I found this super interesting - and confirming. This "Universal God" has been a core belief of mine as long as I can remember. I am extremely comfortable with the gods as creations of a supreme creator god; as aides to manage all that was created. Very interesting topic - Thank you!

Jesus died and resurrected Krishna died and resurrected Osiris died and resurrected Aitts died and resurrected Quetzalcoatl died and resurrected Easter died and resurrected Baldr died and resurrected The sun died at winter resurrected 3 days later ..... although the storys differ it's the same concept in all religions

Proto-indo-european sky father, Dyēus, is lurking around here it seems like, haha! I often think of it as like there is a ancient mother goddes, connected with earth, and father god, connected with sky, in our nordic myths. And there is maybe, in the proto-indo-european ones (Dyēus and Dʰéǵʰōm)..? Amazing video as always!!!

The name in the thumbnail almost looks like Almighty Ass lol, gotta like a God with a good sense of humor

IVE BEEN LOOKING TO THE BOOK OF ENOCH AND THE FALLEN ANGELS AND THEIR OFFSPRING, AND THE FACT THAT THE NORSE ADMIT TO AN ALMIGHTY GOD ON TOP OF THAT IS PEAKING MY INTEREST! PLEASE MAKE A VDIEO ABOUT YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE MATTER! AND THE TRIBE OF DAN!

I bought my children a book on Norse mythology last year. I was shocked when, at the end, it stated after Ragnarok, the true creator would come out of hiding.

Well personally I do think that the Nordic Heathens had an ultimate God... and his name is Odin. Everyone nowadays tries to deny it but I figure they're just coping because they don't like Berserkers, or anybody else who can be a grown man and act of his own accord. But I recall Odin claiming for himself the appellation "Omi", which I think means "the resounding one" but essentially in a linguistic sense it means "the one who is Om". Also it states in the Grimnismal that "Odin is the best of all holy gods." and I recall that the Lombards named him Godan, which means the chief of the Godas or gods. I think that makes him as fully qualified as any other "monotheistic" creator deity, because those other deities are also referred to as "king of heaven". I've read elsewhere that Odin was once called "Iormunr", a derivation of "Irmindeot" or Irmin Gott. Basically this is referring to Irminsul, which was the cosmic pillar or "world tree". In Norse the world tree is called Yggdrasil, and another Norse name for Odin is Ygg. Besides, it is said that Odin gave "Ond" to humans. I think that "Ond" is a cognate with the word "soul". Theologically, the only deity who can bestow soul has to be either the ultimate creator, or an avatar of that creative, life-giving force, or the agent working directly on its behalf. So as I see it, Odin is the ultimate Lord. There are other clues I could give, such as his ability to use magic songs and runes to shape reality or change things spontaneously, which is similar to the way ancient Hindus and Abrahamists believe that God creates things (with his voice) but I suppose I should stop there. You can tell me if you think I'm wrong, but in my heart I'm always going to think that Odin is the Lord. I don't really think that humans can confine divinity to our own systems of mental logic, but my instincts tell me that Odin is both the vital creative force and all of the inspired manifestations of it.

I m from circassian origin. In our pagan religion, we also had different gods, but also one supreme god, named T'HA, simular to greek THEOS. The symbol for T'HA was a T.

Great Stuff Brother. Heimdall and Tyr have the same vibe to me. I have also read that in the Bahai faith, Heimdall is the Christ figure. I always enjoy the fact that You sound like me at thanksgiving and christmas get togethers with family, I share what I believe could be true, what I hold dear to my own path but I take comfort in the fact that NO ONE really knows, they never like to hear that but it is True. Just be a good dude and walk with reverence. The Almighty sees you and so does your ancestors. that is more than enough for me to be inspired.

Also with yule coming up can you do a vid about all of the yule celebrations and what each means. I think you did one, but could you get more in depth like explaining the Yule log and the ritual of selecting, decorating and burning. Just thought that would be cool.

