On the Afterlife
Posted by Byron Pendason on February 17, 2024 CE, in Heathenry, Afterlife, Heathen worldview, ReconstructionWes hāl!1 Heathenry, like much of paganism, is a religion which focuses on this life. Heathens worry more about cultivating relationships with their divine beings to gain their aid in making this life better, rather than trying to please a god to gain entrance into the hereafter. But to say Heathenry has no afterlife would also be inaccurate.2 Wes hāl and Beo gesund are Old English greetings and farewells that literally mean Be well/whole/healthy. The first seemed to be more common among the Anglian dialects and the second more common among the Saxon dialects. I prefer to use both though,...
What is Up to Us?
Posted by Byron Pendason on February 4, 2024 CE, in Heathenry, Stoicism, Philosophical musingsWes hāl!1 In Stoicism, the dichotomy of control is a fundamental concept. At least that’s what I had been led to believe. A recent discussion on r/Stoicism challenged this concept though, and I found the discussion enlightening. Wes hāl and Beo gesund are Old English greetings and farewells that literally mean Be well/whole/healthy. The first seemed to be more common among the Anglian dialects and the second more common among the Saxon dialects. I prefer to use both though, the first as a greeting and the second as a farewell. ↩
The Winter Holidays
Posted by Byron Pendason on December 10, 2023 CE, in Heathenry, Anglo-saxon calendar, Heathen basics, Heathen worship, ReconstructionWes hāl!1 Winter is here! My reconstructed calendar has winter beginning with the Wintermonað full moon. For 2023, that began on October 28 (keep in mind that for the Anglo-Saxons, there were only two seasons, winter and summer). For this blog post, I want to go through the winter holidays and give my thoughts on them. Wes hāl and Beo gesund are Old English greetings and farewells that literally mean Be well/whole/healthy. The first seemed to be more common among the Anglian dialects and the second more common among the Saxon dialects. I prefer to use both though, the first...
RuneTyper is Dead; Long Live RuneTyper 2!
Posted by Byron Pendason on November 17, 2023 CE, in Runes, Tech, UpdatesWes hāl!1 RuneTyper has been unpublished from the Google Play Store. I had lost the source code to it a while back, and it wasn’t even being shown on the Play Store for most people because it targets an older version of Android. I did take the time to rewrite it from scratch, and went to upload it to the Play Store. Unfortunately, I couldn’t update it because of Google Play’s ever changing requirements. They were threatening to remove it anyways because of it needing to get updated, but because I couldn’t update it I decided to preemptively remove it....
A History of Fyrnsidu
Posted by Byron Pendason on September 22, 2023 CE, in Heathenry, Heathen basics, Heathen worldview, Politics, UpdatesWes hāl!1 Last month, I celebrated five years in Fyrnsidu, and I thought a good way to commemorate that would be to write up a brief history of Fyrnsidu and it’s predecessors. On my home page, I define Fyrnsidu as “a modern religion based upon the religion of the pre-Christian Germanic tribes that settled in Britain in the fifth century of the common era.” Today, we usually define it as Anglo-Saxon Heathenry, but it was originally meant as an alternative to Theodism. More on them in a bit though, first I want to explore the influences leading up to it....