Festivals, death, suicide, Drumming, Fire Keeping, Spirituality, Pagan, Paganism, Brighid,
Life cannot be without Death,
nor the Light without the Dark.
As in spring we embrace the return of the Light and the Life,
so to must we pay homage to the Dark and the Dead.
Tonite I raise my chalice to celebrate the dark and the dead of my Ancestry for without them I would not have known the Light and the Life.
Have a good Samhain my friends.
“According to Michael Maffesoli, a French sociologist, we are living in “the time of the tribes.” Our world is changing rapidly and is fraught with risk and unpredictability. The foundations of our beliefs and understanding of our history are being challenged and are changing. As individuals, we are seeking out new meanings to our lives and new places to belong.” (paraphrased)
New collectives, or tribes, have emerged says Maffesoli: They are dynamic, fleeting, and “Dionysiac”…..
— Source “The Sociology Book: page 291
Is tribalism positive or negative?
With a negative connotation and in a political context, tribalism can also mean discriminatory behavior or attitudes towards out-groups, based on in-group loyalty
— source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism
Olive Bray:
Each man should be watchful and wary in speech,
and slow to put faith in a friend.
for the words which one to another speaks
he may win reward of ill
Original Norse text
***need citation***
Bellows:
The lame rides a horse, the handless is herdsman,
The deaf in battle is bold;
The blind man is better than one that is burned,
No good can come of a corpse.
Original Norse Text:
Haltr ríðr hrossi,
hjörð rekr handar vanr,
daufr vegr ok dugir,
blindr er betri
en brenndr séi,
nýtr manngi nás.
Why am I posting a lot of Havamal stanzas lately. Simply put it is something to do. I am picking random stanzas that seem to fit my mood for the day. Akin to receiving your daily horoscope, or picking a random tarot card. How am I picking them? well again has a bit to do with what is happening in my life or what is my minds focus for the day. Today my mind was focused on work so I just simply googled Havamal and work and voila stanza 58. I have been putting both the original Norse script along with the interpretation by Bellows (Henry Adams Bellows) mainly because I like his interpretations more than others nothing more nothing less.
Why the Havamal? Am I Heathen? No I am not Heathen, but the Havamal just seems like it has a lot of simple advice on a lot of day to day life things. Just Like “Lebor na Cert.” HuH? The what? ok the “Book of Rights”, is a book of Early Irish laws and precepts to govern how one should live, but unlike the Havamal it gets into how conflicts, financial issues etc etc be resolved.
Sadly I am getting tired and cannot post more at this time and must get some sleep. Drop a line if you care to.. or not.
Bellows:
He must early go forth who fain the blood
Or the goods of another would get;
The wolf that lies idle shall win little meat,
Or the sleeping man success.
Original Old Norse:
Ár skal rísa
sá er annars vill
fé eða fjör hafa
sjaldan liggjandi úlfr
lær um getr
né sofandi maðr sigr
Bellows:
Forth shall one go, nor stay as a guest
in a single spot forever.
Love becomes loathing if one long sits
By the hearth in another’s home.
Thorpe:
A guest should depart, not always stay in one place.
The welcome becomes unwelcome
if he too long continues
in another’s house.
Original Old Norse:
Ganga skal
skala gestr vera
ey í einum stað
ljúfr verðr leiðr
ef lengi sitr
annars fletjum á
Bellows:
Profit thou hast if thou hearest,
Great thy gain if thou learnest:
A shoemaker be, or a maker of shafts,
For only thy single self;
If the shoe is ill made, or the shaft prove false,
Then evil of thee men think.
Original Text
Ráðumk þér Loddfáfnir
en þú ráð nemir
njóta mundu ef þú nemr
þér munu góð ef þú getr
skósmiðr þú verir
né skeptismiðr
nema þú sjálfum þér sér
skór er skapaðr illa
eða skapt sé rangt
þá er þér böls beðit
Bellows:
Profit thou hast if thou hearest,
Great thy gain if thou learnest:
Be never the first to break with thy friend
The bond that holds you both;
Care eats the heart if thou canst not speak
To another all thy thought.
Original Old Norse:
Ráðumk þér, Loddfáfnir,
en þú ráð nemir, –
njóta mundu, ef þú nemr,
þér munu góð, ef þú getr -:
vin þínum ver þú aldregi fyrri at flaumslitum;
sorg etr hjarta, ef þú segja né náir
einhverjum allan hug.
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The clear blue sky
She is the
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Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
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Clouds up in
The clear blue sky
She is the
Ground
Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
Spark that
Lights my way
I Walk with
The Goddess
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