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The place I work at has added a new product – bone in broasted chicken. But Corporate keeps auto-shipping us WAY more than we sell. Okay, we cook the extra chicken (it’s fresh, and has a short use-by date) unseasoned/breaded, then take the meat off the bones to use in …
Every year there’s a lot of commentary that floats around the pagan community claiming several things about the holiday of Ostara, most of them untrue. So lets take a look at the urban legends and the realities, shall we?
Firstly the idea that Easter is related to the Goddess Ishtar. Ishtar is not pronounced ‘easter’; it’s a pretty straightforward name actually and is pronounced ‘ishtar’ just…
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Sometimes the Gods give us names. Sometimes, however, they give us …
By Air n-Aithesc (Our Message) in Air n-Aithesc Press Books
92 pages, published 3/1/2016
Full Title: Understanding Celtic Religion – Revisiting The Pagan Past
Series: New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
Synopsis: (From back of the book) Although it has long been acknowledged that the early Irish literary corpus preserves both pre-Christian and Christian elements, the challenges involved in the understanding of these different strata have not been subjected to critical examination. This volume…
This is one of those blogs that’s going to seem completely obvious to some of you, but I have found that for many pagans and polytheists we get so caught up in our idea of our spirituality being a certain way – read: primitive – that we can be a bit blind to some things. Like the way that modern life and technology intersect with ancient Gods and spirits, for example. Recently a friend of mine…
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There has been quite a spate of “OMGs, there are spirits in my new house! I must banish them all!” posts in Facebook groups recently…
So something that comes up fairly regularly is the question of whether Danu and Anu are the same goddess or two distinct individuals*.
I want to say up front that this is one of those fun things that scholars disagree about so what follows is not meant to be conclusive but merely reflect my opinion and the evidence I base that opinion on.
I tend to believe that Anu and Danu are different…
So another Pantheacon has come and gone and the Morrigan community is currently abuzz with our very own controversy. People are blogging about it and there is quite a bit of hyperbole winging around on both sides. I’m not going to link to any of the other blogs, just google ‘bullets for the Morrigan’ and you can start wading through the results.
I really debated weighing in on this one or not…
Spring couldn’t get here any faster; I’m desperate for some fresh and raw materials. I have a million new brews to ferment, incense to roll, herbs to macerate, essences to distill… And I’m going to need a lot of wild materia for what I plan to achieve by …