Arts & Culture
Review: Jackson Crawford’s “The Wanderer’s Hávamál”
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Lyonel Perabo reviews Jackson Crawford’s “The Wanderer’s Havamal,” a translation of the Old Norse wisdom poem alongside several additional texts.
Arts & Culture
Review: Endymion or the State of Entropy – A Lyrical Drama
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Alan D.D. reviews the new book “Endymion or The State of Entropy: A Lyrical Drama” written by Kurt R. Ward and illustrated by Rebecca Yanovskaya. This illustrated fantasy conjures a world in which archetypal characters from Greek mythology battle for dominance, as Endymion, the main character, attempts to wake himself from an endless sleep.
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.
Paganism
Review: Ptahmassu Nofra-Uaa’s Divine Icons and Sacred Verses
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Nofra-Uaa draws from the natural world and expresses a religious experience not confined by establishments, traditions, or dogma, but instead draws from the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the body itself, to describe a religious state devoid of shame or spiritual fascism.
Asatru
Column: The World Tree, Heimdall, and All of Us
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“The earth rotates around an axis drawn from the south pole, through the planet, out the north pole, and up to the pole star. With a bit of imagination, diagrams of this world axis show a trunk with roots in the earth and the pole star at the top of the leader. Old Icelandic poetry tells us of the mighty measuring tree. The growth and life of this tree parallel the growth and life of this world, and none know where to find the beginning point of its roots.”