Specifically I am being called out for including a piece for Loki right after the piece for Marvel Loki.
People are saying this was a dig at the PCP crowd and I had no right to question the authenticity of another’s spiritual experiences or how the gods choose to reveal themselves to us.
Perhaps these people are right and that’s exactly what I was doing.
And perhaps there were other motives involved. To put it mildly there is a lot of discomfort over the inclusion of Laufey’s son within contemporary American Heathenry. I was at a pagan meet-up a couple years ago where a person actually put their fingers in their ears and started going “la la la” when his name came up in the conversation. It would certainly have been a nice gesture to give this deity, so often scorned and treated inhospitably, twice the offerings that anyone else received that night.
You’re probably right, though, to assume that I was trying to stir up controversy with this because … some reason.
Tagged: graveyard gods, heathenry, loki, paganism
