Celtic, Gaulish
Gaulish polytheism asks something of you that most Celtic traditions don’t: it asks you to be comfortable with not knowing. There is no Gaulish mythology. No equivalent of the Irish cycles, no Mabinogion, no prose narratives that show the gods moving through the...
Norse
Most people who find Norse paganism spend six months reading before they do anything. They work through the Eddas, read the sagas, study the runes, watch documentaries, join forums. And then they keep reading, because starting feels like a commitment they are not...
Norse
Modern Heathenry is growing. It is also in the middle of an extended and sometimes ugly public argument about what it is, who belongs in it, and what it is for. Both of these things are true at the same time, and the tension between them is one of the most important...
Norse
Before you get to the gods, there are the wights. That is not a modern pagan invention. It is what the Norse and Germanic sources say. The world these people lived in was not divided into a natural layer and a supernatural one that required special access. It was, at...
Celtic
Most people who find their way to Celtic paganism do it alone. No local grove. No mentor. No one nearby who knows the difference between Beltane and Bealltainn or cares. Just you, a few books, probably some confusing Google results, and a quiet sense that something in...
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