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Load image into Gallery viewer, The front cover of the Nordic Animist Calendar 2022 with a shaman like man playing a drum in antlers in front of a forest, and a runic wheel in white is superimposed over the top corner like the sun.
Load image into Gallery viewer, An image of a runic wheel with symbols of the year surrounding it, in white and printed overtop of a photograph of a rocky seashore.
Load image into Gallery viewer, Image of traditional tattooing by Kai Uwe Faust of Kunsten Pa Kroppen who is tattooing a person lying down. There is a girl playing a drum and two other women holding the person being tattooed in place. They are all in Viking Age traditional garb and laid out on furs in front of a forest landscape.
Load image into Gallery viewer, An image of a woman dancing naked around a fire at night, she is flipping her hair back over her shoulders and in profiles by the enormous fire behind her.
Load image into Gallery viewer, Two individuals on the beach dressed as traditionally costumed characters from folklore, one ont he left holding a tattered yellow flag and wearing a skull-like mask with horns, and holding a chain. The individual on the right is dressed in white with antlers and is holding a horse skull on a rod. There are bright skies and clouds in the background.
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Nordic Animist 2022 Calendar

While stocks last, we have a few copies of the Nordic Animist 2022 Calendar left. Orders will be shipped in mid November.
  
Design

The 2022 Nordic Animist Calendar is the creation of Rune Rasmussen, with artistic design by Ave Maria Nielson. It features artwork from Sean Parry of Sacred Knot Tattoo, Kai Uwe Faust of Kunsten Pa Kroppen and Heilung, and Jamie Massie of Northern Fire. As a manifestation of history and neo-Nordic artistry, this is a collaborative effort of many members of the community. The calendar also features an introduction, and each month features detailed information explaining the holidays and the history of the month itself.

  

The theme of this year’s Nordic Animist Calendar is “Ritual”.

Animism is a practice more than it is information. It is a doing more than it is a knowing. The traditional animist year and the turning of the seasons is a prime example of this. It is not so much specific pieces of static information that relates unambiguously to strictly prescribed ceremony. Rather, it is (and has always been) highly transformational human ways of participating and engaging the turning of the seasons in Northern Europe. This calendar represents a contemporary image of the creative, transformative and beautiful ways that Nordics perform ritual today. We try to show ritual in its widest sense, from tattooing, martial art, work out and performance over shamanic, folkloric and contemporary Heathen ritual to those the internet manifestations where Instagram aestheticism is the foundation through which the sharing of photography itself becomes an online ritual.

  

Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen explains further:

"The Nordic Animist Calendar is a wall calendar with a lot of information on Nordic seasonal animism through the ages. It is constructed on traditional runic reckoning combined with primstaf-marks that identify traditional Nordic holidays around the year. The calendar has a quite extensive text side and all the holidays are followed by explanations."

This is a truly unique piece of work, which we cannot recommend highly enough for anyone interested in Nordic history and ritual.

  

About The Creator

Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is a historian of religion and received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University, Sweden. He has lived and worked in numerous countries across Europe, Africa, and the Americas and has extensive experience studying African traditional religions. During the last several years he has been developing Nordic Animism as a method of accessing Nordic traditional knowledge and reengaging cultural heritage from an eco-animist perspective.

You can learn more about Nordic Animism by following Rune on his YouTube channel.

  

Size & Dimensions

The calendar measures 30 x 44 cm ( 11.8 x 17.3 inches )