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the weaver award 2023 – poetry, prayer & hymn competition

The Hamingja Foundation has now announced its new annual poetry/hymn/prayer /mantra competition – the Weaver Award! The importance of poetry , hymns & prayers within Indo-European spirituality can’t be overestimated. The poet/ skald / bard etc is also the weaver, smith & artisan contributing to the multiplication & adornment of Xartus. Indo-European pagan peoples expressed beauty through words – better than anyone else around them. …

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How to create pagan sacred space

What is a sacred space? What does it mean to pagans? And how is it set up?Groves, frithyards, vé, weoh, stafgardr, temples, temenos. Rituals within native Indo-European spirituality take place within sacred space. But what do they really mean? Why are they used? And do they have to be these magnificent, pompous halls and walls? …

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Yéwesa – how to pray and perform Ritual the pagan way

In our Discord server we’ve brought up the Yéwesa – the Indo-European guidelines for pagan ritual and prayer, found out through trial and error by our ancestors, and on what we know from tradition, literature, ancient dramas and depictions – how to best appease the gods. In fact, the word ‘pray’ itself stems from Proto-Indo-European *prek – to ask for, pray, request, entreat. …

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