Research
I'd read that one should keep a tool on their person for 24 hours after dedication. So this last night, after my ritual, I slept with it under my pillow and woke up feeling not only refreshed, but contented. I actually woke up smiling. I fastened the wand to a strap and put it around my neck, under my shirt, where it has been all day, over my heart. It's empowering, really, bringing a bit of my "work" to work. I've felt energized all day.I've been reading the history of the Germanic tribes according to http://www.thetroth.org/resources/ourtroth/ in my spare time today. It's been an interesting read, so far, discovering some of the older rituals and mythologies, drawing correlations between them and what has been established as newer wicca traditions, as well as leading into the Norse myths. I wonder though, what with Sonja's insights into "true histories" how much of it really is established history. It seems authentic enough, but the debate as to where the Indo-European movement originated bothered me. Discounting a theory on the grounds that "it would open the way to much discussion of which elements of the Elder Troth were originally Indo-European and which were absorbed from the native ways of the North" seems to be a little ridiculous. On the other hand, being somewhat of a nomad, and from a stance of cultural intermarriage and diversity, for me the issue isn't really that important. I agree that we should have a sense of our peoples histories, but tracking the movements of a people that spawned almost all of the northern European clans seems inconsequencial. it's impact on where I am and where I want to be are at this time minimal. I am more concerned about how the traditions developed.
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"it would open the way to much discussion of which elements of the Elder Troth were originally Indo-European and which were absorbed from the native ways of the North"
well Sir Trent, in my opinion we'll never know our true history as much as we would like because most of it is lost and a lot of what we do know was written by the "winners".
What we do know is that we can take what little of our rich history we do have, study it, cherish it and use it as a guide to live by. We are interpreting and learning from history, not reliving it.
and another thing that bothers me about that comment is they are saying our absorbed history isn't our real history? I don't agree with that because history is made of so many events and cultural shifts and absorbtions that it is what we are now. Just because it's not "pure" doesn't make history untrue or irrelevant.
I disagree with the whole notion of purity. There is no purity once two people produce an offspring. The only way to really achieve purity would be cloning, and that would produce stagnance.
And what's with the first comment about the corvette?
blog spam. It happens and I didn't write it!
I agree with you. there's a quote that sums it up nicely, it basically says that the gods reveal themselves and call to the heathen and no man can decided whether that is true. basically "Asatru is a tribalist faith (the Folk of Asgard), but that the Gods call those who they will to join our Folk, and we will not gainsay Their choice on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or sexual preference."
I like it alot :D
I think you should go check out the corvette site!!
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