Nordic Totemism: Traditional Animal Kinship in Northern Europe
June 4 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
**PLEASE READ: This class is part of the Northern Folk Traditions Conference! This class is not in-person, it is virtual via ZOOM. All classes are in MST timezone. You will receive a separate email with your zoom link. Students will also have access to a class recording after the conference for 30 days, recordings will be available within about one week of the end of the conference. A separate email will be sent to you with links to the recording. See our school calendar for all NFTC classes which may be purchased separately or you may purchase a Conference Pass for all classes at a discounted price.
Kinship with other-than-humans is a way for Animist traditions to inscribe human culture and community into the transformations and natural processes of the land. It is a way of learning the law of the land. This is also the case in Nordic Animism. This lecture gives a general presentation of animal kinship and presents some examples, Stork, Bear, Cat, Seal, Elder and Raven.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is Historian of Religion, Ph.d from Uppsala University in Sweden. He is working as a public intellectual trying to retrieve forward rejected North European traditional knowledge and animism in order to open the possibility of landconnectivity and ancestrality for contemporary euro-descended people.
*The Northern Folk Traditions Conference is a weeklong virtual conference taking place June 2-8! Ritualcravt School is proud to virtually host 9 teachers for 12 unique classes rooted in presenting our shared love of northern magical and spiritual traditions related to the Nordic countries, and our love for the ancestors and ancestral ways. This conference aims to explore rare and unusual topics of interest relating to the folk ways of our northern ancestors.
