Paganism
Opinion: The World Tree and the State of Affairs
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We, the people, are down here under the massive roots of the World Tree. In this vision, we are not at the center of creation. We are not even at the center of attention.
Paganism
Gathering the Heathen Tribes: Asatru UK’s Althyng
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TWH’s Lyonel Perabo speaks with Jack Hudson, events coordinator for Asatru UK, about the upcoming Althyng festival in North Yorkshire, England.
Paganism
Opinion: Thor, Odin, and the High Cost of Fundamentalism
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Karl E.H. Seigfried delves into the ways we interpret and misinterpret the texts that shape our lives – whether those texts are Old Icelandic poems or the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
agnosticism
Column: Hanging Garden
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The din had been loud inside the house, but outside, I felt like I was being buffeted by it, surrounded on all sides by argument. I felt a guilty weight in the pit of my stomach. I knew what the sound was now. I looked up and without any joy found what I expected to find.
There were exactly two black crows sitting in the branches of my tree, facing my house, yelling at me.
“What do you want?” I sighed. But I knew.
blindness
Column: Old One-Eye
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The folks I know who work with Odin, after a certain age, have remarkably similar medical histories. Eye trauma features heavily: cataracts, glaucoma, the sorts of illness that require long periods with eye patches or new, glass eyes to fill out empty sockets. The day my partner looked at me and held up their hand, covering one eye and nodding as if something made more sense, sits with me still on some nights.