Ŝunorrád ŝēod
Ŝunorrád ŝēod; a group of people from across
Mercia, worshiping the traditional gods of the Mercian peoples in a
traditional way
Who we are
We are a group of people from across the Mercian region of England who have
gathered together to work towards the reconstruction of the worldview of
our Germanic pre-Christian ancestors. We attempt, as much as we are
able, to see the world through their eyes and rekindle our connection to the
indigenous gods of the Anglo-Saxon people, specifically, those of the
old Mercian kingdom.
We don't see what we do
as "religion" as such, but rather, as adopting one of a number of English folkways thousands of
years in the making, prior to it's synthesis and eventual assimilation into
Christianity in the High Middle Ages. By drawing conclusions based on the study of
surviving Germanic literature, archeology, linguistics and comparative mythology, we
see our goal as the continual process of refining our reconstructed
folk custom, the develoment of an older understanding of the world and
the place of men within it, and an alternative to the
prevailing worldviews sprung from the modern age and the post-modern
condition. Our reconstruction is a cultural and reverential
labour. More than that though, it is a way of seeing and a way of
living.