Living
Column: Mistletoe
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Luke Babb recounts their attempts – not all of them successful – to bring the spirit of mistletoe into their Yuletide traditions.
Arts & Culture
Review: Sigur Rós’s “Odin’s Raven Magic”
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Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reviews the new Sigur Rós album “Odin’s Raven Magic,” which features Ásatrúarfélagið leader Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson.
Arjuna
Column: The Left Eye of Odin (or Right)
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Which eye did Odin lose, exactly? Karl Seigfried takes this and other overly-literal questions as a jumping-off point for an exploration of Pagan theology, including a comparison with the Bhagavad Gita that demonstrates why gods take on familiar shapes to become comprehensible to human eyes.
Paganism
Column: Wyrd Science – Viking Equity in the Coronavirus Age
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Karl E.H. Seigfried delves into the Viking-era virtue of “hóf,” or “moderation,” and how its spirit of community ties should matter to modern Heathens in the age of the coronavirus.
Egil Skallagrimson
Column: Longing to Go Abroad
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Weekend Editor Eric Scott receives a lovely set of books that make him long to go on pilgrimage.