Paganism
Pagan Community Notes: Week of September 12, 2024
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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Ardantane receives a gift from Covenant of the Goddess, Cherry Hill Seminary survey, events and happenings and more.
Arts & Culture
Of Sacred Hymns and Profane Revelry: Midgardsblot 2024
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The Midgardsblot festival, taking place each August in Borre, just south of Oslo, Norway, has slowly but surely become ubiquitous among Viking nerds, Norse Pagans, and metalheads alike. With its unique blend of extreme Metal and nordic folk acts (among others), alongside numerous artistic and academic entertainment acts, it was only a matter of time that I checked it out for myself.
Culture
Table Full of Nazis
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This is why I no longer wear the hammer in public. There’s just too much darkness lurking below the surface, across the board.
Living
Green Woods and Stone Ships: The Second Skåne Pilgrimage
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Exhausted, sweaty, and painfully hungry, I take my back into the gravel road of what must be Sōdra Ugglarp. On the horizon a long earthen-colored brick building stands against the deep blue sky, like a wall. In front of it, I notice a concrete-pit filled with horse manure. Closest to me, nearly as long as the barn, lies the stone ship, shaped by dozens of massive standing stones, like teeth of a giant rising from the green earth.
Arts & Culture
The Heathenry Preservation Society
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Sometimes, the Mead of Poetry works indirectly. An old rock ‘n’ roll song is stuck on repeat in my head, spinning unceasingly between my ears. Actually, it’s not even an entire song. It’s just a verse or a chorus or sometimes only a line or two. Someone else’s creative creation gets lodged in there, doing work on my mind that only I can hear.