Do we have names for the different branches of Anglo-Saxon paganism? It's weird to me that we still use the umbrella term "pagan" when it sounds like there were a series of distinct religious beliefs that aren't necessarily related to one another
>ancestor worship
>Norse pantheon worship
>druidism (rare)
>animism
>magical practice
Do we just refer to the different belief systems as "cults" or is there any documentation of distinct names?

From a personal take:
Anglo-Saxon and the Norse language were the first in forming English.
"Pagan" is used to denote a lot of faiths and occults; mainly pre-2nd testament (suchas animal sacrifice rather than Christ's blood for atonement/forgiveness of sin)
Magickal practice comes from Anglo when you are an English speaker predominantly because what you speak outloud in the sense of phoenetics and pneumonics (phoenix) is what you summon.
I bear thee fair well.

TLDR: What you speak is what you summon and Anglo-Saxon is what English was derived from.

>>40705385 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_mythology

>>40705385 (OP)

paganism is just spiritual independence, the natural disposition, the way you are born and would be the case were you alone on a desert island without jewish brainwashing or environmental tampering

questions inevitably follow, that is the 'Mystery' of our existance, and the process for answering all the questions that will inevitably follow, i.e. what am i doing here, how was i created, and going about answering them are the branches of paganism

it helps to think of a culture as a sort of superorganism, with thousands of brains, independent of one another, but still collective through genes and culture.
for each culture, this process developed simultaneously, and distinctly.
your superorganism might have an 8-core cpu, but theyre not all equal. some are more advanced and more capable.

in order to facilitate conceptual understanding, myths were created. literally nobody actually worshipped trees. literally nobody thought sisyphus was literally pushing a boulder up a hill for eternity. well, literally nobody until jews. when they found out, they couldnt get it. they thought everyone was lying and deceiving them, when this is the way the gods teach us. they dont want to be known completely, fit into some nice little box. the races took hundreds of thouands of years to create, these cultures thousands of years. understanding, just as long.

jews dumbed everyone down, closed off that process for everyone and set it in stone, rather than allowing it to remain fluid and evolving. theyre basically thralls now. and the greed of kings supplanted the natural disposition of fully dedicating ones life to the gods.

most of that material you want was lost. it was oral tradition, and much of the stuff from that part of the world that survives is corrupted, processed through that jewish filter like a soiled a covid mask obstructing breathing.

you are infinitely more capable than humans were then. look inward, not backward. supplant it w/ knowledge from those previous saves.