p. 265 [by L.H.] ancestry redincarnating in same family {This is basically a prominent West African doctrine.}

p. 266 [by L.H.] Land-wights formerly kept potential tyranny under tight control; but now-a-days Magicians may be needed to suppress tyranny exercised by ruling-class dynasties.

"the stricture of those high-class line[age]s were ... tied to the land {and thus to the land-wights}, and were kept in order by that {by the compulsive collective authority of land-wights}, and since we don't have that {a religion based on worship of land-wights} any more, anywhere {or at least, not anywhere in Europe, officially}, they {the ruling "high-class" dynasties} became corrupt. The power of the line[age]s, which was originally there to serve the land[-wights], is no longer constrained {by religious societies devoted to appeasement of land-wights} to do that. ... It shows itself in the increasing distance from the richest to the poorest, the amount of wealth and societal power that is held by a very small number of people. ...
Competent magicians with awareness of their {the ruling-class dynasties'} backgrounds and line affiliations need to work together to assist the deities to chastise those line[age]s to behave. ...		{If secret-police (such as the C.I.A.) were to discover a conspiracy of magicians organized to conjure deities to "chastise" trillionaire ruling-class banker-families, they (the secret-police) might well react by arresting and torturing all such discoverable magicians; so this proposed enterprise of chastisement could prove to be quite a hazardous venture. We would suggest, for safety's sake, that there is no "need" for conspirators "to work together"; and that a similar intention could be more practicably successfully attained by separate appeals (by individual magicians, independently) to the interested deities. [written Feb 19 2014]}
They {the nobility} had received power in order
to do the work of keeping the crops growing ...,			{more accurately, to do the work of mollifying the guardian-spirits of the crop-plant species}
and when the Kings were no more,	{This would allude to abolishment of the office of wanax in Akhaiwa/Hellas, and to the end of Etruscan kingship in Roma.}
they {noble families, as e.g. in the Res-publica Romana} just used that power of wealth ... to suit themselves ... . And there's no reason for them to stop ... . ... The money keeps pouring in ... . ... That won't stop ..., and the hate {nationalistic, fomented by national ruling-classes} just gets bigger and bigger ... or the greed {on the part of the dynasties of nobility} does."

p. 267 [by L.H.] benevolent seizing control of political-state power, by inducing relevant deities to shift their allegiance away from the current corrupt dynastic nobilities

p. 267 [by L.H.] ingress of personal power from land-wights, along ancestral lineages

Raven Kaldera : Wyrdwalkers : Techniques of Northern-Tradition Shamanism. Asphodel Pr, Hubbardston (MA), 2007.

p. 260	"when a god[/dess] of the Aesir spawns with a giant/ess, the child is always a god[/dess] of the Aesir, not a giant."
p. 261	"there is a common understanding that Aesir {genetics} is stronger {more dominant-gene} ... than Jo[,]tun {genetics} when it comes to breeding, and thus the children {offspring, progeny} are always more sky-god[/dess] than giant-god[/dess], and accepted as such."

"if you scratch any religion deep enough, you get to something unpleasant that you'd rather wasn't {were not} there, whether it's
the Hindu caste system or ...	{The jati system of Bharata is the aequivalent to the guild system, and to the trade/craft-union system, of Europe and of the United States; it is a way for the workers in a craft to protect membres of their craft from being arbitrarily oppressed by the rich.}
Luke 14:26." ["If a man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters ..., he cannot be my disciple."]		{This is, perhaps, [to be construed as] simply an emphatically-stated invitation to join a religious society of which one's relatives are not currently membres. All religious societies, of whaever culture, are likely to issue similarly-worded invitations, if and when such religious societies are inclusive enough to admit into membreship persons who cannot shew that any relative of theirs is already a membre.}

p. 264	"a genetic line[age] has a kinfylgja, or guardian spirit who watches over the line[age]. ...
p. 265	A kinfylgja will often intercede when ... curses ... become life-threatening enough to interfere with the survival of "their" people; they have also been known ... to matchmake for purposes of breeding qualities into "their" line. ... A family may have no idea that a kinfylgja exists, much less that they are being aided by one, so it's up to the spirit-worker to check on that."

p. 270	"animals should be killed ... when our Gods say that they want something sacrificed".	{Deities may ask that animals be immolated so that the species-spirit (of that variety of animal) can be served notice that assistance is peremptorily requaested in some ongoing project -- e.g., in manipulating governments (as is suggested to be feasible, on pp. 266-7).}
	"We have ... conact with ... plants, many of which		{The overarching spirit of a plant-species may well display itself as "more intelligent" (actually, more concerned, more interested) than that of a species of small animal, in the context of being eaten (which the plant-spirit may well accept as the human's mode of shewing of affection toward that plant-species-spirit).}
p. 271	I've found to be more intelligent than many small animals, just before I devoured them."

