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“Even though Ásatrú might not have been quite where I had imagined it, people were actively trying to work toward something. You don’t get temples and songs and chants and beautiful ceremonies and certainly not a deep knowledge system overnight. You need to discover and build these things. And you need a community to do it with.”
I know I’m in a tiny minority, but – as a practitioner of a tiny minority religion – I’m used to caring about things that are way outside the mainstream of our cultural discourse. And I wonder what we practitioners can offer during this cultural moment in which the majority of us are passively experiencing a major paradigm shift, in which most of us are just unquestioningly along for the ride.
Eric O. Scott continues his conversation with Danica Boyce, host of the Fair Folk Podcast, about her research into folk song and tradition for her new course on Pagan ritual music.
As Icelanders evacuate from the town of Grindavík, TWH speaks with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, allsherjargoði of the Icelandic Heathen organization Ásatrúarfélagið, about how the seismic activity and potential volcanic eruption has affected local Heathens.
Maybe it’s not such a great idea to turn to writers from 1,000, or 2,000, or 3,000 years before the United Nations publicly published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for teachings on the universality of human rights.