Walpurgisnacht is also known as Hexennacht and Witches’ Night, and is commonly referred to as the night where the witches dance at bonfires at hilltops and flies on their brooms to Blocksberg in Northern Germany to meet and hold revels with their gods. Or at least that is what Christianity has told us for many [...]
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Walpurgisnacht
Posted in Initiation, Runes, Tradition on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eternal return
Posted in Initiation, Time on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And in this sense, I say, the world was before the Creation, and at an end before it had a beginning; and thus was I dead before I was alive, though my grave be England, my dying place was Paradise, and Eve miscarried of me before she conceived of Cain.
- Sir Thomas Browne
Second Night
Posted in Initiation, Runes, Tradition on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Veit ec at ec hecc vindga meiði a
netr allar nío,
geiri vndaþr oc gefinn Oðni,
sialfr sialfom mer,
a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn.
Við hleifi mic seldo ne viþ hornigi,
nysta ec niþr,
nam ec vp rvnar,
opandi nam,
fell ec aptr þaðan.
A new cycle is [...]
The Poetic Mead
Posted in Initiation, Runes, Tradition on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fé er frænda róg
og flæðar viti
og grafseiðs gata.
aurum fylkir.
Úr er skýja grátur
og skara þverrir
og hirðis hatur.
umbri vísi.
Þurs er kvenna kvöl
og kletta búi
og varðrúnar ver.
Saturnus þengill.
Óss er aldingautur,
og Asgarðs jöfur
og Valhallar vísi.
Júpíter oddviti.
Reið er sitjandi sæla
og snúðug ferð
og jórs erfiði.
iter ræsir.
Kaun er barna böl
og bardaga för
og holdfúa hús.
flagella konungur.
Hagall er kaldakorn
og krapa drífa
og snáka sótt.
grando hildingur.
Nauð [...]
