Arts & Culture
New Heavy Music for Pagan Hearts, Volume 2
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Karl E.H. Seigfried spins up five records sure to appeal to Pagan rock and metal listeners, including new releases from Green Lung, SpellBook, and Dungeon Weed.
Living
An Urban Heathen in an Urban Forest
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Aside from mysterious nocturnal creatures and inner earth cults, there are also elves and dwarfs in the forest. There are dark holes in trees that are obviously the entrances to elf homes. There are ancient tree stumps clearly used by the elf-king to address his gathered followers during moonlight ceremonies.
Paganism
Column: The Stories of Our Lives
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Ever since then, across six decades, I’ve associated the forest – any forest – with dwarfs, elves, secrets, songs, trolls, traps, witches, wizards, and other mysterious manifestations. All unknowingly, my ex-monk philosophy professor father was laying the tracks for my later embrace of Norse mythology and Ásatrú religion.
Paganism
Column: Superman and the American Way
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Karl E.H. Seigfried examines DC Comics’ Superman as an American myth – one that can be told in many ways.