Vanafolk Maxims

The Vanafolk Maxims are a collection of succinct formulations, ancient beyond the memory of woman, of fundamental principles, general truths, and rules of conduct for the Vanafolk. They constitute a very important part of Vanic Law.

List of Vanafolk Maxims

• A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
• A lustful mind is a joy for life.
• A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
• Always walk tall.
• As we journey through the day, the Gods are with us on our way.
• Anyone can pray to the Gods in whatever manner zie likes.
• Be bare or be square.
• Beauty must not be covered up.
• Being deeply loved by someone gives one strength, while loving someone deeply gives one courage.
• Before the Gods, we are small. With the Gods we walk tall.
• Believe in joy.
• Courage is the most important of all the virtues for without courage, one cannot practice any other virtue consistently.
• Do as the Gods say, and good things shall come your way.
• Enjoy yourself.
• Everything that lives is born out of sex, including the soul.
• Faith is a gateway to life, not a substitute for it.
• Faith is responsibility, or it is nothing at all.
• Fear not the Norns, for Frigg spins our way.
• Give the Gods Their Due and good things shall come to you.
• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
• Intuition is not the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
• Keep it in the family.
• Keep the laws and counsels of the Gods and we shall always do well.
• Keep on smiling!
• Keep to as many beds you like.
• Knowledge and beauty are the food and drink of the spirit.
• Let the beauty you love be what you do.
• Love, let it flow for it shall flow back to you.
• Lots of laughter a day, keeps the medicinewoman away.
• Making love strengthens the Divine Powers above.
• Master the Art of Love, and master it well.
• Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
• Nudity is honesty.
• Nurture the mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
• Please your partner.
• Rudeness is the weak person's imitation of strength.
• Sacred sexuality is the normal function of the body, and when it is nourished, cherished and maintained, so is our health, happiness, and contentment.
• Sex is sacred.
• Thanks to the Gods we have beauty within and beauty without, and beauty all around.
• The female body is the source of creation, the sacred fount from which all life emanates.
• The Gods love us, this we know; for they have told us so!
• The Gods will not do anything for us that we will not do for us ourselves.
• The only way to have a friend is to be one.
• The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
• There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant than the nude human body.
• Those who are guilty of conscience, cannot bear the innocence of others.
• Truth is in the heart of the beholder.
• We are what the Gods have made us.
• We reap only the best of what we sow.
• What do we want? Everything out!
• Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.