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I really love to have ritual items and icons that were crafted by other Polytheists, because you know that love for the Gods were poured into it during its creation. That love and devotion has it’s own energy, and it helps to ensoul the items in question. As an animist that believes that most items
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So, this is a review of Skalded Apples, Asphodel Press’s devotional to Idunna and Bragi, complied by Galina Krasskova, available here. It’s filled with excellent articles and beautiful poetry for this Divine couple. There are also a lot of apple-based recipes for Idunna in here, and a ritual or two. I love the devotionals that
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Galina Krasskova recently made a list of books that she recommends. While many of these books are aimed at those beginning on this path of a more traditional kind of polytheist Paganism (as opposed to Wicca-flavored duotheist Paganism), there is a lot that can be learned for those of us who have been at this
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The following is selections about Saturnalia from the December chapter of Classical Living: Reconnecting with the Rituals of Ancient Rome: Myths, Gods, Goddesses, Celebrations, and Rites for Every Month of the Year by Frances Bernstein, Ph.D. Saturnalia, of course, is the origins of many of the traditions that are continued today in the Christmas season.
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As promised at the beginning of September, here is the review of Bibliotheca Alexandria’s Potnia, the Devotional for Demeter! I really enjoyed this devotional. It was bigger than I expected, they clearly got a LOT of submissions. I surprised, but delighted, at how many fictional submissions were included. There was a play and a musical,
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My childhood was not exactly a happy one, for reasons I’m not going to go into. But I have one bright spot in the memory of that time, something that I had buried away until a few years ago, because I didn’t think I could get that feeling back. When I was (about) 11 or
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Good morning, everyone! I started thinking this post would be just one post on some of different things and events in my life that led me to become a homesteader. But as that post got longer and longer, I realized that it would be best if I split it into a series of posts. There
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A review of Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine Friend Sheepish is a delightful little book of vignettes – some related, some less so – of Catherine Friend’s life on sheep farm with her wife, who is much more euthanistic about the farming lifestyle than Catherine herself
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I recently read Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cattle by Gail Demerow (check it out here). I got my relatively-new copy from Amazon just about three weeks ago, and already I’ve succeeded in dog-earing it all to hell. For the last three weeks this book lived
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