Goddammit I should beat you for adding anything else to my writing platter. I'm working to find the devotional path intrinsic to Heathenry and have found. . .some small things. Thing is, it's expressed through practice rather than anything specifically lore-based, and practice is a very personal thing and then people start pointing fingers about how "Heathen" thou is or thou is not. Bhakti as a uniquely Hindu phenomena is dependant on everything else Hindu from social structure to mysticism; while there are a great many paralells in any mystical devotional tradition, with lots of tools and toys being the same, there's enough difference that it'd be impossible to look for "Heathen bhakti" because there won't be any. There is Heathen devotional practice, and that's what I'm after. I suppose I can contrast the two devotional traditions; that'd make interesting reading I think.
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