Thanksgiving is for Heathens Too
There is nothing un-Heathen about Thanksgiving. Giving thanks is as old as time itself, since the first humans looked to the inhabitants of...
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Animal Sacrifice
This has already spawned a great deal of controversy. Even in principle, animal rights activists oppose it, but in polytheistic religions,...
Read MoreSpatial Dimensions of the Blót
Where were rituals conducted and what times were deemed appropriate? As in all other matters we are limited in our knowledge due to the...
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Blot
How do Heathens celebrate their religion? They blót. Pronounced “Bloat”. Literally, “sacrifice” with an original meaning probably...
Read MoreOn Sacrifice
I came across a comment by Celsus, a Pagan critic of Christianity who wrote c. 200 CE, about the need for sacrifice, and I thought it was...
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson is the author of A Heathen’s Day, which since 2005 has addressed the life and thoughts of a modern day Heathen. He maintains a second blog, Digital Gods (www.digital-gods.com) which focuses on polytheism for the digital age. He is also the founder of the Mos Maiorum Foundation (www.mosmaiorum.org) which is dedicated to the study and support of Paganism as ethnic religion. 
