Justifying Romuva

I usually have a combination of thoughts and feelings with regards to statements such as this:
My apologies for the nearly duplicate posting, but just like the rumors I have heard about (the Slavic deity) Perun; I have likewise read (in “Of Gods & Holidays”) that Perkunas is associated with sacred fires and the oak.
However this [...]

Velines/Ilges

Last year at Harvestfest, during Mr Brian’s “Celtic Goddesses Rite” I made a boast of sorts, to show peeps that there are indeed pagans and even people (shocking I know) east of Germany. Yes, a huge swath of Europe has been ignored (about half of it to be exact) or forgotten by not only those [...]

June 23rd – Rasa!

The morning of the 23rd I woke up not feeling well, I had actually not been feeling well for several days. My pee was pink (meaning blood) and I had abdominal pain. I was to go visit my father and then we were to go off to his cousin Milda’s sodas for a light lunch [...]

June 22nd

I woke up at an early hour to get ready to meet up with my father at his cousin Algirdas’s place. I admit, I was expecting us to go somewhere like a sodas (small farmstead only a couple of acres) but instead it was a day for us to hang out. We went to a [...]

“As Kanapi Sejau” by Zalvarinis

I’m on a roll here, being inspired by posts on the Romuva mailing list. I was trolling through the various vids on Youtube and found this. “As Kanapi Sejau” means “I sowed the hemp” which is a song usually sung during the Harvesting Festivals. Zalvarinis is a young band who add modern interpretations to ancient [...]

Rasa ir Jonas

A lovely music video with a modern twist to an ancient hymn to the Sun Goddess Saule: