Alaric Albertsson
Column: Practice Tips
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott received new magical tools this weekend – a set of spearheads dedicated to the god Odin.
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.
Paganism
Column: Following the Wanderer
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What does it mean to be wise? Is it better to be only “middling-wise,” or to accept the trouble of deeper wisdom? Karl Seigfried investigates passages from the Hávamál and ponders what they mean for those who seek to be wise.
Paganism
Opinion: Sigurd, the Dragon, and Our World Today
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Karl Seigfried examines the myths of the Old Norse Volsung cycle and considers what meanings they might have for the modern world.
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.