Tag Archive for: paganism
A Woman’s Place
Family & SocietyIT HAS been said that Norse paganism is very patriarchal, giving rule and stress to the male in society and worship involved which mostly deals with Odin, Thor, Balder, Frey, etc.... But many fail to realise that the goddesses of the Aesir and Vanir played an important part in the life and worship of the Scandinavian peoples.
Giants and the reliability of received mythology (from the Eddas, Snorri and Saxo)
Circle of Ostara Articles, Deities & LoreThere appear to be two main classifications of deity grouped together under the term "giant": great creative spirits, and the powerful guardians of certain localities - mountains and rivers, for instance.
We Could Condemn Everything That Is Labelled Christian, But…Positive Thinking is the Way
OR and OdinismNow that christianity is crumbling it is sometimes tempting for us to gloat about its imminent demise. But we ourselves have little to gloat about. Sure, more and more of our folk are neglecting christianity but how many of them are actually being restored to their North European gods? Not nearly as many of them as are drifting aimlessly into materialism.