"There is but ONE religion in all of the World - and that is the worship of God. The Spiritual Flame of the Universe. Whatever name you know Her/Him under, He/She is ever the same. The Creator of the Universe." - MPH

Brahman: Imagine you had a clay pot in your hands. You identify the pot as a clay pot, but the underlying nature of the clay pot is that there can be not clay pot without clay. "Pot" is simply a name and form of clay, and it is clay that is the reality of the clay pot. This "illusion", or misconception about fundamental reality, is called Maya. Imagine an ocean, with ferocious waves. Each wave seems larger than the next. The wave, however, is only a name and form of "water", and it's the water that is the underlying reality of the wave. The wave is never apart from the water, it is always water, and although each individual wave seems to be a unique and solitary form, it is in fact only a name and form of water. The waves are like the Jiva or Atman (individual soul), in the sense that they seem to be apart from the water (Brahman) but are in fact only exist as the water (Brahman). You are a name and form. You are a witness to your own mind, and what you witness cannot be you. You are not the mind. You are the Atma. Atma is like the wave. Everything that exists, and even existence and non-existence, are made of Brahman, and are in fact non-separate from Brahman. YOU ARE BARHMAN. Imagine a snake, coiled in the corner of a dimly lit room. You see the snake, and panic. You rush to turn on the light, and once you do, you realize that the snake is in fact a rope. You mistook the rope for a snake in the darkness, but upon illumination, the true reality of the snake is rope, not snake. In the same way, one must realize through illumination the truth of reality which is Brahman. This is to be realized, say the sages, through yoga (meditation). You can know this fact to be true, but only once you "realize" it, you have achieved Moksha (liberation from the cycles of death and re-birth). There are several states of consciousness. We experience "reality" in the waking world, but there is also the dreaming world, and then the deep sleep world. These are all different states of the same consciousness. Notice that in your dreams, everything seems to be real. You can touch, taste, and experience emotions in your dreams. The people and beings you encounter are as real as you are in the dream, as we experience it. Everything in the dream - everything - is made of YOU. It was your dream. Even in deep dreamless sleep, your non-experience of consciousness is infact an experience of consciousness. In this analogy, Brahman is the dreamer of our reality, and we are fundamentally made of Brahman's dream stuff. But remember, everything in the dreamer's dream is made of the dreamer - IS THE DREAMER. All gods are but names and form of Brahman. No soul/consciousness is apart from Brahman. You are Brahman. This is how I understand Brahman. Brahman is *not* Brahma, the four-headed Creator deity of the Hindu trinity. The "Nasadiya Sukta" (creation hymn) of the Rig Veda, which is a poem/song about creation, full text: 1. Then even non-existence was not there, nor existence, There was no air then, nor the space beyond it. What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping? Was there then cosmic fluid, in depths unfathomed? 2. Then there was neither death nor immortality nor was there then the torch of night and day. The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining. There was that One then, and there was no other. 3. At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness. All this was only unillumined cosmic water. That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing, arose at last, born of the power of knowledge. 4. In the beginning desire descended on it - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom know that which is, is kin to that which is not. 5. And they have stretched their cord across the void, and know what was above, and what below. Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces. Below was strength, and over it was impulse. 6. But, after all, who knows, and who can say Whence it all came, and how creation happened? the gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen? 7. Whence all creation had its origin, the creator, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, the creator, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows - or maybe even he does not know. ====== To summarize: The gods came after creation, and the creative force that all existence springs from (Brahman) might know, or maybe not know, where reality originates. This is an agnostic-atheist hymn in a polytheistic framework about the one god. All bases covered. However, there's also the Hiraṇyagarbha Sūkta, 121st hymn of the tenth book of the Rig Veda. This hymn is about Hiraṇyagarbha, the great Golden Egg/womb that is self-existent. The deity of the hymn is the named Prajāpati. The Upanishads calls it the Soul of the Universe, or Brahman. Hiraṇyagarbha floated around in emptiness and the darkness of the non-existence for about a year, and then broke into two halves which formed the Svarga (heaven) and the Pṛthvi (earth). In Modern science its often compared with principle of big bang theory, where its considered that world is emerged from a single point. In classical Purāṇic Hinduism, Hiraṇyagarbha is the term used for the "creator". Hiraṇyagarbha is equal to the god Brahma, so called because it is said he was born in a golden egg (Manu Smṛti 1.9). Therefore, the Prajāpati mentioned in the Hiraṇyagarbha Sūkta is none other than Brahma, which is a name and form of Brahman. It's all very complicated sounding, but I assure you it's not. As me anything.

