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All Japan E-Drift Championship 2018 : The Legend of Morita? - Duration: 19:25.
All Japan E-Drift Championship 2018
Can Morita Make a story of "The Legend of Morita"?
Good morning!
Today!
We are heading to the final chapter of Morita's R.C.D.C. challenge!
The even is called " R.C.D.C. All Japan E-Drift Championship 2018"
It is the practice session of the event, today
Now we are heading to the Chubu Centrair airport where the championship is held
How do yo feel, Morita?
I'm worried whether the rc car will run properly
I've never been runing the track of the event
Let's support Morita!
very early in the morning
Your car is runnning on the sea according to your car navigation system
Well, this is old one!
Have you ever taken an airplane, Morita?
Yes, I have
Have you ever been to overseas, Morita?
I've never been there
I think you had better find a girlfriend overseas
Yesterday, I went to Sushi train restaurant with Korean friends
It's chilly, today!
wind is very cold
The airport is very good as I can see a lot of prettey flight attendants
Have you had breakfast?
Unfortunately, there is no beef bowl restaurant here that you love
Gifu Pref. has a lot of places where you must see
R.C.D.C. sign board
Here we are!
Event acceptance
Ok, let's move to the pit room
I'm very surprised that the Legend Hirosaka have been enjoying our Youtube channel!
Moving to the drivers' meeting
There are a lot of participants, already
beautiful girl president of TOPLINE!
Yokomo has a lot of new products to be launched
drivers' meeting now
Happy guy!
The participants are very serious to listen the every details
The main judge is explaining the details how you behaive at the in-clip
The judge standards are moderate than last year
If the inside of the tire cross the line inside, you will get no points
If the bumper or tire of the car touches the inside corn, 1 point will be reduced
Hey! you are late! Show us your new joke!
No joke, sorry
Ko san from Korea!
good luck
Morita has been exchanging his motor
Morita uses 13.5T motors
I am trying some motors with different characteristics
Let's go to the sub track for practice
The track surface is more slippery than I thought
I thought there the surface had super grip
Will you go back to the pit? You haven't driven long time.
Is you car under bad condition?
I'm adjusting my car, desperately
So many things to do, for example changing gear ration
Anyway, sub track helps me a lot to adjust the car
If there was no sub track, there would be hopeless, indeed
The cars of Yokomo drift works drivers look good!
But for me, all I can do is to driver my car now....
By the way, Mr. Oyaizu loods so serious. I cann't talk to him like this now
Hello, tell me your joke!
He is "Kondo custom"
The main judge of the even
Nobody has given me a present or money yet, though I'm the main judge!
I'm kidding!
A lot of instructions come to me via wireless
How is the track this time?
Smaller and easier than last year
I think you can get more points than last year
The track layout last year was super tough one
Many drivers scored no points last year
You can get points, easier this year and surely enjoy the even more!
I'v watched every Morita's movie
so I do not feel like I saw him for the first time.
Is Morita young?
He is 30 years old
I'm 40 years old
I'm full of energy every night
How is about you, Morita?
Every night, energetic?
no no no no wwwwwwwwwwww
Don't say a lot of dirty jokes to Morita! He is pure guy!
I like your small joke before the main part of the video
Next time, I will prepare special joke for you!
Thank you! I'm looking forwad to hearing your superb joke!
I will also be on Saturday and Sunday!
I hope the event will be exciting!
Thank you very much
Hey, Skin head man! You must buy these can batches
Show me the money! Pay now!
I bought these batches
Are there any benefits to this batch?
I don't think so wwwwww
Sales of this batch will be donated to the organizer
He is actually the good guy to help this event!
Morita, you are the Youtuber! now
Your explanation on Youtube is really nice
Actually, Morita is the works driver of Yokomo touring car chassis
Morita is really good at RC controlling
A few weeks ago, Morita assembled Yokomo BD9
HIs assembling technique is really good
Anyway, I think Morita is really love RC
Morita is a good teacher for beginners
Morita has good character
but no girlfriend, yet..................
Pleaes introduce a girlfriend to Morita!
