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  1. Hildeburh

    What gods/esses do you call on for protection in these uncertain times?

    This is from my reseach, it's lengthy sorry Veneration of Еогþe in Anglo-Saxon England From surviving literature Еогþe was thought to be associated not only with agriculture and fertility but also with health and healing. Early evidence by Tacitus states that certain...
  2. Hildeburh

    What gods/esses do you call on for protection in these uncertain times?

    Granted we all follow the advice of public health professionals in this uncertain time of COVID 19 but which of your gods/esses do you call upon/ offer to for added protection? For me it is Еогþe, in Old English literature she is the most associated with healing magic and power over the natural...
  3. Hildeburh

    Pan The Drunk Goat God

    You might like this; PAN - Greek God of Shepherds, Hunters & the Wilds (Roman Faunus)
  4. Hildeburh

    Honest to goodness, the man is an idiot

    I usually stay clear of political issues in other countries but as we are all in this COVID 19 mess together and we have relatives in Orange County, I would just like to say I hope there will be better times for you all after the coming election. We watch with disbelief and sadness for the...
  5. Hildeburh

    US-linked Australian church fined US$98,000 for selling bleach as coronavirus ‘miracle cure’

    Lol
  6. Hildeburh

    How much North African and Abrahamic influence on Wicca?

    The answer to this question depends solely on your definition of Wicca. There is Gardnerian Wicca, AKA British Traditional Wicca (BTW) that traces its origin to the New Forest region of England, its offshoots in other countries also have a tracable origin to British Traditional Wicca; via the...
  7. Hildeburh

    Common themes in pagan religions

    Sorry I didn't have much time yesterday. Early tribes were labeled as German or Celtic by interpretatio romana there was no unified Germanic or Celtic culture, tribesmen would have been known by a tribal name and it is still the source of some debate as to which tribes were Germanic and which...
  8. Hildeburh

    Common themes in pagan religions

    Lady With a Mead Cup
  9. Hildeburh

    Common themes in pagan religions

    The Vikings (mostly Danes) also invaded England from AD746 onwards, occupying vast tracts of territory in eastern England between the Rivers Tees and Thames forming the region known as Danelaw.
  10. Hildeburh

    Common themes in pagan religions

    There is a great deal of common ground, I always recommend the classic book by Michael J. Enright called Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy, and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking Age. This book discusses the impact and influence of the Celts on early Germanic...
  11. Hildeburh

    Is Easter Pagan? Why celebrate it?

    No it wasn't. Eostre was a goddess not a spring festival. There is only one mention of Eostre in medieval literature and that is in the Old English corpus; the Northumbrian monk the Venerable Bede in Temporum Ratione states: "Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and...
  12. Hildeburh

    If this pandemic/pestilece is a sign of the end..next sign is in the heavens

    Such a Christian thing to say. If your God created everything then it's just bad luck for humans that viruses infect us and cause death. Or is it your God's will or is he punishing you or is it a sign.........blah blah blah. We are part of the natural world; susceptible to bacterial and viral...
  13. Hildeburh

    Questions about Norse Religion

    Yes, I tend to agree with your ideas about Nerthus. Frigg certainly is more widely attested than Freya, who is found only in Norse mythology. I personally don't believe they were once one goddess but rather that Freya was a newer goddess and perhaps some Frigg's mythos was borrowed or merged...
  14. Hildeburh

    Questions about Norse Religion

    I'm an Anglo Saxon Heathen and I don't worship Nerthus, though I am sure many do. There is a little too much ambiguity surrounding this goddess and zero evidence that this specific goddess made it to England during the migration era for me to feel comfortable invoking the Earth Mother by that...
  15. Hildeburh

    Questions about Norse Religion

    Good thread. I agree with the majority of the discussion. However there is no evidence that Nerthus was a deity worshipped by the Saxons. Nerthus is attested only in the 1st century by Tacitus as a tribal deity of the Reudigni, Aviones, Anglii, Varini, Eudoses, Saurines, and Nuitones; the...
  16. Hildeburh

    My Prediction for the Coronavirus

    This says it all.
  17. Hildeburh

    Is China responsible for Corona Virus or not?

    I don't think the world blames China for COVID19, these viruses exist in animal populations and the more humans exploit and destroy habitats the more contact we will have with them. This one originated in a Chinese wet market, who knows where the next one will orginate. I dont think ascribing...
  18. Hildeburh

    What if life on earth never returned to pre-Coronavirus life?

    Life on Earth? Or do you mean human societies? One could argue that life on Earth would be better off if human societies did not return to business as usual. One could only hope that after this tragedy has past humans may rethink the impact our population is having on this planet, but I doubt it.
  19. Hildeburh

    SKIP THE FACE MASKS! ....... Ummmm........ HANG ON! U-TURN?

    No, Korea did an amazing job in halting transmission by large scale testing, contact tracing and isolating. Standard surgical masks are designed to provide a barrier to splashes and droplets contacting the nose, mouth and respiratory tract, they are not designed to prevent the inhalation of...
  20. Hildeburh

    Hellenismos?

    Hi paganprince, feel free to post in the Heathenry DIR.
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