But I want to kind of go down the list 33 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:52.159 here in particular Anthony last night. First of all, do 34 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:53.599 you prefer Anthony or Tony? 35 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:55.599 Just curious? 36 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:56.599 Anthony? 37 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:57.719 All right? Word up? 38 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:02.400 Yesterday you had mentioned that you are a pagan religiously 39 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:04.359 speaking correct. 40 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:09.919 Correct of the Norse Anglo Saxon variety. 41 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:12.400 Yes, I had figured as much. 42 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.199 Now when you said Norse Anglo Saxon, you gave that 43 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:21.280 extra you know, description behind it. So can I ask 44 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:25.759 you what does the mechanics of your day to day 45 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:28.520 religion and faith kind of look like? 46 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:31.960 Like I understand you're not offering sacrifices, and again. 47 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:35.240 Within the realm of reason, you know, but what does 48 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.560 your faith actually look like to you on a day 49 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:38.800 to day if you don't mind me asking? 50 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:41.680 And I asked this. 51 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:43.800 Because there are so many different answers when you talk 52 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:46.439 to pagan and people of that belief that I mean, 53 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:48.560 it could be just a thought, or it could be 54 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:49.479 something you physically do. 55 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:50.080 I don't know. 56 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:56.879 Well, so for me, I'd like there really wouldn't be 57 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.439 and most of the ones that I've talked to there 58 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:05.599 wouldn't either day to day like you would think a 59 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:13.680 Christian's daily devotionals things like that. That's fair, And as 60 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:17.960 you say you're not the best representation of a Christian, 61 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.479 I do also have to put out there that I 62 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:22.159 am not the. 63 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:27.840 Best representation of a of a of a pagan. But 64 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:29.400 just across the board. 65 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:32.080 Game recognized game brother, I appreciate you being real with 66 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:32.759 me for sure. 67 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:33.199 Yeah. 68 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:36.840 So, I'm sure there are people that are going to 69 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:38.560 hear this that are going to be like, this guy 70 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:40.400 is slacking and a piece of shit. 71 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.520 OK, we'll put it, you know, just get that out. 72 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:43.680 Of the way. 73 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:48.439 Sure, most of so there's really two forms, right. 74 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:55.479 There are some people that they do monthly rituals very 75 00:03:55.479 --> 00:04:01.159 similar to how wickens do their monthly ritual will fall 76 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:02.680 like the eight spokes of the year. 77 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.199 And then there is. 78 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:14.680 Seasonal rituals which some some do mainly of the focush 79 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:20.439 variant that I've seen where they do uh a. 80 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.480 Fall that'd be like Mabon and embolic and these type 81 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:26.600 of big seasonal Yeah. 82 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:29.399 Got you, yeah yeah. 83 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.399 If they're doing the if they're doing the monthly, the seasonals, 84 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:35.319 I'm drawing a blank on the name the names, but 85 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.920 a big one is Yule. Obviously everybody knows that's but 86 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:44.800 for some the dates actually change, so it's not it's 87 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:47.519 not end of December, it's actually early January. 88 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.800 Okay, Now you said, is that like historically there's a 89 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:53.680 precedence for that, or is that more of a cultural 90 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:56.399 thing in today's world to your knowledge anyway? 91 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:58.199 Two? 92 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:04.360 Okay, through my knowledge at least in at least in 93 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:11.879 the American revival, that's the word I was looking for. 94 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:16.000 That seems to be more of a tailtale end of 95 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:21.319 December into mid January. There are arguments that there is 96 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:29.000 a historical precedent, but honestly, what what gets really kind 97 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:33.439 of jammed up and makes the the studies kind of hard, is. 98 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:35.519 Really realistically. 99 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:39.680 Depending on where these people were at in what we 100 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:44.040 now call Europe, Like the seasons were different, so things 101 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:45.360 happened at different times. 102 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.199 And one thing a lot of people. 103 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:53.319 Overlook is like the reason I gave the kind of 104 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:57.399 the Anglo Saxon misnomer. So the what we the what 105 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:02.639 we now call England was more or less started by 106 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:05.800 the Anglo what we call the Anglo Saxon tribes, right, 107 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.720 Anglo Saxon languages, this, that and the other thing. So 108 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.360 the Anglo Saxons come from the Angles and the Saxons 109 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:23.839 who both immigrated to that area from. 110 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:24.920 I want to say the Saxons came from. 111 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:33.920 Scandinavia and the Angles came from continental Europe, continent continental Germania. 