Ingwina Ferræden | Osric | Friends Activity https://ingwine.org/members/osric/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Osric's friends. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:33:44 -0600 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6e7bdf704824572291549a2e6e35c131 Bear Scott and Earnwine are now friends https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1485/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:15:52 -0600 0 eca7fbd90e0dd3edad5d97850db4d654 Bear Scott and Timothy Adams are now friends https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1484/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:17:38 -0600 0 ffe84422043390c6ac18c527f2471e35 Bear Scott and Lucas are now friends https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1483/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:49:41 -0600 0 268e3cae50846cd8cc59b0663905fd42 Timothy Adams and Æðelswið are now friends https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1476/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:42:55 -0600 0 a5d57c94d7321ecbc9e8fd1c9109dbdf Daniël Zikarno wrote a new post https://ingwine.org/?p=5916 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:32:21 -0600 0 a2c99d93ef14ee23bbe2be8590d8ded3 This is a test post. https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1463/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:55:46 -0600

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]]> 0 1face3f0509cf0352aaaba55d6d303ea Hirut enrolled in a new course https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1461/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:10:25 -0600 0 1e4a30e3c4d40453fac26e516fc9b220 Hololool, a bonfire tradition from Zonhoven (Belgium) celebrated on 10 November, likely has roots reaching back over 2,500 years to Germanic and Celtic winter rituals. Ancient Europeans counted moons instead of months, which left thirteen “extra” days before the winter solstice. These days—believed to be the darkest and most dangerous period of the year—were linked to myths of the Wild Hunt, a terrifying ghostly procession led by the god Wodan/Odin or the goddess Holda (Holle). People feared punishment from these supernatural riders, so they stayed indoors around the fire. During this time: A Yule log burned continuously for protection and light. Food stores and baked goods (sometimes shaped like people) were prepared to keep families safe and children calm. Fire rituals and bonfires symbolized the return of light and protection against dark forces. These traditions influenced later figures like St. Nicholas and St. Martin, who share striking traits with the ancient god Wodan: a white horse, red cloak, staff, and dark companions who punish wrongdoing. The Hololool bonfire may also relate to charcoal production from holly wood, used historically in iron smelting in the Zonhoven area. Communities likely gathered around large fires both for practical production and ritual protection. Over time, what began as a pagan fire ritual marking the approach of Yule and the winter solstice evolved into the modern Hololool festival, now celebrated with torch parades, performances, and fireworks. 🔥 In essence: Hololool is probably the surviving echo of an ancient winter fire ritual, blending mythology, astronomy, iron production, and seasonal celebration into a tradition that still burns in Zonhoven today. Link: https://www.hololool.net/ https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1436/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:45:11 -0600

Hololool, a bonfire tradition from Zonhoven (Belgium) celebrated on 10 November, likely has roots reaching back over 2,500 years to Germanic and Celtic winter rituals.
Ancient Europeans counted moons instead of months, which left thirteen “extra” days before the winter solstice. These days—believed to be the darkest and most dangerous perio…Read More

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]]> 0 6a6978fb087a7105e224ecc249bcb25f Yesterday was the last full moon of the winter. To me, it felt like a moment of closure, but also of clarity. It reminded me that we live in a dual world, in nature, but also within ourselves. Light and darkness, movement and stillness, it all belongs. From the universe, or the cosmos, I once again received beautiful wisdom. Something I wanted to write down for myself, simply to hold onto it. What touched me most was the parallel I saw between my son, one year and three months old, and my own spiritual journey. They began around the same time. He is still discovering the world. He can already walk, but he still wobbles, loses his balance sometimes, and falls straight onto his little bottom. And in that, I recognize myself. On my spiritual path, I am becoming more aware of what I do not know. I stumble, I fail, I try, and each time I get back up. With curiosity, with wonder. There is still so much to discover. That duality lives within us. Nature shows us this constantly. There are phases of growth and letting go, of action and rest. We will never live in a permanent, heaven-like state here, probably not even after death. That is not a flaw, it is simply part of existence. And that realization calls us back into the present moment. This is not an insight reserved only for Buddhism, it is universal. It teaches us that difficult things pass. And from that knowing, we can draw strength and courage. It asks us to stand strong, to not run when things get hard, but to remain still within the fire. Because it is there, in the fire, that we learn the most. And in the end, we are sometimes given something extra. A quiet invitation to reconnect with living energy itself. With what connects everything. With the knowing that all is one, and that we are part of it. https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1364/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:49:32 -0700