The Slavs also have Rod which is basically the god of all creation.

We Finns do refer to the Christian god as Jumala but the word can also be used when talking about any other religion's god(s)

Maybe the name of the allmáttki áss wasn’t intentionally left out. Maybe there simply is no name for it. As in the Tao Te Ching: if it can be named it isn’t the ultimate god/creator.

Everyone knows the highest god is Elu Ilúvatar... Duh

I can’t stand what Christianity did, the tricky ways they tried to convert the violence used in a Gods (especially the Catholic) name who would never condone it. And Nors is such a pure pagan belief and the creator sounds exactly like the creator of all religions. But the Stories are just the best. And I believe you have such a gorgeous culture that has held to so many beautiful beliefs in spite of Christianity. I’ve had a chance to visit Norway, Finland and Denmark and it will forever be my favorite trip! And there always seems to be 3 gods as a triple god or 3 separate main gods even Egyptian and Greek myths follow I don’t want to say structure but living at the same time and The correlation to Zeus/Odin.

It's an interesting video, but I'm not convinced. Around the late 3rd century a religion that worshipped Sol Invictus rose in the Roman empire. Constantine the great (before his conversion to Christianity) worshipped Sol Invictus, and we know that the Roman Empire around that time was in close contact with Germanic tribes. In fact many of the legionaires were Germanic people. A bit later the legions fought under the Chi Rho symbol that was a symbol of Christ that showed in a dream to Constantine. To many - especially in the beginning - this symbol would be mixed with the Sol Invictus religion since Sol Invictus merged with Christianity which is one of the reasons that the sun in Christianity is a symbol of Christ. It's not difficult to imagine these soldiers bringing back the belief in Sol Invictus to their villages and tribes up north. Especially since Constantine was a very powerful emperor, and the Roman empire still seemed very powerful in the 3rd century (although cracks were beginning to show). These veterans would have served for at least 16 years in the Roman army. You can almost see these veterans sitting around the fire in their villages and telling everyone about their many adventures and talk about the powerful almighty god who secured them the victory over their enemies. This happened about 500 years before the viking age. I think it's much more likely that this "ancient one god" could be remnants of the belief in Sol Invictus - or perhaps a simplified form of Christianity - that was brought back to Scandinavia around the 3rd century and was then shared and implemented in the local religions. Snurri writes around 1200 if I recall, so that would have been almost 1000 years later. Certainly not difficult to imagine that this "ancient one god" was just a part of Roman religion that was imported almost 1000 years earlier which would have seemed ancient to Snurri.

As always another great and informative video. Thank you. I really look forward more of your videos on Tyr. This to me os a fasinating subject.

Great video, thanks for sharing these small details that open some great thoughts in my head!

Thank you for putting all this information together in a clear, organized way that is concise an to the point.

Thank you so much for making this video. Ive been trying to explain this to so many people.

Thanks for the video & information ⚔️

I loved the Norway pavilion from epcot haha Love the videos! Thank you for all the insight and history!

I always liked Lovecraft's description of all powerful entities. Yog-Sothoth and Azathoth for example. Hidden knowledge?

Excellent video - thank you for this discussion! God Jul! :)

Im thinking/feeling Tyr. And here recently, Odin as a reaper figure.

Definitely please cover Heimdall and his whole situation.

This is a super interesting theory, your videos keep getting better and better man keep up the good work.

Brother; I am so relieved to see and hear this video, validating what i have always believe but have not much spoken; i am an American Swenson and my dad always told me stories of the gods combined with his Lutheran upbringing.. i believe this may really make my father happy to see if i can get his 83yo professor brain to figure it out xD

Love the sweater!😁

Woden is the king of the gods, the maker of everything. He is the "Almighty God". He is the foremost of the gods. He is the maker of Yggdrasil. He is the one who put the stars in the sky. He is who our forefathers imagined as being the creator of all. Hail Woden. The Germanic face of the "Almighty creator".

Fascinating. Thank you!

This is why I love your channel 👍🏼🍻

After about a year of watching you. I still can't get over that your vocal cadences remind me so much of Christoph Waltz lolol.

