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Chapter 8. The Making of a Seiðman 210
8.3. The Quick Dead:
Early on I noticed how crowded graveyards seemed to be. I could walk into a
graveyard and the place would be almost the deafening. Sometimes the ghosts would
want my attention because flowers were tipped over at the gravesite sometimes they
wished only to greet me. I’ve seen happy ghosts, sad ones, and disturbed ones. One
time I entered a graveyard in southwest Virginia and the ghosts were all bickering
with one another and gossiping (this was not a fun graveyard to be in).
I was curious from the outset why graveyards seemed to be so populated if the
dead supposedly moved on to a Land of the Dead. It seemed odd that Christians
were not in either Heaven or Hell. In working with the sick it is common for me to
encounter entire towns of the dead but still I notice that the graveyards seemed to be
full. This was explained me this way: The dead do not go to either Heaven or Hell
rather they go to villages of their ancestors. These villages never seem full mainly
because space in time are severely distorted in the other world. The graveyard, or
specifically the grave, is an entry point to the village of the dead. It is also the point
where the Flow of Waters occurs. An individual’s ancestral luck flows from the grave
of his family or his most immediate ancestor. By caring for grave of an immediate
ancestor an individual is grooming the pathway through which the Waters flow. If
this is neglected, particularly in a malicious way, the flow of ancestral luck can be
stopped. If the individual is low in the area of personal luck, he will become ill. The
grave then is the connecting point between this world and the other world.
Catholics and other Christians have a tendency to call their particular ancestral
village "Heaven." "Hell" is created for an individual when he is ostracized by his
ancestral village and is driven out into the Wasteland. This place, I suppose, can feel
either hot or cold but is certainly uncomfortable for the individual mainly because
they’re not in the fold of their ancestors. The same holds true for heathens as well.
I always wanted to believe that heathens would somehow be different than Christians
and that we have a better place to go to after death, but the bottom-line seems
to be that we simply go to our ancestral home regardless of our religious affiliations.
By the way, from what I can see, the dead worship in the same fashion as the living.
Christians go to churches, and I would guess that heathens wind up worshiping alone
as they often do here on Midgard (heathens, as a group, are too small to really have
something like a church). I have to smile to myself when I hear heathens say “I am
going to Asgard when I die” or “I am going to Thrundheim after death.” As far as I
can tell, we really do just go to our graves and from there go to our ancestral homes
(or to the Wasteland if we are jerks and wind up being ostracized). In life, I guess
many people have to make themselves feel somewhat ‘special’ by bragging that they
are going to sit at the right hand of their personal King after death.
As I stated earlier, I work in the medical field. For a period of about five