Noddy T (FRASH)

Heathen Lore/Mythology quizzes appear to be the order of the day so I thought I would set one...

1. You are a Heathen king of Mercia, in your geneology who founded your royal house?

2. As a Heathen Dane;

a) how did the founder of your royal house arrive in Denmark

b) what was his name?

3. Freya is boasting about her most devoted follower, what is his name?

4. Where are Þjazi's eyes?

5. You live in Norway and have decided that to escape Danish rule you will flee to Iceland; two other families have done so before you, how did they get guidance from the Gods as to where to settle on the island?

6. A woman in fine clothes in standing in the centre of a circle of all the woman of the village who are singing a song, what is the woman in the middle doing?

7. You are a Saxon warlord and just defeated an enemy army and captured 85 enemy warriors:

a) how many should you sacrifice as thanks for the victory?

b) to whom to you sacrifice?

c) what do you do with their war gear?

8. When Weland was imprisoned what did he do to:

a) the king's twin sons?

b) the king's daughter?

9) Finally, what is the difference between the Scandinavian Mjolnir and the Anglo-Saxon version?

"According to an AOL poll, Christianity Is THE ONLY Religion That Deserves Its Own License Plate"

Read this article before answering else you will not know what the question is about:

http://www.skepticalmonkey.com/other-claims-in-que...

What do you think? If its OK to advertise that you are a Christian should you be able to advertise that you are Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Heathen or even Atheist?

Not being American I am interested in hearing what you guys think, after all this law could effect you, someday, soon.

I was driving to work this morning and thinking about sacrifices. In the past our ancestors sacrificed swords, mead, boars, cattle even horses and it struck me how pathetic our modern offerings are when we sacrifice to the Æsir.

To our ancestors a boar would be at least a week's food supply, a cow maybe 3 to 4 weeks, a horse would equate to a modern car! Sacrifice means to give something we cannot afford to be without; take a sword these were ultimately prized and of great value, when did you last sacrifice something worth half or more of your savings?

Maybe we should burn £50 notes (around $75US each) at blot not offer a £8.50 ($13US) bottle of mead? Of course this is due to consumer society and changes in technology but shouldn't our sacrifices reflect this? It makes me feel ashamed and disrespectful to our truly generous ancestors.

I was wondering if anyone was a follower of the Lithuanian Romuva faith on Y!A. This faith although from the Baltic is quite unlike the Germanic/Norse Heathenry yet has some similarities. As the peoples of this region must have been in contact with with the Norse through geographic location and Lithuania remained pagan long after even Iceland became Christian I believe that modern Heathenry must have something to learn from this faith; both include animism and a complex pantheon governing our existance in the northern European ecocsystem. The Oseberg ship burial contained a woman with hemp seeds, no evidence other than this connects Nosre beliefs with hemp, however Romuva has Vaizgamtas the god of hemp and flax, coincidence?

My belief is that all things have a latent spirituality, be that a place, a stone, a tree, an animal or a person etc.

Many people talk of magic wands, hallowing spaces, magic tools, special amulets. I do not see humans as some divine creature that can create sacredness but only possess the ability to see sacredness. If we stumble across a pond with a special energy we recognise this energy, if we find a crystal that talks to us we can use it but we have not made these things sacred.

So here is the question, why and how do some people think they are so special that they can create something better/more sacred than nature has already created? (or when did the Vanir retire and make you gods?)