Grinchy holidays

There was a time when I loved holidays.  The gathering of family, friends with no other place to go made Thanksgiving a day filled with too much food, tons of laughter, plenty to drink, football, games played. A day enjoyed by all in true southern style.(…)

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An Dagda

One of the most well known Gods of the Tuatha de Danann is the Dagda. He can be found under many variations of the name and under many by-names, such as Daghdae, Dagdai, Daghdo, Daghdou, Dagdae, Dagdhua, Dagdhae, Dagda Mor, Dagda Donn and(…)

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The Celts

Author: Wolfgang Meid
Publisher: Innsbruck
Copyright: 2010
ISBN:9783851242287

Synopsis: “The Celts” – who were they? Did(…)

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Illumination in Utter Darkness

As life churns through some rather intense and tumultuous moments, I find myself hermiting like never before, hunkering down as the winter weather quickly takes Seattle and the great social freeze sets in.  I’ve been spending most of my free time making incense in the quiet darkness of my candlelit kitchen. So far I’ve got …

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The Four Treasures

“305. There were four cities in which they [the Tuatha de Danann] were acquiring knowledge and science and diabolism: these are their names, Failias, Goirias, Findias, Muirias. From Failias was brought the Lia Fail which is in Temair, and which used to(…)

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Long Term Food Storage

Blessings Darlings!

A few months back I wrote a post that was kind of  ‘intro to Fern’s approach to long term food storage’.  Here’s the link. As I said, it’s an intro – my approach to long-term food storage is calorie based, that is, first I stored the minimum basic calories we’d need, and from there I round it out.

How I round it out is what this post is about.

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Of Methodology

A few people who have visited my blog and read the page I had up on it (Reconstructionism and Unverified Personal Gnosis) sent me emails(…)

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Chronicles Of The Celts

Author: Iain Zaczek

Published: 1996

Publisher: Collins and Brown Limited, Great Britain.

Pages: 159

Synopsis: Chronicles of the Celts presents the epic stories of a fascinating people. Here are legends(…)

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Under The Sea

The mermaid (I think) peeled the tattooed flesh off the remains of the spelunking treasure hunter. One last pause to offer me again. I just smiled and waved her on. She sloppily licked the dripping blood then settled into chewing her favorite part of human anatomy.

Eating chicken thighs is going to be interesting when I’m awake after this. I was sorely tempted to offer honey-mustard sauce.

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Kids and Faith

There are certain questions that are commonly asked within the pagan community, and one that I see repeated at least once every few months is about raising children pagan. The exact phrasing of the question may change, but its always expressed in two(…)

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