Category: From the desk of the High Drighten

Howdy fellow Heathens! Another beautiful Tyr’s day has found us yet again. Congrats on making to another one! So last week I started talking about wisdom and how that applies to our daily lives and even managed to (loosely) tie that to Tyr. This week lets start looking at how to become wiser. Last week […]
Howdy my fellow Heathens! Its Tyr’s Day yet again. Last evening, I was able to meet up with an old friend. He and I went through Navy RTC together and then ended up being stationed on the same ship. He is currently living in Illinois but has bought a piece of land less than an […]
Howdy there follow Heathens! Another offering in my series to honor Tyr on Tyrsday. I want us to consider commitments. Those we make and those are made to us. We know that Tyr made the commitment to Fenris to trade his hand/arm if the deities did not release Fenris from the binds. Tyr was aware […]
As I discussed last week, Tyr’s role as the keeper of justice may have been diminished by the loss of his hand. This could also be an allegory to show the loss of power Tyr experienced. There is evidence that Tyr was a much more prominent deity prior to the Viking era, maybe even the […]
Hello fellow Heathens! To increase the social media content, it has been decided that I will begin a weekly post honoring one of my main god figures – Tyr the One Handed. Tyr the God of War and Justice. Each week I will feature some story related to justice with our community. I will invite […]
Most of us have come to see Tyr as a god who stands for justice, law, doing the right thing. I am not about to say otherwise. First, how we experience the deities is highly personal and will manifest in as many ways as there are people experiencing them. Second, he is all those things […]