The Lord of the Winds said again, “Ask the King of the Waters whether he has a single man who possesses all these arts, and if he has I will not enter his hall.”
Then the Gatekeeper went into the palace and declared all to the King. “A warrior has come before the enclosure,” said he. “His name is Many-Gifted, and all the arts which your household practice he himself possesses, so that he is the man of each and every art.”
That was related to the King of the Waters. “Let him into the enclosure,” said he, “for never before has man like him entered this fortress.”
Then the Gatekeeper let the Wind Lord pass him, and he entered the fortress and sat down in the sage’s seat, for he was a sage in every art.
—adapted from The Second Battle of Mag Tured
Waincraft is inspired by the unnamed and widespread proto-faith of northern Europe whose essential elements of belief and practice have trickled down over time. This modern Craft keeps the spirit of the old but makes no claim to be a direct descendant of the ancient faith.
The mythology of Waincraft is drawn from the same sources as many other European-based paganisms, and the praxis can be adapted to a number of existing cultural paradigms—for instance, Irish Waincraft, or Norse Waincraft, or Baltic Waincraft.
Right action—unto the gods, the ancestral animal tribes, and the spirits of the land—forms the central tenant of Waincraft. Value is placed on ecstatic experience, inspired art, and a love of knowledge in an effort to combine the best qualities of both spirit-taught and reconstructionist practices.
The Powers of the Land are needed now more than ever. Waincraft brings a unique perspective to today’s problems, how we got here, and where we’re going. We hope that you can find something here to resonate with and enliven your own practice, wherever the wagon ways may lead you.
