Anglo-Saxon Heathenry
Sometimes this is how I feel in prayer and meditation, waiting for the Gods to place the next delicately-balanced stone. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash I have written here before about my calendar of monthly observances for seasonally appropriate Gods. In this scheme, March corresponds to Hrēþ-mōnaþ, the month of the mysterious Goddess Hrēðe, […]
Hrēðe, Tīw, and encountering almost-forgotten Gods.
Icon art representing Frīg, by myself. Recently I have been creating more art than I have in years – a fair amount of it devotional or as iconography for Gods. I feel like I’ve finally cracked (or started to crack) digital art and stylisation in a way that I’m actually happy with what I create. […]
Thoughts on devotional art and the Western canon
For details on how I reconstruct my calendar, see my page on the Anglo-Saxon Calendar. I will add a couple notes here, however. This year only has twelve new moons between the previous December solstice and this year’s December solstice. Therefore, it will not be a leap year, and only have twelve lunar months. If […]
My Reconstructed Anglo-Saxon Calendar for 2021
There are three Wyrde, three Wyrd Sisters. These take the form of spinners, spinning out the fate of men and measuring them out. If Wyrd is strung together like a great tapestry, each individual life is a thread being woven together to make that tapestry and affect the threads around it. But for all that […]
The Wyrde (The Fates)
Name, Pronunciation, & Meaning: Mōna, pronounced /ˈmoː.nɑ/ (IPA), means moon and indeed is the root of our modern-English word moon.[i] The origins of the word moon and in turn Mōna come from the Proto-Germanic word *mēnô, a word rooted in moon and measurement, and further still from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s, itself likely a derivation of *meh₁- […]
Mōna
Name, Pronunciation, & Meaning: There are two extant names for this goddess in Old-English, either Sunne or Sōl. I typically opt to use Sunne but I know several heathens that use Sol, including Wodgar (Sundorwic). The argument could be made for either term. Sunne, pronounced /ˈsun.ne/ (IPA), means Sun and is the root of […]
Sunne
According to my reconstructed Anglo-Saxon Calendar, the fourth month, Ēosturmōnaþ, began last Tuesday (April 13, 2021). Bede tells us it was named after the goddess Ēostre. Like Hreðe, the only thing we know about Ēostre from attested sources is her name and the month she was worshipped in (roughly corresponding to the month of April), […]
Eostre- the Anglo-Saxon Dawn Goddess
Tīw was obviously an important god to the Anglo-Saxons. They named a day of the week after him, and several places in England were named after him. Tacitus lists him as one of the three most important gods (along with Wōden and Thunor) to the Germanic tribes that would later become the Anglo-Saxons. So it […]
Tīw- the Anglo-Saxon Sky Father, God of Justice and War
Fyrnsidu 