THE GRIMOIRE’S BLOG
Some knowledge won’t be contained to tidy categories or neat correspondences. It slips through the cracks between “elemental” and “esoteric,” wanders off from its ritual circle, or appears in a dream with no known origin.
That’s what this space is for—the stray sparks, the experiments, the midnight notes in the margins.
Here, you’ll find everything from field notes and folklore digressions to rants, reviews, and revelations that didn’t quite fit elsewhere in the Archives. Some posts may evolve into full entries; others may simply linger here like whispers that never asked for a title.
So wander freely, seeker. The shelves end here—but the story does not.
How to Research a Deity Responsibly
Researching a deity is not the same as scrolling a correspondence list. Every god emerges from a landscape — shaped by language, politics, ritual, and survival. This study explores how to separate historical record, folklore, and modern reinterpretation, so devotion begins with context instead of assumption.
Odin: Textual Record, Cultic Context, and Later Reconstruction
Odin survives not as a single, unified deity but as a layered figure preserved through poetry, medieval prose, archaeology, and modern reconstruction. This study separates primary texts from later interpretation, tracing how the one-eyed god moved from oral tradition to manuscript — and into contemporary imagination.