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Asatru Then and Now
From its pre-Christian beginnings to its contemporary practitioners, Heathenry has long fascinated people from every corner of the world. Written from the unique perspective of a Heathen gythja, or Godwoman, A Practical Heathen’s Guide to Asatru shows how to bring the beliefs and traditions of this ancient faith into your life today. In this complete guide to Asatru, you will discover:
- The mythology, folklore, and historical sagas of Northern European Heathens
- How to conduct rituals for birth, naming, entry into adulthood, weddings, divorces, funerals, and holy days
- Practical techniques for meditation, trance-work, prayer, and working with runes and charms
- Heathen perspectives on the nature of time, creation, worship, ethics, oaths, and hospitality
- An in-depth glossary, index, pronunciation guide, and bibliography for further study
- Sales Rank: #46829 in Books
- Brand: Llewellyn Publications
- Published on: 2013-11-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.86" h x .63" w x 6.08" l, .76 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
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About the Author
Since 1996, Patricia M. Lafayllve has lectured and performed rituals throughout the United States. She is a member of Two Ravens Kindred and The Troth, where she has served as Steward, High Steward, Godwoman, Rede member, and Steerswoman. Patricia is the founder of The Troth’s Lore Program and served as its Provost. She lives in Southeastern Connecticut. Visit her online at walkyrja.wordpress.com.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
A MUST HAVE for those new to Asatru. A modern beginners soon-to-be-classic.
By Matthew 'Brett' Barker
This book was on my wishlist awhile, but like my fellow heathens, Ive read quite a few beginners books and they all focus on the same thing. After becoming Asatru in 2007, I can recite every story of the gods from memory and essentially give everyone a 5 minute run down on every Aesir, Vanir and Jotun, so I waited to buy this book.
Now I have to say, there are many beginners books – the most popular being Essential Asatru by Diana Paxson and Asatru for Beginners by Erin Lale. Both are great, well read, informed and friendly authors that offer worlds of information on their books. Lafayllve’s does as well. Patricia’s edge is how new it is. Asatru is evolving every year with new academic research and many people joining the faith. Patricia’s book kicks up the basic information into a more intermediate level with a large focus on wights and alfs. The background on heathen worldview is VERY well worded and presented, allowing many who are entering Asatru from other faiths such as Wicca and Buddhism to get a grasp on how Asatru (and Germanic heathenry) views the world.
My only gripes about this book are how a “majority” or “most” heathens don’t honor Loki or Jotuns outside the Aesir/Vanir innangard. If you go to AFA or Troth events, Loki is either forbidden or subjugated to a Ve dedicated to him. The appendix in the back of Patricia’s book is a good addition, but entirely too short. Loki in today’s modern Heathen world is draped in dogmatic Christian baggage that he is a Satan character to Odin’s Yahweh and Baldr’s Jesus. This goes against idea of a world accepting view and one that the past is fixed and influenced the present which creates the future (as Patricia’s book states).
And the 2nd gripe – the afterlife. More than once Patricia mentions how Heathens are not so concerned with what happens in the afterlife. This couldn’t be further from the truth. So many heathens scream – SCREAM – Victory or Valhalla! Or even press the opposite, we’re all going to Hel (Helheim). The gung ho heathen Viking crowd is the most vocal and recognized as Asatru by the world as how we are, because they glorized carrying heavy axes, mail, helmets and seem to be overly obsessed with death. This is an extreme focus on a single aspect of Odin which appears in the Sagas written about times when open war was an every day thing. If you compare the Eddas to the Sagas, Odin rarely ever is as blood thirsty as his followers in VICTORY OR VALHALLA groups portray him to be. I do agree that what happens after we die weren’t as a huge a “deal” as many heathens make it be today, and that’s because Valhalla-ism is a Christian left-over. And most heathens will not be going their.
Each chapter in the book cites their sources, which makes the reader’s adventures into further works and academia easier. And also sample rituals, and ritual/holiday breakdowns are available at the end of chapters and even a chapter on our holidays. The gods and wights have meditations at the end of each chapter as well. Reading this book, I can easily see it expanding into a library for Patricia, especially into Seidr.
I dont practice Seidr, or Galdr but the books I’ve touched on that want to teach people are heavily mixed between Wicca influenced MUS (no offense, but a lot is MUS) to well documented accounts of Seidr practice in modern times by respected members of the community balanced with Academia. Patricia touches on Seidr and her honesty that one cannot learn it from an intro book is very true. I would love to see a more in depth Seidr book from Patricia. Hopefully it will be cultural and not multi-cultural (influenced by non-continental Shamanistic peoples/tribes).