He is the chairman of R.C.D.C., Mr. Ito
as well as the president of Overdose
Good business?
Oh yeah! jokes
He is the boss of Addiction company
Oh! I will buy some batches
Look at my car!
My name is Yuzumasa from Hokkaido!
He went and enjoyed sexy shop, yesterday!
kidding
Hey, show me the money!
Buy now!
Thank's
Thank you!
Morita is practicing on the main track
Checking other cars' behaviour
Yokomo Drift works run
lunch time now
curry udon!
the judges and MC
You will be a problematic Youtuber, won't you?
nooooooooooooooo
My channel is "Masa teemo"
Please subscribe my channel!
My channel is "Taka channel"
Osaka girls are tough for me to go out
Please tell me how can I do that
Money!
Please do not use this part!
gonna be a problem
No problem, I think! Don't worry
Thank you for your cooperation
He is Mr. Oyaizu!
He is Yokomo works driver too
He will surprise everyone this time!
You can count on him
How is about you, today?
I have to get used to carpet surface, soonset possible
but I don't worried about this
It will seems to be good for me, tomorrow
Oyaizu's new body shell painted by his customer
Paint company is called "Nobu Paint"
Have you changed the details of your car from the last time I shot your car
He scored the top point at the pre qualifying (no result qualifying practice)
Thank's
Hello
Show us your new joke!
He said ............ kidding
Don't be shy! Say again!
He is good looking, isn't he?
The practice of the qualification of Morita
I thought I wouldn't touch the wall
No good now?
I carefully aimed at the clip
but I failed
Anyway, are your car getting better so far now?
Yes, I think so
In the morning, your car didn't look great condition and I didn't talk to you a lot
Anyway, I experienced this track first time
It's quite hard to adjust myself for this new track and I have to fix this for tomorrow
There were so many things I had to do, today
And now , it's the end of the day. I need more time really
I'll do my best for sure, tomorrow
Behave cheerfully, Morita!
Ok, see you tomorrow!
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Hello friends how are you? My name is Arith Härger and today I'm going to talk about Nastrond
I hope you have enjoyed the introduction
this time no subtitles because I want you to catch the mournful tone in my singing
because I think we live in a society too dependent on electronics
and we don't use our senses that much
and we are losing our sensitivity
I've called the song "Calling the Serpents", and that might make some sense by the content of this video
Alright let's get started
In the pre-Christian Scandinavian religious beliefs there was the notion of many afterlife places,
various possible destinations upon death
However, we don't have a clear perception of the old pagan magical and religious beliefs of Scandinavia
There were no sacred or religious texts;
religion wasn't controlled by a specific institution
The Old Norse traditions, myths and religious beliefs were simply transmitted through the oral tradition
Surely there were temples, but not many actually
Most rituals, cults, worshipping the gods was done either in private domains,
outdoors in the fields, forests, mountains,
and occasionally in community within the great halls
or in special occasions such as marriages, rites of passage and initiation, burials, etc.
There wasn't a general view on how to worship, on how to do religious and magical activities
Scandinavians did not subscribed to one single religion
There were many beliefs with certain similarities, or certain notions that were shared by almost everyone
but the notion of the afterlife wasn't something fixed, something static
There was a wondrous variety of possible destinations in the afterlife
It's through mythology and some narratives preserved in poems or in sagas, that we have any idea about the religion of pre-Christian Scandinavia
It's through these accounts that we understand the mind of Old Norse pagans in relation to the existence of a soul and what happens to it after death
So, in this video we are going to explore the myths, poems and sagas to try to understand the concept of Nastrond
Because there is a clear perception that to the pagan Scandinavians the divine did not seek vengeance upon Mankind
there was no belief in a divine judgment and punishment after death
If there was divine punishment, it was done during life and not in death
And surely the gods can be upset with us, even offended and disappointed, but an eternal condemnation and punishment-
wasn't something that was part of the ancient spirituality of Scandinavia
We have afterlife places such as Valhalla, Sessrumnir, Bilskirnir, Hel and so on, but none of these places show any hints of punishment, no eternal suffering
there isn't one single place in the Norse afterlife whose sole purpose is to punish people and make them suffer
until we are presented with Nastrond
Why is this place so different?
