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News Updates! Lots has been happening at The Crow’s Fjord. I went to The Parliament of World Religions in early November, which was a fantastic, if not hectic experience. I’ve never [...]

The Heathen Mind, Body, Soul Complex In a Heathen worldview, the mind, body, and soul are connected in a multitude of ways that are complex and hard to understand, but fascinating nonetheless. In [...]

Freyr – God of the World Freyr, the Norse God of nature, sexuality, peace and prosperity is known by several names – Ing, Ingvi, Ingvi Freyr, Frea, Fro Ing, Frey, Freyr, Lord, and God [...]

Prayer Before Christianity replaced the religion of our ancestors, religion was not structured and organized the way it is today. It was not separate from the culture of daily life. There may [...]

The Goddess Freyja This is one of those months that has five weeks in it, so I’m slipping in The Goddess Freyja and my write-up about her. It also coincides with the completion of my newest [...]

Heathen Holidays Heathen holidays, or Holy Days, are often marked with a feast. The most popular form of feast is called a blot, or blood-sacrifice, which I’ll explain in Part 3 of Lesson [...]

Worship Lesson Four of the Intro to Heathenry course deals with worship, the where and the how. In Part 1, we’ll go over some of the different Holy Steads; places of worship. First of all, where [...]

House Wights House wights or, house ghosts, are helpful or harmful unseen creatures inhabiting the houses of humans. In Norway they are known as tussen, in Denmark nissen, in Germany kobolds, in [...]

Continuing with the topic of wights, are the alfar or elves. They include light elves, dark elves and black, or svart elves. Light Elves The light elves, or light alfar, whom some think are ruled [...]

Disir – female ancestors The disir, or idises, are the souls of the female family line, often thought of as the elder mothers. The term ‘dis’ can refer to human women, female ghosts, [...]