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Think Like a Heathen, Part 2: The Experience

On April 17, 2018

There are a lot of challenges inherent in bringing any part of a past culture into the modern world. Things as intangible as religious and spiritual beliefs are especially challenging because while historians and archaeologists can dig up some information about a culture, much of what they find is limited and very open to interpretation.

Heathen Book Reviews

Nordic Religions In The Viking Age, by Thomas A. DuBois

By Cara Freyasdaughter

On March 13, 2018

Nordic Religions in the Viking Age by Thomas A DuBois Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1999 x + 271 pp, 5 illus. Reviewed by Cara Freyasdaughter, Independent Scholar; published in The Pomegranat

Editorials , Heathen How To's! , Modern Heathenry

Think Like a Heathen, Part 1: Lore

By Cara Freyasdaughter

On March 12, 2018

Know’st how to write, know’st how to read Know’st how to stain, know’st how to understand Know’st how to ask, know’st how to offer knows’t how to supplicate, know’st how to sacrifice?

A Personal Encounter with History and Spirit

By Tahni Nikitins

In Editorials

On March 9, 2018

Much of what is “known” about the temple at Uppsala is almost exclusively based on the writings of Adam of Bremen, a Christian chronicler who wrote about the cultic activity at Uppsala without ever having seen Uppsala. Aside from the fact that he likely embellished details related to him by people who had seen Uppsala, the fact that he was closely tied to the Christian church renders him at least moderately unreliable, though certainly not entirely unreliable.

A Pair of Goats

From Canter to Trot

By Xander

On February 12, 2018

Sometimes nature sends you a reminder to slow down and conserve your energy. It is a small kindness, this permission, and it took me years to accept it.

Editorials , Modern Heathenry

Heathen Theology & Asking Good Questions

By Cara Freyasdaughter

On February 5, 2018

What could a modern polytheist theology look like? Theology shouldn't be a fixed thing, locked in stone; like the people whose needs it addresses, it needs to grow and change in order to remain relev

From Pre-Christian Scandinavia to Now: Validating the Worship of the Jötnar

By Tahni Nikitins

In Editorials

On January 15, 2018

Through the course of this series, we've explored archaeological and written evidence of the pre-Christian religions of Scandinavia, which seems to support a less divisive relationship between the Aesir and the Jötnar before the influence of Christianity...

Stag & Thorn

Spirits of the Forest: The Moss People

By Heather O'brien

On January 12, 2018

Folklore is filled with creatures who haunt and dwell in natural spaces and within the in-between, residing on the edges of boundaries between the wild and the more civilized. One such group of creatu

Modern Heathenry

Make The Holidays Your Own

By Cara Freyasdaughter

On January 3, 2018

Heathen holidays come in all shapes and sizes. Depending on which specific tradition you practice, you may celebrate different holidays than the other Heathens near you.

The Lore and Tradition of Mistletoe

By Heather O'brien

In Stag & Thorn

On December 18, 2017

It is the plant that inspires a holiday kiss beneath where it hangs. Its historic symbolism has been celebrated for generations. Associated with the Norse goddess Frigg, and the death of her son Baldr, mistletoe is firmly an evergreen part of Scandinavian lore.

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