Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Do “Things” Have Agency? or, How to Think in Pagan
Lesson 1
“What a beautiful [blowing] horn,” I say.
It was, and my friend's wife, to whom the horn belonged, told me the story.
She had raised the cow herself from a calf. After a long, productive life, the cow—I can't remember her name anymore—was happily grazing in the pasture one sunny day when...
“...Thor took her,” she said.
Translation: “The cow was struck by lightning.”
That's how you think in Pagan.
Up in northern Minnesota's Lake Country, a young girl disappeared and was never found.
“They say the lake took her,” her mother told authorities. “I don't believe it.”
Translation: “The girl drowned.”
That's how you think in Pagan.
Extract from the article “Bealtaine Rite” in The Waxing Moon, Bealtaine 1977
We met one day in May when the Moon told us it was right.
Translation: “We held our Bealtaine ritual during the Waxing Moon of May (because the waxing of the Moon mirrors the waxing of the Year).”
That's how you think in Pagan.
In a pagan world, human beings aren't the only ones with agency.
In a pagan world, human beings aren't the only ones that act.
The sooner we embrace this reality, the sooner we'll be thinking in Pagan.
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