Also needs more cow bell! (It's a reference)

Environmental preservation is something everyone talks about but nobody actually does anything with. It saddens me to see things like pollution or litter or things like that because I know that the spirits connected to the lands being defaced are suffering as much as the things living on that land. It's just heartbreaking.

Inevitably when my conference calls get into the rut of talking about bad weather I *joke* that people of old would make virgin sacrifices to change the weather. We all have a good laugh, but I am sure some nervously... and it likely has not helped me move up the corporate ladder.

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@@bruisedhelmet8819 Not moving up the corporate ladder you say? I reccomend a compelling blood eagling!

@@hartwarg3051 That's a lot of work, and I just got brand new galoshes but no slicker.... Funny thing is early in my career (also frustrated about the lack of movement - I reported to a supervisor that been a supervisor for 15 years) I joked (and again probably shouldn't have) that I'd have to resort to the ol' Roman way of getting ahead.... I am starting to see some of my problem here though... I guess if I can't be an example at least I am a warning - kids don't jokingly threaten the lives of your bosses or coworkers as most people don't have a funny bone.

@@bruisedhelmet8819 At least you didn't say "the ol' Greek way of getting ahead"....

Okay thats kinda cool

That’s actually a great idea, might try that myself.

Sounds good, but is that any different from cutting yourself for your own blood? You're just going to grow your own blood again, and didn't really do anything but sacrifice with the slight pain and your time.

@@benjalucian1515 yeah except one also helps people who needed this donated blood for emergencies. You lose blood to help someone and worship your god 👀

@@juniperastor531 - OK, but how does that help the god? Gods like burnt offerings, meaning the blood is burnt and goes up to the gods in the smoke. Giving it to someone else doesn't help them. The option you're speaking of sounds like something out of Christianity.

Offering Freyja expensive wine is how I wound up with a pregnant girlfriend.

Will be careful what you wish for

Tonight on things I never thought I'd read...

@@wyliecoyote173 mmm i think its more like, be carefull whom you offer to(?)

@@PutoMedicoBrujo i know but i was making a joke by using the quot of the wish master. Bu i do offer too frigg and odin. Yep i gave a offering to frigg then the next day it rain. Both times when i did a offering and my phon said it was not supposed to rain them Two days. Some say it was a coincidence. But i don't believe in coincidence.

I was drinking my beer when he made that joke and almost choked from laughing haha 😅

My favorite pun so far

Me too lol

Success

I am the problem

@@OceanKeltoi that's ok we love you anyway

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@@1CT1 uh guy? My comment was literally about puns. Maybe take your copy/paste proselytizing elsewhere?

@@1CT1 with all do respect my friend you are preaching to the wrong crowd since most of us were Christians at one point

Jesus is a human sacrifice. The Hebrew bible has God asking for Abraham's boy Isaac as a sacrifice, which didn't seem to disconcert Abraham as he was going to go through with it. And of course poor Jephthah's daughter. What is a Hebrew doing offering as a sacrifice "the first thing he sees"? When did people end up on the list of acceptable sacrifices? Apparently they always were on the list.

@@benjalucian1515 Theres a difference between offering yourself to save others and being forced into ritual murder. Jepthaths story is not condoning what he did its a cautionary tale and God had said many times not to swear on anything because nothing is yours its Gods. Now the Hebrews did do human sacrifice since they were (majority of them) pagans. They worshiped Baal, Dagon, Tammuz, Remphan, Moloch...all which required human sacrifice

@@jesusisking9035 - yes, there is a difference. But considering Jesus tried to back out ("let this cup pass me by") but god wouldn't let him tells me that he was at heart unwilling. God had every chance to deny Jephthah's sacrifice, but he didn't. Why not? He did with Isaac's sacrifice. He didn't punish Jephthah afterwards, so what can we conclude but that God was OK with human sacrifice, in both Jesus and Jephthah's daughter cases. Please note the Hebrews were still doing human sacrifice AFTER they started worshipping Yahweh-El solely.

