Divination 2

  1. Describe the geographical and temporal distribution of your chosen symbol set. If the symbol set was used cross-culturally, describe how each culture used your chosen symbol set. (min. 200 words)

Divination 1

  1. Name and briefly describe one method of divination or seership technique common to three paleo-pagan Indo-European cultures. (minimum 100 words each)

Augury:

Augury is a method of divination that relies on one interpreting signs that one sees with birds. 

Roman:

Critical Thinking

1.Discuss what constitutes a good argument, how arguments work and what makes some arguments better than others. (minimum 600 words)

A good argument is oddly enough described in the Monty Python sketch Argument Clinic: “An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.” (Monty Python)  Another way of saying this is that an argument is a collection of statements that contain premises that are used to prove a conclusion (Capaldi 18).

General Bardic Studies for Liturgists

  1. Write two poems of at least 16 lines each appropriate for performance at a High Day ritual. One poem may be in free-verse form, but one must employ some form of meter and/or rhyme. Note in each case for which High Day the poem is intended.

This poem to Odin is for Yule.

Odin’s Night:

Off in the distance you hear such a sound,

Call of the horn and the bay of the hound.

With the caw of the crow,

And the fall of the snow,

Clearly it’s Odin who’s coming through town.

Research and Composition

Paper #1: Chemistry Origins

The question of when modern chemistry and medicine started is a curious one.  There could be a wide variety of dates associated with this, including the first vaccine, Newton's theories on motion, and the start of alchemy.  During the Renaissance great advances were made.  This is where many of today's techniques in chemistry and many of our principles have come from.  Why did these advances come about though?