Category: Editorials

Trauma Through a Heathen Lens

By Tahni Nikitins

In Editorials

On October 5, 2018

I’ve worked extensively with people who’ve suffered trauma, especially those who are still working through its aftermath. I myself am a survivor of rape, and have supported friends who have survived sexual traumas and abuse. More recently, I was exposed to so much secondary trauma through my work, with so little support from the organization I […]

Editorials , Kurt Hoogstraat

So You Think You Can Be a Vitki, Part 1

By Letter to the Editor

On September 20, 2018

New HHH author and full-time Vitki Kurt Hoogstraat describes the path he took to become a Vitki, or Heathen priest. There have been people in my life that have asked me the question “How dare you ca

Community Service, the Sigyn Connection, and Heathen Values

By Tahni Nikitins

In Contributing Authors , Editorials , Tahni Nikitins

On September 12, 2018

Though I’ve always been community service minded, my relationship to service has changed over the years. The biggest changes have happened when my relationship to my gods changed. I first started volunteering with Sexual Assault Support Services, which came out of my psychological studies and coincided with my personal values. It had little to nothing […]

Contributing Authors , Editorials , Eric Word-Weaver Sjerven

Of Roots and Branches: Balancing Tradition and Innovation in Modern Heathenry

By Letter to the Editor

On September 6, 2018

(Written by new HHH contributing author Eric Word-Weaver Sjerven, Gođi of the Hridgar Folk.) Throughout my short years on Midgard, I have seen Heathens debate on the nature of Heathenry and what form

Editorials

Honoring our Ancestral Ties: Othala

By Letter to the Editor

On July 29, 2018

By Jan Tjeerd The “Othala” Connection to Where we Call Home Othala is the rune of inheritance and most connected to our ancestors.* It is either the final rune of the futhark or the second

Toxic Masculinity in Heathenry

By John Mainer

In Editorials , John T Mainer

On July 13, 2018

I am one of those people that set some feminists off because I do pull back chairs, hold doors, and ma’am ladies that I pass. I also hold the doors for children, men, and anything except draugr, because even courtesy has limits. I was taught that a strong man showed courtesy to people as part […]

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Oaths and Dedication

By Sae Lokason

On July 6, 2018

I recently came across a question about swearing an oath to a god. Before we get into that, let’s take a look at what an oath is. If you go with the dictionary definition of an oath, it is a solemn

Modern Heathenry

Maintaining Relationships With The Gods: It Takes Work

By Cara Freyasdaughter

On June 11, 2018

Among the many things I do, I’m a member of a 12-step program. My 12-step program helped me get my life back on track many years ago when things were out of control. One of the things I’ve realize

Fitting Memorial

By John Mainer

In Editorials , John T Mainer

On May 28, 2018

(Author’s Note: This article is by John Mainer, HHH contributor.) For those in the United States, this is Memorial Day weekend. This is the time the US gathers to remember those who gave their lives in the service of their nation, that the great experiment of the first great revolutionary Constitutional Republic could be allowed […]

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