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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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I have always struggled with the idea of visions. It's not their plausibility that troubles me. I certainly believe that visions happen. It's not even the issue of which visions ought to be believed that bothers me. My world is constituted of a single, indivisible truth that is beyond any one claim to grasp it and that is also fragmented into an infinite array of facets - our individual awarenesses - scattered across space and time (if you are incensed by my deliberate use of a paradox, I sug...
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Sat, November 1, 2008 - 7:59 AM
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Re: New home blessings?
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My wife handles the smudging & portals. For myself, I usually make a full walk of the grounds before we commit to the dwelling to make sure there are no dead trees: a very bad sign of some misalignment in the site. This was a hard lesson to learn ...
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discussion post on Mon, November 9, 2009 - 10:41 AM
Re: Away with the Trees?
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Good luck on the Pictish record. From what I understand, the Welsh tradition is a little more robust, but you'd probably be better off looking into the continental druidic tradition. Considering the peculiarities of druidic culture and the charact...
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discussion post on Sat, November 7, 2009 - 11:57 PM
Re: The Celtic Calendar
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Archive.org has some Gaelic almanacs that are fairly interesting for the light they shed on things. (www.archive.org/details/am...gusle00camu is the one that I learned most from) So far as looking at weather patterns, I think it's a p...
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discussion post on Sat, November 7, 2009 - 2:38 PM
Re: blood & mead
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Woah. And again I say, woah. That's intense.
Is there any way that you could rig up a recipe, and have you ever tried this yourself? discussion post on Sat, November 7, 2009 - 2:00 PM
blood & mead
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I am curious regarding the use of blood in brewing. My interest here is largely academic in that there are accounts in the Norse sagas of blood being drunk in ritual feasts. Usually this is the blood of a sacrificially slaughtered horse whose fles...
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discussion post on Thu, November 5, 2009 - 8:59 AM
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