Soy fan de Lindsey Stirling desde hace mucho, mucho tiempo. Y me enamoré más que nunca del primer sencillo de su próximo álbum, Eye Of The Untold Her. Un video que me hizo pensar en las fracturas internas que tengo y cómo las he ido curando.
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: Practical Magic
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Meg Elison reviews a film that she argues is tonally dissonant, incoherent, and rambling – and also perfect. It’s 1998’s “Practical Magic,” starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, in today’s Classics of Pagan Cinema!
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Ásatrú at the End of the Day
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What does Ásatrú theology have to tell us about end-of-life issues? How does it help us to understand our experiences as we care for those with growing cognitive issues and as we develop those issues ourselves?
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: Chocolat
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Meg Elison combines the folk magic of Lasse Hallström’s 2000 romance “Chocolat” with her own memories of coming to Witchcraft – and coming to terms with her mother.
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Calamities in Pagan Cinema: “The Covenant” (2006)
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“The Covenant” seemed like it was made to be the boys’ own answer to “The Craft.” But the film is too caught up in its own broken masculinity to begin to offer a coherent vision of magic – much less a coherent film.
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Reading the Silmarillion
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Ultimately, whether he intended the Silmarillion to function as a national epic for England, Britain, the Anglosphere, or the entire world does not really matter all that much. What matters is that he succeeded.