p. 276	"qualities we find ... are inherited ... . These qualities can include psychic gifts ... . Untangling a client's wyrd may have ... to do with ... trance-journeying that takes you down ... some else's ancestral chain. ... Positive genetic qualities sometimes come with a price tag attached;
	the ancestors who bequeathed them to us may want us to carry on some kind of work or take on some kind of taboo in exchange for use of the	{By far more likely than these requirements' being imposed by ancestors themselves (who are now busy with some current life of their own in some distant world, and by now quite unconcerned with whatever their descendants on this particular planet, out of the numerous planets whereon they have resided and left lineages of descendants), such requirements would in all probability be imposed only by such deities as empowered such ancestors (while they were living on this planet) with such "psychic gifts".}
p. 277	gift. ...
	They may also come with vague ancestral memories,		{Such memories would also be imparted by deities who were associating with those ancestors while they were on this planet.}
	especially ... where people incarnate down the family line. As far as I can tell,
	there's no rule dictating why some families have reincarnations that closely hug their family line and some incarnate all over the world".			{The rule would seem largely based upon primitivity versus advanced culture. Africans and Amerindians say that they incarnate in the same families quite persistently; Hindus do not.}
	"One individual that I knew, ... had many incarnation memories ... . .. Then his daughter married a man ..., whose ancestors came from the area he remembered in his prior incarnations. (In fact, he ... recognized the man immediately ...; they had been related once long ago.) ... At some point he realized that ... he had been incarnating as ancestors of his current life's descendants {i.e., as ancestors of his current son-in-law}. ...
	(Note : It has been asked as to whether you can {time}walk forward and see your {as-of-yet-unbegotten} descendants. ...)"				{As for a guru lacking in genetic descendants, the quaestion could be whether one could skryingly foresee one's distant-future parampara of disciples.}

"Every culture's magical tradition is different.	{This is due to the fact that each culture's religion treateth of a different sub-plane among the planes-of-existence.}
Not only do they differ in ... Gods and wights, but there are always some mysteries that are deemed brutally {fundamentally} important by one magical culture and dismissed by another. This means that each has their {its} own "specialities", which not all the others may share."

"Menstrual blood ... goes on one area in the center of the skein,	{[MTT, p. 303 :] "Heaps of skeins of beautiful threads colored like the rainbow lay beside each, and threads of gold and silver too. ... [MTT, p. 304 :] Arachne was changed into a spider".} {"it contained a spider web, signs that the spirit woman was menstruating" ("B&ThSW", p. 102).}
and loosely tie a bit of cloth around that".

p. 280	"If you have a lover with whom you regularly exchange bodily fluids, and they are willing to give you a drop of their own blood to ingest ...,			{The caution is lest AIDES virus entre the bloodstream of the ingester via either a mouth-wound in the mouth or a bleeding ulcer in the stomach.}
	it will be easier to bloodwalk them than
p. 281	someone whose blood is only keying a charged skein, and
	it will give you practice. ...	{Or rather, it will provide practice to one's adjuvant spirit.}
	The first time that I did bloodwalking, I was told {by the guiding divinity} to go stand up to my neck in water while going it. I went down to the local pond; it was after midnight and
	the fog was so thick ... an opaque wall of fog ... mist in any direction. ... I stood there with the skein floating on the water ...,		{"shed a deep mist about Odysseus (RN, p. 58) ... shed a wondrous mist about him (RN, p. 60). ... shrouded in mist (RN, p. 115) ... over the misty deep, ... the gods ... have woven the skein" (RN, p. 116) -- thus spake Alki-noos unto Odusseus, after the latter "had bathed" (RN, p. 110).}
	and visions of my ancestors appeared around me."

p. 285	"I pathwalked into Jo[,]tunheim ... . I'd already asked Hyndla for an appointment ..., so I was expected. ... The Hag of the Northern Mountains was waiting for me. She was tiny for a giantess, old and wrinkled with long silvery hair that draped all around her ... . She was sitting on a stone platform bed on a pile of furs, and bade me to come closer. ... Hopping down from the bed ...,
p. 286	she circled me and sniffed me ..., nodding her head and clucking her tongue. ... Hyndla chuckled ... . Then she ordered me to climb up on her bed and lay {lie} down, and I did ... . She hopped back on the bed alongside of me, straddling me, and proceeded to poke at my belly in various places, whilst sniffing me further, and keeping up a constant stream of chatter in her creaky birdlike voice ... . ... So I agreed, and she ... inserted something into my belly. ... it was shaped like a narrow cone a few inches long. I can still feel it in me, astrally, just behind my navel. "The place where you are linked to your ancestors," she said as she did it. Then she explained to me how it could be used."
	spoken by Hyndla : "you make a bowl of wood, as big as you can, you paint the inside red, you put the Bloodwalking bind rune on it. ... Then you fill it with water ... . ...
p. 287	As your [fingers] run down the threads, the places where they branch off are like knots ... . ... You will see it running along the threads like a faint line. Pehaps it vanishes, then comes back in other generations -- that happens. You can do this for the unborn child still in the womb, if you have the mother there -- let her hold the thread to her navel, see it extending into her. You can see if the flaws in the mother ..., or the father ..., have taken hold of the babe. ... But there are also the debts, or things that have made knots in the threads of the Nornir work, and these can get caught in the ... threads and passed down. ... Cleaning those up? That you will have to take up with the Nornir, I only see things."