In Defense of a December Yule
Posted by Byron Pendason on December 7, 2021 CE, in Heathen basics, Heathen worship, Heathenry, ReconstructionYule is one of our holiest tides and indeed our most well known holiday. It is also a holiday that almost all Heathens celebrate. Given its relative importance, it is a valid question to ask: When should one celebrate Yule? But that question is not as cut and dry as it might seem.
Blog updates- Published books and upcoming blog posts
Posted by Byron Pendason on November 26, 2021 CE, in UpdatesIf you follow me on Twitter, you'll already know that I've published two books! Both focus on the Anglo-Saxon Calendar. The first book,"The Anglo-Saxon Calendar for the Twenty-First Century", lists all the major dates for each year of this century. That's the beginning of each month, the full moons, and the four major Holidays of Fyrnsidu.
New Webpage to Generate the Calendar
Posted by Byron Pendason on November 4, 2021 CE, in Heathen worship, Heathenry, Reconstruction, Anglo-saxon calendarA lot of Heathens avoid using an ancient lunisolar calendar (such as my reconstructed calendar) because of the hassle of calculating it all out. With this in mind, I programmed a webpage that will calculate the my Reconstructed Anglo-Saxon Calendar for any year. It includes the start of each month, the full moons, and the holy tides for any year that you input. Additionally, I have a date converter at the bottom of the page so that you can convert any Gregorian Calendar date to the Anglo-Saxon date.I have more plans for the webpage in the future. I plan to...
The Metonic Cycle
Posted by Byron Pendason on October 21, 2021 CE, in Heathenry, Reconstruction, Anglo-saxon calendarAs per my Reconstructed Anglo-Saxon Calendar page, my method for determining if a year is a leap year is to count how many new moons there are between the previous year's winter solstice and the current years winter solstice. If there are thirteen new moons, it is a leap year. If there are only twelve new moons, it's a regular year. In leap years, you add the extra month in between Ærra Liðe and Æfterra Liðe. This keeps Ġēola (Yule, which Bede identifies as the winter solstice) in its proper place in the final month of the year.This isn't the...
Tīw- the Anglo-Saxon Sky Father, God of Justice and War
Posted by Byron Pendason on October 6, 2021 CE, in Heathen worldview, Heathenry, ReconstructionTīw was obviously an important god to the Anglo-Saxons. They named a day of the week after him, and several places in England were named after him. Tacitus lists him as one of the three most important gods (along with Wōden and Thunor) to the Germanic tribes that would later become the Anglo-Saxons. So it may be surprising that we know so little about him. By the time the Norse myths had been written down, his Norse cognate Tyr barely ranked much mention beyond the stories where Fenrir bites off his hand and him accompanying Thor to Tīw's Jotunn father....