Author’s Note: This is part II following the post I made a year prior. It’s long, I don’t want to wait another year to publish a part III. Thanks to my proofreaders. Heathens who are interested in developing a realized and coherent religious practice already engage in syncretic methods of construction, largely through interpretation driven by comparative research as well as a general methodology of wider reconstructionist practices. This is a necessary aspect of Heathen theological scholarship in order to establish a healthy and viable identity which can be transmitted to and embraced by future generations of interested practitioners. In the time since Heathenry’s emergence as an identifiably new religious movement, Heathen practice and theology has always benefited from the commingling of various practices…