Labels are always a fun game to play in Paganism, Polytheism, Heathenry, what-have-you. On the one hand they can be helpful in defining how we see ourselves and what we believe and do – on the other they are only ever a general description and as often as not they divide us instead of bringing us together. I have many labels for myself because my beliefs are complex and layered, and the terms I…
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Do Elves And Fairies Have Physical Forms?
"To make my small elves coats." Illustrations to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A. Rackham, common domain
Among some people in modern belief elves and fairies are often assumed to be entirely insubstantial, that is they are described in the same terms as ghosts or other incorporeal spirits and are said to have no physical forms that can be touched or interacted with. This view has…
Racism is Not Part of CR – Or My Heathenry
So its late summer and once again there’s a flare up in the Heathen social media sphere relating to racism. Sadly this is nothing new. In fact three years ago, also in August, I wrote a previous blog partially about my opinion of racism. This is not a new issue.
This particular iteration came up when the Asatru Folk Assembly, a large US Heathen organization, made a public statement which has…
Racism is Not Part of CR
So its late summer and once again there’s a flare up in the Heathen social media sphere relating to racism. Sadly this is nothing new. In fact three years ago, also in August, I wrote a previous blog partially about my opinion of racism. This is not a new issue.
This particular iteration came up when a large US Heathen organization made a public statement which has widely been interpreted as…
Gods and Fairies – Excerpt from Fairycraft
Gods and Fairies – Excerpt from Fairycraft
In
Christian myth it is said that the fairies exist as beings that are between the
nature of angels and demons; many people dismiss this as later propaganda but I
believe it represents a reflection of genuine older belief. In pagan times the
fairies were seen as being of the same nature as the Gods, but on a lower
level, existing somewhere…
My Polytheism
I’ve been a polytheist for a long time now, and an animist, arguably, for longer.
Polytheism is one of those deceptively easy-but-complicated things that a person says that tells you everything and nothing all at once.
I’m a polytheist – but what does that mean? Well obviously that I believe in and honor more than one deity. That would be the easy part. But the nuts and bolts of it is where the…
Hello darkness my old friend
I’ve always loved that song by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence. It’s always spoken to me and is a go to song when I get a little twisted. Today is such a day. The news feeds on social media is full of crap (like that’s unusual), but the death of yet […]
A New History of Ireland
Promotion: Books aimed at Children and Adults
So I thought I would do something a little different today and promote a few books that I have read, liked and used to teach my little cousins about aspects of paganism and recommended to my family so that they get what I am doing.
The first(…)
Decayed Gods
Author: Wouter W. Belier
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1991
ISBN: 9004094873
Synopsis: In 1930 Dumezil wrote an article in which he(…)