Be a Good Ancestor: Create and Keep Records

Jan 21

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This is a good post and for those wondering how to get started in or continue deepening one’s ancestor practice, this offers practical advice for things we can do with an eye to becoming good ancestors ourselves.

Horn and Hearth

Us Heathens and Northern Tradition Pagans talk a lot about ancestors. We venerate them, we discuss what to do when we learn an ancestor is horrible, we ask for the aid of Beloved Ancestors in ritual and our work, etc. Something that not enough people talk about is being a good ancestor for future descendants. Normally when that topic does come up, we talk about healing family trauma and clearing the web of wyrd for our descendants (good and holy work). Something else that you can do that is much simpler is to be a good record keeper for your descendants.

Part of my ancestor veneration is doing genealogy. This isn’t something everyone is interested in doing, I understand. Personally, I enjoy being a family detective and since starting this work I’ve uncovered a lot of fun stories – like how one ancestor threatened her abusive father with a cast…

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About ganglerisgrove

Galina Krasskova has been a Heathen priest since 1995. She holds a Masters in Religious Studies (2009), a Masters in Medieval Studies (2019), has done extensive graduate work in Classics including teaching Latin, Roman History, and Greek and Roman Literature for the better part of a decade, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Theology. She is the managing editor of Walking the Worlds journal and has written over thirty books on Heathenry and Polytheism including "A Modern Guide to Heathenry" and "He is Frenzy: Collected Writings about Odin." In addition to her religious work, she is an accomplished artist who has shown all over the world and she currently runs a prayer card project available at wyrdcuriosities.etsy.com.

Posted on January 21, 2022, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.

  1. Xenophon | January 21, 2022 at 11:43 PM

    What if you don’t have any descendants?

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    • ganglerisgrove | January 21, 2022 at 11:44 PM

      When I use that term, I don’t just mean those of our bloodline, I mean any of our spiritual lineage too who will come after. I honor several groups of dead, one of whom had no direct descendants.

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