Hamingja

It is believed among our teutonic folk that there are three theological classifications of Hamingja, which are called fylgja:

1) The Mannsfylgja or one's personal guardian.

2) The Kynfylgja or the guardian of the family.

3) The Ættarsfylgja or the guardian of the clan or tribe.

Ones hamingja is inherited patrilineally through their fathers line when the child is considered a member of his fathers tribe.

It is common practice to name a child with the name of a deceased ancestor, to invite the hamingja or luck onto the newly born child in a naming ceremony often called ausa vatni, where the father recognizes the child and accepts the new born as one of his own.

Through this ritual, which is both a spiritual act and a legal act, the child adopts the hamingja of their father and acquires the protection and luck as an individual, a member of this family and the broader tribe to which it belongs.

The Magic of Gratitude

As the dark months deepen and the winds turn colder, we naturally begin to look inward, toward our homes, our ancestors, and the quiet spaces within ourselves. In this season of long nights and bright hearth-fires, there is a magic often overlooked, yet deeply woven into our ways:

Modern culture treats gratitude like a pleasant idea.
But for us, for the Folk, gratitude is an ancestral force, a binding energy, a spiritual technology older than any written saga.

Gratitude is not simply feeling thankful.
It is action.
It is relationship.
It is wyrd in motion.

Though our ancestors didn’t use the word “gratitude,” they lived it through gefa ok þiggja - to give and receive, the law of sacred reciprocity.

The Hávamál reminds us:

“A gift always seeks a return.” (Hávamál 42)

This isn’t cold or transactional.
It’s the understanding that every bond is strengthened through exchange - between people, between kin, between us and the gods, and even between us and the earth.

Every blót is gratitude.
Every horn raised is gratitude.
Every call to the ancestors is gratitude.
Every time we honor the land wights or the Vanir, we are expressing our thanks for abundance, for protection, for the cycle of life itself.

In Sigrdrífumál, the Valkyrie Sigdrífa teaches Sigurd to greet the Day, Night, Earth, and Gods with reverence. This is a morning rite of acknowledgment and gratitude.

In honoring our ancestors—those whose deeds keep our Hamingja strong—we carry gratitude into our wyrd:

"Cattle die, and kinsmen die, and so one dies one's self;
One thing now, that never dies The fame of a dead man's deeds"
(Hávamál 76)

To speak their names is a sacred thank you.

In our Vril practice, gratitude is not passive. It is not an emotion you wait to feel. It is a current you activate.

Gratitude expands Vril.
It strengthens the pathways between worlds.
It brightens the soul and energizes the parts of ourselves that have gone quiet from stress, heaviness, fear, or hardship.

When we intentionally express gratitude—to our gods, our kin, our ancestors, our lives—
we open ourselves to more flow, more clarity, and more luck.

Gratitude strengthens frith, clears wyrd, and amplifies hamingja. This is not metaphor. It is how the old ways functioned.

In times of division, fatigue, stress, or personal struggle, gratitude becomes a stabilizing force.

We honor one another.
We acknowledge the work, the effort, the sacrifices, the heart each person brings.

When we root ourselves in gratitude, we protect frith and restore what may have frayed.

Gratitude is a shield. A healer. A unifier. To express gratitude is to weave ourselves back into the fabric of the Folk.

A Simple Heathen Gratitude Practice (You Can Begin Today)

1. Greet the Day
Say the words of Sigdrífa or your own:
“Hail the Day. Hail the Night. Hail the Gods who guide me.”

2. Name One Ancestor
Say “I remember you.”
Feel the strength rise.

3. Recognize a Gift
Something small is enough.
A moment, a sign, a breath, a kindness.

4. Offer a Gift Back
A word. A candle. A prayer.
A moment of breathing Vril into the world. This is heathen magic in its simplest form.

Winter is a time of reflection, endurance, and renewal.
It is the season of the ancestors, the long memory of the land, the deep power of the quiet. Gratitude becomes a lantern that lights our path through the dark.

As we move toward Solstice and the rebirth of the sun, let us carry this ancient magic with us. Let us practice it daily. Let us share it freely. Let us honor the gifts we have been given and the ones we are becoming.

Gratitude is not just an emotion. It is an ancestral practice. A way of weaving wyrd with intention. A way of strengthening frith among the Folk. A way of honoring the gods, the ancestors, and one another.

May gratitude open your heart.
May it brighten your hamingja.
May it bring peace to your home and clarity to your path.

Hail the Gods.
Hail the Ancestors.
Hail the Folk.
And hail the enduring magic of gratitude.

Harvala Heathor

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This past month has possibly been the biggest month in RFU history as far as growth!!!!! And in just one week we have a yule taking place in Missouri that will be the topic of discussion for a long time to come!
These are exciting times for our Folk Nation!
HAIL OUR MIGHTY GODS!!!!!!!!
Hail Raven Folk United!
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I've recently came across a video that shows some very interesting things found in our most ancient settlements!

Animal statues: Did you know Ice Age Europeans were sculptors? This particular video shows "bison" aka the native European Aurochs. Several other statues have been found, including those of bears and other animals, even of Gods and Goddesses. Some are made of clay others are made of bone or soft stone.

Depictions of Animal-Human Hybrids: This video shows a recreation of 'the sorcerer' from the cave of the Trois-Frères, which bares a very strong resemblance to the Celtic God Cernunnos.

