Post by 1alfgar on Nov 7, 2007 18:30:31 GMT
Waes Thu Hal to all on this good forum....
i shall try this again, somehow the last post launched without my knowing how it happened. my name is David and i am writing from the States. Although i'm realitively new to Heathenism in one sense, i'm not quite as new in others. I have been a practicing heathen for a couple of years now..i believe my heart has been practicing for most of my life..on the lighter side, i can remember my paternal grandmother...rabid Christian fundementalist...dragging me through the house by my ear as a young boy shouting "com'ere you little heathen!" each time i got into trouble. more seriously, from my boyhood and young manhood i always felt her ways were somehow..not right...as a young man i would sail my small boat and in half gest when becalmed i would call out "Alfattir send a wind to fill my sails!" always came the wind....always...for many years i was too busy raising my three children to bother much with faith til in the later '80's i found myself a single parent and began to look beyond myself for answers to questions i had avoided for so long. I met a very famous medicine man of the Lakota nation and was invited to live where i now do..quite close to the Pine Ridge indian rez. Since '94 i have been working with the "traditionals" to help them preserve thier folkways, language and history from the degradation of hopeless reservation life...i have been taught many things, adopted into the Standing Buffalo band and have lived and worked closely with various medicine people..i have sundanced been given a Sacred Pipe and generally treated as an equal...it has been quite rewarding spiritually but all in all i "knew" that my path was to help and learn, not to "become" an indian..many things they taught me worked fairly well..but something was always missing..then i picked up the runes and all that had been vague for me became clear..i had found my way..."home"..it was like i had been looking through a telephoto lens that was not quite focused..when i finally applied the ways of my own ancestors i turned the focal ring and things became a good deal more...clear.
Now i am voraciously studying and trying to learn all i can about my ancestors faith...i want to apply all i learned working with the Lakota to my own people...to bring back the old faith...i personally belive the whole Christian experiance has been a great distraction..the "people of the book" seem to spend a great deal of time fighting over the book...[ye gds i'm writing a book here, sorry] anyway it me come to pass that i have found a way out of the states to more "civilized" lands...[lived in Europe in the '60s] and when thinking of where i could learn the most of our history the UK seemed to be the obvious place..a crossroads as it were..
i shall try this again, somehow the last post launched without my knowing how it happened. my name is David and i am writing from the States. Although i'm realitively new to Heathenism in one sense, i'm not quite as new in others. I have been a practicing heathen for a couple of years now..i believe my heart has been practicing for most of my life..on the lighter side, i can remember my paternal grandmother...rabid Christian fundementalist...dragging me through the house by my ear as a young boy shouting "com'ere you little heathen!" each time i got into trouble. more seriously, from my boyhood and young manhood i always felt her ways were somehow..not right...as a young man i would sail my small boat and in half gest when becalmed i would call out "Alfattir send a wind to fill my sails!" always came the wind....always...for many years i was too busy raising my three children to bother much with faith til in the later '80's i found myself a single parent and began to look beyond myself for answers to questions i had avoided for so long. I met a very famous medicine man of the Lakota nation and was invited to live where i now do..quite close to the Pine Ridge indian rez. Since '94 i have been working with the "traditionals" to help them preserve thier folkways, language and history from the degradation of hopeless reservation life...i have been taught many things, adopted into the Standing Buffalo band and have lived and worked closely with various medicine people..i have sundanced been given a Sacred Pipe and generally treated as an equal...it has been quite rewarding spiritually but all in all i "knew" that my path was to help and learn, not to "become" an indian..many things they taught me worked fairly well..but something was always missing..then i picked up the runes and all that had been vague for me became clear..i had found my way..."home"..it was like i had been looking through a telephoto lens that was not quite focused..when i finally applied the ways of my own ancestors i turned the focal ring and things became a good deal more...clear.
Now i am voraciously studying and trying to learn all i can about my ancestors faith...i want to apply all i learned working with the Lakota to my own people...to bring back the old faith...i personally belive the whole Christian experiance has been a great distraction..the "people of the book" seem to spend a great deal of time fighting over the book...[ye gds i'm writing a book here, sorry] anyway it me come to pass that i have found a way out of the states to more "civilized" lands...[lived in Europe in the '60s] and when thinking of where i could learn the most of our history the UK seemed to be the obvious place..a crossroads as it were..
