Reading a story about a magic remedy from Heimskringla/Halfdan the Blacks saga when the king could not dream and he was told to sleep in a pig pen to awaken his dreams. Also how this aspect of sleeping near pig smells and fumes may have some scientific validity to it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY88Y6UuzW8
A quick idea connecting some of the missing pieces of evidence we have in our religion about reincarnation.
Deviant burials are various burial practices we find from around the world with the goal of keeping the dead spirit in the body to avoid it haunting the living after death.
This is a similar idea to another belif that our pagan ancestors in scandinavia may have done.
Free article examining these burial aspects
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzJDE6IhtjM
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The Pythia was the mouthpiece of the oracles of the god Apollo, and was also known as the Oracle of Delphi. In Germanic paganism, a seeress is a woman said to have the ability to foretell future events and perform sorcery.
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Seeresses were an expression of the pre-Christian shamanic traditions of Europe, and they held an authoritative position in Germanic society. Mentions of Germanic seeresses occur as early as the Roman era, when, for example, they at times led armed resistance against Roman rule and acted as envoys to Rome. After the Roman Era, seeresses occur in records among the North Germanic people, where they form a reoccurring motif in Norse mythology. Both the classical and the Norse accounts imply that they used wands, and describe them as sitting on raised platforms during séances. The Delphic Oracle exerted considerable influence throughout Hellenic culture. Distinctively, this woman was essentially the highest authority both civilly and religiously in male-dominated ancient Greece. She responded to the questions of citizens, foreigners, kings, and philosophers on issues of political impact, war, duty, crime, family, laws—even personal issues.[8] The semi-Hellenic countries around the Greek world, such as Lydia, Caria, and even Egypt also respected her and came to Delphi as supplicants.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBGCbb3rMZk
Looking at the Norse pagan blots/sacrifice/offering and when they were practiced. There are many sources from ancient times and they mention a blot at the start of winter, mid-winter, late winter, start of summer, and late summer.
This is the first video in the series where I answer the 5 questions about blots so you can practice them in the most historically accurate way possible.
How a blot was practiced with sources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WkKB7kcPWU&t=311s
Where a blot was practiced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKubHR11Rc8&t=316s
What was offered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__lBQC-E5Ig
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WkKB7kcPWU
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Germanic pagan traditions associated with wolf-men persisted longest in the Scandinavian Viking Age. Harald I of Norway is known to have had a body of Úlfhednar (wolf-coated [men]).
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The werewolf is a widespread concept in European folklore, existing in many variants, which are related by a common development of a Christian interpretation of underlying European folklore developed during the medieval period. From the early modern period, werewolf beliefs also spread to the New World with colonialism. Belief in werewolves developed in parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Their underlying common origin can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European mythology, where lycanthropy is reconstructed as an aspect of the initiation of the kóryos warrior class, which may have included a cult focused on dogs and wolves identified with an age grade of young, unmarried warriors. A few references to men changing into wolves are found in Ancient Greek literature and mythology. Herodotus, in his Histories, wrote that the Neuri, a tribe he places to the north-east of Scythia, were all transformed into wolves once every year for several days, and then changed back to their human shape. This tale was also mentioned by Pomponius Mela.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV_vBQ9vO1A
The Scandinavian folk tradition of sitting on a roof to see the future is an ancient Germanic pagan practice. This video goes over the sources and the origin of this divination method while explaining how I practice this.
Fasting and Paganism
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58XOr6PcLoI