dewognatos:

amber-and-ice:

dewognatos:

havamal33:

dewognatos:

This is what I’ve spent all day and night working on. I may have a bit of a problem with my obsession with correspondences, even if I don’t tend to actually use them. I just think those wheel of the year diagrams you see around are really neat and wanted one for myself. I ended up making five.

This is really great! Not my brand of paganism even, yet the dedication and attention to detail is a valuable contribution to your subject matter. Like me you probably feel under-appreciated, contributing valuable contextual information without any returns or even acknowledgement from our peers. The more profound your work the less you will be appreciated, people will even become resentful of you for shaking the baseless foundation of their dogmatism.
Historical recreation of religion is just as bad as christian dogmatism because the divine is dynamic, while history is both skewed and static, the difference being that the former is self imposed.
I sure hope that slavic pagans aren’t as lazy as the rest of us.
Keep up the awesome work!

Thank you! I admit I’m a bit confused what you are saying in the rest of this, but I think I understand… Being reconstructionist can feel frustratingly lonely. I am not worried about being told I am dogmatic, because I appreciate having the hard back of history to lean against, and I know that personally I am very willing to change my views on something when archaeological and literary evidence proves me wrong. And I have tried to curb calling out people on their UPG if they belong to gnostic-based religions, such as gnostic based polytheism or theistic witchcraft of a non-academic nature, since I acknowledge that we hold ourselves to different standards. These charts are partially reconstructionist based, but also largely artistic and/or pulled from non-religious witchcraft theories of mine. It isn’t all recon-based.

Also I’m not sure I get what you mean about slavic pagans… :/ I know two Slavic pagans—one the very first reconstructionist pagan I ever met and the other one of my very good friends—who are both far from lazy and consider research and accuracy very important.

These look a lot like the diagrams in what I was reading last night, only those were about the well of Urth, Irminsul, and the relations between them and various types of action and how they fall within the well. But considering that a good portion of my brain/soul/consciousness-thing does happy flips over Celtic cosmology as well, these are making me go ”oooooh” and wonder if the two could meld in my syncretic polytheism soup in progress.

Ooh, yes, I think there is a lot of cosmological crossover. Realistically, there should be only a single pillar in the center of that diagram, where the World Tree would be located, but I split it into four for the sake of the modern seasonal and directional stuff I was trying to work into the image.

IDK, I’m proud of them, but I sort of want to write a companion piece to the photoset pointing out what is historical and what’s my own personal additions. XD

merrymeet:

Awen

Awen is a Welsh word for “inspiration” - specifically poetic inspiration. In the Welsh tradition, Awen is the inspiration of the poet bards. In its personification, Awen is the inspirational muse of creative artists in general. The inspired individual, who often is a poet or a soothsayer, is described as an Awenydd. 

Consider Awen as a flowing spirit - the spirit energy in flow that is the essence of life.

In some forms of Neo-Druidism, Awen is symbolized by an emblem showing three straight lines that spread apart as they move downward. The lines are drawn within a circle or a series of circles of varying thickness, often with a dot, or point, atop each line. 

The three lines are seen by some as rays emanating from three points of light. The points represent the triple aspect of deity, as well as the points at which the sun rises on the equinoxes and solstices. This is known as the Triad of the Sunrises. 

To others, the three lines of the Awen relate to earth, sea and air; body, mind and spirit; or love, wisdom and truth.

It is also said that the Awen stands not simply for inspiration, but for inspiration of truth - without Awen one cannot proclaim truth. The three foundations of Awen, then, are the understanding of truth, the love of truth and the maintaining of truth. 

The rays also stand for the letters from which all others evolved: I, O and U. It is said, “No one without Awen from the Gods can pronounce these three letters correctly.

dewognatos:

authiyenfae:

pictures of a Ritual

Okay, so this is giving me amazing ideas. I would love to own this box.

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amber-and-ice:

daughterofthewoods:

studyingwitch:

daughterofthewoods:

den-frusna-eken:

The old gods are returning.

Woah, woah, stop it. Serious chills over here.

Oops, went to reblog and accidentally unfollowed!! ACK! They should not put those buttons so close…but what I was going to say was…

NO! I will not STOP! XD

Haha, I was all…weren’t we following each other?

BUT NOW IT MAKES SENSE WELCOME BACK

And in this case, ‘stop’ means ‘don’t stop’, so feel free to post all the evocative old god pictures and text you like! xD It kind of reminds me of Rohan a bit which is why I love it. 

Well damn usually I hate these kinds of things, but this one’s actually not bad.

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dewognatos:

althara:

moonlitsweetpea:

I wanted to make my Book of Shadows all by hand so it would be more personal to me. The black one is my official book for spells/prayers and the white one is separate where I take down notes. 

I am really glad how my book turned out and am very excited to fill it up!

BEAUTIFUL. I am quite jealous! 

Aw, these are really really nice. Book-making inspiration.

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