Along with Heathenry, which I practice, I am very interested in Hellenic polytheism and have researched Greek along with Norse and Anglo-Saxon traditions since I started exploring polytheist revivalism last year. I've often considered going dual-trad, since I'm very drawn at times to Apollo and...
Note: I am not a Christian, and as such I'm asking this as a non-debate question out of curiosity.
Within Christian theology, there is the entire field of apologetics, which (to the best of my knowledge) is dedicated to providing logical and evidential arguments for the truth of Christianity...
I was gonna start an interview thread about anarchism, since I'm an anarchist and it's not very well-understood.
Or I was gonna start an interview thread about autism, since I'm autistic and it's not very well understood.
Or I was gonna start an interview thread about synesthesia, since I'm a...
Scientifically, plants are living beings. My question to Dharmic practitioners is "do you consider plants to be part of the cycle of rebirth"? I know of cosmologies that go from animals straight down to hungry ghosts, but also that Jains try and avoid killing plants as well as animals.
Hello! This is my first time asking a question as an outsider on a DIR; hope I'm doing it right. I'd call myself a revivalist pagan, and there's something that I've noticed coming from that context. Oftentimes I've seen eclectic neopagans in the West worship Hindu deities alongside Western or...
If pressed, I would call myself a theist, specifically a polytheist. I have had experiences where I feel like I have called to the gods and they heard me. However, I reject supernatural creation. I believe that the universe emerged thru natural forces as described by science, without an...
It's not ISIS, because a violently misogynist group who smash historical artifacts have nothing to do with a Kemetic goddess.
It's not ISIL, because they sure as Hel don't control Lebanon, Israel, Palestine or the Sinai Peninsula.
It's not "Islamic State" because they murder Muslims constantly...
I was looking at dogs that resemble wolves (just a thing to do) and I believe I've found the wolfiest dog breed of them all. This is the Tamaskan, a Finnish sled dog:
Now there's a wild looking dog! I think it "out-wolfs" basically any breed except straight-up wolfdogs and maybe huskies.
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 regional traditions such as Anglo-Saxon heathenry, German/Teutonic heathenry etc. I'm pretty...
This is something that bothers me about several religions - Catholicism being the most prominent/famous example. Many faiths teach that pride is a sin, or that the ego is primarily or purely negative etc etc. However, what is pride? Pride is self-worth and confidence. Pride is the joy of...
Wanting to host a ritualistic bacchanal by light of the moon, I found myself in need of supplies. I decided to go on down to the local Rite Aid, but they didn't even have any supplies for rites. There were no robes or wild masks; there were no drinking horns or ceremonial daggers. Talk about...
OK, I've got a question for the polytheist pagans on this forum (Asatru, Kemetic, Hellenismos, etc): How reconstructionist is your practice? There are varying degrees of adherence to historically-verified practice in the polytheist pagan community. For instance, a reconstructionist Ásatrúar...
http://www.northernpaganism.org/general/index.html
Anybody familiar with this site? It espouses a branch of paganism, called "Northern Tradition", that worships the Norse gods in a context very different from traditional heathenry. This approach is way looser, more neopagan and arguably...
Does a religious tradition exist which worships the Christian trinity, the Virgin Mary, saints, angels etc. in a stridently polytheistic fashion? I don't follow this particular syncretism but I'm curious about the concept. Folk Catholicism has absorbed a lot of pagan elements - I'm wondering if...
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 world's destruction" to "it's Christian propaganda and Fenrir and Jormungand ain't that bad"...
See the title. Personally, I was diagnosed in elementary school (Asperger's) and to this day I consider my autism to be a major part of my perspective and identity. I wouldn't be "cured" if I had the chance - that would be erasing my entire mindset, which has a lot of strongly positive traits...
I've lived in Seattle my whole life, and always been very sympathetic to and fascinated by the local indigenous cultures. (I likely have substantial native ancestry myself; I just have no way of finding out the specifics because my dad was adopted.) Anybody have recommendations for websites...
Hey heathens, it's anecdote time.
So it's been a really hot summer in Seattle. An ungodly hot, sticky summer by the standards of my beloved city. It's been 90+ degrees in June, with little rain - the lakes have been going down a lot in water level. I care deeply about ecology and it was...
While spending a wonderful day at a music festival in the woods hanging out with a guy I'm really into, this poem started to come to me. It's about the most prominent of the Norse Vanir deities, and the style is sorta English Romantic mixed with Germanic alliterative:
"Thank you Freya, thank...
OK, so I admire a lot of things about the Dharmic religions. Hinduism is an extremely vibrant, diverse tradition with a rich philosophical history. It has a vast, stunning array of deities/divine aspects, spans the entire gender expression spectrum and acknowledges both creation and destruction...