@AdmiralHip you know, I wonder about seiðr being liminal - I really don't think past cultures had eg same secular/sacred divide we do
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @civilwarbore
it wasn't really about secular/sacred as it was magic vs non-magic. A PhD student is finishing her thesis on the subj actually
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
she told me that seiðr practitioners were buried away from others
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and their liminality was to do with the fear/respect of magic. They were special people, and were treated accordingly.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
and we don't truly know the extent of magic, if you were a völva for practicing it or if völur were diff for other reasons
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
it's difficult, because the written sources are not contemporary and the archaeology can be hard to interpret
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so back to my original point: you are right in that there was no secular/sacred divide, but
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magic did not = religion. It was more a specific subset of their culture, a culture which was permeated with religion
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and magic was feared but respected, and not well-understood outside those who practised it
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oh man I want her thesis so bad to go with my collection of "All Admiral Hip's Papers"
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well when she finishes it I'll see if there is some way to get an electronic version
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