<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>A Heathen&#039;s Day &#187; Polytheism</title>
	<atom:link href="http://aheathensday.com/category/polytheism/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://aheathensday.com</link>
	<description>The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:57:33 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator>
		<item>
		<title>A Review of Paxson&#8217;s Essential Ásatrú</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/04/a-review-of-paxsons-essential-asatru.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/04/a-review-of-paxsons-essential-asatru.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heathenism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ásatrú]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a long overdue review of Diana Paxson’s Essential Ásatrú, a book mentioned by S.M. Stirling as a resource for his Emberverse series (previously reviewed here). Diana Paxson is both a Pagan and an author – not only of speculative fiction but of nonfiction works relating to various aspects of Paganism. Essential Asatru: Walking [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/04/a-review-of-paxsons-essential-asatru.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Living and Dying &#8211; Heathen Style</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/living-and-dying-heathen-style.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/living-and-dying-heathen-style.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heathenism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My Heathen ancestors had a great many conceptions of death, and to what road it led: to the halls of our ancestors, to Hel (nothing like Christian hell but just a place you go when you die), to Valhöll if Odin chooses you. Skjöldunga Saga speaks of "going to King Odin" and "the underworld," and there is some sense of going "into the mountains" to join your ancestors. There is also a limited appeal to reincarnation, as Ellis-Davidson puts it,  "belief in the birth of the souls of dead ancestors into the living world again, in the persons of their descendants."[1] And of course, there are the dísir, who are female ancestors who have stayed behind to help the household.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/living-and-dying-heathen-style.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Myth of Universal Gender Roles and Categories</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-universal-gender-roles-and-categories.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-universal-gender-roles-and-categories.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heathenism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monotheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our world of assumed certainty, things are far less certain than we like to pretend. As it turns out, gender roles and categories are nebulous, shifting things. In the end, they are what we say they are from age to age and culture to culture. We decide man = x and woman = y but x and y are neither fixed nor universal.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-universal-gender-roles-and-categories.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Divining Man: A Belief in the Absurd or Just Absurd?</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/divining-man-a-belief-in-the-absurd-or-just-absurd.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/divining-man-a-belief-in-the-absurd-or-just-absurd.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monotheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People can accept without reservation the miraculous - and on the face of it absurd - story of Jesus' divine birth or apotheosis but dismiss as ridiculous similar (and far older) stories of Pagan divine men.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/divining-man-a-belief-in-the-absurd-or-just-absurd.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Choosing to Get Along&#8230;Or Not.</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/choosing-to-get-along-or-not.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/choosing-to-get-along-or-not.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church and State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monotheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Constitution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rest of us are trapped in this mythical world. And not only is ancient history mythologized but so is American history – the myth of a Christian Nation. And as rapidly as events happen in the real world, they are mythologized – re-interpreted to fit, to conform to the system. It is becoming difficult for the real world – and us – to keep up with the spin.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/choosing-to-get-along-or-not.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Enduring Strength of Paganism</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/the-enduring-strength-of-paganism.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/the-enduring-strength-of-paganism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heathenism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of the myth of Christianity centers around the idea that people flocked to become Christians, that it was a liberating experience. It was not. Christianity succeeded because it was imposed by force, including torture and death. It was maintained by the same forces throughout the centuries. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/the-enduring-strength-of-paganism.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Are Yule Logs Unethical?</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/are-yule-logs-unethical.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/are-yule-logs-unethical.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heathenism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Will the day come when across the fifty states we are barred from burning a Yule log? And should a religious waver be possible?  A spokesman for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District does not offer an encouraging answer: "We know a lot of people like to burn on this holiday, but it's our duty to protect public health," said Ralph Borrmann, the spokesman.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/are-yule-logs-unethical.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Informational Proselytizing?</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/informational-proselytizing.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/informational-proselytizing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monotheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was nice to have a polite conversation with Christians. This brought a laugh. They thanked me for informing them about my religion. I thanked them for sharing their beliefs with me. We parted on good terms, and the older gentleman expressed a desire to speak to me again. If it means a dialogue, rather than a monologue, I’m in. Because the kind of Christians who will listen to us are the kind we need.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/informational-proselytizing.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Is There a Refuge From Superstition?</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/is-there-a-refuge-from-superstition.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/is-there-a-refuge-from-superstition.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monotheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Why," I thought, "am I forced to sit here and listen to all this crap about what their god would or would not do?" You cannot escape it. This is a debate we would not even be having, we would not be forced to listen to and to endure, if it were not for monotheism. There was no Satan in the days of polytheism for people so sell their souls to. This was an accusation that could not have been made. And therefore, a debate which could not have taken place.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/is-there-a-refuge-from-superstition.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Continuing the Debate</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/continuing-the-debate.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/continuing-the-debate.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmotheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monotheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Momigliano, not along among scholars, takes note of the fact that “the members of the ruling class of Rome were ready to transact business with people who worshipped different gods and were used to different political traditions. Roman polytheism could adapt itself to, and indeed merge with, what we may call the provincial traditions.” Provincial traditions = ethnic religion. Roman polytheism was itself an ethnic religion. Barriers translated.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://aheathensday.com/2010/01/continuing-the-debate.html/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
