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Are runes weak?

I put up an altar with Norse gods (Nerthus, Odin and Thor) and I've been meditating for a few days listening at recordings I've made with 108 repetitions of "Fehu" for example while I imagined the rune...

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Sharing food with Gods, wights, ancestors

Does anyone take a portion of a regular meal, outside of a blót, and place it on their altar or elsewhere as an offering? Something like a few spoonfuls of mac 'n cheese, put it in a small bowl and put...

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Ancestors - how do you relate to them?

Hello again If you're anything like me, you are a bit of a genetic mutt, with a generalised idea of your heritage. For example, I know my mother's side is Scottish/English and my father's side German...

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The Gods don't care about us as individuals?

Do you agree with this statement I found at another site: For the most part, and this is something a lot of newcomers have a great deal of trouble with, the gods don't care about us as individuals....

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Ragnarök - will it happen?

Here's a pretty big question - is Ragnarök coming? I've heard of very widely differing views on the subject existing among the Heathen community, ranging from "Loki worshippers are hastening the...

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Vegan asatruars?

I've been considering coming to Asatru for quite a while now, maybe even from around mid 2005, but i have a few issues concerning my Veganism for one. During gatherings, a horn is used to drink,...

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Anyone know what this rune is?

I tried figuring it out via charts of runes, and all I can come up with is the main one (the upright 3 prong) as being "elk". Huh? It's a nice bronze one, a little bigger than my current Mjolnir (of...

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How do Asatruar

view white supremacists? I know that not all Asatruar are supremicists by any means but I have often wondered how your faith deals with that group of folk? What relationship is there between Asatru and...

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Asatru in Popular Culture

Is there any place in a movie or game that resembles Asatru culture? I've seen a lot of Viking/Norse settings but I don't know if that is what Asatru is. Would you agree that LOTR and Skyrims have some...

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The Culture of the Teutons By Vilhelm Grönbech

Has anyone read it? I'm currently reading it, or rather, trying to read it. It's extremely detailed, dense and wordy. It seems to be more a historical treatise than something applicable to daily life...

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Toasting/hailing the gods?

I'm sure I asked something like this before. I don't drink but rarely, and on those occasions I do it's either a blót (faining, if you like), or at a restaurant. At a restaurant or someone's house it's...

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Sæl Leifr Eiríkssonsdagr

Hey, that's as close as I can get to Happy Leif Eriksson's Day in Old Norse, so sue me. ​

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Norse Paganism and Druidry?

So this may be odd sounding, but whatever. I also didn't know if I should put this into the Asatru DIR or the Heathen DIR, I am unsure which is more appropriate. Anyways. Does anybody know anyone, who...

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Hercules meets the Æsir

I used to like to watch Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, though I think Hera got a bum rap... she wasn't that bad. Here is a story arc in which Herc meets Thor, Baldr, Odin, Frigga and Loki. Needless...

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Simple runic meditation

Meditation has never been my strong suit but I would like to try again. This is a very simple technique. I suppose you could even use a mala - prayer beads - since the presenter mentions doing as many...

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Blog articles worth reading

The entire blog is full of good stuff. The guy is a long time Heathen. Unfortunately he doesn't keep the blog updated. The first article is about different approaches to Ásatrú. The second one's title...

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Regional Heathenries (Norse, Anglo-Saxon etc)

Heathen practices and beliefs varied from one region to another. The most famous regional tradition is the Icelandic one, since Iceland is the origin of most literary sources. However, there are other...

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Heathenry doesn't have the market cornered on community and frith

I realize that using the F-word (Facebook) and R-word (reddit) puts an end to the discussion before it even gets started. I see a lot of crowing about the "Heathen worldview", i.e. community,...

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The Vanir

I was reading something from http://heathengods.com/ and something caught my eye as I was reading this (http://www.heathengods.com/library/poetic_edda/StudentEdda.pdf). I read that the Vanir gods were...

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My Heathenry isn't just Revivalism

Every part of my life is based on Anglo-Saxon (or, for a potential alternative Old English word that I've found for the over-tribe as a whole, Ingwine) Heathenry. But, that doesn't mean that every part...

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