the guests had one month fewer
they do not speak the language of nature
We take ancient gods and goddesses, revive them, and think that that's paganism.
But that's not paganism; it's a cartoon, a caricature, of paganism.
For an older, realer paganism, read the work of Saami poet Nils-Alsak Valkeapää (1943-2001).
Here there's a life lived so thoroughly among the old gods—the Sun our father, Earth mother of life, the Moon, the Winds, the Lake, the Mountain, the Reindeer—that there's no space between: a living relationship with a living world.
Listen to his shaman's song:
