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Screaming
Queen Syndrome
By Janval Phagan
With
the report that yet another ‘worthy’ has lost the plot and is
now both throwing around curses and threatening to send out their
‘psychic warriors’ against those that disagree with them, one
has to ask what makes previously respected ‘occult’ folk lose
their marbles, their path, perhaps even their sanity—even if only
for a short time?
We all know someone, it would seem, that has built a
reputation for being good teachers, running well-regarded
covens/groves/hearths, being fair-minded, pioneers, etc., and who,
for some reason unbeknownst to anyone, suddenly goes off the rails
to become either a ‘dick-happy HP’ or a screaming harpy of a
celebrity.
Return of
the Vikings: Why Now?
by Jon B.
Butler
In 1982,
“demonstrators gathered at the NATO base in Iceland to
protest that elves were being harassed and endangered by U.S.
Phantom and AWACS reconnaissance planes. (Americans prone to
snigger at this point might want to recall a recent National Science
Foundation survey that found that nearly half of the U.S. populace
believes that we are being visited by UFOs carrying space aliens).
The Origins of Wednesbury
by Rig Svenson
This modern
stainless steel statue co-incidentally points North within a small
English town called Wednesbury in the county of the West Midlands,
England (United Kingdom) and depicts Sleipnir; Odin's eight-legged
horse in Norse mythology. Saint Bartholomew's Church can be seen in
this picture to the left of the statue on the horizon where Hackwood
theorised a temple to Woden!
Heimðallr
by Rig Svenson
This
article is presented to provoke insight and give clarity about this
enigmatic and little understood courageous heroic figure of the
Northern folk.
Heimðallr,
the god who was born of nine mothers (the waves of the sea), is said
to have been the father of all the castes of humankind. There is a Rig
lay, telling a tale in which he fathers the three castes of men. He
does not create human beings; rather he fathers sons from the three
primal couples. It is through
Heimðallr
that all human beings can claim to have the genes of the gods running
through them. Until this occurred human beings were just like the
other animals of this planet. We are equal now because the lower caste
and the highest caste have been abolished; we are all children of
Heimðallr,
our family the Aesir and Vanir collectively called the Tivar
Heimðallr
© Little Bones Women
by Rig Svenson
The Rydberg Religion:
How a
forgotten Swedish Novelist became the object of a 21st century
cyber-cult
by R. S. Radford
Cults and new fringe religions have been a topic of concern
in the United States for the past 30 years.Although many
relatively mainstream cults have long exploited the communicative
power of the Internet, little systematic attention has been devoted
to the phenomenon of “cyber-cults” – loosely-knit fringe groups
that, for all practical purposes, exist only on the Internet.
For reasons that will be examined later in this paper, such cults
are prone to be more extreme than their “real-world” counterparts,
blurring the distinction between fantasy and reality in ways that
can pose real dangers to the cultists themselves, as well as to
those perceived as critical of their beliefs.
One Folk or
Ein Volk
By Anneleise Glitz
 Modern heathen groups are also divided by what has come to be seen
as a "political" rather than a religious issue, usually summed up in
one word: race . Organisations which describe
themselves as folkish believe that people of Northern
European genetic heritage are naturally suited to the
ancient Germanic religion and that people of other "races" should
seek inspiration within the religion of their own ancestors. Most
folkish groups (either explicitly or tacitly) do not accept members
who are clearly "Non-Germanic" -- in practice this can mean turning
away perspective members based on the colour of their skin or the
origin of their surname. Representatives of folkish groups will
state that they are not racist; they believe that people of all
races, cultures, and religions are equally worthy of respect.
However, they also tend to believe that, like Yahweh, Oðin champions
a "chosen people" and that his choice is genetically based. Folkish
heathen groups often defend their stance on the "race issue" by
comparing themselves with other indigenous tribal religions which
shun "outsiders".
Music:-
The John
Dunbar Theme from Dances with Wolves
Artist: John Barry
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