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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.
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Luke Babb recounts their attempts – not all of them successful – to bring the spirit of mistletoe into their Yuletide traditions.
Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reviews the new Sigur Rós album “Odin’s Raven Magic,” which features Ásatrúarfélagið leader Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson.
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.
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.
Weekend Editor Eric Scott receives a lovely set of books that make him long to go on pilgrimage.