112 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:37.240 If you're reading older books, like especially from Rome. 113 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:38.720 You're gonna call your Germania. 114 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:41.519 So that's that's why oftentimes you'll also hear the term 115 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:48.959 Germanic paganism. That's not Germany necessarily. That is, historically speaking, 116 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:50.920 that's what Europe was called before was Europe. 117 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.240 It's like the north of Europe, the outside of the 118 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:54.600 Roman Empire kind of thing. 119 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:55.600 And I'm with you on that. 120 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.160 So the Britannica or the Britannics, I should say, which 121 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:02.079 are like the remnants of whatever tribes are on the 122 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.079 British Isles before the Romans got there, plus the Roman 123 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:08.720 influence after you know, Rome fall fell and everything. When 124 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:12.439 the let's just call the Nordics for you know, lack 125 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.519 of the vikings the you know, because there's tribes throughout 126 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:17.279 in which countries they came from and everything. So the 127 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:21.720 Anglo saxon, the Anglo pagan that you claim is more 128 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:27.959 of a traditional Britannic based version of the Nordic pagan Yeah. 129 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:33.439 And that's and that's really dominantly because I'm like half Celtic, 130 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:39.040 half English. So yeah, I mean there's really, unfortunately, for 131 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:44.240 as little as there is on the Norse pagan religion, yeah, 132 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.240 there is even less on the Celtic. 133 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:47.959 Yeah. 134 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:50.319 Yeah, the Celtics are kind of set upon by the 135 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:53.959 Catholic Church. I actually, yeah, bro, I just uh, there 136 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.519 was this, it's like a forty five minute breakdown I 137 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:00.439 found on YouTube of the only religion that kun firmed 138 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:03.439 was successfully wiped off the face of the earth, and 139 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.399 that's the Druids, because yeah, there is no written record 140 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:10.480 of what they were really about. All we have is 141 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:13.759 like Roman sources that wrote down what they saw them 142 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.120 do with a couple of their rituals, and like they 143 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.000 have no context to know what means what why they're 144 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.720 doing this. They just kind of wrote a couple things 145 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.079 down and then the Catholic Church came. 146 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:26.639 And just waged absolute war against them. 147 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:29.399 So we have people these days that are claiming that 148 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.800 they are doing Druidic practices in these things, but it's 149 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:36.600 like what they're based off of typically is word of 150 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:39.279 mouth passed down so on and so forth. So that's 151 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.840 where it gets into that air of murky waters. But so, 152 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.919 how does in for your beliefs, how does Anglo Nordic 153 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:52.879 paganism differ from Danish Nordic paganism or something like that. 154 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:54.799 I'm sure there's nuances. 155 00:08:55.559 --> 00:09:01.200 There are, but honestly a lot of them are very subtle. Sure, So. 156 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:06.879 When I'm talking about it in a like on this, 157 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:10.159 like when I'm talking about the gods for instance, right 158 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:12.799 on bigger platforms, because like I used to do a 159 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:17.120 podcast about this, I'll use the Norse names because people 160 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:22.919 know Odin for Frey, Frey, et cetera. But from the 161 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:27.320 Anglo Saxon perspective, Odin would be Odin with a W 162 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:33.120 thor would be Thunar, et cetera. So in my personal 163 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:40.200 practice I use the more anglicized names. But really that's 164 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:42.679 about the extent of it. 165 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:47.480 I'm honestly kind of eclectic at the like. 166 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:50.120 Over the last five years, I've really gotten more just 167 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.480 like eclectic in that I use I use the. 168 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.559 I follow the Norse gods, I work with them. 169 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:02.879 But I've also just come to terms with the fact 170 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:06.279 because I have dealt with multiple groups, multiple people, and 171 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.200 at the end of the day, we are we are. 172 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:14.000 We are reviving a dead religion. That's ultimately what it 173 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:20.320 comes down to. With very little actually was written down, 174 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:25.039 and you have a whole bunch of quote unquote linguists that, 175 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:28.200 sure it can translate the words, but don't understand the 176 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:30.840 the context. 177 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:31.080 Of the times. 178 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.679 Sure, And so I'm more just trying to do what 179 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:38.399 feels right than what somebody wrote in a book says 180 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:45.320 is right, because for better or worse, we have myths 181 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.320 written down, but those myths are not our Bible, right, 182 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:51.279 you know, So we don't have a holy scripture telling 183 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:55.360 us what's right and what's right and what's wrong. 