expertopf.blogg.se - Heathen Gods by Mark Ludwig Stinson

Nathan (10) has begun helping with tasks during our Fainings, and is beginning to show an interest in toasting during Symbel. When that happens, you will have very little input or control regarding how they fill that emptiness. But, when we leave a spiritual hole or emptiness in our children, they will find someone willing to fill that hole. It might be their classmate, their Uncle Bob, their first girlfriend or boyfriend, or even some television show. If you do not teach your children your belief system as the basis for which they live good and honorable lives – then someone else most certainly will.

* 2009, Mark Ludwig Stinson, Heathen Gods - Version 1.0, page 28, I've seen several Heathenry ' 101 booklets and articles that made a lot of comparisons between '''Heathenry''' and Christianity.If you do not teach your children about spirituality, the Gods, their Ancestors, and the way to live their lives in relation to the divine – then someone else most certainly will.

Lewis (editors), ''Handbook of New Age, page 436, Thus Paganism has come to be an umbrella term for a diverse spiritual network, which also includes modern Shamanism and Heathenry.

* 2007, Melissa Harrington, Paganism and the New Age'', Daren Kemp, James R.

* 2005, Galina Krasskova, Exploring the Northern Tradition, page 23, Comparatively, they are understanding, if not accepting, of Neo-Pagan influence many Universalists even consider Heathenry to fall under the Neo-Pagan umbrella-a position most Folkish Heathens and Tribalists reject.

People often discover ' Heathenry through finding the mythology of Northern Europe and attempting to learn more about the culture and spirituality of this part of the world. Thus, '''Heathenry''' is, in some sense, a reconstructed religion.

* 2005 ', Jenny Blain, ''Chapter Five: '''Heathenry, the Past, and Sacred Sites in Today's Britain'', Michael Strmiska (editor), ''Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, page 181, In Britain, Heathenry''''' is the most common name used for an emergent religion based on the old gods, goddesses, and spirits (wights) that were part of everyday life in Northern Europe before the coming of the Christian era.Any modern reconstruction of one of these religions Germanic neo-paganism.