The Wise Words of Grima

Okay! I have worked, like, a fucking long time on this (thanks depression), but it’s finally complete. This is a work of cosmogony and theogony, rendered through storytelling; the basis of which include the Eddic poem Grímnismál, the first part of the Prose Edda called Gylfaginning, and numerous other texts and ideas, with hints of

Weland and the Silver Hand

Weland is fascinating to me as being one of a very few beings in the broader catalogue of surviving Germanic mythology with a surviving myth in multiple attested languages. Vǫlundarkviða, one of the mythic poems of the Poetic Edda, has direct parallels with the first two fitts of of the Old English poem Deor, and

Musings: The Three Theologies

Honestly, this kinda post is prompted almost entirely by the fact that the majority of theological discussions I’ve seen in the broader Pagan sphere frustrate me for one reason or another. It’s not that I think they’re expressing their theologies wrong, really; most of the time I can understand what they’re saying, and can grasp

A Midsummer Ritual

I honestly don’t have too much to say. It’s the Summer Solstice, a pretty significant midpoint of the year, and I wrote up a ritual for this blessed time. Enjoy. Testing out my new little journal, I wrote a little ritual for Midsummer: Hail to the High Ese, – from Heavens you reignHail, Graceful Goddesses,

The Legend of Hildebrand

Today, I am showcasing a bit of a brief project (one of way too godsdamned many) that I pulled together as a bit of fun; I rewrote one of the oldest heroic poems in all Germanic languages; das Hildebrandslied, or the Lay of Hildebrand. The original poem was a peculiar find, hidden in the pages

Idle Musings

This is going to be a bit of a different sort of post than I normally want to do. I try to have something in mind when I write, even if it remains mostly full on stream-of-consciousness thinking; but I realize that I have essentially nothing to share, no big project finished or significant topic

Woden: An Informal Study

So, it’s not exactly a secret that the top deity of my personal praxis is Woden; being a witch, a poet, and a horrible gremlin of a scholar, it’s probably the most natural pairing since salt and the sea. Many an offering I’ve made to him, poetry I’ve dedicated, and though I don’t personally put

Æcerbot: Rituals & Christianization

There is a very common idea, not just in pagan circles but among atheists and even certain Christian sects, that many events, practices, and holidays celebrated by the world’s Christian communities are pagan. In pagan spaces specifically, the idea is that Christianity “stole” pagan ideas, that much of what is considered today “Christian” is just

Mythbuilding: Thunor and Oak

There is one thing that any pagan of a religion that passed without written record of their beliefs can fully attest to, and it’s the lack of myths. As an Anglo-Saxon Heathen, I’m acutely aware of the loss of so much material to Christianization and to the destruction of monasteries, and honestly we’re luckier than

Wiccecræft: Old English Magic

Alongside the practices of normal religion, alongside the poetry, I do also have a magical practice; in other words, I consider myself a witch, in devotion to the Witch-god Woden. Now, what would even be a “witch?” In the popular consciousness, that can run the gamut from old hags in the woods, powerful sorceresses, both