Patricia’s book NEEDS to be “required reading” for many new heathens entering Asatru. The book balances academia and modern practice perfectly and offers information available out there for heathens to find, but nothing really “new”. And one shouldn’t expect it to give some all-revealing information lost to us about Germanic heathenry. What this book DOES do, is break down the basic information, with modern educated sources by a modern practitioner in clear wording that is not flowery of Norse-wrapped Wicca. I skipped the first few meditations/rituals (because I do my own private ones), but I went back over a few and these will really help people. I honestly would dump the Hammer Rite.
The book only lacks in Loki information and condemnation of Nazi bastardization of our symbols. I would say the latter NEEDS to be addressed in any academic or devotional work, as many casual or new readers could stumble across an Othala symbol and become confused.
This book easily scores a 4.5/5 for a beginners/intermediate work for Asatruars. A well versed, long time heathen will probably take little to nothing from the book, but from what I’ve seen a majority of heathens NEED this book.
50 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
A clear, informative guide for anyone interested in Heathenry and Asatru
By Alexis P. Morgan
I came across A Practical Heathen's Guide to Asatru by Patricia M. Lafayllve after I found myself being found but not seeking. It's kind of surprising when you do a ritual and all of a sudden there are three gods present you knew the names of in passing but never gave any thought to! After several months of working with and honoring Them in my life and work with others, I decided it would be wise - if I wanted to deepen and add more formality to my practice - to seek out a good beginner resource on the topic of Heathenry even though I don't consider myself a traditional Heathen.
This book has 15 chapters split between two parts - the first section is background information and some short exercises, the occasional example ritual, the second is all on practical rituals that hallmark both sacred life events and general blot giving. Each of the first 12 chapters covers a different aspect of Asatru faith and practice with the thoroughness of an academic volume but with an easy to digest, clear and concise conversational tone. As someone with a great deal of background and experience in research, I was delighted to see that she included footnotes at the end of each chapter as well as providing a very thorough bibliography - this is part of what makes it such an excellent tool for beginners. By being informative without being overwhelming, while also providing the means for further exploration and study, it is a great gateway to deeper study for those who feel called to the Heathen path in a more traditional format or for any person who is working on the academic study of this particular branch of the modern Paganism family tree. As a whole, the text is well-organized and formatted (I am speaking to the Kindle edition but I'm sure it's the same for the printed one.)
The pronunciation guide included is particularly helpful and clear for the beginner or non-practitioner as is the fair, rather neutral presentation of the problem that Loki poses in the scheme of general Pan-Germanic/Norse Heathen practice. I, personally, will probably never find myself calling on the Trickster for anything but for those who have dabbled or are curious, the appendix text is a solid assessment of the details. Additionally, the exercises provided in each chapter are very accessible for solitary practitioners and the examples of ritual sumble and blot are both excellent standard backbones for creating one's own rites (which is what I'm using them for) or for the newbie who needs something standalone to jump-start their practice.
The only real criticism I have is not actually a criticism - I found the chapters on runes/magic and seidh to be lacking in further material or even a little more than basic depth. This is mostly a gripe for me because I am interested in seidh and spae and was hoping for a little more meat and bibliographical references. For everyone else, even most would-be Heathens, this does not necessarily pose a problem because as the author correctly points out, magic and seidh are done by a comparatively small group within the Asatru community as a whole (setting runes aside, obviously, but they are popular outside of Northern traditions, too.)
Overall, I found this to be a delightful read as both a practitioner and as someone with an academic interest in the spiritual. I would recommend it to everyone: newbie Heathens, Pagans interested in other traditions or systems outside those that they are most familiar with, academics studying the subject of religion and spirituality and non-Pagans and non-practitioners who may seek to understand the path of a loved one or a colleague better.
Well done and highly recommended.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent book!
By Greg Fink
I think this is a great intrductory book for those beginning to explore Asatru/Heathenry. The book also delves into some more intermediate material without becoming too difficult or technical. Ms. Lafayllve took a very objective approach to describing Heathen practices. I liked the lack of a dogmatic view ("this is the way it MUST be done...") of Heathen practice, favoring instead a descriptive approach ("this is the way it's done in the Northeast, but others do it differently..."). The exercises also can be very useful to the new Heathen because they not only describe one way to perform certain rituals, but also explain WHY things are done, allowing for greather understanding.
I particularly enjoyed the chapter on ethics. Ms. Lafayllve took an Aristotelian value-ethics approach to describing how Heathen may (not MUST) approach ethicital problems with a Heathen worldview.
If the goal was to present a well-researched, scholarly, objective "101" book for the new Heathen to familiarize them with Heathen worldview and practice, I think Ms. Lafayllve accomplished her goal and then some. I liked it enough to purchase a copy for a family member as a Yule gift.
An overall well done book.
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