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When I pray to the gods I always feel a little awkward when I come to the end of my prayer. like theres something I should be doing or saying to formally end it. Anyone have something like that they use? basically a heathen version of “AMEN”

Hi everyone,

I find it extremely difficult to offer food to the germanic Gods. I'm mainly kemetic pagan and in Kemetism it is usual, morally good even, to eat the food offerings to the Gods. Everyday I offer my breakfast to the Egyptian Gods before I eat it.

In heathenry you're supposed to just throw it away? I used to offer a beer to Donar every now and then, and then I would empty the beer into the soil in the garden. Now I've moved into an apartment and that is no longer an option. Also, I find it very hard to throw food away.

I do offer incense every day to Donar, but that doesn't feel, how to put it, traditional? Incense is more of an Egyptian thing than a germanic one I think.

Also, I don't know how to do an offering ritual. Can you recommend some good books on this topic? Or tell me how you give offerings? And how often do you give offerings? Everyday may be a bit much if I have to dispose of it.

A little bit of a vent I guess, but not really, I just want to know what to do in those kinds of situations.

I'm really tired of my friends/family treating my beliefs like something absurd and getting all sorts of weird looks when they see an altar in the corner of my room. It hurts so much. People say this stuff in a way that makes it feel like paganism is somehow inferior to all the other major religions, even though it's much more ancient and deserves the same respect as Christianity or Islam does. Even worse, they sometimes treat it like it's just believing in fairy tales or completely fake. It wouldn't bother me if those were strangers but those are my closest people and I don't know how to explain myself to feel accepted. I don't want to be ashamed of what I believe in, I already barely found acceptance in paganism. I'd really like to hear what are y'all's experiences with this, not something like "just stop caring about it", you just can't, like situations and what you said that might have helped

My school district is trying to push AI onto us, so like the Catholics l, could I have an argument that it goes against my religious beliefs?

Hey y'all, I've been passively considering practicing Heathenry for about a year at this point but it feels like there's so much information, I'm not entirely sure where or how to start. I know a lot of people recommend reading the eddas when they're first starting out, but I feel like those don't give much insight into the actual living, modern practice if that makes sense?

Additionally, I know scholarly papers are a great resource for reconstructionists, and its not that I *can't* read scholarly work but its more that it feels really overwhelming. I was wondering if there were any good books/authors that focus on reconstructionism.

So today i made my first offerings to the gods, I have felt drawn to Thor and Freyja and i offered Thor a blue candle to represent muscularity and water and offered Freyja a pink candle to represent femininity rosemary fresh from the plant and water, i spoke to them and said i wanted to build a relationship with them, i then started asking runes and single pulling them out and i got a Raidho & Ehwaz. (also for some context i am new to Heathenry and also a beginner in witchcraft)

So I'm trying to reconstruct/give some names to the All-Father, and I was wondering if I can use/make ones that aren't really considered his names.

I have so far: • Ælfæder - Allfather • Grīma - mask(ed one) • Langbeard - Long-beard • Hwetmōd - Whet-Courage • Hreðel/Hrǣdel - The Glorious one • Herela - Warrior host(?) • Ēormen - Mighty one(?) • Wīdsīð - Far-Traveller • Heorrenda - Hinged/hanged one(?) • Wælfæder - Father of the slain

I want to add "Heregrīma" (battle-mask) and use other poetic names that would describe him. Would this be okay? I've been a pagan for a bit now but I wanna start giving Sē Ælfæder more names.

Like this is not funny anymore I really want to know

I tried really hard on both of them and it didn't get a single upvote like is it too bad or something