Thank you. Your videos help me in my quest to learn more about our culture and heritage.

Thanks so much Thor for this video. And also thanks for the new discord invite, have made good like minded friends there, Queen Chloe is awesome!

Yes. Thank you. Connecting the inner soul journey and the search for a higher purpose of all and one. Great work and research. Thank you.

Since my cousin and I have been watching these we've been learning a lot about things, keep it up, don't worry if I or my cousin get a little critical in the comment section we're a bit older and have experienced some things that I hope no one has to go through.

I love this video, Thank you

The problem about most people who are religious is they believe their religion is right and everyone else’s is wrong.

My ancestors' creator was a pair. In Nahuatl "to-" tacked onto a noun means "our ___", whatever the noun is. They were called Tonan Tota' which meant Our mother Our Father.

any shade against people monetizing the Sápmi culture is purely coincidental XD anyway, i think it's almost impossible to not bear some amount of grudge against christianity for what they have done to all the other cultures

Thank you!!! Glad I'm not the only one.

I truly enjoy these videos and the logic they bring. I currently live in Asia and see similarities between all cultures. All seem to have a creator god. The Japanese also view the world from an animism approach. Ive spent a long time reprogramming my mind from Christian beliefs. I never felt home with the middle eastern beliefs... and what do you know, I do with Germanic and Norse cultures. I long to be in the outdoors and near trees.

Awesome video. I grew up a Christian, then was norse pagan for a bit and have been wiccan for the last few years. I certainly believe there is one true creator with divine masculine and feminine attributes and energy. I've had amazing experience in meditating which told me to stand and not kneel as in norse paganism while working with Greek and Celtic deities

The old ways of tradition have a more perennial view of creation and the divine energies. They won't force their beliefs on others, because they understand that all things come from the same essential source.

Almighty Oss means Thor. You're stretching to say that there's one God that trumps them all. This was never a thing in Norse myth. Also you don't know that Snorri left the name of the pagan "God" out because it was some "unmentioned almighty god" according to you. That is your own hypothesis based on zero evidence. You ascribed Jomali as some "absolute god" simply because that's what the Finns called the Christian God... this is just a case of text book conversion tactics Christians used. All of this is very shaky and you've misinterpreted many of the myths. We know that Odin, Villi and Vei created Midgard. Also, the Volva calls humans the children of Heimdall due to the Rigsthula where he comes down to earth to create the three classes of mankind.

My mom and I had a similar thought on this I have a thought, maybe the god has something to do with ymir or whatever the cow was. I'm saying this because they have relationships with beginnings but I doubt this

What if try’s name is “god” as a taboo. Such a powerful war deity was looked upon with awe and fear that the garmanic people did not dare to mention his real name directly, so they used “tiwaz” as euphemism. This is my speculation.

Fascinating video. Christian influence aside, I think the original creator god (which all pagan faiths have) can vary because Norse Paganism is likely a combination of two or more faiths, a proto-Indo-European faith and a Lappish faith. There are also different creators for different creations. Like in Greek myths everything is born of Chaos, but life is born of the union between Gaia and Uranus, but mankind was given life by Prometheus. I think it's similar in the Norse traditions too. Buri would be akin to the Brahman, Heimdallr would be akin to Prometheus, however Prometheus would be seen as the creator of all mankind while legend claims Heimdallr is only the father of the three Norse tribes. He would likely be a clan totem rather than an almighty entity, though an extremely powerful clan totem deity. Tyr, despite some of the contradictions from the Prose Edda, would be the more likely candidate after Buri.

In ancient Egyptian religion all the various deities were believed to be infinite manifestations with different functions throughout eternity of the One God Atum-Re or Ptah (depending on the religious centre) - very similarly to the idea of the gods being Brahman's manifestations in Hinduism (or even many gods being avatars of Vishnu at a smaller, "earthly" scale). Also, the Sky Father deity in many "primitive" and prehistoric cultures probably played a very similar role. This is also present in Esoteric (Tantric) Buddhism with the idea of the Buddha Mahavairocana (Dainichi Nyorai in Japan) - the absolute, universal supra-consciousness of which all the other Buddhas are either manifestations or of which they have attained knowledge (and thus have become enlightened). For the prehistoric and ancient peoples, there was no concept of polytheism vs monotheism. Also, no pagan self-identified as such before he was called that by the Abrahamists.

