{"id":12202,"date":"2021-04-24T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12202"},"modified":"2021-04-24T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T22:23:21","slug":"invoking-gods-and-elves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12202","title":{"rendered":"Invoking Gods and Elves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TlZN8-lwoMQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am thinking of starting a series called &#8220;What You Can Do with a Master&#8217;s Degree,&#8221; such as be a lecturer or start your own online school. There was a time, pre-television, when well-known authors went on lecture tours, city to city, speaking to local literary societies, school groups, and the like. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cowper_Powys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Cowper Powys<\/a>, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Glastonbury_Romance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Glastonbury Romance<\/a>, <\/em>was one of many.((&#8220;Powys had success as an itinerant lecturer, in England, and in 1905\u20131930 in the US, where he wrote many of his novels and had several first published. He moved to <a title=\"Dorset\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorset\">Dorset<\/a>, England, in 1934 with his American partner, Phyllis Playter.&#8217; [Wikipedia]. No master&#8217;s degree though.))<\/p>\n<p>And I can think of one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPSbip_LX2AxbGeAQfLp-Ig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">very popular Pagan-studies YouTuber<\/a> who just completed a PhD, so there goes my titl \u2014 (except she started her YouTube channel first.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should call it, &#8220;Start Your Own College,&#8221; in the orginal sense of &#8220;college&#8221; as an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/search?q=college&amp;ref=searchbar_searchhint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organized association of persons invested with certain powers and rights or engaged in some common duty or pursuit<\/a>.&#8221; You would need some collaborators. Or maybe all such people are part of the Invisible College of Pagan Studies and just don&#8217;t know it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is part one of a two-part video<\/strong> on Anglo-Saxon Paganism by Tom Rowsell of <em>Survive the Jive, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/survivethejive.blogspot.com\/p\/blog-page.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a former journalist, also filmmaker and scholar of medieval history, in which he received a master&#8217;s degree in 2021.<\/a> He writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I continue to take an interest in polytheistic religions. The most recent direction of the StJ project since 2016 has been population genetics, with focus on the culture, identity and religion of the Indo-Europeans. My videos are based on thorough interdisciplinary research, drawing from archaeology, linguistics, historical sources, comparative mythology and population genetics \u2014 particularly archaeogenetics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can find Rowsell in the usual places: his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/survivethejive.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Survive the Jive<\/a>&#8221; blog,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCZAENaOaceQUMd84GDc26EA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> YouTube channel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/survivethejive.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/survivethejive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram,<\/a> and probably others.<\/p>\n<p>I will return to this topic. Meanwhile, your suggestions are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am thinking of starting a series called &#8220;What You Can Do with a Master&#8217;s Degree,&#8221; such as be a lecturer or start your own online school. There was a time, pre-television, when well-known authors went on lecture tours, city to city, speaking to local literary societies, school groups, and the like. 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