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No.18373
Hey guys I'm getting back into the movement but I don't have anyone to be pagan with. So today I went for a hike by myself and enjoyed the beauty of nature. Took my slingshot with me and almost hit a bird. I was going to take a poop in a cave but it looked too unsafe so I held it in until I got back home. What are we supposed to do in nature to like, commune with it? My partner is an atheist and doesn't care about these things.
At night I listened to some folk music like vid related, and read Lord of the Rings. I feel like I should say a prayer to the gods before sleeping and upon waking, but I don't know how to do it officially.
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No.18374
>I dont have anyone to be pagan with
Volk matters.
Reading lotr and pooping in a cave doesn't make you a man. Learn about the gods all you want and they won't respect you more for it. Being a luddite is not sufficient to be folkish.
Strength, work, and family are the goals of men. Get land and get true friends men you can respect and are bound to.
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No.18375
>>18374
>Learn about the gods all you want and they won't respect you more for it.
I thought they respected wisdom and knowledge. That's why Odin sacrificed his eye for wisdom, wouldn't learning about the gods elevate us closer to them?
>strength, work, family, friends
Ya I have those, they just don't like to pagan with me.
Are you saying I should just give this up and be normal?
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No.18377
>I don't have anyone to be pagan with
That's me. I live in a big city where most other whites are atheist, christcucks, cryptokikes, or even all three.
>I was going to take a poop in a cave but it looked too unsafe so I held it in until I got back home.
Don't go dirtying up a cave, just go in a bush for the flies and plants. At least your home has toilet paper so holding it may have been a good decision.
>What are we supposed to do in nature to like, commune with it?
I like to get in a relaxed state and just observe it. When a feeling of serenity comes over you, you may encounter animals crossing your path more often. There are no official rules to being a pagan, most paganish kind of ways are just customs that were passed down in time. Part culture and part spiritual is basically what it is.
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No.18381
>>18375
>>wouldn't learning about the gods elevate us closer to them
As far as I'm aware the Aesir never made that oath to us, though in our condition now "learning" wouldn't decrease our ability to act, which the sons of Burr are all about. Wotan himself seems unconcerned to be known better but instead wishes for you to know the runes and thou taught me to use them. If you learn of a sacrifice for you but you do not use its benefits than that sacrifice was wasted upon you. "A gift demands a gift." Perhaps the image will help, its from the book "Ordering Medieval Society".
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No.18382
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I want to know that as well OP. How do I actually practice the religious and spiritual aspect and what metaphysics does it carry? I already believe in reincarnation and judgement. I'm afraid a lot of people here are just LARPers with no sense of the divine and supernatural, functionally atheists and nihilists,, or deists who think the gods don't interact or care about man. Their souls are in jeapordy.
I watch vids like this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xL0cDKWUs and they depress me to no end since the best pagan gatherings I've seen are liberalized hippie communes, or just dudes making up their own rites and customs haphazardly…
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No.18384
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No.18385
>>18382
>dudes making up their own rites and customs
Not surprising though considering the Christianization of Europe and witch trails, etc. I've heard you can still find pagan gatherings in Europe but I wouldn't know how legitimate they are or how successful they are. Much of modern paganism is reconstruction attempts, at least in America. Maybe I'm out of the loop of the good stuff. Folk magic was passed down even in Christendom in some cases.
I'm more of the assumption that Asatru should look closer to Voodoo than Wicca. Sacred trees are the alters and offering food/incense to contact spirits is pretty much the same. Voodoo is part European and some aspects of it share commonalities with Asian spiritual practice, so I've been looking for ritual methods that cross cultures to try and understand what was forgotten or transformed in places like France. I was watching some videos on Voodoo lately and it struck me that the words Voodoo, Hoodoo, Woodon, are very similiar to Woton, Odin, Uuton. Icelandic magic, based off continental Europe's magic, obviously shares common sigil methods seen in Voodoo. The point I'm getting to now is root work. Offering food at an alter or sacred tree to the gods/spirits, this is a world-wide concept. This may be a good starting point to try. Santaria and Heka magic may be a better example than Voodoo though since Voodoo will mainly show you videos of Haitians like "melanin created spaceships!" or whatever "whites can't into magic" nonsense, either of delusion or a bluffing fear tactic, probably delusion in most cases.
I'm more from /fringe/ and /x/ than /asatru/ so hopefully someone here has a better idea of this than I do. I was never into ritual work, just basic magic and psychic techniques.
Magic is mentioned in the Norse texts of course but more of a narrative than how-to. The fooling of Gylfe and kitten mitten seeress for example offer good insight to the use of magic. Grimoires are generally misunderstood to be an instructional guide for magic when they are really more of a journal. Replicating grimoire spells will most likely not work but the spells do show an example on how you can craft your own. I've been trying to find more information on historical examples of hexes, like the hexing of a Roman general and the curse of de Molay.
