paganism

Hello. I'm not really pagan, I've been atheist all my life in a 70% catholic country where the most common way of paganism is Yoruba and Christian witchcraft, from which I've kept my distance because they sacrifice animals to their saints, sometimes stealing house pets to sacrifice them. However, I love the Norse myths and as I started to learn more and more about it I got very interested in Mead, now I'm making my own Mead and I love that. IDK if Norse Paganism might be compatible with my form of atheism (don't believe in anything super natural, but willing to follow certain deities in a symbolic way, for example, I am a satanist atheist), I know very little about it, but because of the Mead I'm interested in learning more about the rituals associated to Mead, if there was any. I think learning and doing a proper ritual might link more closely my Mead making with it's cultural significance (yes I know Mead is not exclusively Norse, far from that, but still is what got me into it). I've read that sometimes Mead can be offered in altars. But I wonder if the old Norse had any ritual specific to it, or maybe something to thank the gods for the Mead, and what gods might be the main ones to offer it, Odin? Kvasir? Ægir? Freya?

Sorry if I'm way over the line, again, I'm willing to learn and follow advice. If you have some ritual instructions could you help too?

Thanks in advance.

I don't know exactly how to describe it, but I feel like the universe or something within os trying to tell me something and I'm so close to getting it. I'm going to start meditating for therapeutic reasons, but I was curious if there are ways I could better listen to whatever it is that I feel.

I know openness is important, but I don't really understand what it means to open up like that.

Sorry if this is a sore subject, I'm just looking for somewhere besides Reddit to peruse for entertainment.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/4364185

Found on FB:

I-know-all anti-Catholic: "Christmas? But Christmas, like Easter, like all your other holidays were pagan celebrations! Don't tell me you don't know?"

As I am about to upload the historical-philological broadside on the original authenticity of Christmas, I pause for a moment, reasoning. No, not this time.

I take a breath and...

Me: "That's right. We got them all. And if you keep complaining, we'll also take Spring Break, OktoberFest and the Furniture Show."

I.k.a.a.c: "Ahah! Then you admit it... Wait, what?"

Me: "You got it, smartass. We're a bit rusty, but you said it yourself: for centuries we appropriated all that barbaric junk and turned it into traditions thousands of years old and beyond, shaping Western civilization on the necropolises of antiquity. Not one has been saved, not one that has survived Christian reinterpretation: Romans, Greeks, Germans, Celts, Slavs... It's all our stuff. And those would slaughter us in the arena or eviscerate our evangelizers! You people slaves of consumerism complaining on Threads think you're a challenge?"

I.k.a.a.c: "But what do you think..."

Me: "We're already the main promoters of that environmentalist Earth Day trinket, it would take us two seconds to move our Day for the Care and Custody of Creation from September to April. Wanna bet?"

I.k.a.a.c: "You can't...."

Me: "Too late, you prick, you lost Black Friday, we are already making selections for the Saint Donor who will supplant it."

I.k.a.a.c: "But what..."

Me: "Oh, yeah. And say goodbye to Pride Month, we're already re-organizing Corpus Christi month, with permanent Eucharistic adoration of reparation from rainbow perversions. Oh, and your mother has given her availability for the general secretariat!"

I.k.a.a.c: "Leave my mother alone..."

Me: "And listen, do you like Shark Week? We just need a companion devotion to the Assumption, and we've left Stella Maris on hold for a while."

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Yes, in my opinion we should start doing that again.

I want to update the side bar to be more inclusive and I would love to invite native and tribal practitioners but I honestly don't know if that would be appropriate or if you would rather not be grouped in with other pagans and magic practitioners.

We really need a /c/magick

Worshipping the pagan trans-femme goat mother and claiming my birth rite as a woman.

This is me. I am like this.

Hes afraid of my cute little pokemon tarot cards

The fool is mr fucking mine and hes terrified

I don't mean to intrude, but I noticed that this sub has a lot of talk about magic and witchcraft, and I was wondering is it just for pagan witches or are people with more Abrahamic-style practices allowed? For the record I'm a theistic Satanist/Luciferian, but I really wouldn't call my practice pagan.