on June 1st, 2009 by solitudeone
The first Bard of Ireland, Druid and Wizard: Amergin.
The mound of Millmount, Ireland, is said to be the ancient burial place of Amergin; infamous Bard, Druid, chief of the Milesians, and some say Wizard. In Milesian mythology there exists a number of poems attributed to Amergin, and through a battle with the three Kings of [...]
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on May 28th, 2009 by solitudeone
A quick little update, along with some further readings available for the-Asatru article post..
source: Norway Post
“The religious fellowship that worship the old Norse gods, the Aasatrufellowship Bifrost, will soon have their own burialplace in Oslo. This has been approved by the authorities, according to Aftenposten.
The new grave site will be shaped like the outline of [...]
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on May 21st, 2009 by solitudeone
Asatru: A brief overview:
The religion/path of the orgin of Asatru has all but been lost, for the usual reasons of the Christian movements’ to stamp out paganism in Europe. Although it is only in fairness to also state that some countries made the conversion to Christianity for economic reasons as well. We should [...]
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on April 30th, 2009 by solitudeone
Hekate: part two
As we continue our journey into understanding Hekate a bit more, we perhaps need to seperate, or concentrate upon a more limited time frame of Her history. Re-calling that ancient writings spanned some twelve centuries, and two main cultures (Greek and Roman, respectively), we have to accept the realities that over this vast [...]
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on April 23rd, 2009 by solitudeone
Musings: Rituals
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ~{Arthur C. Clarke, the Three Laws of Prediction}
My friends and readers: If you thought that this was going to be just another generic list of rituals and ‘how to’, you may wish to [...]
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on April 20th, 2009 by solitudeone
A little while back I read a blog posting from a HPS of the Dianic Witchcraft following concerning her views about pagan labels. The post was a personal commentary, well thought out and expressed her views clearly from her perspective.
This led to some scattered thoughts about my own use, and non-use of pagan labels. [...]
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on April 18th, 2009 by solitudeone
Morgana
With so many developing spiritual paths in this new age, the beginning seeker is flooded with a dense forest of information and left wondering just ‘what is what’? Fortunately, there are a number of experienced and long-time practioners willing to share their knowledge in un-biased ways, and in as much truth as is available. One [...]
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on April 9th, 2009 by solitudeone
Recently, I wrote a commentary concerning “Witch Wars”, which you can read if you wish by clicking the link title. Near the end of that commentary I spoke of other options. In particular, I mentioned that if your magyk was strong, you did have other options. Of coarse, I fully expected somebody to come [...]
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