Interview with Mark Puryear from the Norroena Society.

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Folcsida, an Anglo-Saxon term for Anglo-Saxon Belief:

Folcsida = [The] Folk-Ways, or Religion, of the folk.

Folcsidisċ = one who follows the Folk-Ways, or religion, of one’s folk, i.e. (a) Believer(s) in the (Anglo-Saxon expression of) Germanic Heathen faith

“(I am) (We are) Folcsidisċ because (I) (we) practice Folcsida” (both sg. & pl.)

Folcsidom = the ‘Collective body of Folcsida’ or the ‘World of Folcsida’

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The Sacred Stew-Season 2 Episode 8

CAUSE (URLAG) AND EFFECT (WYRD) - SEIZING YOUR FATE

James and Anthony have a must listen too discussion on how fate works in our lives giving practical examples of wyrd and urlag and how we can maneuver through our lives seizing the fate we are destined for. We discuss Hausta Blot and how Blot in general effects our lives. This is one episode you won't want to miss! Join us for a deep dive into authentic Germanic theology for the modern pagan.

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Woden drawing by Hāmasson

Logadōm - Part 1

Most folk refer to those who follow Loki, in the sense of honoring & or worshipping, as Lokian. In Anglo-Saxon, his name is Loga, meaning liar & deceiver. Whereas, the name Loga isn’t attested in Anglo-Saxon sources, it’s an attested word that’s etymological connected to Loki, while simultaneously fitting his described nature within the recorded mythological accounts. To be a Lokian, we’d say one is Logisċ. The -isċ suffix denotes that something or someone is of this or that, for example, the English are the Engle-folk or childish denotes that one has the characteristics of a child. By extension, a Logisċ is practicing Logadóm, that is Lokianism, or the belief & practice of honoring Loga. The -dōm suffix speaks brings a collective sense & or speaks to the nature of, such as Kingdom, the realm of a King or widsom, the quality of having experience, knowledge, & good judgement.

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Logadōm - Part 2

What is the true meaning of Logadóm, of being Logisċ? It’s not what we tend to think. Before we delve in this, what is it that we think of when the subject of the Logisċ comes up? Naturally, in today’s modern world & the toxicity of the internet, places like Facebook come to mind. We go into a Heathen group to discuss our faith & we get rabid, politically-driven zealots who speak of Loga as being a “necessary catalyst for change”, “as misunderstood”, “Wóden’s blood-brother, so we must accept him, or even worse, that “Wōden and Loga are similar. Wōden did bad stuff too, so…” nonsense. These types rarely actually study the lore, let alone read it. A religious belief system must be built upon the pillars of attested sources with a hierology acting as a bulwark against those who seek to change our religion to fit their political beliefs, as the natural & right thing is for a religion to change us.

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Rites of Passage; Kóryos, Mannerbund, Agōgē and their Significance Today

Part 1

“It’s 1800 BC, in the middle of Winter. A group of adolescent boys had been brought here at the setting sun from their village with dogs they had raised for half of their lives. It was a most sacred site they had travelled to, and the ritual they would perform would result in the death of their childhood and the beginning of their journey to manhood.

At the appointed hour on a moonless night, lit only by starlight the boys were instructed to ritually sacrifice the dog. Upon doing so they were to eat the meat from the dog, and begin wearing the pelts of the animal. They would not be welcomed back into their community for a set period; they would have to learn to live in the wilds like the predators that stalked the plains and woodlands, or would perish and be forgotten.”

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Logadōm - Part 3

Logisċ filter their beliefs through the lens of modern political biases, UPG, & pop culture, like Marvel films & the Vikings TV show. Disney-Marvel spins things in a way that normalizes the inverse of the natural world: strong & protective Þunor becomes a pathetic weak joke, faint of heart, Loga is the lovable trickster who’s just “misunderstood”, Wōden’s weak & easily outsmarted, & the Wælcyrġe is insignificant & doesn’t resemble anything of a historical nature. The Vikings TV show distorts how our forebears lived & believed. They portray our folk as disloyal, degenerate oathbreakers & adulterers. Ragnar’s an untrustworthy drug addict & Floki honors the eotenas & “knows” the right path for his folk (the Loga-type). Loga’s ways are not of a lovable trickster, but of chaos & destruction. Via Disney-Marvel & The History Channel, our history is distorted, causing many to follow a path that’s an anathema to our forebears & gods. This isn’t Heathendom.

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Rites of Passage; Kóryos, Mannerbund, Agōgē and their Significance Today.

Part 2

The above fiction was based on archeological studies conducted at Krasnosamarskoe (Volga Steppe) north of the Caucasus Mountains. The Volga river was called the “Rahā” (“Wetness,” but related to the Avestan “Ranhā,” which means “Mythical Stream”). This was the homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, and thus should be considered special to all descendants of these great Steppe peoples. There in a secluded place (no nearby settlements of the time period) the remains of many dogs and a few wolves were found with tell-tale signs of butchery and consumption dating to between 1900-1700BC. This was believed to be part of the Srubnaya Culture, an ancestral & formative culture to the Aryan (Indo-Iranian) peoples.

Blōtmonaþ, the 2nd month of winter, is upon us. As we move through the Folcsida year, may the gods show us favor & fate look kindly upon us. Hail the gods & hail the folk.

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I am content with the eternal meadows among my dead ancestors in Neorxnawang. Neorxnawang (which could be modernised as Narxenwong), is used in Anglo-Saxon literature, which is almost entirely Christian, to translate the word paradise, but clearly represented something pre-Christian.

Neorxnawang is the wong or meadow of the corpse-rushes (according to Jane Roberts, though the meaning of the first element is unclear), though in Leechdom III we find earxnawang or eorxnawang as a translation of Latin Campi Cyperorum or Egyptian Sechet-Aaru, the fields of rushes. The word's second element is the same as Norse Fólkvangr, the folk-meadow ruled over by Freyja where half of the share of the battle-slain go, the other half to Óðin in Valhǫll (Walhall), and Þrúðvangr (strength-meadow, the field where Þór resides, however it is solely recorded by Snorri in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla).

Based on its meaning, Neorxnawang seems closer to the Norse Iðavǫllr (recorded in Vǫluspá which may correspond to a place along the Weser river recorded by Tacitus' Annals as Idisiaviso, plain of the Dísir, where Arminius commanded his armies against Germanicus), or Glæsisvellir (glittering fields, recorded in Bósa Saga ok Herrauds and Hervarar Saga).

Furthermore such beliefs correspond beyond the Germanic world to something common to other paganisms such as Greek Ἠλύσιον πεδίον, the Elysion Plains, and the earlier Asphodel fields, which were initially separated from ᾍδης, Hades (which according to Jaan Puhvel, derives from *sm̥weyd- and means 'see-each-other', like Russian свида‌ние (svidánije) and comparable to Sanskrit संगमनं जनानां (saṃgamanaṃ janānāṃ)). Such heavenly meadows of paradise in Indo-European tradition were not beyond this world, but located on earth, further to the unknown west where the sun sets, as Homer says of Elysion which lies in the west by the stream of Ὠκεανός (Ocean). Likewise the Biblical Eden is said in Genesis 2:10-14 to be at the head of the Persian gulf where the Tigris and Euphrates run into the sea.

While there are various common Germanic correspondences between the Anglo-Saxon Neorxnawang and the various heavenly meadows in Norse beliefs and in traditions common not just Indo-European but even to the Egyptian Sechet-Aaru and Semitic Garden of Eden, we can be certain that this pre-Christian paradise was a place in which Anglo-Saxons heathens believed they would go after death, to see their dead ancestors again. And this I too believe.

Rites of Passage; Kóryos, Mannerbund, Agōgē and their Significance Today.

Part 3

The dogs remains found there almost universally show that they reached the ages of between 6-8 years old and had been looked after until the moment of death. They were also butchered in the dead of winter. It is strongly believed that these ritual killing and consumption of beloved animals was a rite of passage, meant to forcefully separate the time of a boys life (literally the boys metaphysical “death”) and the “birth” of the man he would now become.

The Vedic tradition would continue many of these rites of passages, as the boys would begin studying the Epic Poetry from the age of 8 and at 16 would go through the Ekāstakā; a winter solitude ritual where they would be reborn as warrior dogs and be cast out for four years to steal everything they needed to not only survive but thrive from foreign communities. After four years of raiding they would destroy their old clothes and join their host community as accomplished men.

Changes

The birds are singing loudly
Leaves falling from the trees
Everything is changing now
As everyone can see

The sun is waning faster
The night is taking hold
The warmth is slowly drifting
Soon it will be cold

The greenery is dying
Another year has past
Looking to the gods I ask
How long will this cold last

It’s a never ending cycle
Like the lives we all live
Nerthus will surly take from us
As quickly as she gives

By Harley severin richards
Oct. 9 th 2022


The birds are singing loudly
Leaves falling from the trees
Everything is changing now
As everyone can see

The sun is waning faster
The night is taking hold
The warmth is slowly drifting
Soon it will be cold

The greenery is dying
Another year has past
Looking to the gods I ask
How long will this cold last

It’s a never ending cycle
Like the lives we all live
Nerthus will surly take from us
As quickly as she gives

~ Harley Severin Richards
Oct. 9 th 2022

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The term 'whiskey' derives originally from the Gaelic 'uisge beatha', or 'usquebaugh', meaning 'water of life'. Whiskey has been distilled in Scotland for hundreds of years. There is some evidence to show that the art of distilling could have been brought to the country by Christian missionary monks, but it has never been proved that Highland farmers did not themselves discover how to distill spirits from their surplus barley. The southern Whiskey tradition is another artifact of the Ulster-Scots & Scottish roots of the American South. Kentucky bourbon originated in the 18th century, where the frontiersman brought distilling. Tennessee whiskey is a distinct style of whiskey that originated with the Jack Daniels company and must adhere to strict requirements and can only be produced in the state of Tennessee. Moonshine is ultimately untaxed, and often unaged whiskey.

"The O.E. word [orcneas] occurs only here, orc is found glossing Latin Orcus [Hell, Death]. neas seems certainly to be né-as, plural of the old (poetic) word né 'dead body'.... 
'Necromancy' will suggest something of the horrible association of this word. I think that what is here meant is that terrible northern imagination to which I have ventured to give the name 'barrow-wights'. The 'undead'. Those dreadful creatures that inhabit tombs and mounds, They are not living: they have left humanity, but they are 'undead'. With superhuman strength and malice they can strangle men and rend them. Glámr in the story of Grettir the Strong is a well known example."

- Tolkien on 'orcneas', draugar and barrow-wights from his Beowulf commentary.