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Two ritual forms sit at the center of historical and modern Heathen practice. The blot is a sacrificial offering, a way of giving something of value to the gods and spirits in exchange for relationship and favor. The sumbel is a drinking ceremony, a formalized...
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The oldest surviving pre-Christian practice in the English language is not a hymn, not a prayer, not a description of a festival. It is a medical charm for healing a diseased patch of farmland. It was copied into a manuscript by a Christian monk. And it is remarkable....
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For a long time, the volva, the Norse seeress who traveled between communities offering prophecy and magical services, was treated by scholars as primarily a literary figure. Then the archaeologists caught up with the mythology, and the picture changed completely....
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Modern Heathenry is a reconstructed tradition. That is a description, not a criticism. But it means something specific about what can and cannot be honestly claimed, and confusing reconstruction with unbroken continuity is one of the most common and consequential...
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The Asatru Folk Assembly had approximately 730 members and five active temples as of April 2025. The number of neo-Volkisch groups in the United States grew from 40 in 2023 to 53 in 2024. These are not fringe statistics. The white nationalist entryism in Heathenry is...
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