Tag: odin
Kvasir, Odin, and the Mead of Poetry
Fjalar and Galar drained Kvasir of blood, combining it with honey and their magick to create the Mead of Poetry.
Odin, by Diana Paxson
Odin, by author and priestess Diana Paxson, is a wonderful text for anyone interested in a general introduction to a very complex Norse god.
Return of Odin, by Richard Rudgley
The Return of Odin, which bears a preface entitled “The Gathering Storm” is bound to occasion a certain amount of nervousness, particularly given the subject matter. That being said, once I completed the book, this title makes perfect sense in its context.
Worshipping familiar gods: Going beyond pop culture
We can be called to honour deities from cultures other than our own. Even if we have seen a movie with the deity in it, there's still more to learn.
Rainbow Runes
This is a beautiful set of runes made from a range of stones including: cherry quartz, white jade, hematite, watermelon crystal, and green aventurine.
Dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers: Magick and the art of storytelling
Storytelling allows us to create whole new worlds or to recast our current one in a more striking shape -- as dream, as nightmare, or political tool.
Heathenry and Anglo-Saxon cosmology
Anglo-Saxon Heathenry is sometimes called Fyrnsidu, and is a nebulous and lesser-understood branch of Germanic cultural Heathenry.
Yule, by Susan Pesznecker
Yule: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for the Winter Solstice, by Susan Pesznecker Llewellyn Worldwide, 978-0-7387-4451-3, 227 pp. (incl. correspondences for Yule, further reading, bibliography, and...
Did Freemasonry invent modern Paganism?
Freemasonry's influence may have gone largely unacknowledged, though it, too, at times, has existed as a conduit for ideas and traditions.
Discordianism, angels, and Viking women kicking ass
A description of a consecration ritual for bune spirit pots. On the etymology and cultural reading of monsters in the middle ages.