Hail and welcome!

Whoops! All Spirits

And you don't have to follow any super rigid rules other than being respectful and reciprocal fr

The most frustrating thing about being an animist is

Whoops! All Spirits

Because who knows who you're talking to, what names you give them or they give themselves, what category of whoever they might inhabit, and at the end of the day it actually doesn't matter 🥳

Sure you can do things in a Norse or Gaulish or whatever way and maybe there's coherent gods that you can worship there (pantheons are never neat and tidy and barely exist!) and MAYBE you do that enough to get to the god you actually set out to worship but MOST OF THE TIME

A selection of artwork I made for Carved in Stone, a comprehensive guide to early medieval Pictish society.

Ram shaped gravestones of Tunceli province of Turkey.

Standing tall they feature reliefs of swords, daggers, shields, looms and sun discs.

There is nothing wrong with leaving offerings on the naked earth.

When we die we are returned to the ground be it whole or as ash.

From the ground comes all our food, be it directly grown or eaten from to what else we eat.

There is nothing wrong with leaving offerings on leaves or stone, plates or trays but...

There is nothing wrong with laying them to the soil either.

Rocky Mountain mule deer Odocoileus hemionus hemionus

ÞÆS OFEREODE ÞISSES SWA MÆG

(that was overcome. so too may this.) from Deor, old english poem, c. 9th century.

500k years ago, an elk was struck by lightening and lived. The ache of it stayed in her bones the rest of her life. There was no human there to see it or record it in words, yet it’s just as much a part of earth’s essential history as any song lingering in a billion human minds.