By Trevor Swoverland In my last essay Tribe as the Foundation for the Reconstruction of Heathenry I wrote about how our experiences in the Nordskogen Stamme have really driven home for us the importance of rebuilding tribal relationships and identity in the effort to reconstruct pre-conversion Germanic worldview and lifeways. We have also written essays [...]
by Crystal Shilling Originally posted on realheathenry.com For two thousand years Christianity has spread across the Old World and into the New World with great fierceness. Much of the ancient world is lost because of this and yet some things have survived or have been discovered. In the modern world, our culture is saturated with [...]
This article is a follow-up to a previous one written by Trevor Swoverland, with the link to that first article in the first paragraph below. It provides an anecdotal experience of home with a consideration of the tendency to equate urbanization and success in the overculture. In a recent piece (Colonized Colonizers: The Consequences of [...]
This piece written by Honor Schauland is a beautiful reflection on a subsistence activity endemic in this region we call home, and it touches on the spiritual depth of life close to the land and close community. It is a lovely description of a particular human ecology that shares ideas generalizable to other regions in [...]
This piece, written by Trevor Swoverland, considers the complexity of the colonization of populations of European migrants and how the process of being colonized by imperial powers has placed many descendants of European migrants to these shores in the position of being descended from both colonized peoples and colonizers; additionally, forces of colonization continue to [...]
By Michael Spires 3/19/2019 There was once a people, a people in possession of learned and scientific mind. They turned from the ways of those who came before, and instead of worshipping the gods and goddesses, they worshipped a philosophy. They worshipped Progress. This philosophy, this Cult of Progress served the people well. New innovations [...]
The articles on this site are created out of conversations that occur in the Decolonizing Heathenry facebook group. As such, the authorship credit goes to the people in that group. That being said, this essay was compiled (and narrated) by Kaare Melby. The way wild space is viewed when you live in the city is nearly opposite [...]
For most Heathens, the only worldview they have ever even conceived of is the colonized worldview.
In the process of conversion, our ancestors had to do some mental gymnastics,
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