Today I've encountered a friend who lives in another city, and in Brazil it means, most of the times, some countries away, from an European citizen's point of view.

It was a surprise, orchestrated only by th the Gods, and my heart was filled with joy andgratitude. I had just looked at her picture thinking "I won't be able to meet her, this time".

The Gods gave me this unexpected blessing, but They also made me think about this:

Most of you are too young or too close to your beloveds, but what kind of effort are you doing to maintain contact, and I mean real relationships without losing yourselves in the process of pushing people away for not corresponding to what you think they should be or do?

No one is an island, and the Gods reminded me we should think about that more often. In the long road of life, these connections are too important to simply let go with the smoke of our egos and routines.

Time to see if the redt of the gang is ok. I hope each of you is ok, too.

Odinista você é o Fogo Sagrado que nos inspira a todos.

Hails jah Haila.
ᚺᚨᛁᛚᛊ ᛃᚨᚺ ᚺᚨᛁᛚᚨ.
𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 𐌾𐌰𐌷 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰.

Haila Frijonds jah Frijonjos Meina!
ᚺᚨᛁᛚᚨ ᚠᚱᛁᛃᛟᚾᛞᛊ ᛃᚨᚺ ᚠᚱᛁᛃᛟᚾᛃᛟᛊ ᛗᛖᛁᚾᚨ!.
𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 𐌾𐌰𐌷 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌹𐍉𐍃 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰.


Ao percorrer o caminho da nossa amada espiritualidade conhecida como heathendom, e no nosso caso chamada Oðinnismo.

Confronta-nos com uma realidade que nos coloca numa grande cadeia de acontecimentos e eventos.

Assim, enquanto há pessoas que sentem a motivação para criar páginas web e mantê-las com informações claras e concisas.
Há outros que se dedicam ao estudo de dicionários e promovem línguas antigas dos povos ou tribos de raiz germânica, nórdica e gótica, de uma época pré-cristã.

Procurando na filologia, mitologia ou história, preencher sua necessidade de aprendizagem.

Publicando ensaios ou descobertas arqueológicas ou antropológicas, que alimentam uma comunidade cada vez mais consciente de que a tradição heathen é um grande quebra-cabeça, onde o esforço de todos contribui com seu grande trabalho. Não é em vão.

Alguns são críticos, outros encorajam esse despertar, não apenas teorizar um passado romantizado, mas traduzi-lo na modernidade, que se apresenta cheia de avanços e informação digital.

Uma espiritualidade crescente que aos poucos nos oferece respostas a qualquer dissertação, para que continuemos buscando nos ancestrais a sabedoria dos nossos Deuses(as).

Nesta grande viagem de auto-descoberta não só de um passado e um chamado espiritual que nos desperta para uma nova realidade.

Onde somos parte de uma enorme rede de energia e nosso lugar no mundo ganha coerência de uma forma vivencial.

Somos aquilo que sentimos , pensamos e com paixão amamos. Não estamos loucos em seguir o caminho do grande buscador de sabedoria, seja Odin , Gautr Wodanaz ou qualquer um dos seus múltiplos nomes e formas em que foi apontado.

Sentir que nos convoca, nos coloca em sintonia respondendo em consequência ao seu chamado.

Haverá quem organize grupos e comunidades.
Haverá quem suba montanhas, haverá outros que componham música, ou desenvolvam bela poesia.

Ou os que se esforçam em aprender línguas mortas ou em desuso, e costumes e história de regiões que ainda distantes estão mais presentes do que nunca em nosso espírito.
É válido quem buscará um parceiro que os acompanhe para compartilhar sua caminhada pelo mundo.

Alguns legalizarão o Oðinnismo em seus respectivos países.
E haverá quem escreva livros ou funde Irmandades.

Outros só serão espectadores passivos tentando aplicar em sua vida diária o aprendido.

Também estarão aqueles que acendam uma pequena fogueira e peçam por seus entes queridos e com seus encantos abençoem e curem não só seus corpos, mas daqueles seres que amam.

Mas tudo isso que eu descrevo, só é uma série de situações e ações que nos conformam em uma grande comunidade heathen, que busca saciar a ressonância que nos inunda nossos corações com paixão transbordante, a mesma que nos dá a força para seguir tão nobre caminho.

Aplicando o aprendido em suas famílias e entes queridos, sendo melhores pessoas a cada dia.
Anima cada heathen a chegar a ser a melhor versão possível de si mesmos.
Reitero não estão loucos.