184 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:58.879 So on that same vibe, Zombie I see your hand up. 185 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:00.879 I'm gonna ask you get to you in a second. 186 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.679 But I was told by a group of Nordic pagans 187 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:10.080 locally at an embolic festival that I went to that essentially, 188 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:14.559 in the Nordic religion, there is no such thing as 189 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.360 like sin, right, There's no there's nothing of that nature. 190 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.480 And I was kind of perplexed by that. So I'm like, 191 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:21.960 there's no going against like the will of the gods, 192 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.639 and that's not a thing. And they're like, okay, sure 193 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:29.080 there's outright blasphemy and disrespect, but it's from what I 194 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:34.480 was getting given to understand. Y'all, don't pray to the 195 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:37.360 gods or ask for the gods to help you. You 196 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:39.639 more or less ask for the gods to give you 197 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:42.519 the guidance and the wisdom and the strength to get 198 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:45.919 through it on your own. Now, is that about accurate 199 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:47.399 or is there something I'm missing here? 200 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:53.799 So that's that, that's not it. That's not entirely accurate. 201 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:57.360 But you're you're on the right track, okay. So we 202 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:00.919 don't believe in sin, in that we don't believe we 203 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:07.000 are born having to pay the consequences for a man 204 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.360 and woman however many thousand years however, many thousand years ago, 205 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:18.360 we don't believe we were born imperfect beings. And some 206 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:25.679 of the other things that Abrahamic religion teaches about us 207 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:30.000 is in the human condition, not saying that's wrong, that 208 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:31.000 that's just the difference. 209 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:33.480 Now, there are definitely sins like. 210 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:46.440 Kin slaying, anything bad to children, yeah, not being gracious hosts, 211 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:50.000 like yeah, yeah, yeah, not being a gracious host. 212 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:53.080 So they're there, but the uh. 213 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:58.639 For them because there was also the concept of the knitting, 214 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:03.559 which the pretty much the transliteration means nothing. So somebody 215 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:05.879 fucked up to the point where they are nothing. They 216 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.360 are cast out, they are cast out of the tribe 217 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:12.399 and left defend for themselves, like they're looked at as. 218 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:13.320 An animal at that point. 219 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:21.600 Okay, and they're in some in some uh while there's 220 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:24.759 never so how do word. 221 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:29.200 This because it's not like you'll see that there's gonna 222 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.960 be a penance for the wrongdoings after the fact, like 223 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.840 after death, because it's more like you're gonna you're gonna 224 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:38.200 reap what you sew here. Where you go afterwards depends 225 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:39.919 a lot of how you lived your life and also 226 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:41.159 how you die and there's a lot. 227 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:42.000 Of things that go into that. 228 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.519 But it's not like, uh, you're gonna do something now 229 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:47.639 and pay for it after the am I is that 230 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:48.600 a correct as well or. 231 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:51.720 For the most part. 232 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:52.000 Right. 233 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:54.639 So one thing, one thing I absolutely want to clear up. 234 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:56.279 Valhalla is not Heaven. 235 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:59.240 No, it is not. It is a version of it, 236 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:00.639 and a bad as one at that. 237 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:01.039 No. 238 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.639 Look, it is a high honor. It is a high honor. 239 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.519 It is one of the places you can go after death. 240 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:12.799 But Valhalla is for apex predators. Like I'm talking about 241 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.879 the best of the the best of the best of 242 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:21.039 green Berets seals, like the. 243 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.559 People with body counts that we don't even. 244 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.759 Talk about, right Okay, Like I'm sorry, that's gonna ruffle 245 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.840 people's feathers. As much as I respect and acknowledge that 246 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:34.759 people that have lost lost fights to say cancer or 247 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.759 other illnesses, those are not going to get to the Valhalla. 248 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:39.000 Those are straw deaths. 249 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:39.919 Now. 250 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.960 The main place where people go is the halls of 251 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:48.000 the ancestors in Helheim hell h e l a lot of. 252 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:49.320 There is a lot of. 253 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:53.759 Isn't there a farm that either frig or frail runs 254 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:54.879 that that's another option to. 255 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.879 Folkvanger. That's the one that's so that's another thing too, 256 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:01.120 with a lot of. 257 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:07.080 The machismo in the North Pagan's fears. Because I'm gonna 258 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:10.000 be honest, it's a sausage fest. There's very few women. 