Why is it the only place that completely diverges from the basic spiritual notion of the ancient heathens?
Nastrond without a doubt, as it states in the sources,
comes as a place of terrible suffering and torment, eternal torture
Nastrond emerges as a unique place, completely different from any religious and spiritual notion of pre-Christian Northern Europe
The dead would not suffer, not even in Hel,
which is a place that was associated by Christians with their own Hell
and I would very much like to recommend you the latest video I've made about Hel,
so you can have a clear perception on the Christian influences in the concept of Hel
But suffice to say, that even with Christian influences, Hel wasn't transformed into a place of suffering and torment
In Nastrond, on the other hand, the dead would be punished and would suffer for an indefinite period
This mythological afterlife place presents itself as something completely different from the other afterlife conceptions of the pagan Norse
Of all the countless afterlife places why in only one of them would there be the belief of suffering in the afterlife?
Was Nastrond the sort of place similar to the Christian Hell?
Is Nastrond the actual source for the creation of Hell?
Let's find out
Nastrond is mentioned in two sources: The Prose Edda and the poem Voluspa, and the Prose Edda account is greatly based on the Voluspa itself
Now, I've made this statement many times:
The Prose Edda was greatly influenced by Christian ideals and perceptions of the divine and religious conduct
It was inevitable
Snorri Sturluson was a Christian and his work was made during the Catholic period of Iceland
The Older the sources are, fewer Christian influences they have
So if we turn to the poems, we will be closer to a pagan perception
Obviously, the poems were also compiled during the same period of the Prose Edda so they too have Christian influences
but not as much, because they come from the oral tradition and the preservation of heathen ideas were kept
only what was directly offensive and dark for Christian standards, was removed or altered
To understand the role of Nastrond as a place of punishment after death,
we must find out if there could have been some influence of Christianity in the conception of Nastrond
making it a myth that is the hybrid conclusion of different religious beliefs
Because the Christian faith had already been introduced to the Vikings since the 8th century
in fact with quite recent archaeological discoveries it's quite possible that Christianity was already taking root in Denmark as early as the 7th century
Nastrond literally means the coast of corpses, the coast of cadavers
The name itself could be the title of a horror movie
As such, it's perfectly normal that we don't know much about this place
because the sources were tempered with by poets, skalds, clerical workers etc.
and everything dark, related to black magical arts, frightening pagan conceptions, was removed or altered,
depending on the purpose Christians wanted to give to something
Let's start with the poem Voluspa and what it says about Nastrond
And I quote:
A hall I saw, | far from the sun,
On Nastrond it stands, | and the doors face north
Venom drops | through the smoke-vent down,
For around the walls | do serpents wind.
I saw there wading | through rivers wild
Treacherous men | and murderers too
And workers of ill | with the wives of men
There Nithhogg sucked | the blood of the slain
And the wolf tore men; | would you know yet more?
So Nastrond is described to us as a place with a great hall filled with serpents
And from holes in the ceiling serpents drop their venom forming a venomous river in which criminals of all sorts,
murderers, oath-breakers and those accused of adultery wonder about in torment
and the great serpent or dragon Nithhogg consumes the corpses of the slain and wolves devour people
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Now, we have no idea where Nastrond is situated in the Norse cosmology
but we might have some ideas
And it's important to know the mythical geography of Norse cosmology to understand the purpose of the places
So, we might look at this mythological geography the same way we do in our own world
All the Norse mythological realms we know of, would be situated in the same space, like continents or countries reachable by land or some source of water
This explains how in many accounts the gods use rivers, oceans, forests and mountains to move from place to place
and there are natural boundaries making clear divisions between realms
and indeed the afterlife for many pagan cultures, especially European ones, was the precise reflection of our own world,
with similar landscapes, forests, mountains, meadows, rivers, etc.
