Paganism
Column: Look Up to the Skies and See
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How can city-dwelling Heathens bring back the old sense of wonder when gazing upwards? How can we reenchant the post-post-postmodern skies in this third decade of the 21st century?
Paganism
Column: Bloody Dreams and Blue Giants
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Despite all their violently macho bravado, even the gods have empathy.
Aphrodite
“Sisyphuses and no Graces”: Telling Myths to Babies
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“I think we have a problem.” I held up two identical wooden blocks, each stamped with an image of a man bent low under the weight of a massive boulder. “We’ve got two Sisyphuses and no Graces.”
Paganism
Column: The Stories of Our Lives
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Ever since then, across six decades, I’ve associated the forest – any forest – with dwarfs, elves, secrets, songs, trolls, traps, witches, wizards, and other mysterious manifestations. All unknowingly, my ex-monk philosophy professor father was laying the tracks for my later embrace of Norse mythology and Ásatrú religion.
Paganism
Column: Nordic Heritage and Scandinavian Idyll
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As my wife takes our daughter to bed for a well-deserved nap, Hanne takes her bicycle out of the shed, hands me the map, a helmet, and a bottle of water. In less time than it takes to recite the runes of the elder futhark, I am out adventuring.