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-I found this article on a defunt magazine site! I am reprinting it, as they have no contact information, and my emails seem to be collected into the void as it were, so hopefully they don’t mind me reprinting it and giving them credit.
This article was found on: Widdershins, Imbolc 1996 Volume 1, Issue 7
Washed in the Water by Prudence Priest
Prudence Priest leads Freya’s Folk, a coven with a Norse focus that has been together for more than 20 years.
Although baptism is most often considered a Christian custom, the use of water as a purification is much more ancient. The Greeks, Romans, Aryans, Ugro-Finnics and the Teutons associated it with some form of initiation as well.
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Originally posted on Facebook under Temple of our Heathen Gods, Notes on October 15, 2010 by Mark Ludwig Stinson. This is a two part essay that I put together here for easier reading. The original articles combined were: “The Bare Basics of Luck” and “The Role of Luck in the Recognition of Kindred Leadership”: Sometimes we as heathens, use terms that not everyone understands. Or terms that don’t mean today, what they used to mean to our ancestors. I received a message the other day from a new heathen, asking me to explain what I was talking about when I referred to “Luck.” And I thought I’d share that response here for anyone else that isn’t familiar with how our ancestors viewed and defined the concept of “Luck.” Luck is something that was very important to our ancestors. Its not “dumb luck” or “random luck,” like we think of luck today. Read the rest of this entry »
12 Days of Yule by Vincent Enlund-Chieftain, the Wanderer Kindred and Chieftain, the Asatru Alliance-Web Sites: www.wandererkindred.org and www.asatru.org, originally posted on: Asatru-Asatru Heathen Yahoo Group on Wed Jan 12, 2011 Read the rest of this entry »
There is a great deal of information writen about establishing a kindred hof, harrow and shrine as well as landtaking and what to do when you aquire land. But, I have not found anything about what to do when you are moving and don’t want to leave the energy around. I mean, I personally would not want a non heathen to move into a home full of Viking Gods…that would not be nice at all…Maybe the gods just move when you do, but I am wondering if there is something you should do when removing all the sacredness of your space and transporting it…so here is my personal UPG about this. Read the rest of this entry »
Our kindred offers a 24 week rune rune course and one of the assignments was: “Pick one story from the Prose or Poetic Edda and describe what you learned from the story, what you learned about a particular god or goddess and what you feel the story conveys to the reader (i.e. the moral?)”I was so impressed with what our student wrote, because he deviated from the assignment to write something about a goddess that is not covered in much of the lore. I was impressed that he thought outside the box, and that he did some really good research, so with his permission I posted the assignment he sent in!
©Ken Lovering
I chose to write about Hel. She is not written about to any great extent in any one story in either the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson or in the Poetic Edda but is mentioned in several sources including the above. She is mentioned in the Seeress’s Prophecy from the Poetic Edda. There are more mentions of Hel in the Prose Edda. She is also written about as a place, or related to goddesses of other religions such as the Hindu goddess of death, Kali. The Christian term of the place Hell is most likely based on the Norse concept of Hel where evil dead are kept. The Norse concept of Hel is that she is a daughter of Loki the trickster god/Jotun and Angrboda the giantess from the Ironwood forest in the East. Loki’s other children are Fenrir the giant wolf which was bound with the help of Tyr, and the Midgard serpent. Read the rest of this entry »