@@benjalucian1515 That was to show the humanity of Jesus not that Jesus didnt want to do it of his own free will John 10:18 “No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” Jesus was God manifest in the flesh 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Word in John Chp 1 so he was God and he was also in the flesh of man being born of Mary. It was to demonstrate that he was come in the flesh and still had human emotions like fear. God doesnt have to do anything he wants to do, if he stopped you from every wrong you committed would he be seen as a just judge on Judgement day? God said over and over not to swear yet Jephthah did it anyways and the fruits of sin are shown. Not every action in the Bible is an endorsement. Its a history book that details Gods commandments and the history of men. They did still sacrifice but they did it to other gods, not to him. Nowhere does God ask for or commend human ritual sacrifice. He did mention many times of human sacrifice but it was in condemnation to idol worship. Thats why they were kicked out of Israel 3 times cause they never stopped

@@jesusisking9035 - no, it sounds like a human who REALLY doesn't want to be sacrificed. The guy was sweating blood. Does that sound like a willing participant to you? And he 's not being "asked" to do this, he's being COMMANDED to do it as your bible verse just proved. God stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac. That didn't affect anything for judgment day, did it? So why didn't Jephthah's daughter get the same courtesy from god? Considering Abraham didn't balk at god wanting Isaac sacrificed, I'd say that points to the Hebrews thinking there's nothing wrong with human sacrifice.

This is called a Votive Offering, and there's a ton of historical evidence for practices like this.

@@OceanKeltoi A-ha! I knew there was a word for it. I'm sure I would have found it had my aura not filled up my whole house. These things happen.

Might be better than good offerings I just don't want a bunch of bugs everywhere..

That sounds rather wholesome and like something I might do myself actually. Thank you for the idea, friend, I hope you don't mind me using it.

That actually neat. Plus it's something that's somewhat based in ancient traditions, at least with eygptian/khemitic anyway. The priests and community would share in the food offerings during the evening and other meal times as a community meal to honor and share a meal with gods.

@@IsaacandFriends thats cool

Btw any stories on offerings like Things thar happened or maybe what are your types of offerings most of the time if you actually do them

@@ego8330 Normally not a whole lot, the air in my studio apartment gets lighter and I might feel more energetic for the day. As for offerings that depends upon the god/goddess to whome I am making offerings to. For goddess Bast I'll offer some cat nip which she seems to enjoy. Thoth or by his ancient egyptian name Djehuty some chocolate covered espresso beans. I sometimes offer the espresso beans to Isis/ auset. Egyptian gods tend to have multiple names as those names have changed often in translation or use. I make a general practice of burning incense on a daily basis as kind of a good morning greetings to the gods.

@@IsaacandFriends idk why but it seems a bit costly but maybe its just me

At least you have a palm 😭

@@OceanKeltoi Well played sir well played. I hate you for this but I have to respect you for it too,

Im pretty clueless about European paganism, but even i can tell whoever wrote that book is a total fool.

Também sou neta de bezendeira... e criada em um berço assemblano, por muitos anos vaguei de religião a religião e sempre nunca me coube. Me achei retornando as minhas raízes de benzedeira e tenho cultivado este amor por wiccan/pagan e só nas últimas semanas fiquei sabendo sobre Deus Norse. Estou amando como se fosse uma filha roubada voltando ao lar.

Que legal achar brasileiros aqui!

@@ingriderbert5959 per acaso você já morou em marietta, Geórgia, USA? Eu procuro uma amiga de high school a anos. Estudávamos na wheeler high. Aliás foi ela uma das pessoas que me apresentou a Imanja e deste então uma sementinha de curiosidade tem crescido em meu coração. 🤞

So, "Carrie" was a welcomed guest? What a big misunderstanding!

That is how pujas or Hindu rituals are done.

Ex-JW here as well!

@@tghartman321 yay, we both escaped from the cult!

@@IsaacandFriends another Ex JW here! although I don't consider myself any religion now, more agnostic than anything but I love theology and mythology in general its all fascinating.

ex JW here as well, these videos are so helpful

I was raised as a Christian Scientist and my husband was a Mormon. We've all escaped a cult.

My grandparents on my mom's side did the same thing, but usually with bread or crackers Edit: And also green beans the time they had too many green beans and wound up eating just green beans for a week before they expired. It was deemed that the house spirits should participate in the green bean disposal as well since they lived there too...

isn't Dan an indian word

@@politicamufu648 I gave it a quick search and found nothing, but Irish and Hindi are both Indo-European and distantly related.

In slovenia where i live "Dan ti" means "I give you" (Dan/Give) (Ti/To you)

The real god of us all

Hail Jutübr

Do you believe this shit?