Vocês são esse fogo sagrado que nutre e inspira as novas gerações daqueles que virão a percorrer nosso caminho. Cada esforço conta.

Todos somos necessários, é o mistério que nos une.
Não desistam continuem estudando, na eterna busca de sabedoria.

O caminho da união como uma grande família Oðinnista é assim.


Galaubeins, Fradrein jah Thiuda.
(Fe, Familia Y Tribu)

Gutané Jér Weiháilag.
ᚷᚢᛏᚨᚾᛖ ᛃᛖᚱ ᚹᛖᛁᚺᚨᛁᛚᚨᚷ.
𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌴 𐌾𐌴𐌷 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌲.

Auhusmits.
ᚨᚢᚺᚢᛊᛗᛁᛏᛊ.
Guðja Hoen.
ᚷᚢᚦᛃᚨ ᚺᛟᛖᚾ.
Clan Falker.
ᚴᛚᛅᚾ ᚠᛅᛚᚴᛅᚱ.
H.O.S.F.
ᚺ.ᛟ.ᛊ.ᚠ.
I.O.S.F.
ᛁ.ᛟ.ᛊ.ᚠ.
México.
ᛘᛖᚳᛋᛁᚳᚩ.
Brasil.
ᛒᚱᚨᛊᛁᛚ.

Gullveig Chant.

Witch Goddess Gullveig
Master of the Northern Witches
Expert in the art of Seidh
Lady of the transformations

You caused a great war
You, trice burnt
Seer, Vitki woman
Trice re-born

You are the radiant gold
Some call you the caldron Witch
You bring the singed broom
Great Vanir Witch

The Lynx follows you
The white crow guides you
The owl gives you advice
The spider protects you

The echo from the witches in the mist
Calls you the first witch
You are the first, not the last
You inhabit in each of them

There are no secrets for you
Master of the fire
You are both,
The creator and the destroyer

From the powerful gold magic
Moon Blood ablaze
By the primordial fire
The heart is consumed

Invocations are cast
In the dark of the moon you arrive
Amidst the hidden balefire
Your witches praise you

At the Walpurgis feast
They dance in your honour.
As it was in the past,
As it is today

Illuminate and cause madness
Protect, teach and nourish us
Witch of the perennial fables
Hidden within the mist and masks

Impostors Pseudo Witches
In the wolf era called you
The one of the thousand names
But you never answered them

You, radiant Gullveig
An alliance is established
Powerful energy is emanated
Conjures will fall beside you

One who doesn’t know your ways will loose oneself
Among mirages and reflexes
From death, madness and love Goddess of the mortal spell

We make a toast in your honour
Protector of this brotherhood
Burn! purifying fire.
You, the eternal Goddess witch

In the rituals of moon and blood
Powerful soothsaying chants
Wheel of white masks
Curses will be returned

Guardian of other times
Odinist women in Midgard
Reborn, to your call they will respond
And your name will never be forgotten

The Hawk wings will guide
The flames of the fire will untie
May the great nation of the Visigoth Eagle
Be ready for battle under your fire, just waken now.

© Hoen Falker.
https://www.odins-gift.com/poth/3multi/cantodegullveig.htm

Quem gosta da banda Dalriada?

https://youtu.be/1wFlohv_VBo?si=9ve7irzXwDoqFszN

Top 3 Mysteries from Norse Sagas


1 - The fate of Ormrinn Langi

While converting the Jarldoms in Norway to Christianity, king Olaf Trygvasson took as plunder a massive longship later named Ormrinn Skammi (The Short Serpent). This man was impressed by its design and size, and as he gained more wealth trough raiding as viking he commissioned the greatest longship in history, Ormrinn Langi (The Long Serpent). It is described in the same saga as follows: 34 pairs of rows each side for 68 rowers, a broad and high deck for crossing seas and carrying armies (estimated to be around 45 meters long).
This beast warship was sailed on the Øyrasund strait along with the rest of the royal fleet when Trygvasson was ambushed by his many enemies, the fleets of danes and swedes combined to cover the entire horizon with ships.
The norwegian king had no choice but to face against outnumberingly bad odds the coming armies, where soon blood was told to cover every deck of norwegian ships and danish with swedish armies on them. Ormrinn Langi stood last with Olaf's retinue defending its massive deck until Trygvasson jumped overboard afraid of blades. The swedes were told to have captured Ormrinn langi, but nothing else is known about the fate of the largest longship.


