An exclusive interview with Hel
Published: Sun, 11/29/20
Hel: I am known as Hel, ruler of the dead, mistress of Helheim where those who Odin and Freya do not take come to rest between lives.
Interviewer: Would it be fair to say that you are rather strange in your appearance?
Hel: I live between the worlds of the living and the dead, hence I am half in darkness and half in the light. Some say I am half alive and half dead, either way some do find my presence a little disconcerting.
Interviewer: In Snorri’s Edda there is a long and graphic description of Hernier’s ride to your realm to ask for Baldur’s release. Is that description of a nine night ride over rocky pathways, the ironwood, the crossing of the river by a bridge guarded by a ghost, then the dog Garm guarding your gates an accurate description?
Hel: Well, it is certainly imaginative, but Snorri himself had not yet visited me when he wrote that account. Lets allow the writer of the Prose Edda some artistic license. The story required a journey to my realm to ask for the release of Baldur. Snorri’s writing also needed to be acceptable to a Christian readership, so he effectively borrowed from Greek mythology and made it into a bit of a fairy story. Where is my realm really? Right next to your physical one, it just exists on a different level of vibration and consciousness. Even using the concept ‘next to’ is probably misleading, same space, just a matter of awareness. The spirits of those between incarnations are aware of your reality, but few of the incarnate are aware of us.
Interviewer: So, what is the purpose of your realm?
Hel: Incarnation is hard work and may involve quite a lot of pain and suffering. Death is the release which allows a rest before the soul is ready for another cycle of birth, life, and death. Why do you think babies and very young children are so full of energy, curiosity, and joy of living? It is because their souls are rested and ready to be revitalised. The body does slow down later in life but the real issue is that the soul allows itself to become exhausted with the effort of living.
Interviewer: Are the good rewarded and the wicked punished for their deeds or misdeeds while alive?
Hel: Not by me, I have more important things to worry about. However, incarnation provides many distractions from the actual experience of being alive and justifications are found for attitudes and behaviour that brings no good or benefit to anyone. In my realm all the soul can do is reflect on what they have learned in their previous incarnation. There may be satisfaction at a life well lived and a determination to build on that experience next time. Or it maybe that hard lessons will need to be learned in the next incarnation. The Orlog teaches all that can be learned, I cannot make anyone realise anything, it will happen all in good time. Of course it may take a great many incarnations over thousands of years, but the Orlog is infinitely patient.
Interviewer: Is this why you refused to release Baldur back to the land of the living?
Hel: Baldur was killed because of a display of stupidity that went way beyond the call of duty. Baldur had a dream that he was going to die, well deal with it, dreams can bring to light all kinds of useful knowledge, but a dream cannot make anything happen. The real problem was that Frigg and Odin, who are supposed to be all wise, were so afraid of the grief that would strike them if anything happened to their beloved son that all things in all the nine worlds were forced to promise to go against their own nature. It is in the nature of Iron to be forged into steel which makes swords, spear and arrow heads, axe heads and all kinds of deadly weapons. It is the nature of steel to cut and pierce. It is the nature of skin and flesh to be sensitive to pain and quite easily sliced or penetrated, If life continues after an injury a scar will provide a memory and a lesson concerning the frailty of the body. Our universe is governed by
the eternal wisdom of the Orlog which dictates that each created thing will act according to its true nature. It is in the nature of people to have joy in the living and grieve for the dead. Frigg had joy in her living son, but her fear of grief made her challenge the Orlog, and she even thought she had succeeded.
Interviewer: But not for long, thanks to your father Loki?
Hel: It should have been no great surprise really. A sense of complete safety will make anyone reckless, if not utterly stupid. Once Baldur started showing off how nothing would harm him, and spears and arrows would just bounce off his skin then something had to be done. Baldur was never really impervious to harm, it was just his mother thinking she could bend the universe to her will. Well, that was always going to be too much of a challenge for my father to resist.
Interviewer: Did you know that he would not go along with Frigg’s plan to get all things to weep for him?
Hel: Are you implying that the giantess who ruined that silly woman’s attempt to undo her initial debacle was my father up to his tricks again? Well, who knows. Lets just say that maybe even Frigg needed to learn that the Orlog is not to be mocked.
Does each person’s incarnation have a purpose?
Hel: To learn, I am not sure there is anything else.
Interviewer: Thank you for sparing the time to talk to me.
Hel: You are welcome.
regards
Graham
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