As a late teenager heavy into paganism, trying to see which gods I wanted to work with. I spent over 15 hours working on a painting to be a burnt offering to a war goddess, I just told everyone it was my .. bribe. Two of my girl friends got into a wrestling fist fight over who was going to get the painting and there was no way in hell I was going to burn such said painting. Some woman I never seen before came out of nowhere in my circle laughed and said, " Finally some entertainment ! " 2.) I tried, to .. work with .. said god/ angel/ demon/ unclean spirit, just to see if I could call them to see what they were like and if I could send them away without help. Sneak something/ one into the house without .. grandma knowing. She really didn't like some of my visitors, well she had problems of her own to deal with. One time I called the Finnish god of decay, not much on them/ him/ her. More or less just a camp fire ghost story to explain some natural event in life. Then there were some of the Dungeon & Dragon spin off books on world myth regarding the Finnish spirit of decay with added fluff. Mostly regarded as a monster for heroes to defeat. A glorify zombie with blow flies. I met some spirits I will Never let back into my living area ever again. Besides my bed room was the most heavy warded place there was. I politely offer Finnish Decay some mead and a chair in the room's corner circle under the right lighting conditions. Decay show up after a few days of just talking to .. him .. with polite question and Decay was just happy people are talking about him again in stories. Well as for .. bribes .. go, a gift given is a gift require to be given, " never take gifts from the Fae/demons." A favor given is a favor owed. So I set up a couple of bottles of mead, wine on my table for the next night to pour out and road kill on a coup of offering outdoor spots. I could swear the Finnish Decay came out my closet that night drink half of my two other bottles and walked away with the other three. Guest Decay didn't want to wait for a normal offering, then again when you visit someone, you are to bring drink, go figure. The next day coming home from work off the back roads being a country boy, took a different road home, cause of reasons, felt that .. urge .. again, helps to find side jobs. Other than helping people just change flat tires, there was enough dead road kill raccoons less than a day old to fill six 5gal buckets to pickle as coyote & bird food that winter, with the pelts to cure. I just thank Decay for dropping by, I did not ask for a few hundred dollar gift back in pelts and dog/ bird food. To be on the safe side I took the money I made from curing the pelts and give it to the local food shelter.

I LOVE that your family has been practicing for so long! Do you mind me asking where they lived? I often try to reconnect to my European ancestors (Scottish, French, English, Welsh) to tie me to my pagan beliefs, but I find myself disappointed that all those countries were heavily Christianized, so it brings me joy to hear of families who practiced ancient traditions that have survived thoroughly to this day. It’s really an amazing thing. You’re part of something historical!

Drop $20 or $40 on little stuff toy kittens and hand them out to people that need an emotional pick up.

That makes me really happy. I always feed the stray kitties around and the idea of it also being an offering sounds really nice

Oh, I missed that joke/reference originally 🤣🤣🤣

Oh I am stealing that joke for sure.

I rolled my eyes hard at that one.

My family just treats Them as grandparents or elder family members, Loki is the uncle who has a musing tale full of dirty jokes that goes over most people's heads.

Same. The state I live in is basically a giant ant hill, so I have an exterminator come out every other month to spray otherwise I'd been feeding all the local ants inside my house.

Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and you will be saved. John 3:16 (Share the good news of the gospel around the world!)...... ,,.. Have a wonderful rest of your day/night everyone, may the LORD bless you all, and farewell!.,,,,,,.....,.,,,.

@@1CT1 is this sarcasm?

@@1CT1 nah i'm good

@@1CT1 why would we want your corpse god, your cult that drinks his blood? I pray to Odin and the old gods. We have protectors not martyrs

@@1CT1 ewwwww

Not guaranteed, but always worth a shot. Rhetoric has a strong connection with culture there, why not the weather?

I really love that response, it hit me in the heart! ❤

Thank you for sharing that, I like it a lot

Also, my wife set up an altar for our cats under a tree in our yard: any birds 😢 or voles ☺ they kill are placed here, and are gone in the morning

not wrong

oh no...

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There are FIVE SEASONS of Amcient Aliens!?

@@emiliobustamante2401 Don't be ridiculous. Of course there's not 5 seasons of Ancient Aliens. . . There's 16

Granola mix with bird seed, careful you might start hallucinating that you are seeing crows/ ravens in the store with you trying to get you to buy the $8 or $12 bag of granola.

I could see that if it's an important sacrifice. If it's a daily sharing of your meal with them, there is no need to set another full place for them. A portion from your own plate is sufficient.