Howdy there Heathens (and anyone else reading this)! We find ourselves at the last Tyr’s day of the (standard) year! For many of us this is the 8th day of yule – for others Yule may not have […]
Hello fellow Heathens! It is Tyr’s day yet again. However, our regularly scheduled honoring of Tyr is being usurped…I mean loving replaced with a discussion about Mother’s Night. For many of us, tonight marks the beginning of Yule. […]
Hello fellow Heathens! So today I’m posting a total cop out for a post. I often forget what day it is and rarely write these posts too far in advance. As in I write them the morning of […]
When we look at the lore, we can see that the ancestors had a bit of a fatalistic philosophy of life. What does that mean? It means they held a belief that one could not escape their fate. […]
This week to honor Tyr I will be using this spot to share some wisdom – hopefully – and to elicit some conversation. The ancestors had a word for those you were honorable, brave, and acted with integrity […]
The decision was foregone – he had to sacrifice his hand to the greater good.
We often associate Tyr with honor. We see him as being an honorable deity because he is seen as having done the right thing for the right reasons. He acted for the greater good when he sacrificed his […]
Gebo is difficult to define because it really is more of a feeling than a word. Some words that come to mind would be love, gifts, and purpose. Love, in this context, is the plutonic love of our […]