Wyrd
26. February, 2007I wanted to draw attention to two recent, and excellent posts about Wyrd, written by two different bloggers. The first post, written by Sojourner of A Pagan Sojourn, takes a brief look at Wyrd from the perspective of someone who is just starting to research this concept. The second post, written by Robin Artisson of Cauldron Born, looks at the sacred dimension of hunting, including the Wyrd aspect of it. For those readers who are wondering what Wyrd is to begin with, I refer you to the second paragraph of my post about the Heathen afterlife, titled “Beyond Midgard.”
Also, it seems that Wyrd is a topic of discussion in one of the forums I participate in – that makes at least three different sources, treating the same topic at roughly the same time … how perfectly weird ;-)
I have never posted a comment before but wanted to comment on Robin Artisson’s post. I tried to post on his blog but I’m not very “comment posting savey” and don’t know if it went through. Here is my comment.
I agree with you about trophy and sport hunters. I live in Montana (USA) and know many people, including myself, who suplement their meat supply by hunting and fishing. Sure I could go to the store and buy already butchered meat for $1.00 or more a pound (prob more). But I can buy one deer tag for $12.00, drive 15 to 30-minutes, quickly kill a deer, and butcher it myself much cheeper. I can buy a fishing license for $25.00 and harvest fish year round. Do I get a big kick out of killing? Heck no, that is why I sight in my rifle each time before I go out hunting, to insure a quick clean kill. By me hunting I am saving money, feeding my family a more health meat and being self-reliant.
You are also correct in stating there is no “right to hunt” in the U.S. Constition. However, Article IX Section 7 of the Montana Constitution “Preservation of Harvest Heritage” does give me the “right”.
I believe the gods made animals to be killed and eaten, not for sport or trophies. If the gods don’t like me hunting and fishing to feed my family, well I guess I’ll take it up with them when I see them. But for you to tell people it’s wrong is, well, your opinion and thats all.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comment, Micky!
I’m going to wait a day and, if your comment doesn’t show up in Robin Artisson’s blog, I’ll cross-post it over there for you, as I think you make good points that are relevant to that post. In the meantime, if you need help figuring out the ins-and-outs of commenting to Blogspot blogs, send me an E-mail (my address is listed in my about page), and I’ll work through it with you (just give me time to respond, as I suspect there are around ten hours’ difference between our timezones) :-)
***Just a subsequent note to Micky and other readers: the first comment to this post has been successfully cross-posted to the blog in which it belongs and, while I encourage people to visit Cauldron Born and participate in the discussion taking place there, I would ask that this blog not be taken as a repository for comments that belong elsewhere. If you have difficulty in posting comments to other blogs, before commenting here, please send me an E-mail so I can help you through whatever difficulties you might be having.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter :-)