altar
Column: María Lionza – the Venezuelan Queen of Spirits
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Alan D.D. introduces TWH’s readers to the following of María Lionza, the Venezuelan Queen of Spirits.
The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/altar)
Alan D.D. introduces TWH’s readers to the following of María Lionza, the Venezuelan Queen of Spirits.
Columnist Luke Babb describes their deepening experiences with directly interacting with the gods and their journey from agnostic to hard polytheist.
Luke Babb writes on stumbling upon – and then creating – sacred places, including constructing altars for the Heathen gods at Trothmoot 2019.
Karl E.H. Seigfried’s interviews with four members of Berkano Hearth Union (BHU), a community for Heathens and people interested in Heathenry based in Georgia.
I never had an altar before I moved out of my parents’ house. That seems impossible, in retrospect, but I can’t remember ever setting one up. I had some statues – mostly the same ones that line my altar today, actually – but I never thought it was important to set them up in a way that would facilitate personal rituals. For that matter, I never cared much about doing said rituals in the first place. This may explain why, all these years later, I’m terrible about remembering to actually use my altar; whenever I hear somebody I respect mention how she finds daily practice mandatory, I feel sheepish.