If we take into consideration that there was the belief that the dead would go northwards to their final resting place, then the realms of death would be situated north
But we must also take into consideration that there was also the belief that the dead went down into the earth, the underworld,
which in many source also created a sense of going south
On the other hand, if we see this mythological reality as it is presented to us in Norse mythology, of up and down and existence in-between,
we have the perception that there is a vertical reality;
the great tree Yggdrasil being the world axis and the other cosmic realms exist around it
Asgard is placed in a celestial plane, and Hel being a realm of death goes down into the underworld
The problem with this perception is that this vertical reality, this conception of up and down, may be a Christian influence
Certainly we can argue that in shamanism there is also this perception of up and down, a celestial plane and the underworld downwards
But no, there actually isn't
In Shamanism we are led to believe in this conception of up and down
but that conception was actually created by our western societies when they came in contact with shamanism in our contemporary times
To better explain shamanism to the western mind, a familiar concept was introduced
Our western societies have been Christian for far too long and other perceptions of the afterlife were lost
and to explain the shamanic views we introduced a Christian perception of up and down
Shamanism, in its original perception of the world of the spirits and the afterlife,
is something much more similar to our reality
In a shamanic sense communicating with the spiritual world is literally crossing spiritual boundaries in our own world
and when it comes to the afterlife, it's a sort of parallel reality to our own
So the oldest perception of the afterlife is actually seeing it as our own world
because afterlife pagan religious beliefs were just that, reflections of our own reality
because pagans had a worldaccepting view, they did not seek a reality different from our own
they enjoyed living in this reality and to them the afterlife was as similar to our world as possible
in fact the afterlife for many pagan societies wasn't in some unreachable place, it was right here, in our own world
within the mountains, in rivers, in hills, etc.
And in shamanism the perception of up and down isn't what we created as celestial worlds and far off worlds downwards
Going up is to communicate with the sky deities, wind deities, the atmosphere around us,
while downwards is actually the spirits of the earth, the very soil beneath our feet
and a realm in between is our world, where we exist and our ancestors reside, and other spiritual entities etc.
This is why we, in western societies fail in shamanic practices nowadays
because we are expecting to reach a celestial reality or any other reality detached from our world
because we come from a background with a collective consciousness that there is a heaven up there and Hell down there
and we are miserable little creatures inbetween at the mercy of these two realities, these two polarities
When in fact, shamanism is all about the spiritual reality of our own existence and not unreachable places in tra lalala land
So with this perception I gave you we come to understand that to many pagan societies the afterlife was similar to our own world and in most cases it was our world itself
The dead went to the fields, the rocks, the hills, the mountains
Let's not forget about Helgafell, the holy mountain in the Norse religious beliefs, to where the dead went,
and this perception was taken into Iceland and to this day we have the mountain Helgafell and loads of tales of the dead going in there
Also, since the world of the spirits is right here but in a sort of parallel reality, there was the perception the dead went northwards to their resting places
Now we know that in the Norse perception of creation two worlds collided and formed existence
Niflheim and Muspelheim
Muspelheim is situated in the south, because if the spiritual perception of pagan societies is something similar to our world and the reality people live in,
the further south you go the hotter it gets, hence Muspelheim is situated in the south
The same line of thought goes to Niflheim
The further north you go, the colder it gets, hence Niflheim was situated in the north
Now, we know from the poems and myths that Hel, the realm of the dead, is situated close to Niflheim
either a reality near it or a reality within Niflheim itself
therefore Hel is in the North and makes sense because it's the realm of the dead, and as I've said there was the perception that the dead went north
With this being said, it's possible that all the other afterlife places, including Valhalla, are situated in the north as well
because they are realities for the dead
This perception might make a better sense if you watch my previous video about the realm of Hel,
where I've stated that all the dead go to Hel and once they are in there, they are distributed to their rightful places
So if the afterlife is perceived as something similar to our reality,
it makes sense that all the realms and places of the dead are situated in the same space
