The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/fafnir)
Fáfnir is not born a dragon. He is a man who kills his own father to steal his wealth, then turns into a dragon to embrace the gold he hoards without ever using. He symbolically represents the negation of values belonging to the culture that produced him.
Like the followers of Odin in the long-ago time, we must be strategic. We must form the wedge that can break through the shield-wall that the richest of the rich have trumped up for themselves, a barricade built with filthy lucre and made of men willing to be bought.
Luke Babb ponders how individuals and communities share their knowledge of the spiritual world, and thinks of what it would take to build a Paganism that sharpens every individual Pagan’s wisdom.
Karl Seigfried examines the myths of the Old Norse Volsung cycle and considers what meanings they might have for the modern world.
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