Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen

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  November 20, 2023Animism, Christianity, Commedia dell'Arte, Folk tales, Interviews, Masks, Mythology, Norse, Performance, Petter Madegård, Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, The Wild Hunt, Theatre

  Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen & Petter Madegård: The Return of the Yule Goat #43

  The practice of dressing up like a Yule Goat for Christmas has many examples in Scandinavian history. Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen has for the past few years aimed to remake a new tradition. Inspired by animism, carneval, Krampus processions in the Alps and samba he has started a Yule Goat Parade.

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  January 6, 2023Animism, Apocalyptica, Ecology, Interviews, Mythology, Norse, Persian, Rewilding, Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, Storytelling

  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.

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  February 6, 2022Animism, Gods and Goddesses, Interviews, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, Yoruba

  Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: How to build a god – Immanence and Symbolism #6

  Our guest Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is a historian of religion and founder of the project Nordic Animism. His PhD "The Stick and the Calabash“ is a result of extensive anthropological research of the Brazilian Candomblé tradition and of how the archetypal energies of gods are manifested there. We talk about trance and possession, conspiracy theories, and modern society’s loss of a subjective relationship with the forces of the world. And underneath it all we ask the question - what exactly is a god and how do you build it?