Another World, October 2021 Edition
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In this month’s Another World
THE PAGAN MUSIC LIST 14
This edition features three bands: Elane, Sowulo, and Daemonia Nymphe
Also, the full archive of previous public editions is now updated here.
In Episode 28: Pandemic and Material Conditions, Rhyd Wildermuth and Alley Valkyrie discuss the capitalist distribution and price crises exacerbated by COVID and what this instability will mean for the global political situation.
This idea of intuition being an inner guardian is a deeply pagan idea, found especially in Greek and Roman pagan beliefs. The Greeks recognised a being called eudaemon, a kind of benevolent spirit that would protect and watch over particular humans. Plato, for instance, recounts how Socrates claimed to have such an eudaemon since childhood, who often whispered warnings to him. Roman pagans spoke of and even often made shrines to the genii, personal attendant spirits that are with people from the moment of their births to the moment of their deaths and are to some degree a part of the person themselves.
Both the eudaemon and the genius were spirits independent from a person, yet were also seen as somewhat inseparable from the person themselves. Rather than being a paradox, though, this points to something profound about the pagan view of spirits, intelligence, and the nature of thought itself.
BEING PAGAN: A Story of Enchantment
Life is an enchanted thing, the body is capable of understanding things we rarely allow ourselves to experience, nature has a rhythm and song of its own, our ancestors understood things we desperately need to remember, the land speaks, and gods and spirits dwell everywhere. All this that I have written about I have learned because of these experiences, from letting myself be body and giving attention to the time of the moon, the seasons, and the stars rather than the logic of machines.
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