As a veteran myself, it's nice to at least have a day where I can pat myself on the back. For a long time it was one of the only tangible "veterans' benefits" I received. I was blatantly lied to...
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I've made my share of pointed remarks about "fluff bunnies," those would-be pagans and magical practitioners whose lack of critical thought, research, and gravitas has made them the butt of numerous witticisms online and in print. But to-day I realized...
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One of the torments atheists love to inflict upon me is a rambling dissertation on how they are materialists, couched sixty-two different ways as if I didn't comprehend the first sentence. I don't know why, but at least half of...
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So I'm minding my own business, trying to write a response to a response I received to my post entitled "Gay 'Marriage' and Other Mysthical Beasts." So I type my response, and the TypePig page says, "We're sorry, we cannot...
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Most people have at least heard of Wayland the Smith, though that's usually the extent of their knowledge. In medieval times, however, his story was so popular that versions of it were told throughout the Teutonic world. The most detailed...
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For decades, scholars have identified Hárbarðr, the witty ferryman of Hárbarzlióð, as Óðinn in disguise. There have been some voices of dissent from early on, notably Viktor Rydberg and Henry Adams Bellows. Even Hollander in his translation of the Edda...
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I have mentioned before that English is rich in Teutonic Pagan concepts. Even words which most people associate with Christianity, such as "Heaven," "Hell," "God," "sin," and "holy," originally referred to Pagan ideas. It is right that their original significance...
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On the face of it this looks like a nonsensical question. If we have to search for it, how can it be "our" culture? Consider the urban American Indian whose experience of tribal culture consists of casinos and "pow-wows." He...
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Why should English-speaking Americans care about a corpus of work written in a foreign tongue a thousand years ago? It's a fair question. It's important to recognize, first, that the tongue of the Eddas, Old Norse, is not as "foreign"...
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I was in a restaurant some years ago when I overheard a conversation in the booth next to mine. One of the diners began talking about an Italian restaurant in his hometown, and before he even finished his first thought,...
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