#norseheathen — Public Fediverse posts

Hail the Old Gods and their primal dance of life and life’s demise that heats the blood and fuels the hearthside tales. They are dark soil and vaulted sky, crashing waves and howling gale. They are flesh, bone and fiery love, fury, storm and feast and celebration!
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The weather has turned stormy here in Nordrhein-Westfalen this evening. Lowering clouds and rain whipped by a stiff breeze. The rugged beauty of the dark season that would have invited our forebears to retreat to the fireside to tell tales of long ago.
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We walk a way well-trodden by ancestral steps which we embody and continue. And in the continuation, we honour names lost to time but which we need not know. For the remembrance is in receiving the wisdom those nameless grandparents passed on.

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Took an autumnal walk in a small nature reserve in nearby Hiltrup late this afternoon. Discovered a marsh-like corner that conjured a sense of Fensalir.

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Hail Freya-Frigg on Freya-Frigg’s Day.

Through mirk and mist
That dress the salty
Reach of Fensalir
See the völva stride;
In her grasp,
A spindle
Twisting threads of Wyrd,
And seidr weaving,
Binding steps to lore
And lore to every foot,
That immanence attends
The ancestral way.

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Blessings to all this Sunna’s Day.

May your path be illuminated by the old lore and the guidance of the Old Gods be your constant light.

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The Old Gods do not demand worship. Conditioning by the Abrahamic creeds should not besmirch our view that we imagine we must grovel before those whose call beats in our hearts. We honour them as embodiments of the natural order we hold in reverence, and out of which we sprang.

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May the Old Gods guide us to the deep realisation of our oneness with all things, of our interconnectedness as leaves all on the spreading limbs of Yggdrasil. And of our ultimate autumn when we shall be shed for the sake of sprouting once more upon the reach of the Cosmic Tree.

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The quest for meaning is a distraction. The purpose of being is to be; to emerge from the dance of creation and join ourselves to the waltz — the breathless whirl of becoming, flourishing, and decline. To attach a meaning to this momentous act beyond itself is to miss the show.

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A visit to Maxipark in Hamm this afternoon, a little less than an hour’s drive. Autumnal feels, and a pleasant time had in the gardens, and by the kids on the adventure playgrounds. And in the butterfly house, I made a delightful new friend. 😊🦋

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Blessings to all this Mani’s Day!

By the falling darkness,
By the enfolding midnight’s gown,
See Mani ride!
By the shade revealed,
And daylight’s ebb extolled
To watching eyes below,
Whose gaze, enraptured,
Hears the silent lure
Of ancient things
By argent lit.

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Blessings to all on this first day of autumn.

As the wheel turns and bears the world into shorter days and darker nights, may the Gods guide us to the ever-increasing Realisation that it is here, in the season of shadows and demise that the roots of being are nourished.

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Blessings on Tyr‘s Day!

May honour be the currency of your way,
Integrity the touchstone of your deeds,
And justice the arbiter of all.

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A blessed Sunna‘s Day to all!

May your be ever warmed by the companionship of the ancestors,
And your path illuminated by the guidance of the Gods.

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In a few short weeks the year shall incline towards autumn, where endings are coloured in vibrant russet and gold. We have been taught to fear death, but autumn speaks of it in terms of beauty and wonder. That demise is to be celebrated as but a turn of the wheel, not the halting of it.

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The trees have much to teach us, much to share of the ancient ways. Their roots reach deep into the earth upon which our ancestors walked and worked and lived and died. They are libraries of ancient lore wordlessly communicating their secrets to all who will listen.

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Hail Odin on this Odin‘s Day!

Sleipnir rears, kicks
And from thereon
Gungnir is let loose
From the Allfather‘s fist
And without error strikes your foes;
And on their fallen vanity
Geri feasts and Freki gorges
Till with bloodied chops
They howl, sated,
Your path unhindered.

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Hail Freya-Frigg on Freya-Frigg‘s Day!

To Fensalir‘s misty sprawl direct our steps,
Therein to cast our offering
To the Queen of Gods,
And scry within its brackish pools
The echoes of all who passed before,
Whispering of ancient wisdom,
The wordless murmur of arcane knowing.

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There is no dislocation of the Gods from the natural world. To subscribe to such a disconnect leads to an inevitable view of nature as alien to that which we call ‘spiritual.’ It is to become insensible to the Gods in the rocks, the water, the trees — and in every heartbeat.

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I've written this blog post on worshipping the Norse primordial cow, #Auðumbla. She's an important symbol of fertility, sustenance, and the land, and and as large herbivores her children, the aurochs, were an important part of ancient ecosystems. In this post learn about her place in Norse mythology and maybe your own practice, as well as the ecology of the extinct aurochs. Some researchers are trying to bring them back.

https://wp.me/peiAzl-5K

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I'm an ecologist and having a career in that field has made a huge mark on my polytheist practice. I know pagans tend to be a bit crunchy by nature, but my education and training inform the way I see the world and that includes my religious ideology.

I'm not living in ancient or even modern Iceland, or Sweden, or Poland, or Scotland. I tend to focus on local plant and animal life and how they tie into my views on gods related to fertility, the land, and the seasons. Bird migrations inform my shifts in seasonal practice. I see Freyja in my local red-tailed hawks. Óðinn in the common ravens on campus. I know when to expect thunder storms and give to þórr ahead of time, while giving to Freyr during the milder rainy season. When crocus bulbs begin to pop up they tell me we're entering Spring and to thank Mokosz. An Cailleach blows in with the first frost.

One of course doesn't need to be a scientist to be keyed in like this, I know plenty of pagans who are not and are just as keyed in. For me though it's second nature, no pun intended. Having a localized practice brings me closer to the gods in a way that makes sense to me. It also informs how I interact with the land wights, making sure to leave offerings safe for local plants and animals when outdoors. It's brought me into the flow of life around me and I'm at grateful for it.

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I’m looking for high quality sterling silver and real gold Viking/Norse-Heathen jewelry.

What places/people make/sell it?

I have seen some great things from @[email protected], but ho else is out there?
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