Winifred Rose

Oaths, Shild, Frith, Luck & Wyrd (eBook, ePUB)

Five Essays Exploring Heathen Ethical Concepts and their Use Today

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There are two areas of particular importance in Heathen ethics. One is the growth and maintenance of ethical personal power or might and main: the inner strength and drive that is necessary to develop and sustain a good character and reputation, and to achieve worthy deeds during our life. The second is the pursuit of relationships and community life that promote individual, group, and community well-being and effective functionality. Any thoughtful reading of Heathen history, old texts, tales, poems and sagas will show how important these two factors were in ancient Heathen life. This was generally illustrated by showing the painful, cascading disruptions that were caused by failures of, and transgressions against, these ethical values and aspirations. Modern Heathens can benefit from a fuller understanding of ancient Heathen ethical views: both their strengths and their weaknesses, their pros and cons. Only by a thoughtful grasp of these concepts can we make the best use of the elder ways as Heathens living in today's world. This book offers philosophical discussions of certain Heathen ethical concepts, as well as guidelines for using these concepts to live ethically strong and spiritually healthy lives as modern Heathens. Fulfilled OATHS build Heathen might and main, increasing our personal power. Unpaid SHILD (moral obligation) weakens our might and main; taking responsibility for shild heals personal power. FRITH is a fabric of interwoven might and main, created and shared by many: the roots of relationship and community. LUCK and WYRD can be expressed through flows of might and main, discovered along the complex, hidden paths that lead to Heathen wisdom. Understanding, increasing, maintaining, and sharing ethical might and main is a foundation of Heathen ethics. "In Oaths, Shild, Frith, Luck & Wyrd, Winifred Hodge Rose draws on her extensive scholarship and experience to explore what the lore has to tell us about how the Old Heathens viewed certain ethical questions, and to offer suggestions on how these perspectives can help us deal with the challenges that we face today." Diana L. Paxson, author of Essential Asatru: A Modern Guide to Norse Paganism. "Oaths, Shild, Frith, Luck & Wyrd provides tools for individual and collective healing, and articulates important questions and challenges that we must consider as we adapt the knowledge and life ways of our ancestors to our contemporary context." Sara Axtell, Ph.D.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wordfruma Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798985553666
• Artikelnr.: 67686954

Autorenporträt

Winifred Hodge Rose is an Elder of the Troth, an inclusive, international Heathen organization, and has followed a Heathen path for more than thirty years, serving as a scholar, writer, leader, teacher, priestess, and oracular spaewife in many Heathen venues. She publishes articles, poems, ceremonies, rituals, and other items of Heathen interest on her website HeathenSoulLore.net, and has published for more than two decades in "Idunna: A Journal of Inclusive Heathenry" (formerly titled "Idunna: A Journal of Northern Tradition"). Her other Heathen books include: "Heathen Soul Lore Foundations: Ancient and Modern Germanic Pagan Concepts of the Souls;" "Heathen Soul Lore: A Personal Approach;" and a children's illustrated storybook "Idunn's Trees: A New Tale of the Norse Goddess Idunn."