to facilitate the travel, literally moving from place to place
So in conclusion about this mythological geography
the perception of the afterlife as something closer to our reality, gives us the sense that the dead travel in the direction of the mountains
on the other side of the ocean, going north, into the unknown
as something perceptible by prehistoric people
While if we look at the afterlife in a vertical sense, the mountains, the ocean, and everything else disappears and is replaced with nothingness, darkness
and those elements come closer to the Christian notion of the underworld, of their Hell
So this vertical conception of the afterlife may indeed be a Christian influence
or may be the creation of Snorri Sturluson alone to better explain something by giving familiar religious elements of his own time
the same way we did when trying to explain shamanism–
by introducing the same Christian notions of up and down
So Nastrond as an afterlife place, might be situated in the North,
and the fact that in Voluspa it is mentioned that the door of the great Hall is facing north
maybe reinforces this idea
Of course we might also argue that in most cases the entrances of burial mounds in northern Europe are facing south
Yes they are, the entrances,
but the chambers of the dead are facing north, giving this notion that a person is alive and enters through a corridor going north
and literally enters the space of the dead that is in that north
even the heads of the dead were oriented due north
Burial mounds in Northern Europe might be the physical representation of this notion of going north upon death
I've given you this mythological geographical notion of where Nastrond might be placed because it might explain why it's such a dark place and filled with snakes
Let's not forget that in the north hemisphere it's much colder, and the days are shorter and nights are longer
therefore darkness prevails,
and to northern peoples with a world-accepting view, to them the afterlife or the places of the dead reflect our reality,
therefore the afterlife might be a dark place
Also, it wasn't uncommon to find burial chambers filled with snakes
the earth was their natural habitat and they live underground
So Nastrond in a pagan perspective might be the afterlife place that represents the burial chamber
and the fact that the place is a coast and develops around this coast, explains the belief of going north after death
crossing the ocean
and if there is land, it certainly has a coast
This notion of having to cross water after death, either a river or a sea, is reflected in many cultures and it wasn't different in Scandinavia
In the comment section of this video I might leave a fixed comment giving you some Scandinavian examples of having to cross a body of water to reach the afterlife
If the dead in our reality enter in their burial chambers
maybe they come out in the burial chambers parallel to ours, in Nastrond,
in the coast that marks the very beginning of the afterlife geographical reality
So this gives us the sense that Nastrond in a pagan perspective might actually have been the place where the dead first appear
and from that spot on, they develop the rest of their journey in the afterlife
That's why Nastrond is the coast of corpses, because of the dead bodies in the burial chambers
This might also explain why there is that notion that when we die there is a dark tunnel and light at the end of it
Burial chambers with their tunnels might actually be the representation of this perception, going into a tunnel and by the end of it a chamber
representing a world,
and take notice at the oval configuration of the ceiling of the chamber
Or maybe the burial mound itself was what actually created the perception of light at the end of the tunnel when we die
Suffice to say, or at least it seems to me, that Nastrond is exactly this, the representation of the burial chamber as a means of going into the afterlife
You enter in the burial chamber and you get out in the other burial chamber parallel to our reality
You die, you go to Nastrond
So Nastrond at first seems to have been this prehistoric representation of burial mounds
But how did it get so dark and a place of suffering and great torment?
Well, let's try to understand
So far we come to understand Nastrond as the possible representation of burial mounds
and by its association with water, the sea, crossing an ocean to reach it,
this might indicate Nastrond's connection to the act of performing the funeral rites of some of the dead
placing them in boats or graves in the shape of boats,
being related to the mythical-religious idea that the souls would make a sea voyage to the world of the dead
However, not everyone was buried or cremated in boats or in funeral-rites linked to the boat-motif
The boat-motif in funerals was reserved for a small percentage of the Scandinavian population
which might indicate that this belief in using boats to go into the afterlife was reserved to a specific sector of the Scandinavian society
or even a specific religion
making Nastrond a place for certain people
Because we know that half of the warriors slain in battle would go to Valhalla
the other half to Sessrumnir
servents would go to Bilskirnir, etc.