Yesterday was the last full moon of the winter. To me, it felt like a moment of closure, but also of clarity. It reminded me that we live in a dual world, in nature, but also within ourselves. Light and darkness, movement and stillness, it all belongs.
From the universe, or the cosmos, I once again received beautiful wisdom. Something I wanted to…Read More

]]> 0 7227dbe025df38d0e42e403028adb35c thefyrdsman enrolled in a new course https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1358/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:50:47 -0700 0 9ef0288b85598272bbda85b9ef4f5f02 Leofrun enrolled in a new course https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1355/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:46:20 -0700 0 1000e2f8d32e2bed1dc29597e5cea753 Hirut wrote a new post https://ingwine.org/?p=5727 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:09:41 -0700 56aa2528e58b76c456dfa6dc00ef5141 To Live Like Water We are not made to be trapped in plans, rules, and expectations. Our soul is fluid, born from the same current as water, wind, and the wild creatures that move freely across the land. The world demands that we be flexible, ever reshaped to fit new forms, neatly contained within walls that promise safety. Yet deep within, we feel that this safety stiffens the body and silences the spirit. The true path is not one of control, but of fluid existence. Just as the night has no fixed lines and nature never walks in straight paths, our lives are meant to dance with the unexpected. Fluidity means staying true to ourselves while bending with the storm, not breaking when the wind shifts, but revealing our strength through motion. When we dare to move without fear of what lies ahead, a world of magic unfolds. Animals respond to our voices, spirits illuminate our path, and a deep connection awakens with the land that carries us. The call of the shaman and the witch does not arise from copying rituals or chasing titles, but from the courage to embrace chaos and find meaning within it. Uncertainty is not an enemy; it is proof that life still stirs within us. Choose the fluid path. Let tension melt into the earth, and let your voice merge with the wind. Every step taken in true fluidity breaks an old wall and opens a new stream of possibility. You are not a prisoner of predictability. You are a being in motion, energy unfolding, forever becoming who you have always been. Dare to flow. Dare to change. Dare to live like water. By H.E. https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1312/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:32:45 -0700

To Live Like Water

We are not made to be trapped in plans, rules, and expectations.
Our soul is fluid, born from the same current as water, wind, and the wild creatures that move freely across the land. The world demands that we be flexible, ever reshaped to fit new forms, neatly contained within walls that promise safety. Yet deep within, we…Read More

]]> 0 f16d88021be3cf3420f7d07f0f41e3dd One day I decided to seek wisdom. Not the wisdom whispered in sunlit halls, but that deeper knowledge. There was a place I knew, a place I'd once been but never truly rested. A place I'd left, not by choice, but out of fear. As I approached it again, the door opened without protest, as if it had been expecting me all along. Behind the door lay a staircase. Not an ordinary staircase, but one that captured my attention as if it knew my name. I felt compelled to go up. But as I let my gaze wander, I saw something disturbing: figures moving downward on that same staircase. They were past versions of myself. Shadows of who I had once been, fleeing the darkness that hung above them. I took my first step up. The descent of my former selves became a torrent, a horde blocking the way. Some carried nothing but their fear, others held tools: a rake, rusty and aimless, not to kill, but dangerous in its unconscious swing. They didn't want to touch me, but their mere presence made the passage perilous. Yet I continued to ascend. I swerved where I could, fought where I had to. Not out of anger, but out of necessity. Every collision was a memory, every evasion a choice I had once dared not make. My breath grew heavy, my legs burned, but my gaze remained fixed above—on the uppermost chamber, where the insight I needed, not the one I desired, awaited me. Then I understood the message whispered silently through the walls. A tree doesn't grow only toward the light. Most of its existence takes place underground, in the darkness, where no one looks. Whoever ignores that hidden growth, whoever refuses to descend into the darkness, will have weak roots. And what appears above ground, no matter how beautiful, will never stand firm, never truly grow. I understood that darkness was not an enemy, but a necessary teacher. And that wisdom is not found by fleeing to the light, but by courageously continuing to climb, even when you have to pass yourself along the way. by H.E. https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1311/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:28:15 -0700

One day I decided to seek wisdom. Not the wisdom whispered in sunlit halls, but that deeper knowledge.

