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Samhain – Third Festival of the Harvest

Samhain is a time to journey to the dark side. Now that the days shorten quickly, we journey to the shadow lands to commune with the ghosts of our past. Visiting what has died in us, express our longing and loss, and through that expression find healing … Third Festival The last days of Octobre the Third Festival of the Harvest also known as Festival...

Hamingja and the supernatural guardians of the North

Hamingja, as used in the sagas, stands for an abstract conception, that of something belonging to an outstanding person which is partly a matter of character and partly of personality, and partly something more than either—that strange quality of ‘luck’ or luck-lessness’ which attaches itself to certain individuals more than others. It is something which can be handed on after death, and it usually remains...
Horselberg

Is this the Tannhauser Venusberg?

Grimm writes that the Hörselberg of Thuringia was still considered in the 10th through 14th centuries to be the residence of the German goddess Holda and her host. He cited legends of night-women in the service of dame Holda.  Those women rove through the air on appointed nights, mounted on beasts. He asserted that they were originally dæmonic elvish beings, who appeared in woman’s shape and did men kindnesses. Grimm asserted that the identity of Venus with the German goddess […]...
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The secrets of the Crow

Hrafn The Bird Goddess is believed to be the earliest and best-documented deity. During the Paleolithic period (Old Stone Age), carved figurines and cave paintings began to appear in a vast area that stretched from the Pyrenees of France to Lake Baikal in Siberia, just north of Mongolia. Crows are mentioned in the mythology of many cultures throughout the world and are frequently depicted as ...
Albruna Gudrun

Albruna

In ancient times the Maidenschaft (Society of maidens) was organized in 4 groups, which are the Hexas (the lowest group), the Drudas, the Walas and finally the Albrunas. The Hexas group had as their duty the care and preservation of the eternal flame. These Hexas were also initiated into herbology and arts of animal-healing. DRUDAS The DRUDAS, however, provided service as “Wise Women.” They were...

Children of Ash and Elm – A Vikings Story

Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the […]...

The Sacred Labyrinth: Walking the Inner Path to the Self

Monday – Mani’s Day: The Moon’s Journey Through Darkness In our modern amnesia, we’ve forgotten that Monday was sacred to Mani, the moon god who journeys through the night, chased by wolves through the darkness. The ancients understood what we’ve lost: that true wisdom begins not in the light of day, but in the spiral descent into the hidden depths of self. The Forgotten Path...

Saint Martin’s Day: A Gateway to Ancient Winter Myths

November brings a veil of enchantment to the Northern Hemisphere. Ancient traditions and winter lore weave a rich tapestry of myth and celebration, starting with Saint Martin’s Day, or Martlemas, on November 11th. In Dutch, Germanic, and Celtic lands, this day is more than a feast; it is a gateway to the mysterious winter season, filled with both heavenly and fearsome visitors. Saint Martin: The...

The Depth They Could Not Reach

There is something in the late Wagner that does not come from craft. Craft can be learned. Craft can be purchased. Craft can be produced on commission, delivered on schedule, reviewed by committee, approved by the market. The concert halls of the nineteenth century were full of it. Perfectly constructed. Perfectly empty. What Wagner found — or what found him — was something else entirely. In 1854, in the middle of writing Die Walküre, in the middle of Brünnhilde’s world, […]...

The Night of the Holy Threshold

If last night was the deepest silence, then tonight is the moment that gives that silence its meaning. Heiligabend — the Holy Evening — arrives not with announcement, but with restraint. The world does not brighten yet; it holds its breath. The modern eye, dulled by repetition, sees only the threshold of a day devoted to gifts and tables heavy with food. Yet those who...
Minnesinger at court

The Secrets of the Minnesinger

The writer Aventinus stated that the Minne and the Minnesingers did not have anything to do with love and constant courting. Minne means “memories”. The sonnets render last honors to old lords, to the proud history of a folk and their secrets. In these songs one can find a hidden knowledge … Troubadours or Minnesingers such as Wolfram von Eschenbach proclaimed Sibilla a prophetess, a...
johannes bureus

The Enigmatic Johannes Bureus: Bridging Nordic Mythology and Renaissance Magic

In the annals of Northern Europe during the Renaissance, amidst the flourishing of Hermeticism, Kabbalah, and Medieval magic, emerges an intriguing figure whose life and work spanned the realms of pre-Christian mythology and esoteric Renaissance knowledge. Johannes Thomae Agrivillensis Bureus, known simply as Johannes Bureus (1568-1652), embodies this unique fusion of disparate yet intertwined traditions. Despite the scarcity of information about him, his contributions to the study of Nordic mythology and runology, alongside his engagement with Renaissance esotericism, mark him […]...

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