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  1. Hildeburh

    For Christians. Was the flood real or just a myth?

    OOPArts= Out Of Place Artifacts. OOPArts are often used by Creationiststs to create fakelore. There's a rebuttal site here for most of the claims made by Creationists: The Talk.Origins Archive: Arguments against Creationism and Intelligent Design FAQs
  2. Hildeburh

    Racism in Heathenry

    Glad you enjoyed it. I still haven't read it but it's on my list of things to do :). I read your article, it's always alarming when Germanic paganism is used to promote white supremacy. Racism should not be dismissed or downplayed in any context; good to see that pagan groups have banded...
  3. Hildeburh

    Racism in Heathenry

    Agreed dude :) PS. I see you mix germanic heathenry with Slavic paganism. The Volga vikings or the Rus had their base in Kiev and Novgorod, the Islamic text written by Ibn Khurradadhbih (840-50) , states that the Rus were ethnically cognate with the Slavs; the term used is Saqāliba. The term...
  4. Hildeburh

    Racism in Heathenry

  5. Hildeburh

    Seiðr and Ergi

    Thanks :) It is clear from the sources that some forms of magic were indigenous to Germanic societies; augury/prognostication, spells and charms in particular. Augury/prognostication took the form of reading omens in nature, such as, by observing the behaviour of birds and horses and also by...
  6. Hildeburh

    Seiðr and Ergi

    Yes, I could not have put it better myself.
  7. Hildeburh

    Seiðr and Ergi

    Your English is great, I'm trying to learn Danish at the moment and trust me it nowhere near as good as your English. To me, it seems like an entirely monotheist model to have one priest (gothi) leading a community of believers, and purporting to know all the gods. Home or ancestor and wight...
  8. Hildeburh

    Seiðr and Ergi

    There's plenty of evidence in the historical literature regarding augury and reading of omens, frankly it would surprise me if Heathens didn't employ it in some form or other. Like all skills some do it better than others, some are more tuned to wyrd. Sacrifice was they primary agency to...
  9. Hildeburh

    Seiðr and Ergi

    I am a non nazitru traditional pagan and I have no strong feelings about modern practitioners of seidr. I would come to see you if it were necessary and possible; Denmark being a little far from Australia :)
  10. Hildeburh

    Racism in Heathenry

    I think that is a marvelous idea. I see this as a part of a wider discussion regarding the use of the descriptor Heathen. The title Heathen has become too generic and applied too liberally, rather like the title Wicca. Is it too late to reclaim the word Heathen from neo-völkisch groups such as...
  11. Hildeburh

    Birds From Theropods?

    There's an awesome BBC podcast on this topic here: Feathered Dinosaurs, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4
  12. Hildeburh

    How did God create life?

    Take Darwin out of evolution? How? Darwin's work was pioneering and still is accepted 150 years after its initial publication as a groundbreaking, so much so that Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection forms the basis of Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (AKA neo Darwinism). Or are you...
  13. Hildeburh

    The Amazing Teachings of Jesus: Forgive

    LOL and Amen!
  14. Hildeburh

    atheism and death

    We return to the earth, our atoms become building blocks for other things.
  15. Hildeburh

    The Amazing Teachings of Jesus: Forgive

    Pity the Christian church doesn't follow it's own teachings, we may have had less war, murder, torture, misogyny, child abuse and decimation of native cultures.
  16. Hildeburh

    Examples of a paradox?...

    I have two favorites: “All generalizations are false, including this one.” Albert Einstein And “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” Plato
  17. Hildeburh

    Seiðr and Ergi

    Ergi had several meanings all relating to gender constructs: manliness, cowardess, passive homosexuality etc. The homosexuality aspect specifically relates to a man taking the woman's role in sex. I doubt there was a word for transsexual but there were laws in the Grágás against women wearing...
  18. Hildeburh

    Seiðr and Ergi

    Norse society had strict moral codes and gender norms, very different to those of modern society. Ergi/regi variously meant craven, unmanly and/or sexually perverted (passively homosexual). False accusations of ergi could be punishable outlawry or vengeance by combat. I don't think Old Norse...
  19. Hildeburh

    The flood of Noah's

    That would be an example of a theory not a myth.
  20. Hildeburh

    The flood of Noah's

    Myths, largely copied from the epic of Gilgamesh.
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