There was a place I knew, a place I’d once been but never truly rested. A place I’d left, not by choice, but out of fear. As I approached it again, the door opened without protest, as if it had been expecting me all along.
Behind the door lay a…Read More

]]> 0 dc5214de730e92ff73a4ea186d167111 Leofrun wrote a new post https://ingwine.org/?p=5669 Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:35:05 -0700 521080a43bd257b2eabdbb7fe811dca8 Jorre wrote a new post https://ingwine.org/?p=5661 Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:42:49 -0700 388eeb5ac8c9c5471256545c50883d5f Jorre wrote a new post https://ingwine.org/?p=5644 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:38:59 -0700 9729f0c867ee549664c51da708667bc5 Ælfswiþ᛬Jackie joined the group Living Heathenry https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1260/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 02:58:36 -0700 0 f849965f1394ee822c291830a58dc279 Jorre wrote a new post https://ingwine.org/?p=5627 Sun, 02 Nov 2025 09:25:36 -0700 4a73cb54fe90d50273efc0b50e6d83d8 Ælfswiþ᛬Jackie and Lucas are now friends https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1227/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:48:56 -0600 0 72110feb62c1e577f35a755f194e5fd1 Jorre posted an update in the group Mythology, Theology and Folklore https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1219/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:22:34 -0600

Elegast,
“Karel ende Elegast” was an original poem in Middle Dutch that scholars think was probably written at the end of the 12th century, otherwise in the 13th century and set in the region of Charlemagne’s castle in Ingelheim.
Elegast is possibly symbolic of the Dutch people’s pre-Christian myth of an ancient elf or folk hero. In the…Read More

]]> 0 81205748276e3d8796863528b748501d Hirut wrote a new post https://ingwine.org/?p=5499 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:51:06 -0600 21e695004fd74145f123755d4962762f Jorre posted an update in the group Living Heathenry https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1199/ Sat, 04 Oct 2025 07:36:29 -0600

The Flemish and Dutch have an old tradition, when the winter arrives, the dead return. We put a candle by the window so they know they are welcome. I use this Joelkandelaar, when the licht is welcomed back at Bikkebrenne with the arrival of spring, I blow it out. I leave the candle in it all summer. Sunne embellishes the candle with the power of…Read More

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]]> 0 9d5174ff8a8b33f8a369e1fc667b9578 theodric posted an update in the group Heathen Book Club https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1182/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:58:17 -0600 0 caf3652e46f8b5c216bb05f4935b8ce2 theodric posted an update in the group Heathen Book Club https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1179/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:27:07 -0600

This corpus of OHG poetry with page facing translation is out now!

https://a.co/d/aiUGWcM

]]> 1 53e0de7a76df4be03277cc8a088fd873 theodric posted an update in the group Living Heathenry https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1177/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:35:57 -0600 5 197030fb2e94664f29b3dfcfa54dde05 Jorre wrote a new post https://ingwine.org/?p=5506 Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:36:15 -0600 3eb6a11de8c2244af6a5d6e70e247d2e theodric posted an update in the group Heathen Book Club https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1150/ Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:19:52 -0600 0 54f077d6e3d2a22de06905581742a289 theodric posted an update in the group Languages and Literary Tradition https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1149/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:21:07 -0600

Hwaet! does hwaet mean?

http://walkden.space/Walkden_2013_hwaet.pdf

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A fun way of living heathenry is to leave visible markers on sacred places. Ofcourse we do this with all respects for the local circumstances. No damaging, no polluting. Such signs will bring awareness to people, show heathenry is alive and other heathens may be inspired or may want to find out why that place is marked or who is doing it. Sparking…Read More

]]> 0 6115e417c55d33d067bb7420a66d134f Hirut and Jorre are now friends https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1138/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:23:38 -0600 0 9816ed041e24f8bc88c53643c745e374 Ælfswiþ᛬Jackie joined the group History, Archaeology https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1133/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:51:32 -0600 0 2f43509087a2498e26dbed44ac485014 theodric posted an update in the group Mythology, Theology and Folklore https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1130/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:45:12 -0600

Hermes and Another Balder Analogue?

