Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Troth Gold Mine

The Troth


Lore Program Links

The following links are to sites and resources outside of The Troth. The members of the Lore Program have looked them over and find them quite useful. They are organized into rough categories, for your convenience.
Introductory Asatru Links
Eplagarth Kindred’s Asatru Study Program: http://www.eplagarthrkindred.org/
Online Courses
Murray McGillivray’s Online Old English Course: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/
Proto-Indo-European: An Introduction: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html
Spoken Aloud- Resources with Volume
Ravencast Online Asatru Podcast: http://ravencast.podbean.com/
Spoken Lore Podcast: http://spokenlore.podbean.com/
Online Book Hoards
Alaric’s Elf and Elves in Medieval England: http://www.alarichall.org.uk/phd.php
Grimm’s Teutonic Mythology: http://books.google.com/books?id=juctAAAAIAAJ
Heimskringla: Old Norse Prose and Poetry: http://www.heimskringla.no/enindex.php
History of the English Language: http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
Old Norse Texts: http://etext.old.no/
Viking Society Web Publications: http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/
Online Dictionaries
Cleasby-Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English Dictionary: http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html
Cleasby-Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English Dictionary:
http://www.northvegr.org/vigfusson/index002.php
Cleasby-Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English Dictionary: http://books.google.com/books?id=B08JAAAAQAAJ
Zoega’s Concise Old Icelandic Dictionary:
http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/index.php
Bosworth and Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary:
http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/Bosworth-Toller.htm
English Etymology Dictionary:
http://www.etymonline.com/
Modern Language Association (MLA) Citation Format
EasyBib Automatic Bibliography Generator: http://www.easybib.com/
A Note on Google Books…
Google Books (http://books.google.com/) is an online database of scanned books that are fully searchable. You can use it, for instance, to look for books on X topic, and the search engine will search the *entire text* of each book to find relevant books for you. In the search results, you are provided with a snippet from each retrieved book showing your search terms in context. Most books that are retrieved in this way cannot be read cover-to-cover on Google Books; instead, you're only granted access to the relevant snippet
and provided with links to places where the book can be bought.
However, there are many older books, no longer protected by copyright, which can be viewed cover-to-cover on Google Books and/or downloaded as a (large) PDF file. Here are a few relevant to Heathenry:
Cleasby and Vigfusson's Icelandic English Dictionary (1874):
http://books.google.com/books?id=B08JAAAAQAAJ
Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, volume I (1880):
http://books.google.com/books?id=neQtAAAAIAAJ
Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, volume II (1883):
http://books.google.com/books?id=8ektAAAAIAAJ
Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, volume III (1883):
http://books.google.com/books?id=G-8tAAAAIAAJ
Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, volume IV (1888):
http://books.google.com/books?id=juctAAAAIAAJ
To find a specific book on Google Books can be tricky, given the sheer number of books in the database (including multiple copies, from different libraries, of the same book). Using the Advanced Search (http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search) can help with that, as it allows you to search by book title, author, ISBN, etc. If you only want to get books that can be read / downloaded *in full*, then be sure to use the Advanced Search and click the radio button for "Full view only". For example, to find Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, you can search by Author (Grimm), Title (Teutonic Mythology), and with "Full view only" clicked. This approach alone is not perfect, however, as it only lists Volume IV in the initial search results - which is why the Other Editions feature in the book record is so useful. You can find the Other Editions feature in the main PDF display of the book on Google Books - look down the right hand side until you find it.

Clicking "show more" there, you will be taken to similar search results, from which, in this case, all of the volumes of Teutonic Mythology can be found.

Friday, October 3, 2014

Ghosti > Breaking The Druids Bread




This odd looking word, *ghos-ti, is the Proto-Indo-European word which refers to the reciprocal relationships of hospitality.

 In fact, the English words "guest" and "host" both come from this root (the * at the beginning of the word just means that it's a word reconstructed by linguists and not attested in literature or archeology). 

Our religion in ADF is based on this idea, that we can form relationships with the Powers by making offerings to Them, with the expectation that we may receive blessings and wisdom from Them in return. Well, we've invented a new use for it!


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From something at AFD web site but did not save reference link. Term is a bit rare today (At least in my readings). Would love new links on it.TDK)



Guest


guest (n.) Look up guest at Dictionary.com
Old English gæstgiest (Anglian gest) "guest; enemy; stranger," the common notion being "stranger," from Proto-Germanic *gastiz (cognates: Old Frisian jest, Dutch gast, German Gast, Gothic gasts "guest," originally "stranger"), from PIE root *ghos-ti- "stranger, guest; host" (cognates: Latin hostis "enemy," hospes "host" -- from *hosti-potis "host, guest," originally "lord of strangers" -- Greek xenos "guest, host, stranger;" Old Church Slavonic gosti "guest, friend," gospodi "lord, master"); the root sense, according to Watkins, probably is "someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality," representing "a mutual exchange relationship highly important to ancient Indo-European society." But as strangers are potential enemies as well as guests, the word has a forked path. 

