Ásatrú Utah

Northern Wisdom Kindred of Utah is proud to present
our new arts and craft director Talea Shadowind. Talea is in charge of the arts
and crafts in our rituals and coming classes.

Talea would like to have a class on making your own horns, including cleaning
your horn, waxing it, and decorating your horn. The coming class will be held
in April. We do need to know how many would be attending, due to the need to
buy as many horns, the bee's wax and paint that will be needed for this class.

Please let Talea know if you are interested in this class, email her at
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The next ritual for the Kindred will be this month, we are waiting for the first
signs of Spring. If you see such evidence please let us know at once so we can
set a date for this ritual. At this ritual Talea will have a craft for us,
decorating pots to grow our new plants in. Please think about bringing your
children to this event to participate in the craft, so they too can experience
the meaning of this ritual, the new growth and coming of Spring, getting ready
our gardens.

The dwarfs from Svartalfheim gave Frey the golden-bristled boar Gullin-bursti
(the golden-bristled), a personification of the sun. The radiant bristles of
this animal are considered symbolical either of the solar rays, of the golden
grain, which at his bidding waved over the harvest fields of Midgard, or of
agriculture, for the boar (by tearing up the ground with his sharp tusk) is
supposed to have first taught mankind how to plow.

"There was Frey, and sat
On the gold-bristled boar, who first, they say,
Plowed the brown earth, and made it green for Frey."
-LOVERS OF GUDRUN (William Morris)

We will have a reading of SThe dwarfs from Svartalfheim gave Frey the
golden-bristled boar Gullin-bursti (the golden-bristled), a personification of
the sun. The radiant bristles of this animal are considered symbolical either of
the solar rays, of the golden grain, which at his bidding waved over the harvest
fields of Midgard, or of agriculture, for the boar (by tearing up the ground
with his sharp tusk) is supposed to have first taught mankind how to plow.

"There was Frey, and sat
On the gold-bristled boar, who first, they say,
Plowed the brown earth, and made it green for Frey."
-LOVERS OF GUDRUN (William Morris


We will have a reading of Skirnir's Journey about Frey and his love for the
woman Gerd. We ask that everyone attending to bring their swords to this
ritual, there will be part of the ritual for the use of the swords.

If you have any questions about this ritual, please email Ursea at
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Blessings,

Ursea.