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As I was going off to sleep two nights ago, I was drifting in that in-between place during which I usually note the onset of dreams, when I became aware of a face looking at me. It was a man’s face, heavily bearded and massive. I would have said somewhere in his forties or fifties and effusing power. I did not see him well or clearly, but in small radiant flashes, as though a weak but transcendent light bulb were swinging in the total darkness of a cave. His brows were heavy and thickly grown...
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Fri, November 13, 2009 - 7:07 AM
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There are a few points that I would like to note on what has been termed Ásatrú, though my first is a general problem with this term itself. The determinant factors in the formation of this neologism (though I realize that it is a longstanding one, being formed in the 1970’s) are transparent. ‘Trú’ as a word for faith and related to the English ‘truth’ renders a meaning with Ása (the genitive plural of Áss) along the lines of ‘gods’-truth’. In its broader sense, ‘trú’ more properly renders wh...
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Thu, November 5, 2009 - 4:06 AM
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Over the past couple of days I was enjoying a gentle course of research into the Old Norse Calendar following any tangents into mythology that might come up when I came across an explication of the dísir and landvættir of the sagas. I was immediately struck by the resonance between the woman I’d seen on the early morning of March 20th (noted it in my entry ‘Aisling a roair’ for that same day — it is ‘Friends Only’) and the image of a dís. Now I realize that the term dís is a collective term t...
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Thu, November 5, 2009 - 12:09 AM
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Continuing from where I left some posts (and a great many moves) ago and having worked with no little effect with my own faculty of envisioning, I set down here below some notes on what I see as our various kinds of aislingeachd. This term is a neologism based on the Gaelic aisling or vision; a dreamer or aislingeach implies such an abstract noun denoting the quality, faculty or even skill of rendering a vision. The Old Irish form would be doubtless something like aislingtheacht with a Modern...
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Wed, October 21, 2009 - 11:29 PM
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Here it is ten minutes to midnight on the Pacific coast, halfway around the world from where I now live, on the first day of the waxing moon, and this is me obsessing - yet again - about the Coligny Calendar. This calendar, like the Cailleach Bhérre, continuously draws me back again and again, but I always seem to end up frustrated, what with the crazy amount of speculation thrown about online (I particularly enjoyed the one 'researcher' who compared the dimensions of the calendar to the Egyp...
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Thu, July 23, 2009 - 12:16 AM
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Re: inner silence - the journey
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Seems to me like you guys are arguing the same point from different angles. Crow seems to be presenting an ideal wherein the mind releases learned attachments, and so can begin to perceive more clearly. Through perceiving it becomes able to become...
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discussion post on Thu, November 26, 2009 - 11:49 AM
Re: A Pagan History?
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The Greek and Roman writers are exactly of whom I was thinking, but it's not so easy as to simply adopt stylistic elements or methods since our world and thought has so changed. A shift in consciousness is precisely what's needed and absolutely po...
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discussion post on Wed, November 25, 2009 - 10:55 AM
Re: A Pagan History?
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It just occurred to me that the title of this thread ought to be 'A Pagan Historiography ...?' Oh well ...
discussion post on Mon, November 23, 2009 - 5:32 PM
A Pagan History?
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What would a truly pagan (leg. non-Christian or other 'people of the book') history look like?
Literary tradition as we have it now cannot be separated from Christian thought, so how can literary activity divest itself of the Christian baggage ... read more discussion post on Mon, November 23, 2009 - 5:31 PM
Re: Quarter Days and Cross-Quarter Days
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Yes, I and MacMorrigain had an exchange over Hutton a little while ago. To my ill-fame, I have not made any more progress in reading Hutton's books - other matters occupying my time - but I have read a number of his articles. I somehow missed the ...
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discussion post on Mon, November 23, 2009 - 4:58 PM
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