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Written by Swain Wodening
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
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Fifteen hundred years ago, tribes were made up of families and clans. They were a close knit community of people related by ancestry and blood, and if not that, by marriage. Today’s Heathen finds themselves in a different situation. While entire nuclear families being Heathen is becoming more common, most cannot even claim that they have seventh cousins as fellow Heathens. So where does this leave us in the formation of modern day tribes? It leaves us where some ancient Heathens found themselves after losing family to war, famine, or disease. In their day, one could join an artificial family either a dryht (OE) or drött (ON), a warband, or gild (guild). And what bound these groups? Oaths are what bound them together.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 February 2010 )
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Heathen Open Halls Project |
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Written by Cat Heath
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Sunday, 17 January 2010 |
**What is the Open Halls Project?**
Military life is not easy, it’s full of challenges for service members and families alike. Very often, duty takes military Heathens away from community and with constant moves, it can be hard to find a Heathen community again.
Hence the reason for the Open Halls Project .
The Open Halls project is an independent grassroots project with the sole purpose of helping military Heathens to find community wherever they are posted.
To make this work, our needs are twofold:
• Firstly we need military Heathens (service members, family members, DoD employees) to register with us via email at the address below (please state that you're military). Only a name, email and rough location. Please keep OPSEC in mind when posting on this group!
• Secondly we need Heathens, be they lone Heathens or Kindreds to register as being willing to ‘open their halls’ to any military folk in their area. By ‘open halls’, we mean to make contact, meet up and just generally be prepared to show hospitality to Heathen military folk. If you and/or your Kindred is interested, please register your name, contact details and location by email at the address below(please state that you're civilian).
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THE TWELVE DAYS OF YULE - Day 12 |
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Written by Diana Paxson
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
Focus…relax…listen to the silence of the house, the party done, the guests all gone, only the family, and the rhythms of the house sighing and beginning to ease. It is the 12th day of Yule, time to bring the celebrations to an end, and I seek the world within for the last time this season.
The mountain is damp and rainy, cold when the wind is off the sea, but I wrap up warmly, and with compass and lantern, seek the world within. And once more I find Raven waiting. Together we pass over Bifrost and seek the gate.
Tonight a white ram watches the gate, but it is Himinbjorg that is lit up. Heimdall himself hosts the final feast of Yule. The ram nods his head, and we turn that way.
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