various places for the dead according to their social status
So Nastrond might have been reserved at first for people linked to a religion based on the ship-motif
I've done a video about that: if you go into this upper corner you can check that video, about the ship-motif and the possibility of being linked to a Vanir Cult
All of a sudden Nastrond becomes a terrible place
It was already called the coast or the shore of corpses, but that depends on the point of view
As I've said, this could simply have been a reference to the fact that the dead went there, literally their corpses
Because if in the Norse pagan mind Nastrond was considered a parallel reality to our own places where we deposit the dead,
the dead body would appear in Nastrond,
and go through a process of transformation to be able to walk in the afterlife
but we will get to that thought further ahead
Don't forget this little idea
Nastrond had a Hall and in it criminals were punished with venom coming from serpents
Now, great halls between the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples-
were not only large constructions, but they were residences of wealthy nobles, even of kings
They were places of socialization, of manifestation of authority and of power
Halls were places where weapons and treasures were kept
and loads of social ceremonies and even religious ceremonies were held
The halls had the same role as the palaces, fortresses, mansions, etc. in other cultures, in terms of demonstrating the power of the local elite
Halls were so important in the deity lives of the Scandinavians -
that this importance continued even after death
A great percentage of the afterlife places have a Hall in which the dead reside
Even the holy mountain that I've spoken earlier, Helgafell, it was believed that the dead went inside the mountain to live in great halls
The great halls were the ultimate expression of cults, feasts, and manifestations power,
so halls became the focal point of Scandinavian cosmology, an icon of sacredness
This physical structure gave a sense of safeness
These structures gave to the Scandinavian royalty the possibility of establishing order and try to make it possible a relative peace;
using the hall as an instrument of executing religious, political, and other social activities
Even gods reside in Great Halls
so all this sacredness related to halls makes it a little bit contradictory the fact that the Hall in Nastrond was such a terrible place
when clearly in the Scandinavian societies Halls were a real positive symbol
Now in terms of serpents and their venom as means of punishing criminals
A river of venom and a hall filled with serpents-
Obviously we are in the presence of damned place, a cursed place, which must have been an idea based on some Christian ideas
because in Christianity the serpent is associated with death, suffering and evil
In many pagan societies the serpent was actually a very positive symbol
a symbol of power, a symbol of knowledge, fertility, it even marked the presence of the gods in many aspects
But the negative connotation of serpents in great part comes from Judeo-Christian traditions
Venom on the other hand isn't uncommon in Scandinavian mythology
The river Slid is a very poisonous river
The cosmic lake Hvergelmir was made of icy-poison
Loki himself was bound by the gods and his punishment was poison drops, constantly hurting him
Poison, and snakes to a certain extent, is something associated with evil and pain in the Old Norse societies
So we seem to have a mixture of pagan traditions with Christian traditions in the conception of Nastrond
And then of course we have the dragon or serpent Nidhogg and wolves devouring people, which adds to Nastrond an even worse background
Of course a dragon is a symbol whose connotations vary in different cultural backgrounds and also historical periods
so we cannot say that dragons were a positive or a negative symbol to the Old Norse,
because they clearly demonstrate both positive and negative aspects
It's a symbol of power and something to be both revered and feared
So the presence of Nidhogg in Nastrond is not a good factor that gives us the idea that this was indeed a terrible place for the Old Norse pagans
The presence of the wolves is also like the presence of the dragon
The Norse myths are filled with terrible wolves, and they become a symbol of hatred, ferocity, destruction, chaos,
but at the same time they were symbols of power and revered by many people in preChristian Scandinavia, especially by warriors
The presence of Nidhogg and wolves in Nastrond may not be a reference to something evil,
but might just be symbols to reinforce the importance of Nastrond as place of power reserved for powerful people from a specific religious background as previously said
But, we have a little problem
Wolves in Old Norse were called Vargar, and Vargar were the names given to criminals
Morðvargar
was the name given to assassins, murderers, someone who would kill another person for no specific reason, for a trivial, unfair or disloyal reason
And these Vargar were outlawed and cast out of the society to live in the wilds
So maybe the presence of the wolves might indeed give us some indications that indeed criminals went to Nastrond
Let me give you another example:
We know that along with human sacrifices animals were also sacrificed,
and usually both people and animals were hanged on a great tree near the main temple
For instance, this happened in Uppsala, in Sweden, every 9 years during the heathen period
Animals marked the social statues of the person or were the representative animals of specific deities to whom people were making the offerings
Not all criminals were cast out of the community; we know that some criminals were hanged and offered as sacrifices,
and they were hanged alongside wolves to mark them as criminals, so the gods would know who those people were
So the wolf here reinforces the idea that Criminals indeed went to Nastrond
Because the general idea was that if you sacrifice someone as an offering to a specific deity, that deity will take the person
A human sacrifice to Odin, alongside a dog, horse or hawk, to mark the noble social statues of that person, and the person goes to Valhalla
The same thing happens to human sacrifices to Freyr, Thor, Freyja, Njord etc.
