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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Rev. Patrick McCollum announces that a documentary about his life and work will soon be released; the Sturgeon Moon rises amid the sparks of Perseus’ sword; plus, Star’s Tarot of the Week and the trolls of Thomas Dambo.
There are plenty of options for pushing back on this culture of weak man-children using anger to puff themselves up. One of them is to turn to myths of mighty Thor.
Lyonel Perabo looks back at four works of interest to Heathens from last year, including The Fool’s Mirror from Troll Cat Press; The Elder Futhark from Hyldyr; the first volume of the International Journal for Heathen Research; and Sif Brookes’s Valkyrjur, Servant or Master?.
Like a “Sunday Catholic” who is extremely devout on Sunday mornings but lives a decidedly un-Christian life for the rest of the week, we can all too easily make grand speeches over the drinking horn at blót but neglect to put intention into action when we step out into the wider world. Are we honoring the ancestors in our lives? Or are we dishonoring them?
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, remembering Harold Fritz Jung (1952-2021), an update on Oak Flat, vandalism at Indigenous heritage sites, underwater ruins in Baia, and more news.