Mission:
Ohio-Heathens.org is a heathens against hate organization connecting those that honor the gods with community, resources, purpose and opportunity. We welcome all who honor the gods to gather, act, and take part in the effort to practice and sustain our customs, rites, crafts and philisophical practices in the manner worthy of our ancestors, generate a legacy worthy, for generations to come.

Modeled after icelandic confederacy, ohio-heathens.org is the result of the effort by individuals and groups across Ohio who have found merit and purpose to:

1. Reduce barriers of contact and cooperation between individuals, kindreds, and heathen focused or friendly operations throughout Ohio.
2. Provide religious, social, legal and educational resources to the Ohio Heathen Community.
3. Develop community programs and events that will encourage awareness and promote understanding about the myriad forms of heathen living.
4. Coordinate to connect heathen based and heathen focused initiatives with community actors and resources.
   
5. Coordinate to conduct workshops, heathens arts, annual gatherings, blots and symbels.
6. Extend a hand of hospitality in support of heathen family life developing awarness and promoting access to rites of passage vital to our spiritual lives.

Ohio Heathen Confederacy: Heathen by Action, not affiliation
Ohio-Heathens.org is an independent, community supported network developed in response to meeting the challenge of providing social channels, communication tools, resources and technological tools for the benefit of individuals, groups and heathen family members of the Ohio Well.

"Heathen" transliterated from the Old Norse term "Hedinn Manr" and/or Old English "Heath", is a general term for one who practices the ancient polytheistic religion of Northern Europe and should not to be confused with the christian conception of the "uncoverted", a failed ideology and irrelevant cognate. In modern times, Heathen is a generalized in-group term for one who venerates the Northern Europens Gods (i.e. Odin, Freyja, Freyr, Frigga, Tyr, Heimdall etc) through a spectrum of ancestral, theological, philosphical or community based beliefs known commonly as Asatru, Vanatru, Odinism, OR, Troth, Theodism, Irmisul or Forn Sed.  Although Ohio Heathen Confederacy participants themselves may practice any of these particular modes of worship, Ohio Heathen Confederacy does not prescribe, nor promote a particular modality of worship, keeping our focus on cultivating resources to connect belief with purpose, initiative with opportunities to act, community with conscience and kinship.