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vidar
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Pagan New Year Feast (Likely, but not definate)
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Mar 28 01:48 UTC 1994 |
If no other plans infringe on it, there will be a Pagan New Year feast
at my house on the first of April. Bring only a dagger and a spoon,
and leave your good table manners at home!
O yeah, my address (for those of you who don't know) is:
2983 Briarcliff
Ann Arbor, Mi 48105
mail me to RSVP. E-mail that is...
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kami
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response 1 of 53:
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Mar 28 17:33 UTC 1994 |
details, oh esteemed viking thane?
1. time
2.purpose (what exactly is being celebrated or caused?)
3. content (elements of ritual if any)
4. source of your ideas (so other people can get familiar with it)
Hope it happens!
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vidar
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response 2 of 53:
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Mar 28 22:27 UTC 1994 |
1. I'm working on it, this may turn out to be postponed and thereby just
a Pagan Feast, instead of New Year feast.
2. Purpose, well friday is associated with Frejya so...
3. Whatever people want to do...
4. Norse Mythlogoy, of course.
(don't be silly)
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kami
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response 3 of 53:
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Mar 29 03:57 UTC 1994 |
I'm not being silly! I wanted to know if you were using a specific reference,
so I could look at language with which I might want to be familiar, the basic
form of the ritual, etc. (That's for #4)
3. You need more structure than that- a general outline into which people
can plug suitable ideas, some notion of "props" and materials you can provide
versus what people should bring, forms that would fit together and those you
might want to avoid (I get a bit irked when people smudge the circle in a
Celtic ritual).
2. Cool- so, love, fertility, the hearth, all that pleasant stuff. What, if
anything, do Norse people think changes at the new year- is it just the
planting time or does it also have to do with renewing the hearth or with
returning spirits or skrying for the next year or renewing pacts with the
land spirits or tribal gods, or what?
1. OK- let us know.
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vidar
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response 4 of 53:
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Mar 29 15:39 UTC 1994 |
1. I will, once I know it is happening.
2. I don't know, I have yet to delve that far into the history behind the
mythology.
3. I'll think of something (I hope)
4. I get the point.
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kami
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response 5 of 53:
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Mar 29 17:29 UTC 1994 |
ok, keep in touch.
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vidar
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response 6 of 53:
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Mar 29 19:41 UTC 1994 |
I think this may turn into a Pagan Day After New Year Feast. That way,
I'll have more time to prepare. O, about leaving your table manners
at home, keep the one about not throwing things on the floor in hand.
Other than that, there are no rules, so be as rude as you want!
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kami
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response 7 of 53:
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Mar 30 15:35 UTC 1994 |
there are too many things going on Saturday.
"different table manners
abort
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kami
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response 8 of 53:
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Mar 30 15:40 UTC 1994 |
ok, how do I trash a response when it comes out wrong?
as I was saying.
"different table manners" does not equal "no table manners". When forks were
unknown and individual plates uncommon, there were rules about the right way
to eat with one's fingers, how to get stuff from the common bowl without
starting a fight, and how to eat with a knife without killing anyone. I gather
that most celebrations might end with the ladies withdrawing (mostly) and
the guys getting drunk together, but that's a detail. Not to mention rather
hard on nothing but thin beer.
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vidar
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response 9 of 53:
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Mar 30 19:21 UTC 1994 |
Okay. Then leave your MODERN table manners at home.
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kami
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response 10 of 53:
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Mar 31 00:44 UTC 1994 |
]that's more like.
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vidar
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response 11 of 53:
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Mar 31 01:22 UTC 1994 |
good.
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vidar
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response 12 of 53:
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Mar 31 17:30 UTC 1994 |
Location of Feast may be moved to the _Lone Star_ Steak House in the Collonade
shopping centre. Throw your peanut shells on the floor, and do the Texas
Two-Step to Alan Jackson's "Chattahocye" (sp?)
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kami
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response 13 of 53:
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Mar 31 18:06 UTC 1994 |
what a silly image: a bunch of viking raiders, thanes and their house carls in
ten-gallon hats and cowboy boots...
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vidar
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response 14 of 53:
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Mar 31 20:54 UTC 1994 |
That's ten gallon hats with horns in them! Besides, it's the only
restaraunt I know where your table manners are supposed to be bad.
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kami
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response 15 of 53:
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Mar 31 23:40 UTC 1994 |
just the place to take my folks whenever they come to visit :}
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vidar
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response 16 of 53:
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Mar 31 23:57 UTC 1994 |
I'm not even going to ask...
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vishnu
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response 17 of 53:
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Apr 1 00:12 UTC 1994 |
heh
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kami
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response 18 of 53:
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Apr 1 00:21 UTC 1994 |
It's a long and foolish story- my favorite kind.
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vidar
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response 19 of 53:
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Apr 1 14:42 UTC 1994 |
As far as I know, my feast is still on. Kami, do you have any idea
what's up with this "Lirpa Sloof (slirpa)" business? Every conf. I
go to, it's the same thing. Everbody is one person! Who did this?
Find him/her and execute him/her!
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vidar
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response 20 of 53:
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Apr 1 14:54 UTC 1994 |
Never Mind. This is the worst April Fools day joke anyone could have come
up with. Even MY Sick and Depraved mind isn't THIS sick.
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vishnu
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response 21 of 53:
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Apr 1 15:55 UTC 1994 |
Slirpa!
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vidar
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response 22 of 53:
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Apr 1 20:10 UTC 1994 |
O, my Pagan Feast has again been postponed. This time until the 9th.
Sorry for the inconvienince.
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vidar
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response 23 of 53:
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Apr 1 20:26 UTC 1994 |
That is, after I wear myself out taking the ACT.
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vidar
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response 24 of 53:
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Apr 1 20:41 UTC 1994 |
As long as it's New Year, and the Pagan calendar makes me three months
older than I actually am, I'm going to go out and get drunk on this
wonderous year of 400,500,001,994!
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