Heathen Pagan

-TIP OF THE SPEAR- The image is meant to be allegorical and represent the idea that we are the tip of a spear with our ancestors representing the length of the spear hurling us forward through our lives, acting as a driving force. This ancestral driving force manifests itself both physically in our DNA and gene expressions passed down to us, and by the fact that every action taken by those who lived before us all added up to our lives here in the present.

As the current, living embodiment of all those other lives lived, you are the tip of the spear. You are the one living in the present who can act and determine the direction and impact of the spear.

Each individual must decide whether or not their time as the spearhead will be a powerful expression of everything that came before them. Will your life be worthy of the million stories of survival, struggle, and love that led directly to your existence? Will you rise to the occasion and accept the responsibility of representing the summation of a million other lives lived, or will you simply let your time pass unaffected?

In my artwork, you can see the faces of two couples holding hands. This is meant to represent the coupling of your ancestors stretching back through all branches of your family. The faces are sleeping as their time of living action has passed to you. However, they have become the roots that form the body of the spear. -

The ancient Irish writing of ogham reads “tip of the spear” on the spear shaft. The runes around the image read “all our hopes and dreams travel with you” because, as stated above, your existence represents the summation, the grand total of all the lives and actions before you. –YOU ARE IT!– Act accordingly… -

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Fjorn’s Viking History, Lesson 2: The North

Who lived in the medieval North? How did the environment shape their cultures? And how did they interact? Learn this and more from my newest Viking History content!

Lesson (2698 words, PDF excerpt, digital map)

If you are lacking in Vitamin D like so many Canadians are, here is a trick with Mushrooms.

If you buy some white button Mushrooms from the store, take them out of the package and place them in full Sun for a few hours. During this time the Mushrooms collect the Sun rays and convert it to Vitamin D. With the Mushroom not having any roots to transfer the Vitamin elsewhere, the Mushroom keeps the Vitamin for later use. When you consume the Mushroom your body is able to receive the Vitamin and process it. 

This also works if you want to dehydrate the Mushroom, after it sits in the Sun dehydrate them for later use the Mushroom will still keep the Vitamin D.

Arawn

And the thing about Loki and Ragnarok is!

He’s a being of chaos, not evil. Do you know what is part of chaos?

Change. Which is what Ragnarok is. Not the end. Change. Gods die. The world is nearly destroyed, but their deaths prevent utter ruin, and the world goes on. Humanity survives. Different, but still there. The world rebuilds, and the surviving gods and goddesses are still there with us. Things are changed, but go on.

Odin’s anxiety and drive to learn everything in order to prevent Ragnarok makes no sense if Ragnarok is removed from the picture. It’s a fear of change, of his own death, that drives him. I know this better than most, I suspect.

Loki kills Baldur…but after Ragnarok, Baldur will return from Helheim, while the gods that died at Ragnarok are simply dead. Frigg will be reunited with her beloved son, even as they mourn Odin.

That ought to tell you a lot right there.

But yeah. I suspect the Baldur thing was a prank gone wrong on Loki’s part.

But Frigg.

Frigg, who sees the future, and passed mistletoe by. Frigg, who has been married to Odin for many thousands of years, and who even Odin considers wise and seeks counsel from.

That aside I’m so happy someone has actually out into words how I feel about how people tend to conflate chaos with evil.