Swami: "Krishna is described as the original Personality of Godhead, from whom many, many, incarnations and Personalities of Godhead expand." (Bhagavad-gita As It Is) I wrote an article "Krishna and Odin".

Så enig med deg. Menneske kan ikke forstå fult ut hva Gud hvirkelig innebefatter.

The Bathory thumb art had me hooked

I think Buri is co-related do "buried", So Buri has buried in the ice.

Thank you!

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing your history and culture. I agree with sharing what we understand on a deep, personal level. A lot of amateur ‘experts’ out there 🙃

I grew up in a evangelical church where it was very common for members of the congregation to speak in “tongues” meaning babbling nonsense pretending to be possessed by the Holy Spirit or whatever…and then the pastor would “translate” what the person “said” 😂 this never sat quite right with me. Even as a small child I thought it was fake. How could a human possibly comprehend God in that way?

There's the days of the week too. First Clensing Day, then Sun Day, Moon Day, Tyr's Day, Oden, Thor and last Frigg. I imagine that if you wanted to swear a strong oath for example you would clean your self then swear by the mighty forces in that order.

Take this with a grain of salt, but: In indonesia when hindus were forced to prove to the government that their religion is at the core monotheistic since only that is legal there, they had to invent a name for the one god and what they chose was something like "the unthinkable/unimaginable", and in Asgård there is a temple where the gods sacrifice, who do they sacrifice to? I heard Krishna in indian hinduism is a rather new term too, considering the age of the religion. Maybe it wasnt so odd in paganism to simply not name the highest god of all, bc the very idea of this god is so vast and powerful that it is simply beyond us and our understanding, so big and far removed from us that we cannot pick up the phone and call him if you understand, so complex as a concept that the human mind is too feeble.

I have to agree with you no one has it right, I'm just tired of those who think they do 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻

Edit: I made my post before you mentioned Buri in your video XD Theory - according to your videos about Buri - might it be possible, that the unnamed god was Buri? Buri is the "creator" the "maker" the "conceiver" the origin of all the aesir and their creations, while he didnt make mankind or midgard (that would be Odin and his brothers) he made them. I am not sure what Buris association with the sun would be except, that the ice age thing where Buri might be the personified land freed by cows and the sun, making more of europe habitable as the ice retreated. Buri as the first of the Aesir (and since Jötnar and Thursae hail from Ymir, could it be Buri had another child that was the creator of the Vanir?) lso i think Buri and Brahman arent that far off linguisticly either but thats just a potential connection. i would attribute some things to Buri - offering Milk as thats what he drank for sustenance, (Audhumbla) possible salt and ice (as he was made out of it or potentially trapped in it?) If Buri was trapped in the ice that hints that he was there before even Ymir, making him the first being in existance. If he was created by Audhumla, could it be that Ymir is the creator god, after all he gave life out of himself and his remains are the very world we live in. Also this might be interesting or nothing as its just a personal story but i wanted to share anyway. I am into Asatru since 21 years now. I did my research, learned old norse, read the sagas, eddas and some more mundane texts of law, i got a good overview of hinduism reading the Bhagavad Gita and learning a bit from other sources as well. I started my journey worshipping Tyr and bloting to him, later as i learned more i used to mainly interact with the land vaettir and Freya until around 30 years of age i strongly felt Odins call. I had visions and when following Odins path i nearly died twice. I tried to become a berserker and lived through a few self induced gengrs, to the point where it permamently damaged my body and i had to fight to resist the gengr as it also was about to cost me my family (i never attacked or hurt them but just seeing me go gengr caused my wife to have genuine horror and fear in her eyes, some primal instinct to run away) So i quit the Odin dedication and went back to focusing on the Alfar. Now last december i found this strange calling and interpreted it to be Buri. I started taking ice baths and submerging myself in actual ice and snow as much a i could naked, to get closer to the one who was trapped in ice and the calling depened. I never had a vision of Buri or any dream that called me its just an urge. When it turned 20 yearsof practise and learning i felt i should dedicate my study to one god but which? Thats when the Buri idea started. Now, as i prepare to tis holy day of Thorri and Thor blot, as in yesterday when i asked how to blot to Buri and how to go about it i found your channel, and many answers. Just now as i am about to head out to the ritual place i felt the urge to search your channel for Buri and aside from the video you did on him (please do more) i found this one. Might not mean a thing and be coincidence but i thought id share it anyway

