Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: Year of Aun – Story as Healing, Story as Curse #26

Historian of religion and animist thinker Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is back on our podcast! This time to launch the Year of Aun, an invitation to celebrate 2023 as a year of healing and reconnection based on old Nordic spiritual practices.

We speak about the theoretical foundations behind the Year of Aun, our relationship with the forces of nature as reflected through both ancient and contemporary mythologies, and what it means to be the worst possible ancestor.

Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
Year of Aun

REFERENCES

Ynglinga saga
Book: Jul och Disting i förkyrklig tideräkning av Andreas Nordberg
Tyson Yunkaporta
Shahnameh
Zoroastrianism
Film: Troll
Film: The shape of water by Guillermo Del Toro
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
White-Bear-King-Valemon
Olle Möllevärn: Bear Culture
Bayo Akomolafe
Sophie Strand
Joseph Campbell
Book: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
George Lucas
Book: The writer’s journey by Christopher Vogler
Film: Turning Red
TV Series: Ragnarok