human sacrifices alongside animals to mark the statues of the person and the representative animal of the specific deity,
and that also marks the afterlife place to where those people are supposed to be sent
So maybe Criminals sacrificed with wolves was to indicate that their final resting place was to go to Nastrond
The Nordic peoples possessed moral principles, laws and a system of justice
They were not barbaric and uncivilized as we were led to believe
The Old Norse peoples had a lot of respect for the law
The local assembly (Thing) did and administered the law, which was kept in the memory of the ancients in their society, the oldest members within their judicial system
This law controlled the society and contained important political power and authority
According to the Icelandic sagas, the legal procedure was complex and precise, and the methods of judgment, both in civil and criminal cases,
depended on each specific case, which created an even more complex judicial system because each case was a case and had to be dealt with accordingly
but most importantly the judgment had to be just
Now, according to the myth of Nastrond, it's quite specific who goes there
Murderers, oathbreakers and those prosecuted for adultery
These 3 specific cases gives us the indication that these were the crimes most abominable in the Norse society
Now we know from the sources, which I've made references on the previous video about Hel,
and I will leave a link down below in the comment section so you might watch that video,
but we know from the sources that the gods did not seek vengeance upon Mankind, they did not send people to places to suffer in torment for eternity because of their crimes
People were judged while alive, by other humans, and the gods were called upon to be witnesses and not to deliver divine judgement
Judgment was clearly given by humans during life in the Scandinavian societies
Nastrond comes to us as a place of punishment
But it doesn't make sense because it's an afterlife place and the gods clearly did not seek vengeance and did not want to punish people
So it's possible that Nastrond was just created to give a certain relief that criminals would forever suffer for their misdeeds
and the victims of those criminals could have some peace of mind knowing that such criminals would be judged and pay for their crimes beyond the grave
But that doesn't make much sense either in the Old Norse society because we know people were judged accordingly while alive
We know that the Nordic laws allowed the right of revenge (hefnd) and even of duels (hólmganga) to solve certain particular conflicts
And there was a clear difference between manslaughter and murder
After the act of killing if the killer announced publically the deed, it was considered manslaughter
an offence that could be atoned for with wergild, paying a certain amount of money to the family of the victim to compensate them
If the deed wasn't announced, or if the killing was performed in stealth, it was considered murder
In this case the murder was considered mord-vargr, literally killer wolf, and was beyond the law which permitted people to hunt him down and kill him with no penalty
So far Nastrond as a place of punishment doesn't make sense for all the reasons I've given you throughout this video
Nastrond at first seems to have been the representation of burial traditions,
then it seems to have been a place linked to the ship-motif and reserved for specific people with a certain important social status
We have the divine factor, the importance of the Great Hall, the importance of the symbols of power, and knowing that the gods did not seek vengeance
And then we have the human laws of the Norse peoples that go against an afterlife place of judgment and punishment for eternity
There is one final factor that we must take into consideration before this video comes to an end
On the previous video I talked about Niflhel, and I've explained that it's a total different reality
It's not Niflheim and it's not Hel, it's Niflhel, a third afterlife place that people usually link to Niflheim and Hel because that was what Snorri Sturluson did,
he transformed 3 specific places and got them together to form one single place of torment
In the older poems, Niflhel is clearly a distinct place
This Niflhel comes to us as a dark horrible place, filled with wolves and serpents, the exact same representation as Nastrond itself
So this leads us to believe that Nastrond is the name of the shore of Niflhel
And there is one very important reference that changes everything
People go to Niflhel to die
You die in this world, you go to Niflhel to die again and reborn
This notion is linked to the concept of the soul in the Norse spirituality, which I've also made a video about
If we take into consideration that the burial mound is the parallel reality of Nastrond then the body goes to Nastrond, to Niflhel, and you need to die again,
you need to get rid of the body so you can reborn in the afterlife
The concept of the soul in Norse spirituality is a very complex subject which is why I need you to see that video I've made
Suffice to say that the physical body, Lik, was part of the self, and in order to release the spiritual self you needed to destroy the physical body
In Niflhel you need to die only to reborn again, with the proper spiritual appearance to be able to reside in the afterlife
Now take into consideration, Nastrond is the shore of corpses
What if people strip their skin, get rid of their bodies and leave them in the shore upon arrival to this afterlife place?
