Hail the Hammer! Long Live the Old Gods!
I don't want to write down prayers and I wanted to make a note thread, so meh why not post them here. General Asatru thread.
Dear Oden, give me some power please
I wish to get better from every disease
Dear Freya, I wish for your blessing
The life would be full of love and less depressing
Dear Loke, I wish for sagacity
So I can fight against enemies with dignity
Dear Thor, I wish that you will protect mankind
The gods are always in my mind
Hail the blest Gods! See the rainbow of Asgard,
Bifrost, the bridge to the Aesir´s abode!
Hail to the far-seeing watcher and guardian,
Faithful defender of radiant road.
Hail to you, Heimdall, our elder and ancestor!
Hymns we will sing to the High Ones and you.
Come, let us call to the Megin once more,
Rig, tell the Regin their folk still is true.
Say, shall we give now in grateful devotion
Blots to the Aesir, and offerings divine:
Bread from the cornfield and fish from the ocean,
Mead from the beehive and gold from the mine?
All our lives shall be one dedication,
All our efforts to them shall belong.
Dear to the Gods is the soul´s adoration,
Near to their hearts are our prayers and song.
The Gods are my guides; I shall not want.
Their counsel and friendship quicken my soul.
Right roads I walk for the sake of their names.
And though I should walk in the valley of darkness,
I shall not fear, for they are with me,
their help is my staff, their presence comforts me.
They prepare my table in the face of my foes
and fill my cup to the brim;
Their blessings and company I will enjoy
all days of my life and beyond.
The Aesir and Vanir will be my Gods
forever as long as I live.
My body, my Midgard, ettins have entered.
Savage their hunger to feast on my flesh,
Sweet meat to sustain them is how they see me.
Thor, I am fevered and fear fills my heart.
Anguished I lie, unable to rise.
Mankind's defender, my body is failing.
Stand fast and lend me your strength in my suffering.
Now is my need for safety and solace.
Thor's fearsome fist flings splinters from Mjollnir,
Into my center to heal and renew me.
Tiny the hammers that hallow the blood road,
Seeking and blighting the bane of my body.
I grow stronger now, by the God's Graces.
My breath and my body are my own once more.
Thor battled fiercely, and bold, he is victor.
Words I would gift him as spoils of his struggle.
Thor heard my calling. Thor stood beside me.
Thor lent me strength when my own strength had flown.
Mighty the Good God who gave in my need,
Gifts of his healing, of hope and of life.
Gods, I come before you to light this candle.
I know that a candle is not a great sacrifice,
It is almost nothing of me,
Almost nothing of my work,
Almost nothing of my money.
It is only a sign
That I want to remain in your presence
For a few moments now, in silence.
It is a sign that I have come because I know
That you hear and see me,
That you are near to my life,
To my problems, my family,
My work, my surroundings,
And my future.
This candle is a sign of trust
And my faith in you, my Gods.
I trust that it can rekindle my own heart's fire.
When I go now, this candle remains
As a symbol of my presence,
Until it has consumed itself.
Receive it as my sacrifice,
Receive it as my prayer,
Receive it as my silence
And as a sign of my love.
I am going to war
leaving loved ones behind
I am leaving what is precious
but I´m not going alone.
The Gods are with me
in all the dark places.
I am going to war
leaving loved ones behind
I am leaving what is precious
but I´m not going alone.
The Gods are with me
in all the dark places.
Aesir, ease their hearts
when my people miss me
Aesir, strengthen mine
when time crawls at snail´s pace
Aesir, stand with me
when I am facing death
Aesir, look after my loved ones
as I would.
Njord, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
Thor, grant me the strength
to change the things I should change,
And Odin, grant me the wisdom
to tell the one from the other.
Night has fallen, Day is flown
Holy Frigga, bless our Home
With Joy and Laughter, Love and Song
Frigga keep our Family strong.
Night has fallen, Day is flown
Holy Hammer, ward our Home
From Trolls and Thurses - Thunar keep
Our Family safe, so we can sleep.
Now I lay me down to rest,
Freyja guard me in my nest,
Above, below, and round about,
Keep all the things I fear without,
Bless those I love, And bless me too,
Dearest Freyja, I love you!
All-giving Nerthus, as you share your crops
Seeds sown full blown to grain, to fruit, to honey
So we honor thee in fulfilling thy holy work
Through this gathering of feast and frith
Hail thee Nerthus.
Fé, Vit, Friðr, Grið, Heill. (Fay, Veet, Freeth, Greeth, Hayl. )
Hail Thor-show thy might,
Let thunder roar and lightning strike!
Hurl thy hammer into the fray,
And let thine enemies know fear this day!
Upon awakening, go outside or at least to a window and see the sun's light. If it's cloudy that's okay, the world is still flooded with light from the sun even on the cloudiest of days. Reach out your left hand as if to take in the sun's energy, and say the following:
Hail Sunna, [Soon-nah] Lady of the heavens
Rising in East, inspired of sovelu [Soe-vay-loo]
Hail Alfrodul, [Ahl-froe-dool] shining beam
Let down your rays, inspire us
Your chariot drawn by flaming mane
From brilliant morn till beauteous eve
Ride steady, ride high
Watch ever over, guide our steps,
Enliven our bodies, draw up our crops,
Illuminate our minds. Ever hail to thee.