259 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.639 Sure, a lot of people overlooked that. 260 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:19.799 In when Warriors fell, Frea got the first pick Odin. 261 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:23.360 Odin respected her power so much he gives her the 262 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:24.000 first pick. 263 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:27.639 But if she passes up to say that this dude 264 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:31.039 obviously belongs to Valhalla, then that's just what it is. 265 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.759 Yeah, And I mean another point is too, is you 266 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:36.960 not only have to die in battle, there's got to 267 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:39.000 be a valkyrie there to see it. You could die 268 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:43.600 the most heroic death ever written. But if there wasn't 269 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.080 a valkyrie there to witness it, it means nothing interesting. So 270 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:53.639 there is Hellheim, which is the equivalent of Tartaris. There 271 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:58.080 are people in the Norse pagan sphere that make the 272 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:09.320 linguistic argument that when Christians started coming into Europe Germania 273 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:14.879 and converted, they coined the term hell from the pagan 274 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:19.840 Hellheim to turn what was there after their the halls 275 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:23.159 of their ancestors and their afterlife the equivalent of Tartaris 276 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:27.600 like it's cool. You know, it's not bad, but it's cool. Yeah, 277 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.080 into a bad place. Now that being said, there is 278 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.720 a place called niffle Hell and it's described as being 279 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:39.759 in Hellheim, very close to Nifflheim, the Realm of Ice, 280 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:46.679 and it is a hall that is made up of 281 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:55.240 sharp spears and swords, with snakes slithering all through and 282 00:16:55.399 --> 00:17:00.759 venom dripping where kin slayers and breakers go. 283 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:04.200 Okay, so there is a version of a quote unquote 284 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:06.039 hell or shoal or bad spot. 285 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:07.279 There's a bad spot you can go. 286 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:10.480 Yeah, but to get there you really have like you 287 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:12.319 almost have to be trying. 288 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:14.400 Got you okay? 289 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:14.920 Uh? 290 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.200 Raven Lee please chime in on this. 291 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.200 Sorry, sorry my phone, my phone wouldn't let it go. 292 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:30.920 What I was gonna say earlier about the linguists, I 293 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:36.559 was actually just reading about this AI transcript that they're 294 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:41.039 using right now. So they're actually utilizing AI to read 295 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.680 the oldest scrolls found and they've been trying to decipher 296 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.519 them forever, but they fall apart when they try to 297 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:51.119 even get near them. And they actually are using an 298 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.759 AI machine, which we all know how I feel about AI, 299 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:58.160 but they're piecing it together to be able to read this, 300 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.519 and so they were talking about you it for the 301 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:05.759 sagas as well, to try to you know, interpret because 302 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:10.400 the AI has so many known languages, it's going to 303 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:14.799 try to decipher what actually was being written and how 304 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:17.319 it translated. Which I thought that was interesting because it 305 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:21.480 jumped from like different religions around the world that they're 306 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:23.799 going to try to utilize this AI for. 307 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:26.920 I've heard of the amusing that same and I don't 308 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:28.720 know if it's the same story or if there was 309 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:31.359 a you know, a Samarian or whatever. But I saw 310 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:34.640 a story of a scroll and when they tried unraveling it, 311 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:35.880 it did start to fall apart. 312 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:37.000 So they took like an X. 313 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:39.119 Ray scan of it and they were able to see 314 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:42.000 what the like, they can tell what was printed. 315 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:44.279 Then they plug that into an AI and they were 316 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:44.799 trying to do it. 317 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:44.920 Now. 318 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:46.960 I don't know if that's yeah, it's a scroll, Okay, 319 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:48.039 so this is the same story. 320 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:49.240 Yeah, this is the. 321 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:52.160 Same story, but they've actually like made progress. They've gotten 322 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:56.759 like I think they've gotten like two paragraphs were so far, 323 00:18:57.400 --> 00:18:59.880 and they're trying to like figure out exactly like what 324 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:04.039 but what it's discussing and stuff. But they're thinking about 325 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:06.680 utilizing it for like different areas of the world to 326 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.319 try to peace in the gaps of religions that were destroyed, 327 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:13.720 or they only have like fragments of information. 