I don't remember where I was going with this, just contact Odin or the elves.
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No.18386
>>18382
Meh, still a comfy video. I can see the appeal.
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No.18388
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>>18373
>>18382
Well the key part of practice is obviously ritual, either by making offerings or prayer to gods, ancestors and spirits (land/house wights). The spiritual and metaphysical aspect being that the offering is a gift, a token of appreciation and devotion to the god, in return you gain the attention of the god and he/she may be inclined to grant you their blessing in return I give that you may give. There are a couple of sources I can dig up but otherwise this video is a good introduction. In regards to further practise be sure to learn about the values and virtues your ancestors lived by (frith ect.) and embody them (within reason). Wyrd is a key concept and the jist is that your actions play a large part in not only your fate, but the fate of future descendants, so keep that in mind. Hope this helps.
> I'm afraid a lot of people here are just LARPers with no sense of the divine and supernatural, functionally atheists and nihilists,, or deists who think the gods don't interact or care about man.
Yeah you'd be forgiven for thinking that, especially looking at som of the members on this board (the faggot who constantly posts frozen characters springs to mind) either call them out on their bullshit or ignore them.
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No.18402
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No.18413
>>18373
> I was going to take a poop in a cave but it looked too unsafe
caves are full of faggots these days
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No.18991
My sacrifice for Disablot of today.
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No.18993
>>18991
>>no runic inscription
How are the Vanir supposed to know your purpose?
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No.18994
>>18993
Don't know if you're serious or not. Rune carvers were rare and I don't know how to properly carve any. I made an offering burning some and burying the other parts while making a feast of the rest. And of course called the names of the Gods during slaughter, during burning, during offering of the blood to the ground and when I buried a part.
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No.18995
>>18994
Even that in jest should have a meaning. Do you see the Aesir and Vanir separately? For I can find no account of an animal sacrifice to an Aesir but only to a Vanir.
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No.18996
>>18995
We can also find no exact words for prayers or ceremonies. Or even conduct of sacrifices. We make do with what we can. Disa deals with plows and the fields therefore Freyja Freyr and Njord would be the most important and invoked. Which I did.
When I slit the throat of the animal I invoked Freyja.
When I poured blood into the plowed area I dedicated it to Freyr.
And the other sacrifices of meat and skin were for Njord to be burned or buried.
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No.19003
>>18996
I understand, Njord and his children are honorable Vanir and all with a hunger.
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No.19017
I finally bought myself a set of runes and charged them with intent and galdr. I should've just bought a wood set but I went full elf bling and got jade with gold inscriptions. Now I need to plan on making a cloth spread for casting.
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No.19039
>>19017
>>jade
I've been studying the Tarim Aryan culture recently, it is fascinating how they built in the most Jade rich areas and from then on the Hanzu became attached to jade. I hope, its not our fate to be remembered like them, with no descendants, only known in whispers by our enemies.
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No.19041
>>19039
I just had a class assignment that led me to reading about ancient Philippines and the jade tool artifacts found there, which was after my runes, so it was interesting to see that and now this. I thought the jade green and gold looked elfy but I also looked up the mineral to check its durability. I wanted a sodalite rune set more but sodalite tends to break apart under regular or strong impact. Jade must be durable if people were making cutting and digging tools with it.
That corpse has fantastic teeth. I've never actually heard of them before but there is a lot about Asia's prehistory I'm unfamiliar with. The steppe is a beautiful area though, I'd like to visit Mongolia or the Himalayas.
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No.19044
Speaking of Asia and pagans. Southeast Asia has many ghost stories and magical traditions, maybe some of the best in the world due to its isolation and overall weirdness. Like in New Zealand, red haired children in the mountains that kidnap people, a tradition held before Europeans arrived. Malaysia to Thailand is especially a hot spot for ghosts and magic, or at least stories of them for all I know. Still wish I could visit those countries, and I've had many dreams take place in Malaysia so it calls me more to travel one day. Although I've heard you can see some weird shit in Scotland and Ireland still.
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No.19121
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No.19124
>>19121
I didn't know, too busy with other things. I was going to try out a candle-based spell on this Wotan'sday anyways.
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No.19128
>>19124
There was an equinox supermoon last night!
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No.19131
Welll lets see, I have prepped my gardens for spring planting. My lovely wife has checked on our bee hive and it is in good shape after winter. I am almost done with my hog enclosure and I have studied the laying of a keel for a Clinker/lapstrake Faering boat I am going to build after I get enough wood cut and dried to start the job.
I have yet to build my Asatru calendar with all the important dates as I have not decided where to put it but I will get to that. I tell my kids stories about trolls. (One of them is named John Pedoesta)
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No.19153
>>18373
Today is April Fools Day!
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