First of all, I'm gently massaging our venerable Heathenry articles into shape, which means that guess which song is in my head? Manowar's Swords In The Wind, which is an overdramatic, kitsch and overall surprisingly cutesywootsey powah metull ballad... about warriors. Avec the usual (slightly dodgy, iirc?) theology related to Valhalla.

All hail the shapeshifting son of Laufey, anyway. Now for some cool links, so I can finally close the Notepad window I've been keeping open to collect them.

Interesting symbology site -

Christian symbols: animals

Who knew woodpeckers were Satanic?

And a link from my mum, who says "Imagine the slumber parties". http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/

Little-known fact about our original sin article - while coding it for the web back in May '05, I had to take gentle but firm exception with the author about one particular section which peddled some nonsense about evolution. It contrasted the story of the Fall from perfection with evolution as a movement towards perfection. This is bunk.

Here's the text I successfully petitioned to use as a replacement.

[The doctrine of original sin is based on the idea that God created a perfect world, and that humanity damaged it and themselves by disobeying him.] Evolution, on the other hand, suggests that life in the world is steadily changing and becoming more diverse. Scientists do not tend to think of this as a moral good or evil, but in a sense evolution sees life on earth as moving closer to 'perfection' - becoming better adapted to its environment.

He wanted some reference to perfection left in because that was the point of the argument. This is bunk too, because there is no right or wrong evolutionary answer to any facet of one's environment. What breeds works. But I know that, you know that, and at least I trimmed the bad science.

Mind you, Woody Woodpecker's laugh is... 'boring' in its secondary sense.

It's official - being niffled helps people get off drugs and alcohol.