Ancestor worship is important to a fully developed Heathen practice. Not everyone is going to get there. We live in a Post-Christian western society, and its god-centric legacy will honestly be centuries in undoing.
Our surviving literature does not help as much as it should, because while every scholar will begin with telling you how sad it is we don’t have much about what everyone knew and did every day, because the saga’s only talk about the stuff you saw once a year, or Uncle Olaf saw when he was young and actually guested in the King’s Hall, but you will never see in your whole life; casual readers come away with the mistaken impression that the god centered tales describe daily life.
The truth is most of ancestral practice was as hearth based as any of the pagan tribes well into recorded history. The spirits of the hearth and…
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All Their Voices 