2 - Supernatural encounters in Grettir's saga

There is no figure more fabled and controversial in icelandic sagas than Grettir Asmundsson, a violent outlaw with many strange flaws and characteristics.
After murdering, Grettir is condemned in Iceland to full outlawry and flees to Norway where he is hunted down day and night by the family of the offended, and taking down tens after tens of warriors. This is the easiest part for him, however as the supernormal seems to be against him as well, where he is said to face Draugr (undead) and cave trolls, being a characteristic exclusive to some outlaw sagas.
What is strangest however is Glam the Undead who curses Grettir after he is defeated to be afraid of the dark. From there on, the Saga becomes more and more surreal, it is told that eyes haunted the outlaw from the dark and could not get sleep unless somebody kept watch for him. Another such curse is laid unto him when he makes his last stand on the Icelandic island of Drangey, where he is paralysed by a witch. This Saga is the strangest by far for all the out of the ordinary happenings.


3 - Vinland, do we really know anything about it?

We all like to be that one who says "but the Vikings discovered the americas!", and you'd be right for the archaeological evidence, but the literary one from the sagas is absolutely
strange. For instance, in Erik the Red's saga there is told of some, I will call them "ghost crops", where there is told of self sown wheat (even today, the only evidence for native wheat is in the Middle East) and grapes which are not found natively in North America. Most probably they were either confused or lies to attract investors and settlers.
Even more strange are the encounters with the amerindian nomad settlers named Skrælings which are not identified to a tribe even today. They were initially trading with the norse, but later became hostile. They were many but the icelandic settlers had superior techology and kept their lands for a while. In one battle, a farm was attacked by a warband of Skrælingjar where only a pregnant woman survived. It is told that she managed to scare and rout the attackers alone.
For unknown reasons, Vinland was abandoned, and later in the middle ages it was only a memory and thought by some to be Africa. Nowadays we only know Vinland is in modern day Canada because of the finds.

Rán, keeper of the lost, my favorite, my inspiration as i dip my toes in the journey to soberiety.
Rán holds the grief and shadows others cannot. She understands the pull of the deep, the ache of loss, and the pain we sometimes try to drown. But she is also the one who helps you rise. Rán does not judge, she cradles the weary and helps them resurface. With her net, she gathers not only the drowned but the lost parts of ourselves we thought were gone forever.

Regarding being #pagan, it is fundamental to us to have ancestral respect for the grandeur of nature, a deep knowledge of the law of the union of opposites and balance between polarities, the presence of vital energy in all beings, whether animate or not, and reverence for divine forces.

#animism #landvaettir
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BR - Sobre ser pagão, nos é fundamental o respeito ancestral diante da grandiosidade da natureza, o conhecimento profundo da lei da união dos opostos e equilíbrio entre as polaridades, a presença da energia vital em todos os seres, animados ou não, e a reverência às forças divinas.

Today, I'll be mostly doing the cleanup, polishing, and mounting on this selection of #lunula pendants in readiness for the craft fair I will be attending at Winterslow Vllage Hall near salisbury, Wiltshire, tomorrow (10th May 2025).

There will be a good selection of local craftsmen joining me, so if you're in the area, why not pop in and take a look?

#handmadeuk #handcrafted #luna #lunitsa #goddess #moon #moonmagic

Most of you know this, but just to clear up a common myth

Vikings didn’t use the Elder Futhark.

The runes most people recognize the 24-character Elder Futhark actually disappeared before the Viking Age even began.

By the time the Vikings were carving runestones and marking their belongings, they had switched to a simplified 16-rune alphabet called the Younger Futhark.

I personally like the Elder Futhark more

Mighty Red Dragon
My most recent work that took "some" time and effort to make and program it the way I envisioned it. Ended up falling in love with final result :)

Perfect addition to any altar or personal space. It's program is directly inspired by Red Dragons, who are mighty beings embodying strength, might, wealth and ability to grow the trophies.
The point is not to make someone reflect them but to balance the energies governing the soul, bringing up the brave and courageous part of the soul to present and embrace the draconic heritage.
Or if you're already a powerhouse it will definitely help you grow even more to gigachad or gigachadette levels of being :)

#beeswax #beeswaxcandle #dragoncandle #altarcandle