Asatruars After Death

I'll try to boil this page down as much as I can and try to simplify the meaning of this old Germanic belief. . There are many philosophy's on life after death.. Ever since the begining of time man has looked for anwser to our own mortality... The belief in the "Forn Siðr" the old ways. . . After our death, those who die in battle, or as a Hero because of selfless acts, or defending family and states honnor. Shall be taken to Valhalla by" Freyja" and the Valkyries....There they will eat with the Gods, Särimner a pig that is daily slaughtered and drink Mead specially made by the virgins of Valhalla. These heroes are prepared in Valhalla for the oncoming battle of Ragnarok. meaning the end of the cosmos.... Some of but not all Asatruars believe those who have lived a very deceitful and treacherous life go to Niflheim in Helheim ("house of Hell").. This is a place of torment, and dispear. All the remaining kindered, go to Gladsheim, a place of calmness and peace. Called the hall of the gods which lies in Asgard.  There we wait for our rebirth. . After our death, we are reborn or reincarnated. . Depending on the kind of life you lead will determined how you shall be reborn... If you were a rich, but selfish person you maybe reborn to a life of povity and hard labor, or if you were very poor in life, but you were very giving and kind.. . you maybe rewarded in a new life of wealth or power.

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We travel in each of our life times learning, and hopfully growing.... Failure only set us back to start all over, for that life we failed in.

Once we have learn all the lessons that we were set by the Deities, Then time has come to join the collective of spirits, or the light of all enities... This is my view and belief of heaven. . Perhaps maybe this is why most the Asatrus and pagans alike, that take this kind of faith are not afraid to die.

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