328 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:18.640 So can I be honest, I do not trust AI whatsoever. However, 329 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:24.240 with the subaddendum of I am not mad at AI 330 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:28.440 being used for this purpose like realistically, to plug it 331 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.759 in and try to break down a code that humans 332 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:32.680 have been able to break down in forever, or to 333 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:37.359 decipher something like this, like I'm actually not mad at that. 334 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:43.359 That's pretty dope. But okay, that's excellent. So with all that, 335 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:44.559 Oh sorry, Tony, go ahead. 336 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:46.920 Yeah, I wanted to jump in a little bit on 337 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:50.400 a linguistic thing. Yeah, I do speak a fair amount 338 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:55.319 of German, so hellheim would translate to bright home. And 339 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:58.880 they don't use the word hell for hell the way 340 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:02.920 we do. Their word is hulla for the bad place 341 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:03.279 you go. 342 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:04.000 When you die. 343 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.039 So and I think that word is related to the 344 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.519 English word whole, like a hole in the ground, you know, 345 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:14.799 a negative place you wouldn't want to go. Another thing 346 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:19.880 about the now, my interpretation of the early British history 347 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:22.279 is that it was first these Celtic people who were 348 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.480 speaking a language kind of like Gaelic. And these Saxons 349 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.519 came from Germany in about seven eight hundred a d. 350 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:34.400 And Saxony, by the ways, just south of Berlin. And 351 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:38.079 there's another state west of Berlin called Saxon Anhalt, and 352 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:43.000 that's where the city of Magdeburg happens to be. So 353 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.839 the Germans kind of conquered the Celts, and then a 354 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.720 little later after that the Vikings I think, were raiding 355 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:54.119 the coasts all around, and then William the Conqueror from 356 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:58.839 France invaded. So yeah, there's multiple invasions going on here, 357 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:02.920 and I think it was probably Christianized just before William 358 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:07.799 the Conqueror, if I'm not mistaken. So anyway, I just 359 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:10.720 wanted to throw that information out in case anyone thought 360 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:11.759 it was interesting. 361 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:12.880 No, it very much is. 362 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:15.960 I mean, English being a German based language, it makes 363 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.240 sense that there would be some crossovers, and like you said, 364 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:23.200 Hellheim would mean that per German, but maybe in Denmark 365 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:26.000 they would have a different, a slight variation of that word, 366 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:29.480 especially in the religious text. There was a video that 367 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:31.799 I found a while back. It was like five girls 368 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:38.680 from Nordic speaking places like Sweden, Denmark, Scandinavia, Norway, and 369 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:42.680 they all named the gods, and like you said earlier, Anthony, 370 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:43.400 some of them. 371 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:45.680 Was Wodin or Odin or Odean. 372 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:50.319 Then you had Thor or Thor or Thor, and it 373 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:52.960 was like they had these weird variations of it. But 374 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:55.599 they were speaking about the same god and the same 375 00:21:55.640 --> 00:22:00.160 stories and all these things, but culturally there'd be these variations. 376 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:03.599 Tried to try country to country, this all checks out 377 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.079 to me. Although, Tony, glad that you are here this. 378 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:09.160 Evening, Yeah, glad to be here. 379 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:14.000 So I just before we shot this tonight, saw that 380 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:16.839 there was a attack in Russia. 381 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:18.960 Have you heard about this yet? 382 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.200 There was a fuel depot that was been lit on fire, 383 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:28.640 and apparently Ukraine was successful in demolishing the eighth Army's 384 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:32.359 main headquarters. And it's not even near the Kurse Goblost. 385 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:35.559 It's a good ways inland. I don't know what to 386 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:37.599 make of this. Of course, the media is taking it 387 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:39.240 to say like this is just another nail in the 388 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:43.799 coffin of Russia, but it is so many things are 389 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:47.119 ramping up right now and Ukraine's actually making some decent progress. 390 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:49.359 What have you heard on your end as far as 391 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:52.119 just the whole situation in Russia and Ukraine, not necessarily 392 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:54.119 of this one attack, but of everything when you're in. 393 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:57.480 Yeah, I'm not quite that up to date then, but yeah, 394 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:01.079 I have heard of pretty deep Ukrainian rocket and drone 395 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:06.640 attacks into Russia. Yeah, they're using every tool they can. However, 396 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:10.759 when it comes to Kursk, except for maybe the last 397 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.000 thirty square miles, the Russians have mostly pushed Ukrainians out. 398 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:19.640 So you know, I'm still I'm overall optimistic for Russia 399 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:23.680 to win this thing. Overall. It's taken them a lot 400 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:26.319 longer than I thought it would. I think it's taken 401 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.880