#hedkult

Because it's that time again.

Heh. I'm no leader. That said: heavy is the head that wears the crown - it's why we cut it off. Prophecy comes best from the severed head/headless

Previous finds at other sites have included a sculpture of a mounted warrior, not only with sword and spear but a head slung around the neck of the horse, while the gruesome practice is also noted in a number of ancient texts, and supported by discoveries of human skulls with marks of decapitation, and even nails inside them."

PROOF OF LIFE 26TH NOVEMBER 2017 Looking like a Certain Kind of Severed Head.

This paper argues that societies of the long Iron Age of Scandinavia were particularly preoccupied with heads and skulls. This preoccupation is evident through infrequent but persistent traces of the removal, reworking, display, and meticulous treatment of cranial remains. Heads were deposited in domestic space, wetlands, in at least one instance carved with runes, and required separate treatment in mortuary body processing. The attention afforded crania across domains implies a multifaceted yet significant charge surrounding heads through deep time. This paper explores an eclectic series of objects, sites, and events as examples of what Meskell (2008, 373) has termed headedness, ‘a particular tension surrounding heads, head removal and circulation’. The idea of headedness is developed in a broader engagement through the concepts of personhood and atmosphere. Focusing particularly on skull deposition in built environments, I enquire: how did practices of reworking bodies into depositional objects simultaneously transform persons and places in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia?

Odinsman (n): A neologism for a follower, honourer, or worshipper of the being/deity who goes under the byname Óðinn (anglicized as Odin) in Norse myth. Often referring to one who identifies as male, though sometimes used gender-neutrally depending on personal taste.The term often refers to those for whom the relationship is especially meaningful, including those where he is the primary object of veneration and cultus (usually amongst others in a polytheistic context, but sometimes henotheistically). May also indicate one who has sworn an oath (but not necessarily )to follow that god, or is connected by some form of relationship which is integral to the life and practice of an individual.Gender-differential terms may also include Odinswoman, or Odinsperson.It’s a term I use to distance myself from the somewhat fraught term of “Odinist” which has frequently been used with racist or white supremacist connotations, whilst still expressing my relationship to Odin.What is that relationship? Somewhere between Grandfather-as-ancestor, mentor, partner in crime, role-model ( the latter which I acknowledge as deeply...problematic, but hey, he’s the Ur-Wizard) boss, leader.He’s the Captain.captain (n.)late 14c., capitayn, "a leader, chief, one who stands at the head of others," from Old French capitaine "captain, leader," from Late Latin capitaneus "chief," noun use of adjective capitaneus "prominent, chief," from Latin caput (genitive capitis) "head" (from PIE root *kaput- "head").He’s the Head Man. He’s the Terrible, Awe-inspiring One, who sings and screams the Mysteries of the queer and the strange and the dead; who whispers in my marrow and makes my veins and arteries burst into the corpse-light of blood and honey, the ichor of burnished gold which lets poets grant immortality to heroes.He’s the one who sends me Down-and-Into the Mound, and Calls Me Up to soar, to hunt and devour sublime and awful Mysteries as I bleed.(It’s not only seeresses he does it to)

The Nameless God of Names - Akephalos! He who stirs the magician’s oracle Enlivens the anointed In frenzied baptism The severed head  With gory ashen locks a-writhing Cries out forever: AŌTH ABRAŌTH BASYM ISAK SABAŌTH IAŌ.