Sea Sky Soil An Introduction to Waincraft Nicanthiel Hrafnhild 9781300548836 Books
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This first book in the Waincraft series will introduce the reader to the newly founded tradition known as Waincraft. Throughout this book are sections covering the Five Cosmological Beings, the Three Worlds, a rich religious and celebratory calendar cycle, and the basics of the Four Elements of Waincraft. Also included are detailed appendices containing information on the pantheon.
Sea Sky Soil An Introduction to Waincraft Nicanthiel Hrafnhild 9781300548836 Books
Sea Sky Soil: An Introduction to Waincraft, is the first book of a planned three for this budding tradition. I have been following for the past couple of years off and on, how this work has been progressing, it first grabbed my attention when I had purchased a copy of the book "Visions of Vanaheim" by Svartesol, and had looked up information about its author and contributors'.That aside, this book covers a wonderful tradition which is doing something which I feel should have been done for a long time, and that's making those connections to the deep "sources" of the Gods, Spirits and Ancestors, and building a new, but at the same time old connection to them.
This is something which is very difficult to do, because when you are talking about finding out a way to quantify the deep chthonic feelings of these ancient "sources" is extremely difficult not only to put into words, but to put into a system of practice that is both useable from a contemporary perspective and at the same time, not straying too far inward and loosing the taproot of deep chthonic knowledge from the past.
Nicanthieal Hrafnhild has done a wonderful job, and the fact that this work has been a labor of love, which has been tested out in the "field" if you will. Shines through greatly.
Now what you get within this first book, is (what I feel) will be the bulk of the baseline theology of Waincraft, which I happen to disagree with another reviewer that this is unusable, yes there are no rituals contained within, but with the complete and deep breath of theological information contained within, you have a ton of inspiration, and knowledge in which to build rituals of your own which will be just as personal and powerful as any that may come forthwith with the other installments into this series. This is coupled with the authors premise that waincraft, SHOULD develop along with where one lives, and be in accordance in the way practices are eventually conducted by the region of the world in which you live. And to this I have only one thing to say and that's a resounding "YES!"
I for one have spent many times asking my local pagans, "What are our sacred places here?", "Where do we give our offerings, libations, prayers and such?" and most times, 90% of those I ask, respond with a glazing over of the eyes, because sadly I don't think that this is thought about or considered enough in Contemporary Paganism, and Waincraft is a beautiful and budding tradition, which can be adopted and practiced with a great amount of fulfillment and effect.
Is this tradition for everyone, no, there is no such thing. But I feel that every pagan regardless of your tradition, or not, can benefit from the lines of understanding that this tradition draws, between one cover. It makes me think about what is called in comparative religion as "Evolutionary Monotheism", which is the concept that all monotheistic religions evolved originally out of polytheistic systems of belief. Why bring this up, because if you have read any books on paganism or otherwise, that go into the linguistics of title and name origins, (Ceisiwr Serith comes to mind) than you would be foolish to think that evolution of regional religions, or traditions, didn't have a beginning "source".
Does that make Waincraft somehow, the most honest and accurate of the Pagan Traditions, because it does this in its own way, no, absolutely not. But what it does do, is not shy away from the source truths, and says simply... "Hey, there is something universally true here" and then runs with it.
Excellent book, I'll stop before this review gets too long, but this book is worth the money, other than a few minor typos throughout the text, the book is top notch. I don't think you will be disappointed; I greatly look forward to the next two installments!
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Sea Sky Soil An Introduction to Waincraft Nicanthiel Hrafnhild 9781300548836 Books Reviews
This book is based on the Vanir Theory. It basically deconstructs the theoretical hidden Vanir deities on an archetypal level using the theories expressed by the Vanir theory. This book is like looking at the bones of what makes up northern European Paganism, but outside the level of particular names or traditions. It's spiritual dissection of the essence of things.
From my own personal work with the Vanir the ideas expressed in this book totally make sense and are important for understanding about the greater whole of the Vanir which the lore does not describe. In the least it does offer up potential avenues to pursue in pathworking attempts at contacting these other hidden Vanir.