While preparing to actually write down some of my thoughts around Odin’s brothers Vili and Ve, I have been looking at other related IE Gods and Goddesses. Of course, Hermes must be in that list. I found a rather interesting bit about Hermes son, Cephalus:
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Cephalus was out hunting and Aurora, the goddess…Read More

]]> 6 4a7bacb0eb242bd9c446c86187e07cb1 Beardwyrt joined the group History, Archaeology https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1126/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:04:52 -0600 0 378baa8053c84bef59a1dd8ed34c9604 Morgana joined the group History, Archaeology https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1125/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:29:11 -0600 0 5c199282e2af1666de03d8356db8d041 theodric posted an update in the group History, Archaeology https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1124/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:43:09 -0600

Archaeological map of Britain around 500AD

]]> 0 8cc8a5a1f9afc910713ae032102095d1 theodric created the group History, Archaeology https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1123/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:42:13 -0600 0 13ffc43a0c7cd1bf5f3d50dfcabcbf94 theodric changed History, Archaeology group cover photo https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1122/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:41:44 -0600 0 9750408d92f371a85bfbb82536c4dfe3 theodric changed History, Archaeology group photo https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1121/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:38:29 -0600 0 f4499cef3e599e407ca7572389f956e2 Jackie replied to the topic Hoar-stones in the forum Living Heathenry https://ingwine.org/groups/living-heathenry/forum/topic/hoar-stones/#post-5427 Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:05:40 -0600

So this could probably be it’s own thread, but I feel like we could totally talk more, as a group, about the significance of wells and depositional offerings

]]> 0 ee9098dd6eea2acbf42bc3f7519f6d94 Jackie replied to the topic Hoar-stones in the forum Living Heathenry https://ingwine.org/groups/living-heathenry/forum/topic/hoar-stones/#post-5412 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:41:29 -0600

So, it’s not exactly the same thing described here, but it might be related. Here’s a reference to a white stone or pebble having been ritually deposited into well in the Netherlands

https://collectie.huisvanhilde.nl/pdf/Pre-Christian-gods-and-animal%20symbolism-Van-Eerden-Nicolay.pdf

]]> 0 37faeaaeb13acbdffe3ce9e6f8be4b61 Beardwyrt joined the group News and Announcements https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1113/ Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:27:43 -0600 0 12f908b68993026bc888f42a3e9f218e Hirut posted an update in the group Mythology, Theology and Folklore https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1106/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:57:00 -0600

⁉️After waiting a long time, I’m finally asking this question. The more I read, the more confused I get, because different sources say different things. I also can’t find a clear answer on Discord.

Question:
Is it correct that Sceafa, the son of Beowa, is the same as the Lombardic king who was found as a child floating in a small boa…Read More

]]> 4 de9bc26fb584737590ae27a4ed5cb9f2 Johnny Hulsey changed their profile picture https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1105/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:17:52 -0600 0 13833f1fefc68670e55a90ae9b4057e2 Norm joined the group Heathenship Introductory Journey https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1103/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:12:24 -0600 0 3a360bbf587280d6cc1b9550cba6e4b9 Hirut posted an update in the group Heathen Book Club https://ingwine.org/activity/p/1100/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:05:19 -0600

The Way of the Shaman is both a spiritual manual and a scholarly work. It presents an actionable guide to shamanic techniques—like drumming, journeying, and healing—rooted in Harner’s anthropological research and personal experience. Whether you’re new to shamanism or seeking structured exploration, it’s a compelling invitation to journey i…Read More

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