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	<title>A Heathen&#039;s Day &#187; Polytheism</title>
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	<description>The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen</description>
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		<title>The Middle Way: Herman Melville’s Polytheism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melville himself seems to have recognized that the presence of many gods — many distinct and incommensurate good ways of life — was a possibility our own American culture could and should be aiming at.  The death of God therefore, in Melville’s inspiring picture, leads not to a culture overtaken by meaninglessness but to a culture directed by a rich sense for many new possible and incommensurate meanings.]]></description>
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		<title>Heathen&#8217;s Day Featured in 50 Best Blogs for Wiccans</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/10/heathens-day-featured-in-50-best-blogs-for-wiccans.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online Christian Colleges</a> is running a piece on the 50 Best Blogs for Wiccans. Refreshingly, they point out that "One of the most misunderstood minority religions in the world today, Wicca involves a wide variety of different beliefs and practices."]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Digital Gods</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/09/introducing-digital-gods.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/09/introducing-digital-gods.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As one of the fastest growing “religions” (it’s actually many religions) on the planet, Pagans need to consider the role of technology in their religious landscape. Is science our friend, our enemy, or a mixed-bag? Is it something we can use, or something that, ultimately, will end up using us?]]></description>
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		<title>The Persecuted Christian Meme and Religious Toleration</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/09/the-persecuted-christian-meme-and-religious-toleration.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/09/the-persecuted-christian-meme-and-religious-toleration.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious divisions are rife in the United States, a country founded on the idea of religious tolerance and more than ever inter-faith efforts are needed to smooth these divisions against a rising tide of xenophobia, fear, and hate.]]></description>
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		<title>Sky Gods and My Gods</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/sky-gods-and-my-gods.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/sky-gods-and-my-gods.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly, too much attention can be given the old Indo-European Sky God routine. Just because the sky father is a sky father and the earth mother is an earth mother does not mean the earth mother is more approachable.]]></description>
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		<title>Bend Over and Kiss Your Golden Idol Goodbye</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/bend-over-and-kiss-your-golden-idol-goodbye.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/bend-over-and-kiss-your-golden-idol-goodbye.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Akhenaten’s failed experiment with monotheism in the fourteenth century B.C.E. monotheism has waged war on mankind. It was not enough for Akhenaten to simply install a cult devoted to one god, or even as one god as the only god. He had to demolish the other gods and their worship.]]></description>
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		<title>What Would My Ancestor Do?</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/what-would-my-ancestor-do.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/what-would-my-ancestor-do.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often do I ask myself, in a similar vein, “What would my ancestors do?” It’s a question that is bound to come up among those who adhere more strongly to historical standards in the reconstruction and revival of ancient religions. We tend to be very ancestor oriented and traditional minded, even as those traditions are being reconstructed and reinterpreted in light of the passing of a thousand years or more.]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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