Loki is NOT an Heathen God
Loki is NOT a Heathen God This statement: “Getting hung up on the Abrahamic ‘good vs. evil’ mindset is counter productive. Good and evil weren’t even concepts our ancestors subscribed to,” in defense of honoring Loki demonstrates that Loki-worship is simply an anti-christian reaction and has nothing to do with heathenry. Loki is not a
Spinning seiðr
In an article called “Spinning seiðr”, which is the basis for the modern connection between seiðr and the Norns, scholar Elder Heide writes: ‘This paper argues that seiðr was about spinning a mind emissary, sending forth such a spun emissary, or attracting things or doing other things with such a mind emissary.’ He begins: ‘The
SEIÞ-MENN vs. SEIþ-KONA Gender-Bias in Black Magic Debunked
While the story of the “Little Volva” and “spa-kona” practicing spa (prophecy) on the seið-stool in Erik the Red’s Saga chapter 4 is usually taken as the prime example of seið-work, we have a parallel example from Laxadela Saga chapter 35, of a married man with two sons practicing seið on the seið-stool to raise
EVIDENCE of a CHRONOLOGICAL MYTHIC EPIC
From Creation to Ragnarokby Margaret Clunies Rossfrom Prolonged Echoes, Vol. I, ch, 7, 1994 “It has been argued (Bauschatz 1982,119-54, esp. 140-3) that there was such a thing as a ‘Germanic’ conception of time which divided it into past and non-past, not into past, present and future. I can find no support for this notion
On Cogfodas
Cofgodas: Glossy New Penates for the 21st CenturyThe Classical School of Interpretation In the 21st century, a new orthopraxy has emerged in the pagan movement, self-identifying as “Hearth Cults”, In the Germanic sphere, this practice is commonly centered around the German Kobold, said to be closely akin, if not identical to the Anglo-Saxon cofgodas, defined
THE TABLE IS SET: GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER?
Visiting Gods at the Yuletide Table In old heathen times, the purpose of the Hearth Cult was not to invoke the wild nature spirits, but to welcome the gods who commanded such creatures. After a thorough study of her legends and her related forms, both Jacob Grimm and Erica Timm identified Frau Holla, Perchta, Berhte
ELVES ON THE SHELVES: GNOMES and MISNOMERS
The Nature and Purpose of the Germanic Hearth Cult Recently I have had opportunity to examine the primary evidence for the Germanic Hearth Cult, loosely defined as the regular rituals heathens of old practiced in their homes. The modern pagan concept of the Hearth Cult in recent years is based on the scholarship of Claude
Now We See a Folk Arise
Now we see a folk arise. With fire in their heart and a reawakened spirit. The skin is shed and foreign creeds fall to ash. We have fought, tooth and nail, with blood and sweat and tears, to see our religion truly reborn. The Gods are with us! Now our time has come! Let
A Kings Counsel
A passage from the Sverris Saga in which the Eponymous King Sverrir gives brave counsel to his assembled men at arms by relating to them a story. From this story we see here detailed our ancestors unshaking devotion to the implacability of their preordained fate and how it was used to justify an intensely martial
SEIþR: JOTUN WITCHCRAFT AMONG THE GODS.
Our sources do not record how seiðr was practiced, so any modern book of seiðr practices is going to be the modern UPG of its author, regardless of who writes it. What we know of seiðr must be gleaned from the sources. In the Saga of Erik the Red, seiðr is accompanied by women singing
