I don’t know much about Viking mythology but your comment has piqued my interest! Thank you!
I remember watching an interview in the 80s Bill Moyer did with Joseph Campbell. Campbell explained that the spiritual system were born into us a kind of software with which we may interface with the universal hardware (ie God). I thought that was a unique perspective.
I’ve always been fascinated by the common symbology and undercurrent of so many ancient tales. Truth lies in there somewhere! Also, I’ve been learning more about Tartaria and lost civilizations via Jon Levi and others.
Who needs movies when there is such mystery to be discovered under our feet?!
Thank you for this beautiful reminder to live with intention. I am working my way through a book called, "The Viking Spirit." Our Nordic kin had a set of supernatural beings who were the weavers of Fate. These beings were not worshipped, for they merely wove Fate. The idea is not that we are predestined to wander and live a life unfulfilled. The idea is that we are to embrace our Fate with heroic stoicism.
Your fate seems to have been to wander, Odin-like, and to have your heart cracked open. When you received that blessing, and got tired of living without intention you embraced that Fate and are now relishing each coming spring and all that its blossoms yield to your open heart.
In the book I am learning that Nordic/Germanic cosmology is the most correct in terms of the physical Universe. At the end time, Ragnarok, the giants will come and send Odin, his warriors and his fellow pantheon to their doom. Still, Odin, has his Valkyries choose the best warriors to fall in battle. Why? So that when the wolf comes he will put on his best battle with his best men even though he knows he will lose. He is embracing his fate and using his freewill to give it his all and meet his end with the most heroic effort he can muster in the best company he can gather.
Isn't that a beautiful metaphor for life? In any case, this post is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing it with us. To spring and the heroic exercise of our free will. Skol!
Really love this post, thank you.
I don’t know much about Viking mythology but your comment has piqued my interest! Thank you!
I remember watching an interview in the 80s Bill Moyer did with Joseph Campbell. Campbell explained that the spiritual system were born into us a kind of software with which we may interface with the universal hardware (ie God). I thought that was a unique perspective.
I’ve always been fascinated by the common symbology and undercurrent of so many ancient tales. Truth lies in there somewhere! Also, I’ve been learning more about Tartaria and lost civilizations via Jon Levi and others.
Who needs movies when there is such mystery to be discovered under our feet?!
Thank you for this beautiful reminder to live with intention. I am working my way through a book called, "The Viking Spirit." Our Nordic kin had a set of supernatural beings who were the weavers of Fate. These beings were not worshipped, for they merely wove Fate. The idea is not that we are predestined to wander and live a life unfulfilled. The idea is that we are to embrace our Fate with heroic stoicism.
Your fate seems to have been to wander, Odin-like, and to have your heart cracked open. When you received that blessing, and got tired of living without intention you embraced that Fate and are now relishing each coming spring and all that its blossoms yield to your open heart.
In the book I am learning that Nordic/Germanic cosmology is the most correct in terms of the physical Universe. At the end time, Ragnarok, the giants will come and send Odin, his warriors and his fellow pantheon to their doom. Still, Odin, has his Valkyries choose the best warriors to fall in battle. Why? So that when the wolf comes he will put on his best battle with his best men even though he knows he will lose. He is embracing his fate and using his freewill to give it his all and meet his end with the most heroic effort he can muster in the best company he can gather.
Isn't that a beautiful metaphor for life? In any case, this post is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing it with us. To spring and the heroic exercise of our free will. Skol!