Paganism
Review: A Cauldron Overflowing with Sacred Knowledge – “Our Troth” vol. 2
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Lyonel Perabo reviews the newly published second volume of Our Troth, which covers Heathen deities, spirits, and other mythological figures.
Paganism
Column: Wheel in the Sky
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When a wild thunderstorm strikes Chicago at the exact moment of the summer solstice, Karl Seigfried is reminded of the power of a mythopoetic understanding of the natural world.
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Review: Getting all the Bases Covered with “Ásatrú for Beginners”
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Lyonel Perabo reviews Mathias Nordvig’s new introductory book on Heathenry, “Ásatrú for Beginners: A Modern Heathen’s Guide to the Ancient Northern Way.”
Paganism
Column: “By Toutatis!” – Asterix and the Pagan Revival
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Lyonel Perabo pays tribute to an unexpected source of his journey into Paganism – the classic comic series Asterix.
Paganism
Column: the Woman in the Refrigerator and the Girl with Two Mothers
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At the beginning of this semester, students in my undergraduate college course on Grimms’ Fairy Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen) read the prefaces to the two volumes of the first edition. In the preface to the second volume of 1815, Wilhelm Grimm responds to criticism of the first volume of 1812 after asserting that the collection of tales should serve as an “educational primer” (Erziehungsbuch):
Objections have been raised against this last point because this or that might be embarrassing and would be unsuitable for children or offensive (when the tales might touch on certain situations and relations – even the mentioning of the bad things the devil does) and that parents might not want to put the book into the hands of children. That concern might be legitimate in certain cases, and then one can easily make selections. On the whole it is certainly not necessary. This argument is often heard today.