What if Nastrond is the first place people go to when they are buried and their body isn't destroyed?
So it must be destroyed somewhere to be able to literally enter the afterlife?
Now imagine, people shedding their skin and living it behind on the shore
What other animal sheds its skin?
Snakes!
Snakes are everywhere in Nastrond
And as I've said before, it wasn't uncommon to find snakes everywhere in burial mounds
Maybe the belief was that the dead who were buried transformed themselves into snakes
this animistic notion of shapeshifing, and the snake became the representative animal of the dead, the totemic animal of the dead
Just has the snake sheds it's skin, people had to shed their bodies as well, in the burial mound, in Nastrond, to be able to go into the afterlife
What I'm saying is that because the ancient societies literally saw the afterlife as similar to our own world and indeed most afterlife places were actually in our own world
it's possible that Nastrond and Niflhel are placed of the underworld, literally the earth beneath our feet to where the dead go
and the dead became snakes and shed their skins to be able to go into the afterlife
A notion of a process of transformation and evolution upon death
Maybe Nastrond was exactly that, a place in-between
a place certain people needed to go, to die and reborn again, to change and be accepted in the afterlife, accepted by their ancestors
Nastrond has this very shamanic past printed in it,
which with the passage of time and later with the coming of Christianity changed into a horrible place of eternal punishment,
when its true purpose might have been a place of rebirth and transition
If we take into consideration that in shamanism the initiation rites are actually destroying the body in a spiritual sense
and symbolically leaving behind cloths and ornaments and walk naked physical boundaries,
this represents leaving behind our condition as mortals to transform ourselves and evolve into something else to be able to perform shamanic activities
Leaving behind our bodies and be transformed by the spirits and being placed in a different body suited for shamanic activities
Maybe this process was represented by snakes, the death of the body, shedding the skin
Which is why most underworld deities and death deities are represented by snakes
It's the spiritual perception of living the body, actual death, and becoming something else
So this is my conclusion,
Nastrond and Niflhel, quite possibly were the representation of the passage of the dead, symbolically represented by leaving the body behind and evolve,
transform ourselves into something else, into spiritual beings
But this shamanic notion of a prehistoric past, obviously changed with the introduction of different cultures and different needs of the societies
Christianity for instance failed to see the spiritual notion printed in Nastrond because it goes absolutely against the Christian notions of the divine and the afterlife
Christians had no terms of comparison
So a seemingly horrible place, highly complex in terms of death, was easily mistaken by a place of eternal suffering
This doesn't mean that the Norse didn't think of Nastrond as a place of pain and suffering
I do believe that the Norse Nastrond was indeed a place of pain and suffering but not as punishment or to suffer for one's crimes
It was a place of suffering and pain because the process of transformation, to die and reborn, was painful
We see this in shamanism, the process of symbolical spiritual death to be initiated in the shamanic arts is a painful process
the torment and disembodiment of the soul, to recreate the soul to be suited to communicate with the spirits
This pain and suffering was mistaken by the Christians as punishment after death for misconduct
Alright my dear friends I hope you have enjoyed this video
quite a long one but I think you got the main idea
of course I could develop this even more but...
this is a Youtube video so better keep it short as much as possible
Alright, thank you so much for watching once again
see you on the next video and...
Tack för idag! (Thank you for today!)
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