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Shedding Light on the Shadow: Helping Heathens with Depression

On May 10, 2019

Editor’s note: Author Eric Word-Weaver Sjerven has a BA in Psychology, is a licensed Child Care Administrator, and has worked in the field of psychology for 15 years at a residential care center. Throughout time immemorial, men and women have known of the shadow. That ever present, nagging passenger that rides just behind the shoulder, speaking […]

Editorials , Kurt Hoogstraat

Deities and plant wights and runes, oh my!

By Letter to the Editor

On April 26, 2019

I’ll be the first to admit I’m probably crazy. I am a full time Vitki. So this means that my connection to ordinary consciousness is sometimes sketchy at best. I spend a lot of time in other realm

Editorials , Tahni Nikitins

Discussing Resistance within Heathenry

By Tahni Nikitins

On April 19, 2019

On March 15th, Cherry Hill Seminary and the University of South Carolina’s Institute for Anthropology & Archaeology kicked off the symposium “Paganism and Its Discontents.” The event inc

What Must Be Done

By Ryan Smith

In Editorials , Ryan Smith

On April 13, 2019

Reposted from On Black Wings, “What Must Be Done” On Wednesday a Louisiana resident claiming to be an Asatru black metal musician was arrested for burning three historic Black churches. The perpetrator was a member of several Heathen and Pagan webgroups, some more prominent than others, where he was a regular participant in discussions. He […]

Editorials , Vegvísir

Sometimes, breaks happen.

By Sae Lokason

On March 14, 2019

Work, school, family issues and all the various moments that make up life can interfere with our religious or spiritual practices. Hitting the pause button isn’t a bad thing — sometimes it

Editorials , Kurt Hoogstraat

Ergi Warrior

By Letter to the Editor

On February 20, 2019

An ergi warrior. Contradiction of terms? Not possible? I say it is. I’ve always known I was ergi. Gay. From my earliest memories of being the oddball in a rough and tumble familial and social settin

A Cup of Coffee, a Cardamom Roll: Maintaining an Ancestor Veneration Practice

By Cara Freyasdaughter

In Editorials , Modern Heathenry

On January 16, 2019

A while ago, I visited Sweden, trying to reconnect with a bit of my heritage that my family thought had been lost. According to my father, my grandfather did not talk much about his life in Sweden. The story was that he even went so far as to give us a fake name for his […]

Editorials , Tahni Nikitins

Scholarship, Loki, and that Controversy We’ve All Been Hearing About

By Tahni Nikitins

On January 9, 2019

Recently The Wild Hunt published an op-ed piece called Loki in the White House by Karl E.H. Seigfried, and the collective online response was swift and vicious. Understandably many Lokeans and others

Editorials

HHH’s Top Ten Articles of 2018

By Cara Freyasdaughter

On December 31, 2018

Time to wrap up 2018! Here are the top articles viewed by readers at Huginn’s Heathen Hof this past year. Some of the articles are new, but most are oldies-but-goodies. 10. Reconstructing Pre-Ch

The Modern Practice of Seidr

By Letter to the Editor

In Editorials , Kurt Hoogstraat

On December 14, 2018

Note: The following is an excerpt from Kurt Hoogstraat’s upcoming book “On Contemporary Seidr: A How To Guide”. What is contemporary Seidr? It is a method of trance work that can be done alone or for small groups. It doesn’t require a chorus of singers to sing you off to the Nine Realms. Or a […]

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