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Thea Prothero

Thea Prothero

Heathen author and pilgrim in the Moon Books Pagan Portals series (Heathenry for the Solitary Practitioner, A Guide to Pilgrimage); MLitt Viking Studies student at the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK.

Aug 31, 2026

JohnHOST
26:43
i think druidry connects with it as well yeah because there are so many different aspects of things did you find it a little daunting to say okay i've got to narrow it down to these aspects of cosmology and or these gods and goddesses that How did you, did you have like this checklist? Like, okay, how does this work? How am I going to keep this in with the confines of the limitations of how big my book is going to
27:09
be? My book is actually 8,000 words too long, but because I had so much to say.
27:16
But they gave me a bit of a leeway there.
27:19
So they allowed me to go a little bit, make my book a little bit longer than most books in the series.
27:23
So I think I just, I kind of went through the Eddas, the sagas and everything, and I picked out the key elements for the cosmology.
27:33
So like creation and destruction is something that people, for example, creation and destruction is.
27:38
It's something that people of most paths would understand because most myths and most legends and most civilizations all have a creation and destruction story.

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JohnHOST
40:04
What are some resources that you think people can go next to after reading Heathenry for the Solitary Practitioner? this is their their their here they've read through the book there and they're like okay what's next for me what what do you think might be a next good next step for them besides in addition to the eddas

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