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The Asatru Folk Assembly argues that Norse religion belongs only to people of Northern European ancestry. This is a specific historical claim. The historical record has a specific answer: no. Here is the case against ancestry-based gatekeeping on historical, archaeological, and scholarly grounds.
The Source Problem: Why So Much “Spartan Religion” Online Is Guesswork
A lot of confident claims about Spartan religion trace back to a surprisingly thin and biased body of evidence. Here is how to actually evaluate what we know versus what gets repeated.
Tricksters, Magicians, and the Morally Complicated Hero in Celtic Tradition
Celtic mythology does not deal in simple heroes. The great figures of the Irish and Welsh traditions are skilled, powerful, sometimes genuinely admirable, and also frequently manipulative, violent, short-sighted, or outright cruel. They lie when it serves them. They…
Ragnarök Is Not the Apocalypse: What the End of the World Actually Means in Norse Cosmology
When Christian missionaries encountered the Norse end-of-the-world story, they saw an apocalypse. They were wrong. Ragnarok and the Christian Apocalypse are built on completely different cosmological foundations. Here is what the Voluspa actually describes.
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The Asatru Folk Assembly argues that Norse religion belongs only to people of Northern European ancestry. This is a specific historical claim. The historical record has a specific answer: no. Here is the case against ancestry-based gatekeeping on historical, archaeological, and scholarly grounds.
The Source Problem: Why So Much “Spartan Religion” Online Is Guesswork
A lot of confident claims about Spartan religion trace back to a surprisingly thin and biased body of evidence. Here is how to actually evaluate what we know versus what gets repeated.
Tricksters, Magicians, and the Morally Complicated Hero in Celtic Tradition
Celtic mythology does not deal in simple heroes. The great figures of the Irish and Welsh traditions are skilled, powerful, sometimes genuinely admirable, and also frequently manipulative, violent, short-sighted, or outright cruel. They lie when it serves them. They…