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  1. Hildeburh

    "God is a woman"

    In Old English mann ( person/human) is the singular nominative and accusative form only, the plural nominate and accusative in menn. Mankind is plural and so would be eormencynn. It is alluded to in Lokasenna: Othin spake: "Though I gave to him | who deserved not the gift, To the baser, the...
  2. Hildeburh

    "God is a woman"

    No it doesn't, Loki is not attested as being a god anywhere in our corpus, the cult of Loki as a god is an entirely modern construct.
  3. Hildeburh

    "God is a woman"

    PIE *ghut-"that which is invoked" not worshiped (source also of Old Church Slavonic zovo "to call," Sanskrit huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke." The Germanic cognates were neuter nouns. Neuter nouns =does not specify the sex of subject. god | Origin...
  4. Hildeburh

    "God is a woman"

    Gender or sex they are not the same thing: Sex = male and female Gender = masculine and feminine Sex: refers to biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs. Gender: describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or...
  5. Hildeburh

    ASH is Anglo Saxon Heathen, I would also call myself Fyrnsidu (old customs). If you have...

    ASH is Anglo Saxon Heathen, I would also call myself Fyrnsidu (old customs). If you have questions about Yggdrasil I am more than happy to answer them.
  6. Hildeburh

    The Ragnarök

    Is this a quote? If so from where? There are three versions of the Norse creation myth non contain the phrase "in the beginning was the void ". Snorri's in the Prose Edda, which is a particularly unreliable source for a number of reasons) uses the phrase is "In the beginning God almighty...
  7. Hildeburh

    Wyrd

    This is a favorite of mine, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
  8. Hildeburh

    On Working With Gods & Making Requests Of Them

    That's cool, we've been working in the scrub with patchy internet and I got really bored one long rainy weekend so decided to put an epic together.
  9. Hildeburh

    What are the runes to you?

    When I first became a pagan I was quite eclectic and fascinated with all things Germanic, I used the runes, futhorc and elder futhark, for prognostication, spells, sigils and composing poetry. As I read more and started using a reconstructionist methodology I realised that most these things are...
  10. Hildeburh

    On Working With Gods & Making Requests Of Them

    Part 3 ALL of our sources are biased and/or linguistically difficult in one way or another. A great deal has been lost and as the Germanic tribes were characterised by primary orality we have no primary written sources; apart from pre-Christian runic inscriptions. Without the surviving corpus...
  11. Hildeburh

    On Working With Gods & Making Requests Of Them

    Part 2 This is not your work, you need to cite your sources otherwise you may inadvertently be in breach of copyright laws or committing plagiarism. Your statistic (64.11% to be exact) and your list (which is verbatim from the cited sources below) are from the Worldwide Heathen Census of 2013...
  12. Hildeburh

    On Working With Gods & Making Requests Of Them

    No one online, or offline for that matter, can shut down elements of your practice, unlike other religions we do not conduct progroms against each other. Heathens may however point out, as I do, that you cannot universalise UPG and that some ideas have no basis in the surviving corpus; people...
  13. Hildeburh

    On Working With Gods & Making Requests Of Them

    That's an interesting general statement but from what worldview is it drawn and how is it related to Heathenry? Pre Christian Heathens honoured their deities as groups the smallest of which would have been the household, the wights honoured were local, ancestors and related to fertility. The...
  14. Hildeburh

    On Working With Gods & Making Requests Of Them

    Is it how so? Do you think Heathens should stop having these discussions because it might hurt someones delicate sensibilities?
  15. Hildeburh

    Thoughts on Reconstructionist religions/gods being depicted in pop culture?

    For the pop culture most gods/ demigods / heroes are fair game for tee-shirt slogans, comics and movies. Most thinkng people don't mistake these caricatures for the real thing. Doesn't bother me in the least, it may even encourage some to dig deeper, research and rediscover the Old Gods.
  16. Hildeburh

    On Working With Gods & Making Requests Of Them

    This discussion is far from new in Heathenry, its been bubbling along for a decade. Other Heathens are not attempting to 'shut down' the honouring of our gods with prayers and offerings, this discussion is based solely on the lore. People generally feel scorned or angry or whatever because their...
  17. Hildeburh

    polytheism and magic

    Christianity differentiated itself from pagan religions by many methods, one of these methods used was to condemn magic. Magic is aggressively denounced in the Bible (Old and New Testament) but it is never clearly defined, it simply was whatever pagans practiced or whatever opposed Christianity...
  18. Hildeburh

    Death

    No, I don't fear death though the path to that event can be difficult. I don't fear what follows, it is my hope that I will join my ancestors but I am also OK with their being no afterlife.
  19. Hildeburh

    Any Pagans here who work with Jesus?

    It seems to be a particularly Christian worldview that paganism and Christianity are mutually exclusive. I doubt it would have occurred to pre-Christian peoples that they should not add one more deity to their shrines or throw a bit of Christian magic into the mix. For example, Rædwald was the...
  20. Hildeburh

    The God is the god of the Sun or the god of the Earth?

    In Traditional Wicca, the initiatory traditions that trace their lineages to the New Forest Coven, there is a specific god and goddess whose names are oathbound. The god and goddess of Traditional Wicca will therefore have attributes drawn from both their original mythologies that are melded...
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