Topics of Interest

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Josh and Cat Heath, the organizers of the Open Halls Project, have shut it down: https://wildhunt.org/2022/09/the-heathen-open-halls-project-shuts-down.html Around the time I started hanging out with Keeper of Seasons Hall, one of our members was active military. Thanks largely to his awareness and work, KoSH participated in the Open Halls Project almost from its beginning, supporting the ability of Heathens in the military being able to find people with whom to study and worship as they moved with new assignments. When the organizers of the Open Halls Project began work on getting Heathenry recognized by the Department of Defense and listed on its Faith Group list, KoSH supported them in that endeavor as well. The exasperation Josh expresses in the Wild Hunt piece with Heathens trying for religious "vaccine exemption requests and beard requests," as well as with people who are "white supremacists, overt racists, and folks who were really trying to use Heathenry a…

Karl Seigfried has a thought-provoking article discussing how some of Bruce Lee's writings can be applicable to the understanding and practice of Asatru: https://wildhunt.org/2021/08/column-bruce-lee-and-the-tao-of-asatru.html I particularly enjoyed his ideas about diversity, inclusion, and creating a deeper understanding of what it means to be Asatru through learning. (Also liked the almost offhand comment about "pseudo-Viking machismo." 😉 All too much of that floating around Heathenry)

Just discovered these. If you haven't seen them already, check them out! Pascu y Rodri are these Spanish guys who do some awesome, fun videos called Destripando la Historia ("Gutting History"), where they explain different stories using music and animation. I've spent way too much time watching them when I should probably be doing something else. 😅 Freyja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwUe1xCi6H0

Loki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mkketnxB34 Odin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKnQGP67Xd0 Thor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe7kcXn2ydY