As always, thanks very much for your time and effort answering questions and facilitating further discussion. It is truly a wonderful resource for those of us who don't know anyone local to talk about these things with.
To Share: I've recommended Eirik Westcoat before, but this time let me recommend his book Eagle's Mead. Like his other book I recommended (Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites), it is largely a collection of poetry written in modern English following the metrical/alliterative rules of Medieval and older Germanic poetry, but rather than a collection of liturgical poems, this book contains poetry that he worked out while following the initiatory path laid out in Nine Doors of Midgard, and so is more explicitly magical as well as personal. Perhaps of interest to folks not as interested in the Germanic Gods, it includes some material related to the Grail myth, an area that Edred Thorsson has done some work to link with the Runes (mostly through some of the later, less-often-seen additions to the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc), and the system that Westcoat follows was laid out mainly by Thorsson.
Question: For JMG, or anyone in the commentariat willing to share, do you have any recommended resources on prayer as a practice, whether polytheist, Christian, or whatever else? I've started looking particularly at the Rosary as an example of a form of contemplative prayer that has been widely used for a good, long time, and I suspect it might be usefully adapted as a source of inspiration for prayers to other deities.
Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources
As always, thanks very much for your time and effort answering questions and facilitating further discussion. It is truly a wonderful resource for those of us who don't know anyone local to talk about these things with.
To Share: I've recommended Eirik Westcoat before, but this time let me recommend his book Eagle's Mead. Like his other book I recommended (Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites), it is largely a collection of poetry written in modern English following the metrical/alliterative rules of Medieval and older Germanic poetry, but rather than a collection of liturgical poems, this book contains poetry that he worked out while following the initiatory path laid out in Nine Doors of Midgard, and so is more explicitly magical as well as personal. Perhaps of interest to folks not as interested in the Germanic Gods, it includes some material related to the Grail myth, an area that Edred Thorsson has done some work to link with the Runes (mostly through some of the later, less-often-seen additions to the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc), and the system that Westcoat follows was laid out mainly by Thorsson.
Question: For JMG, or anyone in the commentariat willing to share, do you have any recommended resources on prayer as a practice, whether polytheist, Christian, or whatever else? I've started looking particularly at the Rosary as an example of a form of contemplative prayer that has been widely used for a good, long time, and I suspect it might be usefully adapted as a source of inspiration for prayers to other deities.
Cheers,
Jeff