I have long thought that perhaps there was a creator/creative power that was recognized as being higher than the pantheon of pagan gods, indeed it created them as well. In this view, maybe even Dyeus Pater was not the universal creator, but simply the chief god of the I.E. pantheon. It may seem silly to involve Tolkien in this, but the Silmarillion illustrates this idea perfectly. Ea was the creator, who brought the gods into existence to aid in his creation and to rule over it. Among these gods, Manwe was the chief. The point is that the gods rule over the temporal universe (or multiverse); but beyond that is the incomprehensible (and hence unnamed) creative power that called it all into existence. Maybe.

Gebo dagaz fehu! (Gift of clarity and financial prosperity)

16:54 Isn't the Ingwaz rune named after Ingwaz (Frey)?

He pulled the old 'switcheroo'

Pls do a video with Heimdall we have the same name

No magic can happen anywhere except in the now! To practice magic one must be awake! Most people don't realize it but their not. To be awake your ID, and your Conciousness must work together. Because your conciousness is the intelligence of the Universe. So any question can be answered at any time at the will of the Universe. This is my magic. I stumbled upon it while deer hunting. This in my opinion is the most powerful magic I know of. I was sitting against a Oak tree, pretending to be a above ground root. My mind went blank. Then I understood Universal expansion, but how did I do that? Then I got buried in questions with the accompanying answers. Shocking! Scary ! I thought I was losing my mind. What happened? I connected to the Universe that we all are. May I suggest that waking up is the first step to Paganism. My source The Universe!

CAN YOU PLEASE DO A VIDEO EXPLAINING YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE JELLING STONE IN DENMARK, I JUST CAME BACK TO MY LORD AND SAVOIR JESUS CHRIST AND I AM NOW AWARE THAT I AM DESCENDENT OF THE TRIBE OF DAN! THANK YOU, IVE WATCHED A LOT OF YOUR VIDEOS!

1:24 And there's my thumbs up locked in!

For awhile, I've had the idea that tyr/tiw was THEE god, that is at least before germanic peoples started spliting up and developing evolving their figures. Tyr/tiw is cognate with deity, zeus, dios, jupiter, the daylight sky. He was the original skygod father or tiw faeder - at least linguistically. Unfortunately though, as time went on, the Germanic mythos evolved and put tyr on the back burner. Then, as far as the anglo saxons are concerned, tiw was insulted more when the rune he represented was translated wrongly as just a star or planet mars.

I have heard that the people who's land I was born on believe that the world was created by two brothers. Although I have not done sufficient research and cannot share more than that. Unfortunately information on that is also hard to find because of, you guessed it, the catholics

Were there Norse Druids. Dannu, the Goddess of the Thaua De Danna is after from the Danube. That's not far away from Scandinavia. So while I don't think there was , life is full of surprises that we can learn from.

Great video as usual! I love that you stick to scholarly sources, and I have a request or suggestion. I have been interested in learning about our Scandinavian religious history, but I struggle to find sources for some reason. A few recommended titles that I have found and read include: "The Seed of Yggdrasill", "The Poetic Edda: Six Cosmology Poems", and "The Trickster and the Thunder God" by Maria Kvilhaug; "Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives" by Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, Catharina Raudvere (eds); and "Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia: Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space" by Marianne Hem Eriksen. Where I have struggled most, is to find scholastic sources (aside from Kvilhaug's wonderful works) that analyze the layers of meaning in our mythology. Finally, I wonder if you could suggest printed Old Norse editions of the Eddas and Sagas that are sourced in this language? With all of this in mind, it would be much appreciated if you were to include some citations under your videos. Thanks for all of the insightful sharing!

