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HEX is:

~ Arrowyn Craban ~
Administrator / Editor / Art Director
I was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1972. My parents, being in the military, moved us to Germany, where I lived from age 2-5, upstairs from a ma & pop flower shop. I got to travel extensively visiting ruins all over Europe and even sat upon the altar at Stonehenge. I loved it, but we moved back and I grew up in the Mid West. When I was 20, I moved to the West Coast, where I put out a punk zine called Rise. I never stopped moving until I birthed my daughter. In my travels I studied herbal medicine & healing traditions from all over the world, cooking & fermentation, art & mythology, tattooing & handcrafting, primitive skills & folk ways, music, love & nature worship, esoteric arts & magic. I am a web weaver and graphic artist by trade, doing freelance as Verdandi Design, and residing in Portland with my husband Jason and our daughter Manzanita. I embarked on this path wholeheartedly with the design & layout of the Infernal Proteus musical herbal compilation. I am at home both on the computer & in the woods. I embrace paradoxes in my life & live to seek the mystery. oh, and I think raspberry mead is about the best thing in this great wide world. ~A~

~ Markus Wolff ~
Editor / Contributing Artist
Little Markus early on developed a sensibility for art and history, as well as an obsession with archeology due to numerous visits to the Roman-Germanic Museum in his native Cologne. He drew his first drawing at age 1. When it came to playing Cowboys and Indians, he always chose the Indian cause. Further talents included jumping from the garage building into the sandpit, climbing trees, and playing quietly by himself. His imaginary world of heroic adventures and deeds was soon preferable to the drab everyday surroundings, centered on a sandy playground that included the remains of a WW II bunker. He came to like the little leftover natural spots, like the unruly stand of gnarled, overgrown trees that seemed like such an inviting, infinitely fascinating anomaly in the ordered grid. He loved the river Rhine, just a block from his home, and its wide grass-covered banks that sometimes flooded. Across the river, he had a sweeping view of the city panorama; a view that was lit up every New Year by a plethora of fireworks. Weekends were often spent at a local nudist colony, where swimming and exploring were at the forefront of his activities, while Winters were often spent skiing in the Bavarian Forest; a favorite game was turning the heavily snowed-in trees and rocks into animals by adding an eye with his ski pole. Travel and its possibilities turned into a passion for geography as well, and he memorized countries and their capitals early on, many of which he would later visit. Australia, Austria, and America were to be the three next main stations on his journey. Markus thanks his parents and mentors for helping to shape his present and future self...

~ A. von Rautmann ~
Co-creator / Content Director / Editor (Issues 1, 2, & 3)
A. von Rautmann has left Hex to spend more time with her family. We wish her much luck on her journey!
A. von Rautmann was born in rural Elkart Indiana, in 1974. Growing up surrounded by hex-freckled, German-American farmlands, she loved the stories of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and had a guilty fascination with the swastika. Eventually, after having an initiatory experience with a self-proclaimed witch, she left monotheism without ever looking back. Traveling during her late teens–early twenties, she finally settled in Portland, OR, where she remains to this day. In 2001, she truly discovered the runes, and is self-taught (with the help of many amazing authors!) in their lore and divination. Her current obsessive interests include motherhood, traditional nutrition, bicycle commuting, and the visual arts. Along with Markus Wolff, she co-curated the 2005 'Heathen Art' exhibition and continues to bring heathen related art to Portland. Frau von Rautmann resides with her two lovely children and extended family in their communal home Folkvang.

~ Cody & Pattie Dickerson ~
MySpace Caretakers
Cody and Pattie currently reside in rural southeastern Idaho with their two daughters, where they seek a more traditional lifestyle.

Cody was born in Idaho in 1979. He's contributed to various private Heathen publications. He works as an ironworker and blacksmith and spends his free time in the vast expanse of Idaho's wilderness with his family, attending to their quaint homestead and independently researching Germanic and Indo-European history, culture and myth. He is a member of the Wolfbund and studies traditional Germanic magic and rune lore within that context. Some evenings you may find him weeding the garden, listening to his favorite Darkthrone LP, or squeezing on his Grandfather's bandonion. He can be reached at [email protected] .

Pattie was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1979. Anxious to escape the din of the city, she moved to Idaho with her husband where she is now a full-time mother and homemaker. She enjoys outdoor activites such as camping and fishing, teaching her daughters, sharing her rich heritage with them and maintaining pax templi between domesticated and feral animals. Her current areas of intrest are Welsh folklore, Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, and homeschooling.