Nine Noble Truths
1. Courage
2. Truth
3. Honor
4. Fidelity
5. Discipline
6. Hospitality
7. Industriousness
8. Self-Reliance
9. Perserverance
Six-Fold Goal
1. Right
2. Wisdom
3. Harvest
4. Frith
5. Love
Wardruna and Corvus Corax
>>11979Where is this from? It seems modern.
>>12010Some asatru organization who deducted these virtues from reading and analyzing the eddas
>>12010It's just what our ancestors believed is right for ethics. Ásatrú is one of the oldest religions ever:
>Ásatrú means true to the Old Norse Gods. Ásatrú is the Ethnic Religion of indigenous Northern European People. It is the religion of our ancestors, one of the oldest still in practice, dating back to the beginning of this branch of the human race, some 40,000 years ago. >>12058lol notice how neopagans always try to emphasize the supposed age of their religion?
>Wicca's been around since the ice age you guys!>Asatru is twenty gorillion years old!Real religions are concerned with their present and future, not their past.
>>12075>who are vikings>what did they worshipWicca is bullshit and has been around since the 1900's. Asatru is NOT Wicca.
>>12075Also one of the Goddesses of Norse Mythology is Nerthus, whom tales date back to 23,000 B.C.
>>12078>who are vikingsFuck Vikings. They represent only a short period of Scandinavian history, and they were cowardly brigands who preyed on defenseless monasteries and farming villages. They were exactly the kind of people who gave paganism a bad name. They weren't defensive warriors, nor heroic conquerers. Just pirate thugs.
People who think Vikings were cartoon badasses who wrestled bears and fucked valkyries are committing historical revisionism. Modern-day revisitionist Asatru is just as bad as Wicca IMHO.
>>12080Real religions are concerned with their present and future, not just their past. What has the Asatru community done lately that deserves respect? An ideology can only be rightly judged by the actions it inspires. The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and the only pudding I see in the Asatru camp is a bunch of armchair radicals spewing racist venom.
>>12081>Fuck Vikings. They represent only a short period of Scandinavian history, and they were cowardly brigands who preyed on defenseless monasteries and farming villages. They were exactly the kind of people who gave paganism a bad name. They weren't defensive warriors, nor heroic conquerers. Just pirate thugs.Lol exactly. We kicked everyone's asses to the curb.
>People who think Vikings were cartoon badasses who wrestled bears and fucked valkyries are committing historical revisionism. Modern-day revisitionist Asatru is just as bad as Wicca IMHO.I don't think that, they are just my ancestors and you should take pride in your ancestry.
>Real religions are concerned with their present and future, not just their past.Not true, Christians still worship a supposed messenger all those years ago.
> What has the Asatru community done lately that deserves respect?Keeping their religion alive after countless years of people (especially Christians) trying to destroy it.
>An ideology can only be rightly judged by the actions it inspires. The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and the only pudding I see in the Asatru camp is a bunch of armchair radicals spewing racist venom.Nobody in the Asatru religion is racist, it's a personal choice. We believe in practicing our ancestor's religion which were white Aryans so only white Aryans should practice Asatru. It's part of our NNT to love all.
I'm assuming you are Discordian, as was I at one point, that religion/philosophy is the worst out of all. But whatever, you stick to your Gods, I'll stick to mine.
>>12081>Real religions are concerned with their present and future, not just their past.
>Worship a 2000 old dead jew on a stick, that you believe was resurrected. >>12082>>12083>B-but, ChristiansFuck Christians. I never mentioned Christianity, so quit beating that strawman.
>>12180It's not just Christians. Since when do Discordians worry about the future? Your God was discovered in a bowling alley by some stoners smh. ALL religions aren't in the future nor in the past, they live at present and not give two fucks. If the present is worrying about the past/future so be it but I can't think of any religion that I see that does shit besides do what they do, WORSHIP THEIR OLD GOLDS.
>>12182>Since when do Discordians worry about the future?Since next year. Oooh, see what I did there?
song about meeting Odin in the forest or something
just listen
>>12215Absolutely superb song. Now THAT'S some good music everyone needs to listen to.
>>11963Odin is a death-god, not a healing-god. And Loki will bring nothing but chaos.
>>12081>weathering wild seas and pushing the horizon farther>raiding in a strange land as quickly as possible before you're wildly outnumbered by better equipped, better fed warriors>going berserk in battle wearing naught but the skin of a predator you killed yourself>cowardlyI agree the focus on Vikings is too strong. But the older Germanic tribes were basically the same shit, just trampling all over Rome instead of Scotland.
Other than that, fine thread
>implying Asatru is racially pure
>>13433You can deny it all you want, there's evidence of odinism before Christianity even existed.
Make fun of everyone all you want, you only continue the cycle of ignorance. Let us take our own path and let us hail our own gods, you stick to yours. Okay?
Fenrir, wake up and realize that there is no leash.
