11 Jun 2008
Fifty years with the Cult Site of Rösaring

A link to this wonderful article detailing some of the practices associated with Vanic deities in the Viking Age (and before) came in from an email list the other day. It seems as though Tacitus was pretty dead on. Enjoy!

The cult site of Rösaring is located high on a glacial ridge some 40 kilometres northwest of Stockholm, in the municipality of Upplands-Bro. It has ancient cairns and a stone labyrinth, together with what makes this site like no other in Sweden - a well-made roadway running north south along the ridge for over half a kilometre. A single carbon dating at one end of the road points to the Viking Age. The site provides the best setting yet discovered for fertility rites and wagon ceremonies as described by the Roman writer Tacitus for the goddess Nerthus.

(link) [Gotland University]

06:45 /Asatru | 0 comments | permanent link

Disgraced NBA ref: Playoff games were manipulated

Why am I not surprised?

AP - NBA referees, influenced by cozy relationships with league officials, rigged a 2002 playoff series to force it to a revenue-boosting seven games, a former referee at the center of a gambling scandal alleged Tuesday.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

06:37 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

Beloved Characters as Reimagined for the 21st Century

What's next? It's bad enough when they colorized Casablanca and put Richard III in a tank, but messing with Bugs Bunny?

“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it,” said Lisa Gregorian, executive vice president for worldwide marketing at Warner Brothers Television.

No, thank you!

A large number of classic characters for children are being freshened up to try to cater to parents’ nostalgia and children’s YouTube-era sensibilities.

(link) [New York Times]

06:31 /Home | 3 comments | permanent link