… at the warrior virgins* of the Carpathian Mountains. Some photos appeared on the EnglishRussia blog last summer. More recently, Peculiar linked to a more complete article about this Asgarda group. A little Pagan resonance in that name, wouldn’t you say? While [French photographer Guillaume] Herbaut is uncertain if the photos are a good representation [...]
My old friend Jay Kenny, founder and editor of Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Esoteric Traditions, is now blogging at The Daily Grail. His first post: “Do we want real history or lucid dreams?” It was written in June, however, so I hope he does more.
• Check out Patheos’ story package on The Future of Paganism. Solitaries? Personal paganism? What’s next? • Musings on that “Nazi” label and whether the climate of the Pacific Northwest encourages “black metal” bands, at Bioregional Animism. • He comes to the festival as a lapsed Lutheran. He leaves as a Pagan—an interview from the [...]
It is to laugh. A blogger who reads Chinese and Japanese tells tattooed victims people what those Asian characters really say—if, indeed, they say anything. Such as green vegetable. Or not chi (qi) but rice. Or not “beautiful” but “disaster.” This must be the revenge of the Orient for our laughing at all those nonsensical [...]
Probably NSFW. The artist also forgot to add blogging.
A summary of ancient Norse practices on personal hygiene, bathing, treatment of disease, and battle wounds. Both the saga literature and forensic studies of skeletal remains suggest that battle injuries could be horrific …. The femur (leg bone) shown to the right is from another man who died of battle injuries in the 11th century. [...]
All summer I have been editing and laying out a biography of the American Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944). I just sent the galleys to the writer, a professor in Arizona, and am working on my own corrections as well. There have been the usual hassles—missing “essential” photos, notes that did not match the [...]
Last night after walking the dogs I spread an old blanket on the ground and lay watching the stars. The Perseid meteor shower is under way, and in 15 minutes I saw five meteors. One was just a blip of light, two were quick, and two left long streaks. I had felt emotionally low all [...]
Via Rod Dreher’s new blog, Macroculture, comes this essay by Richard Morgan on the horrors of freelancing. By the time that I finished it, I was thinking of Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger. See the movie version—I saw it as a teenager, and how I ever became a writer afterwards, I do not know. Youthful optimism, [...]
All around the Pagan blogosphere, tributes are being written today for Isaac Bonewits, who died today. Here is a chronology of his life and tribute by Ian Corrigan. I can add only that he was one of the most prolific and visible figures of the Pagan revival from the 1970s forward. As a student, he [...]
