Another World, November 2022
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The Secret of Crossings, a collection of essays from Rhyd Wildermuth, is now available for pre-order.
We’ll soon be announcing the pre-order for The White Deer, by Melinda Reidinger (release date, 1 February 2023). This will also be our first publication in multiple editions, including a hardcover edition.
We’ve also signed for several new releases for 2023, which will be scheduled soon.
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In this month’s Another World
The Pagan Music List 26
The twenty-Sixth edition of the Pagan Music List. This edition Features music from Daridel, A Tergo Lupi, and Julie Fowlis
Adapted from a chapter of Melinda Reidinger’s upcoming book from us, The White Deer.
Part of the reason deer are associated with the dead and ancestral lore may be that, thanks to the longevity of hunting tales, deer have long been associated with ancient lifestyles. This means that when a deer appears—especially a white deer—it can evoke something extraordinary that has faded from our world and be seen as an invitation to take on a perilous quest. Those who encounter the animal may feeling the presence of something both disturbingly alien and all too familiar, which is what psychologists call the “uncanny.”
The RE/AL/IGN
episode one: With Gordon White
The Re/al/ign is a new video and audio podcast discussion series from Rhyd Wildermuth. New episodes are available first to Another World or From The Forests of Arduinna supporters before being released to the public.
In this first episode of THE RE/AL/IGN, Rhyd Wildermuth talks with Gordon White (runesoup.com) about his latest book, Ani.Mystic: Encounters With a Living Cosmos (from Scarlet Imprint). They discuss animism and the difficulties of translating its expansive world into the Western materialist-reductionist framework, and end with advice on custodianship and creating sanctuary.
A new series on political religion from Rhyd Wildermuth.
In Roman religion, priests could be of any class and any bloodline, but only ordained priests could perform certain rites in the temples. However, those rites weren’t for absolution of sins. Rather, they were primarily for practical matters like divination and requests for healing or blessings. Also, the priests performed rituals for the gods themselves, decorating shrines and temples on certain days, turning statues in specific directions, and performing specific rites that the god requested.
Christian priesthood continued most of the Hebraic forms of priesthood, but opened it out of the restrictive bloodline requirement and used some of the more egalitarian Roman model. This meant still that only ordained priests could perform crucial intercession (absolution, the sacraments, etc), but you didn’t need to be born into a family of priests. In fact, you couldn’t be born into a priesthood, because priests were not allowed to marry.