Frau Holle
Frau Holle (Holda, Hulda) (Ruler of the Underworld, provides health to the flocks and fertility to women.) She is seen as a...
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modernamericansham
Sep 52 min read
Awareness, Learning, and Nature
Spending time in nature is one of the main requirements for learning Fire and Ice Shamanism. You cannot get around the need to spend time...
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modernamericansham
Sep 23 min read
Parts of the Norse Self, for 2024 class, Working With Your Inner World Tree.
Lik is the physical body and should be kept healthy and strong. The physical body is how the Elder Kin found Ask and Embla on the beach....
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modernamericansham
Sep 21 min read
German World Tree Outline for 2024 class, Working With Your Inner World Tree.
Nine Realms/Nine Worlds of Yggdrasil and Lewesbaam Yggdrasil Nine Realms: Asgard – home of the Aesir Alfheim – home of the Light Elves...
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modernamericansham
Aug 201 min read
A look at what names mean!!!
Odin and Fenrir: Odin means Spirit and Fenrir means Greed. Odin must engage in his final battle against the most dangerous quality of the...
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modernamericansham
Aug 142 min read
What is a Fylgja?
What is a fylgja? Is it like a Native American totem animal or is it something distinctly Northern European? In short conversations I...
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modernamericansham
Aug 133 min read
Freya
Freya (Her name means "The Lady”) is the Norse Goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war, wealth, divination and magic. She belongs to a...
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modernamericansham
Aug 131 min read
Idunn
Bragi sitting playing the harp, Iðunn standing behind him (1846) by Nils Blommér Idunn, her name means "ever young", "rejuvenator", or...
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modernamericansham
Aug 131 min read
Comfrey (AKA Comphrey)
(I would like to start out with that this blog is for information purposes only. I would also like to point out that we are not doctors...
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modernamericansham
Aug 121 min read
Ground Ivy
Ground Ivy (Glechoma Hederacea) (I would like to start out with that this blog is for information purposes only. I would also like to...
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modernamericansham
Jul 292 min read
TACITUS ON MALE WARRIOR UPBRINGING AND INITIATION
Copy of The Warrior of Hirschlanden (German: Krieger von Hirschlanden) Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and ethnographer who...
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modernamericansham
Jun 94 min read
Pagan Picnic 2024 Handout
German Folk Magic Healing Charms Atrophy Healing Spell: Gain in the limbs, Gain in the flesh! Gain in the veins and the blood, As certain...
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modernamericansham
May 273 min read
Odin and His Companions
Odin’s animal companions Geri, Freki, Huginn and Muninn and Sleipnir. If we look at what their names mean, we can get a better...
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modernamericansham
May 272 min read
The Different Names of Odin
Some of Odin’s names: There are over 170 different names for him so I will only offer a few here. The first two are simply different ways...
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modernamericansham
May 271 min read
The Challenge of Thor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I am the God Thor, I am the War God, I am the Thunderer! Here in my Northland, My fastness and fortress,...
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modernamericansham
Mar 186 min read
Cross Training for Meditation Level Two
This level starts where the first level leaves off. The big change in level two is the lack of sound or visual stimuli. The goal is to...
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modernamericansham
Mar 94 min read
Level One Course - Cross Training for Meditation
Part One of the Meditation Cross Training Series. Modern American Shamanism’s meditation practices are simple, straight forward, and...
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modernamericansham
Feb 271 min read
Creed of the Germanic Pagan Household
1. I believe the running of a household is one of the most important and valuable jobs in Midgard. 2. A household run well adds...
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modernamericansham
Feb 81 min read
Fragments
The knowledge that comes down to us maybe fragmented, but those fragments are there for us to piece back together. We must also put in...
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modernamericansham
Jan 91 min read
The Norse god Forseti
Forseti is the Aesir god of justice, mediation, and reconciliation. In the Grímnismál, a poem in the Poetic Edda, it is said that...
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