Spelling evolution influenced by Old Norse cognate gestr (the usual sound changes from the Old English word would have yielded Modern English *yest). Phrase be my guest in the sense of "go right ahead" first recorded 1955.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=guest

host (n.1) Look up host at Dictionary.com
"person who receives guests," late 13c., from Old French hoste "guest, host, hostess, landlord" (12c., Modern French hôte), from Latin hospitem (nominative hospes) "guest, host," literally "lord of strangers," from PIE *ghostis- "stranger" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic gosti "guest, friend," gospodi "lord, master;" see guest). The biological sense of "animal or plant having a parasite" is from 1857.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=host&allowed_in_frame=0



Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Our Sister Groups and Pages

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07/04/2019
Not all groups show are very active. Some serve as databases for links only.


Some of our newer groups.

Druid's Guide to Herbalism.


Séansaí séad Saol Eile, Astral Travel Workshop

DEATH AND SUMMERLANDS, THE UNWOUND COIL


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Yggdrasil Library (It has many subgroups)







How to be a Druid

Our new Ogham/Ogam and Runic Study group. Tons of resources!!!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OgamRunicphonograms/



Its  Reading Room (The Druid Path) 



THE VCG
Our Virtual Church and GroveHow to be a Druid Virtual Church and Grove 



Our on going and developing Druid Course (Druid Ley Way Classroom) 



For Bards (Breath of Barhrin) group 



Druid Psychics and Seers
Uates Vate and Ovates (Psychics and Seers) Group
Uamh of the Uates > Cave of the Prophets and Seers Fáith Uates Ovates 


Brehon Druids, old Irish Law



Heathenism
This one include one Dealing with Nordic Gods and Midgard (A Druid in Midgard) and its reading room (A Druid in Midgard Reading Room) 





Pagan Prayers and Altars study. 



The hard real World (Subway of the Druid Prophets) group https://www.facebook.com/groups/249082958569010/    

Hard Conjure and Spells (HooDoo Vodou DruiDo in the Grove) group 


Special hard to find Conjure things.Cosmic Salamander Inc. Magick Herbs and Rare Things 



Our physical Center and Occult Store.



Special hard to find Conjure things.
Cosmic Salamander Inc. Magick Herbs and Rare Things 



The Cosmic Salamander Inc. Candles .




The Cosmic Salamander Inc. Crystals Gems Minerals and Stones






Pagan Florida Groups and pages. 

Mystical Broward, Dade and Palm Beach County


South Florida Pagans Community Moot 


Florida's Pagan Friends 




My (TDK)  personal Druid group.The Cosmic Salamander Druids Moot and Ley






Meet new Groups People and make new Friends.HooDoo VooDoo Druid Do, Bounce page




Watch a God in the making.Lwa Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela of Good and Freedom





Have a need or Fund Raiser ProjectThe Cosmic Salamander Friends Fairy Folk






The Cosmic Salamander Music and Songs




Follow the Ley Lines or Dragan Veins






The Cosmic Salamander Inc. Scrying Moot.






  TDK

Monday, September 29, 2014

Why Ghost like bodies of Water



 One only needs to look at the concepts of Homeopathic Dilutions and Water Memory to understand why a weak energy field like a Ghost could take good advantage of Water for home base.
TDK

Thursday, September 25, 2014

More Threes

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  • Rick Mynatt Also a Druid needs heart, nature, spirit, and truth to see all that is in front of him, learn from the past, and look towards the future in order to teach others as well! I don't know about any of you but I personally also look to the elemental dragons for knowledge as well, and if you learn to listen they can and will teach you many things about this world!
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  • Donald Ervin "Three candles that illuminate every darkness: Truth, Nature, Knowledge."
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  • Searles O'Dubhain Three Druids of Partholan: Fios, Eólas, Fochmarc.

    From eDIL:


    fis I (a)
    Forms: fhios; fess; 
    Meaning: the act of finding out or ascertaining ; knowledge, information; tidings, information:;

    eólas
    Forms: eulas; eulassaib; 
    Meaning: know- ledge, information, esp. knowledge gained by experience or practice, acquaintance:; acquainted with:; experimental proof, experience:; 

    the last name, fochmarc, seems to mean knowledge from enquiry but it is more a seeking of knowledge through science and art. Judging from its component parts I'd say it means diligent scientific enquiry.

    fochair
    Forms: -ech; 
    Meaning: some branch of poetic science 

    marc
    Meaning: a horse; A mare:; a colt;
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  • George King