Showing posts with label norse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label norse. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

European Paganism, a Collection: Now Available!

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This ninth compilation was created partially due to public demand; it is artificially constrained to a few variants of European paganism (Greek, Roman, Norse, and British/Irish) because of the expansive nature of the subject. Much of the work is academic and historical in tone, although "Valhalla" is mostly a poetic epic. These seven works are, in my opinion, a decent springboard into the subject. As with all of my compiled volumes, it contains a lengthy list of works in a bibliography for further reading on the subject matter, and an expansive foreword detailing each work and the premise of the compiled volume.

Included works:

-Valhalla: The Myths of Norseland

-Pagan Ideas of Immortality

-Pagan Mythology: Wisdom of the Ancients

-A Compendium of Heathen Mythology

-The Mythology of Ancient Britain and Ireland

-Dionysos and Immortality

-The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia

375 pages.

Friday, March 1, 2019

The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia: Now Available!




This little booklet is a rather obscure and interesting guide to a few basic concepts within Norse paganism from the semi-academic perspective. With a section on Thor and Odin and another on the rest of the major figures of Northern paganism, it includes a few strange asides about less well known subjects such as the "doom ring" (for human sacrifice) and the "Insult Post" which was a sort of magical totem designed to confuse or dismay land spirits in hopes that they would frown upon and actively hinder the plans and lives of those the post was dedicated to. It speaks a bit about the interplay between the Germanic and the Scandinavian traditions within a linguistic framework as well.

50 pages.

Friday, October 21, 2016

The Book of Werewolves: Now Available!




"The Book of Werewolves" is a slightly ominously-titled work from the mid 1800s by the somewhat eccentric genius Sabine Baring-Gould. It covers far more than just your typical tales of lycanthropy and delves deeply into berserker (bear-serker) lore, Hindu tradition, and cannibalism among other things, titillating the reader with rather lurid depictions of criminal behavior.

Baring-Gould helpfully acknowledges both the spiritual and secular explanations for various historical tales along these general lines and manages to cram an enormous amount of lore into this work- which might be the pinnacle of such literature in man's realm of study.

174 pages.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Cultus Arborum: Now Available!



Cultus Arborum is one of the most important works within the span of the more anthropological side of the occult, spiritual, and mystic. Written in 1890, it was created along with works specifically on serpent worship and phallic worship at the time. The Cultus is, of course, about tree worship within a number of cultural contexts.

The content here is dense and quite good; some studies of magickal and spiritual lore predominantly focus just on one culture or one time period, but the Cultus focuses on two thousand years of history, drags in hundreds of outside sources, and ranges from Egyptian, to Greek, to Norse, to English, to Indian and Tibetan material revolving around tree worship and stories of the same in one form or another. Needless to say, because it speaks primarily of plants, this is one of the most interesting works (to me) that I have edited.

120 pages.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Coming Soon: Wulf Sorensen, "Voice of Our Ancestors"

In tandem with occult material the world over, especially that from the last two centuries, there exists in the corpus of philosophical literature a vast number of (normally short) poetic and manifesto-style works such as this one which are of great note; while Sorensen (who has been falsely rumored to be Himmler, but was really a figure called Frithjov Fischer) does not speak of the occult within this work, which is only 32 pages long, it has several features in common with other works; notably those of Rudolf Steiner.

Presented as a poem but really more of a political discourse, Fischer here describes the descent from former eras after the malevolent influence of Roman hegemony (and its judeochristianity) upon Northern cultures- not just German culture as it became, but the heathen people in general. Like "The Occult Significane of Blood" by Steiner it posits a sort of tribal memory from antiquated times, drawing, though, a conclusion roughly opposite that of Steiner and his Anthrosophists- that is, where Steiner concludes that the mixing of blood in cosmopolitan cultures led to the ascent of human culture (if at the expense of tribal memory and certain tribal capabilities), Fischer denounces the same as not ascent but descent from a more moral, stronger culture in the past, to be reawakened by interpreting folk tales from the past, specifically with an eye to seeing how they relate to the here-demonified Roman Empire, and later Holy Roman Empire, and the influence of the "religion of Sinai" (judaism.) As an example, Fischer holds up the story of Snow White, likening the black queen to Rome and the mountains she crossed literally to the Alps, as Roman culture encroached upon the Goths and Vandals.

Unlike latter day, actual National Socialist philosopher, Fischer's earlier, primordial philosophical work here mentions race only insofar as it related to outside cultures which brought in alien religious concepts- telling, for example he says, the morally upright and noble heathens not to sin, when they were already free of such behavior and saw it as "below the dignity even of animals." Thus, it should not be seen as a "Nazi manifesto" or something akin to it, but rather a somewhat earlier nationalistic and romanticism-inspired look at the past, the nostalgia of which, instead, led to the adoption of Nazism. Of note here is that a nearly similar number of Germans in the same era abandoned this romanticism, adopting what might be seen as Steiner's style of thought and primarily supported communism instead- and such ethnic theorems were indeed at work as the Soviets attempted to breed non-Russians out of existence over time with a fervor indicative of the actual use of eugenics in its social sense.