Waincraft is a tradition the authors of the book and others have made based on these archetypes they have derived from their work. I see Waincraft as more of a loose theoretical framework that is useful for people practicing Heathenism or Norse-Paganism. People could if they wanted practice Waincraft on it's own as a religious tradition, but by itself it is very barebones and abstract in nature, very dispersonal. It's true value comes out when used as a way to gain a deeper understanding of northern European Heathenism/Paganism (that has more of a Vanic like slant to it).
The section of the book that talks about spirit animals from a Northern European slant is amazing and perhaps the best writing anyone has made in making them clear to understand and have a deeper sense of meaning. When comparing the ideas there to the common Native American based concepts of the various spirit animals I can see some similar aspects for some animals but some totally different aspects for other animals. Of course it has animals listed with are not common or important for Native American traditions but are of importance for Heathenism or Norse-Paganism.
For anyone following any shamanic oriented northern European Heathen or Pagan practices this book would be totally invaluable since it provides a complete and detailed and I feel very accurate cosmology. There is no practices here though, it is merely like a catalog of concepts, but a very well done one.
Anyone that is looking to more deeply understand the nature of northern Heathenism or Paganism should get this book. It is ideas which are brilliant and totally ahead of their time. To make use of this book you need to be practicing some path of Northern European Paganism/Heathenism or be someone that prefer something that is very abstract, but the concepts here will vastly enhance your understanding of any northern form of Paganism/Heathenism you may be following.
Sea Sky Soil An Introduction to Waincraft, is the first book of a planned three for this budding tradition. I have been following for the past couple of years off and on, how this work has been progressing, it first grabbed my attention when I had purchased a copy of the book "Visions of Vanaheim" by Svartesol, and had looked up information about its author and contributors'.
That aside, this book covers a wonderful tradition which is doing something which I feel should have been done for a long time, and that's making those connections to the deep "sources" of the Gods, Spirits and Ancestors, and building a new, but at the same time old connection to them.
This is something which is very difficult to do, because when you are talking about finding out a way to quantify the deep chthonic feelings of these ancient "sources" is extremely difficult not only to put into words, but to put into a system of practice that is both useable from a contemporary perspective and at the same time, not straying too far inward and loosing the taproot of deep chthonic knowledge from the past.
Nicanthieal Hrafnhild has done a wonderful job, and the fact that this work has been a labor of love, which has been tested out in the "field" if you will. Shines through greatly.
Now what you get within this first book, is (what I feel) will be the bulk of the baseline theology of Waincraft, which I happen to disagree with another reviewer that this is unusable, yes there are no rituals contained within, but with the complete and deep breath of theological information contained within, you have a ton of inspiration, and knowledge in which to build rituals of your own which will be just as personal and powerful as any that may come forthwith with the other installments into this series. This is coupled with the authors premise that waincraft, SHOULD develop along with where one lives, and be in accordance in the way practices are eventually conducted by the region of the world in which you live. And to this I have only one thing to say and that's a resounding "YES!"
I for one have spent many times asking my local pagans, "What are our sacred places here?", "Where do we give our offerings, libations, prayers and such?" and most times, 90% of those I ask, respond with a glazing over of the eyes, because sadly I don't think that this is thought about or considered enough in Contemporary Paganism, and Waincraft is a beautiful and budding tradition, which can be adopted and practiced with a great amount of fulfillment and effect.
Is this tradition for everyone, no, there is no such thing. But I feel that every pagan regardless of your tradition, or not, can benefit from the lines of understanding that this tradition draws, between one cover. It makes me think about what is called in comparative religion as "Evolutionary Monotheism", which is the concept that all monotheistic religions evolved originally out of polytheistic systems of belief. Why bring this up, because if you have read any books on paganism or otherwise, that go into the linguistics of title and name origins, (Ceisiwr Serith comes to mind) than you would be foolish to think that evolution of regional religions, or traditions, didn't have a beginning "source".
Does that make Waincraft somehow, the most honest and accurate of the Pagan Traditions, because it does this in its own way, no, absolutely not. But what it does do, is not shy away from the source truths, and says simply... "Hey, there is something universally true here" and then runs with it.
Excellent book, I'll stop before this review gets too long, but this book is worth the money, other than a few minor typos throughout the text, the book is top notch. I don't think you will be disappointed; I greatly look forward to the next two installments!
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