Maybe the term Almáttki Áss referred to the creating and governing powers combined, also known as Regin or Rǫgn, roughly translated to "powers" as in "the ruling/governing powers". An old Gode here in Denmark, I forgot his name, often used the term "Røginn Óll, Ginheilliger Gód", roughly meaning "powers of old/ancient forces of governance, holy gods".

I'm curious why an image of the Buddha was shown when speaking of "any monotheistic religion" since Buddhism doesn't fit in that category.

So how do I get a jól sweater?

Maybe i missed something, but when people had to swear that oath, what time period was it? Was it before the christian conversion? Maybe that almighty god thing was inserted due to christian influence and refers to the christian god. Or, if it was before the conversion, perhaps it was inserted into the records to make it seem as though pagans believed in an almighty god. That way, christians could be like "see, your people swore oaths to an almighty god, and we have an almighty god which must be the same god, therefore your people were already worshipping our god, so you should too!" in order to make conversion easier.

In the Edda it says the Great Godhead that rules over everything will come down.

Perhaps the reason why the subject is inconclusive is because a one true creator god is without shape where all the gods that have shape are each one representative characteristic. Being that the gods act in concert with one another and shamans can invoke a particular god if they desire a particular attribute. If i am to understand correctly. I am trying to learn.

when paul is in athens in the new testament, he references an altar dedicated to a being known as the unknown god among the other gods. the platonists and aristotelians also spoke of the prima causa, the first mover, an infinite, impersonal source of being, the center of all reality. in the descent away from this pure oneness, duality formed, and then triplicity. we can see this idea encoded in hinduism in the divine triplicate of brahman, vishnu, and shiva, and also in the ancestral tradition in the form of muspelheim, niflheim, and ginnungagap. the greeks told of gaia mating with uranus to create the giants, as muspelheim and niflheim "mated" to create ymir, the primordial chaos, the prima materia bound into order by odin and his two brothers. the idea of oneness, then duality, then triplicate is replicated again and again through the traditions, as it is the founding pattern of reality. i really believe that norse tradition has the most explicit representation of these ideas.

I like when people can lift the veil and realize that maybe all these mythologies and religions might be talking about the same things.

I am a practicing yogi and vedic (Hindu) astrologer. Brahman is the name of the supreme being found in the Upanishads and in Vedanta philosophy. Brahman being a cognate of the root "brh" as in the english word "brew" refers to that principle which pervades all things like when you brew a pot of tea the tea permeates the water. The idea is that the Supreme Conscious Entity permeates all of creation and is the source of reality. Brahman is not a deity because it is beyond attributes and physical form, it is the source of all and beyond description. In order to understand this an understanding of Sankhya philosophy is necessary. Sankhya is the foundational philosophy that forms the basis for vedic thought and i think all pagans and people in general could highly benefit fron its study. It is based on what is observable and logical. It provides a logical basis for spirituality and animism.

The deeper i go, the more confused I become. I have been on this path for fifteen years and seek the truth. The thought of we all worship the same God is something that has come to mind many times and yet a friend of mine and I even discussed it today. To me Odin is known as the most high, it could very well be Odin's true name. But then again all we can do is speculate, wait and see.one day if fate wills it, I would like to go to Norway and explore where the pagan last stand was and see if there is any hidden places that holds the secrets of old. As far as I know there was nine pages ripped from a book that was from the pagan age given to a Scandinavian king around the Renaissance Era maybe Earlier. But time may tell.

I was thinking about the difference between monotheistic religions and polytheistic religions especially the one my people believed in. All have somekind of idea of first creator God. The main difference is that the monotheism extends the title of god only to the "first one" whereas the polytheistic religions use notion of god to describe multiple supernaturally powerful beings. But all the monotheistic religions have other immensely powerful spirits that do the bidding of the God. They are not called gods but malakim or angelos as "servant" who are ranked by power. The ones on the very top manage matters like God's military power and other somekind of data management delivering wisdom to humans. In polytheistic religions these would be Gods. But is the difference then except wording? It seems that the only massive difference between polytheism and monotheism is how these supernatural creatures are conceptualized.

Nothing to add. I just love your channel and the content. Love getting to know more about my Norse roots.

