Nordic Animism

The term 'New Age' has entered everyday language. Originally a term derived from the 1960s US counter-cultural movement which embraced (famously) the 'Age of Aquarius' it now refers to any movement or subcultural elements that appear to attempt to actively define themselves as 'not mainstream'. Rune discusses how this term has been used and abused in this first part of a three part essay. Subscrib...

Rune interviews Film maker and animator Tomm Moore, creator of The Secret of Kells, Wolfwalkers, and Song of the Sea. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful t-shirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/53-aun-tshirt/ Follow Nordic Ani...

Is Rune a guru? Is the use of the word 'guru' appropriation? Rune examines perspectives surrounding the culture of negative labels for knowledge gifters and traders. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful tshirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirt...

Sacralised violence -- violence set apart and dedicated to transcendent identities -- has been a staple of human cultures throughout time, and arguably still happens today. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful tshirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-...

ALU -- Rune discusses the importance of drinking vessels as signifiers of social and wider relations. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful tshirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/53-aun-tshirt/ Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram:...

Many pre-industrial cultures have regarded capitalism as akin to a curse. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful tshirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/53-aun-tshirt/ Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/no...

Rune discusses Animist Cosmology, first by examining the concept of binaries, and expanding that concept to the binary of relating verses distinction. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful tshirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/...

Rune talks about his own experiences of Finfaring: the Nordic people's ancient practise of traveling in order to seek encounters with other cultures in order to be able to view oneself and one's own culture from the outside, and in doing so find new ways of relating to oneself, one's culture, and the culture of your hosts. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordi...

Part Two of an interview and discussion with Sophie Strand on Mythology. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful tshirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/53-aun-tshirt/ Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nor...

Part One of an interview and discussion with Sophie Strand on Mythology. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful tshirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/11-t-shirts--sweatshirts/53-aun-tshirt/ Follow Nordic Animism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nor...

This short episode lays the ground for a forth coming interview with Sophie Strand on Mythology. Rune gives a short history of the most frequently consumed modern myth today: The Hero's Journey. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful tshirt design by Ludvig Levin: https://shop.nord...

Gifts and gift giving are essential parts of animist and pre-industrial societies. Such a simple thing as 'a gift', when incorporated into the manner of all social relations leads to concrete, measurable changes in economies by boosting liquidity and eroding class divisions. In Nordic tradition a gift *must* be reciprocated, raising barter and trade into an ever present awareness of our social rel...

Rune examines how popular culture seems to continually rediscover or reinvent certain behaviours that celebrate relation, and thereby an aspect of Animism. Could beer be the means by which one builds a relation with the Yule spirit? Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Check out this beautiful tshirt des...

Rune responds to the criticism 'Nordic Animism isn't historical'. Rune discusses the nature of scholarship, the differences between 'history' and 'historiography', and how contemporary ideas are always only a staring point for understanding the ideas of the past. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Get...

Rune interviews Priest of Týr Uffe Berenth of Ginnungagap Art. Uffe is head of Ginnungagap Art tattoo and art studio found here https://ginnungagap.art Uffe has continuously been working with the idea of the tattooing process as a Nordic Animistic Ritual aimed at supporting the client in healing, empowerment and finding their personal path. The video of this interview is on youtube, where you...

This mini-episode is in Danish . The feed will feature more content in English very soon. Rune diskuterer i dette mini-afsnit, hvordan romantisering af natur og fortid kan være barrierer for direkte engagement, både på det individuelle plan og på et kulturelt, ideologisk plan. In this mini-episode Rune discusses how romanticising nature and the past can be barriers to direct engagement, both on th...

Manchán Magan  is a writer and documentary-maker. He has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America and two novels. He writes occasionally for  The Irish Times  on culture & travel, presents the RTÉ podcast  The Almanac of Ireland , and is author of the award-winning, best-selling  Thirty-Two Words For Field , and  Tree Dogs, Banshees Fingers...

Rune provides a working definition of 'stupidity' as a wilful choice, and then discusses institutional stupidity, and how stupidity can become systemic. Rune makes reference to the The Arnamagnæan Institute, found here: https://nors.ku.dk/english/research/arnamagnaean/ Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimis...

A brief follow up on Rune's discussion of Cultural Appropriation. Aljazeera released this video on the practise of burning White Sage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_KvbfczDQk This is Rune's response. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Get a copy of the Nordic Animist calendar 2023 before the new ye...

Rune describes a step by step guide to build your own Sacred Fire. Please remember that fire is dangerous, and to always follow all local laws and bylaws when building your own fires, and to follow good fire safety practises, such as never leaving it unattended, and watering the ashes. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon...

Rune discusses the Aun myth and how to incorporate it celebrations and in ritual. This episode is opinionated, political, and provocative, as all talks from the heart are. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Get a copy of the Nordic Animist calendar 2023 before the new year ages: https://shop.nordicanim...

Historian of religion Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen responds and enters into a dialogue with Old Norse Specialist Dr Jackson Crawford's 'Runes: Letters, Not Symbols' - https://youtu.be/vEMgZvLcyl4 @JacksonCrawford. Subscribe Dr Jackson Crawford's amazing channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JacksonCrawford Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https:...

Sacred Fires have been lit in celebration through out the history of human kind. Rune overviews this history and then, by drawing on Sagas, myths, and folk tails, discusses the role of fire in Nordic Animist practise. Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nordicanimism Get a copy of the Nordic Animist calendar 2023 bef...

Rune discusses Cultural Appropriation, from the perspective that culture is not something peoples 'have', but something people 'do'. Ranging from 'totems' to caricature, Rune challenges current mainstream conversations that default to identitarianism. Rune references the book 'Indian Talk: Hand Signals of the American Indians' by 'Iron Eyes Cody', born ' Espera Oscar de Corti' -- https://en.wikipe...

Acclaimed musician Einar Selvik of Wardruna talks with Rune about his music, his relationship with nature, his creative process, Runes, magic, and the state of Historical Nordic scholarship. Intro Music, 'Odrerir' 2022 Outro Music, 'Raven Brings Runes' by @kjellbraaten, @Christine. Kammerer, and MC Holbech, 2022 Subscribe to Nordic Animism: https://www.youtube.com/@Runehr Join the Nordic Animism p...