Our Folk Belief

What we can do for one another is provide a foundation for us to be able to live spiritually fulfilled lives using the religion that calls to us through the voices of our forebears. In order for Ésatréow/Wódendóm to have real worth, beyond a set of maxims for living and rituals to perform, it must be able to significantly benefit our folk and then the whole of mankind. Thus it must be able to answer those important philosophical questions such as: Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? What happens when we die? What is the nature of divinity? and so on. But for Wódeneras/Ésatréoweras, the answers to these questions must be logical and reasonable, for we will not accept fantastical explanations or baseless superstitions. Our lore is symbolic, which just about all of us understand and accept; but underneath the symbols and allegories are spiritual truths that are profound and enlightening, and can aid us in our search for understanding the hidden forces of our universe.

~ Mark Puryear, Odisbook: The Book of Odr

*With ON terms translated into OE

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Diatomaceous Earth

This fluffy, soft white powder is created by grinding up the tiny fossils of diatoms (plankton) in sedimentary rock. It is mostly silica.

To us, this powder is pleasantly poofy, kind of like what you would imagine angels would have dustbaths in to fluff up their wings.

However, to insects, this powder - at their scale - is like a pile of jagged broken glass. It tears away at their bodies, exposing them to the elements, which causes them to dehydrate and die.

Pile it up around plants, dust it on leaves. However, water deactivates it, so you have to reapply every time it gets wet.

It will kill beneficial insects, too, so be careful with it around flowers!

It has more uses than just in the garden:

- Mix with your dry food storage to deter pests.
- Ingest to take care of internal parasites.
- Lifting stains - absorbs twice its weight in liquid, water or oil!
- Deodorizer for pets or trash can.
- Flea/tick control on pets!

ALWAYS buy food grade DE! Other stuff is full of fillers.

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There’s a place that we belong.

A good discussion worth the listen

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Preserve our Culture

“Because of this, Wódendóm/Ésatréow is as much a cultural celebration as it is a religious revival. The traditions we adhere to form a link in time to all who have used them in the past and to all who will do so in the future. This link then binds us to our ancestors and our descendants in a way that is not only metaphysically significant, but is also deeply meaningful to us. Combine this with our relationship to our folk today and you have a living, dynamic culture which expresses the values of our faith in their purest form.
The culture, the traditions, these are more powerful than the religion itself because they are ingrained within our psyches as a part of our natural inheritance. It was the traditions that our ancestors fought most fervently for against the invading Church, who eventually had to co-opt them into a false ‘Christian’ model to convince the indigenous Europeans to accept this. Even today people know that ‘holy days’ such as Christmas, Easter, and Halloween have nothing to do with the Bible and were in fact originally heathen celebrations, yet Christians all over the world still celebrate them. They cannot break away from their ancestral roots. That is the power of culture, which will always be a part of the human experience.”

~ Mark Puryear, Odisbook: The Book of Odr

*With ON terms translated into OE

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Progress is a Lie: Experience the Homecominng

“There are those within the secularist movement who view all forms of culture and tradition as chains meant to exploit and oppress the masses. Their contrarian (read ‘counter-culture’) philosophy leads them to rebel against any and every institution that makes society what it is, usually in favor of hedonistic lifestyles they view as ‘modern’ and ‘progressive.’ Marriage, parenthood, family, community; these things matter, and those who turn against them typically find themselves consumed by superficial, often destructive patterns meant to fill the empty holes in their lives. They then develop a ‘culture’ that is spiritually devoid, and usually leads one into a downward spiral of alcoholism, drug abuse, crime, suicide, and depression. The center becomes the Self, which must then be pleased at all costs. This allows narcissism to flourish as the primary motivation behind so-called ‘modern’ ideals and movements. Their gods are the inflated egos of academia and Hollywood, their ‘cult of personality’ which then extends into political and religious circles as well. When they even attempt to act ‘spiritual,’ this typically manifests in bizarre New Age cults that only serve to further a political agenda, and looking into the various forms of this one can easily see that no matter what the interpretation represented is, the core values remain the same.”

~ Mark Puryear, Odisbook: The Book of Odr

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Once a tigress attacked a herd of goats but was shot by a hunter. The tigress gave birth to a cub as she expired. The cub began to grow in the company of the goats; nursed by the she-goats, and later on it began to eat grass and bleat. Gradually the cub became a big tiger; but still it ate grass and bleated.
One day a fierce tiger attacked the herd. It was amazed to see a tiger in the herd eating grass and running away with the goats at its approach. It left the goats and caught hold of the grass-eating tiger, which began to bleat and tried to run away.
But the fierce tiger dragged it to the water and said: 'Now look at your face in the water. You see, you have the face of a tiger; it is exactly like mine.' Next it pressed a piece of meat into its mouth. At first the grass-eating tiger refused to eat the meat. Then it got the taste of the meat and relished it. The fierce tiger is like the guru who awakens one's spiritual consciousness,. To see one's face rightly is to know one's real Self.

The above parable of the grass eating tiger comes from Sri Ramakrishna

Building the Faith, in an Englisċ, or Anglo-Saxon, context:

There is no OE attested source for Vanr & Vanir. Even in ON, the etymological origins are speculative (at best). We simply don’t know what their names meant. So how do we discuss these gods in an OE manner? First, we transliterate the stem, Van, and it becomes Wan, then we look at the declension pattern. With Van/Wan being the stem, we look at the masculine a-stem declension pattern, which puts it as (Sg. & Pl.):

N./A. Wan Wan-as
G. Wan-es Wan-a
D. Wan-e Wan-um

Ós, (a) god & the rune ᚩ, representing the letter Oo.

N/A Ós Ésa
G. Ósa Ésa
D. Ósa. Ésum

* m., U-Stem with I-Mutation
**Equivalent to ON Áss, Æsir
***As a runic letter, it’s believed to represent Wóden

The highest of the divine families.

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