From its beginnings, ADF has defined itself in relation to Indo-European pagan traditions. What relevance do you think historical and reconstructed IE traditions from the past have in constructing or reconstructing a Pagan spirituality for the present and future? (minimum 600 words) What ADF is trying to create is a much needed thing in the […]
Category: Generalists Program
Various articles and thoughts throughout the Generalist Program
Indo-European Studies 1: Citations
Dume?zil, Georges. Gods of the Ancient Northmen. Berkeley: U of California, 1973. Print. Littleton, C. Scott. The New Comparative Mythology: An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dume?zil. Berkeley: U of California, 1982. Print. Fortson, Benjamin W. Indo-european Language and Culture: An Introduction. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Print. Mallory, J. P. In Search of […]
Indo European Studies 1: #4
Choose one other Indo-European culture and compare and contrast it to the culture discussed in question 3 above with respect to each culture’s Indo-European nature. (minimum 300 words) Fortson uses a lot of Greek examples to compare IE culture requirements, so in comparison with the northern traditions, we can find a lot of similar IE […]
Indo-European Studies 1: #3
Choose one Indo-European culture and describe briefly the influences that have shaped it and distinguish it from other Indo-European derived cultures. Examples include migration, contact with other cultures, changes in religion, language, and political factors. Is there any sense in which this culture can be said to have stopped being an Indo-European culture? (minimum 300 […]
Indo-European Studies 1: #2
George Dumezil’s theory of tripartition has been central to many modern approaches to Indo-European studies. Outline Dumezil’s three social functions in general, and as they appear in one particular Indo-European society. Offer your opinion as to whether you believe Dumezil’s claim that tripartition is central to IE cultures. (minimum 300 words) Littleton outlines Dumezil’s tripartition […]
Indo-European Studies 1: #1
Describe several of the factors that define a culture as Indo-European and how those defining factors are useful in understanding that culture. (minimum 300 words) The major factor that links Indo-European cultures together is closely related linguistics, the origins of which are traced back to a common language ancestor spoken in Eurasia around 6,000 years […]
Divination 1, #2
Within the context of a single paleo-pagan Indo-European culture, discuss three different forms of divination or seership, and give an example of each. (minimum 100 words each) Since I have limited material available, I’m changing up my culture a bit for these essays and working with one of the books I used in my DP, […]
Divination 1, Citations
Thorsson, Edred. Futhark, a Handbook of Rune Magic. York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, 1984. Print. MacLeod, Sharon Paice. Celtic Myth and Religion: A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. Print. “Oracle.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Sept. 2013. Web. 01 Oct. 2013. Paxson, Diana L. Taking up […]
Divination 1, #3
Discuss both the role of seers within at least one Indo-European culture and the relationship of seers to other members of the society, including in that discussion how seers or visionaries would have supported themselves or how they would have been supported by their people. (minimum two paragraphs) Back around 2010/2009, we had the fortunate […]
Divination 1, #5
Briefly describe the symbology of your chosen method of divination, and include a method of application for that system. (minimum 100 words overall description plus at least one sentence or line per symbol) The runic alphabet is just that, an alphabet that was used for both language and magic. It consisted of straight lines in […]
