Hail, men and women of Midgard! Name is Eric, been Heathen for about 10 years now, and have been devoted to Heimdall for about 2 years.
The month of May is a wonderful and aethereal time of year: Spring is truly here, and the Wee Folk are particularly active - but I want to make a brief reminder of what else this month entails for us: Remembrance. Many folk usually take November (Samhain / Álfablót) to honour the dead, but this month is when we have Memorial Day, that one time of year we make silent memories for those who are now in Odin's Halls.
It was also on the 8th of May when Germany and the rest of the world ended the Second World War, finally ushering in an age of relative peace amongst peoples everywhere; millions of peoples - Jewish, Romani, Black, etc... - were massacred simply for existing, and this date marks the end of an age of suffering and dispair.
If it's true that we are all children of the Earth and the Gods, then let us make sure that, this year, we remind all people that they are never less nor more than any of us - as the Gods intended, we are all equal. Heimdall may have fathered the social classes, but in 2025, we are in an age which requires all folk to act as one class.
As such, I pray that Heimdall gives us the fortitude to make us see when inequality and corruption arise, and to give those folk no frith (Hav. 127); I also hope that we all remember those who have fallen, in battle or otherwise, and that we see them all as part of our own people.
Hail, men and women of Midgard! Name is Eric, been Heathen for about 10 years now, and have been devoted to Heimdall for about 2 years.
The month of May is a wonderful and aethereal time of year: Spring is truly here, and the Wee Folk are particularly active - but I want to make a brief reminder of what else this month entails for us: Remembrance. Many folk usually take November (Samhain / Álfablót) to honour the dead, but this month is when we have Memorial Day, that one time of year we make silent memories for those who are now in Odin's Halls.
It was also on the 8th of May when Germany and the rest of the world ended the Second World War, finally ushering in an age of relative peace amongst peoples everywhere; millions of peoples - Jewish, Romani, Black, etc... - were massacred simply for existing, and this date marks the end of an age of suffering and dispair.
If it's true that we are all children of the Earth and the Gods, then let us make sure that, this year, we remind all people that they are never less nor more than any of us - as the Gods intended, we are all equal. Heimdall may have fathered the social classes, but in 2025, we are in an age which requires all folk to act as one class.
As such, I pray that Heimdall gives us the fortitude to make us see when inequality and corruption arise, and to give those folk no frith (Hav. 127); I also hope that we all remember those who have fallen, in battle or otherwise, and that we see them all as part of our own people.