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    Helith: An Anglo-Saxon Pagan Deity
    Helith: An Anglo-Saxon Pagan Deity
    Helith: An Anglo-Saxon Pagan Deity
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    Helith: An Anglo-Saxon Pagan Deity

    By Garden Stone and Swain Wodening

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    A small free eBook by Swain Wodening and GardenStone.

    The names Helia, Heile, Helið and Helith are recorded in several medieval and later publications as names for a pagan deity who was venerated in the southwest of early Anglo-Saxon England. Strange enough, actual scholarly related literature does not mention those records. This publication gives a fair overview on what is known about this pagan god.
    Therefore this contribution, in which the two authors showed both their craving for this kind of clarification and could indulge their passion for historical research in the fields of their interests, closes a 'historical gap'.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGarden Stone
    Release dateFeb 16, 2013
    ISBN9781301344970
    Helith: An Anglo-Saxon Pagan Deity
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    Garden Stone

    GardenStone is a Dutch who lives in the Taunus Hills in Germany. He wrote several books, all originally in German, meanwhile some are translated in English. Not all, but most of his books are based on extensive scientific-based research. Although his target audience is the pagan community, his books are proven to be of interest and often read by others too. He is a member of Germany's biggest Asatru organization "Eldaring", which was many years related with the Troth in the USA and there exist still a friendly contact. He is frequently asked for giving lectures and workshops on topics related to his books, varying from rune workshops, lectures about non-Scandinavian Germanic gods and goddesses to topics concerning training in aspects from magic and shamanism.

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      Helith - Garden Stone

      HELITH

      an Anglo-Saxon Pagan Deity

      by

      Swain Wodening and GardenStone

      in a pretty and harmonious web collaboration

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      A Smashwords Edition

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      Your free ebook is published by you Swain Wodening and GardenStone on Smashwords

      Copyright © 2013 GardenStone & Swain Wodening

      E-Mail: GardenStone@boudicca.de

      E-Mail: swain@englatheod.org

      Design and cover: GardenStone

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      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. All rights reserved; this publication as a whole may be reproduced or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the authors as long as that is done without any commercial aim. That applies too if parts of the publication are used and the authors are fully credited.

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      Chapter 1: Preface

      The names Helia, Heile, Helið and Helith are recorded in several medieval and later publications as names for a pagan deity who was venerated in the southwest of early Anglo-Saxon England. Strange enough, actual scholarly related literature does not mention those records, not even in footnotes. Therefore this contribution, in which the two authors showed both their craving for this kind of clarification and could indulge their passion for historical research in the fields of their interests, closes a 'historical gap'.

      Already at the beginning it has to be stated clearly, that the sources for 'Helith' aren't as old as the ones for other pagan deities ascribed to the Anglo-Saxons, such as Hrêðe (Hrêða, Hretha, Hreda) and ?ostre (Ostara), whose first written records date to the 7th/8th Century, mentioned by BEDA VENERABILIS (Bede the Venerable, 672-735). The earliest sources for 'Helith' date to 400 to 500 years later. Whereas Bede's works were written within one hundred years after the conversion when there may still have been pagan Anglo-Saxons, the first mention of 'Helith' is well afterward when nearly all Englishmen were Christian. However, the assumption is agreeable that before older written documents existed for this on which those first authors will have relied. Unfortunately, such older records aren't detectable anymore;

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