Agreed on the value in establishing and repeating rituals and that known-to-be-made-up foundation myths can do just fine.
What I was referring to with Theodism specifically is that for their first ~20 years of existence, they organized themselves as a migration-era männerbund, with thralls, churls, and so forth. They also for a long time placed great stock not just on saying "we are the inheritors of Anglo-Saxon religion," but instead on trying to literally do as much ritual and other practice as exactly like the Heathen Anglo-Saxons as they could possibly manage - speaking in Old English, dressing in clothes based on archaeology/old tapestries, using the titles from their warband structure, and so forth. To me, that's a little LARPier than at least modern Druidry and Wicca, but maybe the early days of both were just as LARPy, I dunno.
At the end of the day, I can't really fault folks for LARPing, it just doesn't especially appeal to me in spiritual practices.
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Date: 2023-06-29 11:17 pm (UTC)What I was referring to with Theodism specifically is that for their first ~20 years of existence, they organized themselves as a migration-era männerbund, with thralls, churls, and so forth. They also for a long time placed great stock not just on saying "we are the inheritors of Anglo-Saxon religion," but instead on trying to literally do as much ritual and other practice as exactly like the Heathen Anglo-Saxons as they could possibly manage - speaking in Old English, dressing in clothes based on archaeology/old tapestries, using the titles from their warband structure, and so forth. To me, that's a little LARPier than at least modern Druidry and Wicca, but maybe the early days of both were just as LARPy, I dunno.
At the end of the day, I can't really fault folks for LARPing, it just doesn't especially appeal to me in spiritual practices.