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New Elected 2020 Prime Minister busy at Work


Alexander Georges | 02 October 2020

Newly Elected PM Alexander Graham

With the end of another crazy Prime Minister Race of 2020 behind us our newly elected PM who started in office on the 01 August. He has been busy working on his foreign policy but has also had to deal with COVID-19. But with just a crazy year 2020 has been Blechingia has a bright future not just in having a young queen but also having a young PM. Just last month the PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Princess Daria Anderson created 16 new embassies in Blechingia. The following are nations that currently have embassies located in Blechingia as of 28 September 2020.
Eurasies, The Champions League, Parliamentary Laramidia, Enway, Engales and southern ireland, Cisplatinaa, Poland-kaliningrad, Kanokla, St Scarlett, The Oriental Empire, and The kingdom of denmark, United engiresco, Dasche, Someseni, Einswenn, Dark Matter

The United Kingdom of Blechingia has also been give a seat in the Parliamentary Laramidia government

Attached below is requirements to create a embassy in our great nation of Blechingia.

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Autumn Equinox: Fall Feast


Andrew Williams & Lilly Gustafsson | 19 September 2020

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With the Autumn Equinox happening on the 22nd of this September at 13:31 UTC. The city of Gothenburg throws a large festival starting on the 22nd and ending on the 29th.

Fallfest of is another joyous festival in the Asatru holy calendar, and falls on the Autumn Equinox, and is the beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere: the moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward; the equinox occurs around September 22 - 24, varying slightly each year according to the 400-year cycle of leap years in the Gregorian Calendar. Fallfest represents the second harvest of the season.
Bonfires, feasting and dancing played a large part in the festivities. Even into Christian times, villagers cast the bones of the slaughtered cattle upon the flames, cattle having a prominent place in the pre-Christian Germanic world. (Though folk etymology derives the English word "bonfire" from these "bone fires,") With the bonfire ablaze, the villagers extinguished all other fires. Each family then solemnly lit their hearth from the common flame, thus bonding the families of the village together.
Materially speaking it marked the beginning of the gathering of food for the long winter months ahead, bringing people and their livestock in to their winter quarters. To be alone and missing at this dangerous time was to expose yourself and your spirit to the perils of imminent winter. In present times the importance of this part of the festival has diminished for most people. From the point of view of an agricultural people, for whom a bad season meant facing a long winter of famine in which many would not survive to the spring, it was paramount.

At the equinox, the sun rises directly in the east and sets directly in the west. In the northern hemisphere, before the autumnal equinox, the sun rises and sets more and more to the north, and afterwards, it rises and sets more and more to the south.

In ancient times, our European ancestors celebrated their Harvest Feast, where they have found many reasons to be thankful and to celebrate. Our people have done this for as long as we can trace our history. Although what our people have felt thankful for has certainly changed over the many years, remember you sit down this year with your family, you're participating in an ancient tradition. And it's a great time to figure out what you're thankful for.



Ásatrú Calender


Michael Hoffmann | 19 September 2020

The Asatru Calender

An Ásatrú ritual can be many things from a group observance to a private offering. A blót is an offering of food or drink, commonly mead or ale, to the gods. A blót can be as simple as pouring out a bottle of beer to the gods in your backyard, or it can be an elaborate community ceremony. Its intent is always the same. An exchange of gifts creates a bond between two people. In a blót, Ásatrúar thank the gods for their gifts and offer gifts in return. This celebrates and strengthens the bond between the gods (senior kinfolk) and humankind.

A sumbel is a series of ritualised toasts. The participants sit in a circle, and a vessel of drink is passed around the circle at least three times. Words spoken in sumbel are witnessed by gods and humans alike and carry great weight. The rite of sumbel can be a profound experience that creates bonds of community among those who share in it. A boast therefore, is a declaration of intent, must be a real challenge for the person boasting, and will have consequences of laughter and loss of face when such talk is not walked.

Ásatrúar regard gods as honored senior kin, so we offer them our best. It is customary to use alcoholic beverages in blót and sumbel and to share feasts of meat and grain.

Blóts and sumbels are held to mark seasonal holidays and observe life cycles such as births, weddings and initiations and as needed to give thanks and request assistance for manifesting some idea (or boast). Public ceremonies may be held to witness important oaths (and boasts). Timing of rituals and rites is important and complex, yet not so rigid or complicated as traditions oriented by zodiak. In Ásatrú what is mostly used for timing are season, moon phase, and solar position.

The people of Blechingia don't celebrate these holidays as there ancestor once did but instead to remember them and give thanks to all the people that came before us.



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https://stonecircles.wordpress.com/about/my-asatru/asatru-calendar/
http://odinsvolk.ca/O.V.A.%20-%20SACRED%20CALENDER.htm#lesser%20feasts
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First Knights Cross awarded to Royal Yggdrasil Korporal (Corporal) in over 44 yrs




Josephine Larsson | 26 September 2020

The Knights Cross is the United Kingdom of Blechingia's highest and most-prestigious personal military decoration that may be awarded to recognize Gouthian military service members who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. The medal is normally awarded by the Monarcht of the United Kingdom of Blechingia in the name of the Riksdag. Because the medal is presented "in the name of Riksdag", it is incorrectly known as the "Riksdag's Knights Cross". However, the official name of the current award is "Knights Cross".