Acknowledging that whatever created life must be beyond our comprehension, like you did, is a sure sign of wisdom... for those who aren't well versed, all religions are essential the same. Do good, be strong be healthy be smart be fair do what's right, we are all embedded with an internal conscious that tells us what is good or evil. Whoever and whatever is responsible for Time itself is so grand, it is unimaginable, pick a religion you like. Most need faith to follow their internal consciousness. And who knows, maybe it is as simple as one of our gods being real and 99% of us will burn for all of existence for being dumb. Either way, there is a creator. That much is very clear.

What about the germanic Tuisto and hes possible cognate Ymir?

As an atheist who obviously doesn't believe in any god this was still an interesting video to better understand the different types of religions and how they are connected.

Great video, the way you always refer to sources is great! Have you ever looked at some of the work of Robert Sepehr? He shares some interesting theories about the Indo-Europeans and the migrations, which seem to explain some of the similarities between Norse mythology and Hinduism. And also a bunch of other ancient anthropological stuff 🙂

I was born into a very strict religion, 5 generations. It wasn't until after I slowly and painfully "unbrainwashed" myself that I discovered my true feelings about a God being and the Divine. I am actually okay with not knowing specifically, but I am absolutely certain in every fiber of my being that a very universal, powerful entity is real. It feels to me as though it is actually love. Love energy, you could say. That belief is unshakable and I'm very comforted by that. An ever present knowing. It connects me to nature like no religion ever has. You look good in that sweater, btw. Love that color green. Enjoy and be well.

I have been looking into this idea as well and my current, key word current, understanding of this is that Heimdall is the original creator god from before the Indo-European influence came in and brought Tyr into the fold. I am not stating that this is definitively the case, just a plausible understanding.

Proto-Germanic *guthan (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ), which is of uncertain origin; perhaps from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (source also of Old Church Slavonic zovo "to call," Sanskrit huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke." The notion could be "divine entity summoned to a sacrifice."

I don't think it's any of the named "polytheistic" deities is this Allmákti Áss, because they're too particular. By name, Tyr would come the closest, because his name is equivalent to "God", but the fact that he had such specific attributes such as losing one of his hands makes me think that he's a more specific deity. The almighty supreme God was probably not named anything other than the title of being an Almight God.

the divine source, the monad, the godhead, the dreamer, whose emanations are lesser divinity and creators of the material universe.

Extremely interesting. This resembles other pagan beliefs such as, the pre-Islamic Arabs in Arabia who while having many deities that they named, worshipped and erected idols of, they also believed in the concept of an all-powerful God responsible for all life and creation that they called "Allah" (which is the Arabic word for "God") and did not erect any idols to. They believed that these "minor deities" and idols were spiritual beings that helped them get closer to "Allah" and intercede on their behalf. This lends to a wider hypothesis that most if not all "pagan" religions during the ancient and medieval periods were once monotheistic religions that over a long period of time gradually diverged and developed into their own polytheistic and seemingly distinct religions.

I am an Aryan traditionalist of German descent. I have practiced the Germanic traditions for years now, but the guidance of a strict Vedic community has allowed me to travel the esoteric pathways present in the Aryan traditions which have been unfortunately lost in nearly all Western Aryan faiths. These traditions have, however, been preserved in the Vedas, as was lightly touched upon in the beginning of the video. "Hinduism" is a murky religion due to how much contamination from non-Aryan folk religion and abrahamism has been allowed over thousands of years. That is why I value my very strict Vedic community (the Vedas were the original texts of the Aryans who invaded much of central Asia). Depending on who you talk to, some say Brahman, Vishnu, or Shiva is the ultimate God. In my understanding of the Vedic tradition, Brahman is more like the spirit of God that inhabits all things. The ultimate God in the community I participate in is seen as Vishnu in his highest form, often referred to as Narayana. This perspective is supported by the Vedas, and I believe all Aryan traditions likely understood this concept as well. All other benevolent Aryan deities should be viewed with the ultimate goal of leading their devotees to the Absolute Lord. I recommend reading a traditional translation of the Bhagavad Gita if anyone would like to further understand these ideas.

Aten Ra. anyway, the case for Heimdal is compelling. then Wodin, Mars / Tyr, Buri, Brahman.

I agree that i feel everyone has thier own intereptation of what god is and some people mix two religions together. As I know many Christians who also follow some pagan beliefs