The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/identity)
There is a question that I’ve asked myself sometimes and that I haven’t had an answer to for a long time: What do I get from working with the ancestors? From all the spirits and all the entities that I could work with – the deities, the fae, spirits of the land, egregores – why should I work with the departed specifically?
Sin embargo, hay una pregunta que me he hecho en ocasiones y para la cual aún no tengo respuesta: ¿por qué debería trabajar con los ancestros? ¿Qué gano al hacerlo? De todos los espíritus y entidades con los que podría trabajar —deidades, fae, espíritus de la tierra, egregores—, ¿por qué elegir a los ancestros específicamente?
There are reasons that stories travel from culture to culture, but Jack has always been something of an anomaly in how widespread and yet contiguous his stories are. He may be from Cornwall, Germany, or North Carolina in a given story, but his character is recognizable and the story is more than likely the same.
Storm Faerywolf writes on the power of names, labels, and personae – and especially of “Queer,” a magical name for an entire community.
The idea of creating an iron wall between religious faith and participation in democracy is a dead-end. Karl Seigfried argues for the need for modern Pagans and Heathens to find how our religious values can inform a democratic worldview and action.