Ice Age Wunjo Rune: Did you know that Wunjo, or a symbol shaped like our modern letter P, have been found over many Ice Age caves! This debunks the idea we got our letters soley from the middle-east. The hypothesis as to how these emerged is understandable but still a hypothesis. Either way goes to show, with the 32 Ice Age symbols, that our folk were writing long before the middle-east.

Dr. Genevieve von Petzinger, a badass archeologist & anthropologist lady, discovered written language in the Aurignacian and Gravettian cultures (pan-european cultures during the ice age) dating as far back as 40,000 years ago. This date coincides with the first evidence we have a Pagan beliefs from the same location.

The term 'alphabet' is a misnomer here. I suspect, like all ancient languages, they started off as logo syllabaries or hieroglyphs then became more simplified and abstract over time. This particular Ice Age language was in use all across Europe for 30,000 years!

It is interesting to recognize that writing originated tens of thousands of years before the middle east, in Europe; the same location as the first evidence of Paganism, as well as our actual homeland!

Despite what some "academics" claim, Ice Age Europeans are our Ancestors, and it shows a rich history of development far, advancing other cultures in the same time period.

Mark gives a talk on Our Ancestral Endowment at Vetrnætr in the Black Hills.

Our Ancestral Endowment - The Norroena Society https://share.google/i85rn7pyVZwkYjXfO

◇ PIE in the Sky ◇

Over the years here on Pagan Revivalism, many folk know I am a skeptic of the pie-perennialist position. Many folk have requested for me to do an entire show dedicated to tackling this ideology, like we did in October with axiality. Most folk have never heard the other side of the argument, until now.

Join us after winter solstice, 12/25/25, as we do a full take-down of pie-perennialism. We will cover their genetics, linguistics, material culture & comparative-mythology arguments, why they're easily defeated and much more!

This will be the most controversial show we have produced, but it is also the most important. For as we revive, we need to understand our actual foundations. If those foundations are faulty & foreign, cobbled together by mashing different religions together into a hypothetical ur-religion, we set ourselves up for failure.

This is a show you will not want to miss, as we break-down and take-down the pie, a new-age revisionist cult, only here at Pagan Revivalism channel.

This is a clip from a recent Grimfrost episode featuring a pie guy named Anders Kaliff (link here). Among the standard pie guy arguments trying to tie native European religions to india, one argument he makes shows why pie guys dont take ancestral faiths seriously.

Týr = Denis Penis

To prove this argument, one needs to completely disregard all archaeology and the legends of this religion itself. Nowhere is it mentioned, or eluded to, that Tyr was originally the head of the Æsir Gods. You think this would have been something mentioned in Lokasenna, but no. "Tyr was the original head, why, because this word sounds similar to another word, which we made up as a hypothetical bridge, therefore it must have been the same lol."

Kaliff goes on to suggest à la Georges Dumézil that the Æsir-Vanir war is fake because you can, by disregarding every difference that makes a distinction, Vanir Gods are the same as other alleged pie gods.

This pie ideology reveals profound ignorance to the legends they claim to research.

The frequency of new life on new earth

For those who are more musically and tonally inclined, you may find this interesting. Outside of Volcano National Park, on the big island of Hawaii, you can visit lands enveloped by flame and rock from within the Earth. As it moves on land it destroys everything in it's path, burning old life and covering old world with the new. As it cools it cracks, leaving crevices for new life to emerge in the new land. Like all living things they produce a frequency, and with the right tool, we can hear It as as music. And among new life on new land they play a single note which, as they grow and interact with others, turns into a crescendo.

The lava and new life is representative of at the end of Ragnarok, where fire and destruction rain but hidden away life reemerges once more. Mirrored also by the destructive fires of christianization, only for Pagan Revivalism to emerge and grow again.

This is the frequency of new life. The tone of a new era. A hymn of victory over chaos!

◇ PIE in the Sky ◇

The core claim made by Dumézil to support his pie myth claims is the three functions of his Trifunctional Schema, which are:
1. sovereignty/magic
2. war
3. fertility/productivity

This tripartide structure is imposed post hoc, not an uncovered secret.

For starters, his ideas dont fit with the sources. Odin for example has sovereignty, magic & war aspects. Multiple gods in multiple religions cross these 'rigid boundaries,' making his tripartide system false by examining the sources. When you cherry pick examples, and ignore counter examples, your model becomes unreliable. Besides, any deity can be shoehorned into a function by redefining the function post hoc.

This system is also falsified by new evidence. Specifically, Hittite mythology (pre-1500 BCE) lacks this trifunctional Pantheon, which is instead dominated by storm gods and chthonic pairs, with no clear “third function” fertility class.

What Dumézil does is start with a conclusion and twist facts, post hoc, to "prove his case"

Dumezil was an atheist and obviously saw Gods as just ideas. This is the reason behind his disregard for details too. Reducing Gods to archetypes/functions etc is like saying that since John and Jack are both male, wear glasses and work as engineers they are secretly the same person! Of course we don’t do that with people since we know they are real, but when it comes to Gods such generalizations are often tolerated since the wast majority are atheists even in (self-proclaimed) Pagan circles.

The Mari Lwyd is a very old Welsh tradition around this time of year. Though it's exact origins remain a mystery, lost to the sands of time, it is a local folk tradition of a folk who's noble ancestors smile upon them. For emulation is the highest form of veneration, that's why we keep the fires of tradition alive; it is out of love we do these things, for those who guide us and whom gave us life, culture and identity. Our blessed Ancestors

Did you know, in the first chapter of book 8 in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, he writes about how many people knew Elephants have a religion where they venerate the sun, moon and stars with accompanying rituals 👀