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A newly released Frisian-language song that includes a reference to my closest God, Forseti/Fosite. Here is my translation:

http://www.mattkinney.net/sacred-rite - click on the photo on the artist’s website for more images.

Golden Axe - Sacred Rite - by Matt Kinney.

I’m on Tumblr less and less now, but am still very happy to try to answer questions or to hear from you, especially if you are interested in anything Frisian and/or the God Forseti.

My best contact is [email protected]. I’d ask that you please use this instead of Tumblr messaging now. Tumblr messaging never seems to work right and I honestly have no idea if some of the people who sent questions ever got a reply. So... e-mail is always best!

Full disclosure: I am a devotional Polytheist and a mystic. My relationships with the Gods are based far more on ecstatic practice and on gnosis than on anything else. I am also, by choice and in accordance with the path my Gods have laid down for me, a solitary practitioner and most emphatically not a part of any organized spiritual group, be it Pagan, Heathen, or otherwise. 

I was, ahem, “instructed” to update one of my altar pictures today. Searching for a new piece, I found an artist who is new to me, Milbeth Morillo, and ordered a print. Here is a stunning example of the artist’s work, “Baldr the god of light.” And here is a more general link for their Redbubble account (which allows you to use Amazon information to make purchases): 

https://www.redbubble.com/people/milbethmorillo/portfolio

“Nine worlds, nine cold nights... two ravens fly one by one, black... their majestic wings course through the sky... nine skies around one great Tree...

Midgard, look above! Two ravens fly over your skies! A sign of the gift of the Gods’ language spoken! They whisper the secrets of the world in Weda’s (Odin’s) ears, of how they’ll fly out again on the coming day.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-RZPlM5iNk

“Three roots, three sources, the treasures of life from each blooming twig... fate is spun from the three Norns, and Hugin and Munin bring the news... Hugin and Munin, where are you now? Thoughts and memories, come back to me again!”

Let me ask you a question: how would you like it if someone compared interacting with you and your closest, oldest friends as “running a daycare”? How would you like it if your kindest impulses and most heart-felt disclosures were met with constant suspicion? 

I’m writing this on the day of the week named after a God I hold very, very dear, second only to my Patron Himself. Wodan, the God against Whom everyone seems to have an axe to grind. Yes, there is a time and a place to be careful. But I’m going to call it as I see it: I think this attitude can go way too far. And that it has in modern Pagan practice.

How about approaching Them in trust? How about assuming that if you speak to Them with an open heart and offer the smallest offering (say, a simple candle and a prayer) with an open heart, They will return your blessing a thousandfold? That if something else is out to deceive you in Their name, They will come through for you?

How about assuming that our Gods are actual Gods, and not dead memories on a dusty shelf?

I started off with this assumption knowing next to nothing of Polytheism at the end of 2010. I’m still here writing in 2018. This “naive” assumption has served me very well. 

Set aside the skeptical, so-called “wisdom” of your “fellow Pagans” for a moment. Trust what your own heart is telling you. Trust it deeply. And--even if it’s only as a month-long thought experiment--try trusting in Them deeply.