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Anglo-Saxon Heathenry, Paganism, History, Polytheism, Theology, Philosophy, and other thoughts. This podcast is attached to Wind in the Worldtree, the Blog.


    • Jan 18, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
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    The Past Sucked: The Problems With Idealizing Ancient Societies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2022 36:33


    Caution: Topics include sexual violence. You have been warned, the past sucks.

    Imagined Music: How Primitivism is at the core of the "Heathen Aesthetic"

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2021 29:14


    Get ready to get your ideas and preconceptions shocked and rocked as you join me for a deep dive into primitivism, the dirty secret of heathenry. In particular I will be examining "Heathen Music" and how the style of music we associate with heathenry not only isn't ancient but is once again rooted in imagination.

    Gray Areas of Deity

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2021 30:00


    Deity is a spectrum, multi-faceted and with lots of caveats and some exceptions. Our society is accustomed to black and white, but in this video I will seek to examine the gray areas of deity. Join me as I examine and discuss deities that run somewhat counter to our expectations.

    Imagined Climate: Ancient Weather and Heathenry

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2021 38:40


    Have you ever given a thought to the weather ancient Scandinavia and Germany and England and how it impacted the people who lived there in those places? This is a video for you then. In this video I examine perception versus reality and how our imaginations affect our understandings of the past if we don't set them in line with reality.

    Coreligiosity in Heathenry

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2021 31:16


    This video is going to get into what is really a deep topic, coreligiosity. Essentially it is the idea that there is not one heathenry, but instead there are many religions that share this title outwardly. There are therefore divisions on how we believe and how we practice and how we conceive of divinity. The most pronounced differences are ones that are on the fundamentals that people hold. Despite this, there are many things that unite is.

    Episode 9: Offering to Other Gods

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 13:09


    Are you any less heathen when you offer to gods besides the ones in our heathen "pantheon" (for lack of a better term)? The simple answer is no. So how do you go about this? This episode will give three options for worshiping other gods and will set them in their historical precedent to give better context to them.

    Episode 8: Cults in Heathenry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2021 27:10


    Heathenry has cults, we are actually really a susceptible community for cults because of the lack of established structures of religion. So in this video I discuss cults in Heathenry.

    Episode 7: Imagined Heathenry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2021 15:03


    Heathenry suffers from an issue of perception versus reality, our religion suffers from Imagined Heathenry. Ultimately I think the only way we can get past this is to leave behind anti-Christian sentiment and focus on what we are not on what we aren't.

    Episode 6: Christian Baggage

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 12:27


    So let's talk about why heathens and pagans in general for that matter go to great lengths to avoid the word worship.

    Episode 5: Problematic Ancestors

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2020 13:19


    In this episode I ask the question of what to do about our problematic ancestors.

    Episode 4: Eternal Damnation

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2020 19:06


    In this podcast I talk a little about the immorality of the concept of eternal damnation and why heathenry should not indulge in it.

    Episode 3: What makes a god?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2020 21:15


    What makes a god a god? What separates gods from ettins? I go on a bit of  a ramble here and there but hopefully I get my point across and  ultimately can be understood.

    Episode 2: Is Folkism Historical?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 13:33


    In this episode I tackle the claims of folkism regarding ancestral religious practice and weigh them against history. So, is folkism historical?

    Episode 1: Where will you spend eternity?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 11:33


    In this episode I grapple with how a question like "Where will you spend eternity?" is answered from a pagan context and how it is infinitely more complicated than it is for Christians to answer.

    Episode 0: An Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2020 7:51


    I'm quite new to podcasting so this is an introduction to who I am and to my path to this point.

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