Heathen Board

Getting onto A-S Heathen beliefs is a really hard one....we got our Gods cutoff in the late 6tth and later centuries by a bunch of italians posing as Godi... a Painful transition involving pennance as they said (enforced doing without) for the simplest infraction such as burning grain at burial cere...

forgive me for rambling and wandering on this...something I'm working on at the moment....bear with me... All the gods are aspects of ourselves, and as such each has things to offer......Don't despise Loki he's a useful chap to have on your side (albeit he can't be held for long and if you try you'l...

These groups worry me.. they seem to think that the Ahnenerbe politically motivated search for the Urheimat and the purety of the Aryan race (decended from Atlantis no less and not evolved from Apes like the rest of us lesser species). all of which (apart from the Apes bit) is complete "Floppy ...

what is Wyrd...complicated...but it's not the same as "fate" or Doom...a Dome (A-S "Dome") is something that cannot be avoided...Wyrd on the other hand can be manipulated. Bate's Way of Wyrd is an introduction but certainly doesn't go into it far enough..... Wyrd can be described...

was it ever meant to be taken literally, the Lore comes down from a series of stories and not written accounts (until much later) told to re-enforce society values and teach people how to behave....and of course of what that was not acceptable.... Often it's more interesting to look at the various A...

Ahh what is a Heathen and where do I stand....hmmmm interessting can anyone become a Heathen - I certainly wouldn't stand in their way and would positively encourage them and yet Heathenry is at base a set of social norms that really applies to the Northern Germanic world and not other parts - who h...

Making Mead is really quite simple ingredients 4½lb. of honey yeast nutrient If a wine yeast is to be used, have it activated and ready in advance. Doesn't need to be any particular type. Some use lemon juice as well to add a tang to the mead but personally I like mead pure. Method Bring the honey t...

where to begin....ahh yes Hwaet !( :D :D ) I am Chris (awful isn't it - why couldn't my parents have been foresighted and named me Hereward, or Aethelhere or something).....over here in England, started on the heathen path during University back in the late 1980s, although these days it has progress...