Post by henholly on Dec 8, 2016 17:21:45 GMT -6
Hello all, just a quick into, My name is April and I am here to glean some facts and history on the Brittonic paganism,and I know that after some reerach here and other forums that there is still much to be learned and explored.
I have early roots in Christianity which I learned as I asged that there was mch more to explore via curiosty in my bloodlines and my heritage being English (including Northern Welsh, a bit'o Irish) Swedish, Danish. I have most interest in exploring religious contexts for the British,found to be the bulk of my blood on both my mother's and father's side.
I had explored some information about Asatru and Odinism (Odhinnism?) and felt like it was not even close to filing my body with that vital, life-giving sensation that we feel as 'truth' - in other words,I felt I and Asatru were not quite reaching one another. I didn't even give it a chance, and this is ok, but I knew that there is a lot of other blood in my veins that I yearn to feel alive and sprawling throughout my being. I have always felt a love, almost obsession, with specific designs of certain 'sacred' plants that are repeatedly stated in many sources as sacred to 'Celtic' but this is still being explored. (by myself)
I am craving more knowledge, with an open mind, and will respectfully and fearlessly continue to seek the ancient energy extended to me, if available, from the most appropriate gods and goddesses who I hope to find myself worthy of connecting with, but I feel in my heart that it is part of the journey for me to meet them in the middle somewhere between my blood lines, and my heart. Which pantheon do I mesh with? Who are my people? These are confusing to me as the knowledge that has been lost to time. I know the animals and plants that I feel speak to me, and I knew my grandparents and heard their many quaint superstitions and sayings the best I could while the were still alive, but I still feel that I have a long ways to go on my own.
I have early roots in Christianity which I learned as I asged that there was mch more to explore via curiosty in my bloodlines and my heritage being English (including Northern Welsh, a bit'o Irish) Swedish, Danish. I have most interest in exploring religious contexts for the British,found to be the bulk of my blood on both my mother's and father's side.
I had explored some information about Asatru and Odinism (Odhinnism?) and felt like it was not even close to filing my body with that vital, life-giving sensation that we feel as 'truth' - in other words,I felt I and Asatru were not quite reaching one another. I didn't even give it a chance, and this is ok, but I knew that there is a lot of other blood in my veins that I yearn to feel alive and sprawling throughout my being. I have always felt a love, almost obsession, with specific designs of certain 'sacred' plants that are repeatedly stated in many sources as sacred to 'Celtic' but this is still being explored. (by myself)
I am craving more knowledge, with an open mind, and will respectfully and fearlessly continue to seek the ancient energy extended to me, if available, from the most appropriate gods and goddesses who I hope to find myself worthy of connecting with, but I feel in my heart that it is part of the journey for me to meet them in the middle somewhere between my blood lines, and my heart. Which pantheon do I mesh with? Who are my people? These are confusing to me as the knowledge that has been lost to time. I know the animals and plants that I feel speak to me, and I knew my grandparents and heard their many quaint superstitions and sayings the best I could while the were still alive, but I still feel that I have a long ways to go on my own.
