Urth’s Well: A Proposed Northern Cosmology
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https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i10.39Keywords:
Neo-Paganism, Cosmology, historical shamanism, polyvalent symbolsAbstract
Service to the community is a hallmark of historical shamanism, in contrast to closed or private circles (such as most Wiccan circles) where psychic practice is primarily kept 'in house'.References
TRANSLATIONS OF PRIMARY MATERIAL CITED IN-LINE
Hollander, Lee M, trans. The Poetic Edda. Austin: University of Texas, 1962/1994.
Snorri Sturluson. Edda. Anthony Faulkes, ed. Everyman Library. London: J. M. Dent, 1987/1997.
________. Heimskringla. Lee M. Hollander, trans. Austin: University of Texas, 1964/1995.
Tacitus. The Agricola and the Germania. H. Mattingly and S. A. Handford, trans. London: Penguin Books, 1970.
OTHER SOURCES
Paul C. Bauschatz, The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982).
Wolfgang Behringer, Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998).
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis, “Men and ‘Women’s Magic’: Gender, Seidhr and ‘Ergi’” Pomegranate 9 (August 1999).
Thomas A. DuBois, Nordic Religion in the Viking Age. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Jacqueline Simpson, Everyday Life in the Viking Age. (New York: Dorset, 1967).
Donald J. Ward, “The Threefold Death: An IndoEuropean Trifunctional Sacrifice?” In Jaan Puhvel, ed. Myth and Law among the IndoEuropeans. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970).
Hollander, Lee M, trans. The Poetic Edda. Austin: University of Texas, 1962/1994.
Snorri Sturluson. Edda. Anthony Faulkes, ed. Everyman Library. London: J. M. Dent, 1987/1997.
________. Heimskringla. Lee M. Hollander, trans. Austin: University of Texas, 1964/1995.
Tacitus. The Agricola and the Germania. H. Mattingly and S. A. Handford, trans. London: Penguin Books, 1970.
OTHER SOURCES
Paul C. Bauschatz, The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982).
Wolfgang Behringer, Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998).
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis, “Men and ‘Women’s Magic’: Gender, Seidhr and ‘Ergi’” Pomegranate 9 (August 1999).
Thomas A. DuBois, Nordic Religion in the Viking Age. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Jacqueline Simpson, Everyday Life in the Viking Age. (New York: Dorset, 1967).
Donald J. Ward, “The Threefold Death: An IndoEuropean Trifunctional Sacrifice?” In Jaan Puhvel, ed. Myth and Law among the IndoEuropeans. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970).
Published
2000-05-01
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How to Cite
Kramer-Rolls, D. (2000). Urth’s Well: A Proposed Northern Cosmology. Pomegranate, 12(Spring), 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i10.39