This is the logo for the Royal Yggdrasil

With Korporal Gustaf Mathias being award the Knights Cross on Friday 25 September mark the first time in 44 years that anyone from the (RY), Royal Yggdrasil has received the award. The Yggdrasil are a Paramilitary thats main job is protecting the queen, her family, other important gouthian officials and officials foreign nations that come visit Blechingia.

Korporal Mathias has asked the media to not tell the public why he has earn the award. Because it brings back bad memories that has taken years to get over. So the Queen made sure that she never say anything about it but other then that he has been awarded this highly expensively Medal.

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All Hallows' Eve (Harvest Fest / Winter Nigths)


Robert Larsson | 30 October 2020


Today's Halloween customs are thought to have been influenced by Christian dogma and practices derived from it. Halloween is the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows' Day (also known as All Saints' or Hallowmas) on 1 November and All Souls' Day on 2 November, thus giving the holiday on 31 October the full name of All Hallows' Eve (meaning the evening before All Hallows' Day). Since the time of the early Church, major feasts in Christianity (such as Christmas, Easter and Pentecost) had vigils that began the night before, as did the feast of All Hallows'. These three days are collectively called Allhallowtide and are a time for honoring the saints and praying for the recently departed souls who have yet to reach Heaven. Commemorations of all saints and martyrs were held by several churches on various dates, mostly in springtime. In 609, Pope Boniface IV re-dedicated the Pantheon in Rome to "St Mary and all martyrs" on 13 May. This was the same date as Lemuria, an ancient Roman festival of the dead, and the same date as the commemoration of all saints in Edessa in the time of Ephrem.
Winternights is held the 31st of October. Winternights marked the final end of harvest and the time when the animals that were not expected to make it through the winter were butchered and smoked or made into sausage. The festival is also called "Elf-Blessing", "Dis-Blessing", or "Frey-Blessing", which tells us that it was especially a time of honouring the ancestral spirits, the spirits of the land, the Vanir, and the powers of fruitfulness, wisdom, and death. It marks the turning of the year from summer to winter, the turning of our awareness from outside to inside. Among the Norse, the ritual was often led by the woman of a family - the ruler of the house and all within. One of the commonest harvest customs of the Germanic people was the hallowing and leaving of the "Last Sheaf" in the field, often for Odin and/or his host of the dead, though the specifics of the custom vary considerably over its wide range. The Wild Hunt begins to ride after Winternights, and the roads and fields no longer belong to humans, but to ghosts and trolls. The Winternights feast is also especially seen as a time to celebrate our kinship and friendship with both the living and our earlier forebears. It marks the beginning of the long dark wintertime at which memory becomes more important than foresight, at which old tales are told and great deeds are toasted as we ready ourselves for the spring to come. It is a time to think of accomplishments achieved and those which have yet to be made. Winternights also marks the beginning of a time of indoor work, thought and craftsmanship.
These festival and feast celebrated the accessibility, veneration, awe, and respect of the dead. This was also a time for contemplation. To the ancient Germanic peoples death was never very far away, and it viewed as a natural and necessary part of life. To die was not as much of a surprise or tragedy it is in modern times and death as not viewed as something "scary" or "evil". Of higher importance to the Germanic people was to live & die with honour and thereby live on in the memory of the tribe and be honoured at this great feast.

Starting on this night, the great divisions between the worlds was somewhat diminished which can allow the forces of chaos to invade the realms of order, the material world conjoining with the world of the dead. At this time began the Wild hunt in which the restless spirits of the dead and those yet to be born walked amongst the living. The dead could return to the places where they had lived and food and entertainment were provided in their honour. In this way the tribes were at one with its past, present and future.

Again, the Christians forcefully subverted the sacred Germanic Heathen calendar to honour Christianity, Winter nights on October 31 became "All Hallows Eve" and November 1st was declared "All Saint's Day".



All Saint's Day

Matthew & Laura Andersen | 30 October 2020

In the Western Christian practice, the liturgical celebration begins at Vespers on the evening of 31 October, All Hallows' Eve (All Saints' Eve), and ends at the close of 1 November. It is thus the day before All Souls' Day, which commemorates the faithful departed. In many traditions, All Saints' Day is part of the season of Allhallowtide, which includes the three days from 31 October to 2 November inclusive and in some denominations, such as Anglicanism, extends to Remembrance Sunday. In places where All Saints' Day is observed as a public holiday but All Souls' Day is not, cemetery and grave rituals such as offerings of flowers, candles and prayers or blessings for the graves of loved ones often take place on All Saints Day. In Austria and Germany, godparents gift their godchildren Allerheiligenstriezel (All Saint's Braid) on All Saint's Day, while the practice of souling remains popular in Portugal. It is a national holiday in many Christian countries.
The Christian celebration of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day stems from a belief that there is a powerful spiritual bond between those in heaven (the "Church triumphant"), and the living (the "Church militant"). In Catholic theology, the day commemorates all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven. In Methodist theology, All Saints Day revolves around "giving God solemn thanks for the lives and deaths of his saints", including those who are "famous or obscure". As such, individuals throughout the Church Universal are honoured, such as Paul the Apostle, Augustine of Hippo and John Wesley, in addition to individuals who have personally led one to faith in Jesus, such as one's grandmother or friend.



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