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Quarterly Report;>
Apr. 6th, 2014 10:57 amWell, of the 2 main projects for this yr I started after Yule, one is moribund and the other's experiences are the main reason for it.
I switched this yr from an Icelandic to an Anglo-Saxon format devotional language. I also began studying OE again after an absence of over a decade. Linguistically, it wasn't a problem beyond the equivalent of which dialect to pronounce, the equivalent of Cambridge, "BBC", Eastender, etc English;>. My experiences with the Regin showed differences between the Nordic and AS experience(s). I can best explain with a little family history;>....
My two older brothers are Identical Twins. Intrinsically, they are the same person. However, their Life Experiences Affected each differently, even the same ones. Their Core Behaviors and Beliefs are pretty much the same. HOW they present themselves to the world are NOT. And with Gary being part of the last big Polio Epidemic in the States, even Physically.
So when I began to notice that The Beings when Called by AS were slightly different from those Called in Norse, I had a personal handle to "deal" with the discrepancy. After all They're SUPPOSED to be the same Deities, so WHY are They Presenting as different Individuals?
I've come to the conclusion that they AREN'T anymore. The process that differentiated a single IE pantheon into the individual ones that existed pre-Conversion didn't stop THEN. Perhaps if the Inglish hadn't Converted until the Norse did it truly would have been simply a dialect "thang" but it DIDN'T. And this has caused a quandary in my Spirituality. Should I continue the project or return before the yr end to MY Regin? THEY, from what I "get" don't think it matters either way Negatively. Positively? There's something there that "Feels" like They Feel I'd be wasting Time...but then again, that's what Humans are good at;>
So, I'm still reading OE material but not studying to learn the language AS a language. It's hard for me to "bog off" a project once I've said I'm going to do it but "In A World..." of limited Time and Energy, should I?
Ponder, Ponder, Ponder;>.
Cheers,
Pat
I switched this yr from an Icelandic to an Anglo-Saxon format devotional language. I also began studying OE again after an absence of over a decade. Linguistically, it wasn't a problem beyond the equivalent of which dialect to pronounce, the equivalent of Cambridge, "BBC", Eastender, etc English;>. My experiences with the Regin showed differences between the Nordic and AS experience(s). I can best explain with a little family history;>....
My two older brothers are Identical Twins. Intrinsically, they are the same person. However, their Life Experiences Affected each differently, even the same ones. Their Core Behaviors and Beliefs are pretty much the same. HOW they present themselves to the world are NOT. And with Gary being part of the last big Polio Epidemic in the States, even Physically.
So when I began to notice that The Beings when Called by AS were slightly different from those Called in Norse, I had a personal handle to "deal" with the discrepancy. After all They're SUPPOSED to be the same Deities, so WHY are They Presenting as different Individuals?
I've come to the conclusion that they AREN'T anymore. The process that differentiated a single IE pantheon into the individual ones that existed pre-Conversion didn't stop THEN. Perhaps if the Inglish hadn't Converted until the Norse did it truly would have been simply a dialect "thang" but it DIDN'T. And this has caused a quandary in my Spirituality. Should I continue the project or return before the yr end to MY Regin? THEY, from what I "get" don't think it matters either way Negatively. Positively? There's something there that "Feels" like They Feel I'd be wasting Time...but then again, that's what Humans are good at;>
So, I'm still reading OE material but not studying to learn the language AS a language. It's hard for me to "bog off" a project once I've said I'm going to do it but "In A World..." of limited Time and Energy, should I?
Ponder, Ponder, Ponder;>.
Cheers,
Pat
